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Jupiter and the 12th House/Tesla, Lynch, Nietzsche
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind… Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
Nikola Tesla
Is this indeed true? More true for Tesla than the rest of us? His chart would indicate so. Here is a very interesting correlation between the charts of David Lynch, Nikola Tesla and Friedrich Nietzsche:
To gloss over this quickly, the association between Planets, Signs and Houses via Placements (ie. Planets in Signs), Aspects and Rulership is more like a Venn diagram or an interference pattern than a bunch of Lego stuck together. They manifest in every conceivable way allowed by the context of the life and the rest of the chart.
Let’s take for example a Gemini Ascendant with Moon in Leo 3rd (ruling 2nd) square Jupiter in Scorpio 6th (ruling 10th, 7th). Again, H = House, L = Lord (or Ruler), so the Moon is in H3, and it’s L2:
The person’s vocation (L10) comes into conflict (square) with their financial stability (L2); finances (L2) make trouble (square) for relationships (L7); The person enjoys herself (Jupiter) at the cost (square) of financial stability (L2); The person makes money by talking (L2 in H3); The person solves problems (H6) by talking (H3); The person is naturally inclined to solve others’ problems (L7 in H6); The person suffers financial (L2) trouble (square) due to her generosity (Jupiter) in offering money (L2) to help (H6) other people (…ruling 7th); The person is basically careless (Jupiter square) with money (L2); and all these things are interacting with each other in the context of the life, too. And this is only a fraction of the complex’s effects.
Nikola Tesla had Jupiter in H12; thus he gets his ideas (Jupiter) in seclusion (12), which is a hassle for him because L12 (Mars) is Exiled in H6. Exiled (debilitated) Planets mean difficulty in the domains of life they govern. Tesla’s L12/Mars in the 6th, he retreats (12) and thinks (Jupiter) for the sake of mechanical invention (…ruled by the 6th, and Mars, generally). Rulership means the domains of life governed by the Planet in question are employed for the sake of the House from which it Rules – in any case, the Ruler deems their matter less important than its own.
L12 = L7, as Mars governs Scorpio/H7 as well, meaning problems with marriage (7), both potentially caused by the matters of H6. Now, compare Nietzsche and Tesla’s charts. Both have L12/L7 Debilitated – Nietzsche’s Venus Fallen in Virgo, Tesla’s Mars Exiled in Libra. Both were reclusive celibates who asserted this aided their work, and I have no cause to doubt them. So “the mind is sharper in seclusion” is true for Tesla (and Nietzsche, but differently, as he had Mercury and the Sun in H12), but not as a rule.
And in this vein: Both Nietzsche and Tesla have L5 Enthroned, which in your average person would mean good luck with romance – which helps put to rest the slanderous nonsense that Nietzsche was somehow a crippled old maid. Nonsense resulting, of course, from pure incapacity to grapple with what he wrote. (I disagree with Nietzsche on quite a bit, for the record.) But in any case, this is exactly the vital, creative force which Nietzsche and Tesla knew could be channeled higher – the 5th also being the House of artistic creation, sex, pregnancy.
Now compare David Lynch’s chart: Like Tesla, he has Jupiter in H12. The 12th is isolation, self-restraint, asceticism – for Lynch, meditation. That’s how he gets his ideas. And he does it for the sake of making movies (L12 in H3). How Lynch’s Libra 12th differs from Tesla’s Aries 12th is a story for another time. Goodbye
A Puzzle in Nietzsche’s Chart
Many big things on the way, for now I post to let you know I’m still alive and to show off a handy new system of notation I’ve been developing. All you need to know for this article is: L# = Lord of House #, 1/3 = Trine, 1/2 = Opposition, 1/6 = Sextile, 1/4 = Square; L4 1/3 Uranus = Saturn (considered primarily in its capacity as Lord of the 4th House) Trine Uranus.
Nietzsche’s chart is a wonderful example of certain unusual phenomena in astrology. The resolute anti-egalitarian and anti-idealist a Libra Sun? How? The emphasis (though contrary) on questions of equality and ideal is evidence enough of Libra’s involvement – and that same apparent contrarianism, that habit of prankish inversion, is also perversely Libran. Libra seeks balance – but the ends and the means of its doing so will differ with the chart. Air Signs put focus on men and ideas, but other factors can distort this – CEO Carter affirms that misanthropy can result from a great stress placed on humanitarian Aquarius (The Foundations of Astrology, p. 90).
