Participate in an Astrological Study

I would like to do a small study. Would you like to take part?

Observation: Children develop the ability to speak at different ages. Specifically, when they consistantly start using single words to denote specific people and objects. (I think between 9 and 15 months is average for this).

Hypothesis: The retrogression cycles of Mercury could cause the child’s first Mercury-return to have a similar fluctuation.

Study: I would like to collect a sample of data for children, where their developmental progress in this area is known, and see if the hypothesis bears out.

If it does it is not only interesting, but a fairly significant step towards demonstrating in a scientifically empirical manner that astrology is potentially reliable for predicting practical events.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE: Send be the date / time / place of a child’s birth and a note of his or her verbal development; specifically say when they began to consistently use their first word. Contact me through www.vicdicara.com/contact.php

Data collection is as crucial as the experiment itself, so please be careful to give an accurate and non-biased description.

How to do Compatibility Astrology – Primer

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Here are the essential basics of how to do compatibility based on the mutual relationships of the signs of two people.

 

Start at Taurus, call it “1″, say the signs in order, numbering each one, till you get to “7″ (from Taurus it will be scorpio) This sign is always the most COMPELLING attraction and compatibility.

Start over and do the same thing, this time note the signs that are numbered “5″ and “9″ (from Taurus it is Virgo and Capricorn). These signs are always RELIABLE compatibly.

Start over again and note the signs that are “3″ and “11″ (From taurus these are Cancer and Pisces) These signs are nice relationships, just rather mildly positive.

The signs just before and after the one you start at (2 and 12 – from Taurus these are Aries and Gemini) are incompatible… not terribly, mildly. *Here is the one you are asking about, Taurus/Aries. More on this after I finish up this number pattern.*

The signs just before and after the one “7″ signs from where you start (6 and 8 – from Taurus these are Libra and Sagittarius) are more strongly incompatible, reliably, constantly not good.

There are only two signs left now, these are the ones “4″ and “10″ from wherever you start (from Taurus this would be Leo and Aquarius) these are the biggest compatibility clashes, the most incompatible.

Now, thats the THEORY. You also have to know how to apply this theory.

a) you have to do it for the signs of your ascendant, moon, sun AND venus – and weight the results all together (or separately to reveal separate aspects of compatibility)

b) you have to do it for the interactions between these four signs. (for example, Moon in Taurus and the other persons ascendant in Scorpio is very good for compatibility).

c) You have to consider the degrees, not just the signs. When two bodies are close together by degree, their positive or negative compatibility effect is much more pronounced than if those two bodies are far apart.

Hope this helps! =)

Thanks,
Vic DiCara

PS – This pattern system I described doesn’t at all contradict an element-based way of understanding compatibility and incompatibility. In fact the pattern arises because of the compatibility of the elements and modes of the signs.

I use this as the fundamental system of my compatibility readings (along with another, more traditional Indian system) and the results are very, very reliable and useful.

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Basic Principles of Relationship Compatibility

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Draw a circle.
Split it into 12 equal parts.
Label each part as one of the zodiac signs, in order, counterclockwise. Aries, Taurus, etc.

The sign opposite from any other sign on the wheel is the most compelling match.

All signs of the same element are stable in their bond.
Go back to your circle,
color Aries, Leo and Sag red
color Taurus, Virgo and Cap green
color Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces blue.
All signs with the same colors have the same element – red is fire, green is earth, white is air, blue is water.

The sign on either side of the opposite sign has difficulty getting along. The signs that are the opposite element but not the opposite position on the wheel are the biggest clashes of incompatibility.

This is an isolated technique. Everyone has sevral important signs – rising sign, sun, moon, and venus are particularly important. To get a pretty solid picture of compatibility we consider *all* of them.

- Vic DiCara

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Perfectly Terrible Relationships, Tarot, Squares, & Conjunctions

Perfectly Terrible Relationships

What two signs would always argue with eachother but never leave one another?

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To stretch, I could say OPPOSITE signs have this trait somewhat (for example Taurus/Scorpio) because this is the attraction of opposites, which is the most exciting and therefore least smooth. But, it’s not really about two signs. It could be caused when one planetary pairs is in a highly compatible sign, but another planetary pair is in a highly incompatible sign. For example, her moon in Aries and his moon in Capricorn = conflict, but she also has ascendant in Capricorn and he has ascendant in Cancer = attraction.

Also sometimes two individuals have very poor relationship karma in their horoscope, and these two individuals form lasting relationships (good “compatibility”), which means that their lousy relationship karma has found its perfect lasting expression. =)

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Do you believe in Tarot?

The Tarot, in my opinion, acts as a CONDUIT for the super-soul to speak to you or I using symbolic language that bypasses our rational intellect – so that the universe’s message to us can communicate more clearly without being twisted by our own thought processes. For the Tarot to work, the person reading it must be in touch with the universal energy (“supersoul”) speaking through the Tarot. It is actually the universal energy, not the Tarot, which is predicting and providing the guidance. The Tarot is merely the vehicle of communication.

Venus square Saturn transit

Holy hell………..Venus Square Saturn… anyone else experience this transit?
What did you feel and what happened?

Before Astrology skeptics answer: Yes, I am well-aware astrology is pseudoscience. I do not base life decisions, etc. on astrology. It is a hobby. That is all.

Astrology is not “psuedo science” – don’t bow down to the opinions of the brain-dead and heart-removed. Astrology is the mother of all sciences. This is a historical fact.

Regarding “Venus Square Saturn” – you should know that when you asked this question Saturn was about 18º away from Venus. A square is 90º. Therefore I doubt you mean that Venus and Saturn are currently square, since they are not.

You might mean that Venus is currently square to YOUR Saturn (the place Saturn is in your birth chart). In which case only persons with saturn in the same or opposite place in the zodiac as you would be able to be experiencing the transit at the moment.

Or you might mean that Venus is square Saturn in your horoscopes, but the you wouldn’t / shouldn’t have called it a “transit.”

In any case besides the last, my opinion (which is shared by the vast majority of astrologers) is that the transit of Venus is not particularly powerful (on its own) unless it is during a station, because she is an inner planet and therefore moves too quickly to cause much influence to the point she is transiting. Most likely whatever it is you are experiencing now is due to some other cause, mainly, and the “Venus square Saturn” thing is playing a supporting role.

Out-of-sign conjunctions

So, how do you look at this? Let’s say someone has one planet in the last few degrees of Taurus, conjunct one planet in the first degrees of Gemini? Will this aspect work? Experiences?

Since I use sidereal zodiacs, I use the lunar mansions very extensively. 8 out of 12 times the lunar mansions blur the borders between two signs, building a bridge from one to the next. I seem to have found that when two planets occupy the same lunar mansion they form conjunctions, regardless if their position in that lunar mansion is in two different signs or not.

Do note, that conjunctions are between planets, not sign. For example a Venus / Jupiter conjunction will blend the natures of Venus and Jupiter (“faithful lover” / “positive artist” / “religious love” etc), regardless of what sign the conjunction occurs in. The main thing is that the two planets operate cooperatively. Then, the next thing is that this cooperative energy then operates with the resources available to it, give by the sign(s) it occupies.

- Vic DiCara

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