Tarot and Astrology

 Tarot is a complex system with complicated history. Partly a simple set of playable cards with unusual suits, partly a divination tool. I am not that familiar with the divination aspect. I once had a classmate do a tarot divination for me, but I forgot what she divined for me.

Cards of the Major Arcana have many metaphorical images on them. Images that tell a complex story of what the card supposed to represent. I wrote about one of these cards Wheel of Fortune. There are many others.

In addition to that, there are a number of cards that are associated with different astrological signs or a planet. These images can help one better understand the nature of each sign and role they play in the whole story. Most cards listed on Wikipedia, already have an association with one of the other signs. I would like to make some corrections though. 

I would associate both the Justice and Hermit with Libra; Hanged Man with Virgo; both Tower and Star with Aquarius. Juggler/Magician is Mercury. The last two cards, Judgement and The World are Jupiter and Saturn respectively. Sun and Moon are their respective planets as well. That leaves mars without clear association though, perhaps Death, then Hermit is Scorpio and Wheel of Fortune is Pisces

I would also like to say that Devil card, associated with Capricorn is a good metaphor to feminism. This devilish ideology is as twisted as devil's image in Tarot of Marcelles. Its poison keeps men and women from finding happiness.

The imagery is very similar to Writing on the Wall music video by Iron Maiden. There Samurai Eddy defeats the old guy, who turns into goat-devil and sets free a man and woman.

Metaphors of Day and Night

 

First Metaphor

Back in the days I tended to prefer night over the day. I thought the night was eerie mysterious and magical. It was the time where all sorts of cool things happen. 

Night was an escape from suffocating banal existence of the day. Day was duties, obligations and boredom. Day was parents, teachers all sorts of authority figures, all the things and people I do not like.

Night was the time when one was free to be yourself, unseen in the shadow. There was no one above me and I liked it that way.

When it comes to this perspective, I still prefer freedom of the night to obligations of the day. I did not become duty minded.

Alternative Metaphor

However, night and day can be used metaphorically to illustrate a different concept altogether. A concept often found in myth of various religions and even references by Tsoi in his Calm Night song. 

Day and light as a civilization, security and comfort. Night and darkness as primitivism and animal instincts. 

Here I am actually more on the side of civilization. I want to live in comfort of my technologically advanced home and robot servants catering for all my needs.

I do not like the idea of bowing to nature. I would much rather master it and make it serve me. Sad that not so many people share my views on that. 

Symbiosis

In fact, it could even be that I like night precisely because it gives more opportunities for humanity to display its mastery over nature. Beautiful artificial lights defeat darkness and make world beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. 

"City shoots shrapnel of lights into the night..."

How That Came to Be

One thing that separates us from animals is out ability to use and construct tools. Before humanity achieved anything else. However, that is only partly true. Chimpanzees and Gorillas actually can use rocks and sticks as tools to get stuff done.

However, there is one thing that humanity alone could master. The tool that allowed humanity to rise above to the heights we have now. That is fire.

Sure, fire sometimes can be dangerous, but that overlooks the most important aspect of this awesome power.

Fire alone could turn the beast, who used to cover in fear of bigger animals, elements and nature into a master of the world.

Tiger, lion or wolf all fear fire, that only human can wield as his own. Fire can cook raw meat into a meal. Keep you warm during cold nights and even illuminate your cave so you can see as easily as during the day.

Fire over Morals

"I crawled the earth, but now I am higher. 2010, let it burn with fire."

Fire was that one thing that made us human. It was a starting point, from which we went further and higher.

With fire and tools, we become civilization. Without these we would still be crawling the earth like savage beasts.

Morals, ecology, green initiatives, plastic bag bans and such do not take us further and higher. All these "green" initiatives are just a pathetic attempt by primitivists to bring us back to stone age, their ludicrous ideas must be opposed. They must be burned with fire.

Astrology

Astrologically Fire element is also representing this power of civilization. However, it is Air element that build civilization with the fire of the fire element.

in contrast earth and water elements are still and backward looking. They are more instinctual that civilizational compared to fire.

