Case study: house cusps

I wrote "Making a house call: Analyzing house systems" Asteria 2 to raise a flag in regards to the relativity of house systems. I'm that article I've pointed out a few details of a couple of people's lives to prove a point. This article contains a more detailed example.

It is about a woman who went above and beyond to have children but failed. All those attempts left her scared both physically and psychologically and she appears to suffer at the very mention of the subject of children. A first glimpse at her chart would probably indicate the ruler of her fifth house (based on more than a few houses systems), Mars, as being the cause. Its placement on the person's Ascendant would clearly explain a pregnancy gone wrong that was nearly fatal to the woman. But there's more to it.

Keep your enemies closer, buy them a drink

My article "A living hell: The eerie twelfth house" from Asteria 2 discusses curses, among other things. Being a mere short article, I couldn't elaborate by giving examples and such, but instead I opted for discussing generalities. This article focuses on an example, a good method to deal with a-holes in situations you can't get a good link of them (for whatever reason). I discuss the importance of links when targeting other people in Words.

Remember when the evil queen gave Snow White a poisonous apple? This is something similar although a drink would be used instead. It's somewhat similar to the method used by some women who turn their men into their bitch by slipping their period juices into the unexpected bastards' drinks (usually red wine).

Mercury election - June 2023

I find Mercury to be the trickiest to work with in regards to elections. Not only does it retrograde more often than the rest of the planets, but its constant proximity to the Sun makes it prone to spend quite a lot of time under sunbeams and combust. Additionally, it spends a relatively short time in each sign and so it's kinda cumbersome to find decent elections whenever its strength is increased.

This Mercury transit through Gemini should provide quite a few good elections although I would caution people to watch out for the out-of-sign combustion it will experience beginning around the start of Cancer season. Mercury will greatly overpower the Sun at the time, but being combust will cause its energies to act more erratically.

Wrong

Towards the end of last year I made this prediction. As things appear right now, I was wrong (although we're still inside the time frame I had set). I have no idea what's happened behind the scenes throughout all this time, but even if I don't watch the news (or TV for that matter) I am still unaware of anything transpiring to the public at large to suggest my prediction was at least somewhat accurate. I'm not saying shit hasn't happened yet even in the event it has, stuff like this doesn't become public even in countries where democracy is allegedly enforced, let alone the country who's leader I talked about in my aforementioned article. 

I've been wrong before in regards to astro stuff, both for myself and for others. That's why I keep saying I'm no astrologer. That's not to say astrologers get every prediction 100% accurate, as they do often make mistakes, but they're much more versed in this broad area than I am. Therefore, it's natural I'm wrong more often than they.

Even so, I know far more about astrology and its implications in practical occultism than many of the alleged occult experts out there.

We're not God

In fact we are God, but that's not what I meant. Many occult practitioners work on accessing and assimilating more of their godhood, but they will never become God - i.e. all-powerful, all-knowing, all-encompassing, etc. Not in their flashy existence anyway. Am we must accept that and the limitations imposed onto us by this ephemeral yet ever so rich experience in the flesh.

Yesterday I received word a young woman has died from a horrible disease. She seemed to be doing better and yet the disease came back with a vengeance later on and eventually won...

Planetary weather unfolding

There's quite a few things going on for the seven classical planets in the near future. This article is thus meant to help those who also consider astrological factors when planning their planetary spells and rituals.

Possibly the main event is Jupiter being a few days away from entering Taurus. It'll leave behind its dignity by triplicity so people would have to check whenever it transits its terms in Taurus in order to get a bit more potent Jovian energies. It will encounter the lunar North Node quite soon though, so it'll receive a short boost in strength, but people can also use that configuration for a North Node talisman we've discussed in Asteria.

Thoughts on pathworking

I recently had a conversation with a reader of this blog concerning pathworking. Among other things, he asked me if I'm aware of any literature on this subject. I admitted to being uncultured and pointed him to Scott for details on Crowley's recordings of his experiences with the Aires. By the way, I recommend you read Scott's articles on the subject if you're interested, this one and this one, since they've helped me get started in this field. 

The man also told me there's little out there in regards of actual experiences during these operations and I agree. Besides generalities on how to perform a pathworking, there's not much in regards to different minute details one can come across during a pathworking. But in my opinion that is to be expected since no author can cover the vast and diverse range of experiences. There's so much, even so little, one can come across and that renders every attempt to even try to paint several scenarios even in broad strokes, irrelevant.