Paris Terror Attacks Abdelhamid Abaaoud +Draco

Here are three charts regarding Paris Terrorist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the planner / organizer.
The second graphic relates to his death and special circumstances.

1. The Terror Attacks of Nov. 13, 2015 Paris, FR @ 21:20 hrs.

2. Abaaoud Killed in Raid - Nov. 18, 2015 @ 04:25 hrs.

3. His natal chart; speculative, given there's no birth time.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud 28 yrs., Paris Attack Planner, terror cell organizer / financier and all-around Python, is no more. Apparently some people object to the moniker = too bad.
Paris Police took him out in a pre-dawn raid Weds. Nov. 18, 2015 @ 4:25 am approx. - per news media.

Attached is the Weds. Raid Event and speculative natal Chart (no time).
The latter natal graphic is not fully delineated - yet.

The heavy presence of *Draco / star Baten Kaitos 17-18 Aries +Sun in both in his natal chart
and Nov. 18th's transiting Uranus in the same degree is aboundingly 'poetic'.
Also note; transiting Saturn 20VI +Denebola from September's Solar Eclipse helped bring about his demise.

*Baten Kaitos 17-18 Aries on natal Sun (tr. Uranus conjuncted his SUN 18 Nov. 2015)
“Draco gives an artistic and emotional but somber nature, a penetrating and analytical mind, much travel and many friends but danger of robbery and of accidental poisoning.
It was said by the Ancients that when a comet was here poison was scattered over the world.
By the Kabalists it is associated with the Hebrew letter Mem and the 13th Tarot Trump "Death." [Robson*, p.43.]

USS Thresher - Neptune +Alfard +Hades interplay

This is one of the more dramatic interplays of a Captain's natal chart and that of his ship (boat).

Some may recall the shocking announcement on national TV April 10, 1963.
the fairly new USS Thresher nuclear submarine, first of a series, sank / imploded at 0918 hours with the loss all 129 hands.

For fifty years the US Navy's Official Board of Inquiry pegged the cause as a frozen compressed air valve which prohibited the sub from blowing it's ballast tanks and surfacing. This turned out not to be the primary cause however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_%28SSN-593%29

August 3, 1961
Here's USS Thresher's Commissioning graphic with aspects, fixed stars and asteroids marked.
There are several more graphics that may assist us in understanding a profound mystery.
What did Lt. Cmdr. John W. Harvey, b. Sept. 4, 1927, Bronx, N.Y., bring to this dramatic event?
By all accounts he was a USN "rising star" with a fine academic record.

And yet, it appears Lt. Cmdr. Harvey had breathtaking personal phantoms. 
If one doesn't deal with their mythic fears in a creative and positive fashion; how are those fears made manifest in the real world?
Can releasing fear empower us to do more; to see further?


All data taken from official US Navy records and Wikipedia.

El Faro - Hybris & King of The Deluge

Thursday Oct. 1^st   2015; El Faro was making it's way through hurricane seas with 30 foot waves crashing over her sides.

The El Faro, a 790 ft. cargo ship launched in 1974, made her last radio call at 7:20 am: "We've lost power & propulsion" 

The ship probably could have made a successful run to Puerto Rico in the teeth of  Hurricane Joaquin had she not lost all power. It was not to be however.

Below are both the El Faro's astro charts; it's launch and sinking.

At inception the new ship was named Puerto Rico. 

It was later changed to El Faro.

1974 Launch Virgo Moon opposes Skat @ 07 Pisces in the sinking chart. 

In ancient times fixed star Skat was known as "the King of the Deluge"                         

Launch Neptune's lord; Jupiter 16AQ conjuncts asteroid Damocles "immanent danger' 

Jupiter's lord Saturn in mutable Gemini is retrograde in the anoretic 29th degree; the situation on October 1, 2015 will be critical.

We see mutable Saturn Rx conjuncts fateful South Node; "point of maximum loss". 

Lastly Saturn +Node conjuncts fixed star Betelgeuse.

