Mundane Astrology Project Update
Feb. 5th, 2021 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
During 2020 I did mundane charts on five countries—the United States, Britain, India, Japan, and Australia. That was a learning experience in every sense of the word, but one of the things I learned by doing it was that there aren’t enough hours in a day for me to do that and keep up with my other commitments. Interestingly enough, it wasn’t casting and interpreting the charts that ate up most of the time, it was following the news closely enough to be able to make sense of the political and economic indications in the charts. (Effective mundane interpretation doesn’t take place in a vacuum—you have to know what’s going on in a country, in quite a bit of detail, to be able to figure out what the indications of the heavens are likely to mean.)
With that in mind, my mundane predictions in 2021 are going to deal solely with the United States and Britain, since following the news in two countries is about what I can handle and still have time for the other things I need and want to do. I know this will be a disappointment to my Indian, Japanese, and Australian readers, but I do have something to offer in exchange that I hope will help. I’m a writer by trade, as you all know, and one of the things I decided is that it’s time to begin work on a book on mundane astrology.
Is that going to take a while to write? You bet. This is why I’ll be doing it in the form of a series of essays, which will be posted monthly to my SubscribeStar and Patreon accounts, starting this month. The first essay will be a public post for everyone to read. After that, instructional essays—as in, detailed directions for how to cast and interpret mundane charts for ingresses, eclipses, major conjunctions, and other important events—will be available at the Moonwatcher ($5 a month) level. Case studies—starting with an analysis of why C.E.O. Carter should have known in 1939 that World War II was about to break out, and how he made a complete fool of himself instead—will be available at the Sunwatcher ($10 a month) level. My goal is to provide every reader with all the tools they need to do the kind of interpretations I’m doing here. In three or four years, the book (working title: The Destiny of Nations) will be on the bookshelves—but my subscribers and patrons will get to read all of it in advance.
One other thing. The goal of this whole project, as the book just mentioned may suggest, is not to set myself up as some kind of uniquely qualified oracle. It’s to reintroduce a set of highly useful and thoroughly neglected techniques into common use among astrologers and the astrologically literate public. With that in mind, I’m going to encourage those of my readers who want to begin casting and interpreting mundane charts to do so, and to post links to their predictions and delineations as comments to appropriate posts on this Dreamwidth journal. I’ve got quite a few capable and intelligent readers, and I’d be willing to bet that there are people ready, willing, and able to pick up the task of doing ingress charts for India, Japan, and Australia—among other countries. Let’s make it happen.
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Date: 2021-02-06 12:53 am (UTC)PS: I was trying to cast an Aries ingress chart for Scotland, since there's a lot happening here in the next few months and realised that, unless I'm mistaken, it doesn't seem to be a huge difference between London and Edinburgh in terms of house position: Does this mean that the predictions are the same for, say, the British Prime Minister and the Scottish First Minister? Do we in cases like this use the same data but interpret it according to the particular circumstances of both nations?
Manuel
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Date: 2021-02-06 05:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-02-06 01:27 am (UTC)To contribute to the general effort of Mundane Astrology, I have been preparing a list of eclipses from 2010-2020, complete with exact times of perfection of the full/new moons and estimated dates of effect. While this list was made to aid in the investigation of the eclipses in effect during the Grand Mutation, I am expanding this list out to the next grand conjunction of 2040. Furthermore, I am preparing a list of times for the seasonal ingresses, complete with a list of eclipses that modify them.
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Date: 2021-02-07 05:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-02-06 01:36 am (UTC)As I mentioned the other day I've, I've set up a new Dreamwidth specifically for Mundane Astrology at voxcaelorum.dreamwidth.org .
One thing I'm experimenting with is Lunation charts. I'm going to do an overall assessment after I've posted a few months' worth of New and Full Moons.
