Finding Success in the Horoscope: The Slevin System of Horoscope Analysis
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Accessible to both the new student of astrology and those at the professional level, Slevin's writing is full of humor and engaging metaphors. Her new system of interpretation is sure to be of interest to anyone seeking to understand their own astrological potential for success.
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| ISBN-13: | 9780892541416 |
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| Publisher: | Nicolas-Hays, Inc |
| Publication date: | 05/01/2008 |
| Pages: | 198 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d) |
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Finding Success in the Horoscope
The Slevin System of Horoscope Analysis
By Jackie Slevin
NICOLAS-HAYS, INC.
Copyright © 2008 Jackie SlevinAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-89254-141-6
CHAPTER 1
Windows on the World—The Midheaven
Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market.
Arthur Hugh Clough
As with any puzzle, it's best to begin with the corner pieces, to determine the angles on the frame.
The crux of the Slevin System in horoscope analysis lies in the determination of one's skills and how those skills will be made visible to others and to the world at large. The fundamental premise is learning how to achieve success, notoriety, status, or the highest visibility utilizing aspects and other techniques. These are largely dependent on the Midheaven (MC) and the Ascendant, the angles of perspective, our personal windows on the world.
Across the globe of twenty-four time zones and approximately 120 degrees of latitude, over 15,000 babies are born every hour. The planets in their horoscopes are essentially identical, with the exception of the Moon, which changes every two hours, and the angles, which change every four minutes. Thus the angles of the horoscope are crucial in determining personal distinctiveness from collective similarity.
People Live What They See
The Ascendant is the window or lens through which we project our personality. It defines the point where we emerge from birth into the world and thus describes our physical appearance and the conditioning of our early life. The sign on the Ascendant, planets conjunct it or in the first house, cast a permanent veil of influence over this window, while planets in the first house serve as continuous window dressing. Planets in aspect to the Ascendant also play their role in the native's perspective, for they describe what the native first notices when he or she looks out of this window. The ascendant and the planets in aspect to it describe the circumstances and environment of one's personal presentation. This angle, and the window treatment it receives, will determine whether one's personal window on the world is perceived through a glass darkly or through a vista of spectacular brilliance.
The Midheaven, or MC, is our window on the world at large. Here we shine the brightest, attain our highest and greatest perspective, and display our public presentation. The planet ruling the MC describes our view of the world, our personal peak of achievement. Serving as the principal indicator of one's aspirations, position in life, status, reputation, and rank, it is defined in modern terms as the career or profession. Using either the ancient or modern perspective, it is the crown of the chart, the pinnacle of our achievements, and it serves as the guidepost to where our life's purpose is consummated. The Midheaven and the planets in aspect to it describe the circumstances and environment of one's public presentation. Planets in aspect to the Midheaven describe the equipment needed to climb the mountain to our highest destination. Aspects to the Midheaven describe the journey.
Aries Midheaven—Ruling Planet: Mars
The Aries stall in the marketplace is one that is fast-paced and loaded with constant action. Spontaneity is more valuable than the tried and true, and their stall will be guarded covetously as new trails are blazed for prospective venues of their innovative presentations. Self-sufficient in the extreme, they are disinclined to share their place in the limelight or take direction from anyone. Raw energy is their stock in trade, and here is where a shopper finds soldiers, athletes, pioneers, explorers, hunters, leaders, daredevils and self-made, rugged individualists. The heat is on in this stall, and working with fire, knives, sharp tools, or anything dangerous for that matter, creates intrigue and gives the Aries Midheaven the knife-edge challenge they need to promote, chase, or conquer. They're no strangers to hard, physical work and competition of any kind is their clarion call to battle.
