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Having made the decision to start working as an astrologer, I have put up a website! The blog features topical posts, updated every two or three days at this stage, as well as information on services that I offer.

As an astrologer, I draw heavily on my spiritual background in Hermetic occulistism and Gnosticism, and in my training as a literature critic, teacher and counsellor. I am sure there will be the occasional bit of good-natured snarking at conspiracy theorists and New-Age nutters, too.

At this stage, I am looking for a limited number of volunteers who would like free chart readings - this is for practise, as I feel myself to be at an 'apprentice' level in regards to my abilities. The rule is 'One Chart Per Person' - I would also like some ongoing contact with anyone who would like a full reading done, for feedback, discussion and confirmation on the interpretation of their charts.

If you would like to participate, please email me with your name, details, chart data, any questions, and a contact (email or instant messenger, your preference). Natal charts, synastry or composite charts and electional (deciding on a date for particular events) charts are my main offerings at the moment.

I would like some volunteers for forecasts, as this is the area I am currently studying. If you'd like a forecast, I'd be very grateful to draw up transits or horary for someone willing to commit to updates about whether or not they are accurate over the coming months.

After a few months off, it's out. In iTunes and at http://tdjacobs.com/blog.
I answer a listener question about a life transition including work, and then take a look at Hillary Clinton's chart in terms of her karmic skipped steps, some heavy squares to her nodal axis.

Now that saturn has finally transited into my twelfth house, I am watching anxiously for that "initiation" into the next house theme, and unlike my previous saturn transits I don't have any idea of what to expect. Maybe I'm dull, but the usual interpretations don't seem relevant to me at all. Then I read that most astrologers don't actually know what the 12th house signifies. If any of you geniuses can supply me an explanation that makes sense, gives me a good idea what's coming, I'd appreciate it.

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"Goth" is fairly Scorpionic/Plutonic, right? I thought so, but I was just checking. Could always use a 2nd opinion. Horror movies and books are also fairly Scorpionic/Plutonic, right? Is science fiction fairly Aquarian?

Also:

Game terminated. Someone cheated.

Btw, speaking of the 11th, who else is a 11th house person? Since I haven't seen a lot of 11th house charts, I assume we're in the minority. Are we?

(From an astrology.com update) Big changes will come about through these transits.

The Sun in determined Scorpio forms several aspects in the midst of a life-changing Saturn-Pluto square that takes place on November 15. First the Sun squares expansive Jupiter on November 10, when misunderstandings can occur. Then you receive support when the Sun trines independent Uranus on November 14. Keep an eye on the Sun, though, as it squares Neptune on November 15, when everything may not be as it seems! Finally, Mercury's entrance into outspoken Sagittarius brings information we may -- or may not -- want to hear!

Poll #1482526 fielty to the king
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 25

sun in sag/sag. rising/ jupiter in first/Sun aspect Jupiter people have a tendency to... 1) expect you to feel blessed by his or her friendship with you 2) and abide by a set of moral codes that do not suit you 3) and look the other way when they break their own moral codes

I got an offer for a free Natal chart reading and got a more detailed chart.

( here is my chart )

It also had a nice thing on Taurus in the 8th house.

Alright who is going????

I am! Getting the money together now, it should be awesome. If you live in New York, or close enough to bus it on in or can get here by hook or by crook on November 21 2009, do it!

I am really excited about going, I have missed the previous ones, so this year I will go. Two of my favorite local astrologers I know will each be giving a lecture, Mark Wolz and Anne Ortlee. They run Access Astrology on Tuesdays at East West books, where they discuss upcoming transits and what they will bring. Plus famous astrologers will be there too. Check out the schedule http://www.astrologynyc.org/Resources/WinterConfSchedule.pdf

It'll be a discussion of Saturn in Libra, what the planet of discipline, limits and structure will be up to in the sign of seeking balance and trying to get along already. And then we'll get into each participant's chart to see the specifics of what Saturn will ask, expect, require and demand from each. Limited to 5 callers, it'll be, like, cozy.
Full details here: http://www.tdjacobs.com/calendar/view_entry.php?id=54&date=20091206

I've had the strong urges to purge my stuff recently.  I've cleaned out & reorganized the storage in my attic, the storage under the stairs, my closet, my second bathroom, my linen closet, kitchen and bedroom.  On the list still: second bedroom, that closet, laundry room, living room and garage.  I'm seriously getting rid of stuff I don't need, don't use and can either sell or could use a new home (freecycle).  I'm trying to accomplish as much as I can while I've got the energy.  Can't figure out which transit might be causing this surge though.  Anyone else feeling this trend? 

