Notebook, May 31, 2010

Yesterday, planning a horoscope discussion, I projected the highest feasibility for a lady’s retirement; I saw it coming: second Saturn-return, very strong measurements involving the Midheaven, and Pluto=Ascendant.

Approaching this with the client, I said, “The suggestion here in the horoscope is for retirement, for major change of professional application, major new perspective for the future. --What do you have planned now for this period a year-and-a-half from now?”

In other words, your client senses it is going to happen; your client surely is planning for it. --Might it be that it has indeed already happened? How does one see oneself in that future time?

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Theories have been presented that there is no separation between past and future, that all-time already exists, and that our concept of duration is only a clarification of focus, gradated progressively away from the most clear central point called the present. Mind-twisting hypotheses using the theory of relativity can logically prove a changing of subjective time sense when we are taken out of our normal objective world. Precognition in dreams constantly defies a time barrier and assimilates a future condition.

There’s a difference between “to project” and “to predict”. --To project is to ride with the inexorable flow, out of the past portion of time into the future portion; but to predict is to spring from one moment in the flow to another yet to come. The arched spring ignores the intermediate flow and seems to introduce potential error by bridging the causal developmental relationships yet to be accumulated.

For example: a businessman can project his rise in his company during the next two years. He projects his past performance into the future; he rides his time flow within his development space. His projection carries with it an expectation (assumption) of performance that has already been established behind him in time. The projection would be “If I keep going at this rate, I should be regional manager in two years.”

Now, a prediction could be made through astrology that he will not be with the company in two years, that he will not last! For reasons suggested in the horoscope, his time with the company would come to a halt. A new time-construct would begin with another company. The prediction, defying the projection, would consequently appear improbable, even absurd. --But is the aberrant prediction capturing an event that has already happened?

The distinction between projection and prediction is very subtle. A wall is erected against the unexpected, the occurrence not obviously programmed into the integral order of the past. --Rarely can an astrologer make a reliable prediction without seeing it as a projection of native potentials and the horoscope and real-life past. He works with and from the beginning of time, the birth moment. The flow of time for the astrologer neither stops nor begins with the present.

The Expanded Present the focal moment of the present has no duration, no measurable existence. It is impossible to postulate or prove a separate division between future and present, between apex and pyramid. The past is sure: it defines flow and promises a future. To stabilize ourselves existentially, we construct a present. We expand the so-called present backward into past time and forward into future time to give meaning to endeavor.

The housewife justifies her cooking early in the morning for a party that night. For her, the party later begins with the preparations now. --A businessman can justify his work by his plans for retirement security. For him, the accumulated benefits later begin with the preparation earlier.

Astrologers expand the present. We go back as far as possible: to the moment of birth. We work with the client’s own expanded present. We gather information for our study of life development. We measure capabilities and effectiveness of will. We participate in time and give meaning to a strategically expanded sense of the present.

We project within an arc of time, and that arc includes a future that probably has already happened. --Is creative visualization revelatory and even causal as well?