Chart 1 on page 9, an example of Aries on the Midheaven, is American military general Norman Schwarzkopf, who, in August 1990, executed Operation Desert Storm, the U.S. led campaign that liberated Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War. Commanding the respect, admiration, and affection of an entire nation, "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf was a veteran of numerous military assignments, including two tours of duty of Vietnam and, in 1983, as commander of U.S. forces in the invasion of Grenada. The son of a West Point graduate and general by the same name, Schwarzkopf was bred to soldiering from his early youth. After attending his father's alma mater, he later earned a master's degree in Engineering, specializing in guided missiles. Disgusted by the military tactics of the Vietnam War and their attendant corruption, Schwarzkopf, convinced that the system could only change by good soldiers rising to the top, internalized this lesson when running his combat units in the Persian Gulf. As a result, casualties were minimal, the Saudi culture was respected, and troops were treated with dignity. With his advice to others as "Be the leader you would like to have," Schwarzkopf retired from active duty in 1991. His autobiography It Doesn't Take a Hero was published in 1992.
Taurus Midheaven—Ruling Planet: Venus
The Taurus stall is likely placed front and center in the market, for Taurus is the sign of the bank, the very cornerstone of business, and the teller is always present to exchange currency and cash checks. Moving the merchandise and maintaining a positive cash flow is the raison d'être, and music and arts and crafts are just as crucial to Taurus Midheaven as the coin of the realm. They seek to present the public with a garden of earthly delights, celebrating Mother Nature in all her glory. Here is the creature comfort zone, the place to buy perfume, flowers, musical instruments and artists' supplies, along with agricultural products. This stall is the meeting place for speculating businesspeople, bankers, insurance brokers, musicians, singers, sculptors, artists, gardeners, farmers, naturalists, and cowboys. The acquisition of legal tender to fertilize fields for new growth is standard operating procedure for these folks, who seek a comfortable routine to sow and reap for a high rate of return. Sensual, possessive, and deliberate, they know you get what you pay for.
Chart 2, for American entrepreneur Donald Trump, provides an example of Taurus Midheaven. Trump is a world-renowned real estate tycoon who owns some of the world's most prestigious addresses including The Trump Palace, Trump Parc, Trump Plaza, and the Trump World Tower. One of the richest men in the world, Trump, the son of a self-made millionaire in real estate development, accompanied his father to building sites in youth. After graduating from New York Military Academy, Fordham University, and first in his class at the Wharton School of Business, Trump was welcomed into his father's real estate team, the Trump Organization, and gravitated toward New York's most affluent clubs, speculating and investing his way up. Known as the P.T. Barnum of real estate, Trump makes a bold statement in person, in the press, and in public, stamping his name on each building with his Midas touch. Overextended at age 40, his empire began to decline and fall when he was unable to pay $8.8 billion in loans. Through trading and leveraging, he restructured his colossal debt, hitting the jackpot again with investing in the Trump Taj Mahal, a deluxe gambling casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and waterfront property in Brooklyn, New York. Trump's toys include a yacht worth $100 million and a 118-room palace in Florida. The author of three books, The Art of the Deal (1987), Surviving at the Top (1990), and The Art of the Comeback (1997), the potentate's byline is, "I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking, you might as well think big."
Gemini Midheaven—Ruling Planet: Mercury
This stall is the information center, complete with the post office, telephone, Internet access, and newsstand. Bulletin boards are available for posting messages, and here is where to use the public address system. This is where you hail a taxi, send a telegram, wire a transfer, and connect to the public transportation system. Pens, paper, postcards, paperbacks, and magazines of all kinds are for sale here, and this is where to rent or purchase an automobile, bicycle, Ipod, beeper, cell phone, or radio. A variety of foreign languages are spoken and if you need atranslation of anything, from Sanskrit, Shakespeare, or the latest lingo, you came to the right place. The Gemini stall is abuzz with communicators of all kinds, including journalists, reporters, couriers, teachers, writers, sales representatives, telephone operators, drivers, radio announcers, auctioneers, merchants, traders, receptionists, commuters, public relation specialists, commentators, gossips, forgers, and con artists. These multifaceted individuals in this stall usually pursue more than one career. Moving with the speed of light, Gemini rules flexibility, motion, dexterity, and agility of wit as well as body. Acrobats, comedians and dancers dwell here, too.
