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Volume X, No. COBsideratioBs ISSN is an independent magazine written for all who are sensitive to the seasonal rhytluns of the Earth and the apparent movement of the planets about her. It provides a forum in which there is an opportunity for new and old ideas to be presented, questioned and refined. The magazine is distributed four times each year by subscription only. Commercial advertising is not accepted Individual subscriptions . Institutional subscriptions . Outside the U.S. add . All monies in Us. fonds only. Subscribers outside the USA should pay by bankdraft in U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S. bank or by international postal money order. Any article published in Ooasideratiaas solely reflects the views of the author these are not necessarily those of the publisher. Articles dealing with all aspects of astrology will be gladly considered for publication. All correspondence, inquiries, subscriptions, and articles for publication should be sent to CONSIDERATIONS Post Office Box , Mount Kisco, New York Editor Art Circulation Editorial Kim Gillman Hal Barnell Wendy Robinson offices Goldens Bridge, New York COPYRIGHT CONSIDERATIONS, INC. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form is prohibited except with prior written permission of the Publisher. Printed in the United States by Allen Press, Lawrence, Kansas Charts produced using Printwheels, DTP, courtesy of Astrolabe CONSIDERA TIONS Volume X Number AprilJune CONTENTS These Considerations Simpson A Study in AstroCriminology by Garry Heaton did he or didnt he o. J. Who That TransNeptunian Planet by Prier Wintle add one, then minos Rectification Contests amp The New York Stock Exchange Chart by Carol S. Mull the reorganization of Stellar Dynamics by A. J. Mantel Nelson Mandela the virgo way Jim Lewis In Memorium These Considerations W ARE delighted to inlude Prier Wintles ascinating description f the hypothetical body Minos, in its entirety. This is surely astrological writing at its best, captivating independent ideas, with many examples, both natal and mundane, and an unusual nowadays animistic approach to the different planetary bodies. Maybe we are Doubting Thomass when it comes to these speculative extras, believing the basic ten, E, provide complexity enough, and have been frequently criticized for omitting peoples pet rocks from illustrated charts, but we were nonetheless fascinated by this. The orbit of Wintles Minos is not at all the same as that proposed by Dr. Landscheidt and others for TransPlutoPersephone the difference is large. Even if you too demand astronomical verification before allowing new glyphs into your horoscope wheel, like us youll enjoy the depth and breadth of Prier Wintles reasoned advocacy. What can we say In pursuit of being withit, there just had to be an OJ article in Considerations. And Gary Heatons analysis is clear and well thoughtout. But is he right Several readers requested an explanation of Stellar Dynamics, the system of Harmodynes and Discordynes the Church of Light created. Readers unfamiliar with the Dynes will appreciate Arie Mantels clear explanation, applied here to the horoscope of Nelson Mandela. By working stepbystep through the example and appreciating just why is among the Zodiac twelve we learnt much about the astrological makeup of this South African leader. At a recent conference, the interest group with consistently the largest attendance was devoted to Financial Astrology. Hence, Carol Mulls excellent article suggesting the use of a different chart with which to predict price variations on the NYSE will interest many. One of the several articles replaced by Minos described your editors recent work generating a multivariate regression model to predict major turns in the Dow. Using , daily horoscopes , the aim was to identify astrological correlates that would distinguish the days on which there was a directional change in the index either peak or trough associated with a subsequent price change of or more. The resulting combination of aspect sets is a good fit and it correctly predicted each of s major turns, to the day. The bottom line During , the model highlights October as the most likely time for major directional shifts shifts is plural in the Dow Jones Industrial Index. Well be watching the th. Enjoy o. J. Simpson A Study in AstroCriminology GARRY HEA TON be more famous tlan the President since the events of June th, . Charged with the murder of his exwife, Nicole, the football hero turned actor, who symbolized the American dream of a classless, raceless society, was suddenly cast in the lead role of a drama which has split public opinion like no other case. Police mug shots have replaced the heroic, athletic images in magazines and newspapers while the trial now tops the bill of celebrity courtroom drama ahead of Von Bulow and the Menendez brothers. It all began at a.m. PDT on June th, when Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found dead by a neighbor outside Nicoles town house in Brentwood, a suburb of Los Angeles. Both bodies had deep knife wounds to the neck and Goldmans also showed signs of a struggle. That afternoon Nicole had attended a dance recital of her daughters, having been granted custody following her divorce from O. J. Simpson in . OJ and Nicole had arrived and left separately, although he made an unsuccessful effort O J. SIMPSON may ,. to sit next to her. He was also excluded from a family party at the Mezzaluna restaurant that evening. After she left the restaurant, Nicoles friend Ronald Goldman, an aspiring actor employed as a waiter at the Mezzaluna, had picked up a pair of glasses she had left behind and gone to her house to return them. It was there, outside her home, that their lives came to a gruesome end. After researching many murders I have reached the conclusion that the first awareness of the crime gives the most accurate horoscope. This moment is often the discovery of the body, unless the crime was witnessed, and it may happen days, weeks or even months after the murder itself. The cosmic intelligence has own timetable for revealingitsclues and its press releases are superior to our estimates about the time of death. There is also the advantage that a random source determines the astrological moment, and the criminal cannot control the information. In a murder chart the victim is described by the Ist house and the criminal by the VIIth house of open enemies. In Figure , the Heaton . J Simpson A Study in AstraCriminology Fig. Bodies of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman found a.m. PDT, June th Brentwood, CA N, lW. Porphyry houses chart cast for the discovery of the two bodies, i, ruler of the Xlth friends, is in the Ist while , coruler of the Ascendant, is in the XIth. represents Nicole and i is Ronald Goldman. The mutual reception between i and describes a strong friendship. H rising is also Nicoles natal ASC H, see Figure . At the event transit , her coruler, at / was opposite her natal if while transiting , primary mler of her Ascendant, at TIt was conjunct her natal QOTIt in her natal VIIIth house of death. Potential violence was also indicated by her progressed r at Q conjunct natal Q which was triggered by a square from transiting r t at the preceding New Moon. Solar Arc Q, ruler of her VIIIth, was also d for the death which may be connected with divorce. The preceding New Moon also featured transiting at conjunct progressed , both conjunct natal if in her Vth house. rules Nicoles Considerations X VIHth and rules her VIIth, so we have a clear picture of a violent death involving a partner or open enemy, which was connected with a love affair or her children. At the event partners was stationary at conj unct Nicoles natal and stimulating the natal square to the IT a similar planetary combination. is the primary Ascendant ruler, at the event retrograde in TIL in the VlIIth, recently squared by the . Besides her death, this may relate to the ring Nicole had returned to OJ on May th. It may also refer to the recent threat allegedly made by OJ, to report her to the IRS for tax evasion. Retrograde planets refer to the past and suggests her death is linked to a similar event in the past. Nicole had made many emergency calls to the police during and after the marriage and OJ was charged with wife battering in . Nicole had also confided to therapist Susan Forward that on several occasions OJ had threatened to kill her if he caught her with anyone else. In the event chart, rules the criminal VIIth and is stationarygoingretrograde in , disposited by the Q , indicating someone who is familyminded but who likes to dominate and is motivated by success. At OJs birth see Figure was also retrograde in . He has Q rising and his Ascendant ruler, the , is in . After the end of his football career he made it in films such as Naked Gun and Towering Inferno. Lee Strasberg called him quota natural actor.quot Mutable descending and the IT quincunx death support the theory that there were two murderers. The defense argued that OJ could not have carried out both killings single handed as Goldman was a body builder, but maybe he hired an accomplice Natally Nicole has at squared by her at , showing the possibility of attracting dangerous men. At her death her had progressed to , e, and progressed at was quincunx progressed at an aspect which occurs with uncanny regularity at such an event. When we find transiting partners square natal at the preceding Solar eclipse, with transiting e also conjunct her ruler, , we realize her life really was in danger. More important, however, is OJs , his Ascendant ruler and therefore indicator of his personal actions. On June th it had prog e e e . ........... .quot. .. Ir ..kJ .. Heaton O. J. Simpson A Study in AstraCriminology Fig. o. J. Simpson a.m. PST, July th, San Francisco N, W porphyry houses d o o , R j o. J. Simpsons o J Direct Secondaries to June , Converse Direct Converse .ggtgtr II llt Si if i Q llQJi.E Q ts ts EB ill ill II As Q Q Me QIgtI ts or.. g Ii z WQGtnT II Considerations X ressed to , within a degree of both the VIlth cusp criminal in the event chart and Nicoles natal E, already dangerously primed by her own directions. In the murder chart stationary retrograde shows the criminals desire to reunite, reconcile and return to an old situation. In e he is sentimental, possessive and easily hurt, longing for the security of the family. At the Vth Porphyry cusp, he is connected with her children or her lovelife. OJ attended his daughters dance recital only hours before the crime and he is known to have jealously hounded Nicole since their divorce. was also stationary retrograde, at TIL, on the evening of October th, when Nicole made one of her many calls about OJs violence. They were now living separately. This time he had broken down the back door. Between and p.m. was the Ascendant ruler callerlNicole. It was besieged by if TIL and E TIL while aptly describing the threat of violence. in the murder chart is this previous station and the Q is conjunct it. Since is Nicoles coruler the aspect indicates a link between the two events. The Q J disposes and is also ruler of the children, Vth. Since the Js last aspect was we can assume there was some conflict at the dance recital regarding Nicoles daughter and that the criminal was involved. With her ruler positioned in the VllIth house we also know that she was worried about how an IRS demand may effect her childrens welfare. OJs obsession after the divorce was to have Nicole back in his life. This state of mind is shown in the murder chart by s separating trine with Nicole to which he is now trying to return by retrograde motion. is in e, the Sign of s exaltation, so the criminal idolizes Nicole. In December OJ told a clerk at a local clothing store, quotIm really trying to reconcile with my wife.quotIt is clear that he refused to accept the divorce. Keith Zlomosowitch told a pretrial jury how he and Nicole had their date interrupted at the Mezzaluna restaurant in . quotHe leaned over our table, rested his hands on the table and sort of stared at myself and the other male individual at the table. Then he spoke Im O. J. Simpson and shes still my wife.quot is parallel and lilt, which have separated from their opposition by . I interpret this aspect as showing the March divorce two years earlier. is also the ruler of Nicoles VIlIth house so her death was connected with a separation involving the criminal. b. E is the attempted reconciliation following the opposition with lilt. was last trine at TIL so at the time of the murder was beyond this point. Equating a degree for a year, this takes us back to December , three months before the final separation. The marriage would have been on the rocks then as another indicator Heaton . J. Simpson A Study in AstroCriminology Fig. Nicole Simpson a.m. MET, May , Frankfurt am Main, Germany N, E b o a / Il. quot H / TIl Considerations X of separation suggests the disposes and is separating by from its square to j., pointing back to the same period. In the murder chart if violence, knives is at in the st, which describes the severe wounds to the throats, but if is also square to OJs progressed . rules his natal VITth so his progressed exwife IS squared by a transiting knife attack. This aspect alone is not enough to implicate OJ for it only shows violence towards his exwife. However, he did purchase a knife on May rd when transiting if was at T at noon PDT, again aspecting progressed , which must cast more doubt his innocence. OJs potential for violence is shown by his natal if which had progressed to at the event, conjunct stationary retrograde the criminal in the murder chart. This conjunction fell square to his natal f at in his IInd house, the VIHth from the VIIth his partners death. Since Nicoles , at , squares both her own VInth house ruler, , at , and , at /, the close synastry with OJs f is a dangerous contact augmented by his progressed if and stationary P. With TIl on OJs lInd cusp, is also the ruler of his partners death, and its station makes the danger to Nicoles life very real. Additional testimony to Nicoles death in OJs radix comes from partners death opposed on June th by transiting gtilt, coruler of on his VIIth house cusp. HE L. A. POLICE were familiar with Nicoles accusations of domestic violence but it was not until January st, that her emergency call at a.m. PST led to a conviction. The police arrived to find her emerging half dressed from a bush in the garden. Hes going to kill me, hes going to kill mequot she yelled with her face bruised, lip swollen and scratches and handprints on her neck. The chart for the call, Figure , shows the last degree of ill rising with l intercepted in the st. if and j. are therefore Nicoles primary rulers while gtilt rising and are her corulers. OJs significators are and , rulers of the VIIth House. The recent threat to her life is shown by the , ruling the VlIIth House, separating from if, but the future danger lies in the s translation of light from if to , reactivating the separating square between husband and wife. If OJ killed Nicole his actions fulfilled the promise of this earlier chart and should be evident in its directions for June th, . There are no less than four directions involving the for this date. By solar arc, Nicoles primary ruler, if, had reached T, rI , while transiting gtilt, her coruler, T e Heaton O. J Simpson A Study in AstraCriminology is D J from XS. OJs primary ruler, , had progressed to ., connecting him with Nicoles death J by sextile the link between significators being more important than the type of aspect. Finally, the progressed , at XS, is cf , the ancient ruler of death. As a rule I place little importance on the scmisextile but s progression to , difficult is to ignore here as it ties OJs second ruler into the conjunction of progressed J and radical . Two transits involving add to the death symbolism developing in this chart on June th . Transiting if at t opposed radical e, both ruling the , Ascendant, while transiting e, at quot opposed Nicoles coruler, t. Both transits symbolize brutal violence while , showing OJs actions, has moved into the VIIlth House, at , t. Again, the type of aspect seems to be less significant than the contact from the VllIth House to one of Nicoles rulers. It is also worth noting that OJs other ruler , , though not in aspect, was nevertheless stationary retrograde at also in the VIIIth House. If OJ is innocent, why does this chart of domestic violence resonate so strongly with Nicoles death fiveandahalf years later e AKING THE VIIth house of the murder chart as the criminal Ascendant, the s applying aspects should describe his activities. First is a contraparallel with retrograde t, ruler of his IVth, showing a return journey home. t in the criminals Ilnd describes OJs million house in Brentwood and echoes his natal chart which has retrograde t in , conjunct the Ie. If he was the criminal, OJ returned home to catch a taxi to the airport but the time of his arrival is disputed. The next squares if in his IXth and ruling his IIIrd a plausible combination for a taxi ride to the airport. if in his IXth suggests the knife could have been disposed of during the flight or in Chicago. s parallel with the IXth house ruler, , also suggests the criminal made a long journey a business trip fits well with t on his IXth cusp and t in his lInd house. After returning to Los Angeles for questioning on June th, OJ later became the main suspect but when the time came to tum himself over to the police they had to announce he was a fugitive from justice. The nation turned on their TV sets to see him cruising in his Ford Bronco down the San Diego freeway with close friend Alan Cowlings at the wheel and the world cheering him on. If OJ is the criminal, , here he is in his Xlth house friends making a return journey home retrograde to be with his mother and family, . T Considerations X tfcN rquot ilo Cquot,/ C/quotPJUI..,rlt.lt, rJor FIR,., quotquotquot IJ . V i quotquot u.. ..Vello,.. WIH a.. .NICOquot .MquotJtO rtll..lY Iquot lIcz irl..quotquot I Hi.P quot HAv .... Aquot/D kl...... In the murder chart the l is III dramatic Q in the XIIth house of escapes this wasnt OJs first disappearing act. On New Years Day, , after being arrested for beating Nicole, he fled in his blue Bentley before the police could catch him. He was once quoted as saying My speed has always been my best weapon. So if I can nm away from whatever it is, I dont need to be there.quot After squaring if, the murder aspects the criminals XIlth house ruler, the Il , in his Xth house of authorities and reognition. The describes the dramatic escape publicly visible as it was on live national TV Il, Xth house with The Juice Americas national hero, staging his own race for the touchline. Signs reading quotGo OJ quot appeared at the roadside as if to parody his commercial for Hertz cars in which he dashes to the airport. The n in the criminals Xth could also signify OJs career as a sports commentator, famous athlete and spokesman for Hertz rental cars. The quincunx with Nicole in his Vth also confirms another feature of OJs life his success placed an intolerable strain on his relationship with his wife and chil dren due to absence and his affairs with other women. After sextiling the , the makes a contraparallel with , ruler of the criminals Vth. Holding a gun to his head and threatening suicide, OJ next forced the police to allow him to drive home and say goodbye to his children. The ls final aspect, a square to retrograde in the criminals IIIrd house of messages, describes the closing scene before OJ turned himself over to the police, clutching two family pictures. Still threatening suicide, he demanded to talk to his mother who was now in a San Francisco hospital recovering from stress. The police finally agreed and supplied a replacement phone battery. OJ continued the theme of his final letter,quot written on June th, as he spoke of his love for Nicole, his mother and his children. If retrograde in is the phone call to his mother, then in his IIIrd warns us that the criminals final words, however dramatic, may be no more than an attempt to manipulate public opinion. Heaton . J. Simpson A Study in AstraCriminology Fig. Call a.m. PST, January , Brentwood, CA N, W ..... TIl. ll Considerations X ROM THE LINKS between the murder chart, OJs natal and progressed charts, the calls and the purchase of the knife, I believe O. . Simpson was involved in the murder of his exwife, Nicole. Many astrologers consider it unethical to express opinions about a suspects guilt but they usually limit themselves to natal charts, often untimed, which by themselves are insufficient to make valid deductions. When the net is spread wider to include the murder chart and other event charts deductions can be crossreferenced, allowing F greater predictive accuracy. This also satisfies the requirement of free will. The natal chart is inherited at birth and therefore cannot implicate anyone, but the event charts we attract are the result of our actions and are therefore a source of judgment. Two people with the same horoscope may have directions involving if which show the potential for a violent act but if one lives peacefully while the other beats his wife, only the latter will be involved in such an event and only he will attract event charts which can be read to indicate his guilt. Received January th, Considerations IX Who Garry Heaton a member of the Astrological Lodge of London where he lectures on astrocriminology and horary astrology. His articles have been published in The Astrology Quarterly, The Traditional Astrologer and Aspects. His article on Page is his first appearance in this magazine. While still a schoolboy in Holland years ago, Arie Johannes Mantel was taught astrology by his uncle, a professional astrologer and herbalist. In addition to his obvious wealth of experience in our subject, Aries engineering background has given him the ability to explain complex calculations in an easytounderstand manner. Carol S. Mull, an active trader, author and lecturer from Indianapolis, is the publisher/editor of two newsletters, The AstraInvestor and Metal Cycles. In recent years Carol, the author of Standard amp Poors and OvertheCounter Stocks, has organized the very successful Conferences on AstroTiming Techniques that are held annually in Chicago. Prier Wintle is a Britishborn astrologer now living in Cape Town he also lived in New Zealand for many years. Over the years Prier has been a regular and much requested contributor to Considerations, as well as to many other journals. That TransNeptunian Planet PRIER WINTLE IN PLANETS we dont yet know about for certain is rather like the craze for backing horses. Some people are addicted to it and know the names, locations and probable form of anything up to a dozen extra planets, most of them farther away than but some closer to us even than lilt. The majority of us are more like the person who says he or she is not a racing man or woman but who occasionally likes to back a dead certainty when the evidence for it is particularly good. Think what it would mean to be on a winner how many astrological problems it might clear up, besides new ones it might create Evidence that there is something out there has been good for a very long time. Long after the discovery of astronomers were calculating the possible orbit of a planet beyond which could account for observed irregularities in the motions of , lilt and and also for those of various periodic comets. itself had been discovered in this way, following the calculations of Levcrrier in France and Adams in Britain, so the method was obviously well founded in fact. And then was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in , just where the calculations had said it would be. But. ... But is not the transNeptunian planet For a long time there was uncertainty about its true size and mass but in the last twenty years sophisticated modern techniques have proved that its diameter is only / that of our and its specific gravity less than that of water. Its total mass is only one eighteen thousandth of that of our earthmoon system, when it is calculated along with that of its own moon Charon. Acting by means of gravity alone cannot have caused the observed perturbations in the orbits of the major planets. The transNeptunian problem is truly an open problem once more and it is being quietly investigated in more than one quarter. In June the German astrological magazine Kosmobiologie announced that Prof. Dr. INTEREST e e e I To do these latter justice, one very tiny one, Chiron, was discovered telescopically between Saturn and Uranus in November . Quo ing from Astronomischen Mitteilungen der ArchenholdSteruwarte, BerlinTreptow, No. /. Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet H. H. Kritzinger had been working intensively on the subject for a number of years and had just then published his conclusions. The planet, he said, was a massive one with a probable visual magnitude of about . This is brighter than e, and for a planet well beyond the orbit of e this means it would have to be at least the size of, if not larger. Its orbit was inclined to the ecliptic at an angle of considerably more than that of which has the most inclined orbit so far known at . Its mean distance from the was astronomical units Earth distances and its period of revolution . years. In its right ascension was given as and declination and for R.A. , Decl. . Thus during these ten years it was in the constellation Pegasus. Its Zodiacal longitude in was approximately . In the British journal Astrology gave a brief notice of the Kosmobiologie article in its Data Section, quoting the French magazine Les Cahiers Astrologiques. On November th there was a lecture on the planet given by Jean OvertonFuller, followed by a general discussion, which was reported in a issue of Astrology. Prof. Kritzinger had named his supposed discovery Minos but Miss OvertonFuller preferred to call it Isis. Whichever name was used the planet appeared to have much in common with the sign o. The legend of the Minotaur, a monster that was halfman, halfbull, supported the idea and of the traditional dualrulership signs was clearly the one which should be next in line for assignment to a newly discovered planet. If the name Isis was used then since she was the Egyptian CowGoddess, the Great Mother, the link was even stronger. During the open discussion, Miss Katchourin commented that the discovery coincided in time with the finding of the remains of a Mitbraic temple in London Mithraism being the bull cult which was widely popular in military circles throughout the Roman Empire. Ronald Davison recalled that Minos was king of Crete and that he was appointed after death as a judge of souls to decide to which part of Hades the deceased should go. Since was regarded as an octave planet of, of , and e of if, it was not unreasonable that this latest discovery should be equated to , the planet of judgment. There was also another link to by virtue of the fact that the sound Crete occurred in the English word concrete, having the meaning of matter in its most solid form. The longitude of the planet as given by Jean OvertonFuller differed slightly from that specified by Prof. Dr. Kritzinger and published in Kosmobiologie. Since its mean motion was about o per year, she suggested J Astrology .. Volume Number . SeptNov . Page . Astrology. Volume Number . JuneJulyAug. . Page . Considerations X that those who wished to experiment with it might find the following rough table of longitudes helpful, see table In a subsequent issue of Astrology, the editor Table Ronald Davison noted that Charles A. Jayne had written to him protesting Prof. Kritzingers calcu lations and suggesting that the true position of Minos/Isis should be , this being the place ment of one of his own series of hypothetical planets. Not too surprising I think, in view of that last suggestion, the subject dropped out of public consideration in astrological circles for the next years. I have an uncomfortable feeling that astrological speculations which are not based on at least some astronomical foundation have a habit of proving to be mere castles in the air. Astrology is essentially a system of interpretation and needs to be sure of having a firm grounding in astronomical facts waiting to be interpreted. Only then can it be as free and intuitive as it likes in reaching its conclusions without ever losing contact with reality. To reverse the procedure and try to make astrology the exact science upon which astronomical predictions can be based is to put the cart before the horse. With all due respect to the work of Maurice Wemyss, Charles A. Jayne, the HamburgWitte school, the Dutch astrologer Ram, and others, I cannot feel that the horse ever benefits from this. S Originally, of course, the magi or wise men were astrologer and astronomer combined. In medieval times they were known as mathematicians, still with the same dual connotation, since it was they who first developed notable skill in that mysterious art which also had useful application to the task of navigation of the earth itself, since they had realized this was intimately related to the study of tile heavens. The fact that for the past years or so the mathematical and observational foundation of astronomy/astrology has become completely separated rom the interpretative aspect and now tries to coldshoulder it must not now tempt us to react and try to combine the two as though there never was any distinction between them. They always were two distinct matters even when practiced by the same persons. Without a sure grounding in observation and mathematics, astrology CUIUlot ruly t exist as such but shades off into alchemy and magic. Yet even today an analogous split to the yearold one between pure astronomy and pure astrology tends to develop between the mathematical astrologer and the astrologer with no head for figures who simply lets the computer calculate the charts and progressions. The first goes in for complex systems of prediction and tends to be very objective not to say rigid and unimaginative in his interpretations, The other is far more intuitive and frequently develops more genuine insight into the life situations he or she is dealing with. Each lends to look down on the other. The mathematical astrologer says the intuitive type is unscientific, woolly and incompetent. The intuitive one says the mathematical type is missing the whole true point of astrology by subjecting everything to his mechanical eitheror, yes or no calculations. But both really need each other. Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet Prof. Kritzingers planet was however brought to light again after nearly a quarter of a century in the Winter / issue of Astrology. Ronald Davison then reported editorially that one of the latest satellites had provided very strong evidence that there is indeed a planet orbiting the o well beyond the orbit of E. He also mentioned Russian claims to have discovered a new planet, although nothing more had been heard of these following the initial announcements. Davison went on to say that while Prof. Kritzinger had given the name Minos to the new planet, more recently tile name Persephone had been suggested. Persephone was the wife of Hades, God of the Underworld, and King Minos too was appointed after death as a judge of souls to decide to which part of Hades the deceased should go. He Davison therefore hoped tilat the discovery of the planet would not herald increased activity in Hades resulting from the misuse of the terrible sources of power developed since World War II. During his life King Minos patronized a monster called the Minotaur, halfman and halfbull, which was confined in a labyrinth and to which sacrifices were made. A lady called Ariadne eventually assisted her lover Theseus, who was to have been a sacrifice, to slay the monster and then find his way back out of the maze by following a thread she had given him to indicate his route. Davisons comments on this in , which he felt bore repetition in view of the state of world affairs in /, were quotEvery year seven youths and seven maidens were devoured by the monster. The number seven was linked with the planetary principles the Minotaur halfman, halfbull could represent the misuse of the natural powers of the world tile labyrinth, the dilemma confronting modem man in his search to solve the riddle of existence. The discovery of Minos could well herald a speeding up of the processes by which man would eventually find a way out of the maze.quot OR SOME REASON Minos appealed to my imagination or triggered something in my subconscious when I first read the reference to it back in . Whereas I could never feel anything more than a slight passing curiosity about Cupido or Admetos or Teiresias or any of the other purely hypothetical astrologers planets, I have found myself following Minos in chart after chart over the years with increasing amazement no pun intended. The bulk of this article will consist in the F Astrology. Volume Number . Winter /. In the AstrophysicaL laboratory of Kazakhstan armounced that it had definitely discovered a new planet beyond Neptune. Considerations X examination of cases which illustrate what I mean. First, however, a few astronomical remarks are necessary. The period of revolution of the planet is given as . years which, if its orbit was perfectly circular and in the plane of the ecliptic, would mean that its yearly increment in longitude would be just over half a degree. Its position in was given as to and in as which represents an annual increment of just over Yz . However, Minos orbit is most unlikely to be perfectly circular and in any case it has that inclination of to the ecliptic. Neglecting any ellipticity in the orbit, that inclination alone will mean that even though its own orbital speed is approximately constant, as seen from the Earth, it will appear to be almost stationary in longitude for long periods while at others it will seem to move very swiftly. If it is moving at its average velocity in longitude at the present time that must mean that it is at a point in its orbit where it is crossing over either from apparent fast to slow longitudinal motion or vice versa. We certainly cannot simply go on adding o per year indefinitely and imagine we have the correct position. Probably we wont be more than a degree or so out by the present date, but the sooner a detailed ephemeris based on the solid data by Prof. Kritzingers calculations is published the better. We must also remember the phenomena of retrograde and direct motion. With the exception of if, whose own orbital speed obscures the effect, all the planets farther away from the than ourselves appear to tum retrograde once a year as the Earth approaches longitudinal conjunction with them, becoming direct again some time after the conjunction is passed. The actual distance they have moved forward in longitude over a year can therefore only be judged by comparing their positions on the same date from year to year. Within the year itself there will be a swing backwards and forwards over whatever mean position has been reached due to retrograde and direct motion. In the case of a comparatively near planet like the duration of the retrograde period is only approximately four months but during that time will appear to move backwards ten degrees or more. The farther away a planet is the nearer its period of retrogradation approaches half a year the period it would have if it were itself motionless and all the effect were due to the Earths orbital motion, and the less it appears to move backwards during that time. In the case of f for instance, the retrogradation period in lasts from April th to October th and in that time f appears to move back . Minos is a great deal farther away than f so it will be retrograde for nearly half a year and direct for the other half. Its swing backwards and forwards will probably be more than a degree back followed by a degree and a half forwards. To come close to its true position we will need to bear this movement in mind. We only see the true position of any planet from two positions of our own Earths orbit around the , namely when we are in d or Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet if with it or, as it appears to us, when the is in if or d with it. These positions occur in the center of the retrograde and direct periods of the planet, respectively. In the latter half of the retrograde period and the first half of the direct period the planet is lagging behind its true position. In the second half of the direct period and the first half of the retrograde one it is ahead of its true position. For Minos, which is now in the early degrees of tt, this means that we see it or would see it if we could see it in its correct location only around February th and September st. Between September and February it is behind its heliocentric longitude and between February and September it is in front of it. To arrive at the position as seen from the Earth, which is the one which must be inserted into a horoscope, we must therefore subtract a little less than one degree from the calculated position in the center of the laggingbehind period that is, about December lst, and add one degree in the center of the forward period approximately May th. To put the matter in racing language, what we now have to decide is whether or not Minos is an animal worth backing. No one has yet seen him through a telescope so we are not yet in a position to say he has proved a winner past the post. Form is always a strong indicator of a contender worth watching, however, so we must use all the information we possess at present to assess his past form. The basis we have to work form is an orbit calculated mathematically from astronomical observations of perturbations of the orbits of other planets and comets so we are not putting the cart before the horse. Let us see where he was placed in some of the events which have taken place during the time period for which we have a fairly exact specification of his supposed position. It will be easiest if we begin by focusing on cases which bring out his association with the sign t. Admittedly, no planet is adequately described simply by a list of characteristics of the sign he or she niles, and t is also traditionaUy ruled by , along with the sign . Neither sign can truly be said to be however, yet, all the same, despite the fact that she is most decidedly an entity in her own right, both signs do have points which are strongly expressive of her. Similarly if has characteristics which are strongly suggestive of both T and Ill and this despite the fact that f is also quite definitely associated with Ill, even though neither T nor alone can give us a full and adequate picture of him . ......n,, We are in the position where we have to try to work from the little that seems to be known towards the great deal that is unknown. We cannot yet write with the signature of Minos himself because at the present time we do not know whether we m Considerations X may think it is genuine or not. However, if there truly is a planet where Prof. Kritzinger says it is, and if it rules as Jean OvertonFuller and others believe, then it will work this rulership even while it slowly moves through whatever other sign it may happen to be in at any particular time, just as other planets also work their own rulerships as they too move through other signs. t, for instance, was in lTt during most of but he stimulated the House, sign and aspects he had at birth in the charts of the lTt people he was then affecting, and also brought the / areas of their charts into prominence. HAT DOES MINOS DO Out of the countless assassinations which have disgraced our notably assassinationprone century probably the most well known and most commented upon has been that ofU. S. President John F. Kennedy, which occurred in Dallas, Texas at . p.m. CST on November nd, . President Kennedy was bam at Brookline, Massachusetts W Fig. President John F. Kennedy Inner circle Natal chart transits at death outer ring. u.s. Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet on May th, at p.m. EST. His natal chart with the transits outer ring at the time of the assassination is shown at Figure , with the natal and transit positions of Minos inserted. In the present context we are naturally not concemed to make a deep study of all aspects of this natal chart, nor of the circumstances of the assassination, but only to assess whether it is possible that Minos was relevant to what occurred. All we need note in a general way, therefore, is that the natal chart does show a risk of violent death since there is a satellium of planets in ts on the VIIIth cusp, headed by if, all of them squared by in from cusp V. ts suggests the neck as a focal point for injury and in in the Vth suggests a chance opportunity taken by a leftwing political extremist idealist. Minos now comes into the picture because he is placed in iO in the IVth House, close to the Ie. He is therefore saying something about conditions at the end of life. we shall have to ask whether there was something which characterized the way that end came about which was defmite and important yet which the chart without Minos did not clearly and specifically describe. When we examine the transits we note that the only area in which they make a significant contact with the natal chart is that clustered about the transiting Ascendant, that is, quottgt just above it in , the transiting Ascendant itself, and Minos just below it in . All other links are either further than from exactness or consist only of weak and ambiguous aspects like the quincunx Assassination natal , assassination if natal , etc.. quottgt, however, is only a degree away from the exact square to natal if, the transiting Ascendant is exactly on the natal Vth cusp equal House system, squaring the VIIIth cusp and a degree away from the square to and if on either side of it, and Minos is within Y of the exact conjunction with and the exact square to to Out of these three the Minos contact must count as the most significant. Since Minos moves so slowly it is possible for it to remain in orbs for a year or more. One may surmise that a plan to make an end of things IVth House as far as Kennedy was concemed had possibly been brewing in certain minds for a very long time. They may have been Communist minds, but not necessarily so. Something or someone else may simply have decided to cooperate with and make use of communist organizations and leftorientated personnel for the purpose Minos cf in . The precise opportunity presented itself when quottgt approached the to if premeditated violence and precisely clicked at the time when the Ascendant in Dallas exactly squared Kennedys VIIIth cusp, with quottgt and Minos all too revealingly placed one of either side of it. Note that without Minos there was really nothing to activate that natal square from to the VIIlth House planets. quottgt was technically still too far away and its to if was not enough by itself to indicate an assassination as carefully planned, organized and brought off as this one obviously was. lt lt Considerations X was if in ts on the VIIIth cusp. Minos, coruler of ts, was in t on the VIllth cusp. Kennedy got it in the neck. How could the shot possibly have gone anywhere else In addition, we also have our first indication of something about the value of Minos as he is in himself. An impenetrable wall of mystery at once arose concerning the true circumstances of the death of President Kennedy. Was Lee Harvey Oswald the real or only assassin He himself was murdered within hours of his capture and the man who murdered him, Jack Ruby, died of a highly suspiciously swift cancer in hospital before inquiries into his own background, motivations and backers could be finalized. Suspicions that there were other shots from other quarters have never been either confirmed or disproved finally. Worst of all, the more one probes the mystery of Kennedys death the more one becomes enmeshed in a labyrinth with decidedly threatening overtones. If one got to the center of it is all too probable there would be a Minotaur of sorts waiting there to make an end of one. N OTQUITE AS WORLDSHAKING as the assassination of President Kennedy but in some ways not far removed from it in significance and possible later repercussions was that of the black civilrights leader Martin Luther King, who was shot in Memphis, Tennessee on April th, .. Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia N, W at . a.m. CST on January th see Figure . Minos falls close to the equalHouse Xth House cusp, the midpoint between the Ascendant in Yz t and the rising in b. The chart is not as obviously assassination prone as Kennedys but it does show a mutable TSquare involving in the VIIIth c if in the lInd, both the in the XIth. At the time of the assassination progressed if was in n, only from the exact c of , having been retrograde at birth but subsequently turning direct, thus returning to close the natal aspect. On the actual day transiting t, natally in in the lIIrd House fairly close to the IC, the end of life, was in ill, not exactly but still fairly closely c the natal f and if and , while transiting f was passing through n and actually rf both natal and progressed if. It was therefore a tricky time. One could not say from indications like these that assassination was inevitable but certainly if My source for this horoscope is Alan Okens Complete Astrology Bantam Books, where the chart is printed and the birth date is given but the time and source is not stated. I have therefore calculated backwards to arrive at the birthtime. Although Georgia is now within the EST zone, in the city of Atlanta and places west of W were on CST. Kings birth time is not definitely known other times that have been suggested by different sources include , , , and , all CST. Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet anyone had wanted to do it this was as good a time as any to have a shot at it. The general political and emotional atmosphere would tend to be right and an opportunity would be likely to present itself. What then of Minos On the assassination day if was in ti , Ylo away from the exact to natal Minos in and from the natal Ascendant which had now become almost exactly conjoined by progressed . In effect therefore, if was transiting just that point between natal and the natal Ascendant which Minos squared at birth. What does it all add up to I think a comparison of Kings chart with Kennedys sums it up. Kennedy was a popular president but one whose popularity was beginning to crumble, like President Carters in later years of his term, because of popular suspicion that as a Democrat he was insufficiently tough and adept at handling the Communists. The Bay of Pigs fiasco was a disaster he was unlikely ever to be able to live down. A fall from grace is clearly indicated in his chart by the closeness of tgt to his natal Midheaven. Though his legend does survive in Democratic memories, a majority of Americans probably feel that his assassination saved their country from serious disaster. Martin Luther Kings case is on the face of it completely different. His rising and culminating suggest an uninterrupted success story. Of course in very large measure, for a black from the South, his life up till the time he was assassinated actually had been just such a success story. However there are rumors how well authenticated I am unable to say that he was on the verge of a fall. The FBI is said to have been on the point of bringing a case against him for various illegal activities including drug peddling among other things, as well as for Communist affiliations. But the assassination immediately elevated him to the position of a saint from which no amount of rumoring has subsequently been able to dislodge him. To some extent King had already reached this elevation during his lifetime. He was not merely a civilrights leader he was the priest and apostle of the movement. Now Minos is next to the in his chart. It is not the most elevated planet the is that but it follows it. It is interesting therefore that only a few days before he was killed he made a speech in which he almost foresaw his death and in which he used the phrase quotwe have climbed the highest mountain.quot He knew, in other words, that he had reached the highest point possible for him, namely the on his Midheaven. He realized that what had to be faced now was what he and the people he led would meet as they coasted down the other side of the hill on Considerations X Fig. Rev. Martin Luther King a.m. CST, January , . N, W their way to the promised land. There would be the inevitable white backlash of resentment at the height he had achieved and the prominence and publicity he had won for his cause. And there of course waiting for him, the first minefield on his way down, was Minos. And he too was shot in the neck. Why Well who did it James Earl Ray, the actual gunman, was subsequently arrested as he stepped off a plane on his way to Europe. But be had been paid to do it, and the precise identity and background of those who paid him was not so easy to establish. Superficially it looks as though it should have been easy. Obviously those who disliked AfricanAmericans and the civil rights movement wanted King dead. But a dead Martin Luther King became a martyr and a saint almost a more potent figure than when he was alive. Who benefited most from that especially if there is any truth in the rumors that he would shortly have been discredited and disgraced had he remained alive Once again therefore, as with Kennedy, we are up against a wall of mystery. Someone, somewhere, seems to be manipulating and wirepulling. Perhaps the most obviously Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet Fig. Mrs. Vi Sainton a.m. UT June , . S, E. prominent figures on the worlds political and religious stage are really only puppets, to be removed whenever it suits someones plan to pay a stooge to fix it. And again, as with Kennedy, it doesnt pay to inquire too closely into the matter. Is this the signature of Minos N ATURALLY NO PLANET operates solely in the political field and nowhere else so if we are truly serious in our intention of finding out what Minos is essentially all about we shall have to examine other areas of terrestrial life as well. Nevertheless if we are on the right track we should be able to recognize something consistent, something like a regular pattern emerging, in whatever field we are inves tigating. Figure is the birth chart of Mrs. Vi Sainton, a lady who was a staunch Theosophist for most of her life and who served several times as president of the Cape Town Lodge of the Society. What concerns us here however is not her Theosophy but an unusual health problem that she had. She suffered severe and increasing neck and head pains for to years Considerations X till investigation showed that she had an extra cervical rib. Instead of the rib cage ending where the neck normally rises free above it, in her case an extra rib was growing out of one of the neck vertebrae. It was pressing on nerves in the neck and causing the pain which she suffered. A delicate operation was necessary to remove it without damaging the nerves it affected, and even after this was performed it took several years before these irritated nerves finally healed and settled down. Now the interesting aspect of this case is that there are no planets in Taurus which would prima facie lead us to expect trouble with the neck area. and I are placed in the VIth House, cI and I somewhat widely cI , but the signs involved are / and not neck signs. t is on the Midheaven but one does not normally look to the Midheaven for signs of problems affecting the physical body. Even its conjunction with the tJ would not usually suggest an extra rib. Q is on the Ascendant with its ruler, the , placed in in the XIIth. does rule the rib cage but not the neck. Why then should an extra rib have developed from the neck Minos in this case provides a perfect answer. He is placed in the Vlth House along with and I but his cI to is exact, not wide as Is is. Thus the two rulers of t, and Minos, are precisely opposed, and Minos is in the VIth House of health in / which is the general ruler of the bony skeleton of the body. The cI aspect warns of the possibility of something going wrong and the wide rf of Minos with I and cI of the latter to confirms the pain that this would cause. The MinosP t rulership pinpoints the trouble precisely in the neck. The absence of direct indications of t affecting health matters is what makes this chart one of the very best proofs I know of that Minos does have an undoubted link with this sign. In addition there is also something else we should carefully notice and bear in mind. In itself this was not an injury case but one of an inappropriate body building block /O/t having been supplied or prescribed by the genetic control center. Once again therefore we may be dealing with the subject of control of outward appearances and happenings from a level we normally know very little about, though in a different context from the two political cases previously examined. Of course one would need not just one but many, many cases before one could really say one has given adequate proof of any such esoteric control really being exercised by this planet, and I freely admit that it was only when I began to notice the pattern after studying a very large number of Minos charts that I realized it was also discernible here. If I am light however I can shorten the time which other researchers may need for investigation by pointing out all the clues I am aware of now in each chart as I present it. Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet URELY ON THE physiological level the next chart Figure does seem to confirm what I have been suggesting. Neville Prehn is the rather sad case of a child crippled from birth as the result of a spinal malformation. Coming as he did from a South African poorwhite family of children, his parents could do little or nothing for him and he was placed in a home for disabled crippled children. Here he went on all fours like an animal till he was eleven years old, his head hanging down yet contorted forwards so that he could try to see where he was going. When he was a surgeon visited the home and noticed him. Though it was already late for major surgery to set right the gross malformation from which Neville suffered such an operation should be performed within the first year after birth, this man said to him Im going to straighten you out.quot There followed a series of operations which unfortunately were only partially successful. Neville still cannot walk nor stand fully upright. He can however ride a bicycle, which enables him to get about and live independently outside a hospital. But in South Africas rather harsh social welfare climate it has also meant the revocation of a tiny disability pension he received for a while on the grounds that he is now technically capable of working though in actual fact he cannot hold down a job. Somehow he remains cheerful, with a strong religious outlook, and survives with the aid of help from wellwishers. He once competed in a bicycle race from Johannesburg to cape Town miles and has even been able to make a trip overseas. In his chart Minos falls in the Xth House, above the XIth cusp, without notably strong aspects. There is a to the and a weak to j but I think this would have been a case where I could have felt he was not strong enough to merit particular notice had it not been for one thing there is a mutual reception between him and j. This is enough to alter the whole picture and raise Minos from a position of weakness to perhaps the strongest planet in the chart. To explain why will require a short preliminary discussion of the general subject of planetary dignities and dispositorships. The and are exalted but, , if and are in detriment and and j are in their fall. This overall lack of dignity is quite characteristic of cases of bodily malformation and also occurs frequently where the native is the victim of attack, as in rape and homicide cases. Since no planet is in essential dignity that is, in its own sign there cannot be one which disposes of everything else in the chart. Where this occurs, in cases where one planet alone is in its own sign and all the others are disposed of in one way or another in a chain ultimately leading back to it, then in effect it becomes the true filler of the chart. It is stronger even than the Ascendant P e Considerations X Fig. Neville Prehn p.m. UT December , . S, E. N ruler since it also disposes of the latter. Frequently however the chain will be interrupted before any planet in its own sign is reached. A series of planets may dispose of each other in a continuous circle. In such a case no particular one is singled out for strengthening. The most important case of interruption, however, is a mutual reception between two planets. Since these dispose of each other no other planet can dispose of either of them. In charts where no planet is in its own sign the chain of dispositorships within the chart as a whole may end in such a mutual reception, and in such a case the two planets concerned may be said to share an overall rulership. Now in Nevilles case there is at first sight another mutual reception which could challenge the claim of Minos and to ultimate rulership. if is in , ruled by , and in Ill, traditionally ruled by if. However, if is here in s positive or day sign while is in ifs negative or night one, the one it shares with to This is technically not a full reception therefore. On the other hand is in Minos only sign and Minos is in only sign so Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet these two become unquestionable ultimate dispositors of the chart. Since Minos is the more elevated of the two he is technically the strongest planet. Since he rules in mutual reception with gtilt this means that everything which this chart signifies is ultimately governed and conditioned by these two planets working in square. Hence once again a wrong prescription of body building blocks from the genetic control center in this case a gross one affecting not merely the neck alone, producing the contorted position of the head, but the whole spine. When the surgeon decided to operate, when Neville was , Minos had arrived at Y m, exactly to natal j. In addition, was stationary for a good part of that year ill Yzo Q. The attempted remedial process therefore beganquot under an exact fixed TSquare focused upon gtilt in While j is an appropriate planet under which to attempt remedial work requiring specialized scientific medical knowledge and technical skill, its placement in t, where it is in its fall, and the general TSquare formation hardly constituted together a favorable augury. t is the most fixed of all the fixed signs and Nevilles bones had become too solidified and intractable. An improvement was brought about but not a cure. And note how sadly but appropriately the focus of the TSquare on the lInd House cusp was reflected in an actual cutting down of his means of livelihood The structural pattern of the body is determined at cellular level and coded in the genes which are strung out along chromosomes in each cell nucleus. The cells themselves are the basic building blocks of the bodythe t stones or bricks. The genes are like Pharaohs catouche inscribed on each stone of the pyramid the builders mark which determines precisely where it is to be placed. If Minos controls this coding then we are onto a very important planet indeed. And the possibility that it does is not really so very far fetched. e as ruler of l. may be said to preside over the generative process together with all the jealousies, possessiveness and emotional intensities incidentally associated therewith. Minos as ruler of the opposite and complementary sign t should therefore be expected to have some connection with the fundamental processes of bodily growth. Some impressive evidence which has been building up over the past quarter of a century since Prof. Kritzinger located Minos position I think strongly supports the idea that this is, at the very least, a special field of interest of his, if he is not in fact the Pharaoh who imprints his signature on it Before I go into this evidence in detail however I want to consider four more charts which provide further proof that he does actually exist. This is after all the fundamental question. e There were a series of operations, spaced over several years. Considerations X HE NEXT TWO horoscopes both concern cases where the native seems to have taken a wrong turning in life with results that proved to be permanent and irrevocable. In both of them Minos role was probably significant and very possibly he was the factor which caused one particular wrong decision to set, resulting in a course of action and life pattern which became a fixed determinant of the whole lifes destiny. For the first case I do not have an exact time but only the place and date of birth. For my present purpose which is simply to illustrate the role of Minos in the life situation this is sufficient. In Victor Neuberg was a young Jewish sudent just starting Ius first year of a Modern Languages course at the University of Cambridge. He was also a promising poet and an agnostic. Before going up to Cambridge he had been subeditor of the Agnostic Journal which had incidentally also published several of his poems. He was reacting against a rather suffocating orthodox and cloying Jewish childhood hence the agnosticism, but in most respects his future prospects seemed fairly bright. At age Y he had originally been put into the family business importing canes, fibers and rattans but now he was and his uncle Edward had appreciated he was not cut out for business. Accordingly he had agreed to pay for him to study at Britains foremost seat of learning. Three years earlier Victor had announced his renunciation of his Judaic background in a poem published in the Freethinker, October , Vale Jehovah What if to the Race I was born To me thats no reason why I Should cling to a faith that I scorn, When my birthrights the infinite sky. Thy yoke I forever throw over T The only trouble was that as yet he had not replaced what he had rejected with a new positive belief which could provide him with a definite Quoted in OvertonFuller, Jean. The Magical Dilemma oj Victor Neuberg. London W. H. Allen. . Page . Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet sense of direction. Agnosticism is explicitly an unbelief. It is difficult to advance confidently towards any future, however bright, if one is determined only to walk backwards incessantly repeating dont believe ..... quot However, for the time being Victors uppermost feeling was one of joy at being released from the office. He was happy. Into his life there then walked Aleister Crowley. As a former student of Trinity it was in order for Crowley to visit his old college even though he was not then studying at the University. He was and already an experienced occultist and magician. He was also rumored to be a pederast. At that time however the almost endless list of iniquities with which he would later be associated in the public mind through newspaper coverage of him as the wickedest man in the world was still a matter for the future. He just walked into Victors room one day and explained his call by saying he had read some of the latters poems in the Agnostic Journal and found them interesting because they showed experience in astral travel. Almost immediately Victors not knowing began to transform itself into an urge to know, by means of magical experimentation under Crowleys guidance. Even as a child he had sensed that the outer world we experience objectively was no more than the rind of the real. He was by nature a mystic looking for someone who could guide him. Crowley claimed to be the guide sent by Inner Plane command in answer to his inward call and Victor took him at his word. The association developed slowly at first, mainly in the form of periodic meetings to smoke marihuana together in order to get out onto the AstraL In the summer of however they went on a walking tour together in Spain and from this date onwards there began a homosexual relationship between them which on Victors part consisted in being genuinely head over heels in love. He expressed his feelings in poetry which makes no secret whatever of this fact. For the next six years they were inseparable. Victor had a natural mediumistic ability which, added to his interest in and instinctive feeling for the gods of Greek and Egyptian mythology, made him the perfect instrument for magician CrowleyS evocation of these divinities for magical purposes. Victor would dance the role of the god, and more than one witness of his performances later testified that something genuinely demonic entered into him at these times. The dance became not just a performance but an actual manifestation of the god. After various travels, including a trip to Algeria and the Sahara desert where they experimented with some magical calls which had been taught Considerations X by spirits to the Elizabethan Magus Dr. John Dee through the scryer Edward Kelly years earlier, their collaboration culminated in the first two months of in what is known as the Paris working. This was a series of magical evocations, each one triggered by an initial homosexual act. Crowley later claimed that the entire working had generated such a buildup of magical potential on the Inner Planes that it was the true esoteric cause of the st World War Then they suddenly broke up. Victor refused to do any further work with Crowley or even to see rum again. Crowley tried to make him change his mind but without success. When he fmally realized and accepted the fact that Victors decision was final, he ritually cursed rum. Nevertheless it was not really the end of the matter for Victor. Though he never did work with Crowley again and even though a few years after the war he married more or less conventionally and settled down in the country with a printing press, printing his own poems and those of his friends, he was never genuinely free of the past. Crowley attempted to recruit him again in and he could not face him. To avoid the meeting he had to take refuge in an address unknown till Crowley had left the area. Again and again in oblique forms and disguises references to his bisexuality, his mystical identity and destiny, and his identification with various god figures appear in his poems. He never found his true sense of direction nor a lifes purpose which was unquestionably his own. The biography of him written by Jean OvertonFuller reveals clearly and unequivocally that Crowley was the one central figure in his life. Their magical love relationship was the formative influence upon all his thinking and all his emotional feeling. Apart from Crowley he was an undistinguished minor poetaster with no claim to be remembered on his own account. As happened with Edward Kelly and John Dee however, his association with Crowley gave him a claim to be remembered. Together they achieved what neither could have achieved alone, and posterity will always associate him with The Vision and the Voice, the record of their Sahara expedition of when they worked the DeeKelly angelic evocations. Even so, seen from his own point of view his life was not a success, just as Kellys was not. After leaving Dee, Kelly worked at the court of the Emperor Rudolph for a while as an alchemist, but was eventually imprisoned in the castle of Zemer for failing to make alchemical gold. He died falling from the ramparts of the castle while attempting to escape. Victor suffered imprisonment of another kind. In he married a woman who had very little in common with him either in respect to his sensitivity or artistic taste. She was frequently unfaithful. In he left her to stay with another lady with whom he shared more interests but who eventually Published in by Sangreal Foundation Inc. P.O. Box , Dallas, Texas . Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet came to dominate his life almost completely, deciding which of his friends were and which were not to be permitted, censoring his activities and watching over his reputation. In a sense he ended his life in another form of the cloying and suffocating loving care in which he had been brought up in his orthodox Jewish childhood home. He died ofTB in May . Victor Neuberg was born in London on May th, . He had red hair as a child though this later turned black. On account of his hair he himself wondered if his Ascendant was T. I have preferred to suggest a chart with / rising as being more consonant with the dominant role which sexual activities played in his life and also because the published photographs of him definitely suggest this sign. / is in any case the exaltation of if and can quite often give reddish hair in youth. Moreover in her book.quot Miss OvertonFuller cites a revealing and characteristic anecdote of an occasion when Victor and some acquaintances were discussing the likenesses of various of their friends to different animals. quotAnd you you are awfully goatlike,quot one of them said to him. Under .his sallowness he stiffened and seemed to go deathly white. They asked him why he was so upset. With his head in his hands he eventually murmured, was one.quot Crowley had cursed him in the form of a goat The chart as set up with / on the Ascendant is of course not evidential in respect of anything related to House position or the Ascendant itself and I am not advancing it as such in respect of the rising Minos. Nevertheless such a chart would be quite characteristic of an offbeat character such as he undoubtedly was in general and could also describe the particular slant the offbeatedness took in his particular case. The tremendous concentration of planets focused within a arc accords well with his artistic bent and devotion to poetry his own and that of others if it is placed in the Vth House, and since it includes q and in it is also appropriate that he should have been engaged in printing and publishing ventures himself to further this devotion. Such a Vth House concentration would also indicate an overwhelming emphasis upon the love nature as the source of his creativity and with the Sun and Neptune conjoined on the cusp of the House one would expect an idealistic, mystical form of love to manifest itself possibly also with an element of perversity associated with it. n Op. cit. Page . Considerations X Fig. Victor Neuberg a.m. GMT, May ,. N, OWlO. o , gOl TT b lt d T r The close conjunction of and d in T also speaks of an intense, impulsive love nature. When it falls as here in the llIrd House but close to cusp IV equal House it shows how he could not stand the restrictive religious prudery of his childhood home and was determined to say as much. One of his poems published in the Agnostic Journal when he was years old is an explicit renunciation of chastity. I do not think however that there is anything in this chart, whether with or without a / Ascendant, which definitely suggests homosexuality. As itstands it is something of a mystery why his life pattern should have turned in that direction until Minos is inserted. With Minos in position all becomes clear. The stories we have about King Minos in Greek mythology recount his sexual adventuring all over the Eastern Mediterranean area and include a homosexual affair with Ganymedes.quot Homosexuality as such was not his forte but Ganymedes was JJ cf. Robert Graves. Greek Myths. London Cassell amp Co. Ltd. . Page L , . quotKing Minos of Crete carried off Ganymedes to be his bedfellow, having received the laws rom Zeus .... The ZcusGanymedes myth gained immense popularity in Greece and Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet the most beautiful youth alive exactly how Victor describes Crowley in his poetry. In his chart Minos falls in almost exact square to the midpoint of the highly sexual dquot if a conjunction which by itself merely warns of impulsiveness and imprudence in love affairs with a touch of shamelessness since is in her detriment in T. And Victors early poetry is indeed exhibitionist and shameless. A close square thrown by another planet to such a configuration warns of more serious trouble however trouble which would be likely to become a life pattern. Naturally if Minos is rising, as in my speculative chart, the position is all the more serious because of its prominence. The , which already has that tendency towards unconventionality and idealism because of its conjunction with , is in trine to Minos. If this trine is working through the Ascendant and the Vth House it will mean a focusing of the creative urge in the form of loveart which expresses personal feelings of selfdiscovery precisely what Victors love poetry is all about. And Minos is also in mutual reception with iJ also in the Vthquot, which greatly increases his strength. in his own sign IIdisposes of but everything else in the chart is disposed of by the Minos iJ mutual reception. This configuration emphasizes materiality. The two earthy Earth signs t and to are involved plus their rulers, i.e., iJ, most external, objective and materialistic of all the planets, and Minos, who probably represents not objective matter itself but that which is behind or at the root ofthe material universe. Now Victor was not a materialist quite the reverse in fact. But he did have an obsessive concern with materialistic values. His life was one long insistent rejection of them. As a result he hardly ever for one moment lost consciousness of them. How could he in any case with a chart in which no fewer than six planets are in Earth signs seven if Minos is included and where there may also be a Grand Trine in Earth if my suggested Ascendant is correct Yet he protested. Why The protest is partly indicated by the if in t reversal of what t normally stands for, and partly by the emphasized mutual reception of Minos and iJ. He elected to stand for what underlies the material world in preference to the material world itself. Yet the obsession remained an obsession and Victor could never happily settle down and live an untroubled life expressing positively what he felt he was in himself. His was always the negative affirmative. The nearest he ever got to positive affirmation was while he was identified with Crowley and Crowleys magic, but that Rome because it afforded religious justification for a gown mans passionate love of a boy.quot Also page , C. quotZeus ...set Ganymedes image among the stars as Aquarius, the watercarrier.quot The Sign Aquarius also has traditional associations with homosexuality. C. E. O. Carter in An Encyclopedia of Psychological Astrology London TPH, refers to Uranus and lhen cites a case with Sun and Venus in Aquarius. Considerations X was in a love relationship which was itself an affirmation of something negative about his own sexual identity. Take thou my body, now hermaphrodite. This is an obsessive chart. A concentration of six planets within a are, whatever House it may be placed in, can give tremendous potential for concentration and achievement in some narrowly confined field but essentially it is an imbalance. All too frequently it results in an idee fixe rather than in real achievement. This is what I think happened to Victor. Then Minos controlled the situation from his position outside the bundle but in reception with the planet at the center of it. Thus he was always really at the mercy of someone else, whether it was his maternal aunt Hannah who dominated the Household where he was brought up, or Crowley, or the lady who took care of him and ruled him for the last ten years of his life. However much he said quotJ wont be that its not mequot subconsciously it was him. In love he was always searching for his real self the person who would incarnate the reality he could identify with and express positively instead of through incessant denial. Therefore control always reasserted itself. Truly a Minosruled life, wherever Minos was placed. HE HOROSCOPE of Aleister Crowley does not particularly emphasize Minos. This I think is what one would expect. He was certainly not a person notably subject to control by others and neither was his life either dramatically changed or ended by them. He had drastic effects upon the lives of most of the people who came closely into contact with him, but not primarily because he was essentially interested in them and what he could do to them. He /, was interested in himself and his own ideas Wbo loves quot I YOU, baby and ideals and anyone else who involved himquot. , self with these and with him had to be responsible to himself and himself alone for the consequences. In I wrote an article which was published in Astrologyquot dealing with his chart and those of several other Cagliostrotype figures who came into prominence round about the turn of the century, all of whom in one way or another founded a type of quasireligious movement. I A line rom the section entitled quotThe Romance of Olivia Vanequot from the poem The Triumph a/Pall, quoted by Jean OvertonFuller, Op. Cit. Page . quotfive Jugglers.quot Astrology. Volume Number , Spring . Pages . T Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet Fig Aleister Crowley p.m. LMT, October ,. N, lW. t..n.. mm DB Thus Madame Blavatsky inspired the Theosophical Society, now a worldwide movement Rudolf Steiner gave rise to Anthroposophy and G. I. Gurdjief has directly or indirectly influenced a host of groups who are now trying to realize his ideal of the harmonious development of man. Crowley actually styled himself a Master in the style of the Indian mahatmas and professed to be beginning the religion of Crowleyanity. I pointed out in the article that the chart of each one shows an exact r of two planets not always the same two in the degrees Q to . This appears to be a kind of Cagliostro degree area in the tropical Zodiac, facilitating the appearance of arrogant, fascinating, spellbinding figures who have a certain amount of real knowledge and power but who exercise an influence far beyond the little that is justified by their actual abilities because of mankinds own subconscious longing for a prophet and leader. This longing rapidly builds a myth around them and the true disciples soon begin to argue passionately about the correct interpretation of this, showing unequivocally that it is the myth and not the actual Considerations X teaching or personality of the leader that is in control. No particular planet or star is concerned in the Q axis which of course moves backwards through the constellations as the tropical Zodiac precesses. It, like other degree areas studied by C. E. O. Carter, Maurice Wemyss and several other astrologers, is an inherent property of the tropical Zodiac itself. I refer to it here because I believe that it, and not Minos, is the true secret of Crowleys extraordinary life, which has made him the legendary magician/occultist of the th Century. What little Minostype effect he did have on a few people whom he deliberately used, of whom Victor Neuberg was of course one, was largely incidental. One may perhaps see it indicated in the placement of Minos on the Vlth cusp equal House, distant from the ffi. When Crowley died in a boarding House in Hastings, England in his estate was valued at shillings and sixpence.quot Whatever he mayor may not have done to other people in his lifetime, therefore, he hadnt made a fortune out of them. HE SECOND of the two wrongturning charts see Figure must be considered potentially even more obsessive than that of Victor Neuberg since it presents no fewer than seven planets all clustered in , along with the O. It is the nativity of a lady who as a child and young woman showed remarkable initiative, courage and independence of spirit. Brought up in a region of South Africa which is still very much a country district and which was quite wild and out back when she was a girl, she became a natural confident horserider almost as soon as she had learnt to walk. In her teens she became the first woman to ride a horse bareback from Worcester to Cape Town, a distance of over miles, over rough tracks as regular roads had not yet been made. Intellectually she was no less enterprising. Not having been taught French at Krishnamurti might easily have become a similar figure but he saw the process beginning in his life time and protested against it and disavowed it before it could get properly under way. Rupert Gleadow, in his note to Crowleys chart, published in John Symonds biography of Crowley, The Great Beast London Rider amp Co., , page , points out that his birth was only known to have occurred between and p.m. Crowley therefore used . p.m. as the nearest approximation to the correct time. He Gleadow suggested . p.m. was more likely as it produced a better correlation with events in Crowleys life. This would give an almost exact conjunction of Minos with Ea. Those who served Crowley VIth house during his lifetime certainly contributed to his fulfilment in life, though they were deliberately, systematically and quite heartlessly controlled and manipulated by him. Note that Minos is not given extra importance by reception. He is disposed by like everything else in Crowleys chart, where she reigns as ultimate dispositor. At tile time approx. . US Editor. T Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet Fig. Mrs. Nora Akers a.m. GMT, July , . S, E. o b school she taught herself the language so that she could read Moliere and Comeille and the French novelists in their own tongue. She was interested in a hundred things and had both the energy and the ability to concentrate and so bring them within the range of possibility an exact demonstration of the focusing potentiality of an exact rf J and a strong sateLlium of planets in one sign. However, even in her youth the XIIth House placing of all these planets began to assert itself. Circumstances forced her into the position of having to accept responsibility for looking after a seles of no less than five close relatives, all of whom became sick and helpless in one way or another her mother, her father, an aunt, another aunt, and finally her elder sister. She willingly cared for them all, one after another, demonstrating endless patience and untiring energy. Indeed she derived a deep satisfaction from the service despite the restriction of her own activities which it inevitably involved. But restriction it was, and even more explicit restriction had also asserted itself as early as her school days. At school she achieved an A in every subject she studied and she won a bursary in Considerations X botany which could have taken her to study at the University of Cape TOWIl.Her father, however, refused to allow her to take up the bursary, saying her first duty must be to her home and her parents.Then, at age , she married and this was the great turning point of her life. The service she had willingly rendered to sick relatives became transformed into complete subservience in marriage. She allowed herself to submerge her own personality and interests entirely in one pointed concentration upon those of her husband. The comment will of course be made that this was the universal pattern of marriage in the th Century and although it was being modified it had by no means died out in many, many cases in the first quarter of our present century. However, even in the th Century original and independent women did exist and preserved their independence in marriage because they married husbands who appreciated their intelligence and spirit. What is different in this case is the degree of submergence and the willingness of reversal of what had been the earlier pattern of life. Her husband was a good enough man, if somewhat crotchety and selfcentered at times, but he was absolutely without any intellectual or artistic interests. He worked for most of their married life, till his retirement, as stores superintendent for a food packing finn. They had two daughters and it is by courtesy of one of these who considers her mother a classic case of wrong turning that I have this chart. Her mother herself might well have disagreed entirely. However, after such a youth, to spend a lifetime accompanying a husband watching light TV programs and soap operas in place of adventuresome reading and attendance at concerts and plays, and to achieve a state of mind which could reply, when asked quotMummy, whats you favorite colorquot with Well, dear, Davids favorite color is red,quot was surely to have gone wrong somewhere. It was a case of complete surrender of control. And the result was complete reversal of what the life might otherwise have been. Minos in this chart is the ruler of the Midheaven, the career and status, and he is placed in the VIth House, which governs the health and everyday circumstances of life. He is close to the VIIth cusp however and though he is not in the VIIth House sign he has a close cI to right along the AscendantDescendant axis. is the last planet of the satellium and in some ways the most powerfully placed of them aU since he is only a degree away from the Q Ascendant and also d ffi. stands for reversals for doing the opposite of what is expected, or for doing what is expected for reasons which are the opposite of what other people imagine or understand. When he conjoins EBfulfillment in life is sought through a reversal of this type, and sometimes it is achieved perhaps perversely. In this chart I read the cI to the MC ruler along the IVII line to be the decisive controlling configuration. It takes precedence even of the , even though Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet she conjoins and disposes of the chartruler, , as well as every other planet except J., who is in his own sign and rules the Descendant. The Xllth House Jl, strong through Essential Dignity, did indeed promise willing selfsacrifice and idealism but she would not have demanded complete selfabnegation and surrender of control to another. That demand, in all its perversity, came from Minos ifgt . And together these two were stronger than the essentially dignified J. too, who might have been expected to cause an upheaval or break out from a too restrictive marriage. There was no divorce. Minos ifgt was the career. Wherever Minos falls, in any chart, I look for some directing or controlling influence in the life something which tends to push it in a certain direction. If he is not in any way emphasized the effect may not be strong, but it will be there. In my own chartquot there is no particular emphasis but he falls in the VIIth House and is my ts J in the Xth House. Under appropriate contacts to this square at age I was knocked down by a car and suffered a broken collar bone, ts. At age there was further contacts. I had cerebralspinal meningitis that year, which I attribute to other directions in force, but the results which followed were absolutely typical of a Minos affliction. My parents decided this was the time to finalize my future career, while I was convalescing and not in a strong enough condition either mentally or physically to decide and insist on my own direction. As a result I was propelled upon a course of study to become a doctor a complete wrong turning which eventually proved a total fiasco Y years later. Minos in the VIIth, ruling the XIth objectives in life but squaring and disposing J in the IXth Others with the planet in better aspect to important signficators will have better luck. Even so, they are still likely to experience the effect of a directing hand, though it may be a wise and benevolent one. Or, as in the case of Crowley, they may be presented with an opportunity to direct and control the lives of others. As far as Minos own placement in the VIIth is concerned, I may say that subsequently in two marriages I had experience of enormous, not too subtle, controlling influences exerted on my career. ONTROL OVER ONES OWN SELF specifically, control over the physical form of ones own self is the subject matter of the last chart I shall consider here. It is the natal chart and transits for the first operationstage of a man undergoing sexchange to become a woman. Paradoxically perhaps, I am not primarily concerned with the subject of sexchange itself in presenting this chart. I am acquainted with three other sexchange natal charts and to me the interesting thing about them is Data a.m. GMT, August , N, W. C l Considerations X the fact that each one is totally individual and quite different from all the others. I would therefore not venture to say that at present I can confidently point to whatever it is that is the astrological significator of this syndrome. Just as homosexuals and lesbians may be born under any sign of the Zodiac and are now reckoned to make up approximately of any normal population group, so also transvestitism and transsexuality which are more closely related together than either of them are to homosexuality, probably exist in a latent state in a definite proportion of the population everywhere. Just so do the rarer isotopes of common material elements exist alongside all the well known ones, mixed in with them and combining chemically with other clements together with them. We didnt know about them till recently because techniques to separate them out so that they could be examined individually were not available till recently. Similarly, the social pressure of prejudice against all deviant forms of sexuality, reinforced by primitive legal enactments, has effectively prevented most people knowing just how widespread they really are till little more than the day before yesterday, though they have always existed. Sober recognition of the fact that they do exist and have always existed is an important change which has come about gradually during the course of this century. In addition to this, however, an even more significant development has occurred over the past thirtyfive years or so. Nowadays a man or woman who is unhappy with tile sexual status he or she was born with may go to a doctor and ask for it to be altered. After some preliminary psychiatric consultation to ensure that the request reflects a genuine need and is not merely the product of a disturbed state of mind, hormone therapy and surgery will be employed to change the sex. Humanity is thus extending control into one more area of objective experience into the most intimate area of all, since clearly far more is involved here than merely the form of the physical body alone. That was the position when it was just a matter of removing an appendix or even transplanting a heart but what is really being altered now is an individuals idea of himself or herself. The way he or she can form the most intense physical and emotional relationship known to humankind is part of selfconsciousness itself. It is worth while taking time to say again that transvestitism and transsexuality have always existed. There are references to them in the Bible and they were well known in ancient Rome where male worshippers of the Great Mother would castrate themselves, be given female clothing, and live thereafter as women. However, a true sexchange facility has only really become generally available since around , the same time as Prof. Kritzinger announced the location of Minos. It is significant there cf Deuteronomy . Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet fore that at James birth see Figure Minos was closely cf , itself exactly c e. In Margaret Hones Modern Textbook oj Astrologyquot the is described as a point which reveals a particular subject or an area of life which is of intense importance to the native if he or she is to achieve deep fulfillment in life. However much success a chart may indicate in other fields, fulfillment will be denied if is affiicted and it cannot be achieved in this field. Conversely, great difficulties in life generally may be indicated, but if this point be well aspected and strong there may still be a good sense of overall fulfillment in life. In my personal experience with a great many natal charts I have found this definition to be generally reliable. In the present case, therefore, in the VIIIth cf Minos suggests to me not merely a need to find fulfillment in sex relations and the deeper shared emotional experiences of life generally, which will be common to all that twelfth of humanity who have in the VIIIth, but a need to find it through control of this whole area of life. But the c from promises difficulties difficulties which might be dormant or be suppressed beneath the surface for years but which would eventually generate such pressure that they would have to come to the surface and demand expression. This is in fact what happened. James, a highly trained computer systems analyst ruler in mutual reception with , disposing of all else in the chart, was able to have a successful, conventional career and sexual life until early middle age. He was married for years and became the father of two children, a daughter and a son. However, beneath the surface a yearning for personal selfexpression in identification with instead of merely in relationship with the opposite sex always existed within him, and from time to time it caused problems within the marriage. His wife objected to his possessing articles of female clothing, high heeled shoes, etc. He could not talk about his feelings to her because in her view the subject posed a threat in many ways similar to alcoholism that is, it was not just a private matter but something which might ruin the lives of the wife and children and all others closely associated with him. Eventually the suppressed strain caused some personality deterioration. The marriage broke up with his wife accusing him of permanent bad temper and general unpredictable behavior which it was impossible to live with. Up until this time he had never really made attempts to contact other transvestites or transsexuals. Now however, responding to the sudden new sense of freedom which followed separation from his family, he searched for transsexual groups, made personal contacts and read and studied all he could on the subject of trans sexuality. He found those who sympathized with him and encouraged him to regard his feelings as normal, even though different from those of the majority. He learnt to dress expertly as e Foulsham, . Considerations X a woman sufficiently so to be able to go anywhere confidently in full daylight crossdressed within one year of his divorce. Finally he began hormone treatment and eventually had stage of the sexchange operation removal of the male sex glands in order to end production of male hormones which combat the sexchange hormone. Now I think the majority of this can be read in the natal chart, though not unequivocally in connection with sexchange but rather in respect of the tensions which he incidentally provoked. The ruler of the marriage House, , is in the Ist House, close to cusp II, closely c his chart ruler in the VIIth, close to cusp VIII. His experience of marriage therefore began with his idealization of his wife as in part the complement of himself and in part his alter ego, but developed gradually into the strain of playing a role which he felt was actually the opposite of his true self. Further tension is indicated by the exact c of in the VIth House in l, the sign of his marriage partner, to quotI, ruler of the VIIIth House of sexual experience, in the XIIth in the rising sign. This is a very difficult aspect for both physical and mental health and could well conduce to outbursts of violent temper and even cruelty exactly the accusations which were eventually made by his wife. However, there is another side to the picture. There is an extraordinary extended fan formation in the chart which links Minosffi, , . and quotI all by sextiles. MinosO and at the two ends of the formation are themselves in trine. A way out of the problem would therefore exist which would probably be indicated by at the hub or fulcrum of the fan. Since it is it would presumably be by means of a reversal of some kind. Now also has a close to the in the VIIth House and his position close to the Ie in the IVth House only too clearly shows how a reversal tendency operated to play havoc with his marriage and home life. But when integrated into the larger fan formation the same tendency is transformed into the way out. Treatment began with hormones and s sextiles and trines to the planet involved in the two major oppositions in the chart began to work. The next step was the more radical operation, from which there was no going back c but the sextile and trine of this opposition to the other major opposition, that of MinosO to show that it would have a beneficial effect upon his deeper search for fulfillment in life. e e, Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet Fig. James inner chart p.m. GMT, December ,. S, EOO James to Joy outer ring First stage of sexchange operation p.m. GMT, February , . S, E The transits for the operation itself removal of the contents of the scrotal sac but leaving the penis untouched and with no attempt to create a vagina confirm all that has so far been said and also highlight the cardinal role of Minos even more unequivocally. The J is the TIller and she is only from an exact rf with the natal place of the O. One can say that symbolically his ego selfidentification has passed from the male, , to the female, J. The on the other hand is in , making an exact sextile to its own natal placefrom precisely the present position of Minos This assumes the planet has moved precisely a year since the s. Considerations X Finally, EBis exactly d in . Minos own sign. And it was by an operation, , that James took control, Minos, to become Joy in order to achieve the fulfillment he was seeking in life, EB. But what sort of fulfillment really was it Contrary to the idea most people hold of transvestites and transsexuals, it was not to become a woman so as to be able to have sexual relations with the male sex. Some few homosexuals do have sex change operations for this purpose, but most transvestites and transsexuals are not homosexuals. Joys yearning is still towards women. He can still have sex relations with them. As he put it himself, quotI have become a lesbian.quot He has become a woman with a well developed bust and decidedly feminine appearance but still possessed of bodily equipment most lesbians yearn for EBin r HE READER MUST be the judge of whether or not I have succeeded in presenting a convincing case for the actual existence of Minos. I shall say no more on that subject. I concentrate now solely on the absolutely individual character which it seems to me this planet unequivocally reveals if one takes the time and trouble to watch him carefully, without preconceived opinions, allowing him to speak up for himself. He has his own signature, like all the other planets that we know for certain do exist, and this for me is the strongest evidence of his actual existence. The two strands which emerge most clearly are . An involvement with control systems, or with the basic concept of control in itself. This is of course an aspect of ownership possession of something one can use. Our civilization today tends to disapprove of the idea of possession or ownership of other people with consequent use of them, but other periods have seen nothing wrong with, for example, the institution of slavery. Minos apparently rules ownership/control in the widest sense, including control of people by people. . Concern with the mechanism of the growth process of organic life that is, the molecular coding in the living cell nucleus which determines the actual physical form which life will assume in individuals and species. This particular concern seems to reflect a complementary function of the sign . It is well known that the objective discovery of a planet tends to coincide with events or developments which are characteristic of it, as though it finds it easier to make its principle objectively known once we are consciously aware of its existence. The discovery ofgtiltcoincided with the Industrial Revolution, closely followed by the political revolution in France. s discovery was followed quickly by the appearance of Spiritualism on T Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet the one hand and by the romantic ideal of socialism, contrasting with the rational, scientific concept of it which had prevailed in earlier revolutionary circles, on the other. E came in with Fascism and the dictators and now seems to be bringing a fanatical fundamentalist religious revival to the fore on the world scene. If Minos exists, we need to ask ourselves what new form of political, social or scientific development has become prominent since his whereabouts were announced in . Is there anything which might change or threaten our whole political and social structure just as fundamentally as the Uranian and Plutonian development of the atomic bomb in the s and s has done The development of the Atomic Bomb is usually spoken of and written about quite incorrectly in astrological circles as if it were a purely Uranian achievement. it is of course true that the scientific research which made it possible at all developed ultimately out of the scientific and industrial revolution which began back in the th Century, the century in which j was discovered., but the background to this particular invention cannot be summed up and disposed of quite so simplistically as reference to that line of descent alone would imply. Credit for discovering the true nature of the atom and for formulating it mathematically must go in Uranian form to Einstein, Niels Bohr and others early this century. The actual first splitting of the atom was achieved by Cockcroft in the early s the beginning of the E age working on the basis of their earlier theoretical work. Development of the bomb then split into two camps. Fastest progress was at first made in Germany, i.e. under rightwing aegis, and the scientists there were actually aiming primarily not at a fission but at a fusion bomb, the vastly more explosive concept which was eventually realized in the s in the shape of the Hydrogen bomb. Research in the West began in a mad rush when scientists defecting from Germany alerted the democracies to what was going on. It was then assisted by Einstein himself who came out of semiretirement to help develop the bomb even though in earlier years he had deliberately refused to work on it, for humanitarian reasons, though he knew it was a possibility. The West discovered that the fission bomb was the one which could be developed most easily and directly, and in fact the fusion bomb, as later developed, had to depend on a fission bomb to act as a trigger. The fusion bomb then makes a bigger bang, which is what one might expect astrologically. After all, Left Wing revolution is always at least nominally in support of reason and rationality, so although it does shake the world it doesnt usually threaten to destroy it altogether. The Right Wingtype is a more fanatical phenomenon, capable of feeling that rather Ulan lose a battle it will blow up the whole planet. However, although the Hydrogen bomb initially favored by the Right Wing had to depend on left wing research to get itself started, thus conceding a primacy to lllt. E does also enter into the essential processes of fission as well as fusion bombs. The metal from which it all starts is Uranium and the very first bomb was made from enriched Uranium, i.e. Uranium purified from are where it occurs together with Uranium . The process in which enriched uranium is used to develop heat in an atomic reactor, however, develops Plutonium, and Plutonium is much more easily explodable than enriched Uranium. So the second bomb was a Plutonium bomb, as almost all subsequent fission bombs have been, also. Even in fission, E makes a bigger bang Strangely enough, even j enters into the picture too. The explosive reaction involves a brief phase during which the transforming atomic nucleus becomes Neptunium. This lasts about a millionth of a second but is enough to justify the claim that all the outer planets have a finger in the atomic pic somewhere. we may therefore ask which of the Considerations X When I first worked on this article, nearly ten years ago, I noted two things which really began to get under way just prior to and during the s and which seemed to be posing a challenge to governments and civil and religious society the world over. These two were a Genetic research, and b Cryptocracy, or the spread of secret government, secret police operations and secret surveillance of individuals and individual liberty by scientific control methods operated by groups and organizations under minimal government control and frequently without the supposedly responsible government even being aware of what is going on. This was true ten years ago but now with the breakup of the Soviet Union and the bloodless revolution in South Africa this has become less overt. ET TAKE genetic research first of all. Over the past dozen years publications of the general character of Readers Digest or Time magazine, as well as the weekend editions of practically every newspaper, all at some time or other, have carried an article giving a snippet of fascinating but chilling information about some university laboratorys research on fetuses and genes and what can be done with them. We all know now about testtube babies, and how a fertilized ovum can be fed and induced to grow and develop entirely outside a normal human womb. One of two twin fetuses can be taken and frozen and then be replanted in a uterus a generation or more later, resulting in identical twins differing in age by , or years. A whole batch of fertilized eggs or tiny fetuses which would be difficult to transport in test tubes from one part of the world to another can be injected into a rabbits womb, where they are nourished and kept warm until they are extracted again a few hours or days later in another country. The suggestion has been made that this method might be developed to save space and weight in the event of a project to colonize another planet. L us three, or really seems by essential character to be the likely true ruler of research into the atomic nucleus, the controlling center of our objective material universe. Perhaps because what is being studied is objective and external it is more characteristic of lilt. But then its diversion to purposes of power and war is more characteristic of E and the uncertainty about the future which it brings bears the signature of. though the latter may also encourage dreams of an idyllic atomicallydriven world from which poverty and hard work are banished. But who rules research into that other nucleus, the nucleus oflife c. e. Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet Then there is cloning. Every cell of any living organism has the potential to divide and grow till it reproduces the complete organism. TIllS fact has been known since the tum of the century in connection with very simple organisms. Now however it is regularly used with more complex ones and the ability to duplicate a whole human being from one skin cell may already be accomplished scientific fact. Most disturbing of all however is the work being done to change actual gene structure. Again one could cite a host of reports. I take one at random from the Argus Cape Town, South Africa for June st, eleven years agol. It describes work carried out at the University of Southampton, England, under the direction of Dr. Norman Maclean, to introduce genes from mice and frog cells into the chromosomes of the nucleus of a fertilized trouts ovum. The frogs gene makes the protein globulin and should improve the trouts respiratory efficiency, enabling it to live in warmer waters than at present and survive where oxygen levels are low. One of the mouse genes controls the production of growth hormone, leading to fish that convert food more efficiently, grow faster and end up larger than ordinary trout. Another one controls metallic absorption and may also speed up reproduction, enabling a lake or river to be populated with trout several times more quickly than is possible with the natural fish. Once their genes are integrated into the genetic line they are passed on to subsequent generations, producing in effect a new genus or species. Such research is of course already being utilized to produce better strains in plants and animals which are valuable as food and can be farmed. As with all vivisectiontype research, however, there will also be application of what is discovered on humanity itself. This capability to design a human race which would be able to survive and reproduce itself on another planet with a completely different atmosphere and climatic conditions from Earth is becoming if it has not already become a reality. But so has the prospect of breeding worker races, ideally adjusted for the carrying out of certain essential tasks such as mining and some industrial operations, and perhaps also farming, but incapable of the full human potential of higher thought and awareness the possibility foreseen and warned of seventy years ago by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World and in the forties by George Orwell in Animal Farm. Over the past fifteen years the colossal threat to humanitys future posed by all this research has been belatedly realized. Religious groups and politicians with a sense of conscience have begun to campaign for controls to be devised and enforced. The difficulty however is to know Again it has been suggested that the strangely identical little beings reported by UFO witnesses who have had close encounters of the rd kind may be clones of this type. Considerations X how to frame any control which is proposed, and how to enforce it even when it is framed and has become law. In Britain a commission headed by Bishops of the Church of England and Mr. Enoch Powell advocated a complete ban on genetic research, a proposal which would inevitably have been selfdefeating as it immediately aroused the hostility and opposition of the Uranian scientific establishment which is dedicated to freedom of research as an article of faith. But even a more moderate proposal for control and the enforcement of responsible standards which prevent violation of humanityS sense of what is decent and acceptable will undoubtedly only be observed by private individuals who have to conform, but elsewhere merely pro forma to allay alarm. Elsewhere people and organizations interested in developing the potential for control of humanity are far too interested in the prospects opened up by this line of research to draw back from it or allow it to be interfered with. As with rocket research, atomic research, germ warfare research, and so on, it will be carried on in secret no matter what is enacted, anywhere. Earlier, at the end of my long note on the planets implicated in the development of nuclear research, I asked quotbut who niles research into that other nucleus, the nucleus of lifequot The nucleus of life is the cell nucleus containing the DNA strands called chromosomes, each one studded with thousands of microscopic switches known as genes, which specify height, weight, strength, skin color, eye color, hair color, and every other detail of our physical beings including the physical basis of intellectual ability and emotional responsiveness. The nucleus of life comprises the blueprint for our incarnatory vehicle, the body we walk around in and think in and feel in and take for granted as our self. As I said at the end of my discussion of Neville Prehns chart, it is the realm of in its most subtle aspect as the essential principle of physical experience. Research into it really began to take off in the s, following the publication of the elements of the orbit of Minos by Prof. Kritzinger in . I suggest that that publication signified Minoss permission and encouragement to humanity to begin the ultimate delving into his sphere, for the first time in recorded history. Cryptocracy is a less easy subject to deal with in the space of a few pages. As the word itself implies, it wants to remain secret. This, that or the other manifestation of it can be cited, and it wont necessarily object to the suggestion that it could exist, in theory, but anything like a rigorous investigation of it, pointing the finger unequivocally at persons and organizations involved, can prove to be very unhealthy for the investigator. Examples I have already cited, viz. the assassination of President Kennedy and the Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, illustrate this very clearly since the huge investigations which followed both of them only led to more deaths and finished up in an impenetrable wall of mystery. In these cases there were investigations, but the fact that they were set in Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet motion and got even as far as they did was solely due to the circumstance that both Kennedy and King were already public figures. Had they not been there might have been no serious followup at aU, only official statements and a press blackout. This is the way things are run nowadays, all over the world, since covert control took over. I am not claiming Minos alone is behind all this. A