I’ve been testing BaZi timing against public lives—not to see whether a chart can describe someone’s personality, but whether its ten-year luck-pillar transitions produce dates specific enough to record in advance.

For Elon Musk, I used June 28, 1971. His birth time is not publicly verified, so this is deliberately a three-pillar analysis:

Xin Hai year / Jia Wu month / Jia Shen day

That makes him a Jia Wood Day Master born in a strong Fire season. In this three-pillar version, the Day Master reads weak, making Water and Wood broadly supportive.

Because Musk is male and was born in a Yin-stem year, the luck pillars move backward from Jia Wu:

• 1998–2007: Xin Mao
• 2008–2017: Geng Yin
• 2018–2027: Ji Chou
• 2028–2037: Wu Zi
• 2038–2047: Ding Hai

The first thing that stood out was the twenty-year Wood-branch sequence from 1998 to 2017. Both Mao and Yin give a weak Jia Wood chart roots and support, despite the Metal stems above them. That period covers Zip2’s sale, PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla and most of the construction of Musk’s business empire.

The annual chart for 2008, Wu Zi, also introduces a Zi–Wu clash against his natal month branch. It occurred inside an otherwise supportive decade, which is why I would read it as volatility rather than simple failure: Tesla and SpaceX both nearly collapsed, but both survived.

The larger change arrives in 2018, when Ji Chou replaces Geng Yin. Wood support disappears and is replaced by an Earth-heavy pillar that drains a weak Wood Day Master. The model consequently treats 2018–2027 as a much heavier cycle, with 2018 itself at the bottom of the timeline.

What interests me now is the next transition.

Wu Zi begins in 2028. It is a mixed pillar, but the Zi Water restores Resource support for Jia Wood. It is followed by Ding Hai in 2038, where Hai again supplies Water and contains a Jia Wood root. Together, the model reads 2028–2047 as a second broadly supportive period.

At the annual level, the clearest concentration appears in 2031–2035:

• 2032, Ren Zi: strong Water support, but another Zi–Wu clash
• 2034, Jia Yin: direct Wood support, with an Yin–Shen clash
• 2035, Yi Mao: strong Wood support without the same major clash signature

So my forward interpretation is not simply “good years.” I would expect a new expansion phase beginning around 2028, accelerating from 2031–2035, with 2032 and 2034 productive but highly volatile and 2035 potentially the cleaner culmination.

The missing hour pillar is an important limitation: it could change the strength balance and finer annual interpretation, although it would not change the overall luck-pillar sequence.

Disclosure: the visualization comes from a small BaZi timing project I’m building called Jade Almanac. I’m not linking it here because I’m more interested in the methodological comparison.

For those who work with zodiacal releasing, primary directions, profections, dashas or other predictive systems: do you see a comparable change around 2028 or a stronger 2031–2035 window in Musk’s chart?

Anyone have any experience with the cloud- based Astrolium? Would love to hear any reviews positive or negative. Thanks!

Hi, I'm a 28F going through a difficult phase in my relationship. Could someone please check if there are any breakup indications in my or my partner's chart? If possible, I'd also appreciate any remedies or guidance. Thank you.

I've been doing a lot of solo studies for the last five years or so (I studied casually for about 10 years before becoming more serious about studying astrology.) I've always wanted to register for an actual course of some sort but as we all know, it's very difficult to find accredited colleges and schools in the US that offer an education in astrology, so we really have to rely on the most advanced astrologers in our community for instruction.

I've been looking at a few online schools with very lovely teachers and have finally reached a point where I think I'm ready to put a hefty chunk of finance into formalizing my education and become a practicing astrologer. I just want to be sure that I pick a reputable school that the community kind of regards as a green flag on an astrologer's resume.

Does anyone here have some recommendations for colleges or organizations I can look into which offer online courses?

(I know some folks are adamant in the opinion that a formal education isn't necessary and self-study can suffice but I think just really want the experience of having mentors/teachers that are versed in the really esoteric and historical parts of astrology, are familiar with structured curriculum for teaching students, etc. It's the structure and interaction with community that I'm also really looking for here, hence wanting to wrap up self-study in favor of finding a school to join.)