An example of Gemini Midheaven is seen in Chart 3 on page 13, American writer and poet Jack Kerouac. Author of the classic On the Road, the definitive bible of the Beat generation, Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac was the son of French Canadian immigrants and spoke English as a second language in his formative years. He enlisted in the merchant marines in 1939 after graduating high school, followed by a brief stint in the navy. In 1945 he met his mentor, lover and traveling buddy Neal Cassady, the model of the character Dean Moriarty, with whom he spent three years roaming America. By 1950 he published his first novel of his Lowell boyhood, Town and the City. The following year he wrote his first draft of On the Road on a single roll of butcher paper in three weeks.
Between 1952–1956, Kerouac resumed his peripatetic life of roaming North America and Mexico, supporting himself with odd jobs, studying and rewriting On the Road, and other experimental works, in his own compositional method of "spontaneous prose." The publication of On the Road in 1957 was an overnight sensation, firmly establishing Kerouac as the mouthpiece of the Beatniks. Additional novels The Subterraneans and Dharma Bums followed one year later.
Disillusioned with fame and its resultant loss of privacy, Kerouac attempted to withdraw from notoriety in California, where, in 1960, he published Big Sur, a soul-searching narrative of his struggle with alcoholism, the disease that ultimately caused his death on October 13, 1969.
Cancer Midheaven—Ruling Planet: The Moon
Here is the customer service center. The family-owned and operated restaurant and inn is located in this stall, where you restore and nourish yourself with chicken soup for the body and for the soul. Cancer provides, nurtures, and protects from womb to tomb, and catering to the public is the highest priority. The three most fundamental needs—food, clothing, and shelter—are available in abundance. The national flag is proudly displayed, tradition is upheld and observed, and Mom and Pop of this establishment are local legends of hospitality. They preside as chieftains of an extended clan of solid citizens who stick together; family members who work here have a job for life, those who don't feel Mom's apron strings pulling them home. The all-consuming family bond can extend beyond blood ties to embrace the human family at large. In addition to the solace of home and hearth, the Cancer stall offers care-givers of all kinds, women's commodities, babies, midwives, nurses, chefs, bakers, insurance brokers, restaurant owners, innkeepers, photographers, shopkeepers, grocers, brewers, vintners, fishermen, sailors and ship captains. Historians and keepers of the oral tradition are held in the highest esteem here. The Moon rules sensation, response, the ebb and flow of the public, tempo and rhythm. Dancers and musicians and entertainers are found here, too.
Chart 4 on page 16, Simon Wiesenthal, shows an example of a Cancer Midheaven. Wiesenthal was a Polish architect and author of The Murderers Among Us (1967), his memoir of tracking down members of the Nazi regime who were responsible for the Holocaust. After receiving a degree in architectural engineering in 1932, Wiesenthal, a Jewish professional, was forced to close his business in 1939 due to the Soviet occupation. Captured in 1941 and assigned to the Osterbahn Works, a forced labor camp, he escaped in October, 1943, weeks before mass annihilation began. Recaptured in 1944, he was sent to Janwska in Lvov, Poland, where, under the advancing Red Army, he was marched under Nazi guard over 400 miles to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Hovering between life and death, Wiesenthal weighed less than 100 pounds when an American unit liberated the camp on May 5, 1945.
Immediately upon regaining his health, Wiesenthal began gathering evidence on Nazi atrocities for the War Crimes Section of the United States Army, which was utilized in the American zone war crime trials. In 1947, he opened the Jewish Historical Documentation Center in Linz, Austria, for compiling evidence for future trials. In 1953, Wiesenthal received word that Adolf Eichmann, supervisor of the implementation of the "Final Solution," was seen in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Following a painstaking search and paper trail through Europe, South America, and the Middle East, he eventually brought Eichmann to trial in Israel where he was found guilty of mass murder and executed on May 31, 1961.
