Coincidences Are Alerts From The Cosmos.

I’ll tell you a story.  I was recently looking at a ‘new-to-me’ astrological blog site.  A lady was alarmed because she had a Saturn-return in her 8th house; would she likely die soon?  This was typical of those who are new to astrology or those who just hang around the fringe.  Then, in another post some one was concerned about Saturn-in-the-11th squaring Venus-in-the-2nd.  For some reason I decided to answer this.  I have natal Saturn in the 10th; I seem to have learned much about how to live reasonably well with this pattern.  I would hare my thoughts.

That same day I was looking for news items that might provide a name and a story to use in this blog site.  I came across Stephen Hawking who had recently died following a life-long battle with ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease.  It took less than a minute to run a natal chart for the date and time of his birth and a Moon-to-Sun Return prior to the date of his death.  There was a natal Saturn-square-Venus.  Coincidence?   Several Saturn-square-Venus patterns in one day?  I don’t believe in coincidences.  When I did the Advanced chart for the day of his passing, I noted a transiting Saturn square transiting Venus.  Another coincidence?  I had just gotten a message from the universe.  Here was my story.  Let us start the story with a review of his natal chart and an overview of his life.

Stephen Hawking was born Jan. 8th, 1942 in Oxford, England at 2:29 AM. Pluto sat on him MC angle, Mars on his Descendant angle, and Ceres was close to his IC angle.  I always look at angular planets first.  This pattern suggests a deep concern about one’s health and survival (Ceres opposite Pluto), and the role of the mother and her support.  The focal Mars feeds into this, perhaps an under-current of anger existed in that relationship.

Note the Saturn-square-Venus pattern noted earlier, from the 7th to the 4th, again stressing a structure of love and how it is given or withheld in the home.  We will need to talk more about this at a later point.

Hawking’s Capricorn Sun was in the 3rd, within a grand-trine relationship with Saturn and Moon.  Actually, the Moon is at the midpoint of Sun-Saturn, exact within 0d23m.  Ebertin notes in his Combinations of Stellar Influences, “Emotional depressions partly in connection with organic disturbance, emotional inhibitions, fear, feelings of inferiority.  Increasing loneliness, the separation of females, a bereavement.”  These statements capture so much of Hawking’s life experience.

While a child, Hawking’s family was involved in various areas of medicine.  The family led a frugal but studious life and he was able to attend fine schools suitable to the family’s ambitions for him.  He attended Oxford, starting in 1959.  His university experience, like his earlier years, was a mixture of lackadaisical effort and bursts of exceptional effort.  In 1963 he commenced his doctoral studies but also was diagnosed with a motor neuron disease which was the early onset of ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis).  He was told that he might live two or three years.  Initially depressed by this diagnosis and considering giving up his academic pursuits, he continued his studies following much urging from close associates.  A PhD in applied mathematics and theoretical physics was earned.  He specialized in general relativity and cosmology.  He met his to-be-wife, a friend of his sister, at this time and married her in 1965 on July 14th.  Is it any surprise that she also had a Saturn square Venus pattern in her natal chart?

Perhaps it is time to discuss Hawking’s Saturn-square-Venus pattern.  This is a pattern that can pinch the love relationship with another, be it parent, sibling or a life partner.  Saturn-Moon is known for its effect on one’s childhood and how one views parental roles, home life and their sense of personal freedom.  Saturn-Venus can be even more difficult.  A parent that one most depends upon can be distant or indifferent, difficult to reach due to schedule or demeanor. In the Hawking home, dinner was often conducted by everyone eating and quietly reading at the same time.  There was little discourse during the meal.  The family was often in financial difficulty, workdays for the parents were long, and frivolous spending and gifts were not common.  A cold home life and long periods away at various schools did not create close family bonds.  A parallel example might be Prince Charles who was constantly boarded at one school or another while his parents traveled on Royal business.  His closest support came from a few school buddies and the distant relatives he stayed with in between school sessions.