 

El Faro Sinking Event 

Taurus Moon conjuncts Caput Algol

Moon's sub-ruler Venus in Leo is squared by Algol - to press on heedlessly.

Venus' lord, Libra Sun conjuncts Mercury Rx in 12th of hidden conditions, breakdowns.

Libra challenged in the 12th house represents balance and it's catastrophic loss.

Launch Neptune conjuncts Saturn in the sinking chart.

This means water - the deluge reclaims goods, valuables, the ship is lost.

Neptune Rx conjuncts fixed star Skat 7 Pisces; "King of the Deluge"

Moon in the 8th house; the crew, e.g. people are the victims.

According to ex-crew members, "Beneath it's top deck, El Faro was a rust bucket".

Perhaps age, rust and a fated 1993, 91' structural expansion contributed to the tragedy.

Ill-timed travel plans went awry. Engines failed. Thirty-three crew lives were lost.

 

In the 1974 Launching chart we are reminded of what Saturn / South Node / *Betelgeuse stands for; treachery to friends, crafty, cunning, harsh control & restriction of information.

[per Robson]. To wit; the El Faro crew members families are being sued to limit claims on the owners, Tote Marine ... see the link below.

 

Interocean Management Corp. was TOTE MARITIME'S original owner. 

See NYS filing:  October 1st, 1975 in NYC [per SEC / NYS records]. 

 

Nasty Legalities abound in our history ...

 

Hybris - "to commit an outrage, a scandal"
Libra - patron sign of Law Courts

On the day of the El Faro Sinking, Oct. 1st 2015, Libra Sun was in the same degree 

as the parent Interocean Management Corp. NYS Filing Oct. 1st 1975.
IMC natal Sun was also conjunct asteroid Hybris 7 Libra.

Oct, 1st Sun / Hybris also conjuncts El Faro's Launch Pluto in Libra (death).

Sinking: Exactly Forty Years Later - almost to the hour.
With Oct. 1, 2015 Solar Return came the full impetus of IMC's Hybris in Libra;
to commit 'a legal outrage' e.g to file suit against the crew's families
to limit liability / damage claims on TOTE Maritime et al.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/01/us/el-faro-lawsuit/

History professor; "American Business Law is legalized savagery"
View the revised El Faro Sinking chart.

 

 

 

 

 

Floyd Ray Cook - a Career Criminal bows out

Can one become addicted to crime?

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There are many forms of addiction.

This past Friday we heard about the manhunt for and the sudden demise of a career criminal -
Floyd 'Ray' Cook

b. April 21, 1953 Marion, KY
d. Oct. 30, 2015

This man had a rap sheet of serious offenses extending 44 years.
Thirty-six of those strife-ridden years were spent behind prison bars.
That's 13,140 days of anger, striving, planning and frustration.

Attached is his natal chart (no time).
Of particular note is Sun conjunct Hades; signifying waste, decay, death.
Taurus Sun lacks positive aspects.
Sun squares N. Node +Damocles
There doesn't seem to be much of an anchor in his life.

Jupiter +Mars +Caput Algol
All three bodies Square Pluto Rx;
a massive drive to spirit people, valuables into the depths, into Dis / the dark Underworld.
Venus, 18 Aries opposes Neptune Rx
This is a most challenging aspect set for any lifetime.
'Addicted' to crime.

Catch & Release -
Amazingly, he was paroled many times, only to press on regardless.
And yet he was never really 'free'.
Like Dillinger he went out in a blaze of glory.

He seems to have been a dark version of this character ...

"So don't double-dog dare me now.
'Cause I might have to call your bluff!"

With apologies to Toby Keith 

Frustration Crashes and Burns at OSU Parade

Some of us can relate to this nightmare.
It comes on like a movie, first the newscast, then one's thoughts and fears arrive.
It's grim reality.

Unlike a bad dream, it's relentless.
And it never goes away.

Saturday October 24, 2015  ...10:31 am ... it's Homecoming at OSU ...

