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.

Q & A for Today: 2010 November 22

Is there life beyond Planet Earth?

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I believe there is life beyond planet earth in a certain sense… there are other “dimensions” of the universe which we can call “beyond earth” and which may reflect into this dimension as local or distant planets and stars. There is life in those dimensions, I believe. But if there is life elsewhere in this petty 3 dimensional universe we see with microscopes and telescopes… I am not sure. Perhaps not.

What’s a “Transit”?

“Transit” means to move. Similar words are “transportation,” “transition,” and words like that. The planets are moving against the stars all the time. You were born at a particular point in time. Your birth chart is a snapshot of the planets “transit” at the moment you were born.

When someone says something like, “Saturn transiting Mars” it means that the current motion of planet is affecting the spot Mars was in when a person was born. To clarify we have a term “natal” which means “pertaining to nativity” – or “pertaining to birth.” A plant’s position in your birth chart is it’s “natal” position. The position of the planet on any given day is its “transit position” – when the transit position of an astrological body interacts with the natal position of an astrological body – that is an event theoretically useful in making predictions.

So when someone says, “Saturn is transiting my Mars” it means that Saturn RIGHT NOW is in some position in the sky which causes it to interact with the place Mars occupied when that person was born.

What position would that be? It could be the SAME position (A “conjunction” by transit) or it could be in a position with an angle of sight to the natal position (An “aspect” by transit).

Hmmm… this may not have been crystal clear, but at least it is not oversimplified. I hope it makes sense for you. Thanks for the rather needed question.

What is a “Conjunction”? A “Trine”?

Conjunction means to (con)JOIN. When two objects come together they “conjoin.” We call them a “conjunction.” In some ways a conjunction occurs just by two bodies being in the same zodiac sign. But the physically closer to one another the two bodies are (by degree) the stronger the effect of the conjunction.

A trine is a type of “aspect.” An aspect is how one object affects another by having a “line of sight” to it. “Trine” comes from “triangle” as in “equilateral triangle.” An equilateral triangle has 120º for each point. When one planet is 120º from another they are exactly “trine” and can influence one another as a result of the “line of sight” afforded by that angle.

Here is an article I wrote that explains the idea of Aspects a little more patiently and thoroughly: http://vicdicara.wordpress.com/2010/07/0…

What is the “North Node”?

The north node is AWESOME and very important. Here is an article I wrote about the North Node. Rather than repeat myself I will just link you to it. I hope you don’t mind: http://vicdicara.com/planets_rahu.php

I would encourage you to go to the “articles” page and read about all the classical 9 planets to get a full picture of how the n.node fits in with the rest to generate the whole of the human experience!

What incompatible signs would be attracted to Capricorn?

 

An incompatible sign would not be attracted… but hear me out. Astrologically, a person is not a “sign” – each individual is a unique combination of 12 signs, 12 houses and 9 planets. So the placements of the planets of two people in relation to one another might strongly attract them to one another – in spite of the fact that their pop-astrology “sun sign” is not supposed to be compatible.

- Vic DiCara (Vraja Kishor das)

www.vicdicara.com

 

Periods of Mental Depression

Saturn is perfectly trine to my Moon. Saturn’s influence on the Moon generally implies constriction of emotion, desire and mental depression. In my case Saturn is the debilitated resident of the house of emotion and contentment. Therefore his transits to my Moon are particularly capable of causing grief, detachment, depression, discontent, and a feeling of insurmountable limitations.

The lord of my current era (dasha) is Jupiter, who right now is under transit from Mars. Generically this implies some passion for morality, religion and philosophy. In my specific case Mars is the lord of the fourth house (emotions and contentment), as well as the lord of my eleventh house of benefit and enjoyment. In my chart he is prominently debilitated and combust. So his nature is to significantly destroy ambitions and passions to enjoy a happy and content private and social life. His transit of my era lord, Jupiter, brings these karmas to the fore while it is in effect.

Looking ahead something major seems to happen on the 21st of this month as Mars will put a perfect 8th house aspect to my Moon at the same time that Saturn remains in trine with her. This will persist till the 25th. My hope is that Mars coming out of conjunction with the transit lord will be more beneficial than the negativity of his coming into alignment with the Moon. He will come out of alignment on the 16th I am hoping for an improvement in my inner happiness in connection with that event, though I recognize that it will be offset again somewhat when the Mars alignment to the Moon occurs the 21st through 25th. Saturn breaks alignment with the Moon on the 28th. I am looking forward to that as the end of my gloomy period.

- Vic DiCara

www.vicdicara.com

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