ALS, as a disease, brings a continuous loss of nerve and muscle control, affecting and eliminating the ability to walk, to use one’s arms and hands, even one’s speech is eventually curtailed.  Hawking’s disease progressed much more slowly, taking his whole life to wreck total havoc on his body.  Ebertin’s Combination of Stellar Influences cites, in part, “Inhibitions in love-life . . . emotional inhibitions, soberness, a sense of duty, malfunctioning of the internal glandular secretions, . . . an unhealthy expression of the sex-urge, self-torment. . . lonely people.”  All of this apples to Hawking himself as well as to those who make up his environment.  The stunted home life is an expression of Saturn-square-Venus.  His marriage to Jane Wilde placed most/all of the burden of running the house hold and arranging for the increasing number of attendants who took care of her husband squarely upon her.  At the end of their marriage she left because the flow of people into their home was overly disruptive and tiring.  Remember, she also had a Saturn square Venus in her chart.  In her case she had to give much love under terrible conditions.

Hawking went on in his life to earn more degrees and to assume more leadership roles in many academic and scientific settings.  He wrote many books.  All of this was done while being in a wheel chair.  He had lost the ability to use his hands in 2005.  He next had to use a machine to speak for him.    His mind and his persistence was truly amazing.  For the sake of this blog, I will have to skip past more comments on this unique life and move to the period covering his recent passing.

On March 11, 2018, Hawking had a t/Moon-to-n/Sun Return in the 3rd house.  The 3rd house focus would typically focus on communication, travel, visits and a busy environment.  For Mr. Hawking, such a third house description was probably true of every day in his life.  Since his natal Sun and Mercury were in the natal third house, and given his physical condition, the 3rd house generic interpretation perfectly describes his typical and ongoing daily life.

What strikes me on initially looking at this chart is that the angles are 3 degrees away from any planet contact.  This, of course, tells us that events and actions suggested in the chart may be three days away from happening.  Such is the case here.  n/Mercury will not be contacted since it is behind the IC angle — the angles move forward about a degree-per-day.  By that measure, t/Uranus is 3 degrees ahead of the Desc. angle.  n/Pluto is 4 degrees ahead of the MC angle.  And, the n/Asc. is 3 degrees ahead of the Ascendant angle.  The t/Part of Fortune is a ‘free agent’, it moves as fast as the transiting Moon.  In three days it can move 37 to 39 degrees.  This amount of movement will bring the t/Moon close to the n/Neptune and square t/Mars. 

At this point, what might we say about this Return?

1)  The Advancing MC and Ascendant will shortly connect with the natal MC and natal Asc.  This realignment of the angles signifies a potential re-birth, an inflection point when life may take any new direction, including death. 

2)  The contact of the advancing MC with n/Pluto, and t/Pluto in the 3rd house near n/Sun brings us to the consideration of a major change coming to fruition. 

3)  The t/Uranus and n/Mars pattern will be contacted by the advancing Desc. angle.  Great energy will be suddenly apparent, will change everything very suddenly.  This being opposite the natal Ascendant at 26 Libra, this pattern would normally affect relationships with others.

4)  Finally, in this chart, we have the t/Part-of-Fortune square the natal Saturn-Uranus pairing. This presages a forced change in the status-quo.  The paired planets will be brought into the seventh house by the moving angles and cusps.  The change in the status quo (7th) will conflict with the energy to bring about change (Part of Fortune) in one’s goals in life.

5)  We can jump from the t/PoF to the natal PoF, conjoining n/BML, and opposing t/Mars in the 3rd house.  Mars should be strong, being opposite the weakening n/BML — except that t/Mars is near t/BML.  So, Mars is weakened in its expressional energy.  Does that translate to affecting the t/Uranus-n/Mars-Descendant pattern?  And what about t/Sun squaring t/Mars (as well as squaring that n/PoF and n/BML); will this indicate a cold or a weakening of one’s physical resistance?

This Return chart is difficult to use as a forecasting tool.  Whenever the heavy-outer planets are involved the astrologer has to nuance their ‘book’ meanings to fit any possible personal impact.  Let’s consider these heavy planets:

1) Pluto is death, revolution, large-scale upheavals, irrevocable change.  

2) Uranus is personal change, cognition of an important point, personal surprise.

3) Saturn is a kill-joy, a universal constraint, caution and sober reality.

4) The natal Part of Fortune is where we are most vulnerable to change, the transiting Part of Fortune is where change can come into play due to one’s actions, intentions and beliefs.

