The Most Charming Sign of the Zodiac is . . .

Posted on August 16, 2011 by ohioastrology

Charm is defined in Dictionary.com as “a power of pleasing or attracting.”

In the horoscope, the first house, ruled by Aries, represents SELF. The opposite 7th house, ruled by Libra, represents OTHERS.

Libra is about OTHERS and is the sign of partnership. To see and understand itself, Libra reflects off of others. We all do this and the Libra in our chart shows where we do this. The Libra in our chart is where we use others as our mirror of reflection.

Those with sun in Libra are constantly seeking partnership for that reflection of self. To attract others and be a partner, one needs a strategy, a skill that makes this possible. And what is that skill?

CHARM.

You attract more bees with honey than with vinegar, as it’s said.

Did you know that there is a holiday called Sweetest Day? My grandma did and she sent me a card every year.

Sweetest Day, according to Wikipedia, is celebrated mostly in the Great Lakes Region and was developed by Cleveland confectioners to promote the sales of sweets. The ostensible goal of Sweetest Day is to remember those who have shown us kindness.

Sweetest Day is the third Saturday of October – this year October 15. That day falls in the sign of Libra.

Libra is both sweet and charming. Libra is the sign most likely to send you a flower just “because.”

Libra is ruled by the Scales. Scales are hardly charming. Scales represent balance and the principle that every action has an opposite and equal reaction. That’s how it’s seen in the physical world. In the spiritual world it’s called karma.

Partnering is a balancing act between you and the other. Libra is constantly adjusting to the needs of the partner and often you find Libra changing identity accordingly.

Those with sun in Libra do have their own identities. And because they are adjusting to you, they want you to adjust in return. It can sometimes seem a “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” type of scenario. Yet Libra doesn’t do this for calculating reasons; it’s simply part of partnership.

If you meet a Libra, ask him/her about the beauty in his/her life. Libra needs beauty more than other signs. Dig deep and you’ll find your Libra creates something of beauty in life – wonderful meals, beautiful poetry, pleasing music, serene paintings .  . .

The most charming sign of the zodiac for me is Libra.

Beware the Libras – they will hook you with charm. Who can resist charm?

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The Hypochondriac of the Zodiac is . . .

Posted on August 15, 2011 by ohioastrology

Virgo.

Let other astrologers disagree with me and tell me why. I find Virgo sun, Virgo moon or people with packed 6th houses (the house of health and work ruled by Virgo) to be those most likely to be labeled “hypochondriac” by others.

Hypochondria is excessive worry or focus about illness. Don’t forget that hypochondriacs do get sick but often don’t get the comfort they want because in between sickness they talk so much about sickness.

Here’s what I think happens with what is called hypochondria.

Every day we wake as a different person and have a multitude of sensations. Maybe today I’m happy, tomorrow I’m grouchy and another day my neck is a bit stiff because I fell asleep on the couch watching TV.

The hypochondriac, I believe, tries to find a REASON for each day’s changes. On happy day, you hear the person slept well. On grouchy day you hear about last night’s chili and subsequent gas that kept him/her up all night. On stiff neck day you hear about the perils of sleeping on a couch, the types of beds made now and throughout history and why you should sleep on a firm mattress.

Virgo is known for attention to detail and discrimination. Its opposite sign, Pisces, is diffuse and feeling.

Pisces wakes up happy, makes breakfast and writes some poetry. Virgo wakes up happy and explains the benefits of vitamins and how they make you sleep well and wake up happy.

Now for a demonstration –

Pisces and Virgo are eating ice cream. Here’s the conversation:

Pisces: Hmm! This tastes so good!

Virgo: It could use a little more sugar. But that’s okay because sugar is so bad for you. In fact ice cream, which is made of milk, is 50% sugar and fat. It’s proven that humans shouldn’t eat dairy products and that with age we become lactose intolerant. I’ll just live with the stomach pains today. I love ice cream and skipped lunch so I don’t mind the extra calories. I’ll just have a salad tomorrow to get some vitamins. I’ll probably make it myself; I don’t trust restaurants because you really have to wash lettuce to make sure it doesn’t have e Coli.

