Turquoise is a most efficient healer, providing solace for the spirit and well being for the body. Turquoise is a protective stone and has been used for amulets since time immemorial. It is believed to change color to warn the danger of infidelity. The turquoise is a symbol of the blue of the sea and the sky. It has been held as a most sacred stone by ancient and contemporary cultures that are mystically and spiritually inclined. This stone has the ability to absorb negative feelings that would come to the wearer. Sometimes it cracks in the service of protection and sacrifice. It promotes spiritual attainment and enhances communication with the physical and spiritual worlds. Placed on the third eye*, it enhances intuition and meditation. It dispels negative energies and clears electromagnetic smog*, providing protection against pollutants.
Psychologically, turquoise is a strengthening stone. It dissolves a martyred attitude or self-sabotage. Mentally Turquoise instils inner calm while remaining alert and aids creative expression. Emotionally Turquoise stabilizes mood swings and brings inner calm.
Physically Turquoise is an excellent stone for exhaustion, depression, or panic attacks. One of its protective functions is against outside influences or pollutants in the atmosphere. It unites the earth and the sky bringing together male and female energies together.
Healing- It strengthens the meridians of the body and the subtle energy fields. It enhances physical and psychic immune systems and regenerates tissue, supports the assimilation of nutrients. It reduces excess acidity and benefits rheumatism and the stomach.
Astrologically it represents planet Jupiter and is known to reduce the malefic effect of Jupiter and helps to enhance love and relationship between relations. It increases the beneficiary aspect of Venus and enlightens loving relation.
Astrologically Tiger’s Eye is very much beneficial for the sun sign Sagittarius. It helps to enhance Jupiter and brings mental peace in a person. Tiger’s Eye is a stone of remarkable mental peace and improves depression and panicky situation in a person.
As we are reminded by US President, Barack Obama, on the opening credits of TV’s Have I Got News For You there are plenty of American politicians who fancy themselves at basketball. There are very few, however who achieve success in both careers. One such was Bill Bradley, a US Senator who earned an Olympic Gold medal and had once been the highest-paid basketball player in the world.
For someone who reached the very top in his career you would expect a strong 10th house and Bradley has a very powerful Sun / Jupiter / Pluto conjunction in Leo there. Jupiter is the principle of expansion and always brings great reward but it seems to have a particular resonance with basketball players.
Capricorn Research’s Jupiter / Saturn index has basketball players in 5th place with the 2nd highest Jupiter score of 202% of the expected figure. The question as to why Jupiter should be so prominent could be answered by the sheer size of most players, the planet’s energy operating through an expanded physicality. The other extraordinary score is that of the Sun / Pluto conjunction at 171% which could account for the explosive turn of pace that basketball players have.
Bradley has both with the Sun and the square aspect between them and a Taurean Mars emphasises the sporting connection. He was also 6 ft 5in tall.
The Moon in Gemini certainly helps with speed of movement and dexterity but its conjunction with Saturn gave him great focus and the ability to keep going aided by the tremendous stamina of a Sun / Pluto in Leo.
Pluto was conjunct his Venus when he earned a gold medal as a member of the 1964 Olympic basketball team and was the NCAA Player of the Year in 1965.
It was during his professional basketball career that Bradley became interested in tax reform stemming from his own experience. When he had reached the six-figure income mark as a sports star, he found that he was a depreciable asset, and in his own typical fashion, began to study heavy economic tomes to explain his position.
Bradley married Ernestine Schlant, a German-born professor of comparative literature, in 1974 when Pluto was appropriately conjunct his Libra Ascendant.
Bill Bradley retired from basketball in 1977 but this wasn’t the end of his career. With typical Sun / Pluto reinvention he went straight into politics and was elected to the Senate at the end of 1978 with Jupiter returning to its prominent natal place conjunct his Sun in the 10th house of career.
As a politician, he put tax reform on the national agenda and his greatest achievement was the 1986 overhaul of the federal tax code, which reduced the tax rate schedule to just two brackets, 15 percent and 28 percent, and eliminated many kinds of deductions. This peak of his political career was reached when Pluto transited square to his Sun.
Bill Bradley’s Sun / Jupiter / Pluto conjunction showed that he was as adept at closing tax loops as he was at filling basketball hoops.