We need to go back to the natal chart in look at it relative to how Hawking lived his life.

1) Pluto at the MC; Hawking suffered from overwhelming debilitation, yet he persevered.  (A Pluto quality).

2) Uranus fueled the uncovering of dramatic news and insights into the secrets of life.  All of this was due to his mental conceptualization as a means of breaking from the constraints of Saturn.

3) Saturn, among many attributes, can offer one ‘persistence,’ a drive to keep on moving ahead in spite of difficulties.

4) The PoF, in this natal chart, abides with the natal Black Moon Lilith.  Can one’s vulnerability to ‘chance and change’ be managed when married to a state of weakness and a lack of clarity — as represented by the BML position?

 

With this reminder of the natal chart and its relation to the actual life of Stephen Hawking, would an astrologer predict this man’s passing?  I wouldn’t based on the planet-patterns alone.  I would, given his age, based on the re-alignment of the natal angles and the Return angles — and with the heavy planets playing a role at those sensitive angle.  As I suggested, those outer planets bring a lot of ambiguity to the role they might play on a personal level.  Would you predict Hawking’s passing in the next couple of weeks from this chart?  

I am going to leave this posting at this point where we consider the Return chart.  We will, in the next posting, review the Advanced chart where things will be clearer.  Dave.

PS:  If any have observations or comments about the natal Part of Fortune and natal Black Moon Lilith, please feel free to comment.

 

 

Opposing Suns, Part of Fortune, and Eclipses

Above:  Jeff Dunham and ‘Bubba’.  Bubba is a red-neck stereotypical character who loves beer and Nascar.  He met his wife at a family picnic.

Being busy is part of success.  Dunham was busy in 2009.  One part of his multi-platform contract with Comedy Central was to develop and present a TV show.  The concept of the show was very direct:  show the characters as if they were living a normal daily life in their hometown.  The following URL will give you a sample of such a format.  There is one short advertisement at the start of the video.

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/3rtobr/the-jeff-dunham-show-jeff-and-walter-get-counseling.

For those new to astrology or needing a ‘brush up’, there is a set of short essays on how to read and understand (enough to follow along) astrology charts in the menu area at the top of this page.

The t/Moon-opposite-n/Sun Return for Oct. 18, 2009 occurred four days prior to the first airing of the TV show.  As the title suggests, opposing Suns, t/PoF, and eclipses play a role in this chart.

This is an 8th house t/Moon-opp-n/Sun Return chart.  The generic theme includes “. . . the management of (projects) brings conflicts if one strays from areas of capability.  Confidence in the face of competition.  Emotions are kept in check.  Others may show stress, you have to show assuredness. . . team player.”  Let us see how the rest of the chart and events support or fit in with this theme.

t/Sun and n/Sun broadly oppose each other, typically indicating having two-minds about what one is doing, or having a conflict of wills between oneself and another.  Next, we have to consider t/PoF-Asc.-n/BML, an unusual combination.  ‘Taking a chance’ relates to PoF-Asc., but having n/BML there adds a sense of hesitation or doubt about what one is doing.  We have to remember that Jeff Dunham has perpetually worried about being away from home too often and for extended periods of time.  While this was a major step ahead in his career, doing a TV show and 60 road shows was clearly going to eat into his time at home with his family.  This Ascendant grouping was opposed by t/Uranus in the 7th house, close to the n/MC and n/Mars — actually t/Saturn is on the natal IC angle.

These above patterns suggest (due to the t/PoF-Asc.) a changeable or wishy-washy approach to taking action or following through on a plan.  The opposition to t/Uranus suggests a vulnerability to sudden ideas and changes.  Now, add in the natal Mars and MC and you might come up with the feeling that there were a lot of stops and starts in getting the scripts, overall plots, and production flow to become a smooth process.

Let us now shift our attention to Oct. 22, 2009, the night the Jeff Dunham show aired on national TV. 

In the four days since the Return chart, the Ascendant has advanced to conjoin with n/BML and has closed on t/Uranus.  t/Moon at the IC completes a “paran” square.  This type of square occurs when planets are angular even though they are not degree-wise square.  19 is 4 less than 23, so Moon-Uranus are in a general square.  Each planet is 3 degrees from its angle, making them an exact “paran square.”  Moon-Uranus is excitement and nervousness, attributes that Dunham would have exhibited in this effort to make a dream come true.