Understand?

Is Virgo truly enjoying that ice cream? I’ll never know.

Virgo is creating detailed analysis between itself and the sensation. That in-between moment is winged-footed Mercury running around the Virgo’s head. Each sensation is interpreted and explained. We all do it. Virgo just does it more and tells you about it.

For most of the 1960s, Uranus and Pluto were conjunct in Virgo. The generation born under this aspect will experience enlightenment and transformation through health and work issues – Virgo stuff.

This generation is now in its 40s and 50s, the prime of life. Since our world is run by people in the prime of their lives, I believe these trends are a result of the generation born with Uranus/Pluto conjunction in Virgo: 

  • Green movement
  • Organic farming
  • Worry about germs
  • Increase in use of pharmaceuticals
  • Wellness programs
  • Calorie counting
  • Diets, including fad diets

While these are important and positive trends, I sometimes feel like a pariah when I’m sick. Have you gone to work lately with a cold? It’s “you’ve got cooties” all over again, this time in the workplace instead of elementary school.

I still wonder how this generation has sex as the fear of germs is so prominent. What’s germier than sex? Maybe that’s why Virgo is a virgin . . .

I suppose the moral of the story is this: be kind to your hypochondriacs. They are the second hand on the clock loudly ticking every sensation. At the same time, they are cleaning up the planet.

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Barack Obama – Solar Return 2011-2012

Posted on August 14, 2011 by ohioastrology

Each year the sun returns to the sign and degree of your birth (such as 12 degrees of Leo). That is called your solar return. It’s better known as your birthday.

Barack Obama’s solar return this year (in Washington, DC) was 3 am on August 5.

Casting a chart each year for the exact time the sun returns to its natal placement is called a solar return chart and it describes themes for the coming year. Since we have Obama’s time of birth, I can cast the solar return. I don’t know where he was on his birthday, so I cast it for Washington, DC.

Themes of the year:

  • The solar return sun is in the 2nd house of money conjunct Venus and the solar return moon in Libra is in the 5th house of romance & children. Obama will be spending money on family this year, possibly lots of money. Leo and Libra like nice things.
  • Solar return Mars in Cancer in the 12th house suggest energy directed toward family. In the 12th house, it indicates something hidden.  I’m wondering if the Barack’s are planning another child.
  • Solar return Uranus in Aries in the 10th indicates impulsive acts in the career or public eye. Obama may be venting some anger publicly.
  • Solar return Pluto in Capricorn in the 7th indicates some very difficult relationships involving control. Flare-ups occur in January.
  • Solar return Neptune in Pisces in the 9th indicates interest in spirituality and some impressionability regarding beliefs. There may be some travel to a spiritual place or place that provides a blissful feeling from the past.
  • Jupiter transiting 3rd house and solar return Mercury in 3rd house indicate clear, practical communication. No time for poetry. Talking more in “facts.”
  • Solar return Saturn in the 4th suggests problems at home with relationship. Maybe that’s what the spending on family is about.
  • Solar return Jupiter in the 11th is about sharing money/assets with a  group

The grand cross occurring right now with Pluto (Capricorn), Mars (Cancer), Saturn (Libra) and Uranus (Aries) is affecting us all. This is a cardinal cross that creates relationship conflicts between authority, family, you and me. It’s your inner and outer world and the balance between the two.

Obama, like everyone else on this planet, is trying to balance personal and family life. I have an image of him buying a vacation hideaway.

Leo Obama loves attention. But maybe his family doesn’t care for the spotlight as much.

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The Most Intelligent Sign of the Zodiac is . . .

Posted on August 14, 2011 by ohioastrology

When I was young and someone appeared to be “the opposite of smart,” my mother and grandmother would say, “S/he wasn’t in line when God handed out the brains.”

Brains, then, were a quantifiable commodity, like sugar.

Human senses/traits we quantify:

  • Intelligence
  • Eyesight
  • Hearing
  • Taste (I think)

Human senses/traits we don’t quantify:

  • Smell
  • Touch
  • All other personality traits such as courage, honor, weakness, etc.