conspiratorial, subversive trend can be traced in international affairs since before the time of the French Revolution, i.e., for nearly two centuries before Minos supposed discovery. Adam Weishaupts Society of the Illuminati, founded in the same year as the American republic, aimed to overturn governments by infiltrating them. Its members were encouraged to join the Masonic Lodges in all countries and to divert their activities to serve ends which the rank and file members would never suspect. The leaders were to be attracted by promises of inner secrets to be revealed and exalted positions to be held in the New World Order to be created. The organization was discovered and exposed in , when one of its couriers was struck by lightning on a journey and his papers seized by the Bavarian police. In it was banned. Its basic ideas and methods have nevertheless persisted and been carried on under other names and by other people. STROLOGICALLY, cryptocracy represents a kind of alliance of planetary principles which find they can operate more effectively to achieve their own purposes when they work together than when separate. I am not referring now to aspects or angular placements but to something very like a real agreement between people to assist each other the kind of thing we see in the business world or in the international scene between nations. In an earlier articlequot I pointed out that this was the way the Greeks understood the planets to work that is, not as quasiscientific, impersonal, objective principles but as beings with great powers, although these were quite specific ones which were limited in certain definite respects. They each had their favorites among mankind and these they assisted, while they opposed and frustrated others. They formed cliques and had petty rivalries and sometimes wars. Today this picture often is generally regarded in astrological circles as naive and childish. It is fashionable instead only to speak of great cycles inexorably working themselves out. Planetary free will is regarded as an absurdity, though denial of it has had the uncomfortable consequence of leading to the conclusion that human fee will too is largely illusionary. The result is really a blind alley. What is the use of astrological insight to a being whose own actions and thoughts are merely preordained illusions A quotThe Greater Malefic.quot Considerations V. Considerations X I venture to predict that within a quarter to half a century from now the scientific impersonal force concept of planetary influence will have to be abandoned as humanistically untenable. For the present however let us agree on the following compromise if I say that i and agreed to cooperate, interpret this if you prefer as meaning that those people on our planet who in effect most strongly incarnate the principles of those two planets agreed to cooperate, or that they consciously or unconsciously found themselves thrown together cooperating. The result will be the same. has always loved to administer mankind via rigid regulations and the heavy imposition of limits on what is permitted. Unfortunately for him though fortunately for us the freedomloving instinct of man and women has always been too strong for him so that he has never succeeded in setting up a rigid, unbreakable control system on his own. But then i suddenly erupted onto the scene, fortified by his objective discovery in the late th Century, announcing his compulsive urge to be given freedom to break down existing barriers of religious belief and traditional concepts of how society should be organized since these were standing in the way of his desire to pursue research and reorganize the world in a rational, objective, scientific way. realized that if he played his cards well and ensured that i remained suitably indebted to him for assistance, so that things didnt get out of hand, he had here an opportunity to get quickly rid of traditional freedom safeguarding institutions in human society and also the prospect of a bountiful supply of effective new technology for widespread control of mankind both national and international levels. i for his part recognized an old timer with a genius for organization and they struck a bargain I, Uranus, supply the scientific knowhow and the breakingdown force. You, Saturn, supply the organizational knowhow to run the show well set up together. However, even these two together were not quite strong enough on their own. Something else was needed. It had to be started in secret, and at all stages the less that was known about the way it was being managed the better. gtilt is not a secret worker and usually makes it pretty plain what he means and what he is about, even though in bureaucratic fashion he refuses to supply reasons or Dame names. Thus , the planet with true innate genius for appearing to be other than he really is, had to be inspanned in the alliance as well. Long before he was officially discovered in the other two had him working with them the masterstroke suggestion that the brotherly Masonic orders an Aquarian field, ruled by Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet both iJ and should be infiltrated and subverted to the furtherance of the new plan could have originated with no one but him. Subversion and misrepresentation of the new movement in an idealistic guise brought down the French monarchy in . Even so, something was still missing. Things went according to plan in the early constitutional phase of the revolution and even up to and during the Reign of Terror. The King duly lost his head and the Goddess Reason was enthroned in the House of Assembly. But then the revolutionary wars with surrounding nations began and before the revolutionaries knew where they were Napoleon had appeared, set himself up as Emperor and even made an agreement with a new Pope Royalty and Religion all over again The true answer came in the s with Karl Marx, and here at last is where Minos definitely appears on the scene. Marx had the genius to link the revolution with economics and to work out an economic theory which implied that it is the scientific destiny of history to produce capitalism and kings supported by bishops and that when these have matured sufficiently they fall like ripe fruit before the revolution. This then sets up the dictatorship of the proletariat the economic working mass which ensures that they can never arise again. Economics and the Economic Working Mass are the province of the sign ts, and Minos rules ts. Marx and Engels issued their Communist Manifesto in , proclaiming Workers of the World Unite You have nothing to lose but your chainsquot It was a year of revolution in one European country after another but the time was not yet. All of them were suppressed. Nevertheless throughout the th Century the Communist idea grew and acted like a ferment, becoming steadily more powerful. It tried its hand again in France in , in the confusion after the FrancoPrussian war, but failed once more. Then in it succeeded in Russia and was at last able to establish itself. How By means of economic control. The dogma which had finally been laid down was that in the new order there was to be no private ownership of the means of production. In Russia this was at once enforced. The State asserted ownership of everything. The basis of control of the population was to be via strict supervision of what each person might possess and use. Marxs economic theory of history has been refuted time and time again. As an economic theory Marxism per se is riddled with fallacies. , the year when the illuminati were founded, was already within the premonitory period leading up to lllts objective discovery in and tile Industrial Revolution had been under way since about . The Uranian development of scientific and mathematical techniques in astronomy which grew out of this led to fIs discovery in . And appropriately Karl Marx himself was born on the day of a solar eclipse in t. Editor Considerations X Nevertheless, despite all this, as an instrument for polarizing people within nations and facilitating a revolution by means of which an organized group can achieve power and control it is unrivaled. In the USSR up till four years ago it was taught in schools and universities as a religious orthodoxy and theoretical assent to it was obligatory. However, that did not mean that the theoretical professors who taught it were the people who held the reins of power. That was always in the hands of people behind the scenes who appointed them, and who also nominated and vetted most of the front people who held political office. Marxism was a faith is a faith and as such it was there to be taken advantage of and manipulated. Just so during the whole of the Medieval period did the Holy Office in Rome choose the popes and use their power to excommunicate and anathematize in the name of the Christian religion, to keep the whole of the Christian world in thrall. And the same pattern obtained in the Moslem world, and still does. The only difference was that the religious dictatorships seem to have been simple coalitions of merely with and . Since Marxs time, with Minos in the picture as well, we have experienced the updated economic materialist version. But the economic lever is not solely applied in its Communist form. Cryptocracy is consolidating itself as a worldwide phenomenon. Neither America nor any European country really rules itself today. A debt structure has been erected which ensures that financial control is stronger than individual governments own control. Governments bow to the financial Houses of New York and Tokyo, to the gnomes of Zurich, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Economic planning departments decree which industries shall flourish and where, which shall amalgamate with which, and what proportions of their stock shall be held by whom. Holding companies and subsidiaries of companies proliferate worldwide, without reference to national boundaries. Who dictates that migrant Turkish labor shall work in Germany or Greeks in France We dont know, just as we dont officially know that Minos exists either, yet. But we can see, if we really take the trouble to look, that someone is exercising control, and we can equally well infer that some influence is behind that control. It often suggested that is the most likely planet to be the ruler of the hidden hand in government, since he rules the underworld. However, this is really to , misunderstand e. e produces bosses. It is true the underworld or gangworld loves him because it is always run by bosses usually several of them running different areas in a big city. African townships in South Africa are terrorized by rival gangs in precisely the same way. The American electoral machine follows the same pattern, and so of course did Fascism in Italy and Na e Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet zism in Germany. Egalitarianism as an ideal is all very well in theory but too impersonal in practice. Humanity in general likes to recognize and follow a leader, because deep down most people instinctively want to be Jed. This is why so many revolutions eventually lead to dictatorship, as the French revolutionaries found with Napoleon and as very nearly happened in Russia with Stalin. But it is very instructive to examine and understand why Stalin never was quite able to become the new Russian emperor. He was able to indulge his passion for killing off all those who opposed him, as well as millions more who merely looked as though they might oppose him. It was a new and different strength that was built into the new Russian system which was the ultimate restraint upon Stalin. In order to become a purely personal ruler he would have had to modify the economic basis of the system, the principle that everyone, including those in the limelight running the show, are all ultimately responsible economically in the same way. He would have had to root out those running the show behind the scenes, but to do that he risked undoing the control the system gave him over the person and livelihood of everyone in Russia, thus cutting the ground from under his own feet. The real rulers today, the ones who operate control systems with tentacles allover the globe, operate out of board rooms. It doesnt matter whether they are in Russia or in the West, their intention is to exercise economic control over nations ultimately over the whole world. The Russian supreme council, the Politburo, was very like the board room of a big American corporation, and the jockeying for power known as fractiouspolitik that went on within it was identical with that which goes on in any such corporation. It is essential to be identified with the winning clique. Something has happened which seems to have brought the Western board rooms out on top over the Russian one. Well look at that in a minute. For the moment consider the following astrological paradigms We all know that forthright T is a captain. He is the man who loves to be in charge in an real battle situation where he directs the actual fighting. But the more subtle is promoted to general because he can guess what the enemy leaders are likely to do, so he can direct the captain where to go B This is an unfailing mark of the Plutonian boss. Hitler explicitly stated that it was never enough merely to liquidate opponents and critics. One must also subsequently remove all those who bewailed their passing. Considerations X to. Just so TIt ruled by E is the Sign of the man or woman who is ruthless enough to make himself or herself undisputed boss, but t ruled by Minos is wily enough to rig the whole scene beforehand so that he ends up with just the boss he wants to run it the way he wants. This of course is the way that both the Russian secret service and the American CIA attempt to work when they interfere in national governments all over the world. Occasionally they shake a real fist, but usually they like to be very sure of their ground before they do that as that is where things can go wrong. The American disaster in Vietnam and the Russian one in Afghanistan clearly illustrate that. The armaments industry is a classic example of Minos t making both money and achieving control at the same time out of the dE TllL fondness for conflict. The industry has proved to be stronger than any government which has tried to control it, and stronger too than any individual combatant, because of its worldwide financial and industrial basis. It is capable of supplying arms at a price to any person or nation anywhere in the world. But it is certainly part of the world cryptocracy because it denies arms to those it decrees shall lose, no matter what they are prepared to pay for them. To cite one example, Chiang Kai Tsheks Republican China fell before Mao Tse Tungs Peoples China in for pre cisely this reason. Rigged wars become comparable to rigged elections. PRIVAT The real secret of the modem system is to rule KEEPOU in secret from behind someone else you have placed in the external position of prominence, someone who is dependent on you for his position and who knows this and who is sufficiently vulnerable that he cannot escape from your control. This is the signature of Minos. No wonder you cant actually find his signature openly displayed on an order or directive anywhere, nor even decisively confirm Prof. Kritzingers calculations that he truly exists But his presence is evident from the comment made by more than one political analyst that if it were desired to modify modem Western governmental systems into complete dictatorships rapidly, the quickest way to do it, and the way that would involve least change from present practice would be to extend existing fiscal regulations to every other department of government. The tax office today is already entitled to inquire more closely into the private lives of individual citizens than any other office can do. In the US tax offenses have been used to nail notorious criminals, like AI Capone, who could not be indicted in any other way. alleged tax default was also employed to drive the final nail into the coffin of discredited President Richard Nixon. Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet This is Minoss Brave New World. He seems to be emerging as the senior partner in the alliance with i, and gtlt. Nevertheless, he still needs them. He couldnt quite be ultimate ruler on his own, powerful though money IS. Consider how Uranian technology is used to make surveillance and control ever more omnipresent. American newspapers have stated that the FBI has recording machines that automatically begin to monitor telephone conversations whenever certain trigger words are spoken. Since voice patterns are as distinct as fingerprints the speaker is automatically identified within a minute of being recorded. If a person being investigated does not use his telephone, then even so the telephone wire or the home electrical wiring system can act as a broadcasting antenna to transmit his voice. Even passengers carrying on a conversation in a moving car can be monitored since the cars wiring system acts as an antenna. Any type of electrical device in operation is vulnerable to being located by scanners within minutes pocket radios, batterypowered wrist watches, hearing aids or heart pacers. If the FBI has unveiled its trigger words telephone recording system to the world it stand to reason that something even more advanced must now be operating. Without Uranian phone tapping tools and Saturnine laws and prisons and Neptunian secret police spies and informers someone would take away Minoss money and his control. It doesnt seem to be happening yet quite the opposite in fact, for moneys power on the world stage has never been as strong throughout history as it is today. Nevertheless we need to watch just what is happening and try to understand it all, bearing in mind that there is an interweaving of power politics among the planetary principles above us as well as on Earth, just as ancient Greeks intuited two and a half thousand years ago. T WO CARDINAL developments on the world stage over the past four to five years this is being written in January have been . The apparent collapse of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe with a proportional penetration of these areas by the Western capitalist economic and financial system. In deed it appears to have been Russian financial instability and indebtedness to the West which brought the collapse about. . The extraordinary resurgence of nationalism throughout the whole former Soviet sphere of influence, with resultant civil war in Yugoslavia and breakaways and declarations of independence by numbers of states formerly combined in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Many of these Considerations X breakaways are now being contested militarily, particularly in the Moslem south, so that in effect there is eivil war in Russia too. I think it is generally conceded that not even the most experienced Western political analysts and Russiawatchers expected and foresaw these developments. Probably they would not have considered them possible on the scale on which they have occurred. All wed had till the late s was President Gorbachevs Glasnost and Perestroika, a new friendliness and openness in the Russian attitude towards the West, and not everyone even believed in that. After all, detente had been tried before as a political ploy. But then first of all there was the abortive RightWing coup, attempting to reverse the whole process and return to oldstyle, hardline Communism. Gorbachev was arrested for three days. After that he reappeared, smiling. Had he engineered the whole thing to boost his own popularity, everyone asked. But no unheard of free elections were suddenly permitted and next thing Gorbaehev himself was dumped and Yeltsin was top dog and all the Soviet fringe republics were clamoring for independence. And they were prepared to fight for it. They didnt just want MacDonalds hamburgers, tasty though they might be. They were savoring the taste of nationalism. MacDonalds hamburgers, or the money behind them, may well have started the whole thing and been trying to rig it, but something unexpected and unplanned had got away in the process. It was now doing its own thing. Most significantly, an almost exactly paraliel pattern had been developing elsewhere over exactly the same time period. Seven thousand miles away at the southern tip of the African continent a Right Wing government which had flouted the world to enforce white minority rule for half a century, destablizing and dominating all its neighboring countries much as the USSR had dominated all the countries of Eastern Europe since World War II, now suddenly reversed itself, freed its political prisoners, and began a rapid transition to majority rule. A majority African government was elected to power on April th, . Attempts by oldguard right wingers to halt or reverse the process had failed, as they had in Russia. But here too nationalist fragmentation posed a threat. The Zulus, largest single African ethnic group in the Republic, wished to withdraw and declare their independence before the election. At the very last minute they were persuaded to participate. But secession may still occur. At the moment South Africa is still more or less held together by economic constraints centered upon the five major cities in which the white population is concentrated, as well as upon the gold mining areas of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. But eleven different African fl Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet languages are spoken in the country and centrifugal forces could yet tear it apart. N ow WHY should all this be happening What is the connection between South Africa and the USSR On the surface there is none unless you happen to believe in some extreme form of conspiratorial explanation of political developments, but from an astrological point of view the obvious patterning in what has happened suggests a Cosmic Regrouping. Let us analyze the pattern to clarify exactly what has been happening. I begin with the nationalist resurgence, because although this may appear to many to be a late and unexpected development, coming after all the other negotiations and what have you, it has actually been brewing for a long time. In my article on e in TTL, I forecast that a resurgence of nationalism was likely. I pointed to signs of it that were evident even then such as the accession to power of the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran and ultra conservative Fundamentalist religious support for President Ronald Reagan. And now in former Yugoslavia nationalism has erupted in its most extreme form, naked and blatant. I expect