Cycles of Development

"City shoots shrapnel of lights into the night, but night is stronger, her power is great."

In many ancient myth Sun is depicted in dualistic cycle. During the day it illuminates the world and brings warmth and growth to it. In one world civilization. During the night it disappears into the underworld and grapples with forces of darkness, until it reemerges next morning.

While in the simplest explanation it can be taken as simply illustration of day and night cycle, there is actually more to it than just that.

That illustrates other cycles of the world and even normal human development.

There are seasons for example. Seasons are like repetition of this cycle, but in yearly rather than daily timespan. During summer it is warm, and everything can grow and flourish. During winter it is cold and dark, nothing can grow or flourish. Thus, summer is like daytime equivalent of the year and winter is nighttime equivalent of the year. Spring is like mourning and autumn like evening respectively.

Human development is not different, it too runs in cycles, that are bigger than year. Periods of growth and economic boom are replaced with periods of economic crisis and depression. 

Last period of growth began in 1995 where windows 95 paved the way for computers and internet to become part of everyday life. By 1999 a brand-new world of electronic entertainment and communication flourished on this fertile ground. Humanity evolved and became so advanced compared to its former pre-computer self. People of 1980 are nothing more than apes compare to computerized Übermensch master race of new Millennium. Idea of life without computer and internet is unthinkable to all but most retarded reactionaries.

Then in 2008 we had a financial crisis and humanity went into decline. Winter of Society fell on the world, reactionary idiots crawled out of their holes and started undo the progress of the Millennial Decade. Idiotic initiatives like plastic bags ban, greenhouse gases reduction, living off the grid, dividing people into alpha and beta like we are some herd animals. Old people, stuck in the past, became forefront of life. Many wield disproportionally large influences over politics and the world. 

Religion too became a tool of reactionary backwardness; hypocrites keep spooking people with hell. Feminism is fake "progressive" ideology that does nothing to advance civilization in any way. Women are instinctual and backward, giving them more rights will not get us anywhere. 

In fact, the forces of backward past gradually corrupt some formerly advance and modernist tendencies and turn them in inversion of their former self. Christianity actually had a warning that eventually an Antichrist will become pope and will corrupt the church from within. That is long in the past for us. Church have long been tool for backwardness and opposition to progress and freedom. That is why we need new ideas to get ahead.

Since 2008 technology hardly advanced towards anything. Apple does nothing, but changes numbers on basically the same iProduct as before and sheeple still wastes they money to buy new iPhone, calling Apple greatest tech company. In fact, Windows Mobile phone was the best phone, ergonomics wise; but because app developers ignored it, it did not survive. Apple is Antichrist of tech, that only runs it into ground. Intel stagnates since release of Core 2 Duo, that was only moderately enhanced in Core i7. AMD managed one breakthrough with Ryzen, but then simply decided to sit on laurels and improve nothing. Save for few exceptions here and there we have not seen any great improvements in anything.

Future

In 2008 Pluto moved from explorative, advance and entrepreneurial Sagittarius to backward, conservative Capricorn. In 2023-24 it will gradually shift from backward Capricorn into most progressive of them all, Aquarius. In 2025 Neptune will shift from backward Pisces to uncompromising Aries and finally Uranus will leave backward Taurus for ingenious Gemini. I by one is excited, that winter of society is finally over, and a new dawn is upon us. Full speed ahead.

Also, Pluto, Neptune and Uranus will be able to have two sextiles and one trine between them, while they are in future minded Air and Fire signs.

How Pluto Transits Affected Me

First my North (Aries) and South (Libra) Nodes, together with Mars in Libra were squared. That was a chaotic time. I was betrayed by my dad. I moved many times, stressed a lot, thought things are falling apart. However, I also reevaluated a number of people in my life, including my treacherous dad.

Second my Cancer Moon was opposed by Pluto in Capricorn: I got very paranoid and obsessed with security. I feared people are out to kill me. I suspected some of my roommate in sharehouse. I moved eventually. I changed all the passwords, forgot some of them later.