So when did we decide that intelligence was quantifiable and courage was not?

When I first participated in a role-playing game, I was surprised to learn that “role playing” wasn’t like acting but was actually about quantifiable traits. In the role playing game I was exposed to, you rolled the dice and gained “quantities” of anything from intelligence to courage.

The Myers-Briggs Personality Assessment attempts to quantify personality traits such as support, conformity, recognition, independence, benevolence and leadership.

No trait appears as quantifiable in tests as intelligence.

Like beauty or stubbornness, I see intelligence as a personality trait. Intelligence, like any other trait, provides us defense, comfort and safety. Or it doesn’t and we choose the opposite of intelligence for that same reason – defense, comfort and safety.

To me, intelligence has two forms:

  • Analytical intelligence – this is the one measured by the IQ test and relates to cognitive ability
  • Perception – this is recognizing and understanding the emotional and physical world as it is

Sheldon Cooper, one of the main characters on The Big Bang Theory, has high doses of analytical intelligence (something like an IQ of 185, if I recall). Yet he can’t tell if someone around him is angry and that the anger relates to a nasty comment that he made.

Sheldon Cooper is analytical but not perceptive. His intelligence is a defense against the emotional world around him. His intelligence is so strong that it forms a shield. Yet he sees himself as working toward helping that mankind, the very mankind he wants nothing to do with.

The signs I see most intelligent in terms of analytical and perceptive intelligence are:

Analytical – Aquarius

Perception – Scorpio

Scorpio, to me, is the most difficult sign to fool. They see your every motivation regardless of what you say, what degrees you have and what others say.

With that said, every sign is intelligent is some way, to me.

Fire signs (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) have intuitive intelligence. They see the possibilities and take the risks. Have you seen some product or service that’s made a bazillion dollars and think, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Maybe you did even think of that. It’s the fire signs or the fire in your chart that drives you to make the bazillion dollars, to convince others it can make a bazillion dollars.

Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) have practical intelligence, from balancing the checkbook to solving problems in the workplace. The Sheldon Coopers of the world don’t do well in the workplace because you have to solve a problem now that isn’t perfect or ideal, but makes money.

Air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) have idealistic, analytical intelligence. These signs live in the world of ideas and are associated with socializing. These signs prefer ideas to emotions and love any kind of categorization. Socializing provides stimulation of ideas.

Water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) have perceptive intelligence. They are the ones who understand your motivation and understand how you feel. In Chinese astrology, water is associated with intelligence. Water signs are connected to others and what is the world but others? The word “genius” in the West brings up images of Albert Einstein who was a Pisces.

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Michele Bachmann – Do Not Underestimate

Posted on August 10, 2011 by ohioastrology

Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Rep and 2010 Republican Presidential Candidate, has crazy eyes. You would too if Uranus was honing in on your natal Aries sun and your moon was in Aquarius. That’s a lot of electricity.

Bachmann’s sun is in impulsive Aries and moon in electric but aloof Aquarius. Aquarius has a kind of nervous energy because the energy moves much more quickly than the pace of the earth. Earth time is too slow for Aquarius.

Image of Bachmann for you –

You are on the highway in the left lane doing a nice 75 mph in a 65 mph zone. A car zooms up behind you, tails you, weaves back and forth just so you know how slow you are going and fairly pushes you into the middle lane. You think you’re going fast – ha!

You might resist a little, if you’re not a fixed sign, or resist a lot if you’re a Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius. But sometimes you just move into the middle lane because, frankly, it’s too early in the morning for such a show down and you haven’t had enough coffee to really start your first fight of the day. You’ll pick your battles at work and put the rush-hour battle aside.

Bachmann is tailing you.

Mars in Capricorn says she will make you move out of the way. So just go, if you know what’s good for you – even if you’re a fixed sign. Fixed signs have fortitude and determination, but Bachmann is like a high-pitched note that just makes you want to relent quickly.

Bachmann has a grand cardinal cross with Sun/mercury in Aries, Uranus in Cancer, Neptune in Libra and Mars in Capricorn. Cardinal signs are the bossy signs. Do this, go here, get mommy a glass of water, that kind of stuff.