As a supportive factor we can note t/Sun-t/PoF in the second house, broadly opposite n/Mercury.  Jeff Dunham’s life work (t/Sun) at this point would prove to himself that his ideas and belief in himself was justified.  Self-worth and self-esteem are second house attributes.  The TV show was well followed and liked by the audience.  However, the costs to produce the show were higher than expected and Comedy Central did not want to fund a second season.  So now, we get to visit U-tube to see this material.

Note:  I would again like to mention ‘context.’  We have to know the context of the subject’s life if we wish to be more accurate and descriptive of the subject’s chart and how it mirrors life.  The comments made above about Dunham’s nervousness, about him being subject to new ideas and inspirations, about others affecting the show as it developed, are all part of developing and producing a new show.  This is the context that allows us to see astrologically how the chart and life mirror each other.

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff and the Guys Are Back.

After his first appearance at Comedy Central Jeff was told two things:  His act went over well and  ‘thanks’.  Second, he wouldn’t be invited back as his act didn’t fit in with Comedy Central’s image and program concepts.  As in life, Comedy Central found it expedient to change their mind at a later date.

On March 23, 2009 Comedy Central ate it words and signed Jeff Dunham to a multi-platform deal.  Another comedy show, a 60-city tour, DVDs and promotional items, and a TV show which would debut on Oct. 22, 2009.  We have some charts to look at.

Note:  I had not planned on doing more than four postings on Jeff Dunham as some stories start to lose their appeal as a vehicle for examining charts and interpretive techniques.  But, this series has proven so popular I felt it appropriate to continue.  So, let us look at the resurrection of comedic life with Comedy Central.

A March 13, 2009 t/Moon-opposite-n/Sun Return on the MC-IC axis is shown first.  As any new astrological student is soon made aware of, Sun on the MC angle is a sign of success and leadership.  n/Sun-n/Mercury bracket the MC in this chart with t/Moon on the IC.  Surprisingly, my book Personal Moon-to-Sun Returns 2 provides a generic statement for this pattern that is not overly positive.  “Difficulty with plans . . . Public image is affected by stated plans.  Public and private life clash.  Renewing something essential to one’s well-being . . .”  We will look at the rest of the chart and then introduce the events that happened in later days.  Comments on how the plans in the contract worked out will be taken up in the next blog after this one.

Chart, March 13, 2009 t/Moon-opp-n/Sun Return.

So, here we have n/Sun-MC-n/Mercury and t/Moon-IC.  Sun-MC is ‘recognition.’  Mercury added to the MC is a contract (writing, agreement of words said).  Jumping over to n/Moon, we find it in the 3rd, opposing t/Venus; popularity, gifts, money.  With n/Sun so well positioned, we have to look at t/Sun — we find it approaching n/MC-n/Mars; making a strong and aggressive pitch or sales effort.  So, the basics of this chart all seem quite favorable.

Then, t/N.Node-Desc.-n/Saturn is noted;  a constrained relationship with another is cemented in place during this two week cycle.   In this case we might choose to see ‘constrained’ as ‘structured.’  A structured contract would be very ‘Saturn-like.’ This new relationship will change things for Dunham; note t/PoF opposite t/Saturn-n/BML  Saturn works within the apparent social world, urging constraint, caution, advocating patience and diligence.  n/BML works behind the scenes, weakening the more active components of any planets aligned with it.  We might assume that constraint and careful planning might not be fully evident in this new agreement.

There is one more thing to consider relative to the t/N.Node near the Desc. angle.  Six weeks earlier a Solar Eclipse occurred at 6:29 Aquarius.  This Descendant angle, the N.Node and the Sun itself becomes very important in this overall interpretation.  Dunham’s Sun, as his will and intent, will be very strong.  The nodal axis of the Moon, supporting his ability to reach out to associates, will be important and active on his behalf.  Such is the nature of a Solar eclipse as it infuses intensity on that which it touches.

