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Monday, January 19, 2015
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Utilizing biography for identifying astrological cycles
Biographical analysis involves looking for regularities in people's lives. It doesn't mean considering each event or development by itself. It means finding a development that is part of a pattern, either between lives (ie. the Saturn Return for different people) or within a single life (ie. Saturn opening square, opposite, closing square, and conjunct its natal place). Having (normally) no astrological biases of his own, the author of a biography is the best source of such regularities. The table of contents can be a goldmine. In Ernest Jones's Life and Work of Sigmund Freud [17] chapter 4 ("The Medical Student [1873-1881]") corresponds to Saturn opening square to opposite the Ascendant. Chapter 10 ("The Neurologist [1883-1897]") corresponds to Saturn conjunct Mercury to the opposition. Chapter 12 ("Early Psychopathology [1890-1897]") corresponds to the opening square to the opposition. All of the above are in "BOOK ONE: The Formative Years and the Great Discoveries [1856-1900]", which corresponds to the period from birth to the end of the Uranus opposite Uranus Midlife Transition, which effectively (as is so often the case) closes with Saturn opposite Saturn at 43-44. "BOOK TWO: Years of Maturity [1901-1919]" takes us from Uranus opposite Uranus to the closing square, and "BOOK THREE: The Last Phase [1919-1939]" takes us back to the conjunction. (It's striking how often in biographies books one, two, and three correspond to phases of the Uranus age cycle.)
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