Currently Pluto is transiting Capricorn, Uranus Aries, Saturn Libra and Mars will be in Cancer. That’s a grand cross that will activate Bachmann’s natal grand cross. Whether she runs for President of the United States, the PTA or her local knitting group, Bachmann will be encountering relationship issues.

Bachmann also has a grand fire trine (almost) with Sun/mercury in Aries, Pluto/Jupiter in Leo and Saturn in Sagittarius.

Whew! I haven’t seen this much energy since looking at John Boehner’s chart. If those two were to ever join forces, we’d all be driving in the slow lane.

I haven’t followed the Bachmann story much. What I see in the chart is someone who should not be underestimated. Pluto in Capricorn will be on that Mars, so Bachmann will do just about anything to fulfill her ambitions. This could get very, very nasty.

She could easily rule a Latin or South American country – those countries love fire signs and also allow women to become president.

Maybe this is the woman that will finally bust through the glass ceiling of the US Presidency. Rather than feeling cuts from the broken, flying glass, Bachmann will probably find the sound of cracking glass exhilarating and the cuts on her hands a mark of achievement.

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If You Want to Rule a Latin/South American Country, What Sign Should You Be?

Posted on August 9, 2011 by ohioastrology

Leo.

If you’re not a Leo, you have a chance if you’re one of the other two fire signs – Aries or Sagittarius.

In other words, you’d better have an extroverted, confident, ebullient, gregarious personality if you want to rule a Latin/South American country. Ostentatiousness is accepted and some fluffing of the feathers encouraged.

Earth signs need not apply.

Here’s the current lineup:

Like the United States, Latin/South America likes fixed signs (Leo, Aquarius, Taurus and Scorpio). Almost half of the current Latin/South American rulers are fixed.

Fixed signs have intensity, forbearance and determination. It seems appropriate that anyone wanting to rule any country in this world have determination and force of personality. The challenges are many so that mutable signs will be off onto something more fun and cardinal signs just get too frustrated.

The two greatest Latin/South American adversaries to the United States are Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Fidel Castro of Cuba. Both are Leos, the great centers-of-attention. Chavez even goes on TV every Sunday and talks for hours (or used to). Both bring the pride of Leo to the fore to thumb their noses at the US.

Hopefully Fidel and Hugo are thumbing their noses at being dominated by the US for the good of their people. I know Fidel said goodbye to the US only to say hello to the former Soviet Union. From the bed of one abusive lover to the arms of another abusive lover . . .

I fully support national self-determination and don’t like that wealthy countries are forcing less-developed countries to sell their natural resources in order to stay solvent. It does take strength to say “no” to the pressures of the developed countries who sometimes even invade your country if you don’t sell them what they want at the price they want to pay.

So, if you want to rule a Latin or South American country you need to be:

  • Strong
  • Expressive
  • Confident

Leos also love their hair so nice hair should help.

If you’re not a Leo, be sure to act like one.

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The Most Beautiful Sign of the Zodiac is . . .

Posted on August 7, 2011 by ohioastrology

Wait, wait. How can beauty be described in the horoscope when the horoscope is about personality?

Many, many moons back while in Taiwan I studied Chinese Ba Zi (Eight Characters) which is a shortened version of the Chinese astrology Zi Wei Dou Shu.

My teacher showed me her eight characters and said how a specific combination made others see her as “beautiful.” That was the first time I considered beauty in the horoscope. Like intelligence, I saw it as something handed out at birth in a certain amount, not a quality.

I see beauty in the horoscope under two types: classical and ethereal.

Classical Beauty

I see classical beauty as falling under the sign of Aquarius. The late Linda Goodman saw Aquarius as the most beautiful sign and I see her point. When Aquarius is beautiful, it is the classical, evenly aligned beauty of perfection.

Aquarius, to me, is the sign of the “perfect universe,” or utopian vision. The beauty of Aquarius seems to fall into this perfection that the universe can create, albeit randomly.

Beauty is also in the realm of Libra which is a sign I see as loving beauty itself. Libra needs beauty to survive where others need food and air.