When we look at the positioning of Black Moon Lilith in the ephemeris, we often get the sense that its process of calculation often moves this point in space, this empty focal point of the Moon’s oval-shaped orbit, erratically.  Indeed the several ways in which this point can be calculated gives rise to the astrological practice of applying BML to any point with 20 degrees of where it is calculated to be.  Following that practice, note that the n/Asc is ‘opposite’ t/BML; this suggests that others will act as if from a weaker position relative to putting together this contract.

That being said, lets look at the Advanced chart of the contract signing, March 23, 2009.

t/Jupiter-Desc. is the most exact of the angular planets.  Good fortune comes through others along with an expanded opportunity.  n/N.Node-Asc. points to Jeff Dunham’s developed manner in how he works with others to be in play here, now.  He will be at his most charming as he deals with the Comedy Club organization — they had been very cool to him the first time he appeared there.  n/Neptune is next in the ‘most angular’ category; illusion and expectations fuel this multi-platform contract.  What will the contract cover?  Another major comedy show.  A prolonged tour around the country, sixty cities in all.  DVDs and promotional items.  These had proven to be big money makers for Dunham who had been doing it on his own.  How about a TV show with all of the characters?  Yes.  And, in the future, an animated cartoon show or movie featuring Achmed the dead terrorist.  Everyone was glowing at this contract signing.

t/Sun had just passed n/Mars.  The momentum of the prior negotiations probably no longer needed that n/Mars energy.  t/Moon in the 7th was bumping up against n/Jupiter, and soon, t/Mars.  Lots of ‘get up and go’ to be found here.  And, we cannot overlook t/PoF-n/Asc in the 11th house; chance and change had come to the long-in-this-mode Dunham personality.  He had become a household commodity.  Curiously, t/BML was conjoining n/PoF; a weakening of Jeff’s appeal would not happen now, all bets were either off or forgotten about.  He was the man on this date. 

Dunham would be introducing two new characters in the coming weeks and months.  One was Diane who would appear in a 2010 film “Dinner for Schmucks” as Debbie, first appearing in the Identify Crisis tour conducted in 2010.  Although I haven’t seen much of her, Diane should more easily find a place among the other characters, providing an outlet for Dunham to reach the ladies in his audience.

Achmed Junior is not a favorite of mine.  I didn’t like him when he first appeared.  He is the estranged son of Achmed.  He was also a bomb victim who was taken to the UK and later educated there, accounting for his British accent. He has no interest in being a terrorist and can’t make any bonding connection to his father, Achmed.  I’m not sure how he fits into the overall show line-up. 

 

With these charts my interpretive approach followed this simple formula:

First, look at the angular planets.

Second, if not angular, look at t/Moon, t/Sun, t/Part of Fortune.

Third, for the above, look at the alternate version of each planet — for natal planets, look at the transiting versions, for transiting planets look at the natal versions.

Fourth, in this case, I looked for near-time Solar Eclipses.

In the next posting we will examine how this ‘multi-platform’ worked out for Jeff Dunham and his characters.  The problem with continued success in the show-biz world is that both change and expansion seem to be requisites.  ‘Change’ might suggest both new characters and new areas which Dunham can explore thought the character’s presentations.  ‘Expansion’ in this case is the multi-platform aspect of the contract.  More shows, more work, one person to do it all.  Ideas and creativity can get stretched thin.  We’ll see how this starts to work out. 

Getting laughs when getting laughs counts.

For comedians, Comedy Central is Mecca, the place to be.  Reaching this stage is an affirmation that you have achieved success among your peers.  This was a bit harder for a ventriloquist.  His comedy was linked to the puppets.  Each puppet had to be ‘believable’ within its character and context within the act.  Dunham’s presentation had to be edgy, sharp, current in its subject and dialog. We will look at the Return and Advanced charts for Jeff Dunham’s appearance at Comedy Central and the introduction of Peanut, Jose, Walter and an early version of Melvin the Superhero Guy. 

For an event of this type, for a comic considered to be on the fringe (being a ventriloquist), the charts should reflect the importance of this invitation.  Below is Dunham’s July 7, 2003 t/Moon-opp-n/Sun Return with the MC emphasized.

Prior to Dunham’s appearance at Comedy Central, he had a t/Moon-opposite-n/Sun Return on July 7th.  Let’s break this chart down into its component patters.