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Date: 2021-02-06 03:42 am (UTC)I recently started getting into mundane astrology myself, although I haven't learned that much about short-term forecasts like ingresses and eclipses. So far I've focused more on long-range transits between the outer planets and looking at the history of those and using that history to try and predict what might happen quite a long way out into the future. It'll be interesting to see if I'm on the right track with any of my predictions, but it'll be a few decades before I find that out! As for seeing WWII coming, yes, I can see that quite clearly from the outer planet transits (although hindsight is 20/20 of course!). Again though, I'm not too clued up on the more short-term forecasts. In your experience, would you say they provide a clearer picture of precise events that might happen within a short timeframe?
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Date: 2021-02-08 02:58 am (UTC)1846 (basically as Neptune was being discovered): Saturn/Neptune in Aquarius: New everything. Railroads, telegraphs, the Bessemer process, the original feminist movements, the Communist Manifesto, the decline of official slavery... basically, the "modern" world as we know it, including many of its social elements, coming into being.
1882: Saturn/Neptune in Taurus: Land grabs (colonialism) and big money - the original Gilded Age.
1917: Saturn/Neptune in Leo: Who will be crowned "king" of the world? What will be the fate of our empires?
1952: Saturn/Neptune in Libra: Balance (like the Libran scales) of power between two competing superpowers
1989: Saturn/Neptune in Capricorn: Big business and, once again, big money - the new Gilded Age.
The 2026 conjunction occurs in Aries, so we'd expect some sort of Aries theme to emerge for the period 2026-61. Given that one possible such theme is war...
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Date: 2021-02-10 02:13 am (UTC)Good news
Date: 2021-02-06 05:01 am (UTC)Edu
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Date: 2021-02-07 05:49 pm (UTC)Re: Good news
Date: 2021-02-09 01:56 am (UTC)Awesome!
Date: 2021-02-06 06:56 am (UTC)- Cicada Grove
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Date: 2021-02-06 02:14 pm (UTC)I was hoping you'd write a book on Astrology, but I hadn't dared to hope I'd be reading the first piece of it this month!
Since you wrote the definitive guide to the Tree of Life, I'd be interested to hear (either in the book or as it's own article) where your knowledge of the Sefirot has come in handy in learning the character of their corresponding planets, and especially where it hasn't. Most other occult astrologers I know are Traditional and eschew the outer planets to one degree or another, so they don't have nearly as much to say about Uranus or Neptune as I'd like.
Since these planets also correspond to the top of the Tree where my knowledge of the spheres is at it's fuzziest, it's a bit of a stumbling block in my astrological education. I am learning the distinction between sefirotic and planetary powers piecemeal through my own invocations, but it's slow going.
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Date: 2021-02-07 05:51 pm (UTC)Totally new
Date: 2021-02-06 08:19 pm (UTC)What background knowledge would one need to participate?
Is there any material one could use to study in preparation?
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Date: 2021-02-07 05:55 pm (UTC)Re: Totally new
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Date: 2021-02-07 02:49 am (UTC)To see you tackle this in a book is a great trade off. Look forward to seeing it either in print or via subscription.
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Date: 2021-02-07 05:57 pm (UTC)I forget who it was who noted that the great difference between Australia and the US was that your nation was founded by convicted felons and ours was founded by religious maniacs...
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Date: 2021-02-08 12:33 am (UTC)I do like that observation of the differences however.
A funny story is that they founded Adelaide as a kind of utopia. They said that since they were free of England they would not need to resort to crime and thus would not need a jail. About three months later the first jail was completed.
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Date: 2021-02-08 04:15 am (UTC)Having said that we are currently in a La Niña & negative Indian Ocean Dipole weather pattern (among others) and have had rain, yes rain! in February.
Those from the state will understand my amazement.
Back to Astrology, I have a copy of the Ato Z Horoscope Maker and Delineator, Eleventh Edition, all intact, no loose binding or anything, but it is missing pages 385 - 396.
Does anyone else have this edition with the pages missing?
I will keep the Subscribestar going, but I'm looking forward to it going back on the blog, even for one time, because I really enjoy reading he back and forth of the comments.
Helen from Oz
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Date: 2021-11-30 01:34 am (UTC)Would anyone be interested in creating a chart for Canada? The “political situation” here could only be described as tragic and any future insight would be invaluable.
Many Thanks,
Gerry