Next my Libra Sun was opposed by Uranus in then Aries, I got evicted from the next place I rented from, because I thought they were unreasonable with their rules.

Then my Libra Sun was squared by Pluto in Capricorn, evictions by real estate agents became as normal and inevitable as sunrise and sunset. Paperwork and never-ending inspection hell in getting new rental and ending the old one. Moving stuff between places and so on.

Finally, my Jupiter in Aries was squared by Pluto in Capricorn. I lost/spend a lot of money. Got my card drawn for more than 3k at a time. Took several months to fix it with the bank. This one was probably a mixed experience compared to those above.

The only positive was that Pluto would sextile my Mercury, Venus and Pluto in Scorp. So I had a relatively easy and lucky period between square to mars and opposition to moon. And again, for some time after opposition to moon.

Though best was probably after square to Sun ended and before square to Jupiter begun.

In addition to that, during Pluto sextile Pluto and Merc. I did a lot of introspection. Analyzed and reevaluated a lot of things. I uncovered some dark secrets from my past. Understood how much both of my parents lied to me. Get to some of the truth.

On one hand, I am somewhat cautious of Pluto going to Aqua to square my Mercury, Venus and Pluto in Scorp.

However, in Aqua, Pluto will also Trine my Mars and South Node as well as Sextile North Node before Scorp trio will be affected.

Then I can also look forward to Trine to Sun and sextiles to Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.

For Capricorns biggest problem was Uranus in Aries (2011 to 2019) rather than Pluto in Capricorn. Because of Uranus influence, Caps did not have pure experience.

I think Tauri (Taurus plural) had the best period overall. Nothing major ever squared them. Pluto trine them, Neptune sextile them. Uranus was not bothering them, until it got to their sign in 2019.

Arrogance of Different Astrological Signs

A lot of things can pass for arrogance really.

I have a Leo friend, and he likes attention a lot, but also able to get it in a reasonable way by being an enjoyable and entertaining person. I think male Leos can sometimes get people's feelings well.

Capricorn thinks lowly of themselves and even lower of most people around them. They think everyone is a loser compared to Warren Buffet and will tell you so. They think hierarchically.

Libra subconsciously treats most people equally: it can please people who would normally be considered their inferiors but can insult those who consider themselves their superiors. That is why Libras do well in flat communities, but not so well in hierarchical ones.

Aquas are emotionally aloof and say what they think rather than conform with social norms. Some people will not like it, but Aquas are rational and reasonable people. If facts hurt your feelings, you best not talk to them. However, Libra and Gemini likely to agree with Aqua, even if they often not say that out of politeness.

Scorp women are so arrogant, they are worst. My mom and Hillary Clinton are good examples of that. May be there are some exceptions to this rule thought, I know one Asian Scorp girl and she is very quiet and shy. Scorp men on the other hand are not arrogant at all.

Aries are possibly arrogant, but in ignorant rather than deliberate way.

Planets in Houses in Astrology

 

A response to this

That is partly correct, but you understand role of most houses incorrectly:

health should be in 6th together with work.

1st is own physical appearance, clothes and hitting the gym.

3rd is intellectual pursuits and communication. it can mean siblings and short distance travel as well.

4th is set of all things that sustain you, it takes home in conceptual meaning as well.

5th are hobbies and romantic love. 5th can mean children for some, but only if children is your hobby. Also 5th have nothing to do with actually having children.

In general question of having children should me much further the house chain past 7th, house of marriage and all sort of bilateral partnerships.

8th can also mean other people's money, not just sex. That is living off others. In contrast 2nd is reliance on your own resources.

9th can also mean philosophical or theological pursuits in addition to long distance travel. By theological I mean debates whether God exists or what religion is right. Not any worship or charitable work.

10th and midheaven often associated with career. It's kind of social renown. Desire to be approved or considered explementary member of society or lack of thereof. My parents are strong on this, and I completely ignore it.

11th can mean all sorts of peers and equals as well.

12th can also mean things that you suppress and ignore.

