This is another new thread because I am up to my eyebrows in paperwork for a two day Board Meeting. Dave Barry once said "if there is one word to describe why a person cannot reach their full potential and will never reach their full potential, that word would be "Meetings." So I am just going to quickly make a few remarks here so that a new thread will be posted and try to do better next week.
I do want to make a comment on a paedophile astro signature. It isn't a good idea to define one as "anything" based on just one aspect, so many aspects must be taken into account. Yes Mars does have a great deal to do with sexuality of all types, so does the 8th house and its ruler, so does Chiron and believe it or not Saturn is a huge indicator of sexual expression where sex was learned as repressive leaving a huge potential for perversion. It's long been held that Saturn conjunct the Moon or Moon in Capricorn or in the 10th house, or Saturn in the 4th house points to a "gay and lesbian" orientation (which I don't consider "learned" behavior but born. I certainly have not found that to be true across the board of any of these aspects.
All that aside, there are many ways people express or feel a special love and understanding of children and most of them are not sexual. People who write children's books, make kids toys, play Santa, open play stores, the Mom who has all the children's parties in the neighborhoods. Labeling a specific aspect as only one way of expression can be and is dangerous, energy (astro aspects) can be used in so many different ways you have to watch and study how a person has used their energy over time or watch how events unfold historically to get a picture how a similar event will unfold.
The fires of California and the floods of Louisiana and Mississippi is a good study. You look at their state's aspects, and the aspects when say Hurricane Katrina came ashore and the date of the last disasterous Hurricane or all of them for that matter. Look at California and their aspects, when this fire started, when the 1993 and 2003 fires began and compare all those charts.
California
Sept. 9, 1850
9:41am
San Jose
Los Angeles
Sept. 4, 1781
9:11am
San Diego
July 16, 1769
8:52am
Santa Monica
July 10, 1875
12:00pm
With Scorpio as the Ascendant in the "California" chart and the ruler Mars in the 12th, and Pluto the other ruler in Aries in the 6th, you can see how volatile the State can become. Lots of 12th house activity and sixth house. Southern California I have marked by Los Angeles. To me, one of the most interesting aspects is the 21 Jupiter in Scorpio, Saturn/Neptune squared the natal Jupiter when they opposed this summer, the beginning of the drought. The Santa Ana winds come regular as clockwork every year, the drought, the heat and the wind have been on a collision course for several months. All the above charts have quite a lot of mutable and cardinal, Saturn in Gemini and Jupiter going to Capricorn isn't going to improve the situation much over the next couple of years.
The Lt. Governor made it clear that California and the wealthy GOP counties of Orange and San Diego expect the President to deliver on any and all promises to California and not to be treated like New Orleans where, and I quote "the President has gone several times, promised a lot and delivered nothing to NO, we want to make sure that doesn't happen to us." Wow, there is a Scorpio statement if I ever heard one with the Full Moon falling across the state's natal ascendant. Arnold Schwarznegger sent his Lt. Governor to give the political equivalent of a "Godfather" warning to GWB and to the insurance companies. I don't think California intends to "take one for the Gipper."
Tragic and terrible as this disaster is, I remember NO and people on roofs for a week begging for help, people walking in hip deep water with bodies all around them, Fema stopping shipments of food and water into the area, and the Governor and Mayor begging this administration to come and help them. This week the only picture I saw of Paulson and Chertoff was them standing at the airport with their hands in front of them in the praying position and California basically saying "we don't care if you come or not, but if you come you had better be prepared to do something, or don't come." And they are coming, I assume to do something for the stricken counties. It sort of puts this administration on the line, if you deliver on your promises to California, you have to deliver on your promises to Louisiana; we'll see if Louisiana's new Governor puts this administration's feet to the fire, no pun intended.
PS for those of you that know Claudia Dikinis lives in Southern California and have been writing me wondering if she is ok, I talked to her last night and she is fine, fires all around but her area isn't threatened. Just a lot of smoke so that's good. She will be back on when it cools down and there isn't such a drain on the electricity and she can turn on her computer.