While Libra may not be classically beautiful, pure Libra carries a charm that always emanates as beauty. Libra knows how to enhance whatever physical form was provided and add beauty in the way we take a plain tree and turn it into a beautiful Christmas tree.

Ethereal Beauty

Ethereal beauty to me is the type that is not about physical features. It is the essence of both beauty and otherworldliness. I see that type of beauty represented by the planet Neptune (which rules the sign of Pisces).

Today’s age of information overload produces many, many beauties. I’ll have to go back to the 1960’s when certain women, such as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, stood out as being the beauties of their time.

Marilyn Monroe had sun in Gemini, moon in Aquarius opposite Neptune in Leo. Elizabeth Taylor was sun in Pisces, moon in Scorpio with Neptune opposite the sun.

Both women represented more than their beauty – they represented an ethereal femininity, one without menstrual cramps, motherly cookie baking or political feminism.

Magazines like Vogue find cover models that aren’t classically beautiful but have unique (Aquarius) features that make them ethereally beautiful. Vogue does not sell beauty, it sells an image. That’s why it’s so full of beautiful photographs (Neptune) that project feelings of beauty.

Ethereal beauty is like a mythical image of a faraway wonderland. It must have been difficult for someone like Elizabeth Taylor to carry such a mythical beauty. Maybe that’s why she had so many husbands. Her beauty was so far beyond an earthly, day-to-day partnership.

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Folie a deux

Posted on August 6, 2011 by ohioastrology

A few weeks ago there was a “Bonnie & Clyde” style bank robbery in Columbus, Ohio. I once heard a bank security officer explain how stupid it is to do a high-risk bank robbery when you can earn much more through credit card theft.

So why in the digital age would a couple go shooting guns in the middle of a bank for a wad of dye-pack triggered cash? It had to be more than money.

The French term “folie a deux” is a psychiatric phenomenon of shared delusion between two individuals. Some examples are Bonnie & Clyde and Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold (Columbine).

Bonnie & Clyde

Bonnie Parker had sun in Libra and moon in Virgo. Clyde Parker had sun in Aries and moon in Taurus. Clyde appears to have been the stronger personality here, with his Mars conjunct Uranus in Capricorn adding ambition to an already strong and driven personality.

Bonnie was the relater, the Libra who seeks reflection in the other with a critical and perfectionist Virgo moon. While our image of her is a brazen moll, she probably worried a lot. Pluto square Mercury probably provided the provoking language façade while she probably was shivering in her shoes with nervous indigestion.

A look back at the times of Bonnie & Clyde shows Uranus was in Capricorn causing sudden changes to society’s structures, Neptune was in Cancer spiritualizing the family and Pluto was in Gemini transforming communications.

What drove these two to folly?

Clyde’s Saturn in Aries on his sun in Aries suggests great insecurity and restraint in his Arian warlike nature. Mars in Capricorn squaring the Aries energy is great, great frustration. Clyde was a man held back by somebody or something and he only knew how to break out of the chains through violence.

Why was the poetry-writing gentle Bonnie attracted to this? Libra is opposite Aries and it’s easy to think Clyde was the shadow side of a peace-loving soul. However, two aspects make me wonder about Bonnie’s attraction to Clyde – her Saturn in Taurus on his moon and her own Pluto (in Gemini) square Venus (in Virgo).

Bonnie may have felt some material lack in her life and Clyde brought home the bacon. He brought home lots of bacon in a very hunting Neanderthal way. Libra loves nice things and he was simply a provider.

Pluto square Venus suggests Bonnie had other abusive relationships and really didn’t know a relationship of respect. Clyde has this same aspect (Pluto in Gemini square Venus in Pisces) so played the part.

Bonnie & Clyde were shot to death in their car on May 23, 1934 with Mars in Taurus on Clyde’s moon and Bonnie’s Saturn (Bonnie may have given them away somehow) and Neptune in Virgo moving to those Pluto/Venus squares. If they hadn’t been shot to death, they probably would have harmed each other in some other way.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

I read an interesting book on Columbine where the author portrayed Harris as the psychopath and Klebold as the follower.

