From: ecsd@tfs.com (Eric C. S. Dynamic)
Subject: The Providence of Astrology
Summary: here we go
Keywords: here we go
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 12:14:44 GMT

Okay guys. Hold on to whatever might blow away. Here are tables extracted
from a permanently unfinished document. I will mail the document itself
to those requesting it. Attributions given here - adjectives and
descriptions - are very simplistic, and don't necessarily reflect my
current usage, and are not to be taken as definitive in any way. They are
merely meant to suggest. The actual depth and richness of all these will
become clearer as I work through analyses.

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Signs (Modus Operandi)
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Ari - Aries
Tau - Taurus
Gem - Gemini
Can - Cancer
Leo - Leo
Vir - Virgo
Lib - Libra
Sco - Scorpio
Sag - Sagittarius
Cap - Capricorn
Aqu - Aquarius
Pis - Pisces

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Houses (In relation to what aspects of the life)
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As - 1st house (Ascendant or Rising Sign). Sense of self.
02 - 2nd house. Possessions; Resources.
03 - 3rd house. Friends; Mind; Communication.
IC - 4th house. Home; Foundations; Family.
05 - 5th house. Play; Children; Creativity and Self-Expression.
06 - 6th house. Work; Service; Health.
Ds - 7th house (Descendant). Relations with others (one-to-one).
08 - 8th house. Sex; Death; Resources of others; Penetration.
09 - 9th house. Education; Philosophy and Religion; Spirituality.
MC - 10th house (Midheaven). Public Image; Career; Business.
11 - 11th house. Groups and collective action.
12 - 12th house. Subconscious; Repressed things; Dreams; Psychic world.

The houses and signs are in one-to-one correspondence, with Aries = 1st
house; e.g. a Taurus tends to amass (something) and the 2nd house relates
to amassing things.

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Planets (The actors)
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Su - Sun, Self (personal conscious)
Mo - Moon, Emotions (personal unconscious)
Me - Mercury, Mind (communication)
Ve - Venus, Feminine principles (beauty, harmony, love, cooperation)
Ma - Mars, Masculine principles (aggression, assertion, competition)
Ju - Jupiter, Expansion (curiosity, generosity, spirituality)
Sa - Saturn, Contraction (discipline, restraint, structure, order)
Ur - Uranus, Invention (originality, freedom, collective conscious)
Ne - Neptune, Intuition (vagueness, deception, collective unconscious)
Pl - Pluto, Will (destruction, regeneration, complete change)

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Asteroids (lesser players)
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Ch - Chiron - "wounded healer"
Ce - Ceres - "mother's blessings"
Pa - Pallas Athena - justice, intelligence, creative arts
Jo - Juno - social form and grace, the proprieties
Vs - Vesta - "timed self-denial"
Py - Psyche - you guessed it.
Er - Eros - passion principle
To - Toro - the bull. power, force
Ll - Lilith - rejection of inequality
Am - Amor - comprehending, deep and loyal friend
Sp - Sappho - lust for immersion in physical pleasure
Di - Diana - protectress out of nature
Hd - Hidalgo - willingness to stand and die for a cause
Pd - Pandora - curiosity
Ik - Icarus - urge to freedom despite risks 
Ua - Urania - experimental intuition (muse of astrology)

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Other points (not bodies, but behave like bodies)
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NN - Moon's North Node (indicating best application of one's efforts)
SN - Moon's South Node (showing innate or inherent knowledge or gifts)
PF - Part of Fortune
PS - Part of Spirit

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Aspects (Relations between the actors)
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01 - Conjunction
12 - Opposition
13 - Trine
14 - Square
15 - Quintile,      25 - Biquintile
16 - Sextile
17 - Septile,27 - BiSeptile,37 - TriSeptile
18 - SemiSquare,    38 - SesquiSquare
19 - Novile, 29 - BiNovile, 49 - TetraNovile
5C - Inconjunct (Quincunx), 1C - SemiSextile

The code for the aspects is:
the second number says how many pieces the Zodiac (360 degrees) is
   divided into (C stands for 12),
the first number says how many of those pieces the aspect contains.

Example, '14': divide zodiac into 4 parts, each with 90 degrees;
we have 1 part, so the aspect is 90 degrees, known as the Square aspect.

Aspects involving 2 indicate stress (12, 14, 18, 38), involving 3 indicate
ease (13), involving 5 indicate vibrant, dynamic energy (15, 25), involving
7 indicate spiritual energy (17, 27, 37), involving 9 involve completion,
end-of-cycle (19, 29, 49), inconjuncts involve strain and adjustment (1C, 5C).
Composite aspects combine flavors (16 - easy, if you attend to it).

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Gee - what does it mean?
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It means you should print this file out, so that when I post chart data
you will not wonder what "Su 13 Mo" means - it means Sun trine Moon.
You will see the archetypes get played out in the analysis. I bend rules
heavily to suit circumstances, but you will see the consistency develop
over time as you read.

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What else is there?
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Lots of things not detailed above - dissociate aspects, fixed stars,
intercepted signs, another few hundred 'parts', another few thousand
asteroids, other sets of aspects, comparative house systems, geocentric
versus heliocentric systems, parallax corrections, altitude corrections,
'harmonics', virtual planets, aspect patterns, methods of analysis,
different uses of horoscopes, relationship charts (synastry, composite
charts), horary astrology (prediction), locational astrology, the meaning
of retrogradation, charts for an event, charts for a location. Beyond this
(Western astrology) there is Chinese astrology, Hindu astrology . . .
Beyond this is all the developmental work being done with it - current-day
exploration of the meaning and use of astrology.

For a pseudo-science, it has a damned large body of work behind it, spanning
thousands of years of accumulated thought and conjecture.