the process to develop and accelerate as advances into l. After the nationalist debacle and bloodbath in World War II seems to have agreed to knuckle under and take a back seat for a while, allowing the planetary coalition responsible for the formation of the United Nations . gtilt. and Minos to run the show and edge its way slowly to some form of world control, or even world government. But bosses like to be bosses, and is not really a planet who enjoys taking a back seat and being told that he is a bad boy for ever. Fascism and Nazism, his twin babies, have been dirty words for fifty years, but people actually hanker after leaders, someone to idolize and follow and obey, and a volcanic urge to find and recognize a leader has been welling up from the subconscious depths in people and nations all over the world once again, over the past years. For E has been passing through his own Sign. The Ayatollah Khomeini was the first worldclass figure to appear, and the most able, but even leaders like Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Jim Jones, of Jonesville massacre fame in Guyana, bear the unmistakable stamp. What demands and calls forth is not only consent but an actual desire to give up all personal will entirely ill favor of blind reverence, obedience and self sacrifice, even to the point of readiness to commit suicide should this be demanded, as it was in Guyana. While was in TTL he was recovering his strength and recruiting. The watchword of x is Free e e e e e quotThe God of the Underworld in His Own Home.quot Considerations N , pages . Considerations X l t dom, however, and in / will be very unlikely to knuckle under to anybody. But did the quadruple planetary alliance miscalculate then, when they brought financial pressure to bear on the USSR and South Africa to end their monolithic stances and initiate all the unbelievable constitutional changes we have witnessed over the past five years Or is that alliance itself not as stable as it once was Once again I would like to refer back to earlier articles of mine which supply clues. In , in an article on lt traversing // I pointed to a forthcoming major concentration of planets in / which would be effective in , and . lt and would form a nucleus which would be joined by and and periodically by , , and d as well. I said that should a sense that world authoritarian control was necessary arise and be widely and generally felt at that time, then this could be a configuration under which an attempt to institute it might well be made. I think this is what was actually attempted. The European Economic Union set as the year in which political union and a European parliament were to be finally established, and Russia and South Africa, the two prime obstacles to world unification on the financial model, were subjected to economic pressure to submit and conform. And they did. UT ONE PLANET in the alliance may not have been completely happy with its commitment to it. In an, as yet unpublished, article on in / I have suggested that this planet has collaborated loyally for over a hundred years but has sometimes felt unappreciated. One extraordinary evidence of that effect was manifested in , the year in which the Bolshevik party finally came to power in Russia in October, and Turkish rule in Palestine ended in November and a Jewish homeland was instituted there by the Balfour Declaration. lt had been struggling to establish a stable regime ever since the French Revolution in and now he had finally succeeded in Russia. He and were sitting heavily on the Russian people, applying Minoss brainwave of denial of the right to own the means of production to any individual. And in Israel possessed a fulcrum to exercise influence over the whole Islamic world.quot But where was s slice of the cake One month after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia instituted the Miracle of Fatima in Portugal, the best attested miracle of this or any other age. For six successive months a lady in white, claiming to be the e B quotUranus Traversing Sagittarius.quot Considerations m, pages . To be published in a future issue of Considerations. The Jewish people are ruled by Z, s Sign. Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet Fig. Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait a.m. LMT August , N, E. Virgin Mary, appeared on the same day of each month to three children, telling them of a miracle that was about to occur and imparting a prophecy of future events for the rest of the century which they were to tell to the Pope. Then, on the appointed day in November, , people assembled and witnessed a fiery sun appear at noon, like a red wheel from Heaven. It had been raining heavily all day, but as it swept down over the multitude the sphere dried all their clothes in seconds. Photographs are still extant showing the multitudes awe and fear as they watched it. was demonstrating that in mysticism he possessed an even greater power than is science, s administrative skill and organization, and Minoss money to boot. He could compel peoples belief. And today it is precisely a crisis of belief which threatens to disrupt the scientific/financial world hegemony which those other three are busily trying to establish. may be deserting the quadruple alliance to join e. Perhaps he hasnt fully done so yet, since the nationalist movements are not yet employing all his subtle methods of deception. But they are ap Considerations X pealing to idealistic belief, both in the Islamic world and in the Fundamentalist movements in the Christian West. At the very least, has a foot in both camps. To validate all of this fully would require a detailed analysis of hundreds of mundane charts for the world events of the past years. I am not about to embark on that task in the remainder of this article. All I intend to do is to conclude by presenting four mundane charts in which the hand of the coalition at present dominated by Minos is patently evident. At the very least they should serve to demonstrate that esoteric influences do operate in the affairs we read about in the newspapers and watch on our TV screens. HE FIRST TWO of these mundane charts, Figures and , concern the US punitive war with Iraq occasioned by Iraqs invasion and annexation of Kuwait. Iraqs army swept into Kuwait at a.m. on August nd, after protracted negotiations with the Emirate concerning Kuwaiti depletion of Iraqs own oil resources had proved fruitless. Iraq and Kuwait both extract oil from one subterranean basin which is continuous and underlies both their territories. Kuwait had flaunted and exceeded treaty agreements concerning how much oil each country was to extract. However, there were considerably more ramifications to tile situation than just this. Rockefeller oil interests were involved in Kuwait. In fact they had been implicated in the recognition of Kuwait as a tiny, totally separate state, independent of both Iraq and Saudi Arabia, in the first place. But in addition Saddam Hussain had been consulting US representatives in the months preceding the invasion, asking what the American reaction would be if Iraq made such a move. He had been told that tile US would not disapprove if Iraq annexed Kuwait. One cannot help suspecting that he was deliberately encouraged to make the move, although this arrangement would later be disavowed. He could then be internationally condenmed, which would justify a punitive action against him. Iraqs military capability could thus be destroyed. Notice that in the invasion chart at Figure , Minos is exactly cf the Midheaven, ltfgt the chart ruler. Moreover , and , three of the heavy planets involved in the / concentration I referred to earlier in connection with world authoritarian control, form a satellium in the VITth House, the House of partners and also open enemies. Clearly Saddams move would be opposed by those he had taken to be his partners. And so of course it was. At midnight GMT on January th, the US and her allies began overt hostilities by bombing Baghdad and military installations throughout Iraq. The United Nations had set a deadline expir T Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet Fig. US amp Allies begin Bombing Iraq a.m. GMT January , . Baghdad, Iraq N, E. ing on January th for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait and Iraq had not complied. So she was humbled. Figure is an amazing illustration of precisely what was going forward. Minos is less than o from the IC. if is precisely on the VIlth cusp of open enemies, while the chart ruler, is in the XIIth, in the IIIrd, the House of contracts and agreements. Clearly some agreement was being dishonored. But finally, look at that concentration of no fewer than six planets in its in the lInd House. The second House This was world authority acting all right. Would it be possible to suspect that financial interests somewhere had something to do with its motivation Remember too that Saddam, as Iraqs leader, must be identified with e, which planet is placed in the XITth. Whipped up world opinion wanted to capture and imprison Saddarn, but was strong in his own Sign and he escaped. The day of the leader is yet to come. e, e Considerations X Fig.i Argentine Invasion of the Falklands a.m. LMT GMT April , Port Stanley S, W. RmR go R R d HE SECOND PAIR of charts are concerned with a rather similar war that occurred nine years earlier. At a.m. on April nd, an Argentine invasion flotilla entered Stanley Harbor in the Falkland Islands. Later that morning Argentina announced that she had annexed the islands from Britain. Just as in the IraqiKuwait buildup Iraq had been for a long time negotiating with both the US and Kuwait over the situation, so here to Argentina had for a long time been negotiating with Britain concerning cession of the islands. Britain had urged a referral of the issue to the U.N. But once again there was more to the situation than just this. Argentina had been claiming the islands for years, ever since Britain asserted sovereignty over them in . What was the extra incentive just now The Argus newspaper in Cape Town spilled the beans in a major article on the Falklands on April rd, . The islands are surrounded by a huge oilfield estimated to comprise ten times the reserves of oil in the total North Sea oil fields presently being exploited by Britain and Norway. In T Wintle That TransNeptunian Planet Fig. Argentinean Surrender as British regain Port Stanley p.m. GMT on June , Port Stanley S, W addition East Falkland is believed to contain deposits of numerous valuable minerals. In Figure , the chart for the entry into Stanley Harbor, Minos is not on the MCIC axis, though it might well have been there by the time Stanley itself was actually occupied. But even the Port entry chart itself is significant as it stands. Minos is close to the Xllth cusp exactly D on the IXth cusp. if is exactly on the VIlth cusp of open enemies, c the rising and i, and and are also in the Vllth. Clearly once again there was going to be opposition. In actual fact the result was a twoandahalf months war which ended in Argentinean surrender when the British retook Stanley. The Argentinean commander signed the surrender at p.m. all June th, after a ceasefire several hours earlier. Notice in Figure that Minos is very close to the IC again, as in the chart for the US bombing of Baghdad on January th, . He is in a TSquare with near the XIIth cusp and i on cusp VI, and he rules the Vth House where , the other ruler of , is e Considerations X also to be found. Moreover disposes everything in this chart except the group consisting of in IT disposing of the and Midheaven. Essentially this is a chart depicting a successful end to a struggle over a speculative investment note that the three planets which were in the VIIth in the invasion chart are now elevated in the Xth and Xlth. But there is also a worldrulership twist to it, as there was in the Iraqi war. / rises, ruled by , and is in the Xlth exactly cf . In other words the purpose of the struggle was really connected with the objective of social controL As would happen with Saddam Hussein in , the Argentineans had been encouraged to go ahead with the invasion believing that Britain was not really interested in the islands and might well be grateful to be relieved of responsibility for them, as with her other former dependencies around the world. But immediately the invasion took place all that changed, just as happened once Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Argentina had to be humbled. She was ruled by a military junta which appealed to Argentinean nationalist feelings, and nothing as Fascist as that could be tolerated, nor be allowed to come into possession of Falkland Islands oil and threaten Rockefeller world oil interests. So, by a brilliant twist, nationalist fervor was whipped up in Britain. Note again howe, one of the three planets ill the VIIth House in the invasion chart, has become elevated in the chart of the surrender. For the time being the Falklands could remain in British hands, since Britain was a reliable member of the world community e now in the XIth House. In her hands the oil would remain unexploited or even unmentioned there were no further references to it after that one article in the Cape Town Argus. Thereafter the war was said to be solely for the benefit of the , British settlers on the islands. It would be there when required by greater world interests. Minos will remain in for the next years. We should be prepared to expect a good deal more financial manipulation of governments and the military over oil interests during that period. Rectification Contests amp CONTEST . Details on pages , Volume X number . The following times of birth, aU in EST, were suggested Entry a.m. quot ...based on using Ebertins rectification dial to find a possible position. This position was then used to find possible MC and ASC positions.quot Entry p.m. Obtained using in sequence forward and converse stations within a month of the event date for events, Neimanns procedure to obtain the around II, and JjgSaw for confirmation. Entry p.m. Obtained using a combination of aspects to angles in solar returns and age harmonics. Entry p.m. same time as entry quotThis artist/actor would have to have a busy th house because of his frequent moves. He does. There are four planets in the th. Every position throughout the horoscope fits his story. Confirming aspect When he joined the Army his progressed ASC was contraparallel his progressed within quot. Upon discharge his progressed was u ASC within .. When he moved to England if was II j within quot. Every event was accompanied by appropriate aspects.quot Entry p.m. by Ross Harvey. quotThe first limiting factor is the solar return for for his wonderful year in Paris. In neither this nor in the progressed SR can the l be d , so the time must be after p.m. The next indication is in the SR for when his daughter was born. In this the cannot be d again, so the time has to be after p.m. In both cases I have used a orb for the ds ...After that it was just a matter of averaging times from conjunctions of planets to angles in the solar returns. A chart for p.m. EST has ASC d , which in tum is , and this should indicate his vagueness and lack of commitment, as well as his being an artist, as is typical of the artist.quot Comment The correct time is p.m. EST. We bad thought this a simple exercise, given the natives stated identification with Don Quixote surely the archetypal misled Q, battling windmills and dreaming of glory and the love of Dulcinea, and here we have in Q o t amp together with acting, Q, a career as an artist, . and the confusion about exact dates, again. Instead, entrants appeared to chase a II Ascendant, overinfluenced perhaps by the effect of the natal . We found it intriguing that one of the eleven times suggested by JigSaw, a.m. EST, had the correct angles while being almost hours out a warning that one must also consider the placement of the l. Our congratulations to Ross Harvey, who got it right. Considerations X Rectification Contest p.m. EST October , . Brooklyn, New York N, W Rectification Contest So far weve received only three entries for this rectification contest. Is this an indication that readers have had enough of these contests One ofthe three did arrive at the correct time of birth, so it couldnt have been that difficult. No, it wasnt Mr. Harvey. To allow others to try their hand, we are extending the cutoff to June Ist. Details are on pages amp of the previous issue of this magazine, VoL X No. . For those who do not have the results of Rectification Contest , the native of Contest is his wife, he was born at a.m. AEST AEST UT hours on May th at S, E, with T rising. Readers in London during May may wish to go along to the Spanish Embassy in Eaton Square where the Don QUixote drawings by the subject of Contest IF chart above will be briefly on exhibit. Call ahead for dates and times. The New York Stock Exchange Chart CAROL S. MULL HEN FORECASTING the markets, very few financial astrologers use the New York Stock Exchange chart. Instead, they rely on such things as transits to transits, cycles, Gann techniques, Bayer methods, Elliot Wave, and Fibonacci retracement. All of these innovations have come into use because the New York Stock Exchange chart that is in general usage does not work well. When you ask a financial astrologer why he or she is not using the New York Stock Exchange chart, he or she will offer some excuse, such as quotA twohundredyearold chart does not progress wellquot or quotThese other methods are easier and give good results.quot Ridiculous Many twohundred and even fivehundredyearold charts work. The simple truth is that they are not using the correct chart. The chart that is commonly accepted and used for the New York Stock Exchange is for May , , at either a.m. EST rising or a.rn. EST Q rising. These times came from both log books and rectification work. I have also seen a rectified chart for a.m. LMT. Astrologers have worked long and VI hard trying to rectify the New York Stock Exchange chart, but they have not produced a product even they will use for their market forecasts. All historians agree on the beginning of the New York Stock Exchange. Before , members of the wealthy financial community were buying and selling on Wall Street. They would gather in small groups, within a twoblock area on Wall Street, to conduct their exchange and barter transactions. A crisis came when, early in , a speculator named William Duer accelerated the quotpaper speculationquot and produced a financial panic. So, on May , , a group of merchants and auctioneers gathered to remedy the situation. They decided to meet daily at regular hours to buy and sell securities under an old buttonwood tree that faced Wall Street and was only a few blocks from the site of the present Stock Exchange. These twentyfour men signed an agreement in which they agreed quotto trade securities only among themselves, to maintain fixed commission rates, and to avoid other auctions.quot These men are considered to be the original members of the New York Stock Exchange. Considerations X Fig. Reorganization of the NY Stock Exhange a.m. EST, May , N, W For a short time the brokers union continued to meet under the aging buttonwood tree, but in they moved into the newly completed Tontine Coffee House at the corner of Wall and William streets. In they were able to move into larger quarters at Wall Street. On March , , the members adopted a formal constitution, which created the New York Stock and Exchange Board. Each day the board members assembled for the reading of a list of all the stocks that were to be auctioned. They would then make bids and offers. Only members were allowed to trade, and memberships cost . A search through the continued history of the New York Stock Exchange reveals that it was reorganized on May , , and that date is when it began function in its present form and for its present purpose. The data for this reorganization chart is May , , at a.m. EST, New York City. See Figure. The new organization that was formed in was a combination of the old Stock Exchange the Mu If The New York Stock Exchange Chart Fig. Stock Exchange chart Progressed to Open Board of Brokers, a competing organization, which had began trading on the sidewalks of Lower Manhattan in and the government bond department, which had been organized in . These three groups formed one organization and adopted a new constitution, effective Saturday, May th, . May th was a Sunday, and May lOth a national holiday, especially declared for the linking of the Union Pacific and the Center Pacific Railways in Utah. So, Tuesday, May l lth, was when the new organization began operation. N THE New York Stock Exchange Reorganization chart, there is a grand trine in Fire Signs, composed of at /, at T, and d at Q. In addition, the Ascendant is at Q and the amp at Q. Therefore, the market is highly sensitive to any Fire transits, and to sextiles from Air Signs. Here you have a problem, because a sextile from IT is also c in . Both work, with wild ups and downs. I Considerations X The if point at Q is a pivot of activity for the chart. Its power and value are extraordinary, at / is attacked by two quincunxes at and at g form a natural yod with at the apex. When some other force hits any of these positions, there is always trouble. The at sets a tone of earthy determination, This is cf J a new moon and in the Xth House of the chart. These three act in unity to any transit or angular transit resonance. The point at sits at the top of the chart, so it is significant. over and j in .,.. have marked market tops. Watch the point with care. The aspects to the Reorganization Chart for two important highs and . important lows were as follows High of August th, Progressed at , cf natal , J amp. Transit if at / natal . Transit at / natal . Transit at / natal . Transit J at / natal . High of January st, Progressed at ,natal / , J amp. Progressed at , /natal Transit at , / natal , J Market Crash on October th, Progressed at g, natal . Transit at /, cf natal , /natal if. Transit at , / natal . Transit at JI, cI natal . Transit d at ill, cI natal e. Market Crash on October , Progressed at , natal . Transit Transit Transit Transit /natal Transit J s. at /, cf natal . X at /, cf natal . at iO, cf natal . at T, cf natal , , amp / atal d. n J at , / natal , s. Transit d at , natal . N JANUARY st, , the of the New York Stock Exchange Reorganization chart Figure had progressed to , within four seconds of a trine to natal and the completion of a series of trines to the several planets in the Reorganization chart. This accounts for the euphoria that has driven the US stock market in recent