An alleged fatal car driver barrels into the parade crowd at OSU in Stillwater, Oklahoma USA doing 50 mph.
Four are killed and almost fifty people injured by a maniacally frustrated and, perhaps, screaming young woman's automobile who appears to intentionally target humans.

The driver is a frustrated and enraged 25 yr. old female, some seven years after her high school graduation, working a part time job in fast food. There's no career and it looks like her would-be artistic effort has stalled out. A week earlier she had asked her Dad if she could move back home.

Just before the crash her employer sends her home because he thinks she's on drugs.
Now that's torn it. Tears ... Why me!! What to do?
There's no rational thought - only a white-hot rage fueled by gossip and inexplicable betrayal at work.

The lawyer says it could be mental illness, drug tests are pending.

Why? Everyone has their breaking point.
Witness: “She just looked at me and said she was trying to kill herself.
I said, ‘What?’ And she said, ‘I was trying to kill myself,’ and I asked her why and she said, ‘to be free,’” Oglesby said.

Study the two astro charts carefully and realize it could happen to anyone ...
even you.

Yarnell Hill Wildfire - 19 Fatalities

Yarnell Hill, Arizona

June 28, 2013 was a fateful day.
Around 5:36 pm MST nineteen firefighters of Arizona's Granite Mountain Hotshots team were killed when a raging lightning-sparked wildfire racing uphill suddenly overtook their exposed position.
Although personal emergency shelters were deployed many were overcome before they could be used. There were no survivors.
Mistakes were made. Shifting winds, distance and poor communications contributed to their demise.

Here is the astrology chart of the tragedy.
Time per Wiki, news media.

Compare this chart to the 1933 Griffith Park Wildfire when 29-33 workers died while clearing brush in a canyon near Los Angeles, CA.
The fatal inferno was caused by piled debris that caught fire and spread out of control.

Billy The Kid - Research Proves His Real Birth Date

Billy The Kid is another of the American West's original characters, a legend.

After years of presuming Billy The Kid's birthday was 23 November 1859 it turned out this natal data was incorrect.
Thanks to the untiring efforts of author Robert Utley and others; Billy the Kid, aka William Henry McCarty Jr., was actually born 17 September 1859 in Brooklyn, N.Y.  This accurate data was meticulously researched and compiled by comparing census, baptismal & birth records for McCarty and his parents.

Consistent with the oral histories still told in New Mexico Billy's deadly dual nature is reflected by a natal Moon 26 Taurus conjunct fixed star Caput Algol.
McCarty was very smart. He was consistently underestimated by would-be trackers and jailers; escaping to their cost.

What was he like? According to historian Paul Hutton; "Billy wore a sombrero, was well-liked, he could dance, and he was always smiling."
Before he left on business, Sheriff Pat Garrett warned his deputies, "Don't turn your back on Billy." The Kid shot both of them dead and escaped riding a fast horse.
On the night of July 14, 1881 William H. McCarty was shot dead by Pat Garrett. 
In death a legend was born.

Billy standing on the left, in a striped sweater, playing croquet c. 1878.

 

George A. Custer Died for Your Sins June 25-26, 1876

Perhaps there is no more instantly recognizable, controversial and famous American frontier character than George Armstrong Custer. He was, and is still, maddenly enigmatic, a conundrum of contradiction.

You might say Custer's storied death at the Battle of The Little Big Horn was the making of Libby Custer. Likewise, it was wife Elizabeth Custer who largely created Custer's heroic legend; e.g. The Last Stand.

          For decades this legendary image hung in American saloons.

A hero's statue dedicated. Elizabeth Custer seated at Taft's left,1910



 "Yellow Hair" Custer in custom tailored uniform

Lt. Fredrick Benteen during US Civil War

Benteen's natal horoscope. Custer's fiery impulsiveness rubbed his more grounded, and precise, cavalry Captain the wrong way. Custer's Mercury trined Benteen's Taurus Moon. They worked things out.

