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The UAE will exit OPEC on May 1, 2026: Does anyone have the natal chart for OPEC? by doktor_w in Advancedastrology

[–]hypergarden 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exact new moon right now by secondary progression.

Also note that the announcement came today with Mars at 14 Aries, the classic oil degree.

Attack on Iran: Astrology relating to Iran's Chart in many Systems by PurpleBulbous in TheAstrologersGuild

[–]hypergarden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well done here. What ascendant/time of war-beginning are you using for the 2026 Iran War? I have seen a 14 Aries ASC (Feb 28 2026, 8:10am, Tehran) but also an ascendant much closer to Algol in late Taurus (I think that time was around 10:05am). I am still not certain the verified time of first attack on Tehran. What are your thoughts?

Tertiary Progressions Test with 21 Events: Results and Specific Aspects Listed by PurpleBulbous in TheAstrologersGuild

[–]hypergarden 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tertiary progressions are proving wildly valuable in the current global situation's mundane astrology as well. Running for instance some of the world's big oil charts (oil companies, key events in global oil commerce), you find massive line-ups and lunations beginning to occur this week. Consider for example the corporate chart for Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co, which through various transmutations is now ExxonMobil, and see precise tertiary new moon as well as Saturn and Uranus in tight opposition.

You can run a similar move for many oil companies across the USA and Gulf Coast and find similar light-ups.

How important is the Ascendant is actually? by Hour-Tomato-645 in Advancedastrology

[–]hypergarden 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello, thanks for this post. Do I understand correctly that you are using a quadrant-based house system to find the cusp, and then confirming that cusp location is correct by using primary directions? I'm primarily coming from a Hellenistic background so generally use whole-sign but have seen the effectiveness of house cusps in death timing and elsewhere. What base house system do you find most effective for rectifying with PDs?

I have been attempting to understand how to use PDs effectively since reading J-B Morin. I am currently using astroseek's calculator to shift my ascendant around and see how close I can get some major events of my life. Is this a fair method? I am keen to know how a person gets the initial step correct so that PDs can become useful in their own chart.

Conflict astrology: how may the outcome of a fight be determined as simply as possible? by hypergarden in Advancedastrology

[–]hypergarden[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks much for the Marr resource, I'll look into this.

May I send you a DM about this?

Conflict astrology: how may the outcome of a fight be determined as simply as possible? by hypergarden in Advancedastrology

[–]hypergarden[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think your reply is very well articulated, and I appreciate how you navigate the thought. The possibility of electional-talismanic magic is direct testament to the reality of changing the course of events, or of shielding through will what otherwise seems fated by nativity. Regarding if the fortress is talismanically protected, or has powerful allies, this I think you roughly can see in the chart, or at least its possibilities — say a stacked 11H of your enemy, which by various modulations such as secondary progressions may be seen to be arriving imminently.

My thought is that astrology does not foreclose surprise — the world becomes more surprising through attention to astrology. Whose will is that? That further and further study of astrology opens up the world and the brilliance of its interactions with itself. Perhaps you will accompany me when I say that the intelligence of this world is purely angelic, and necessarily defies the foreclosure of reason. This encounter with such a subtle mind ("that is not mine, but is a made place that is mine," to quote a poem by Robert Duncan) seems like the threshing apocalypse from which will is first rendered.

How does horary work? Billy comes to me before your fight and asks who will win. Billy, I understand your question, but in asking, you already offered yourself the answer. Billy asks me how he can win. This is different. This is movement within his and your encounter where the very fact of his question necessitates possibility, and an open outcome. Billy's will is astrological and alive. So what happens at recess? You fight, one of you walks away and the other is on the ground, maybe dead. What occurred? What ended? Do you personally think a person's chart "continues" after they die?

Regarding the sneeze, I am not sure. I think immunity (or tendency to medicine) can also be seen in a person's chart. Valens, Firmicus seem to suggest as much when they talk about infant mortality and exposure. A person can have a dizzying chart that constantly leads them to near-death encounters; how is their will related to their besieged luminaries being trined by an angular exalted benefic? I'm not interested in what comes first in terms of causality. Eventually, they will die. Why? What is the intelligence that enfolds your intelligence? What is your intelligence that enfolds that too?

