posted July 23, 2009 06:46 PM         

Surely there must be a chink of positivity in challenging transits. But it seems some astrologers would prefer scarying the living daylights out of us than telling us anything good about these particular aspects.

The below transit description of Neptune square Mars had me worried for months and I didn't even feel it when it hit last year. I can't tell you how paranoid I got. I was constantly on the lookout for that person who was going to 'frame me'. But then again, there are some things he's been spookily accurate about.

Framed ***
Valid during many months: This influence affects your sense of who you are and challenges the validity of the life course you have set for yourself, as well as your image of yourself as an effective person. Under this influence you may get involved in situations from which you will emerge as a loser, especially in your work and at home. Or someone else may set you up in such a way that you are forced to act without knowing what is really going on, and therefore you act ineffectively. Since you are not likely to get much reinforcement from others at this time, you will be forced to rely on your own inner resources and self-confidence. Do not expect others to provide you with backbone; you need to provide your own. Be careful not to get involved with any dubious schemes, and make sure that any project you do get into is real. Certainly avoid anything you know to be corrupt or dishonest, for you will probably lose out and lose face as well. Defeats may make you feel discouraged. But don't take them too seriously. Like all influences, this one will pass. And there is a lesson to be learned here. The more you identify with what you do rather than what you are, the more difficulties this influence will cause. You are not what you do. This influence may force you to confront that issue, and if it does, you will learn to handle your life much more successfully because you will not always have to protect yourself. Another danger during this time is that you may become wrapped up in fighting for some terribly idealistic cause that has little chance of succeeding or of giving you any real satisfaction. All that you can count on is that you will be required to surrender your individuality for a "higher purpose," which usually turns out to be someone else's ego.

Best,
Miss Mystic

posted July 23, 2009 08:41 PM         

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... someone needs to give Robert Hand a Valium and a glass of wine or something.

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posted July 23, 2009 09:35 PM         

transiting Pluto is squaring my Pluto with 23 minutes of arc applying right now. I agree with what he wrote about that transit. He didn't explain it as a negative transit. He even explained how to get the positive change with this transit.

I have his book on transits,and I love it. It helps me understand the transits that I am going through.

Transiting Sedna opposing my Venus hasn't been feeling good nor is transiting Ixion squaring my Ascendant. Those are also transneptunian transits that I am going through right now. They are similar to transiting Neptune oppose Venus and Pluto square Ascendant. I read Robert Hand's transit book to give me some insight into those transits but keep in mind that Sedna is more otherworldly,remote than Neptune and plutino, Ixion has to do with second chances,understanding the karmic wheel,matters of involving gratitude,and things like lust and coveting.

I don't think that his interpretations are fatalistic,gloomy,nor even extreme.

His interpretations are both psychological and event-oriented. Those are interpretations that I prefer. I don't like interpretations that are only psychological nor do I like them to be only event-oriented.

Raymond

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“It is absolutely the perfect name,” Dr. Brown said, given the continuing discord among astronomers and the public over whether Pluto should have retained its planetary status.

In mythology, Eris ignited discord that led to the Trojan War.

posted July 23, 2009 10:44 PM         

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"The only way out is through" ---Robert Frost

posted July 23, 2009 10:59 PM         

i have found him, like most astrologers, to be spot on at times and only vaguely useful at others. because he is dealing with ONE TRANSIT AT A TIME, which is almost as futile as reading a sun sign column...but when you get a feel for his "slant" he becomes much more readable.

posted July 24, 2009 09:40 AM         

There will always be positive and negative descriptions. But stating possibilities isn't the same as stating things with certainty. But in any ways, I'd personally prefer straight honesty instead of sugar coating.

Just as others said, we have to see by ourselves what really makes sense and what not. And if we are scared or can't take any blunt description, we can always choose not to look at it.

But in any cases, we shouldn't easily discredit someone this easily, just coz his works are less appealing to some of us.

posted July 24, 2009 01:47 PM         

I also read the interpretations for hard aspects from Pluto to Moon, and they aren't fatalistic. He talks about the psychological influence of the transit as well as possible events that the transits can manifest as. He doesn't say anything like like it will or definitely going to happen. He says like it may or can happen. He talks about ways to use the transits to get positive results. He tells how to work them so you don't view the transit as some enemy to be scared of but as a tool to use for one's spiritual growth. Hard transits tend to be more about giving lessons that teach us and help with spiritual growth. They are the ones that test us. It's not the easy transits.

American Civil Rights Leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said the following:

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

trines,sextiles are the comfort and convenience. Squares,oppositions, and some conjunctions,are the challenge and controversy.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr had a t-square of Moon in Pisces in 12th square the opposition of Mars in Gemini in 3rd and Saturn in Sagittarius in 9th.

Raymond

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“It is absolutely the perfect name,” Dr. Brown said, given the continuing discord among astronomers and the public over whether Pluto should have retained its planetary status.

In mythology, Eris ignited discord that led to the Trojan War.

posted July 27, 2009 06:37 AM         

Ciro Discepolo's interpretations for transits are a favourite of mine. They are extremely realistic and to the point. They may bother some people though.