Thus it was not enough for Nietzsche to be individual; he wished for a community of individuals. “Let’s all be ourselves, together!” This is why he says: Only when you leave me, only when you become yourself, will you have found me. That he can be found at all speaks to a wish for it. And these desires were the product of the Sun♎/ Neptune♒/ Pluto♈ complex. The vision of an ideal people of the future, band of brothers – this is textbook Neptune in Aquarius. The new-model individual is the product of Pluto in Aries. His own role in shepherding this into being, his role as the solitary DREAMER OF DREAMS, benevolent teacher and hermit, is Sun in Libra 12th – renunciate idealist.
See here:
“I am Zarathustra, the godless; where do I find my equal? All those are my equals who determine their will out of themselves, and who push all submission away from themselves.”
As Lewi says, Libra seeks equals, not masters nor servants – but Pluto in Aries puts individuality at the center of this (Astrology for the Millions, p. 134). Pluto in Aries drives him away from the common weal, but Sun in Libra wants to take others with him. See the following from Rudolf Steiner’s book on Nietzsche:
“…The friends of the equality of all mankind… can only misunderstand him. For they would believe that his superman is that ideal model which all of them should resemble. But Zarathustra wishes to make no prescriptions of what men should be; he will refer each one only to himself, and will say to him, Depend upon yourself, follow only yourself, put yourself above virtue, wisdom, and knowledge. Zarathustra speaks to those who wish to find themselves, not to a multitude who search for a common goal; his words are intended for those companions who, like him, go their own way. They alone understand him because they know that he does not wish to say, Look, there is the superman, become like him, but, Behold, I have searched for myself; I am as I teach you to be; go likewise and search for your own self; then you have the superman.”
And here I will present a scattered list of notes I’ve made on his chart. Chart features listed are not exhaustively responsible for the traits described – but they are certainly major factors:
- Grandiosity: L1 (Mars) opposite Jupiter – oppositions to Jupiter commonly result in “delusions of grandeur”, religious delusions – which are evident in his collapse.
- Exaltation of Conflict: Mars 1/2 (opposite) Jupiter is a daredevil aspect in whatever field it operates. Confrontation, risk-taking result – though in hard aspect one tends to push his luck too far. In a suitable chart, berserker attitude. The emblem of this aspect: “For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas!…” Fruitfulness, joy – Jupiter; live dangerously – Mars.
- He can write: L3 (Saturn) Enthroned, 1/3 Mercury, 1/6 Uranus. L5 (Jupiter) Enthroned for the poetic flourishes. Mercury in 12th often speaks cryptically. His crystalline style is Venus in Virgo – and sharing the Sign with Mars, together with his Scorpionic directness, this inclines to aphorism – but style is always the product of the whole chart, the whole life, and an adequate analysis of it would take more time than I have here. Libran love of balance and proportion plays a part, Mercury trine Saturn aids structure.
- Exaltation of Intuition, Instinct: Jupiter in Pisces; Scorpio Rising. L1 (Mars) 1/2 Jupiter, the struggle to obey one’s instincts, conflict and separation caused through instincts. But this Virgoan Mars accounts for the brutal and incisive criticality which stands so starkly next to the above – Virgo-Pisces sorts the facts out to clear the way for an intuitive leap.
- Historical Orientation, Seeking Ideals in the Past: L4 (Saturn) Enthroned – 1/6 Uranus facilitates a novel approach to history. Neptune in Aquarius 4th, we have the vision of an ideal (Nep.) society (Aq.) of the past (4th) to which he bound his whole project of personal rejuvenation (1/3 Libra Sun; 1/6 Aries Pluto).
- Insistence that he’s Polish: I would attribute this to L4 in Aquarius 1/6 Aries – fixed ideas (Aq.) & a will to distinguish himself by his roots.
