Mercury in Retrograde

Only farmers I ever knew who planted by the signs used only the moon and there may be some obvious reason. Just as the moon affects the tides, it may affect ground water, bringing it closer to the surface for seed sprouting etc.. Most successful farmers plant when the ground is right and ignore the hoopla.

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Mean while back at the ranch - Joe is still looking up into the sky - only its snowing now - shucks -

I know one thing for sure - the moon effects certain people - heck the guy turned into the Wolf Man only when the moon was full - what more proof do you want -

Yes, the moon and the sun and to some extent other planets in the solar system (like mercury when it's retrograde for example) - and there are obvious reasons to any farmer who has familiarity with the signs that the moon and sun are transitting through. It's because some are fertile, some are barren, some are neutral plus some are hot, cold, dry, moist - and so certain things like ploughing, planting above ground crops as opposed to below ground crops (and visa versa), harvesting, breeding animals or castrating animals and many other farm activities are best done in accordance with the fertility, barreness and neutrality and the hot, cold, dry or moistness of celestial bodies influences that are being reflected by sun and moon.

So just for example that's why you'll see in the farmer's alamanacs that they'll recommend certain fertile days to breed animals, plant certain types of seeds, encourage growth of certain things, to grow body hair, feed extra food, to harvest foods and put them up as preserves, etc. - and there are barren days to not plant seeds, to weed out or prune instead of encouraging growth, to wean off piglets and other baby livestock animals, to castrate, to cut hair or to shear the sheep, etc. Then there are neutral times to do other things.

If a farmer chooses not to do things by the sun and the moon in their phases through the signs that does NOT mean that he won't be a successful farmer. It just means that the astrologically knowledgeable farmer who does choose to do so will stand a greater chance of being much more successful than the other farmer, and he will be much better organized in scheduling his time and his activities than the other farmer because he can plan for months and months in advance right to the day and the hour.

I wish our animals would start reading their dad gum horoscope, then. And does it ever rain in BC? I can plan all I want and take one look at the window and realize I need a new plan.

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Wouldn't do anyone any good even if animals could read their horoscopes. What I was describing above regarding astrological farming practises isn't related in any way to horoscopes, not for the animals and not for the farmers. Horoscopes are an entirely different kettle of fish altogether and are much more complicated to calculate, each one being very personal and one of a kind unique map that charts every aspect of the entire lifetime of an individual from the day they're born to the day they die.

Those daily forecast things that one sees in newspapers and such aren't really horoscopes. People just call them that because laymen don't know what they really are and because it's simpler to call them a "horoscope" than to call them a "daily generalized societal and environmental astrological trends forecast".

BC is the biggest, warmest, wettest rainforest in all of North America, so yeah, it might rain at some point each day for 10 - 12 months a year depending on the vagaries of the North Pacific ocean. Some places along the coast do get rain 365 days a year.

BC'ers accomodate all of their farming practises to the rain.

I was always amazed by the amount of time my mother put into working up a horoscope for someone. She kept decades of American Astrology and Dell Horoscope magazines. All of them had written notes on the margins. Toward the end of her astrology days word of mouth was getting her calls from all over the country and one that surprised her from the Virgin Islands. She never advertised. She never went out of her way to solicit readings. It was her hobby. If people wanted to pay she always asked that they donate to the local humane society.

I don't think she understood how many people she helped until the humane society wanted to have a dinner in her honor. That freaked her out. she was a very private person.

Darren, thanks for your story about your mother. Good for her. Doing up horoscopes is not easy, it requires so much time, patience and mathematical calculation, something I've never had the time or ability to do. I can easily read an ephemeris and interpret all of it but doing the calculations to create a horoscope is beyond me.

Your story reminds me of one of my sisters who is now in her late 80's and is a retired astrologer. She was the one that got me started learning how to interpret astrology. For her it started off as a hobby 44 years ago and she only got into it to see if it would help her to make good financial investments for her family. Well, it did help and she and her family became quite successful in investing in properties and in things like precious metals, stocks and bonds etc. and she is very comfortably set up now in her old age because of her good investments. Eventually word got around to neighbours and business people in her town and people started asking her to do their financial charts for them so they could improve their own financial situations. She did it but she charged money for doing other people's horoscopes and financial charts though because it's so time consuming and it really is not easy to do and it became a full time job for her. Word spread and after 20 years she had successful clientele from around the world.

I know how to read and interpret horoscopes and ephemerides but I need a fully educated astrologer or an astronomer to do the calculations and charting and to create them for me.

Some of the latest scientific theories is there exists a web that binds the Universe together.

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/first-imag...ive-1504989187

If this is expanded and proven, it will lend a tremendous amount of creditability to the field of Astrology.

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Makes me remember an episode of Little House on the Prairie when a new "city slicker" boy came to Walnut Grove and was fishing in Laura's fishing spot. He was using worms, if I recall correctly, which I may not be since it was nearly 40 years ago. He said it was what a book on fishing recommended but he wasn't catching anything. Meanwhile Laura was using pieces of bread and had always caught fish there. She told him, "well maybe the fish haven't read the book" ok now back to our regularly scheduled programming

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We're like the three blind men each touching a different part of an elephant and arguing over what the elephant resembles.

Lol. At least I know which part I am not touching!

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Wow. That is an awesome website, some spectacular articles, pictures and videos on there: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/