Astrology: Charting the Rise of Ron Paul

[SisCyn]

I usually use Placidus. Have tried to my hand at a few horary questions...Regiomontanus. But I rather like Equal houses, best when I think to change the settings!

[SisCyn]

Astrology 101 for newbies - KEY WORDS

Ron's sun: LEO - key words: I WILL

Ron's moon: TAURUS - key words: I POSSESS

Ron's prominent Virgo Stellium (Mercury, Neptune, Retrograde Venus) - key words: I ANALYZE

[SisCyn]

RX Venus in Virgo. House placement could be very important here. Transit Mars conjunct today setting off all other planets involved in Mystic Rectangle. Simple.

[Uriah]

Umm..., yah, whatever this all means. Tell me. Laymen terms.

[SisCyn]

The planet Mars as it is traveling right now, has exactly reached the place where Venus was sitting on the day Ron was born.

Mars is raw energy, militaristic, and firey.

While it is traversing this place where Venus sat, it is forming a favorable geometric relationship to the other planets that make up the Mystic Rectangle in Ron's birth chart.

It is an indicator, rather than a cause. And the indication is a burst energy to what all those planets symbolize. Mars the soldier scored a victory tonight!

[MikefromSyracuse]

actually I like Koch houses as a general preference. There's nothing but opinions in astrology literature as to house systems. What do you do thou? God never gave us any answers from the back of the book to double check anything and intermediate house cusps move right along with any rectifications. Ultimately it's 3 dimensional and not every planet is hugging the ecliptic, but I haven't seen anyone write about this. I've seen the Sun transit my Koch houses sometimes, and I'm sure some other planets too.

I've been mulling over this recently and here are some thoughts:

I suppose that a 3D zodiacal energy web of any planet/sun system can be viewed from many perspectives but the natural complementary pair of perpendicular (longitude) and parallel (declination) projection provides the best 2D maps to define a particular zodiac. Perpendicular needs a distant nonlocal (universal) point of projection while the parallel can be made from a local (personal) planet-based point of projection.

I'm beginning to think that the Porphyry system models the (universal) perpendicular projection and the Campanus system models the (local) parallel projection and both are simple and elegant math-wise.

Our universal spherical/circular zodiac field uses trisection between equinox and solstice (trisect 90* quadrant) so why not trisect the AC-MC quadrant which is a localized model of our zodiac? The houses do not display exact 30* sector symmetry but do display their own unique symmetry per nativity. Although rarely a perfect 90* quadrant of ecliptic there are still oppositions, trines and sextiles that define the house cusp relationships. There just are not as many as sign cusps of a perfect circular zodiac. Porphyry, the person, was a Platonist and this system has platonic character.

I see the Campanus system as a model of how the zodiac field is shaped by the earth's elliptic orbit wherein the solstices are about 18* off alignment to the perihelion and aphelion and creates different arc lengths when sweeping 30* sectors. The Campanus house measure can be done locally at the nativity and I can imagine 3000 years ago an astrologer -- at the ready -- aligning a protractor and viewing in parallel projection to the diurnal arc of the ecliptic to measure the arc lengths of each 30* sector as a birth occurs.

I've read that Campanus has wide appeal for psychological chart delineation (Rudyhar) while Porphyry has electional chart appeal -- personal and universal? Even if this is not always the case the RP campaign chart with Porphyry cusps has been working for me to where I further subdivide each house into 12 subhouses to determine the "house phase" of that particular house. Basically the duad sign approach to houses except that its always in order 1-12.

This will be an ongoing experiment for further testing of dates, events and meaning.

The 14 Jan moneybomb announced this week has tr SUN trine both SUN and MOON while entering the #8 house phase within the 8th house -- a double 8th house effect. Of course many other chart factors involved this weekend ie tr JUPITER in Taurus closing in on MARS (both in the #9 phase of 11th house), tr VENUS in #2 phase of 10th that day until crossing 0 Pis 21 into #3 and closing in on NEPTUNE.

The tr URANUS is in #12 phase of the 10th house which, as one particular theme, indicates the spiritual and karmic dimension of the movement of military personnel who are planning these rallies for Dr Paul in SC and on President's Day in Wash DC. The dissolution and breaking down of the old military structure based on moral and spiritual principles. Then the crossing of the 11th cusp that day or the next -- a very dramatic shockwave affect of this unprecedented rally.

The tr URANUS in this #12 phase is also indicating the effect of the campaign -- the supporters and Dr Paul are 'dangerous' to the status quo in his epic NH speech Tuesday evening -- and there's some Uranian collective global interest -- where I read that even orthodox Jews came up to Dr Paul at a town hall gathering last Sunday agreeing with his views towards Israel and religious freedom.

[SisCyn]

That Mercury - Venus (debilitated and retrograde in Virgo) - Neptune conjunction has me a little concerned. Know what I mean?

[Revolution9]

That Mercury - Venus (debilitated and retrograde in Virgo) - Neptune conjunction has me a little concerned. Know what I mean?

No. This ain't exactly an astrology forum.

Rev9

[1stAmendguy]

What's Ron's ascendant? Was his birth time recorded?

[Revolution9]

What's Ron's ascendant? Was his birth time recorded?

They have tried to nail it by using events and locations in his life. IIRC it is 7:35am as the probable time..

Rev9