- Neglected in Life: L10 (Sun) Disgraced. And yet, what is most fascinating, his posthumous career has been so revolutionary. We note a trine to Neptune – this aids a capacity to be all things to all men. But shouldn’t we consider this bad? Rampant misinterpretation? No. Because through all this, the essential core of his work has survived. Not, of course, “the correct interpretation” – I’d be a poor student of Nietzsche if I said that – but its vital, revolutionary power, its fertility. And in this we see the influence of Pluto Aries – Pluto is absolutism which burns everything it encounters and raises new life from the ashes. I might also say that we see in this opposition to Pluto the struggle over his legacy, but would need more examples to say for sure. His untimeliness, Mercury 1/2 Uranus – one who speaks out of turn in a large and small sense.
- Travel: He travels around (Moon Sag.) to become comfortable (…in 2nd) for the sake of thinking (…ruling Cancer 9th). Long walks (Sag.) calm him (H2) and help him come up with ideas (…ruling 9th). Excellent demonstration of the relevance of empty Houses, especially since a naive understanding would lead one to believe that a philosopher would have 9th prominent – but Moon in Sagittarius and Jupiter Enthroned do something similar. (We also have his experiments (Sag.) with diet (H2) here.)
- Free Spirit: The Moon determines how we think of ourselves and what feels most natural for us, and Sagittarius is the free spirit par excellence. His revulsion at falsely named free spirits is that of the genuine article detesting its imitation. The Sun is what one wants consciously, and in the 12th he wants solitude. This is a fine example of where piecemeal astrology breaks down and one must make an intuitive leap to the synthesis, as the lone free spirit who detests a false equality is the product of Sag Moon, Sun in 12th and Sun opposite Pluto in Aries at the very least.
And now, an assortment of excerpts and commentary thereon:
- “You shall love peace as a means to a new war, and a short peace more than a long one.”; “War and courage have accomplished more great things than love for one’s neighbor. Until now, not your sympathy but your courage has saved the unfortunate.” [Libra peace, Aries war; opposition is the difficult integration of two energies. Hence he struggled toward this perspective, to sate his warlikeness (Aries + Mars 1/2 Jupiter) and his compassion (Libra + Moon 1/4 Venus). Jupiter in Pisces is a peaceful, compassionate position. The latter excerpt could be read as brutal sarcasm directed at “love thy neighbour”, but his concern for the unfortunate is obvious throughout, and Nietzsche detests sarcasm. What reads as sarcasm is usually direct scorn.]
- “Life in its essence is a usurping, a wounding, an overcoming of the strange, of all that is misfit and weak. Life is the suppressing, the hardening and forcing through of one’s own forms, the embodying, and, in the least and mildest, the erupting in boils.” (Jenseits van Gut und Böse, Beyond Good and Evil, ¶ 259). [The Ascendant, along with its Ruler, determines one’s orientation to Being – with Scorpio there, we get the above. Ascendant Lord Mars 1/2 Jupiter, his world is one in which the development of his own powers (Jup.) occurs through violence and the conquering of the foreign (Mars). In this frame the more peaceful and rarefied motives of his Sun are carried out – its opposition to Pluto, however, produces a particular bloody-mindedness which may come into play here.]
- “When Zarathustra sees [the Ugliest Man], he is overcome by what he believed he had destroyed within himself forever: that is, sympathy for the most frightful ugliness. This becomes a temptation for Zarathustra, but very soon he rejects the feeling of sympathy and again becomes hard.” [Mars Virgo 1/2 Jupiter Pisces; Virgo hard and critical, Pisces soft & sympathetic. At best, Pisces broadens Virgo while Virgo prevents the wrong kind of sympathy. Hardness for sympathy’s sake, and sympathy for hardness’ sake in his excavation of everyone’s motives.]
- “Hence the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire…” (A letter to his Sister, written age 20) [Pisces 1/2 Virgo. This is presented as a “loss of faith” but really it’s only a modification, a step in the process of finding an adequate faith. The Pisces-Virgo dialectic].
Nietzsche: Scorpio Ascendant
Textbook Scorpio in Steiner’s description of Nietzsche below (commentary in brackets):
In Nietzsche’s personality, those instincts rule which make man a dominating, controlling being. Everything pleases him which manifests might; everything displeases him which discloses weakness. He feels happy only so long as he finds himself in conditions of life which heighten his power. He loves hindrances, obstacles against his activity, because he becomes aware of his own power by overcoming them. He looks for the most difficult paths which the human being can take. A fundamental trait of his character is expressed in the verse which he has written on the title page of the second edition of his Fröhliche Wissenschaft, Joyful Wisdom:
“I live in my own house,
Have never copied anything from anyone,
And have ridiculed every master
Who has not ridiculed himself.”
Every kind of subordination to a strange power Nietzsche feels as weakness. And he thinks differently about that which is a “strange power” than many a one who considers himself to be “an independent, free spirit.” Nietzsche considers it a weakness when the human being; subordinates his thinking and his doing to so-called “eternal, brazen” laws of the intellect. Whatever the uniformly developed personality does, it does not allow it to be prescribed by a moral science, but only by the impulses of its own self. Man is already weak at the moment he searches for laws and rules according to which he shall think and act. Out of his own being the strong individual controls his way of thinking and doing.
[Ridiculed every master – Virgo Mars is ridicule, Jupiter is one’s teachers – opposed, a habit of conflict with one’s teachers. More broadly, there is a war on knowledge, the premises of knowing – Virgo Mars 1/2 Jupiter.]
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And that is all for now. You may wonder why I don’t go further in depth and it’s because I’m faced with such a dizzying profusion of opportunities that I’ve confined myself to the foundations of astrology, to toil away down there like a disgusting gnome. This is the contribution I’m uniquely capable of making and it would be a waste of time to focus on specific cases, except as exercises for myself and demonstrations of the fundaments. God bless you all.
P.S. Some rambling speculations on his health I didn’t see fit to include in the main body – enjoy if you can!
Gut problems (Mars (inflammation) in (gut) Virgo). And possibly: Venus Disgraced in Virgo square to Moon, the Planet of digestion as a whole – Moon afflicted from Virgo, a picky digestion? Mars opposite Jupiter could suggest problems with lipids (fat is Jovian, hence Jolly Fat Man archetype) – causing inflammation? Upsetting his metabolism (Mars)? Migraines are Mercury opposite Uranus, likely, but one feels Virgo and Jupiter have something to do with this. Virgo’s involvement with Mercury corresponds with the gut’s involvement in thought; autism (a friend links Mercury’s involvement with autism with coding, transgenderism – I would add shamanism as Mercury also rules psychopomps, shamans, anything serving as a bridge between two worlds. Hence its involvement with speech (bridging two people’s worlds), private transport, etc.)
Sun 1/2 Pluto can interfere with vitality in ways I don’t understand, but I speculate it could fill the body with more energy than it’s designed to hold, overclock it, blow gaskets, etc.
Uranus in Taurus Aesthetic
I was just talking to a MATE about the change in aesthetics across astrological transits, also some other things (Porn pandemic is Neptune in Pisces – self-undoing (Pisces/12th) by impossibly perfect images (Neptune) – remember Signs and Houses aren’t distinct in global transits. Y2K is Uranus in Aquarius). Thin red ties with black and white is Neptune in Aquarius + Uranus in Pisces. Uranus transited Pisces the last time in 1920s, Weimar, flappers, etc. So the aesthetic comes back mediated by the Aquarian affection for neat lines and clean-cut suits.
Yes it was the era of fedora (Neptune Aquarius) atheism (Pluto sag – although this is only one facet of the infinitely-faceted gem that is each transit) etc. etc. THAT’S NOT WHAT THE ARTICLE IS ABOUT. It’s about What’s Coming. Uranus in Taurus. Radical relaxation. Return to calming womb of history.
Taurus/2nd governs security of all kinds – emotional, financial, etc. People are going to be very comfortable with themselves for the next while. With Uranus, in bizarre ways. And they will seek comfort too. Watch!
Why this sudden revival of comfortable 70s aesthetic? Look on:
And more, yet more. People being comfortable with themselves. I’m sure they all just decided to return to comfortable aesthetic simultaneously, yes? Of course! Nothing to do with astrology!!
Now you may say I am cherry-picking… It feels different to me. I don’t have to defend myself. I am SECURE. Sure Princess Chelsea isn’t 70s aesthetic but it’s the comfortable parts of the 50s and 90s melded together, and the production is qualitatively different to what was happening 5 years ago… For more, compare a still from the video to one released just a year prior while Uranus was still in Aries.
And yet you notice them shading into one another, yes? Although the light in the one on the left is harsher and a different effect is aimed at, that of self-assertion (as opposed to self-assurance), we can see them melding into one another. It’s a mature Aries vs. a fresh Taurus. Perhaps centuries from now art criticism will have caught up with me, but until then, we can enjoy this intimately, yes?
RETVRN TO TRADITION
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Chart Reading: Roger Federer
Here I will show than an unhappy chart is no promise of an unhappy life:
Roger Federer is by most accounts the greatest player that the game has ever seen, and yet at first glance his chart’s a wasteland. The Ascendant is speculative but he’s got the fleshy oblong head of your typical Virgo Rising, as well as the Leo and Scorpio touches (Leo squareness/heaviness of brows, Scorpio eyedepth and nose – the eyes are an interesting combination of the two), so I buy it.
Basic guides to athletic ability are supposedly the state of Mars, the Sun, Moon, 6th House and its Ruler. But here we have Mars in Fall ruled by Moon in Fall from Scorpio. The Sun is at home in Leo which lends stamina, but that’s 1/12 people, and besides that it’s in the 12th. Our answer lies with the Lord of the 6th – Saturn Exalted in Libra, where it provides a marvelous capacity for balance and precision (aided by Virgo Rising), and conjunct Jupiter I believe an eye for opportunity. Saturn conjunct Jupiter would constrain the free-ranging opportunism and naked good luck of Jupiter and lighten the burden of Saturn, lend its clouds a silver lining – although there were clouds. (His first Grand Slam came shortly after his coach died in a tragic car accident, on his honeymoon no less.) A Saturn-Jupiter conjunction at best means hard work grants opportunities for more hard work, and it pays off. It can make a man rich in the 2nd, Planets there being motivated by money as well as inviting it.
As additional testimony to the happiness of Saturn-Jupiter, we note his two sets of twins (Saturn ruling the 5th House – children). Even in fatherhood he displays an almost sickeningly Libran even-handedness. Saturn-Jupiter in Libra ruling the 7th is also, of course, his public polish, and though the 6th is generally the House of athletic ability, the 7th is the House of rivalry – I would have to observe more charts to see how it plays out in great sportsmen.
[Federer], known today for his steely temperament and indomitable willpower, actually had a reputation among his peers for being soft, often unable to grind through a deficit to win.
Venus in Virgo lends a capacity for beautiful precision, as well as encouraging him toward it by making precision seem beautiful to him – noting in this vein that astrology cannot be reduced to psychology. (As an aside, John Cage and Paul Laffoley are two artists with Venus in Virgo – expect more on this later.) Virgo Rising means his first instinct is to pursue perfection and polish. Moon & Mars in Scorpio & Cancer mean Federer is emotional and volatile by default – we saw this earlier in his career. He got it under control: 12th House Suns wear masks, conceal their true selves, and have a talent for self-control via self-denial. As far as I can tell, 12th House Planets are faced with a choice between ruin through vice – Mercury 12th might talk too much or not enough, say the wrong things, fail to make itself clear, etc. – or self-discipline. They develop themselves in isolation. Saturn-Jupiter in Libra wants to excel and discipline itself for others. As a public performer – a sportsman – he was compelled to refine the objectless broodiness and self-indulgence of the Scorpio Moon into a steely resolve and LUST FOR DOMINANCE amenable to his Leo Sun.
And Roger Federer has achieved what he set out to do, he has mastered emotions more torrid than most people ever experience – not gotten rid of them, but mastered them. Good for him.
Millennials, Zoomers, and What Comes Next
Early Zoomer cutoff is November 10th 1995 when Pluto and Uranus had entered Sagittarius and Aquarius respectively (You have a microgeneration in the middle of that year we leave aside). Neptune was still in Capricorn til ’98 when it joined Uranus in Aquarius til ’03, giving us the Middle Zoomers. Uranus enters Pisces in ’03 til ’10 for Late Zoomers (who last til ’08 when Pluto leaves Sag). What does this mean? Well we can derive the nature of the Zoomers from the spirit of the time in which they were born.
