ANTISCIA Oct/2012

Planets in antiscia and contra-antiscia reflect one another across the cardinal axis. The cardinal axis (also known as the Aries Point) is essentially the Node of the Sun, and is a point we all share. When planets connect by antiscia or contra-antiscia, a planetary pair is formed. These pairs provide insight into the energy of the day as well as enriching natal chart delineation. Why antiscia...    

October 2012

1^st -- 8^th – Saturn|Neptune 

2^nd, 3^rd – Venus|Saturn (c) 

3^rd, 4^th – Mercury|Venus (c) 

4^th, 5^th – Mercury|Neptune 

5^th – Mercury|Mars * 

5^th, 6^th – Sun|Jupiter * 

6^th – Mars|Saturn * 

7^th – Mercury|Node * 

11^th, 12^th – Sun|Venus (c) 

15^th – Mercury * 

15^th, 16^th – Sun|Mars * 

21^st, 22^nd, 23^rd – Sun|Neptune 

22^nd – Venus|Pluto * 

22^nd, 23^rd, 24^th – Venus|Uranus 

25^th – Sun|Mercury * 

26^th – Mercury|Saturn * 

26^th – Sun|Node * 

28^th – Venus ingress into Libra (c) 

To use this list, simply blend the meanings of planets in combination. 

Bold dates indicate the day when a particular planetary expression is at its strongest - within 10 minutes of arc or less. Dates with one planet indicate its ingress into a Cardinal sign, or to 15 degrees Fixed, meaning it is sitting directly on the cardinal axis and so should feature prominently that day. Those with a (c) indicate contra-antiscia, signs arranged around the Aries/Libra axis. Finally, those marked with an asterisk* are antiscia formed around the midpoint of two Cardinal signs (midpoint: 15 Fixed) and are indirect antiscia.  

 

Candidates on the Cardinal Axis

Just the charts, no commentary.

Mitt Romney 

Antiscia: Sun/Neptune  

Contra-antiscia: Moon-Jupiter/Saturn 

Houses ruled by Romney's planets in antiscia *blue* & contra-antiscia *red* 

(I use Whole Sign houses topically.)

Third house ruler connects to Neptune.

Second, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth house rulers all connected by contra-antiscia.

Barack Obama 

Antiscia: Meridian/Jupiter 

Contra-antiscia: Meridian/Mercury & Moon/Saturn

Houses ruled by Obama's planets in antiscia *blue* & contra-antiscia *red*

Second & Eleventh house rulers connect to Meridian (MC).

First, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Twelfth house rulers & Meridian connected by contra-antiscia.  

Alfred Witte's Rules for Planetary Pictures:

Romney

Sun + Neptune - Aries

To be inspired. To have a poor sense of direction. Uncertain times.

To lie and cheat. - K.Petty

Jupiter + Saturn - Aries  

Separation favored by good fortune. Change of place. Real estate. 

Moon + Saturn - Aries 

Laboring people (classes), suffering, suppressed populace. Losses in the populace. (Abraham Lincoln shared this signature; common to find among people working within government institutions.) 

Obama

Meridian + Jupiter - Aries 

The state of mind effects the general world. General contentment. 

Meridian + Mercury - Aries 

Reputation. Opinion. Judgement about. Thoughts about common things. 

Moon + Saturn - Aries 

Laboring people (classes), suffering, suppressed populace. Losses in the populace. (See above comment.) 

Feel free to comment if you like.  

Parans (resurfaced)

Parans are the true angular relationship between planets and/or stars. When a planetary body rises, sets, culminates, or is at the nadir (the lowest point under the earth/the foundation of the chart), and another planet or star is exactly rising, setting, culminating, or at the nadir, they are said to be in paran to one another. Parans in a natal chart, as well as in mundane (world event) astrology, are very descriptive. They show intense combined energy. 

These are the parans for 11/11/2010 (the time/date this post was originally written).

The image above is a "paran clock". Notice the exact angular relationship (though it looks like a conjunction) between Venus and Pluto - located at the top of the chart @ 10:30am PDT. Venus is culminating, "M" stands for Meridian, while Pluto is rising in the East, "E."  Notice in the chart below Venus is culminating too, but Pluto is not as angular by ecliptical degree. This is where the typical two-dimensional chart breaks down, it can't capture the actual spatial relationship between planets, it only captures them by zodiacal degree. 

In the image below you can see Pluto is clearly on the horizon at the time Venus is culminating, the horizon is the Ascendant or what astrologers call the rising sign. But Pluto's true relationship to the horizon isn't seen accurately in the chart above. Pluto, in fact, is even in another sign!  

I think this phenomenom, Pluto on the horizon while Venus culminates (if Pluto were visible), would have been exceptionally important to the ancients, just as stars on angles were. Today we often miss truly angular relationships, and we miss when stars are actually on angles because we view everything as if it were "on the ecliptic". Only the Sun is forever on the ecliptic; for the ecliptic is the Sun's path.

More on parans in the future.