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by Mike
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:58 pm
Forum: Discuss Your Own Horoscope
Topic: Will my son get a job?
Replies: 16
Views: 509

Re: Will my son get a job?

Cleves, Ohio gives the following version of the chart: R. Jupiter WP 0*00’ (15' closer) T. Uranus Zenith 0*28’ (09' further) R. Venus Asc +0*56’ (10' closer) R. Mercury EP 1*07’ (25' closer) T. Mercury Asc +1*41’ (10' closer) T. Mars MC -9*31’ (14' further) r. Sun background 3*13' (12' less backgrou...
by Mike
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:47 pm
Forum: Discuss Your Own Horoscope
Topic: Will my son get a job?
Replies: 16
Views: 509

Re: Will my son get a job?

A Sidereal Solar Return (SSR) is a chart that activates when the sun returns to the point it was at for one's birthday, and is a primary predictive chart for the 12 months until the next one activates. Here is your son's SSR for Cincinnati, Ohio: R. Jupiter WP 0*15’ (also Dsc +6*21’) T. Uranus Zenit...
by Mike
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:26 pm
Forum: Discuss Your Own Horoscope
Topic: Will my son get a job?
Replies: 16
Views: 509

Re: Will my son get a job?

Hi Parporna, I'm sorry to hear that your son is having such a hard time :( What sort of career is he trying to break into? The job market is pretty tight at the moment, and I'm hearing this story from a lot of people. (Especially if he's in tech; trying to break into the software industry right now ...
by Mike
Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:48 pm
Forum: Synastry Teachings & Resources
Topic: Planets to local angles?
Replies: 1
Views: 136

Planets to local angles?

I had a thought, and I'm curious... Is there any synastric validity to, say, a partner's Venus conjunct my local Descendant, while not conjoining any natal angles? Is there perhaps a notion of "this effect only occurs if we're involved with each other in this location?" I guess, for long-distance in...
by Mike
Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:48 pm
Forum: Publications & Software
Topic: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs
Replies: 17
Views: 1046

Re: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs

Similar and way better than we have. Awesome, I'll get working on this. If this were screen and easily interactive iterative, the next step would be to edit long/lat max/min so that, on seeing initial output, one can then narrow it. (My idea - how I would use it in practice - is to get the largest ...
by Mike
Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:02 pm
Forum: Publications & Software
Topic: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs
Replies: 17
Views: 1046

Re: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs

FWIW, my best thoughts on an approach (until I quit) were here... I read through these links and have been thinking about it; I'm interested in your thoughts on my current plan: Ask for a latitude range (with some default values), and a longitude range (with some default values) or allow all longit...
by Mike
Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:13 pm
Forum: "Many Things"
Topic: What about animals and insects?
Replies: 5
Views: 309

Re: What about animals and insects?

That is a very logical and compelling argument!
by Mike
Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:24 pm
Forum: "Many Things"
Topic: What about animals and insects?
Replies: 5
Views: 309

Re: What about animals and insects?

I recently adopted (or was adopted by) a feral cat in a colony I was caring for over the past few months. I of course have no idea exactly when she was born; however, I moved into this apartment last year, and in mid-August 2023, I starting seeing her and her sister around the apartment as very youn...
by Mike
Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:47 pm
Forum: Sidereal Solar Returns
Topic: JAE SSR 2024
Replies: 2
Views: 186

Re: JAE SSR 2024

Wow, that's a lovely solar return. I'm making a note of this use case... ;)
by Mike
Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:57 pm
Forum: Publications & Software
Topic: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs
Replies: 17
Views: 1046

Re: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs

I assume you're taking into consideration precessing the natal coordinates for new equatorials and going from there, so this gives us something we've not had until now. Yes, I precess the natal coordinates. Thank you for linking to those threads. I have some ideas brewing about how I can accomplish...
by Mike
Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:59 pm
Forum: Publications & Software
Topic: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs
Replies: 17
Views: 1046

Re: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs

Thank you for testing it - I'm glad it does work first try at least. What's your usual thinking pattern for solving this kind of need?
by Mike
Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:35 pm
Forum: Publications & Software
Topic: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs
Replies: 17
Views: 1046