Here are the Custer's charts.

The couple compared below.

He may have experienced her call-to-duty Saturn as a damper on his expressive Mars. 

There was always his leadership, his career and her alleged emotional frailty to consider even in times of closeness.

With Venus in Aries opposite Venus in Libra one could consider theirs a challenging relationship; the ultimate quest for a balanced relationship. Neither saw him/herself as a complete, independent person. In letters they repeatedly state the other's presence would make him / her whole again. Elizabeth appears to anchor George. Today one might term their pairing as co-dependent.

When she passed on April 4, 1933 Libby Custer had generated quite fortune for herself. 

Protecting his legacy & his reputation earned her over $100,000. 

In todays economy that's a net worth of $1.8 Million.

Gen. George A. Custer Biography

Algol - Bluebeard Comes Up Empty

Colorado's Own Bluebeard Comes Up Empty

On September 29, 2012 at 5:54 pm police in Estes Park, Colorado received a 911 distress call from Harold Henthorn. Somehow his 50 year old second wife had slipped and fell 130 feet to her death. It was the couple's 12th Wedding Anniversary.
There was just one problem. She didn't slip - she was pushed over a high cliff at Rocky Mountain National Park, six miles west of Estes Park, CO.

Husband Harold waited until there was no pulse in his wife's body, only then he called 911.
Over the next three years his story to police investigators changed like the wind. This and other inconsistencies led to his downfall. 

After three years of intensive investigation involving maps, cell phone records, police reports, witness statements, receipts and insurance company documents 59 yr. old Harold Henthorn, the undistraught widower of his mysteriously deceased opthomalogist wife Toni was convicted of her cold-blooded murder (convicted Sept. 21, 2015).

All chart data is based on government records and news reports.
According to Harold's very detailed Federal Arrest Warrant wife Toni was shoved over the cliff at 4:49 pm on the afternoon of 9/29/2012.

The reader will observe the presence of Caput Algol @ 26 Taurus in the two charts.
Algol is found when obsession takes hold of a person, especially in a situation where insurance money is a motive for murder.
During the course of events it was revealed Harold had secretly taken out a $4.7 million life insurance policy on his wife. 

Police have since reopened the case of his first wife's highly suspicious "accidental death" in 1995.
It's doubtful if Harold will ever see Rocky Mountain National Park in the same light again.

Harold Henthorn's birth time is unknown, unverified.

September 13th Eclipse - Denebola and Politicos

September 13, 2015:
The 2nd. Sunday's powerful Solar Eclipse at hyper-critical 20 degrees Virgo has already claimed it's first political victim(s). It bears repeating, this degree is host to Denebola, a potent fixed star in Leo known for reflecting hard-edged criticism. "According to Ptolemy Denebola is of the nature of Saturn and Venus."
"It gives swift judgment, despair, regrets, public disgrace, misfortune from the elements of nature, and happiness turned to anger, and makes its natives noble, daring, self-controlled, generous and busy with other people’s affairs."
Vivian E. Robson.

Congressman John Boehner b. November 17, 1949 with natal Sun @ 25 Scorpio opposite Algol 26 Taurus announced his resignation twelve days after the Sept. 13th Partial Solar Eclipse.
Algol and Venus will often manifest one's inner emotional turmoil in potent ways.
The resignation was a nice way of saying; "Take this job and shove it, I ain't workin' here no more." GOP far right ultra-conservatives had been unrelenting in their criticism of Boehner's political flexibility. In other words, he wasn't Republican enough.

In a different vein, Sept. 11th Texas' ex-Gov. Rick Perry announced his withdrawal from the 2016 Presidential Campaign citing poor finances. At home he remained under indictment on an abuse-of-power charge. His natal ASC +Algol 26 Taurus is a reminder that one must toe the line; state your intent with openness, clarity.

The other US victims will be / are: Arch-Conservative right wing Republicans who, to quote Donald Trump, cannot seem to "get it together to get the job done."