years. But the party is over. We are unlikely to see as high prices in the US stock market for years to come. Were this reorganization chart generally accepted, it could become a useful tool for financial astrologers. O Stellar Dynam ics tlr by A. J. MANTEL OBTAIN more precision in the delineation of a birth chart and the respective power of the planets relative to each other, the Church of Light in California developed a system which they call Stellar Dynamics. It is a most valuable addition to the theory of astrology and has proven to be very useful in practice. Stellar Dynamics are very easy to calculate. They are based on statistics gathered over a very long period and are wellknown to most practicing astrologers. There is really nothing new in the system, but its merit is that it provides a clear insight into the relative power of the planets, Signs and Houses in proportion to each other. The system is of particular value when calculating the value of an aspect. When first coming to a new chart, the student astrologer tends to look first at the planets in the Signs to get an initial idea of the strength of each planet. The located in Q, for example, is obviously strong but what is the relative difference for, lets say, IInd House matters when that Q rules the Ilnd from the Vth House against it being in the XIlth and ruling the IInd How strong is this in connection with a string of aspects of different types and exactitude The Stellar Dynamics system was created to answer these types of questions. The system come in very handy when one is studying progressed aspects. By evaluating the three types of Stellar Dynamics involved, one can decide whether an event will occur or not, and if it will manifest as strong, mild or weak. There are three types of Stellar Dynamics . The Power of a planet the number of its socalled Astrodynes . The Harmony of a planet the number of its socalled Harmodynes . The Disharmony of a planet the number of its socalled Discordynes. The same factors may be calculated for the Signs and Houses. l Thus an astrodyne is a number of units of astrological power, a harmodyne is a number of units of astrological harmony, and a discordyne a number of units of astrological disharmony. Considerations X Figure Nelson Mandela P.M. EET UT Thursday, July . Umtata S E House II/VllI Cusps W //f /. T/ TI. lIJlIX VIXI. VIIXII J IjI if quotIf Long f . II P f m Decl llt f t As Me Long . amp . f Decl Mantel Stel/ar Dynamics Astrodynes Well start by calculating the Power of the planets and do this using Noel Tyls suggested birth chart for the new President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, I see Figure l. For this we will use the information from two tables we will require in order to calculate the Power Grill. The calculation of Astrodynes or Power is based on three factors A. The unmodified power of the planet. Research indicates that the , and have more power than any of the other planets. J B. The House occupied by the planet. A planet in an angular House has more power than when the same planet is in a succedent or cadent House. The distance a planet is from the nearest House cusp is also important. C. Aspects made by the planets. Each aspect increases the power of a planet. The amount of a planets power varies according to the kind and orb of the its aspects. Table J Finding the Orb of an Aspect TYPE OF HOUSE ANGULAR SUCCEDENT CADENT I, IV, VII, X II, V, VIII, XI ill, VI, IX, XII OJ OJ OJ Other Other Other ASPECT ASPECT .... r lt .quot. . d For the angle between any pair of bodies, the average orb is taken using the orb values given above in Table . The MC and ASC are given the same orb as a planet quototherquot in the above table in an angular House. See Considerations IX . Considerations X An Aspects Power Table has two purposes First, to see if a particular difference between two bodies is within orb of being an aspect. Second, to define the Power of the aspect. . Find the distance between two planets. Check this against the closest aspect, House position and orb to decide whether or not the planets are within the designated orb. Example Is the Jgt able orbs gtIlt aspect in Nelson Mandelas chart within accept gtIlt Jgt IS Tn, IS Difference Observed orb Jgt in a cadent house has a go orb for a o. gtIlt also cadent has an orb for the same aspect. Average orb i . The aspect between these two planets is just within this average orb. . Finding the Power of the aspect. First, find the distance the particular aspect is from being perfect. In the above example, the aspect is from being exact. Then, subtract this observed difference from the average orb involved and express the result in decimals of a degree, rounded to places. For Jgt gtlt, average orb is and the aspect is from being exact, thus the Power of this aspect or .. A similar calculation is made for all aspects within the birth chart, see Table below. These computed Power values are listed in the Power Grill, Table . Each planets Power Aspect values are then summed. When this sum is added to the same planets HouseBased Power value, the result indicates that planets relative overall Planet Power. Mantel Stellar Dynamics Table Calculating Aspect Power Aspect Planet Orb Ave orb .... Planet Power VITI x .quot. j XII ill IX IX ill XI As / n ................. ................. dt XII ll. i QQQ/Q IX VI Q cf d i j IX ill IX VII IT cI XI As i cf j ee VII VII ill VlI VITI VII Q s Me ill Me ill Considerations X HouseBased Power This calculation uses the distance each planet is separated from the nearest House cusp, expressed as a proportion of the size of the House it is in, and relates this to the importance or power of that particular House see Table . A. Find the planets distance from the nearest cusp. Note that the nearest cusp is not necessarily the cusp of the House in which that planet is positioned. For example, in Mandelas birth chart is in the Vlth House but the closest cusp is the Viith. is at IT and the VIlth cusp is IT. Hence the distance, expressed in decimals ofa degree, is l.. B. Find the width of the House in which the planet is positioned. For this will be the VIth House, which ranges from to IT, .. Again, this is expressed as a decimal. c. Divide A by B. Carry the answer correct to decimals. For our example of in Mandelas VIth, this is . i . .. D. Go to the far righthand column in Table and obtain the Difference value appropriate for the House in which the planet is located. For in the Vlth this will be the .. E. Multiply C by D. Round the product correct to decimals. . x . .. F. Add E to the power of the weaker cusp see Table , or subtract E from the power of the stronger cusp. The stronger cusp is always the nearest cusp for the planet concerned. For , the VIIth is the stronger cusp, we therefore subtract . from ., obtaining .. This value represents the House Power of in the birth chart of Nelson Mandela. It is entered in the Power Grill, table . Mantel Stellar Dynamics Table Differences of House Power WEAKER CUSP . . . . . . . . . . . . STRONGER CUSP . . . . . . . . . . . . DIFFERENCE HOUSE I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII ............ Table gives the calculation details for each of the planetary House Powers in Nelson Mandelas birth chart. Considerations X Table Calculating Planet Power based on House position d . gtilt . t . Longitude ..... .. House VIIl XII IX VI XI VII IX III VIII VII Cusp before ..... . .. . . Cusp after ..... . .. .. House width . . ... . . . .. From nearest . . . . . . . . . . Proportion . . . . . . . . . . Table value . . . . . . . . . . Prop x Table . . . . . . . . . . House Power . . . .. . . . . . All values in Table are in decimals of a degree, rounded to places. TIle Power Grill, shown at Table and giving the individual power of the planets, is considered an absolute must if one is going to properly delineate a horoscope. Comparing the Power Grills of the charts of married couples or for those planning to marry can be most illuminating. Mantel Stellar Dynamics o .o Table . Power Grill for Nelson Mandela . . .... if if i gtlt . .,.. . . d . . r, . r, . gtlt . t Me As Column . .,.. . . . . ,f . d . ... t . . . . l. . Row CR . . . . l. . . . . . l. . . l. . l. . JIousebased Power . . . . lUll . . . . . Planet Power . . . . . . . . . . Power of MC Power of ASC .. Considerations X From Table we find the following total ranking of the planets power for Nelson Mandela t J if Total ........... Astrodynes Harmodynes amp Discordynes The calculation of the Hannodyncs and Discordynes is based upon three factors A. The Sign the planet occupies its essential dignity. The values allotted for essential dignity are as follows Harmodynes Mutual reception In its degree of Exaltation In its Sign of Exaltation In its own Sign In a Sign of harmony Discordynes In the Sign of its Fall In its Sign of Detriment In a Sign of disharmony I These values relate to the traditional dignities of the planets, which are listed in Table Mantel Stellar Dynamics Table Essential Dignities Rules Q J if Y. l i / l t IT lY l tJ quot m tJ quot T Q Q m T quot Detriment T quot / m T lY II lY Exalted degree Fall degree Harmony Discord tJ Q / IY Q / quot T IY m tJ II l quot / Q l m tJ quot T quot m tJ Q II lY m T Mutual Reception in Table includes both the usual case of planets being in the Sign each other Rules and the additional instance where planets are in anothers Exaltation Sign. TIllis if in and in TIl, is considered a Mutual Reception if is in s Exaltation Sign and in one of the two Signs that if rules. Table lists the Hannodyne and Discordyne values related to the essential dignities of the planets. B. The nature of the planet forming the aspect. Additional values are given if the traditional benefic or malefic planets are involved in any of the following six aspects , Jgt, , or ... multiply multiply if multiply i multiply the power the power the power the power of the aspect by l. if it is harmonious , .. or of the aspect by l. if harmoniousf. .. or of the aspect by . if it is discordant , c or of the aspect by l. ifit is discordant , c or . The remaining planets and aspects are neutral in this respect. Considerations X Table Harmodyne amp Discordyne Values of Essential Dignity Sign gt d quot , t T n IS e Q quot m / IS I IS J Iquot The cells with multiply entries indicate the Exaltation or Fall Degree. A value of / is given if appropriate planet is at the degree itself / if that planet is elsewhere in the Sign Mantel Stellar Dynamics C. Nature of aspects between two planets. These are of three types . Power ofhannonious aspects .. or expressed as Astrodynes equals the same number of Hannodynes . Power of discordant aspects if or D expressed as Astrodynes equals the same number of Discordynes . Power of neutral aspects expressed as Astrodynes neither adds nor subtracts anything. Calculating the HarmonyDiscord Grill of the Planets . The power of the aspect is taken directly from the Power Grill . If necessary, modify the aspect power for the natu re of the aspect, see B above . Further modify for the nature of the planets involved in the aspect, see C above . Signify a hannodyne by a , a discordyne by a . Look for Mutual Reception. Use both Signs ruled and those in which the planets are Exalted. Mandela has J TIL in mutual reception with the t, for this both get . . Refer to Essential Dignities, Table . Note Mandelas J in TIL is in its Fall, thus besides the it receives for its Mutual reception it also receives for being in TIL. . Add all of the Hannodynes and, separately, add all of the Discordynes . To obtain the total Harmodynes or Discordynes, subtract the small figure from the larger. Considerations X Example quot t . in Mandelas chart On the Power Grill the value is .. Multiply by ., to obtain . The . are Hannodynes The value is marked with a in the table has no mutual reception has no essential dignity in II. A zero is therefore entered in the Dignity column. . .. . . . c As . . on Power Grill . No modification as this is a discordant aspect . The . are Discordynes . The value . goes into the table. has no other aspects. There are therefore . Harmodynes and . Discordynes for this planet. With no dignities, these net to . Discordynes, A similar series of simple calculations are made for each of the planets in turn. Table is the full HarmonyDiscord Grill for Nelson Mandela. It is summarized here Harmodynes If . Me . j . t . . . . if . . Total Overall Total Discordynes As . . .. Total . . Astrodynes Man tel Stellar Dynamics o JQ . Table J . HarmonyDiscord Grill for the Planets Nelson Mandela Q d . d i . . i . gtilt . . gtilt . . Me As Dignity . ,j . Harmony Discord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total .S . . O.OS . . . . MC Harmony . ASC Discord .. Considerations X The Power, Harmodynes amp Discordynes of the Signs The calculations for a Signs Power or Astrodynes has three rules A. Rulership a/unoccupied Houses. The Power is a Yz of the power of the planet taken from the Power Grill, Table ruling the Sign on the cusp of the House. B. Rulership a/Intercepted Signs in Unoccupied Houses. The Power is a If.. of the power of the planet ruling the Sign. C. the the the the are Rulership a/Occupied Signs. The total power of each planet within Sign is added to Y of the power of the House ruler. When dealing with st and Xth houses, the full power of the ASC and MC obtained from Power Grill, from Table is included. Because of space limitations, ASC and MC power values were not summed on the Power Grill, but listed beneath it. The calculations for a Signs Harmodynes and Discordynes are similar, the only difference is that the different values are obtained from the HarmonyDiscord Grill, Table . That apart, the rules are the same Example for the sign II Power in Astrodynes of II Using the values in Table , we take half of the value for the Sign ruler, , and all of the value for each of the planets located in the Sign, here only is in II. Power of Il Yof. . .. Harmodynes and Discordynes of IIUsing the values in Table , the Harmony/Discord Grill the Row Column values we take half of the value for the Sign ruler, , and all of the value for each of the planets located in the Sign. S is the only body in II. For we obtain Yof. .. For Q, the sum of its HarmonylDiscord is .. The Harmodynes are therefore . the Discordynes .. Example for the sign g Power in Astrodynes of g Using the values in the Power Grill, Table , we take half of the value for the Sign ruler, Jgt, and all of the value for each of the planets located in the Sign, here the , and to Power of g Y of . . . . .. Mantel. Stellar Dynamics Table Power, Harmodynes amp Discordynes of the Signs Power in Astrodynes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harmodynes Discordynes Sign . T .. II Q TIL X H Total Considerations X Harrnodynes and Discordynes of Using the values in Table , the HarmonylDiscord Grill the Row Column values we take half of the value for the Sign ruler, , and all of the value for each of the planets located in the Sign, the , and to For the this is Yz of . .. There are three bodies in , the , and to The total HarmonyDiscord value of each of these three is used ., ., and . These positive values sum to ., the Harmodynes and the Discordynes .. The Houses Powers, Harmodynes amp Discordynes The calculation is similar to those we have just done for the Signs, the same rules apply. There are just two differences now everything relates to the Houses, the House Rulers and the planets occupying each of the Houses rather than to the Signs and for the Harmodynes and Discordynes, we will be sununing the positive and negative values from the HarmonyDiscord Grill and using the net result. Again, the values used to calculate the Astrodyne Power of the Houses are taken from the Power Grill Table and those used to compute the Harmodynes and Discordynes come from the HarmonyDiscord Grill Table . A. House Ruler. Take half of the power of the Ruler of the Sign on the Cusp of the House B. Ruler ofJntercepted Signs Take a quarter of the power of the Ruler of any intercepted sign in the House C. Include the/Il power of the MC and ASC. D. Add the total power of all the planets in the House. E. Sum A, B, C and D. Example rst house Ascendant ruler is , therefore we take Yz of its value from the Power Grill at table , that is, Y of . .. To this we add the Power values of the Ascendant itself, .. Thus the Power of the Ist House . . . Astrodynes. , Mantel Stellar Dynamics Using table , the HarmonyDiscord Grill, we take Y of j.s value of . ., and add to it all of the Ascendants value of .. . . .. As the sum is negative, these are Discordynes. Example Xth house Me ruler is , therefore we take of s value from the Power Grill, that is, Y of . .. To this we add the Power value of the Me itself, . Thus the Power of the st House . . . Astrodynes. Using Table , the harmonyDiscord Grill, we take of ts value, that is, Yz of . ., and add to it all of the Mes value of .. . . .. which is positive and so these are Hannodynes. Table lists these values. Table Summary Table Astrodynes, Harmodynes amp Discordynes Planets Signs . Houses . Astrodynes Power Harmodynes . . . . Discordynes . . . Ratio ofHarmodynes to Discordynes . . . Considerations X Table Power, Harmodynes amp Discordyncs of the Houses Power in Astrodynes ..................... House Harmodynes Discordynes .. I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI . XlI TOTAL . l. . lvfante Stellar Dynamics All of the calculations now complete, what do we have The idea of Stellar Dynamics is to arrive at a figure of relative strength or power of the planets one against the other. For the Houses, it is not so much a question of power, but more one of importance, whether there is a harmonious, beneficial or positive influence, or the opposite. The editor asked me to explain the value of Table , the summary table. To my mind, there is really not much value in it. It provides just a general view of the total power of the planets and how this power expresses itself, favorably or unfavorably. For Nelson Mandela, the overall power of the planets is not strong good and bad indications are more or less in balance. One can therefore say that not many aspects will materialize in his life, and those that do are neither extremely fortunate nor very unfortunate. The power of the Signs is however very strong and favorable. The planets and their aspects explain much about the influences on an individuals character, whereas the Signs tell us more about the time in which the individual is living, whether he fits in with it or not. The high ratio of Harmodynes to Discordynes, .tol, in Mandelas birth chart suggests that this may very well be the horoscope of someone who could become a true man of his times. This indication of a strong horoscope is confirmed by the Houses, and these indicate how the planets and Signs relate to the moment of birth as depicted by their relationship to the rising degree, which refer to the unique circumstances of Mandelas life, to the events that occur in it. Both the Signs and the Houses are strong and very favorable, they indicate the strength of this particular horoscope. Had we seen this horoscope when Nelson Mandela was still a child, we could have said that this may well be the horoscope of someone who will lead an eventful life and who will in some way represent the times in which he lives. Now lets try to make some sense of the various values we have calculated. First, consider the Power Grill of the planets. heads the list, with the most Astrodynes. It is followed by its conjunctionpartner, . There are other important aspect pictures in Mandelas chart, the Tcross involving the gtilt, and , for example, but it is cf that predominates according to this method of Stellar Dynamics. The T cross in the cadent houses is obviously an appropriate indicator of the difficulties Mandela must have experienced during his lengthy period of restraint. But, sadly, many others have also experienced long periods of imprisonment. cf suggests there is something more, it indicates that Mandela was born with the potential ability to transform himself into the leader of his people and, eventually, to become the legallyelected President of a new nation. Mandela has achieved something quite remarkable and this can only be indicated in the horoscope by the emphasis of a unique astrological aspect. , Considerations X By itself, the Power Grill does not show us whether any power is beneficial or not. This we find in the HarmonyDiscord Grill for the planets. Now it is that has the larger value, though t still has a large positive value. The conjunction of these two bodies is harmonious, positive and beneficial. So, in delineating the birth chart of Nelson Mandela, we can say that any aspect involving t or with any other planet, both in the natal chart and by transit or progression, will in time tum out to be beneficial in his life. Note, too, the high positive values for the Me and for gtilt, these suggest that matters the law, etc. may rise Mandela to prominence and that Uranian influences, which may include rebelling against the status quo, will be certain to affect how this comes about. The circumstances and situations in which this works can be found by the position of the planets by Sign and House. The conjunction is in the VIIth house, and in hindsight we now understand that it is related to the legal transformation of enemies into partners by the joining of different races on an equal footing. In the Sign , we see that this transformation was how Mandela was able to provide the protection necessary for his family, for his people. With the Sign ruler, the in the XIIth, in mutual reception with t, and both cf and gtilt, Mandelas years imprisonment also becomes clearly evident in this chart. The astrologer now has a strong weapon at his or her disposal for interpreting the different aspects in the birth chart. Usually, a beginning astrologer has only a vague idea whats going on. The temptation could be to virtually ignore the cf t aspect as this aspect does not involve any quickermoving planets though is the Ascendant ruler and instead to emphasize the r j J Tcross. In doing so, while the reactionary and longterm prisoner may be seen, the main thrust and the glorious success of this mans life will tend to be lost. , Jim Lewis Born June , at a.m. EDT in New York City. Died February , in San Francisco. J M LEWIS, one of the founders of AFAN, the Association for Astrological Networking, became a professional astrologer in . He was best known for popularizing relocational astrology with his introduction and innovative marketing of the computerized planetary mapping technique known as AstroCartoGraphy. 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