Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on for midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. With certain exceptions, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. I've been getting an increasing number of people trying to post after these are closed, so will have to draw a harder line than before.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here. Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says. 

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You might recall I asked about the slow grind to victory of the current conservative movement in the US on a previous Magic Monday. The general thinking seemed to be that Saturn was involved due to (I may be misunderstanding) the plodding pace and political stability as lawsuits reach the Supreme Court, legislatures change parties one seat at a time, and whole demographics jump ship… er… party.

My view here in Flyover Country is rather like the folktale about generations of farmers carrying away a pebble every day from the base of the warlord’s mountain until the mountain was no more. The people are quite self-aware, and the heat of their smoldering anger is directed into action by a racial memory of cockeyed optimism.

Given all that, does the date of the first broadcast of the Rush Limbaugh Show at noon on 1 August 1988 from ABC Radio in New York City make a reasonable birthday for the modern conservative movement?

I don’t know much about astrology, so a few words about how the date does or does not connect to or fit the events and trends mentioned would be very helpful.

Rhydlyd

[ecosophia]

That would make quite a plausible start date for the new populist conservatism. I took a moment to generate a chart on Astro.com --


It's quite an intriguing chart. Saturn and Uranus are dead conjunct, meaning that it's at once conservative and revolutionary; Sun and Mercury are conjunct in Leo in the 10th, very favorable for a movement that seeks political power. I may just want to do a full delineation of this and publish it as an open post on my Patreon and SubscribeStar platforms, so thank you for this!

[(Anonymous)]

You are very welcome!
Thank you for helping me make sense of my view from inside the eye of this hurricane.
R

[(Anonymous)]

My experience of people with planets conjunct (not within the cazimi range) the sun is not that they have issues with that planet, but rather the planet winds up coloring their core personality. But I've heard that "combust" is a difficult aspect. Do the same rules of cazimi and combust apply in mundane charts?

[ecosophia]

The rules are somewhat different. Combustion in mundane charts is always a debility for the combust planet, though it's a dignity for the Sun if the other planet is a benefic; if malefic, it's a debility. I've never seen any discussion of cazimi in the old mundane books, but then to the best of my recollection I've never studied a mundane chart in which a planet was cazimi.

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t know much about astrology, but the connecting lines form an (to my eye) orderly design. “Orderly” is not an adjective I associate with characters like Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. Can somebody who can read charts give me an overview of this one?

—Princess Cutekitten

[ecosophia]

Stay tuned; this is worth an open post, and I'll link to it here.

[(Anonymous)]

OP - Orderly this conservative populism is not. Our host's post on Tamanous was a lifebuoy for my understanding. I observe NASCAR fans, historical reenactors and the rest of the Left's most-hated list reading top shelf political theory and actually doing the consciousness raising that the hippies talked about... but as individuals applying equally individual ethics.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you.

—Princess Cutekitten

[(Anonymous)]

As one of your subscribers I'd be very interested in reading this delineation.

I've thought for awhile that that Saturn Uranus conjunction has played a rather large part in in the development of the alright/dissident right. I believe 1988 was the peak in births for millennials, or there about, so that might be a more mundane explanation for what I've noticed. Even so, my general impression has been that an unusual number of the right wing anons that have attracted a wide following online seem to be nearly exactly my age (I was born in January 1988)

It's hard to tell considering how careful everyone is to avoid doxxing, but hints here and there in various comments over the years by a lot of different 'sh*tposters' have led me to thinking there's a trend.

-Jason P

[lukedodson]

'87 birth here, and I've noticed something similar. Also, the conservative aspects of the hippy subculture are coming more to the fore, as the mass culture drifts further into woke meltdown. A lot of younger hippies and alternative types now talk about "leftists" with the same tone that my parent's generation would have talked about "squares" or "straights".

[brendhelm]

Late '87 birth here.

I haven't necessarily noticed that as such in my everyday life, but the Saturn-Uranus conjunction is within 5 degrees of exact from November 1987 to January 1989, and with that coinciding with a mini-baby boom, that could make sense. It also occurs to me that of all the people I knew in my class in high school (people I knew... not just friends), I know conclusively of only one who is gay, and I don't know any who are trans. Many of my classmates are straight-married, and the wives among those were pretty much fine taking the husband's last name. Granted, this could simply have been the circles I hung out with and/or the fact that it was the mid-00's in a conservative part of the country... but still, if 10% of millennials identify as LGBTQ+, where were they in my graduating class?

Looking at the Saturn-Uranus conjunction history: Last one was at the end of Taurus in 1942, just before the Baby Boom. Its cohort would have been the high school classes of 1959-61. Before that, 1897 in Scorpio. If there's something to this, I'd imagine we should also look at these time periods.

[neptunesdolphins]

I would be interested. My husband is a conservative and got that way by listening to the radio.

[ecosophia]

So noted and I'm planning on it at this point. I'll post something here when it's up.

[(Anonymous)]

I am very much reminded of the fact that the Aquarius is associated with both Saturn and Uranus. Is it possible that movements like Revolutionary Conservatism in Weimar era Germany and modern American populist conservatism as exemplified by people like Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich are early examples of one of the major socio-political currents to come as the Age of Aquarius unfolds?

[ecosophia]

Hmm! That's certainly plausible.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't forget the King in Orange!

Scarlet Odiferous Alligator

[(Anonymous)]

Venus rules the first house, and she's in her domicile in Taurus and in the house of philosophy, religion and higher education. That looks very positive. She's opposing that Uranus/Saturn conjunction though.

Jon
tangerine tangential cactus

[(Anonymous)]

I really screwed this one up. I mentioned more of the natal chart than a mundane chart. I should have said that she's in the house of the Judiciary, universities and religion.

Jon

[(Anonymous)]

And the way the populists conservatives have so radically shifted since 2006 is clearly shown in this chart, with a dominant Pluto in the first, aspecting 7 planets in the chart, including the Sun.