See both charts below:

John Denver - Icarus Falls

With no fewer than seven retrograde planets folk singer / composer John Denver had a challenging horoscope to live up to.

Like in the Greek myth, Denver's Capricorn Sun was conjunct the asteroid 
Icarus @ 9 Cap.53" within minutes of arc. Recall the ancient hero Icarus flew too close to the Sun's rays, his wings of wax and feathers melted and he fell into the sea to drown.
Moreover, Denver's Sun was inconjunct Pluto - death through one's own agency.
Meaning that the singer was made fully aware of the fuel transfer valve's difficult cockpit location and troublesome operation.

Mercury conjunct Pholus;
Both these were inconjunct Jupiter, equating with negative release via air flight and subsequent death.
Pholus is a wise centaur with a big effect. The implication is Denver was vulnerable if he didn't like the advice being given. Twelve days after purchase he decided to fly the aircraft despite his mechanic's very specific warning.

"10/12/1997, after playing a round of golf with his friends near Carmel, California, Denver headed out to fly a new plane that he had just purchased. He was killed when the plane crashed at 5:30 PM in Pacific Grove, California. After investigation, the cause of the plane crash was released in January 1999. Investigators believe that Denver was low on fuel and, unfamiliar with the cockpit of his new plane, lost control. When he was looking for the fuel-tank switch he inadvertently put the plane into a roll and crashed into the Pacific Ocean."

See his natal chart below.

John Lennon - Dark Star

Legends are nice and satisfying. As 'evolved people' they help us to believe in humanity and a better future. However in, the entertainment business a famous figure is often not what he or she may first seem.

Perhaps it comes as no surprise that music legend John Lennon had Uranus (explosive temperament) plus fixed star Algol @ 26 Taurus in his horoscope. For all his gifts Lennon was a troubled man. The why of his complex personality is contained within a demanding natal chart.

A raging *Algol* can be a virtue when trying to reach great heights, in order to survive or she can symbolize extreme inner challenges, obsession. Negatively expressed; Algol can drag one down - hard.
As Algol's handmaiden, natal Venus can act for and against the native's emotions. Like Perseus, one must choose which path to take with self-awareness and care.

In Lennon's chart we see Uranus conjunct Caput Algol square Venus.
His life is a study in contradictions, in extremes.
The rest is history that requires study.

Ghost in The Machine: Payne Stewart's LearJet

9:19 a.m. October 25, 1999 Pro golfer Payne Stewart's chartered LearJet N47BA took off from Orlando, Florida on a one-way flight that ended in a South Dakota field just after 1:00 pm local time. He never made it to Dallas, Texas as planned.
By most accounts the 8 passenger LearJet was a fairly well-maintained aircraft * - yet inexplicably it went down due to a mysterious pressurization fault.

* or was it ...? Before the doomed flight; the jet's cabin pressurization valve had been serviced. See CBS news story below.

When William Lear sold LearJet to Gates Tire Company in 1967 little did he or anyone else forsee what would occur in the future. Did quality control suffer as new aircraft like Stewart's Gates 35 model took to the skies? Why is Algol @ 26 Taurus so often repeated in event charts involving the firm and aircraft operators?

Here is the jet's Airworthiness Test horoscope of April 3, 1976.
Caput Algol is conjunct Moon 27 Taurus - exact.
Algol's ruler, ultra-sensitive Venus is in Pisces; the latter in mutual reception with Jupiter.
Jupiter (releasing) opposes Uranus 00Scorpio; a sudden / public death.

Payne Stewart's natal horoscope Jan. 30, 1957...
Note fixed star Caput Algol's conjunction with the karmic South Node.

Stewart's Takeoff from Orlando at 9:19 am EST (per NTSB records)
Here Caput Algol is in the 6th of danger directly opposite 12th house Mercury 26.59 degrees Scorpio. Here Algol's stern warning; something mechanical is not right, failure looms.