Re: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs

Download the top level file! It's a zip file. You need everything in there - the executable, the DLL, and the swiss ephemeris files that the executable uses. I am also getting basically no response when I try to download my own file from Drive - so let me try a Mega link instead: https://mega.nz/fil...
by Mike
Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:53 pm
Forum: Publications & Software
Topic: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs
Replies: 17
Views: 1046

Re: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs

I approved you - sorry about that, I swear I looked everywhere for sharing permissions and didn't see anything more I could do to make it downloadable by anyone... Google drive (which I do my best never to go near) requires a log in, says it logs me in, then goes nowhere. I don't like it either; it ...
by Mike
Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:40 pm
Forum: Publications & Software
Topic: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs
Replies: 17
Views: 1046

Re: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs

The first release (just for windows for now) can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1meOoxnPxR5BjPn8rqRm_ADXF9qbb5RZ0/view?usp=sharing I'm still trying to figure out a way to automate this effectively. To use: download the zipped file. Extract it. Double click on "angular-natal-plan...
by Mike
Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:18 pm
Forum: The Planets
Topic: Understanding Moon's Fundamental Needs (meditation)
Replies: 17
Views: 828

Re: Understanding Moon's Fundamental Needs (meditation)

I went through a phase where one could count on my "final opinion" on some complicated decision was always that of the last person whose views on it I'd been around. (Last voiced vote wins.) I had to grow out of that by paying attention and, partly, by getting fewer outside opinions. I relate to th...
by Mike
Sat Mar 02, 2024 5:14 pm
Forum: Publications & Software
Topic: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs
Replies: 17
Views: 1046

Re: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs

This project works and calculates a list of places and the foreground planets as intended. I've double-checked it against Solar Fire and the angularity spreadsheet, and it seems consistent. I've also successfully compiled it for Linux (which is my current dev environment) and Windows (which is the h...
by Mike
Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: The Planets
Topic: Understanding Moon's Fundamental Needs (meditation)
Replies: 17
Views: 828

Re: Understanding Moon's Fundamental Needs (meditation)

I'm a strongly Lunar person like you are, Jim, though not through angularity but rather intensity of aspects. Like you describe, I also have some difficulty distinguishing between Moon and Mercury in daily life. Identify this specified need in yourself. Recognize that you have it. Reflect on how it ...
by Mike
Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:44 pm
Forum: Discuss Your Own Horoscope
Topic: Worst and longest depression in years
Replies: 4
Views: 454

Re: Worst and longest depression in years

Thank you for the detailed and swift reply Jim. The obvious transit (not for the unprecedented length but for depression itself) is Saturn to your angles. It's currently in partile orb of square your MC, having been on your WP-a a while back... I'm sorry, I have a hard time remembering this one... i...
by Mike
Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:06 pm
Forum: Discuss Your Own Horoscope
Topic: Worst and longest depression in years
Replies: 4
Views: 454

Worst and longest depression in years

Despite my overwhelmingly positive SSR, the past 2 months of this year have marked a slow and steady track into the most severe and resilient depressive episode I can remember in the last 3 or so years. It reached a breaking point in the last 2 days (so February 20 2024). Up until this point, in the...
by Mike
Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:32 pm
Forum: Publications & Software
Topic: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs
Replies: 17
Views: 1046

Re: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs

How long have you been a Rust programmer? Not very long; I've been using it intermittently for about a year. It's a difficult language, but really, really enjoyable to work in for a bunch of technical reasons. Question: As for the degree of difficulty what would a Rust project be like for taking 27...
by Mike
Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:41 am
Forum: Publications & Software
Topic: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs
Replies: 17
Views: 1046

Angular natal planet finder for SSRs

As a side project to my work on my own astrological application, I am mostly done cooking up a command-line tool that checks the US (or any range of longitudes and latitudes) for all angular planets within some threshold. It's still a little clumsy, since you need to pass in 1. the datetime and loca...
by Mike
Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:49 pm
Forum: Sidereal Solar Returns
Topic: Relocating a different friend's bad (?) SSR
Replies: 3
Views: 354

