posted April 05, 2013 05:16 PM            

State your placements with Jupiter/9H
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Jupiter Virgo 6H, opp Moon, trine Uranus-NN
Mercury Sag 9H, square Jupiter

China - Miao headdresses

Greece - Temples

posted April 06, 2013 05:43 AM            

Asian cultures (more so Japan) would be a second.

I love learning about other cultures a lot.

posted April 06, 2013 06:31 AM            

Let's see, I have:

9H Jupiter Aries, dominant planet, & final dispositor on a long dispositor chain
(sun is transiting exactly conjunct today)

5H Sag Neptune
4H Sag Venus (on the 5H cusp)

I LOVE the vibrant colors, amazing food, music and traditions of India:

Plus, the clothes!

And I just want to be here ^

Or here maybe.

Plus I love Bollywood movies.

posted April 06, 2013 10:22 AM            

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Originally posted by Faith:
Plus I love Bollywood movies.

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Oh, I forgot all about movies and music. I LOVE Indian food, too (Trader Joe's has the best whole wheat Tandoori Naan!) and Bride and Prejudice is a favorite -- I love the clean family-friendliness of Bollywood movies (and Japanese TV shows).

And SPANISH guitar for the fire, passion, rhythm and simplicity -- Jesse Cook, Roni Benise, Otmar Liebert, Marc Antoine. I think that's my 9th house Mars checking in!

posted April 06, 2013 10:38 AM            

I love european styles too and i adore huge goth churches.

Love eating middle eastern food and candies

posted April 06, 2013 08:22 PM            

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Originally posted by Heartless:
fun topic! all my travels are planned around food, beer, wine and nature.

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posted April 06, 2013 08:28 PM            

Iceland.

When I was younger, I had this thing about China. Still do, honestly but I heard learning Mandarin and Cantonese is damn near impossible, and I'm not really good at picking up languages in the first place. Plus my astrocartography for that area, sucks.

posted April 06, 2013 11:34 PM            

Thessalian Enodia on obol (coin depicting torch-bearing, horseback goddess native to 4th century BC Thessaly)

Kaunos (Kbid) - (Dalyan, Turkey) - Caria (tombs)

Colossi of Memnon (Amenhotep III) (Thebes) - Luxor/Nile - Egypt

Kom Ombo Temple (Nubt) - Egypt

~ Jupiter ruling IC/4th Sagittarius cusp - Taurus on the 9th Cusp with Moon (Cancer on the 11h cusp), Venus on South Node 4th house cnj Uranus in Sagittarius 4th house. Neptune in Sagittarius ruling the 7th, and Mercury in Capricorn 4th house ruling 1st and 10th (North Node/MC) cnj Jupiter. Moon bQ Jupiter.

"all roads lead to Rome"

Some of my ancestors hailed from Greece, migrated to USA around the turn of the century (last). Presumably during the 1870's like many Western European migration waves (occupation). I've only had a bit of evidence to say that we are at least partially Thessalonian, another group that pops up in my ancestry quest (ahem~ research) is Makedonian-Anatolian. So I have a special, personal interest in Greek cultures, though mostly I'd say I'm concerned with archaeological matters. My obsession with Classical archaeology spans the entire Mediterranean region (though it decreases sharply around the 14th century AD), but Egypt was the beginning, that's where my heart belongs, in truth. But, I despise Hawass, and find the political/societal unrest in modern Egypt, the extremism, racism, intolerance - whatever you want to call it (all around corruption, maybe). Has made it more appalling than inviting, even for a lifelong Aegyptophile like myself. So, I don't see myself going to half of the places I'd always dreamed I'd go in Egypt in this lifetime at least.

Thessaly and Turkey on the other hand... absolutely! ^^

I have a lot of love for East Asian cultures both past and present; and Bengali (3-6th century BC) culture (of course this region is beyond my interest today) as well as Tamil/Sri Lankan Indian culture - But my interest in the Asian continent is fairly new for me still, not something I really knew I was drawn to, just something I discovered one piece at a time that I did have curiosity for after all! I think the Tibetan, Tamil, and Bengali interests I can find more about from where I am now, and with (again) the political (pseudo-religious?) discontent in each of those regions today - I'm safer observing and learning from where I am now. But, they do interest me a great deal! ^^; There's no one thing that interests me alone in Far Eastern culture... just a lot of little things that compel me to keep studying them... I almost feel as though I'm looking for something that I need there - but... NN Gemini... paranoia? XD *spirit-mind says go East* so, I keep going further East... lol
Japan and Korea, for the most part, I am interested in literary culture, and mythology... although observing their traditions and costumes, and cuisine is definitely *something* too! lol - (also, I'm not perfect, but I do consider myself taoist, not religiously, spiritually, and philosophically - the taoist path and I clicked instantly, in a way organized, popular religious beliefs could never.)

But, as you can see - it's mostly historical culture that interests me, more than surviving/modern cultures. I'd love a culture that accepted the conveniences of today, and finally did away with what has failed our kind time and time again (imho - it always comes down to ignorance, greed/envy and vanity/hubris). ^^; Where is that... utopian... culture? Will we ever see it?

images~ googled (been busy as of late, no time for adjusting/relocating images)~ ^^; sorry.

Good to see you again, Moonfish! <3 Hope you are well!!!

nini~

posted April 07, 2013 05:09 PM            

Native American - I love how they lived in harmony with nature, and they are sexy.

slavic culture - I´m torn here, but I do love slavic peoples honesty and sentimentalism to a certain extent.

posted April 07, 2013 06:04 PM            

I also really appreciate Europe generally, though. I love the architecture, the art, the languages, the literature, the FOOD, and just the general variety of landscapes and peoples crammed into a really small area.

posted April 08, 2013 08:31 AM            

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Originally posted by Jkitty:
Oh, I forgot all about movies and music. I LOVE Indian food, too (Trader Joe's has the best whole wheat Tandoori Naan!) and Bride and Prejudice is a favorite -- I love the clean family-friendliness of Bollywood movies (and Japanese TV shows).

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Yes

Although I'd feel kinda awkward having my kids watch the Cobra Dance in Bride and Prejudice

Have you seen Parineeta? That's one of the best movies I ever saw.

Beautiful Parineeta Scene

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Originally posted by Jkitty:
And SPANISH guitar for the fire, passion, rhythm and simplicity -- Jesse Cook, Roni Benise, Otmar Liebert, Marc Antoine. I think that's my 9th house Mars checking in!

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posted April 08, 2013 08:55 AM            

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Originally posted by Kerosene:
Omg I hate Bollywood films...
Yeah one or two are okay but I don't know how people sit through all of them.
The only good indian films aren't commercially successful because they belong to the indie genre.
Most indians are that have good taste are sick of them too.

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Well I am not pretending to have good taste, I just like what I like!

Have you seen 3 Idiots? Commercially successful and brilliant. Slumdog Millionaire, does that count for Bollywood?

I admit, I have watched some Bollywood films that were terrible. And, even worse, I sat there the whole time trusting that they would eventually get better...and they didn't.