1) t/Moon is on the MC, n/Sun is on the IC along with n/Mercury.  The generic statement for this t/Moon-opp-n/Sun placement is, “The receipt of . . . news from afar, introductions into wider social (and business) circles . . . (impacts) the balance of short and long-term plans . . .”  This is definitely a chart marking a big step in his career. 

2) The t/Moon’s placement on the MC tells us that he will make a public appearance of great importance in the following two-week period.  n/Sun at the IC angle points to a ‘new start’ event which involves his commentary with the puppets. 

We can explore related patterns in this chart. 

3) t/Sun is on the Desc. along with n/Asc.; he will be a big success in presenting himself. 

4) We can also take note of n/MC in the 3rd house; his career will be aided by talking and communicating well. 

5)  By relocating this chart to California, the n/Mars is positioned at the natal MC.  This is powerful placement for Mars.

6)  t/PoF will pass over the emphasized IC angle within the day.  

If advising a client about this chart we would say, “You will be having a major launch of your career in the next few days.  You will be successful.”

On July 18th, Jeff Dunham took the stage with his crew; Jose, Walter, Peanut and an early version of Melvin, the Superhero Guy.  Let us look at his Advanced chart for that date.

 

1)  The MC angle has diurnally advanced to the n/Neptune position; drama and presentation of an illusion is indicated.  If we play astrological hopscotch, we can jump over to t/Neptune which is in the first house and conjoins n/Saturn.  The illusion (Neptune) of reality (Saturn) is part of his experience on this date, in this period.

2)  t/Sun and t/Venus are at the Desc. angle; Dunham will be popular and well thought of.  Again, playing hopscotch, we can jump for t/Sun to n/Sun.  n/Sun-n/Mercury is in the 3rd house showing the need to speak out, make an impact. 

3)  t/Moon transits his n/Mars in the 2nd house, his hard work will earn him recognition.  Again, t/Moon represents all things that are changing.  n/Mars (relocated to California) is made strong by its location near the natal MC.

4)  t/PoF lies opposite this t/Moon-n/Mars pattern, adding excitement to the night.

 

Well, the act was a success.  However, Comedy Central didn’t  think his act was a good fit for the club’s overall program.  They did not sign him up for a repeat performance.  Yet, he got his good exposure, and he would be back.

 

 

Talking Heads Offer Chaos On DVD

 

Relocated charts are effective in both timing and interpretation.

 

Watch a video clip from Dunham’s Controlled Chaos

 

Jeff Dunham played to a full house at each stop on a road show tour.  His primary characters, Peanuts, Walter, and Achmed were joined by lesser characters such as Jose and Achmed’s newly discovered son, as well as by new characters, Bubba, Melvin, Seamus, Sweet Daddy Dee and others.  Each character served to target a wedge of the demographics’ of a national and foreign audience.  Stereotypes make it all work.  Stereotypes are symbols.  They are quick to recognize and for people to grasp their range of reference.

It was likely that both the number of road show appearances and the need to create and improve the dialog of each character’s part in the show led to Jeff wanting to limit his on-the-road time and be able to spend more time with his family.  A solution would be to do TV specials which would attract large audiences and pay him much more.  The problem was that ‘ventriloquism’ had gone out of style when Edgar Bergen left the scene decades ago.  This view persisted in the minds of TV network producers in spite of Dunham’s success on his road tours.  How to get by this obstacle?

Dunham decided to produce a DVD that could be sold to the public as well as be used on TV. He would have to produce it himself and pay for it himself.  This new venture would be called “Controlled Chaos.”  The DVD was produced and taped in Richmond, VA on June 3rd and 4th, 2003.  The DVD was released in the U.S. on Sept 25, 2003.  We will look at Return and Advanced charts for these dates.  First we will look at the t/Moon-n/Sun Return for May 29, 2003 at Richmond, VA.