About me

I have most planets in 3rd, 4th and 5th houses. intellectual pursuits, comfort of living arrangements and hobbies are indeed things I prioritize in my life.

Intellectual pursuits are the thing I dedicate most of my time. I spend my days in library. I read, analyze, write. I believe I am a genius and world should listen and follow my ideas.

homely affairs are important because I value comfort in my life a lot. I want everything new, comfortable, convenient, aesthetically pleasing, fancy and so on. I watch Sam Chui videos about flying first class. where he showcases the amenities.

Finally, I like to play videogames and watch anime. I have discerning taste in entertainment. That applies to women as well: I want her to meet my expectations and be an enjoyable romantic partner. She has to be well mannered, courteous, demure and be a good housemaid too.

I have no planets in 1st, 6th, 7th, 10th or 12th houses. I do not care for physical appearance, health, work, marriage, public image or charitable/spiritual work.

I have one planet in 2nd, 9th, 11th: the north node in 8th. I do care for money, but as a means for comfortable existence. I do enjoy travel, if its first class. I have a limited number of friends I like. I have nothing against sex but will not spend on a woman to spread her legs for me.

On Role of Uranus in Astrology

 

Modern astrologers often depict Uranus as a rebel who cannot fit in and constantly stirs trouble. However, that is a very inaccurate depiction of this god, his planet and his influence. 

Uranus or Ouranos was actually an originator god. Before him there was nothing, but he and Gaya went on to create Titans and the world, including Saturn/Cronos.

Saturn is often depicted as the old conservative god, who maintains traditional order. In astrological dichotomy he is typically contrasted with more liberal, open minded and optimistic Jupiter/Zeus, King of Olympian gods.

However, before these traditional rules and ways of Saturn even came to be, there was Uranus before him there was nothing and after him there were Titans and other things.

Uranus is a creator, but not the kind that Christian God is. Uranus is not rule maker. He is not the kind of creator, that gives people some ten commandments, seven sins or other such nonsense. Uranus is the creator that paves way towards new, create new technologies, scientific discoveries and ways to live. 

Sometimes for these new things to exist, old ways and rules has to give way and Uranus is relentless in breaking the old for the sake of new. In that regard he may appear as uncompromising rebel to a conservative person. However, that overlook the reasons for his actions.

Without Uranus like people humanity would never evolve into higher states of existence and would stay monkeys forever.

Thus, astrologically Uranus represents areas in life, where we will pioneer new and untried and untested things. Where we will create new way to live. That can be anything from technology to ideology and even religion. 

As much as Christians and other religious people like to tout their faith and rooted in ancient tradition, reality is that it once too was a dangerous and disruptive innovation, that conservative people wished to suppress. 

In more modern times people like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, thew the old rule book into a dustbin of history and created a new and better way for us to live. They too were opposed by conservative elements who erroneously believed that these changes destroy all the foundations of society that existed since time immemorable. However, Uranus types instinctively know that all such rules did not exist since time immemorable but were created by people much like they themselves are. Therefore, within their power to alter and undo these old rules to better suit reality.

Of course, it is technology that is possibly the biggest and the most fertile ground for innovation. New tech almost constantly supplants and overtake things that came before.

Aspects towards Uranus and other consideration in the chart does show how far person is inclined towards pushing their own vision onto the world or in contrast more apt towards preserving status quo and following rules made by others.

Meaning of Each Individual Planet in Astrology Series

  

Recently I finished reading Dana Gerhardt's series about meaning of different planets in astrology. I agreed with some, disagreed with other things that she claimed in her articles. Eventually I decided to make my own article about planets. Later I might do angles and houses as well.

I have not read just Dana's articles but many others. I also have experience of dealing with people of different astrological signs. Finally, I have great analytical skills, and I decided I should use them to put together a better explanation of gears of astrology.

The articles will appear in this blog as I write them. They are long and I do not have time to write every day.

After I finish planets, I will gradually cover, angles, signs and houses as I go. Understanding planets are important, but it's their placement in sign and house that determines the role they play in your life. You need to put all pieces of information together to get the full picture. I will also write about current major transits.