Re: Relocating a different friend's bad (?) SSR

And can you please check my math because your read and mine were so different I won't rule out that I'm looking at the wrong chart. Here's the SSR I have for current residence. I am getting the same chart as you are for Victor, NY in TMSA. Let's check Gallup, NM; hopefully this formats correctly......
by Mike
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:34 pm
Forum: Sidereal Solar Returns
Topic: Relocating a different friend's bad (?) SSR
Replies: 3
Views: 354

Relocating a different friend's bad (?) SSR

I need to ask advice for another SSR for a different friend. I'm wondering if, in your opinions, the base chart here is worth dodging in favor of any of the relocation options below (or any others you're able to find): Birth data: July 14 1993 5:55pm Ridgewood, NJ Current location: Victor, NY If the...
by Mike
Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:59 pm
Forum: Sidereal Lunar Returns
Topic: JAE SLRs & Demi-SLRs 2023-24
Replies: 61
Views: 8887

Re: JAE SLRs & Demi-SLRs 2023-24

Possibly the 10-Day Solars will be more important during this month (or at least fortnight). - Having looked at them, I hope that's not the case LOL! Same! I have a rather similar Ennead (starting today) to your Demi-SLR... 11 to 0 malefic to benefic, 5 to 0 indignity to dignity. Basically, that Sa...
by Mike
Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:26 pm
Forum: Horoscopes of Interest
Topic: Donald Trump
Replies: 354
Views: 323858

Re: Donald Trump

Wow, those look brutal. Honestly, having been paying attention to these kinds of factors any time someone dies, I feel like he's not likely to survive those.
by Mike
Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:25 pm
Forum: The Novien
Topic: Novien table
Replies: 3
Views: 1533

Re: Novien table

I think I follow, but I also think you have some typos: Pres. Biden's natal Moon is 7°02'42" Aries. [...] From the bottom (Minutes) table, 02' converts to 0°09'. 02' should convert to 0°18', right? That would result in a Novien Moon position of 3°24'18" Libra, if I'm mathing correctly. Pres. Trump's...
by Mike
Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:48 pm
Forum: Misc. on Solunar Returns
Topic: Solunars for sister's car accident
Replies: 5
Views: 639

Re: Solunars for sister's car accident

Ah, thank you for the trick. I'll have to spend more time with these. I think I did this correctly; the progressed chart is titled "Prog 0.003430114 Mean Quotidian"; my "Angle Progressions" are currently set to Mean Quotidian while the User Rate is that PSSR rate; does this sound right? With that se...
by Mike
Mon Jan 22, 2024 10:16 pm
Forum: Misc. on Solunar Returns
Topic: Solunars for sister's car accident
Replies: 5
Views: 639

Re: Solunars for sister's car accident

[I don't know what act. means.] Oops, that was a bad copy and paste somewhere; sorry. That's just transiting Saturn oct r. Eris. Oh, wait, these are part of the SSR? (I thought we'd moved on (it's 3:30 AM here and I got up briefly and saw this, so I'm not thinking forward quickly). - Is the Mars to...
by Mike
Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:59 am
Forum: Misc. on Solunar Returns
Topic: Solunars for sister's car accident
Replies: 5
Views: 639

Solunars for sister's car accident

Yesterday (i.e. 1/22), my youngest sister (age 22) got into a car accident. She’s alright, just a broken metacarpal in her non-dominant hand, but the car sustained a lot of damage. It’s not totaled, but it’s probably close. The person ahead of her abruptly swerved into another lane and she hit the (...
by Mike
Tue Jan 16, 2024 10:29 am
Forum: Mundane Forecasts
Topic: U.S. Ingresses Jan 11 - Feb 8, 2024
Replies: 5
Views: 1489

Re: U.S. Ingresses Jan 11 - Feb 8, 2024

Thank you for doing these, Jim. Yet (despite what today's headlines might suggest), the emotional tone may be a great deal better than that. Moon squares Venus worldwide as well, a surprising signal that the two terrible wars currently holding most of the world's attention will end before January 20...
by Mike
Sun Jan 14, 2024 1:28 am
Forum: Horoscopes of Interest
Topic: Marjorie Taylor Greene
Replies: 9
Views: 2097

Re: Marjorie Taylor Greene

Yeah, MTG is a shining example of a pathological and immature Leo moon.