Of most immediate note is t/Neptune-MC opposite n/Pluto-IC.  Ebertin notes in his Combination of Stellar Influences, “. . . a highly active imagination and fantasy, illusions” and “the tendancy to concentrate strongly upon peculiar or strange aims and ideas . . .”  With t/N.Node-Desc. he notes “The sharing of peculiar experiences with other people . . .”  The t/Moon-n/Sun occurrence is in the 11th house of community outreach and work.  n/Uranus is also near the IC angle indicating a new effort or approach to his communication.  By itself, these symbols outline the whole story for us to know.  However, we can also incorporate (as always) the t/PoF’s meaning in this Return chart.  That t/PoF is conjoining his relocated n/MC for Richmond.  t/Sun is in the 12th house of preparation and hidden efforts, squaring the t/Neptune-n/Pluto opposition.  As a focus for this T-square, Dunham’s whole focus is on this creation for his DVD.

Edited to add:  Jeff’s MC, when relocated from Texas to Virginia, shifts some 21 degrees from Aries into Taurus.  This affects his natal chart greatly, but affects his Return chart much less in terms of timing.  If the relocated MC and/or Ascendant are contacted by an angle of the Return or Advanced chart, then the relocated angles play a major role in events that happen.  That is not the case in this example.

Let us look at the Advanced chart for June 3, 2011.

The advancing diurnal angles for the May 29th Return chart, on June 3rd, are instructive. Notice the MC clumping of t/Neptune-n/Jupiter-t/Chiron-n/Chiron squared by t/Mercury in the 12th and opposing n/Pluto near the IC.  First, t/Chiron-n/Chiron indicates, according to Chris Brooks’ book “Midpoint Keys to Chiron” an opening of a new door in one’s life in addition to any possible inner ‘hurts’ or issues that Dunham might be experiencing.  Those inner hurts might just be his frustration at the TV networks for them not noticing his prior entertaining success and not appreciating his future potential. 

t/Jupiter-n/Neptune at the MC points to happiness and speculation; quite appropriate for this private funding venture.  Note also the t/Moon in the first house, pouring ones emotional energies into a personal effort.  We can also see that the first house t/PoF squares n/Moon in the 5th; a struggle to fit emotions and needs into a creative and speculative venture.

A short video from Controlled Chaos can be found at:  https://youtu.be/am1hyppwk2Y

The DVD was released in the U.S. on Sept. 25th, 2011.  A prior t/Moon-to-n/Sun Return occurred on Sept. 15th, ten days prior to the release date for the DVD.  This Return chart is shown below.  One would think, looking at this chart, that an astrologer had picked the date for the DVD’s release within this Moon-Sun cycle. The eye is immediately drawn to t/Sun-t/Venus-MC opposing n/Mars-IC.  The energy in this pattern is very strong, the DVD will meet with great success due to the work that Dunham invested in this project.

t/Uranus near the IC doesn’t hurt this project, either.  The t/Part of Fortune is always looked at even if it is not angular; the t/PoF works as an expressional outlet for the chart’s Ascendant.  This t/PoF squares t/Saturn-n/Moon in the 10th;  Will chance and change (PoF) bring excitement to this effort-of-love/creativity?  The t/Moon-n/Sun conjoins t/BML — apparently the strength of the t/Sun-t/MC is enough to override any negativity from t/BML.  If any have comments on this pattern, please share them.

Let us now look at the Release Date for this Controlled Chaos DVD.

Ten days after the Return chart, we find n/Uranus at the MC and t/Uranus opposite at the IC angle.  Great excitement is indicated for this Release Date for the Controlled Chaos DVD.   It is common to find charts of 40 year old people having n/Uranus-opposite-t/Uranus patters.  The placement of this pattern at the MC-IC axis of a cyclic chart indicates and explosive and sudden event.  n/Venus-Desc. indicates the strong acceptance by the public.  t/Mercury opposes n/Sun-n/Mercury from the behind-the-scenes 12th house; Dunham’s ideas and messages are well received.

Again, the interpretation t/BML-t/PoF conjoining n/Jupiter-n/Chiron eludes me.  My sense is that this pattern is overall fine; Jupiter is opening the door wide (Chiron), the gamble and investment will pay off.  But, perhaps the t/BML indicates a dark side that is not easily seen in any public documents.  Perhaps the success of this DVD doesn’t help him reduce his on-the-road schedule. Should any of my readers have a comment to offer on Black Moon Lilith and its inclusion in this chart, I would be appreciative of hearing from you.  We may not all fully understand BML but we cannot ignore its presence in a chart.