Comments on: Until Death Do Us Part

By: Karen Christino

Karen Christino — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:19:13 +0000

I like this technique a lot, but have not really studied it in many charts. (It works in mine very well.) Dr. Broughton added the modern planets in his 1898 book, and described initial afflictions of Uranus and Neptune as someone they would “keep company” with but not actually marry – which perhaps has more varied interpretations these days, as it doesn’t necessarily describe Ted or Joan Kennedy’s experience.

We could see the twin towers right across the Hudson River from Brooklyn Heights, and today is the anniversary of 9/11, so we’ve been remembering all those events. Our neighbors on the 4th floor watched the towers fall from their bedroom window. 8 years has certainly gone by quickly!

By: Mary Plumb

Mary Plumb — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:27:04 +0000

Hi Karen,

Thank you!

I’m just getting the Oct/Nov issue of TMA ready to post online and Al Morrison’s great 1991 article – Mental Chemistry: Interpreting the Speed and Position of Mercury and the Moon – will be the featured sample.

Thanks for the earlier reference about applying aspects of the luminaries..I actually thought it did go back to Ptolemy, but had just reviewed Carter and knew it was there as well..it is a great simple rule to work with, don’t you think?

How are things in Brooklyn Heights?

By: Karen Christino

Karen Christino — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:48:10 +0000

You did a fabulous job with the comparative progressions and eclipses, Mary! Very telling and accurate. I love Ted and Joan’s comparison and thanks so much for including her, as she seems to have been left out of the recent news. I’m also excited to see that Charles Carter wrote about forecasting the future spouse by applying aspects of the luminaries. I found that Evangeline Adams used this technique, too, at about the same time. The earliest mention of it that I could find was in Ptolemy (Book 4, Chapter 5). Dr. Luke D. Broughton also wrote about it in Elements of Astrology (1898) and I did, too, in my book, What Evangeline Adams Knew.

By: Mary Plumb

Mary Plumb — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:09:25 +0000

Hi Shelley,
Thanks for the comment..

I thought it was interesting with Ted’s applying aspects..I mean, one would also count the sextile to the Pluto occurring before the sextile to Saturn..I wonder if he had a serious laison before marrying Vicki..also, she maybe could be seen as both Pluto and Saturn?

By: Mary Plumb

Mary Plumb — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:05:39 +0000

Hi Kate,

Thanks for reading..

You are a loyal sister and very fine astrologer..

Regarding Porphyry: as you know, I’m mostly using whole signs, but those Porphyry cusps can be amazing..

By: Shelley Ackerman

Shelley Ackerman — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:23:02 +0000

Hi Mary:
Wonderful article, thanks for pertinent reminders of Carter’s valuable rules re: marriage.

By: kate plumb

kate plumb — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:59:24 +0000

Mary this was fascinating-thank you. You used the porphyry cusps well. A blog like this makes one wake up to what astrology can do -in hindsight of course but nonetheless dramatic.