The article:If Saturn's about hard work and structure, and Libra's about fairness, what's the story for it's almost 3-year transit?
It looks at what relationships may face during this time, and includes thoughts on how we usually think of justice (a Libran thing) vs a spiritual, bird's eye view of it that might come in handy as we live through the taskmaster in the sign of balance and relationships. Also some notes for those born between 1970-1984, with Pluto in Libra in their birth charts.
The article: http://www.thecosmicpath.com/2009/11/01/saturn-in-libra/


The natal report is the "Living in the Present Tense" report I wrote. It looks at Pluto, Chiron, Lilith and Lucifer in your birth chart to see what kinds of attitudes and behaviors might need to shift as we live through the energetic shifts taking place now that culminate in the end of the Mayan Calendar. It begins with info about what the Mayan Calendar is and what its end means, then has sections on the four archetypes in your house and your sign.

I've just edited and updated the essay and those on the 4 archetypes, and to celebrate its first birthday I'm offering it for $18 instead of the regular $27 - for a limited time. This is a deal - there's nothing out there like it, and very little about the 2012 stuff that's not fluff - and nothing that ties 2012 information to your chart.

See http://tdjacobs.com for more details, including what people who've bought it have to say about it.

And don't forget about the two teleclasses I'm offering on 11/7 (solar return) and 11/14 (the soul's journey)...

I was just wondering if looking at the aspects between the Davidson chart and each person's natal chart would be a more effective way of calculating level of attraction for each of the two parties, and in general, how they view the relationship, in comparison with the synastry chart itself.  It makes sense in theory, as there's an element of projection inherent in attraction.  Just musing..

umm.. So I apologize in advance if this is convoluted.  My sense of sequencing is kind of haphazard, so if there's anything that doesn't make sense to you, please let me know.

I'm a Gemini Sun, Virgo Moon, Scorpio Ascendant; and the three most prominent signs in my chart are Scorpio (15.2%), Capricorn (12.9%), and Gemini (12.8%).  I've been going through a period of estrangement from myself for a while now after being extremely in tune with myself my entire life.  What happened was that I became obsessed with a friend (Scorpio/Libra cusp- Scorpio Sun, and I think Virgo Moon and Libra ascendant) because he was the first person my age that I strongly identified with mentally, and so I became extremely emotionally attached to him and projected an ideal onto him in keeping with my perception that I was attracted to him.  That was the first semester; Christmas Break I met with him once, and as it was becoming more obvious, he called me out on it so as to clear the air.  I had perceived him as being attracted to me because I had read into things he had done just in a friendly way, and him telling me he wasn't made me doubt the entire significance of our relationship.  He was also one of two good friends I had away at school, and the only people I've known that I've strongly identified with.  After that happened, I began taking to heart criticisms he had made about me not being open-minded enough (I limit my frame of reference to what I'm compelled toward, as validating stuff I'm not interested in I feel devalues what I am), and I became obsessed with the Myers-Brigg as a method to try to sort through the really crappy emotions I was having, as well as on the basis that it equally validated differing perspectives and it was a way for me to consider other persepctives.  Since I was between INFJ or INFP (or so I thought at the time- I'm actually an IxFx), I figured out how to combine the cognitive charts of the basic 16 types, creating 76 other subtypes, and I began to analyze everyone and myself based on that.  I take information by organizing the information around me into conceptual structures of the meanings/emotional responses of things, so reality for me is kind of fluid; and understanding things for me is being aware of how the pieces of something fit together as a whole, though it's more of a feeling since the relationships themselves are so fluid and ambiguous and open to multiple interpretations.  But anyway, because the Myers-Brigg established a conceptual framework for me that was fixed, I, for the most part, couldn't think of things outside those terms, and felt constrained, because I felt like a type rather than an individual and that personality, and consequently the world, was a giant construct.  I also had a short obsession with astrology then, and self-diagnosis as well because my friend suggested that I might have OCD (I don't- I think I have characteristics of Asperger's though), before coming back to the Myers-Brigg.  I couldn't disqualify my thoughts because I had detached myself emotionally from my own understanding, and my way of validating information is purely emotional, since I can resolve pretty much any information into terms that it could make sense.  So basically this past summer and everything but maybe the last three weeks this year I've been completely depressed.  I finally got out of the Myers-Brigg thing, but I still haven't been able to get into tune with myself, and lately I've felt this strong need to find someone who strongly understands my way of thinking and who stimulates me- I've felt this my entire life, but i've been satisfied with the ideal- and who can make me feel stable enough to get back into my head.  I've since gotten back into astrology- hoping for some grand birth-search synastry social networking site- and found out that since my Juno is in Scorpio in the first house, I see who and what I choose to identify with as an extension of my identity.  I've had this ideal my whole life of a kind of psychological symbiosis with someone else, and now that ideal is broken- maybe because now that I've been rejected(even though I really wouldn't have wanted that kind of relationship with him anyway) I'm acutely aware of the possibility of being rejected if I found my ideal, or maybe because I'm out of touch enough with my ideals that I can't believe in it anymore.  But- I don't know, I'm really lonely right now and I can't get out of my head.  I don't particularly want to focus on astrology because it's also a fixed system, though much more complex- and it's going to drive me crazy eventually- but I don't know what to do with myself to feel comfortable slipping back into my own skin, and I can't help but obsess over this idea of finding a catalyst via synastry.
Response to any part of this would be appreciated.

-Angelica