I believe we have all been saddened significantly by the posting by 揕urker.?Anonymous, and, almost certainly, cheating on this exercise.
I tested that two ways: I asked an astrologer I know well to deliberately cheat on the exercise, entering the data in an established databank website; boom! up come the identities of all three of these subjects. It is an easy, easy matter then, after the fact, to go backwards with horrendously all-inclusive specifics beyond the ken of any astrologer before the fact.
Second, I posted publicly for a good hour this morning, a request for 揕urker?to telephone me or to e-mail me. That contact never came.
So, sure, we are not sure that 揕urker?cheated ?But, uh?he included everything but Mark Spitz抯 social security number.
**Now, let me share with you what goes into the exercises, on my side:
1. I must come up with a theme that will help us learn, a synthesis or twist of techniques that can fortify everyone抯 growing skill. 朤hat theme is sometimes very difficult to come, let alone to match with examples, let alone with three or four!
2. Then I must find examples that are prototypical of the theme being presented. The birth dates and times and places must be very, very high in reliability. I check not only Lois Rodden抯 AstroDatabank but as well the Taeger Archives in Germany. 朢ealize, please how hard it is to fit those variables and come up with examples that have some 搝ing?to them, that have international appeal, that will be memorable ?clear, dramatic.
3. Then I have to test myself with your eyes. How will you look at the example? Where can you/I go askew? What are we really learning in the process ?that which we set out to learn in the exercise?
Think about how much time that takes out of a day in my extremely busy, busy schedule?
Then, POW!, someone captures every detail of every example, and adds a zillion nuances. In these cases in this exercise, the probability of cheating 杙utting the data into a databank, getting the names, and then cleverly 杤ery cleverly梑acktracking ornate (and certainly not untalented) astrology. 朤his aggrandizes the anonymous ego, but it spoils everything for the whole learning exercise for everyone else.
NOW: if I am wrong about the cheating, then I must be corrected. 揕urker?must come forward and prove this extraordinary skill he has shown after the fact. And if that happens, I will be the first to trumpet praise in his or her direction. 朤he display of astrology 杦hile circuitous (and therefore, to my eye, unpractised)梬as formidable, but it was after the fact.
So, I抦 sorry, earnest people. 朓 know how much time and sincere attention you give to these exercises. You request them. I provide them. And I try to teach through them. That抯 why I抦 here.
It抯 clear to me that 揕urker抯?posting drove many people away. Did they also know that the posting was conceived after the fact of the identities being known?
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Let抯 try to salvage something here. 朒ere is my take on these three identities, all 損rofessional athletes? Remember the signature we have already studied that leads us almost always to the athletic professions? You抣l see it here captured subtly, yet three more times.
#1. September 28, 1905 in Prenzlau, GER at 10:50 AM CET.
1. Mercury rules the MC and is at the MC in its own sign, the final dispositor of the horoscope. 朞f course, the first thought is communications, travel ?but we must extend this Mercury further and get some endorsement of that flash feeling or discover a new direction.
2. Mercury squares the axis of Mars-Pluto! --Mars-Pluto relationships always suggest strength; if Jupiter gets into the mix, we know that athletics is just around the corner! We get another step closer, when we see that Mars rules the 5th, which is almost always engaged somehow strongly in athletes?horoscopes. AND BANG: Mars is quindecile Jupiter!!!!!!!!!!
3. Additionally, the Mercury-Mars aspect is the closest in the horoscope!
4. Finally, AP=Sun/Moon=Uranus: this is one big dose of exposure to the public!
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What we have is a penchant for sports, for athleticism that could be fashioned into a grand public career. 朤hat is the very heart of the vocational profile. There is no doubt about it.
Sure, there抯 more, for 慳fter?a sports career: coaching (Moon oriental), the Mercurial-Virgo emphases; the opinion thrust of the Mars in Sagittarius, commentating, etc.
This horoscope belongs to the German prize-fighter Max Schmeling, a professional from 1924-1948. The historic uproar about his defeat and then subsequent rematch-loss with America抯 揃rown Bomber?Joe Louis has entered American culture, the sporting events swallowed up into WWII propaganda.
#2. February 10, 1950 in Modesto CA at 5:45 PM, PST
1. Venus rules the MC and is not busy with aspects (it really goes nowhere). Dispositorship will help us extend Venus significance. Venus is disposited by Uranus, which is disposited by the Moon, which is disposited by Jupiter ruling the 5th and conjunct the Sun, and opposed by Pluto. THERE抯 the beginning of the athlete signature again!
2. Often, when the MC ruler is pushed out of the way by a mutual reception or meager aspect network, we look for MC extension through aspects to the MC directly. Here we have Pluto square the Midheaven and opposed Jupiter, ruler of the 5th. 朅gain, we see Mars-Pluto-Jupiter-5th House. [Note Mars trine Jupiter.]
3. We have the intrepidity of Uranus peregrine.
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One would have to inquire about athletic skill, at practically any age that swimmer Mark Spitz抯 horoscope was being discussed [7 Gold medals and 7 world records at the 1972 Munich Olympics].
#3. October 25, 1906 in Sequals, Italy at 2:00 PM, CET.
1. Jupiter rules the MC and is opposed by Uranus.
2. Now, to get this to go somewhere, we check the dispositor of Uranus, Saturn (which rules the 12th, and we can feel that that isn抰 going anywhere), which in turn is disposited by Neptune which is in conjunction with Jupiter. Not as satisfactorily emphatic as we might like, so far.
3. But, we can not help seeing Mars squared by Pluto 杝trength梬ith Pluto in the 5th 杝ports?梬ith Mercury, ruler of the 5th in mutual reception with Pluto!! --And maybe the peregrine Sun in Scorpio as 揵ack-up?
4. Bingo! We have Mars-Pluto, and an intensified Jupiter besides, and a 5th House reference! 朤he Pluto focus of strength is augmented by the fact that its sesquiquadrate aspect with the Ascendant (personal projection of strength) is the closest in the horoscope ??AND Pluto=Sun/Moon!
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At the heart of this horoscope抯 vocational profile must be the consideration of athletics. It belongs to Primo Carnera, who was world heavyweight champion in 1933, whose life supported Budd Schulberg抯 1947 book, 揟he Harder They Fall? about a boxer抯 stained career.
**There are lot of tips in these write-ups (and a lot of time). Again, I抦 sorry the process of study was interrupted.
Noel Tyl