More so even than my mom! And that bar is pretty high! (Low?)
by Mike
Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:15 pm
Forum: Horoscopes of Interest
Topic: Marjorie Taylor Greene
Replies: 9
Views: 2097

Re: Marjorie Taylor Greene

That would be a really potent chart if the time is right, with Uranus, Mars, and Venus all angular... I'm mildly surprised to see a Taurus Sun, given how venomous and aggressive she is. What is interesting to me is the Leo Moon for this birth time. My mother has basically the same temperament and th...
by Mike
Fri Jan 12, 2024 12:03 am
Forum: Mundane Events
Topic: January 2024 Events
Replies: 3
Views: 1901

Re: January 2024 Events

Jupiter seems like it's protective here, right? A catastrophe in which they somehow managed to avoid any loss of life. Also really interesting to see Eris here in the Liblunar, though not a recurrent factor... I can't find a reference to it in the Wikipedia article, but I seem to remember reading so...
by Mike
Tue Jan 09, 2024 7:45 pm
Forum: Sidereal Solar Returns
Topic: Relocating friend's bad SSR
Replies: 5
Views: 1070

Re: Relocating friend's bad SSR

Trueeeee. I say it because whenever I mention Pluto to this friend, she goes "oh nooo, not more Pluto! I'm tired of transformation!"
by Mike
Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:37 pm
Forum: Sidereal Solar Returns
Topic: Relocating friend's bad SSR
Replies: 5
Views: 1070

Re: Relocating friend's bad SSR

Yeah, it's hard; we seem to get natal Pluto if we focus on Jupiter too strongly. For example, Billings, MT: T. Jupiter on Dsc 0*00’ R. Pluto on Asc -1*40’ T. Uranus on Dsc -1*44’ Some other sites: Jerome, AZ: T. Uranus on Dsc +0*14’ T. Jupiter on Dsc +2*00’ R. Pluto on EP-a 0*51’ Joshua Tree, CA isn...
by Mike
Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:32 pm
Forum: Sidereal Lunar Returns
Topic: JAE SLRs & Demi-SLRs 2023-24
Replies: 61
Views: 8887

Re: JAE SLRs & Demi-SLRs 2023-24

I'm very glad to hear that this SLR has been ultimately positive (if not entirely pleasant). I personally read these angular natal planets as "yes, there's cutting, and anesthesia, and convalescence, and generally these were induced by another person - but you willingly invited these occurrences. Th...
by Mike
Tue Jan 09, 2024 1:08 pm
Forum: Sidereal Solar Returns
Topic: Relocating friend's bad SSR
Replies: 5
Views: 1070

Relocating friend's bad SSR

My best friend has a really terrible SSR coming up, and it's been difficult to find a good place to relocate it to. I'd love another set of eyes (or a few sets of eyes) for potential US locations to place this. Birth data: April 12 1995 1:39pm Mount Holly, NJ Current residence: Victor, NY Her defaul...
by Mike
Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:10 pm
Forum: Misc. on Solunar Returns
Topic: Mike 2023 Solunar scores and thoughts
Replies: 6
Views: 1262

Re: Mike 2023 Solunar scores and thoughts

Wow, those are really cool results for Moon aspects. Thank you for sharing. I'm intrigued by the idea that perhaps a good chunk of this Saturn can be seen as increased security and responsibility at least as much as "you're depressed." I've also noticed NLRs are not the best places to find exact con...
by Mike
Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:40 pm
Forum: Misc. on Solunar Returns
Topic: Mike 2023 Solunar scores and thoughts
Replies: 6
Views: 1262

Re: Mike 2023 Solunar scores and thoughts

I'm curious whether you have a conclusion on the relative weight/impact of the Ennead series over the SLRs. I feel like I could use either one and probably catch all the important stuff. SLRs as a concept feel like they would be more fundamental than Enneads - it's hard to be more "basic and obviou...
by Mike
Wed Jan 03, 2024 11:17 pm
Forum: Misc. on Solunar Returns
Topic: Mike 2023 Solunar scores and thoughts
Replies: 6
Views: 1262