Over the next three decades, Wiesenthal and his staff eventually apprehended over 1,100 Nazi war criminals, including Karl Silberbauer, who arrested Anne Frank, Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps, and, posthumously, the Angel of Death, Josef Mengele.
When once asked to explain his motives for hunting former Nazis along with contemporary neo-Nazis, Wiesenthal replied,
You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us "What have you done?" there will be many answers. You will say, "I became a jeweler," another will say, "I have smuggled coffee and American cigarettes," another will say "I built houses." But I will say, "I didn't forget you."
Leo Midheaven—Ruler: The Sun
This stall is the grandstand of the market, where performances are held, parades pass, and speeches are given. The local stage is here, where one can view the gamut of performers from street entertainers to Shakespearean productions. There's a recreation center, complete with a playground for children, board and video games, amusement park with rides, gymnasium, gambling casino, and a cabaret with floorshows. The sports arena and racetrack can be found, along with a gym and a spa. This stall houses the gold market and stock exchange, where stocks and commodities are traded with high financial risk. Palatial residences are magnificent, where privileged people rule their empire with an air of command. Catering to the jet set, the cocktail party is at this stall, and the hosts conduct themselves with noblesse oblige. This is the place for romantic trysts, complete with candlelit dinners, midnight moonlight, and champagne breakfasts. It's also the home of the artists' studio, music hall, or any venue for creativity, performing, and display. This stall his home to actors, entertainers, administrators, stock brokers, banquet managers, children, coaches, athletes, ambassadors and dignitaries of all kinds. Free-lance bohemians are present, along with artists and pregnant women.
The chart of Grace, Princess of Monaco, shown as Chart 5, is an example of Leo Midheaven.
Princess Grace, born Grace Patricia Kelly, was an Academy-Award winning American actress. Grace Kelly, a shy, convent-educated girl barely out of her teens, was a Hollywood sensation in the films High Noon, Rear Window, High Society, Dial M for Murder, and To Catch a Thief. Her mysterious combination of sex appeal edged with propriety earned her the nickname, "The Pious Man's Marilyn Monroe." She was the number one box office hit in 1954 and received more fan mail than anyone at MGM studios, eventually winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Country Girl in 1955. While attending the Cannes Film Festival later that year, she met Prince Rainier of Monaco, who was taken by her charm and beauty. Accepting his proposal of marriage to her six months later, her marriage vows transformed into Her Serene Highness, Princess of Monaco. Her royal wedding was the first media social event to be televised. The fairy-tale princess lived in the ancestral Rainier castle and gave birth to three royal children. An committed philanthropist, Princess Grace founded a school in Monaco for aspiring artists, established the Princess Grace awards for excellence in young dancers, actors, and filmmakers, was President of the American Red Cross, and gave much of her time to improving the lives of the Monegasques. Despite her royal status, she was trapped by the pressure of living in the public eye, constantly surrounded by reporters and photographers, and was singularly unprepared for the fundamental cultural differences between her and Prince Rainier, who shared none of her interests in the arts. Drifting apart from her husband in the '70s, yet keeping up appearances, Princess Grace moved to Paris with her two daughters. On September 13, 1982, Princess Grace suffered a stroke while driving, careening her car off a cliff and crashing 120 feet below. She died of her injuries the following day.
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Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction to the Slevin System of Horoscope Analysis
Chapter 1: Windows on the World: The Midheaven
Chapter 2: Location is Everything: The Principal Planet
Chapter 3: Dignities, Mutual Receptions, and Major Configurations
Chapter 4: The Cardinal Axis
Chapter 5: Appearances Count
Chapter 6: It Runs in the Family
Chapter 7: Royal Fixed Stars
Chapter 8: The Critical 29th Degree
Chapter 9: The Express Lane to the Top
Chapter 10: And for the Rest of Us
Epilogue
Notes
List of Charts
About the Author