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Gemini, three degrees |
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The word to know today
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Dispositor
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The dispositor of a planet is whichever planet rules the sign it happens to be standing in. A planet in a sign it does not own was held to be working under that ruler’s authority, so the question of who disposes whom comes before a good deal of the rest.
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The Founding Fathers Had A Soundtrack
George Washington heard it.
Benjamin Franklin heard it.
For over 300 years, this was locked inside private ceremonies performed by some of the most powerful men in history.
No outsider had ever witnessed it.
Until one man… a member for twenty years… broke his oath of silence and captured it.
This isn’t a modern creation.
Nobody "designed" this in a lab.
It comes from a living tradition that predates the founding of America.
Passed down through generations behind closed doors.
The man who recorded it says he felt the effects in his bones the first time he heard it. Goosebumps.
A sense that something ancient had just woken up inside him.
He’s now sharing it publicly for the first time.
The men who guard this tradition are not pleased.
But he believes it’s too powerful to keep hidden while good people are struggling.
P.S. He’s an accountant, not a guru. That’s part of why I trust him.
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Not one of the seven planets is standing in its own house tonight. The Moon reaches Gemini at 17:27 UTC, after a void of roughly eighteen hours, and Gemini belongs to Mercury, who left Libra for Scorpio six hours before she arrived. The planet that rules the sign another planet occupies is called its dispositor. Hers is somewhere else entirely.
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The chain can be followed. Mercury is in Scorpio, which belongs to Mars, so Mars disposes Mercury. Mars is in Leo, which belongs to the Sun. The Sun is in Libra, which belongs to Venus. Venus is in Scorpio, which hands the matter back to Mars. The chain does not end. It closes into a loop, because a chain of dispositors only stops when it reaches a planet standing in a sign it rules, and tonight there is no such planet anywhere.
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The technique was a way of asking who is actually in charge. A planet in a sign it does not rule was working under borrowed authority, so the astrologer followed the chain upward until it stopped and read whatever it stopped on as the body carrying the matter. The medieval writers treat this as ordinary procedure, Bonatti in thirteenth century Italy among them. A loop was not counted as a breakdown of the method. It was a situation with no final authority in it. She holds Gemini until Friday evening, owning nothing there and answering to a planet that changed address this morning.
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From the shelf
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Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis
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Fourth century Rome, where a planet is read constantly through the lord of whatever sign it happens to occupy.
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