Mike 2023 Solunar scores and thoughts

I kept track of (nearly) all of my Lunars, Demi-Lunars, and 10-day Solars from mid-December 2022 through the end of 2023 - essentially, from my previous birthday to my most recent one. I was also keeping track of Quarti-Lunars for about 5 months, but they were very hit-and-miss so I eventually stopp...
by Mike
Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:44 pm
Forum: Horoscopes of Interest
Topic: Joseph Biden
Replies: 157
Views: 116400

Re: Joseph Biden

Does the sign of progressed Moon have any particular relevance per se? I don't think I've seen it mentioned before.
by Mike
Mon Jan 01, 2024 9:21 pm
Forum: Major Planet Sign Transits
Topic: Uranus in Taurus
Replies: 14
Views: 1715

Re: Uranus in Taurus

I'm pretty poor when it comes to deep understanding of history, and maybe this is just generic to all wars, but these in particular were about self-determination - both against tyranny, and attempting to institute tyranny.

Or maybe: everyone wants to be in control of what they decide "home" is about.
by Mike
Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:45 pm
Forum: Recent Major Events
Topic: Hamas-Gaza Attack on Israel [War]
Replies: 10
Views: 1036

Re: Hamas-Gaza Attack on Israel

I just re-read what you mentioned about the CanQ angles and their efficacy. I guess we can't totally separate those progressions from the base ingress chart, huh?
by Mike
Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:42 pm
Forum: Recent Major Events
Topic: Hamas-Gaza Attack on Israel [War]
Replies: 10
Views: 1036

Re: Hamas-Gaza Attack on Israel

This is extremely fascinating and it lines up exactly with my perception of transiting Eris in solunar returns: "Yeah, I guess in hindsight that I should've seen that coming, but there was no way it was realistically gonna happen; too much information and not enough bandwidth to parse it." At least,...
by Mike
Sat Dec 23, 2023 11:54 pm
Forum: Horoscopes of Interest
Topic: The next Congress and the Supreme Court
Replies: 3
Views: 1141

Re: The next Congress and the Supreme Court

Yes, a two-thirds majority in the Senate can vote for removal of a Supreme Court justice; but the odds of the Democrats having that many seats - probably in my lifetime, and I'm 34 - are essentially nil. Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to have any majority in the Senate, and only have the razo...
by Mike
Sat Dec 23, 2023 5:54 pm
Forum: Horoscopes of Interest
Topic: The next Congress and the Supreme Court
Replies: 3
Views: 1141

Re: The next Congress and the Supreme Court

I'm very skeptical of this just on the basis of the ages of those justices. Would Thomas resign while a Democrat is president? I'm doubtful, but that's possible. But Kavanaugh? He's young; he'll be on the bench for decades.
by Mike
Fri Dec 22, 2023 7:32 pm
Forum: Horoscopes of Interest
Topic: Donald Trump
Replies: 354
Views: 323858

Re: Donald Trump

Arena, while I feel similarly to how you seem to in general regarding US democracy being rather flawed, many of these statements are incorrect. I have been asked for an ID every time I have voted, regardless of state, and as far as I am aware, that is the law in every state. You cannot legally vote ...
by Mike
Fri Dec 22, 2023 5:56 pm
Forum: Sidereal Lunar Returns
Topic: Ominous SLR 4/29/24
Replies: 8
Views: 964

Re: Ominous SLR 4/29/24

It does seem rather unpleasant. Any chance you can get out of town for that one?
by Mike
Tue Dec 19, 2023 7:29 pm
Forum: Sidereal Solar Returns
Topic: Mike 2022 SSR recap and review
Replies: 10
Views: 1275

Re: Mike 2022 SSR recap and review

I understand what you're saying, Jim. It's a good question, of which one it is. I think my experience has been less that the "local" SSR activates only late in the year, and more that it slowly gets vitalized by spending a lot of time at that location. My sample size is small, though, and I can buy ...
by Mike
Tue Dec 19, 2023 7:14 pm
Forum: Solar Arc Directions
Topic: Solar Arcs coming through for a death event
Replies: 9
Views: 1850

Re: Solar Arcs coming through for a death event

Ohhhhhhhh, duh. Thank you :lol: