Noel Tyl

For ten issues, we have talked astrology without an astrological chart! While we have been learning the patterning of measurements in Signs and in time cycles, we've been training the mind about the deductive process in astrology. --Now we can begin a series of instructive articles dealing with simple but incisive "first-looks" at horoscopes.

One of the major difficulties keeping students from growing in astrology is the lack of know-how and experience in synthesizing measurements, bringing measurement ideas and occurrences together into a meaningful, reasonable group, as a guideline to the developmental behavior and history in the client's life. This organization of the horoscope, the outline of synthesis, is what guides analytical discussion with the client.

The objective is always to take multiple measurements and organize them as simple and cohesively as possible. The key to doing this is within what I call "the premise of homogeneity" in analysis: the initial impression of the horoscope will be repeated over and over and over again as measurements accumulate. -Human beings (except in rare instances) develop in life in a "together" way. Our language even betrays the necessity of this natural way, "Don't lose it! Get it together," or "Boy! She's really together!" --The chaotic opposite is "I'm falling apart!"

Look generally at this man's horoscope shown here. Let's get a feel of the major theme, the synthesis of the character profile, perhaps to lead us to a suggestion of a professional outlet. What will fulfill this man? What characterological and behavioral orientations within this man will be served best by what professional outlet?

Please don't race ahead with fragmented "this means that" observations. That's not the way to accomplish synthesis. Please let me guide you as if I were teaching you a foreign language.

Horoscope: Male, December 17, 1930 in Brooklyn (King's County) NY, at 2:30 AM, EST; 26 Libra 43 Ascendant. -MC-IC axis vertical; ASC-DSC axis horizontal

1. Most obvious is the Moon-Venus conjunction in the Ascendant, in Scorpio: here is the reigning need (the Moon) to do his own thing (Moon in the 1st House) to control the mysteries of emotions, sexuality, and magnetic personal drama. Dealing with the inexplicable: with Venus, emotion-swamped judgement, sexuality, dealing with intense attachments. This is what you will feel from this man since Venus rules the Ascendant. [Note that Venus also rules the 8th, part of the sexual profile, along with the 5th.]

Now, just hold onto that Moon-Venus conjunction in the Ascendant concept; FEEL it.

2. Now, in the 10th, see that Mars in Leo (a theatrical, getting-away-with-murder way of energy expression). It squares (intensifies) the Moon-Venus unit of the emerging synthesis. This is strong, and it could suggest public confrontation, even struggle and combat since Mars rules the 7th. -This is particularly important since Mars is in the professional 10th and is in creative quintile (720 to the Ascendant). This man needs to be creatively promotional in terms of things deep, offbeat, emotional, and sexual; taking them public.

3. Because of the intensified Scorpio focus, we must check further the sexual profile (Houses 8 and 5 to begin with). Venus rules the 8th, and we have covered that already. Neptune rules the 5th and is peregrine (without Ptolemeic aspect). Neptune will run away with the whole system, in development, through art, aesthetics, photography, television, or even decadence and self-delusion.

So you know that sexuality (sensuality) is rampant here. It may be artistic, surely public in projection (the Mars vector). --We must check for the mind-set too, the communication values, in the powerful 3rd-9th House axis articulated by here by Jupiter-Pluto opposed Saturn-Mercury!

4. Jupiter, ruling the 3rd opposes Mercury, ruling the 9th! The communication axis is extremely highly focused within this man. The axis is squared by Uranus (also in a cardinal sign); we expect the avant garde; it MUST be avant garde. -Our accumulating synthesis is showing the law of homogeneity, or continuance, behavioral potentials echoing each other.

5. The Saturn-Uranus square is the closest aspect in the horoscope, along with Uranus quindecile the Ascendant (1650): here is the rebel, the eccentric perhaps, winning the battle between old and new, conservative and liberal, old-fashioned and, yes, that Uranian word again, the avant garde.

You know this man is highly caught up (needs to be) with the theatrical dimensions of sexuality, with a touch of art, with a public vector, with intense, rebellious communication, possibly publishing.

6. Mercury and Jupiter are intensified (the 3rd-9th axis) by the Pluto conjunction with Jupiter in the 9th and the Saturn conjunction with Mercury in the 3rd. This is completely obvious. Believe it. -Publicity, writing, photography,. Publishing, all these ideas are going through your mind -believe them! And the focus must be from the world of sexuality, the sensual. With a dose of depressive loneliness within it all (the Saturn-Mercury conjunction); the avant garde loner?

7. Lastly, you study the Sun-ruled Midheaven. The Sun itself is peregrine (as Neptune is!). A peregrine Sun can not get plugged into the world easily. It suggests a dissociation complex. Now think: with a peregrine Sun and his Uranus quindecile the Ascendant, isn't that the rebel freely on his merry way!?? This man is onto his own thing. Remember: the Moon in Scorpio is there at the center of all of this in the Ascendant!

This man is exaggeratedly independent, a renegade in opinionation (Sagittarius), perhaps in legal battles, publicity, etc.

8. And finally, note that Pluto is almost precisely square the Nodal axis, suggesting an enormous public outreach, a competitive outreach, a far-ranging power thrust involving much money (Pluto rules the 2nd), AND this is echoed by the Moon-Pluto mutual reception and trine, a very grand, well-working alliance about money, publicity, power.

There's more, but the point made here dramatically is that homogeneity of measurement significances emerged as measurements accumulated. That synthesis is guided by commonsensical adaptation of measurement guidelines to the core of the initial impression.

We advanced with the synthesis artistically, resting on confidence within deductions. This is the horoscope of Bob Guccione, the baroquely self-fashioned artist-photographer Publisher/President of Penthouse Magazine, long the competitor (and some think racier and more artistic) to Playboy.

Now, try this style with one of your horoscopes. Even write down the capsule concepts deduced for the accumulating measurements. BUT relate one observation with the "next one" in a developmental scenario.

• See the most obvious feature. Feel the deduction you make.

• Frame this deduction as an open door to the next most significant measurement; invite it into early synthesis. Start making creative connections; start to build a reality, much as a playwright does.

• Continue this process in confidence, led by the repeatedly strengthening feel you have within the analysis. -Write down abbreviated thoughts as the process develops. Gradually string your notes together into meaningful, descriptive sentences!

Indeed, with some horoscopes, this crystallizing process can be elusive, but it is all in relation to your level of experience and skill, which comes, climbs, and blooms only with practice, with understanding.