posted November 20, 2011 02:49 AM            

i do not but if i read something i can access it sometime in the future. i'm also not sure if it is actual memory or just ability to focus..

posted November 20, 2011 03:49 AM            

Photographica I think conjuncts my Gem rising. Mercury in Taurus or even my Cancer moon that rules the 3rd.

posted November 20, 2011 04:47 AM            

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Originally posted by sand:
anyone have or know anyone with photographic memory? that would be cool..

i do not but if i read something i can access it sometime in the future. i'm also not sure if it is actual memory or just ability to focus..

my merc is in aries opp pluto. i don't think the other aspects relate so much to good memory. jupiter is in my 3rd house..

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Honestly, I feel fairly certain my mom had a photographic memory. She had the ability to memorize phone numbers and all kinds of other data, pretty much instantly.

I believe that as a child I had one but I lost the ability. In school I always excelled during spelling class because at the beginning of the week when we started a new set of words, I'd stare at them in the textbook for a few seconds, basically taking a mental snapshot of them and the entire page they were on, then at the end of the week during the spelling test I'd just close my eyes and pull the page up and take the test. As I got older I lost the ability and I'm known more for being forgetful than anything else, although when it comes to certain subject matter my memory is still good, almost to the point of freakiness.

It never occurred to me that it might be linked to Pluto, I figured it was more a Neptune thing, similar to actual photography - with it being about the ability to remember images and data in photo-like quality, and everything.

posted November 20, 2011 11:41 AM            

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sand: anyone have or know anyone with photographic memory? that would be cool.

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I have a photographic memory. I've had it my whole life. It helped me excel in Math and Science growing up. It helped me get honors in High School and College. I'm intelligent but not ambitious or particularly motivated, when the class wasn't subjective for example a class like "Critical Reading and Interpretive Literature" I could apply my powerful abilities of recall. I also do photography and I see life in images. If it is print or a visual image it's mentally stored and can immediately be recalled. However having these skills does a number on my brain. I used to get a lot of headaches and I deal with excessive nervous energy which makes it difficult to relax. I'm always anxious and not able to slow down my racing mind. I guess it's the price that comes with the gift.

posted November 21, 2011 03:13 AM            

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Originally posted by BelligerentPygmy:
It never occurred to me that it might be linked to Pluto, I figured it was more a Neptune thing, similar to actual photography - with it being about the ability to remember images and data in photo-like quality, and everything.

I just pulled up my chart to check and I have Mercury aspecting both Neptune and Pluto. My mom didn't have mercury aspecting pluto, but it's in a water sign, and aspects neptune as well.

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hmm.. i guess i dunno where i got pluto too!

but i have merc trine neptune. neptune is in 3rd in cappy.

posted November 21, 2011 03:16 AM            

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I'm intelligent but not ambitious or particularly motivated

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posted November 21, 2011 08:35 PM            

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Originally posted by Chaos:
Icarus, is void Moon refered to unaspected Moon? How about unaspected Gemini Moon opp ASC + Cancer Mercury conj Cancer Mars in the 8th house??...MY friend has that - fantastic memory she has!

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posted November 22, 2011 02:36 AM            

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Originally posted by NativelyJoan:
I have a photographic memory. I've had it my whole life. It helped me excel in Math and Science growing up. It helped me get honors in High School and College. I'm intelligent but not ambitious or particularly motivated, when the class wasn't subjective for example a class like "Critical Reading and Interpretive Literature" I could apply my powerful abilities of recall. I also do photography and I see life in images. If it is print or a visual image it's mentally stored and can immediately be recalled. However having these skills does a number on my brain. I used to get a lot of headaches and I deal with excessive nervous energy which makes it difficult to relax. I'm always anxious and not able to slow down my racing mind. I guess it's the price that comes with the gift.

I have Mercury in Libra in the 8th in harmony with my whole chart. It's Trine my Ascendant, Sextile my Saturn, Uranus, Venus, and opposite my Moon. I think it's Mercury in the 8th in good aspect to the remainder of my natal chart.

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posted November 22, 2011 06:54 AM            

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Originally posted by Icarus:
People with strong lunar influence like the Moon or the Sun in Cancer probably have a good memory.

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posted November 22, 2011 12:49 PM            

The only way I can remember words is if I look at them as "pictures" (a combination of black lines and curves against the page) and read the words from a snapshot in my brain. Otherwise, I can read a word 2,000 times and I'll still forget it two minutes later. (The worst is when I remember someone's birthday but have forgotten their name. "Oh hey... you! Happy birthday!").

I have Uranus and Neptune in the 3rd house, Neptune trine Mercury (in Taurus), Mercury opposition Pluto, Pluto in the 1st house, and Mercury square my Leo moon in the 10th house. I feel it's related to the Uranus/Neptune in the 3rd trine Mercury, most of all.

posted November 22, 2011 07:15 PM            

Both have Pluto opposite Mercury, with Pluto sextile Neptune and Neptune in a trine with Mercury. So, it's a Neptune-Pluto-Mercury setup.

posted November 23, 2011 02:47 AM            

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Originally posted by featherlightly:

I have Uranus and Neptune in the 3rd house, Neptune trine Mercury (in Taurus), Mercury opposition Pluto, Pluto in the 1st house, and Mercury square my Leo moon in the 10th house. I feel it's related to the Uranus/Neptune in the 3rd trine Mercury, most of all.

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we have similar aspects. uranus falls in my 2nd tho and merc is in aries.. but my moon is in leo too conj cancer MC..

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Both have Pluto opposite Mercury, with Pluto sextile Neptune and Neptune in a trine with Mercury. So, it's a Neptune-Pluto-Mercury setup.

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this too if i wasn't clear in prev. posts..

posted November 25, 2011 06:16 AM            

taurus planets (sensual) touching mercury (mind)? or even a taurus merc?

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Researchers who work with memory have learned that the five senses can play a very significant role in the process of making, storing, and retrieving memories. Smell in particular is very evocative, as the olfactory bulb is located right next to the part of the brain that handles memory storage, so people tend to create strong links between smells and particular memories. Many people have strong associations with a huge variety of smells, ranging from “my grandmother's house” to “that one really good meal,” and smell is sometimes used in marketing to recall such memories and encourage people to buy things.

The senses of touch, hearing, sight, and taste can also play a role in sense memory, although these senses are not as directly as involved as the sense of smell. If you close your eyes for a moment, you may be able to visualize the inside of your kitchen, remember what it feels like to pet an animal, evoke the taste of a piece of fruit, or recall a particular chord in a favorite song. In these cases, the sensational experience is stored in the mind along with the memory of the event.

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term comes from acting. specifically method acting.

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Within the realm of acting theory, people use “sense memory” to talk about recalling memories which can be used to more fully inhabit a character on stage. For example, when an actor wants to get into the mood for a sad scene, he or she might use sense memory to reconstruct a funeral or other sad event. Rather than just acting sad, the actor momentarily is sad as he or she remembers the sound of the rain on umbrellas, the feel of a clot of earth, and the smell of lilies around the grave.

Affective memory is a controversial technique. Several acting techniques and methods rely on sense memory to improve acting skills, and proponents of these schools of acting argue that their acting feels more real and believable when they harness sense memory. Other people believe that the concept is dubious at best, and that people tend to use it as a crutch on stage, rather than refining their skills in other ways.

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long list of method actors: