i have been impressed with teds writing for a long time.. i read an article of his today which motivated me to reach out to him to ask him of his birth time.... he kindly obliged with a birth time given as 1205pm..

here is a link to his website.. http://www.tedgioia.com/index.html

wikipedia page on him here - tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia

below is his birth chart for oct 21, 1957, 1205pm, hawthorne, califormia...



here are a few observations on his natal chart.. mercury is the planet most associated with writing.. in teds chart is forms a close conjunction with his sun.. i also associate writing with 3rd house activities and more generally with the mercurial signs - gemini and virgo... mercury would be the vocational indicator as planet rising ahead of the sun.. i also associate writing with a prominent moon.. in this chart moon is applying to the ascendant ruler jupiter and both are squaring onto the ascendant.. perhaps this is another way of emphasizing writing as a key characteristic of the chart... the one 5th harmonic aspect in his chart - based off an accurate birth time is midheaven to saturn - 36 degrees decile aspect or 1/2 a quintile... the 5th harmonic is strengthens the importance of saturn in this chart and the idea of a special talent involving saturn and what it rules in the chart.... if one uses tropical zodiac i suppose they get saturn as ruler of ascendant instead...

mercury forms a close 45 degree aspect to saturn which is ruler of the 2nd and 3rd house.. saturn is close to the midpoint of the ascendant and midheaven directly.. using the moon houses - saturn lands in the 3rd, with sun and mercury in the 2nd.. saturn is in the 12th sign to the ascendant... i do associate writing as a more reclusive type vocation, so perhaps it makes sense that ted is a writer based off the astrological understanding i have at this point..

here is a quick overview on some of the midpoints to this chart...ascendant/midheaven = mercury, jupiter/midheaven = mercury, uranus/moon = mercury... both moon/mercury and sun/moon midpoint = mars... midheaven/venus = moon... perhaps this indirect midpoint explains the focus on music which has been such a big part of teds life... he started out as a music major and has found much joy in music since not pursuing it as a full time occupation... again - the venus/saturn conjunction here would make it a double edged sword of sorts...

i suppose neptune in close connection - 3 degrees out of exact conjunction to the midheaven also has something to say about his vocation as an imaginative and insightful writer.. i suppose there could be a number of ways to understand all this astrologically... the chart is upper hemisphere emphasis and a duirnal chart where the sun takes on greater importance.. aside from the close mercury/sun conjunction - sun is the ruler of the 9th house, or mercury - depending on what house system one uses..

another interesting detail which i ordinarily don't consider... mercury is in the bounds or terms of saturn, while saturn is in the terms of mercury.. the midheaven is also in the terms of mercury.. if one uses the midheaven as a vocational indicator in its own - this also strengthens the role of mercury in this chart.. the rising degree is in the terms of saturn... it would seem the role of the mercury-saturn 45 in the chart rolls into all this in some way..

i guess i am just rambling at this point! feel free to offer additional astrological insights you migh have off the chart... i am going to share the link with ted as he might enjoy seeing his name highlighted on an astrological forum!

here is a direct link to his substack article from today which i so enjoyed...
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/the-4-t ... papers-for

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I am fond of Jazz. I happened to be born into a home where Miles Davis was a house god LOL

Interesting chart....


Fixed star of Music *Vega at the ecliptic degree of 15 capricorn.
The ascendant of this jazz fellow.
According to Brady Mozart had this fixed star rising at birth.
of a venusian nature.
Brilliance in music.

Venus traditional planet of music is OOB going it's own path.
Jazzy...


Neptune angular crowning the chart at MC.
)Born under an eclipse with Neptune modern ruler of music.

Moon in quadrant 9th house in tropical libra (music) is applying to Jupiter also in libra (schoolarship, teaching)

Jupiter in mutual reception with that OOB Venus in the fortunate 11th (gain)
(Whole sign have that libra stellium in 10th house of career).
That libra stellium in 11th from POF
Ruler of POF JUpiter in quadrant 9th - gains through academics/teaching
in Libra (music).

Life award prize in Jazz 2017
*when primary directed Moon was conjunct
Venus in the fortunate 11th house (awards).
* Primary directed Neptune sextile MC

* Progressed Moon in 11th (rewards).

transit Jupiter in tropical libra over jupiter and stellium,
(Jupiter is distribution lord and LOY)

Profected asc conj Venus for that year.
Releasing the fortunate venus/jupiter mutual reception et.c.

Tropical chart.

thanks stefan

interesting additions and observations! thanks..

how often to do you look at fixed stars?? i don't follow any of them.. i know a few of them by name and approx place - spica i think at about 22 libra, and of course the notorious caput algol around 25 taurus.. i know a few others too, but have never spent any times integrating them into my astro tool box..

James,

I think you had some good points in your post.

About fixed stars.
I tend to use them more and more in recent years.
Sort of icing on the cake. Taking the chart to another level.