Payne Stewarts jet had past problems

CBS News: The Learjet that carried golfer Payne Stewart to his death last October - probably after losing cabin pressure - had previous problems with its cabin pressure system, maintenance logs show.
   On Feb. 9, 1998, a pilot reported that the plane sometimes would not hold cabin pressure at low altitude, and in July 1999, mechanics again were asked to check the system, according to maintenance reports released Wednesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The logs also showed that a valve had to be replaced following inflight loss of cabin pressure on June 28, 1989.
   The plane Stewart was on departed Orlando, Fla., on Oct. 25, for Dallas. Radio contact was lost with the plane as it passed north of Gainesville, Fla.
The flight continued on autopilot until it ran out of gas and crashed near Aberdeen, S.D. There has been speculation that the cabin pressure system failed, causing the crew and passengers to pass out from loss of oxygen.
The crash destroyed or damaged several parts of the oxygen and pressure systems; some remain missing.
   The NTSB, which continues to investigate the accident, has released, without comment, a series of reports on the crash describing the findings of various teams of analysts.
The plane was operated by Sunjet Aviation Inc., which had done a repurchase inspection on the plane on Feb. 8, 1999. Since then, company records showed there had been a repair on a cabin door, some service was done on emergency air lines, an oxygen bottle line was replaced and a flow valve was cleaned.
   On Oct. 12, two weeks before the crash, a bleed air leak was found in the plane's tail and was repaired by replacing a gasket. Bleed air is drawn from the plane's engines to increase the pressure inside the cabin.
The day before the accident, Sunjet maintenance workers fixed an engine power problem by replacing a fuel flow valve, the report showed. The morning of the crash the plane was flown to Orlando at altitudes of 12,000 feet to 13,000 feet with no pressure problems reported.
   Airplanes are pressurized so that the atmosphere inside never feels higher than about 8,000 feet, even if the aircraft is flying much higher.
The FAA has reported that Stewart's plane climbed as high as 51,000 feet during its flight across the nation's heartland.
The jet flew four hours and 1,400 miles before it crashed in South Dakota.
The new report showed no conversation on the plane's cockpit voice recorder which, though heavily damaged in the crash, saved the final 30 minutes of sound.
That included an altitude warning alarm, which stopped just before the crash as the plane descended, and a high speed alarm which continued until the end of the tape. The cabin altitude warning alarm sounds when pressure drops below the 10,000 foot level.

William P. Lear his horoscope

 

What is Algol? Beheading, Electrocution, Survival

What is the demonic fixed star known as Caput Algol? Also known as Medusa; it's a binary eclipsing star @ 26 deg. Taurus in constellation Gemini.
In ancient myth she was a beautiful temple goddess betrayed, ravished by Poseidon and she has thirsted for revenge ever since.

"The head of Medusa from Greek mythology is represented by the infamous Algol fixed star at 26º Taurus. As part of constellation Perseus, Algol was regarded by the ancients as the most evil star in the heavens, but is its reputation warranted? If Algol was truly so malevolent then we would find it common in serial killers. We just don’t find it there, though it is present in some dictators. But it is true that Algol has a connection with death and pain. The medical term Algology means the study of pain".

Algol is present in the horoscopes of famous people; Princess Diana (Venus), Anne Boleyn (Moon), Jessica Lynch ex-POW (ASC), Elaine Gere a survivor, strangled diva Isadora Duncan (Pluto). It's also present in Stalin's natal chart and the charts of famous generals (Patton +Neptune). This powerful, malevolent fixed star is present when there are executions, beheadings and accidental electrocutions.

John Lennon (Algol conjunct Uranus) was shot in the back. Stephen King (Algol conjunct North Node), master of horror, whose books keep turning into films, nearly died after being run over by a truck, and should have died, but somehow recovered. Heart-throb Johnny Depp (Algol conjunct Venus), had to grapple with a headless fiend in Sleepy Hollow, and found out who Jack the Ripper was, in From Hell.

"This star seems to contain immense female passion and power" wrote Bernadette Brady. She added:
"Algol represents a strong consuming passion that may devour you with anger and rage. If one can contain an unconscious compulsion to take revenge, and from that passion return a more productive outcome, Algol is one of the most powerful stars in the sky. Whatever planet it affects in your chart will be charged with strong, intense sexual energy that has the potential to be wonderful, of if repressed, to lead to rage or violence."

Below is the horoscope for electrocuted guitarist Les Harvey.
Natal Scorpio Moon opposes transiting Algol 26Tau.

Below is the birth chart of Princess Diana - Venus +Algol.

Nicole Brown's Sun @ 27 Taurus was conjunct Algol with Jupiter 27 Scorpio opposing.

5th house Mars 22 Cancer trines Jupiter; big love.

Explosive History - Disaster Events

December 7, 1941 is still a red letter day for most Americans.

Shortly after 7:55 am on a calm Sunday in Hawaii, while the USS Arizona still rode quietly at anchor an armored Japanese bomb crashed through the forward deck causing a massive explosion. Tons of high explosive powder blew the bottom out of the recently arrived 37,000 ton battleship. US armed forces were under attack.
Why did the ship sink so fast taking 1,177 crew with her?
The answer is written within the October 17, 1916 USS Arizona Commissioning horoscope.

Mars is 26 Scorpio in the 12th house (hidden enemies) opposing the malevolent fixed star *Caput Algol* @ 26 degrees Taurus in the military 6th house.
Algol / Medusa symbolizes twisted rage, compulsion, demonic mutation, death through great destruction.

12.07.1941 Twenty-five years later, Saturn (the Grim Reaper) and Uranus (explosions) had advanced by degree and conjoined the 1916 Algol / Medusa position while opposing natal Mars (war). All three "star" points came together in one cataclysmic event that rocked a nation and ushered in WWII for millions.

Medusa's dual blood is transforming. One type is destruction, the other is healing.

Astrocartography for USS Arizona BB-39

Why alternative astrology - Algol

Why this blog?

    After practicing traditional astrology for 35 years I recently joined an astrology forum. Its possible to cast a 12 Noon horoscope without having a birth time. I was told I was practicing "non-horoscopic astrology". This pronounced antipathy towards any other format other than the hellenic, degree wheel based on one's exact time of birth seems excessive and defeatist.
Its as if one may not deduce any client personality characteristics by using longitude and aspects; by the birthday itself. I was also blithely informed, "Without an ascendant there is no horoscope". This summary judgment makes no sense.
   Many people do not know their time of birth. Even more have incorrect time(s) listed on birth certificates. Since the 18th century astrologers have been using 12:00 Noon horoscopes as a viable and workable alternative.
If the moon is at a critical degree, say the 29th, and is about to change to the next sign I'll admit a birth time could be an important asset when looking at emotional motive.
    More to the point; I've found outer planets, signs, degrees and their aspects tell us much more than first believed.
In particular, I like to focus on fixed stars when conjunct a planet. The presence of Caput Algol (Medusa) at 26 Taurus impacting any planet is of major importance when looking at death through dark & unpleasant circumstances, like murder or disaster. With Venus as Algol's sub-ruler we obtain added information - re. how people love and are loved.

Late August 2015; the 26th at 6:45 am EDT.
It was a senseless, brutal gun crime, the deaths of two cheery news staffers from WDBJ TV in Roanoke, VA.  It was an ugly event of major import, one where the identified perpetrator and ex-coworker, Vester Flanagan, (b. October 8, 1973 Oakland, CA) has no recorded birth time (yet).

Here are two horoscopes; the first is his natal and the second cast for Flanagan's First Day at WDBJ.

Wounded in Love -
Of huge importance is his natal Venus 29 Scorpio and the positions of fixed star
*Caput Algol* @ 26 degrees TAURUS in both charts. Flanagan's natal Venus opposes Algol while being in the critical anaretic degree; about to change, always restless.