--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Personally I think that astrology is hogwash, > > *except* as tricksterism. That is, some people > > whose intuition and "seeing" skills are present > > but latent can *trick* themselves into utilizing > > their latent ability to "see" by gazing a chart > > of the position of the planets. > > > > For other people, it's tarot cards. For still > > others, reading tea leaves. > > Interesting. Here's what I said back in May > of last year (I'm sure Barry didn't, you know, > read it or anything): > > "My guess: Any sufficiently complex system of > correspondences, such as astrology (any flavor), > works as a tool for focusing the intuition-- > i.e., collecting and integrating all one's > little intuitional inputs into a coherent whole > so that a prediction can be generated from it. > The system's correspondences themselves don't > 'mean' anything at all, they're just a framework > to hang the intuition on and organize what the > intuition knows. > > "Tea leaves, in other words, could work just as > well as astrology for anyone with a highly > developed intuition."
I wish to congratulate Judy for having discovered, in May of last year, a way of looking at astrology that we California hippies used to laugh about over joints back in 1966. It shows real progress on her part. As for the well-crafted implication that I somehow lifted her ideas, I might suggest that this comes from a badly-aspected birth chart that indicates Head Up Uranus syndrome. :-) The debilitating and malefic effects of Head Up Uranus syndrome have been documented by astrologers for centuries. In some extreme cases it can cause someone who has just spent a long, supposedly relax- ing and rejuvenating weekend away to come back home and fire off 15 posts to the Internet in less than twelve hours, 11 of which include putdowns of other people. It reminds me of the classic astrological advice that Nostradamus gave to his patron Catherine de Medici: "My Queen, whenever you find yourself looking at the world and seeing nothing but shit, that's Uranus."
