--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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."
>
still no luck this weekend eh?;-)
