posted June 17, 2004 05:05 PM              

Orbs was something I didn't even know about until I got here to LL. This is how I see it... If I'm giving a quick look at someone's placements, you know, just the planets, not the Houses, then I too consider the signs the planets are in to be Square/Trine, etc., if only by sign.

I could stay busy with just that.

Then, if someone wants to dig deeper, they'd TWEAK it by considering the degrees, and orbs. To me, it doesn't seem to completely CHANGE the dynamics if it turns out different, as much as it gives it an additional DIMENSION.

Sort of like - I have Taurus Rising at 29.48 degrees. All these years, until I got here to LL, I never even considered any affects of "The 29th Degree", nor did I consider I may have some Gemini influence, although it seems not to be AT ALL professional to say such a thing about Asc's. (So save it all you's out there - )...

And if I do some meditative work, you know, like when you let all the information soak in, and then allow it to enhance your natural intuitioin - and go down the line of all the signs, cuz you're not sure what your Asc is because of birth certificate tangles, I cannot relate to ONE of them more than another. I relate to all equally...

I explain the reason for this to myself. My mother almost died when I was born, and she was majorly drugged up, and this was back in 1961, when lobotomies and the like were the norm - so the drugs were NOT people friendly yet, and naturally, the drugs went through the umbilical cord to me.

posted June 17, 2004 05:08 PM              

Just, the closer the degrees are to an angle, the more intense that particular influence will be. There's probably a lot more wisdom out there about this.