I>Next Update: July 30, 2010

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March 31, 2010: Things to Teach Yourself
February 28, 2010: Century Retrospective
December 31, 2009: Pluto as an Adverb
October 31, 2009: It's just a Matter of Time
September 30, 2009: Guidelines for Consultation Structure
July 31, 2009: Doubt giving way to Vision
June 30, 2009: Astrology's Adaptations
May 31, 2009: Hearing the Melody
April 30, 2009: What Can be; not what is!
March 31, 2009: How're you doing, in Astrology?
February 28, 2009: Too Much Baggage?
December 31, 2008: Use the Essay Resources Creatively
November 30, 2008: The Danger of being caught by SWAT
October 31, 2008: Supporting and Inspiring our Young
August 31, 2008: A Cosmic Waste
July 31, 2008: How the Horoscope seems to weaken
June 30, 2008: Palming a Card for Confidence!
May 31, 2008: Access notes for the Sexual Profile
April 30, 2008: Facts about Fine Feelings
March 31, 2008: Managing the Existential
December 31, 2007: Managing the Spirit - moving from idealization to strength
November 30, 2007: The Energy of Needs
October 31, 2007: The Dignity of Sagittarius
September 30, 2007: The Simple and the Good
August 31, 2007: Astrological Theory, Astrological Truth
July 31, 2007: Corollary Thinking
June 30, 2007: Measurements that just go by!
May 31, 2007: Marriage-Divorce Bromides
April 30, 2007: Astrologer Self-Assurance supports Client Confidence
March 31, 2007: Astrology: Good Guys and Bad guys?
February 28, 2007: Some Humanistic Measurements for the thinking Astrologer
January 31, 2007: How do you tell a good Astrologer?
December 31, 2006: New Year's Wishes for the Forum
November 30, 2006: Pre-Consultation Image-Making
October 31, 2006: How we progressively do more than collect Data in Astrology
September 30, 2006: Connecting the Dots! (repeated for its importance)
August 31, 2006: Connecting the Dots!
July 31, 2006: Enforcing Efficiency with Horoscope Preparation
June 30, 2006: The Power of Simplification
May 30, 2006: 'Didn't Happen' doesn't mean 'It won't!'
April 30, 2006: Our Vulnerability to the Negative
March 31, 2006: Our Frame of Mind
February 28, 2006: Articulating Element Imbalance
January 30, 2006: Learn to count Projections in a Flash
December 30, 2005: How Are You Doing, in Astrology?
November 30, 2005: The Measure of Confidence
October 30, 2005: Get moving! Take Action!
June 30, 2005: The Anxiety of Separation, Disapproval, and Threat
May 31, 2005: Show your Grammar Grade
April 30, 2005: Melody and Message
March 31, 2005: ZZzzzp. There it is! Now What?
February 28, 2005: Whose Kingdom Comes?
January 31, 2005: Take Away the Measurements, and What's Left?
December 31, 2004: How're You Doing, in Astrology?
November 30, 2004: Believing is Seeing?
October 31, 2004: Rulership over Tenancy
September 30, 2004: Reading and Thinking
August 31, 2004: Learning Beyond Descriptions
July 31, 2004: Awareness of LEVEL and Fulfillment of Astrological Potentials
June 30, 2004: Finding the Statue Within
May 31, 2004: Working with Probabilities
April 28, 2004: How Organized is your Horoscope Preparation?
March 31, 2004: The Impediment of Jargon
February 27, 2004: Better Orientation for Interpretation
January 30, 2004: Inviting Inspiration into Analysis
January 2, 2004: You Are What You Do!
November 30, 2003: Using the Essay Resources Creatively
October 30, 2003: The Importance of Context
September 30, 2003: Therapy-Reading Study Recommendations
August 30, 2003: Keeping Time in Memory
July 29, 2003: Century Retrospective
June 30, 2003: Resistance to Change
May 31, 2003: The Value of Events
May 1, 2003: The Consultation Horoscope
April 1, 2003: Putting the Horoscope into your Body
February 26, 2003: Measurements for the Modern Astrologer
January 29, 2003: How's Your Aura?
December 30, 2002: Knowledge is Separate from Talent
November 29, 2002: Physical Appearance
October 29, 2002: Emotional Responses Out of the Way
August 29, 2002: Development Scenario over Eventology
July 30, 2002: Arcing the Quindecile --New Research!!
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April 29, 2002: The Dispersion of Primary Freudian Concepts
March 30, 2002: Getting it All together
February 28, 2002: Alan Leo's Planet Profiles
February 1, 2002: Vocational Orientation-Reminders
December 31, 2001: Moon-Marriage Orientation
November 30, 2001: Neptune and Suppression
October 29, 2001: Mundane Overview: Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, U.S.
October 1, 2001: Mundane Considerations
August 31, 2001: The Values of Bombs Going Off
July 30, 2001: Therapeutic Metaphor
June 30, 2001: Random Insights
May 30, 2001: Subtext Use for Image Impact
April 30, 2001: Opening Up for Inspiration
March 30, 2001: Tracking the Sureness of Projections
February 20, 2001: Development Scenario
January 30, 2001: Thoughts on Depression
December 30, 2000: What to Expect from a Consultation
November 30, 2000: Therapeutic Images
October 30, 2000: Horoscopes with Minimal Developmental Tension
September 30, 2000: Astrology and Aging
April 31, 2000: Creativity and Aesthetics
March 31, 2000: Creativity and Aesthetics
February 29, 2000: Negation/Denial, Tension/Motivation
January 30, 2000: Brush Strokes for the Portrait!
December 30, 1999: Orientation Guidelines for Vocational Analysis
November 30, 1999: Considerations about Orb
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September 25, 1999: Body Shifts
August 21, 1999: Remembrance of Things Past
August 1, 1999: Consultation Glimpses
July 15, 1999: Neptune Eye Flutter and Saturn Ring Finger