Bad Pluto-Sag embodies the ADHD consumerist blitz of the late 90s up to the recession, the half-baked zealotry of fedora atheists and “evangelicals”. Good Pluto-Sag is the broadness and autodidactic autistic obsessiveness of Web 1.0. Uranus in Aquarius is Y2K futurism. Neptune in Aquarius is the popular scientism of ’98 – ’12. Aquarius is futuristic and communistic while Capricorn is variously conservative, conformist and trad. (Capricorn along with Scorpio determined the nature of Millennials (Pluto entering Scorpio and Neptune entering Capricorn in 1984.)). Neptune in Capricorn was the individualistic striving and “traditional” gloss of the 80s. Pluto in Scorpio was the confrontation with sex, violence and the occult.
Millennials (Pluto in Scorpio) have been determined by their response to this darkness – so on the one hand we have Elliot Rodger and Lookism and on the other the spirit of 2016 frogtwitter which sought to confront and digest it. Zoomers (Pluto in Sag) will be determined by their confrontation with religion, philosophy and globalization. Just as Pluto’s transit of Capricorn from ’08 to ’25 has awakened the thirst for tradition latent in some Millennials, its transit of Aquarius from ’25 to ’43 will awaken the weird communistic futurism of the Zoomers.
In this vein, Uranus and Neptune in Aquarius manifested as a shifting of the ground on which people came together, as in global astrology Aquarius governs associations of affinity, ideology, friendship, etc. And from ’95 to ’12 we see the emergence of the internet-bubble model of socialisation, political balkanisation, and so on. So my point is: It is perfectly natural for Zoomers to associate on these seemingly deracinated grounds, eg. Fandom, for better and for worse. They associate not on the ground but in the mind. They carry the seeds of new kinds of community which will find concrete instantiation from ’25 to ’43. Furry communes, etc. Uranus enters Gemini during ’25, and in global astrology it governs community, primary education, and siblings (among other things). Neptune enters Aries that year too, indicating a muddying and revision of the self. Keep in mind this is coinciding with America’s Pluto Return (~2022, 248 years from the Declaration of Independence) and the once every 40 years Pluto-Saturn conjunction (occurring January 12th 2020). Look forward to it.
(Credit to syzygy.zip on Twitter for the stuff on what good Pluto-Sag looks like)
Notes on the Astrology of Revolutionary Characters (Stalin, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Nick Land)
What do we find in the charts of revolutionaries and utopians? A very brief reading of each of our subjects, though revealing.
Sun Saggitarius/Moon Libra is an idealist through and through, one committed to a broader view of things. Stalin was by no means a materialist or a cynic but someone with a deep sense of structure and a pessimistic sense of life (especially with Saturn in Pisces). His story is that of metastasized paranoia in a tissue of hopes and dreams.
Life is a grind and a struggle to be overcome for old Stalin. Thankfully his Pluto-Mars-Saturn complex make him just the man for this. It doesn’t however make things any more pleasant. Saturn’s square to Sun inclines to pessimism and paranoia, especially with simultaneous square to Venus indicating a lack of love, lack of capacity to soften, trust. One is no sooner known than suspected.
Mars-Pluto-Saturn: The classic reformer. Scorpio Mars opposite Taurus Pluto: Absolute powerlust (Pluto Taurus: concerning control of the material substrate of society?); hideous bottomless drive, and discipline amplified by Mars’ trine to Saturn, whose own sextile to Pluto smooths efforts at reform. Jupiter square Neptune: He really does believe in Communism. Hard aspects to Neptune are signs of delusion and deceptiveness – squares, as we know, involve the Planets in a way which causes friction and struggle. Jupiter in Aquarius is a revolutionary, Neptune trine Uranus idealises the new and the different – Utopia. (Fidel Castro is another Sun square Saturn, this time with Sun conjunct Neptune:
Jupiter Aquarius in hard aspect to Neptune, Moon Libra squares Pluto. No coincidence! Uranus 10th means his reputation and authority derive from being revolutionary. )
Saturn convinces people that success can only be won through hardship and sacrifice. Square to his Sun, it suggests this where it’s inappropriate. Of note is how little Earth he has in his chart – a retrograde Capricorn Mercury – other than that provided by the Modern (weirdo) Planets. His fantasies are Earthly, his revolutions Earthly; the horrors of “the man who dreams concretely” as Ernst Junger says. Worth comparing to Hegel whose Mercury-Neptune in Virgo was at the cusp of a Grand Trine involving the three Modern Planets in Earth. (Napoleon was the same but with his Mars on Neptune.) Mercury Capricorn square Moon in Libra means he seeks justice – to right the scales – but he gets bogged down in details, misses the forest for the trees, concretises too much and idealises the concrete. I mean material wellbeing is not justice, nor is it dignity, even if we accept it as their precondition.