Harris was the sun in Aries, with both Venus and Mars conjunct his sun. Klebold was the sun in Virgo, with five planets (Saturn, Mercurity, Jupiter, Pluto and Venus) in Libra.

Aries meets Libra/Virgo again, ala Bonnie & Clyde.

Harris’ moon was in Gemini or Cancer. From his inability to feel, Gemini might be more accurate. Klebold’s moon was in Aquarius.

Klebold was not as gentle as Bonnie Parker. Moon in Leo suggests a handsome ego while moon in Aquarius is someone who can’t express his feelings very well and takes a scientific, analytical approach to emotions. While he may have been gentle, he really didn’t “get” where people were coming from. Mars opposite that moon suggests he was actually very demanding of others.

Harris had Pluto opposite Venus and Klebold had Pluto conjunct Venus. As with Bonnie & Clyde, these two probably didn’t know a good relationship from a bad one. Both were involved in power struggles in love and friendship. Both probably had dysfunctional friendships well before they met each other.

Harris and Klebold killed themselves on April 20, 1999 while Pluto was in Sagittarius. Pluto in Sagittarius had not yet reached the Neptune in Sagittarius aspect in their charts.

It’s interesting that Pluto in Sagittarius brought us 9/11 and religious wars. Many involved were born when Neptune was Sagittarius. Neptune in Sagittarius spiritualized the “spiritual quest.”

Folie a deux

When I want to do something bad (like call in sick and go to the zoo), I know there are certain friends I would call to accompany me and certain friends I would not. And when I do something stupid, I also call certain people first.

But I have a mixture of friends who will drink with me and friends who will remind me it’s not good for my health.

I think Bonnie & Clyde and Harris & Klebold just didn’t have a set of friends in their lives to say, “Hey, you’re being stupid.”

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Ohio is a Mysterious Pisces

Posted on August 4, 2011 by ohioastrology

Ohio’s official birthday is March 1, 1803. That makes Ohio a Pisces.

In researching Ohio’s birthday, I learned that Ohio’s boundaries were actually set and approved on February 19, 1803 and later the date was set retroactively to March 1, 1803.

I don’t know what time on February 19, 1803 Ohio’s boundaries were set. If it was after 8:30 am or so, Ohio is still a Pisces. I don’t know what time work started for Congress back in 1803.But February is still kinda cold so maybe they didn’t talk about Ohio until lunch.

Pisces is a mutable water sign. It is the most psychic of all the signs, being tuned into the mass conscious to the point of having no boundaries. Pisces is associated with both spirituality and vulnerability. Because Pisces is so open, it is also open to manipulation – both giving and receiving.

It makes sense that Ohio is a water sign. Ohio’s natural boundaries are a big lake (Lake Erie) and a big river (the Ohio River). From the site Info Please I learned that Ohio is an Iroquoian word meaning “great river.”

Ohio is also the home of very ancient Indian civilizations – the Adena, the Hopewell and those that created Serpent Mound in Adams County and Alligator Mound in Licking County. Ohio may look like cow country, but if you look very closely you will see that there is very quiet mystery in this state.

As a native of Cleveland, I didn’t realize the treasure trove of ancient remnants that exist in central and southern Ohio until moving to Columbus. At the time of contact, this land we call Ohio was littered with Indian mounds, both effigy and burial, as well as abundant earthworks including Fort Ancient, Highbanks and the Octagon Earthworks. The Octagon Earthworks just happen to be aligned to the moon’s 18-year cycle.

The Ohio River Valley is the Egypt of the United States.

Don’t forget that Ohio was once the Wild West. If you read early Ohio writings such as “The Ohio Frontier” edited by Emily Foster, you will learn that Ohio produced allergies and sickness as far back as the 16th century. It was hunting ground for Indians and dangerous territory for European settlers.

Neptune has just moved to the sign of Pisces. It’s now retrograde in Aquarius bobbing back and forth between Aquarius and Pisces. If Ohio was born on February 19, 1803, that means Neptune is bobbing on EXACTLY on Ohio’s natal sun.

