Thanks very much for the warm welcome Everyone.
I'm a busy mom with a full-time job and fighting the good fight to impeach the bastards in the White House - hope you don't mind my frankness - so might not be as regular as some, but I'll look in on things often. Yes, my one and only planet in a fire sign isn't a personal one, so I'm a pretty watery gal - intuition is keen.
I must say that my astrology buddies in Boston have gotten into Whole House astrology and sold me on it, so that puts my Sun and Mars in the second house. Values - intensely. I do have a heavy Libra influence, as you have pointed out, Arian. My astrology teacher has been Joseph Crane who just published a book on Hellenistic Astrology. And he has been a student of Robert Hand who is in Virginia at the Catholic University there getting another PhD - this time in the Classics - while combing their ancient texts for more information on the ancient astrologies. Hand tells us that the current common choice of the Placidian system was random, and came about because of a prominent teacher's personal influence, which made it popular, having nothing to do with it's reliability. (Comments?) I've written to Astrodeinst to ask them to include the Whole House option. I use the Vedic format on my Mac Io program to allow for this.
At any rate I hope we see a big shift before 2011 or 12 when Uranus in Pisces finally transitions out. Things are so strange right now... I have a major Pluto transit too (on my DSC - opposite my Sun). Anyone see a major break coming? I thought when Mars was retrograde things would shake up in the federal government. Maybe it did. It may have brought impeachment out in a big way. Today a newspaper (the Philadelphia Inquirer) *finally* published the op-ed piece written by three members of the House Judiciary Committee on impeachment(!). That was huge.
Thanks for being there guys. Astrology is so awesome and so useful. I'm so happy to have found you.
EE