Pleasant thing to wake up to. Back to sleep. Nice post IAS
The mooooost important thing I've learned since doing this bitcoin a year and a half ago is learning to think for myself
By the way, after stumbling into astrology with yours and Otoh's threads, I looked into that Somner guy and watched a podcast of his with an A.T. Mann. For some reason I couldn't resist trying out a consultation at least once, and I chose a Life Time Reading from A.T. Mann and he summed up my life impeccably well. His theory is that we live life in a logarithmic scale and be pinpoints how I was conceived (ie how my parents felt, who chose what (I was unexpected and my parents weren't close!!!), how I grew up (very feminine household ie three sisters), etc with 100% accuracy. Things that you cannot find from Facebook etc. I was truly astounded. My future looks very interesting and I am quite happy I did it.
By the way Otoh did say the stars say second half of this month should be great, and not simply in regards to bitcoin
I didn't even realize AT Mann was alive as I assumed he was from a long while ago but just checked and he is only 69. That is amazing if you got a reading from him.
We should chip in and have him look at Bitcoin using Gann and Astrology? Was he expensive?
When you get a reading from an astrologer that is good/great, it can absolutely shock you. The trick is applying it to something like BTC, where the location is not even 100% knows...
http://atmann.net/aread.htm#areadYeah dude, I was still skeptical before. Not anymore, and that's saying a lot. I was a born skeptic, science background etc. But, as any good scientist, my curiosity was piqued and I investigated it some more
I paid $200 for life time astro reading since he was willing to give me a student discount, normally $350. This is simply my anecdotal evidence, and seeing as it confirmed that there's something peculiar about the study of astrology, it warrants even more of my consideration now.
Btw, I sent in some coin to your Sommer reading because I appreciated it. I wouldn't mind seeing what Tad has to say about BTC as well, although, do you think it will be a bit redundant?
My god. You can't be serious right?
but I am. I understand that daily horoscopes are typically very generalized and vague for a reason, they by nature have to be so people will enjoy them in the papers or whatever. but this isn't about daily horoscopes you see in the papers. i later learned that it's about more than simply a sun sign written by any self-proclaimed astrologer hired by a newspaper
the long, old history of esotericism is what interested me, because I'm an avid reader and I appreciate the arts, I see a lot of esotericism influence in those things, so i just wanted to understand mythology. So then i looked into the theory of (as above, so below), thought it was a neat idea, then I had a looksee at my natal charts (
http://www.chaosastrology.net/freeastrologyreports.cfm ----try it, why not), saw that there were strict mechanics into star reading, and it was quite accurate without being overly general. Pretty good for a scripted program. So then eventually I decided to put it to a small test with a professional astrology consultation, which was exact and specific. For a reason, it blew my mind and paradigm. Y'know, I take things for what they are. It has yet to be contradictory to me. At the very least, the perspective astrology uses is a very very neat way to look at things. There are some things in this world that aren't absolute.
At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche. ~Carl Jung
Did that consultant inform you of the fact that your star sign is not actually your star sign? Something 99% of these scammers out there don't seem to realize.
A horoscope is an astrological forecast. The term is also used to describe a map of the zodiac at the time of one’s birth. The zodiac is divided into twelve zones of the sky, each named after the constellation that originally fell within its zone (Taurus, Leo, etc.). The apparent paths of the sun, the moon, and the major planets all fall within the zodiac. Because of the precession of the equinoxes, the equinox and solstice points have each moved westward about 30 degrees in the last 2,000 years. Thus, the zodiacal constellations named in ancient times no longer correspond to the segments of the zodiac represented by their signs. In short, had you been born at the same time on the same day of the year 2,000 years ago, you would have been born under a different sign.
In fact, there should be 13 signs, not 12. It is this fact of precession which has altered the very constellations from which masses "derive" their charts.
Precession of the equinox is caused by the fact that the axis of the earth's rotation (which causes day and night) and the axis of the earth's revolution around the sun (which marks the passage of each year) are not parallel. They are 23 l/2 degrees away from lining up; that is, the earth's axis of rotation is tilted. This tilt also causes our seasons, a fact that Ptolemy did understand but that many people do not understand even today. Ptolemy understood that the rotation axis of the earth was slowly precessing, or moving in a circle, with an angular radius of 23 1/2 degrees with a period of around 26,000 years. He deduced this from comparisons of data taken by the ancient Sumerians 2,000 years before his time. He did not understand what was pushing the precession, but he did understand the motion. We now realize that the sun is rotating with a period of around 30 days and that this causes the sun to bulge at the equator, which causes a torque to be exerted on the top like motion of the earth's day and night cycle. There is also a small 18.6-year variation caused by the moon's orbit around the earth, and the moon also has a small effect on precession; however, the sun's equatorial bulge is the main cause of the precession of the equinox, which is why your sign listed in the newspaper, by Sidney Omar for instance, in most cases is removed by one sign from the modern, actual position of the sun at your birth.