As we are a land of water, Neptune on our sun means a spiritualization of our consciousness as a state. I’ve just tuned into the fact that the world is running out of water and I’m guessing Ohio, the land of water, will be in the middle of any future water politics. We may also be involved in some sort of religious politics.

Neptune hopping all over Ohio’s sun has definitely brought a lot of rain. Possibly this will continue and we will deal with increased flooding.

Ohio’s natal moon is not so easy to determine. On March 1, it was in Gemini. On February 19, it was either in Capricorn or Aquarius.

Because I don’t have Ohio’s “time of birth,” I also can’t tell which planets are in which houses.

Oh well, I can’t fully unravel the mystery of Ohio. I can tell you it’s more than cow country.

My favorite books on Ohio archaeology and history:

Ohio Archaeology by Bradley T Lepper

Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley by Susan L. Woodward and Jerry N. McDonald (if you’re going to visit Ohio mounds, you need this book)

The Ohio Frontier edited by Emily Foster

My favorite websites on Ohio archeology:

Ohio Historical Society

Licking County Historical Society

Native Americans in Ohio

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Luke Fickell – No Time for Whining

Posted on August 2, 2011 by ohioastrology

Luke Fickell, the new Ohio State University football coach, is a fiery man. His sun is in sunny fixed fire Leo and his moon is in headstrong cardinal fire Aries.

Fire is about expression and intuition, action and energy, getting up early with a smile on your face, opening the drapes to let the sun in, greeting the new day and wondering how you can make an impact on mankind.

Leo is all about having adoring fans, so Fickell has stepped into the right job because his job involves stepping into the spotlight. Leo loves, loves, loves the spotlight.

The spotlight, like all lights, casts a shadow. It’s the “shadow side” of this job where Fickell may encounter some problems.

An eagle-eye in the astrology group I attend noticed that Fickell has two yods in his chart. Yods are called “The Finger of God” aspect. Two planets are 60 degrees apart and both are 150 degrees to a common planet. That makes a Y shape with the bottom of the Y pointing to the planet that is supposedly dishing up the fate to the chart owner.

The yods are:

  1. Saturn in Cancer / Mars in Taurus – finger to Neptune in Sagittarius
  2. Neptune in Sagittarius / Jupiter in Aquarius – finger to Saturn in Cancer

Neptune and Saturn are in both yods. Mars in Taurus and Jupiter in Aquarius are squared.

Cancer is the sign that traditionally represents mothering, comfort and nurturing. I believe the deeper meaning of Cancer is about belonging. Saturn in Cancer, the only water in Fickell’s chart, means he doesn’t have a strong sense of family, mothering or belonging.

Fickell doesn’t understand others’ emotional realities.

Fickell acts, he doesn’t whine or complain. He probably doesn’t like whining or complaining in others and will not soothe you just because you scraped your knee. He’ll tell you to get back up, dust yourself off and “start all over again.” That’s what he would do.

Much of sports fandom is relating to a team as though you were a member. When I watch an OSU game, I’m not just watching eleven boys I don’t know play a game. The eleven boys represent me. If they win, I win and feel good. If they lose, I lose and feel bad.

That relating is in the element of water. That sense of belonging is Cancer and Piscean.

Fickell might not understand that in his role as coach of OSU football part of his job is to relate to 100,000 fans so that feel they are also part of the team. This, I believe, will be Fickell’s greatest challenge. Leo seeks attention – Fickell will have to turn that attention back to the fans.

From that Mars/Mercury/Jupiter T-square, I believe his will drive the team very hard. What he won’t understand is that driving the team alone does not make happy fans. Happy fans don’t just come from winning, they come from belonging.

I can imagine a scenario where Fickell drives the team to success but will not receive the accolades he feels he deserves. There may be a “We’re glad you won, but we don’t like exactly how it happened,” feeling.

I’m also imagining a tidal wave of new experiences for him in dealing with fans, administration, donors and everyone else who has an opinion to offer but has never thrown a pig skin.

Sunny Leo and driven Aries can overcome just about anything. But it will take some introspection that is unfamiliar to the element of fire.

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