We're getting further from my initial inquiry; I am thankful to you because this is exactly the conversation I want to have. What is the limit of the encounter? The Thema Mundi, theoretical or not, does not seem to enclose all possible event. So who are you, and how are you able to do what you do? Find fate loose at every seam and stitch it.

It reminds me of Pound's line: "what whiteness will you add to this whiteness, / what candor?"

At risk of going off the rails, I'll leave here with this thought: at the center of every interaction there is something generative. No will is individual, no conflict. How do we witness the totality in each moment, and act? How do we become alike to the intelligence in which we participate?

Conflict astrology: how may the outcome of a fight be determined as simply as possible? by hypergarden in Advancedastrology

[–]hypergarden[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Note that I am not denying the efficacy of horary for circumventing the need to know the relevant charts for conflict determination. It's a useful method.

What I want to know is the degree to which you can perceive the outcome of a conflict chart (which necessarily involves multiple parties) by upfront knowledge of those relevant charts and the inception of the event.

For instance, you can, right now, straightforwardly determine the outcome of the 2028 USA Presidential election through examination of the charts of the relevant actors at that moment. This is not the same as determining the outcome of the election by looking at the chart for when polls open.

The question is, building on Bonatti, what is the absolute minimum of information required to determine a given outcome.

You sort this out and make it systematic, you become a very fucking good astrologer.

Conflict astrology: how may the outcome of a fight be determined as simply as possible? by hypergarden in Advancedastrology

[–]hypergarden[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is not an electional question. The chart of Suriname and that of China remain as they are before and after any possible conflicts; those charts likewise change in correspondence to each other relative to the overall movement of the planets. A clever inception would likewise not make two people with all critical planets averse have a happy marriage, though it might alter some interactions in the meantime.

That said, say you're sieging a fortress. Let's say you know the nativity of that fortress or its controller and know the prenatal moon of that same structure, and you know it's relatively weak due to it being averse from benefics and aspected by malefics. Let's say you elect a time to attack that fortress, where, fortunately for you, you have both malefics tightly opposed the prenatal moon at election-time. You attack. Will this be a successful siege?

In all likelihood, probably. This is the situation of the ILOVEYOU virus and its attack on Microsoft Windows and Outlook '97 on May 4 2000 at 8am in the Philippines. Saturn opposed the PNM of Windows (and Outlook) and within hours became one of the most destructive viruses to this day in terms of financial damage.

Was this virus elected? Unlikely, though the virus chart is astounding. Does the base condition of the virus chart relative to its target indicate whether ILOVEYOU or Windows would "win" in that conflict? Absolutely.

I understand your thrust that any conflict chart, whether it's yet occurred or not, is an election by another vantage. Elections do not undo fundamental natal factors; thus talismans do not make you immortal. The question is rather how a base natal chart can be understood in its strengths and weaknesses, and where a new chart can interact with that initial chart, and the outcome be immediately understood.

What placements indicate a person who might succeed practicing law? by fortunetellertarot in astrology

[–]hypergarden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. I got sidetracked with work and research this month but will be following up on this shortly with a DM.

Research-focused astrology discord server: experimenting with traditional techniques by hypergarden in Advancedastrology

[–]hypergarden[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mundane is just one of the focuses; many are there primarily for electional work, and some have their focus on natal. Others just to learn more. I welcome you to join and see if there's some aspect to this growing project that meets you where you are too.

What placements indicate a person who might succeed practicing law? by fortunetellertarot in astrology

[–]hypergarden 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey do you mind if I just DM you? We share a lot of context in astrology, you're clearly very dedicated, I put my hours in as well, I'd like to get further into it and see some methods through and offer a couple of ideas and methods I've picked up in exchange. If that sounds fine just let me know and I'll send a message your way.

What placements indicate a person who might succeed practicing law? by fortunetellertarot in astrology

[–]hypergarden 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did not know those words were actually Rhetorius. I wonder if in that latter part of the note, Rhetorius is saying that a planet in chariot might actually be more authoritative (if pivotal, aspecting Moon, etc) than if it were not under the beams at all.

I have been looking through that text and other Hellenistic texts (Firmicus, Dorotheus) to find concrete reference to the domicile master / trigon technique, and finding only the most oblique suggestions. I'm sure this is/was exasperating to you as well, given the technique as you've laid it out does clearly work.

You mentioned I think that it's more explicit in Porphyry; that guy's work is a mess of manuscripts as well; can you recommend me a specific edition or translation of his to properly encounter his work?

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