Hypothetically would Trump have made it all way to presidency without the Regulus on asc ?
Would Prince Harry released that controversial book if not his Uranus on the Aldebaran/ Antares axis would not be there while transiting Mars did station on Aldebaran ?

Likewise as you mention Algol.
On th chart for the world war II Algol at MC I think.
When Russia invaded Ukraine Moon was at martian star *Antares and node was angular on *Algol.

But there is different methods of using the fixed stars.
There was a time when I discarded the ecliptical measurement of the fixed stars and tried just the co rising and parans while I studied a bit with Ken Bowsers sidereal course.

But I have then returned to use them ecliptically and finding them to work.

Reinhold Ebetin was instrumental in this in a comment in his book on fixed stars. Ebertin the Cosmobiologist who is a very empirically oriented astrologer stated there:

- " Some fixed stars are of a very great declination from the ecliptic. Some practcing Cosmobiologists are of the opinion that fixed stars with large declination, and if more than 23' away from the ecliptic equator, are of no use in practical interpretation. Practice however, does not bear out this opinion. More over, practice shows that this declination does not appear to matter at all"

stefan

thanks for the additional comments and encouragement...

i think this is connected to the many different techniques astrologers use, that other astrologers don't share.... it seems so very subjective to me and although i have heard good arguments for the use of fixed stars, i am not convinced... but i am not one to dismiss any of reinhold ebertins work and i happen to have the book your reference... i suppose it comes down to what one decides to use astrologically that makes the most amount of sense to them... the example of trump and regulus is a good one! i was thinking of how rahu on the ascendant at the time he was first elected... he is born on a full moon and the full moon lands on the same rka axis and in his 10/4 houses... of course eclipse data is important too, lol!! so just what the ''astrology'' is, and how it is explained by astrologers can get very interesting or complicated!! cheers james

Stefan wrote:James,

I think you had some good points in your post.

About fixed stars.
I tend to use them more and more in recent years.
Sort of icing on the cake. Taking the chart to another level.

Hypothetically would Trump have made it all way to presidency without the Regulus on asc ?
Would Prince Harry released that controversial book if not his Uranus on the Aldebaran/ Antares axis would not be there while transiting Mars did station on Aldebaran ?

Likewise as you mention Algol.
On th chart for the world war II Algol at MC I think.
When Russia invaded Ukraine Moon was at martian star *Antares and node was angular on *Algol.

But there is different methods of using the fixed stars.
There was a time when I discarded the ecliptical measurement of the fixed stars and tried just the co rising and parans while I studied a bit with Ken Bowsers sidereal course.

But I have then returned to use them ecliptically and finding them to work.

Reinhold Ebetin was instrumental in this in a comment in his book on fixed stars. Ebertin the Cosmobiologist who is a very empirically oriented astrologer stated there:

- " Some fixed stars are of a very great declination from the ecliptic. Some practcing Cosmobiologists are of the opinion that fixed stars with large declination, and if more than 23' away from the ecliptic equator, are of no use in practical interpretation. Practice however, does not bear out this opinion. More over, practice shows that this declination does not appear to matter at all"

I totally agree. Including fixed stars based just on longitude works fine, IME.

It seems like the ecliptic (the zodiac) is collecting and relaying their influences much the way it does this with the planets.

james_m wrote:stefan

thanks for the additional comments and encouragement...

i think this is connected to the many different techniques astrologers use, that other astrologers don't share.... it seems so very subjective to me and although i have heard good arguments for the use of fixed stars, i am not convinced...

Using fixed stars is hardly more subjective than any other of the well established methods in astrology. And I do find it a bit ironic that, today, most astro-logers are hardly paying any attention to them!

To the ancients, the whole cosmos was astrological in nature. In this view, Man, being the microcosm, would naturally carry all the planets, stars, and (by modern extension) galaxies and superclusters etc in themself.

but i am not one to dismiss any of reinhold ebertins work and i happen to have the book your reference...

I totally agree with you here. Ebertin was just outstanding.

i suppose it comes down to what one decides to use astrologically that makes the most amount of sense to them... the example of trump and regulus is a good one! i was thinking of how rahu on the ascendant at the time he was first elected... he is born on a full moon and the full moon lands on the same rka axis and in his 10/4 houses... of course eclipse data is important too, lol!! so just what the ''astrology'' is, and how it is explained by astrologers can get very interesting or complicated!! cheers james

To me, astrology is the application of ancient Natural Philosophy to make sense of what is happening here on Earth. As above so below.

hi michael

thanks for chiming in.. you say a lot of interesting things and i don't disagree with anything you've said.. in fact, my own view on astrology and life more generally is that it is all very subjective, in spite of the desire of some to make it all as fully objective as possible! astrology is much like art and beauty, which is in the eye of the beholder and different for all of us..

i hope you like irony, lol...

cheers
james