P.S. Che Guevara – similar but not identical. Che is about Che being revolutionary (Uranus bang on Ascendant):
Neptune trine Jupiter 1st – celebrity gloss! Larger than life! Face on t-shirts the world over. But the gloss simplifies his essence to the point of obscurity – he is Revolution. He is the bold individual standing against the tides of conformity and so on. Uranus sextile Mercury makes an extremely quick and original thinker. Che and Fidel are more loving than Stalin, certainly, but this is not hard – Che however is an especially caring person. Neptune square Sun, he’s compelled to live up to his ideal. Squares cause difficulty – in an infant’s chart we could say difficulty will result from a vague and idealised sense of his purpose, and this may mean he turns out to be a vague and muddled person, or he suffers by attempting to approach the ideal – it all depends on the rest of the chart. That said, I’d be more willing to attribute the posthumous distortion of his purpose to the Neptune square. (Astrology works even after you’re dead – there’s no escape!) With Aries 1st and Uranus, he is the fighting revolutionary, revolutionary as romantic. Mars in 12th is a fine placement for a guerilla as it denotes conflict in secret. Mercury in 3rd a habitual diarist. Moon in Pisces 12, a sensitive man who keeps it to himself – sextile to Venus in Taurus, really, a deeply loving person. I love this man now because I don’t think he could have meant any ill.
And to prove it’s not specifically Communistic please see the Aquarius Jupiter square Neptune complex in Nick Land’s chart:
Nick Land is of course known for his advocacy (or rather his ominous intimation) of the patchwork, a very Aquarian system of geopolitics in which states take the form of nuclear-armed joint-stock corporations – broadly the marketisation of statehood. He was partial to amphetamines, the Geminian drug par excellence. Please if you look him up do not go to google images as you will be confronted with the foul fruits of the grad student race. Adherents, forgive my lopsided biography of him as I thought it was funny.
Why is the patchwork Aquarian? Because following the globalising tendencies of the Age of Pisces, the Age of Aquarius is all about constraint – simultaneously, non-astrological theorists of the modern age reflect on our “shrinking world”, the global village, the increasing need to define boundaries as we all run out of room. Aquarius is ruled by Saturn; Saturn limits, separates and sorts. It is very much the opposite to the open age of peace and love preached by the disgusting hippies, though I don’t mean to paint similarly masturbatory pictures of the future as a necessarily dark and depressing place. Rather, the next 2000 years will be marked by basically tribalistic affinity structures. Of course, far be it for me to predict the unfolding of the next 2000 years – although you may think that if anyone could, it would be an astrologer. Rather, I note how much changed over the last 2000 years and how much is just about ready to burst into the public sphere – I’m keener to see what happens than to try and predict it.
Now of course those familiar with the man will know the patchwork is really the least of his foul emanations (and not his own anyway – rather it’s one he’s adopted) – the meat of it is in his idea that life is an evil Darwinian moloch-engine constructing God from the bottom up, like Bergson or de Chardin via Lovecraft. Square to Neptune he has paid for his ideas, and perhaps is a bit muddle-headed too. One or the other? Or both? Well, I leave it to you. His ideas are exciting. Like Hegel perhaps he gets by on their aesthetic potency, and is commendable for that. With Jupiter on Mercury in Aquarius he’s always relating the small to the large and both to his ideological framework.
And for the sake of interest Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug was also born with Jupiter in Aquarius and the LUST FOR DOMINATION aspect Mars in Aries opposite Pluto. Jupiter in Aquarius builds castles in the sky in the hopes of one day dragging them down to earth – square Neptune gives true utopianism. Woody Allen also has Mars opposite Pluto. Really makes you think.
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