ASTROLOGY PHILIPPINES

By Mari Garcia Read Part 3 If we apply these [qualities and elements] to the chart of the Dalai Lama we see Capricorn on the IC.  Capricorn is cold dry suggesting that there is slowness and separation in home life, foundations and family and that they are traditional and conservative.  The ruler is Saturn in Pisces in the 6th with neutral dignity but cadent. Family and foundations are precarious and are dependent on others.  The Dalai Lama’s life started in a small farming family but he was taken at the age of four to succeed his predecessor and honour the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. The ruler Saturn is also in a tight opposition to Neptune and the Moon echoing the sense of loss, as well as the contradiction and paradox of spiritual and physical reality. Saturn as the ruler of the IC is hampered and must bow to the will of others.  The Dalai Lama is the embodiment of Buddhist spiritualism but is also the temporal leader of the Ti...

By Mari Garcia Read Part 2 The strength of the individual houses was also directly related to this model which attributes to the Ascendant the source of light. The houses associated with the Cross of  Matter, the 1st, 10, 7, and 4 are considered to be the strongest of houses as they had a direct and strong relationship by aspect to the Ascendant. Therefore, a planet in these angular houses was considered  to be strong, potent and effective in realising the matters of the houses it ruled.  The 9,11,5 and 3 houses were considered to be good because they were in either sextile or trine relationship to the Ascendant and therefore partook of the light. Planets in these houses could manifest the matters of the houses they ruled but depending on whether the house was above or below the horizon described whether the expression was public or private. Hence, the 9th and 11 suggested public expression while the 5 and the 3, because they are below the horizon, were...