Hi,

this Mercury retrograde has been quite constructive for Astro-Seek so far (compared to the last Rx one, when bot attacks just obliterated and constantly crashed the server) and there are some new add-ons based on user requests:

1) Primary Directions: Planet-to-Planet using Placidus/proportional Semi-Arcs in Mundo

I got some materials to finally understand the math logic behind Mundo aspects/houses and finally implemented this long-neglected task

If you are using these kind of directions, please give it a try and post some feedback, if it's working correctly:

https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/primary-directions-proportional-semi-arcs-astrology-calculator

(it should hopefully give the same arc results as Morinus software - when "Placidus (semiarcs)" & "Mundo" option is selected - and with all possible major and minor aspects (to significator) crossing the semi-arcs quadrants).

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 2) 90° Uranian Dial - Harmonic aspects and Midpoint trees

If anyone is interested in Uranian astrology ( u/UranianTeacher ? ) - could you please check this new 90° Dial calculator and give some opinions, bug reports or if there is anything that needs a correction or update?

https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/90-degree-dial-uranian-astrology-online-calculator

I'm not Uranian astrologer myself, but I tried to follow the common practices I found in various resources.

- It defaultly displays:

- 0° Aries point
- Standard Planets (Sun-Pluto + Node)
- Basic 5 Personal Points (ASC, MC, ASC/MC, Sun/ASC, Sun/MC)
- TNPs (Cupido-Poseidon)

and you can optionally manually toggle on/off:

- 7 Asteroids (Ceres, Pallas ... Hygeia + Chiron)
- Taurus 30° & Gemini 60° points (these 30° and 60° degrees-positions are defaultly available on the dial, but by toggling them on - you can get them also in the list of midpoints or harmonics aspects)
- 1 optional midpoint - where you can select from entire list of all planets/tnps (right now there is 1 single optional midpoint - if it might be useful, I could up to 3 midpoints there)

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- Technically it works in this way

- You can click on any planet - to rotate and point the Compass/Axis to this exact planet degree
- You can click on any dial degree - to point the Compass/Axis to this exact rounded degree
- You can manually rotate the Compass/Axis to any point

and there are 2 different "modes" - A) Harmonic Aspects x B) Midpoint Trees, which you can switch during clicking/rotating

- A) Harmonic aspects - This option calculates and toggles on/off all planets, which get into 1st harmonic (Conjunction), 2nd (Opposition), 3rd (Trine), 4th (Square), 8th (Semi-Square), 16th harmonics - from the position of the Compass/Axis arrow.

- B) Midpoint trees - This option calculates and toggles on/off midpoints and lists midpoint trees - from the position of the Compass/Axis.

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- Table with Zodiac position and Dials: 360°, 90°, 22.5°

Below the chart, there are standard positions of all planets/objects in all 4 systems.
And you can generate a table with all midpoints for 1 single planet.

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- Transits/Solar-Arcs

I was thinking also about bi-wheels during creating this single-wheel and I hope that bi-wheels will be added in the near future ...

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During playing with this 90° Dial - I tried to test also some interactive options (which are available thanks to the recent SVG vector graphics add-on) - and it looks like there might some cool interactive features in the future of Astro-Seek charts, which have always been impossible 🤓:

https://i.imgur.com/jAlvJU8.mp4

- rotating entire chart wheel on the fly (without reloading the page)
- rotating parts (sub-rings) of the chart on the fly
- math calculations (calculating aspects, angles or basic trigonometry) can be also done on the fly while rotating the chart
- toggling planets on/off based on mouse click (or based on math calculation above)

Stars that represent the scales of Libra: I could not find any previous information on this subreddit regarding them, but would someone be able to assist with their particular manifestations or specific meanings?

I am aware that Zubenelgenubi (South scale) is considered malicious and Zubeneschamali (North scale) is considered beneficial.

However I don't see any direction as to where these themes of the stars could be applied as with others like Regulus (career, power) and Algol (intensity, dark feminine).

On November 12, 2012, MTV aired its first episode of “Catfish: The TV Show.” Following in the footsteps of its predecessor film, “Catfish,” the series showed people meeting their online partners for the very first time.

In many cases, these partners were nothing like how they’d originally portrayed themselves online. Some were blatant scammers; carrying on pretend relationships to siphon funds from their victims. But others had more nebulous motives. 

It would be easy to characterize this in a very binary sense of victim, good and catfish, bad – but the truth was far less obvious. Surprisingly, many catfish seemed stuck in kind of a self-deception, often believing their own lies, even at the expense of their well-being...And the victims? They weren’t always blameless. Many had some sense that they were talking to a catfish and chose to carry on with the fantasy. Perhaps one of the most notable examples of this is in the “Ramon and Paola” episode, when the catfish posing as Paola came clean and identified herself as Lloyda. After revealing her actual name and appearance, Ramon asked her to continue pretending to be Paola, and the two carried on their relationship.

In reviewing the ‘birth chart’ of “Catfish: The TV Show,” I noticed first and foremost that Neptune is in Pisces at 0 degrees. This is unsurprising. The central themes of the series parallel Neptune in Pisces perfectly: illusions, fraud, and idealism (especially in romantic relationships). Under the 8h’s influence, I see fears of betrayal, issues with dis/mistrust, and feeling powerless to something beyond one’s control. Neptune is joined by Chiron here, indicating a core wound that never fully heals. In some interpretations, people believe that Chiron can be processed through helping others address the same trauma you experienced. Interestingly, the show is hosted by Nev, a former catfish victim who is the star of the original film. While “Catfish: The TV Show” does eventually devolve into a gaudier, drama-driven series (more reminiscent of classic reality TV), its earlier seasons are surprisingly heartfelt and empathetic. Nev does not turn the victims into a spectacle – largely because he can truly empathize with the pain of being lied to by a catfish. He asks genuine questions when confronting the catfish, focusing more on understanding their motivations than outright shaming people.

Neptune is involved in several aspects, but most notably, it squares Mercury at 0 degrees. Here, I see relationship misunderstandings, illusions (specifically those constructed through communication with others and within one’s own mind), being sensitive to criticism and rejection (whether actual or perceived), lying, and deception (including self-deception).

There are also a number of placements in Scorpio in the 4h, including the Sun, Moon, Saturn, and North Node. In 4h Scorpio, I see one’s deepest emotions – that which one may try to dismiss or avoid; a tendency to focus on the negative and remain in the past; feelings of dissatisfaction (specifically related to one’s home life); dealing with an emotionally neglectful family; and being stuck in survival mode. There is also the potential for double standards and unfair expectations in relationships that stem from a fear of being manipulated and over-identifying with one’s own pain while simultaneously disregarding the pain of others.

Interestingly, though most catfish are well-aware that their behavior is wrong, many attempt to justify it by describing issues they have. A number of catfish excuse their deception by detailing childhood experiences of bullying, absent parents, and previous toxic relationships. Their inability to move on from previous hurts lead them to harm others.

With the North Node in the 4h, we see this clarified further. In recognizing the wounds attributed to a 10h South Node, I interpret this placement as signifying social rejection, being overly concerned with what others think of you, desiring a privacy where you can build a sense of self free of prying and judgmental eyes, feeling overly exposed, and needing to project an image of perfection. Part of the complexity in the show is that, while catfishing is clearly wrong, there is something very human about seeking solace in anonymity or an alternate self if the real version of you has faced nothing but ostracism.

Throughout much of “Catfish: The TV Show,” there is an emphasis on disconnect. Disconnect between romantic partners as confusion and misunderstanding arise, disconnect between the fake identity and the real catfish, and disconnect between inner and outer selves. In the series’ chart, I noticed that the 4h Moon is square the ascendant in Leo (and automatically square the descendant in Aquarius as well). With a Moon square ASC/DSC, we can see a fracture between what one outwardly expresses and what one actually feels. This is usually the outcome of a deep-seated fear around rejection or judgment. The result is someone whose behaviors often confuse those around them, as they can seem unpredictably moody and randomly withdraw or close themselves off. There is a strong emotional sensitivity here, which can be triggered suddenly and result in significant relationship difficulties.

There is always more to explore and certainly, I have only scratched the surface with this chart. My aim is merely to highlight the nuance of this show, as I think it brings to the forefront important discussions on how far we are willing to go to engage in a fantasy. Through examining “Catfish: The TV Show” through an astrological lens, we can see how it embodies Neptune in Pisces.

Okay, this might be a slightly chaotic post because I'm connecting a lot of different things I've been reading and hearing lately. Some of it is astrology, some of it borders on spirituality, and some of it is more related to Earth's electromagnetic activity.

I'm not claiming all of these things are objectively connected. I genuinely want to hear from people who know more than I do because I keep coming across different ideas that seem to point towards the same general theme: a turning point.

The first rabbit hole I went into was André Barbault and his work on historical cycles and the slower-moving planets.

From what I understand, Barbault developed something called the cyclic index, a mathematical model looking at whether the outer planets are clustering together or spreading apart. Apparently, he wrote about a major global crisis around 2020 decades earlier — I've seen 1990 referenced — and he died in 2019.

This then led me to the planetary formations happening around 2026.

I've heard the term "The Basket" used to describe a very rare geometric formation involving four outer planets at roughly the same degree in different signs: Jupiter around 4° Leo, Uranus around 4° Gemini, Neptune around 4° Aries and Pluto around 4° Aquarius.

The way it was explained to me is that, rather than these planets being in conflicting aspects or "fighting" each other, they're somehow cooperating or working together geometrically.

I've also read that a comparable pattern appeared around 1922 and, before that, possibly during the Renaissance. Others claim you have to go much further back (even to the Neolithic period) to find a truly comparable outer-planet configuration. This is actually one of the things I'm confused about, because I'm seeing very different claims about when this last happened.

Either way, the recurring interpretation seems to be something like a "pivot towards rebuilding." - mainly through Barbault's findings.

My question is: rebuilding what?

Then there's an astrologer I personally follow. She has recently been talking a lot about disturbed sleep, extremely vivid dreams and people feeling a strange "sensation" in the environment. This caught my attention because I've genuinely been experiencing this myself. My sleep has been weird, my dreams have been intense, and I can't really explain it other than saying the environment feels... different.

She also claims this planetary energy reaches a major peak around the World Cup final in the US. When she overlays the planetary aspects onto the astrology chart/map for the NYC region, she says they form what looks like a pentagram over the area.

I'm probably explaining that terribly because I don't know enough about astrocartography or mundane astrology to describe the technical side properly. Anyways, she has also mentioned that an aspect happening around now/the coming days resembles one associated with the period of the French Revolution. Again, I don't know enough to explain the exact planets or degrees involved, so if anyone does, I'd genuinely love to hear more.

And then, going slightly outside astrology: the Schumann Resonance.

For anyone unfamiliar, it's often described as a kind of electromagnetic "heartbeat" of the Earth. I've seen a lot of people online connecting unusual Schumann Resonance activity with major global events and with people feeling physically or emotionally "off."

I know the scientific evidence for those human/event correlations is heavily debated, so I'm not stating that as fact. But I find it interesting that this conversation is happening at the same time as all of these astrological discussions about major planetary cycles and collective change.

And then there's just my own intuition, which obviously proves absolutely nothing lol. But I have this bizarre feeling that there's a "plot" about to happen.

I don't even know whether I mean personally or universally. It just feels like that part of a movie where nothing has technically happened yet, but the atmosphere has changed and you know the story is about to move. Maybe I'm consuming too much content and connecting completely unrelated dots. That's genuinely possible.

But I'm curious: has anyone else been feeling unusually "off," having strange dreams, sleeping badly, or sensing some kind of shift lately?

And for people who actually understand mundane astrology, Barbault's cyclic index, outer-planet cycles or the Schumann Resonance: is there anything genuinely unusual about this period, or are people exaggerating/misinterpreting these patterns?

I'd especially love corrections because I'm piecing this together from different astrologers, readings and things I've heard, and I'm sure I've misunderstood some of the technical details.

I just can't shake the feeling that a lot of completely different conversations are somehow circling the same idea. Sorry about the long post, hope we connect ideas.

Part of Astrology’s beauty is that it is an endless pursuit. One could spend 24 hours a day investigating and it would still not be enough to unravel every pattern.

I was doing some research on video game companies and creators for a client inquiry, and got the idea that specific genres of games should probably have specific astrological signatures. The investigation did not disappoint and the findings will be another demonstration, if needed, that the symbolism expressed by the planets permeates every aspect of life.

Admittedly, it’s now been a very long time since I’ve played any video game at all, since I was a kid actually. Though, for various personal and profesional reasons, I somehow kept roughly up to date from afar with the evolution of the fighting game industry, so this is the first rabbit hole I went in.

The post is divided in three main focus areas : the games, the companies and the tournaments, players and commentators.

Fighting games

For those completely unaware of this type of games, it basically consists of two players battling against each other with one (or sometimes more) characters in a combat-style fight. Those are like highly dopaminergic caffeinated chess and were originally played in arcade centers. The most famous franchise of the genre is Street Fighter.

My initial intuition was that Sun-Mars aspects would be represented in this style of purely confrontational games which are not so much played against the “computer” but rather against other humans. And it was right on the spot.

I will present below a list of the main franchises of the genre and different games/iterations of each, with the Sun-Mars aspects present in their birth chart (release dates).

It is important to understand that up until recently, the games would usually get an arcade release in Japan first, before getting an arcade release in other regions and then, sometimes, getting a console version. Not only that but one game can have multiple iterations which would add content (for example Street Fighter II has around 10 updated versions) and then each of these versions was ported, sometimes with changes, to different platforms, you can have a look at the mess here).

Because of that profusion of items, I ended up compiling more than 350 charts.

As such, for didactical and readability purposes, all the games/iterations will not necessarily be presented but rather a (small) selection of those, representative enough to get an idea of how the Sun-Mars cycle plays into all that.

Note that the first game of any table below is always the very first game and version of the franchise. This will have its importance.

Sometimes some additional comments are provided to give more context.

(JP = Japan, NA = North America, EU = European Union, WW = World Wide, FGC = Fighting Game Community)

Street Fighter

The first game of the series starting under a conjunction makes perfect sense as this aspect can represent a new beginning. We will see that this correlation will often repeat itself.

The first version of the second episode was released under a square. As it will be shown across this research, squares tend to indicate important steps in the development of a game/franchise. For example, by introducing new mechanics.

It is also interesting to note the difference between the release on the SuperNintendo of Street Fighter II in North America and the one in Europe. One under a sextile and the other under a quincunx.

The game was very well received in both regions. Though, the EU version was 50 Hz instead of 60 Hz like in North America or Japan. This made the game much slower and some critics even deemed it nearly unplayable because of it. Fitting for a quincunx.

Tekken

For the posteriors episodes of the series there were some Sun/Mars aspect, but it lessens. Was it that the changes made after Tekken 3 on Playstation were not comparable in terms of impact ?

Also, I found it quite strange that the first game of the Tekken series did not have any Sun-Mars aspect (I was expecting, as with most of the other franchises, a conjunction) so I dug a bit in the history of the development of the game.

It happens that a year prior, Sega came up with Virtua Fighter, the first full 3D game of the genre (until then the characters could only move from left to right and were made with 2D sprites). Tekken was Namco’s response to Virtua Fighter and they even hired Seiichi Ishii who was one of the developers of Virtua Fighter. Now, look at the next section for the Virtua Fighter release.

Virtua Fighter

A conjunction... It seems like Virtua Fighter was actually the game who would astrologically symbolize the first 3D fighting game.

This would imply that potentially the conjunctions we repeatedly see on the beginning of a new franchise may not directly reflect the beginning of the franchise itself but rather of a new style of fighting games or games where the changes implemented are significative enough to represent something new for the genre. This would also explain why as the series go on, the correlation with the Sun/Mars cycle seem to vanish or at least not be as important. As if the games were simply “more of the same”.

Street Fighter X Tekken

While a very niche item, I thought it was interesting to mention this one. This game is a crossover between the Street Fighter and Tekken franchises. It is a one shot developed by Capcom (Street Fighter) but it was originally planned to have Namco (Tekken) to make their own version which would have been Tekken X Street Fighter. The former plays in 2D like the original Street Fighter series, while the later would have been in 3D like the Tekken series.

How well fitting is an opposition for a game that was opposing the two most famous fighting game series.

BlazBlue

The BlazBlue franchise can serve to highlight two patterns :

• While it did bring some great novelty to the genre upon its first release, the successive iterations could be considered more like improvements rather than complete changes of the formula. This is somehow reflected as each new game is rarely “announced” by a major Sun-Mars aspect.
• It is also an interesting case to show that minor aspects have their importance and seem to be more often associated with ports of to new platforms.

The table below focuses only on the first game of the franchise (subtitled Calamity Trigger), and demonstrates the previous comment about minor aspects.

It is interesting to notice the Trine for the first release of the series to the Steam platform which made the game being embraced by a whole new group of players and which is probably now, for the whole franchise, the most active community.

Guilty Gear

The series of games with which ArcSys (its developer) started its entrance in the fighting game world and was vastly praised for it.

It could be said that this game created a subniche of the genre, which could be called something of the likes of “air dasher anime fighters”. It was a massive shock upon its first release, the style of the characters, the animations, the complexity and variety of the gameplay, etc. No wonder that it started under a conjunction and a parallel.

Mortal Kombat

Here again, I did not quite understand why the franchise would be starting with a square instead of a conjunction. I did find some fighting games that were released on the previous conjunction but there were no apparent link, I may have missed something.

Also, it seems like most of the subsequent releases had no major Sun/Mars aspect.

Though, I still found an additional tidbit. The movie Mortal Kombat was released on August 8th 1995, and it happened that the Mars of that day was conjunct the Sun of the very first Mortal Kombat game.

SoulCalibur

Despite having a different name, the first episode of the SoulCalibur franchise is Soul Edge, which is also “confirmed” by the Sun/Mars conjunction.

With what has been said before, the conjunction makes more so sense as it was the first 3D game where all the characters fight with specific weapons each.

I displayed the three releases on consoles of SoulCalibur II, because I found curious that the Sun/Mars aspect (Opposition) only happened for the North America version. Looking at the sales, but also on the long run impact (saturnian quality), the NA version was really on another level compared to the other two.

This opposition is also interesting because its reflects one of the specificities of the game. For each console version, there were a specific additional characters from a completely unrelated franchise tied to the console. For example, the GameCube version had Link (from the Zelda franchise) as a playable characters. Thus, we find again this opposition between different series which was already visible in the Street Fighter X Tekken (also released under an opposition).

The other posterior games do not have major Sun/Mars aspects.

The King of Fighters

The King of Fighters case is interesting because it starts with a sextile which is said to be of the nature of Venus.

And actually King of Fighters is not really an independent new franchise, rather it is a combination of other fighting games of SNK, where the characters of the different series get to confront each other by teams of 3. It can be said to be rather Venusian in this sense, as it is meeting between different parties, a form of purely invitational tournament.

Retain this as we will come back to that aspect later.

Some of the “original” games behind the birth of King of Fighters are Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury being the first one and as you can see below, it starts with a conjunction.

Fatal Fury

Art of Fighting

Comments and resuming the findings

• Conjunctions, as expected, correspond to new beginnings, of a franchise and/or a new style of game. Though, it can sometimes be associated with episodes (or specific versions of those) of a franchise that will set new standards and define a new global orientation.
• Trines seem to reflect an important expansion/shift of the game audience. Given that the trine is of the nature of Jupiter, it makes sense.
• Oppositions can reflect well the longevity and/or success over time qualities of Saturn. Some times it would mean delay/blockages (as some games would become unavailable). Other times it would directly represent the opposition in the core idea of the game (such as with Street Fighter X Tekken which would confront the two rival series).
• Sextiles are seen in different kind of instances. Sometimes it seems to represent the game/franchise reaching new players (via a new port for example), but not to the same extent as the trines. It feels more “niche” like in a sense. Other times it can be incremental changes/additions, or even a well received aesthetic quality.
• Squares seem to correspond to important steps in the evolution of a franchise, whether in terms of the mechanics of the games or in terms of platforms availability (this is also seen with Semi-Squares). But, those steps/changes are not always met with enthusiasm or would not always mean advancement in the same way as “expansion”. Sometimes there are even some controversies surrounding the games/versions, which suits well as square are of Mars’ nature.
• I think I am probably still missing some patterns with those aspect-related observations.
• Minor aspects have their importance and correspondences.
• It is not because a new game/version is released that necessarily there will be an aspect. It seems like some kind of novelty or specific symbolic meaning, must be present.
• Similarly, while there are some similarities under the same aspects, it is not always the case which obfuscates the interpretations/understanding of those.
• As seen in some instances, we can’t always reduce the Sun-Mars cycle to only one franchise. It seems like sometimes the cycle would represent some more global concept (such as a new type of fighting game).
• The previous comment implies that accurately deciphering the Sun-Mars cycles in relation to fighting games would need to embrace a panoramic view of the whole industry which is quite complex. This can be extrapolated to basically any context and cycle and reminds us (if needed) that while Astrology can be a lot of times symbolically literal, it is also not so simple and straight forward as we may want it to be.

Companies

The top four companies of the industry are quite surely : Capcom, Namco, SNK, and ArcSys. That being said the first three develop a wide variety of types of games.

Given the complexity of the life of those companies and the difficulty to find accurate data, I will leave aside SNK and Namco and only present the case of Capcom and ArcSys.

Capcom

If we just have a quick glance at the wikipedia page of Capcom, the date given for its foundation is May 30th 1979. The chart does not have a Sun/Mars aspect. But, this date actually corresponds to the creation of IRM Corporation, the predecessor (”mother company”) of Capcom.

Capcom Co. was established on June 11th 1983. Then, in January 1989, it was merged with Sanbi Co. (which was the merging of IRM and Japan Capsule Computers), and remained under the name Capcom. While we do not have the exact day for the second date, looking at the middle of the month is quite interesting... Here are the two charts :

Capcom Co., June 11th 1983 :

Sun conjunct Mars and Sun parallel Mars

Capcom (after final merging), January (15th ?) 1989 :

Again, a Sun square Mars.

ArcSys

If there is one company that can be said to embody the fighting game genre, it is ArcSys.

Arc System Works, most commonly called ArcSys, is mainly specialized in 2D fighting games, acclaimed for the quality of its works (for example, the highly detailed animations).

Not only ArcSys created some of the most renowned franchises of the genre (Guilty Gear, BlazBlue) but they are also behind the development of licence games such as Dragon Ball FighterZ, Persona 4 Arena or recently Marvel Tokon.

ArcSys was created on May 12th 1988, Sun square Mars (1°42’ orb).

Tournaments, players, commentators

The most famous fighting games tournament is without a doubt EVO. Players from all around the world gather to determine which is the best in each main game and even in niche obscure ones.

It now has two other locations, in Japan and France. Those three countries (US, Japan and France) are probably where the FGC is the most active, hence most of the precise data I was able to gather below involves individuals from these places.

Tournaments

Here are the first iterations of some vary famous tournaments :

As you can see, Sun-Mars aspects again.

Now, a brief comment about GodsGarden. This competition was invitational only. They would gather a very few selection of the best players in Japan and make them fight to determine the top one. It is, in essence, quite similar to the idea behind the King of Fighters game, which we have seen started under a Sun-Mars sextile too.

Players

I have compiled some of the most renowned players. Given the wide array of games, players, etc, it was quite difficult to make a selection. More so that the birth data is not always available. Though, I think the following is quite representative. Of course, the sample size is small but presenting a list of hundreds or thousands would be quite unappealing.

At first I searched for Sun/Mars or Mercury/Mars aspects as they seemed to be the most fitting, but as I looked at the charts another pattern appeared. It was rather Venus/Mars or Mars/Chiron aspects that seemed to be the most common.

Venus/Mars does actually make a lot of sense, as it can correspond to “the love for the fight” or “confrontation as entertainment” type of meaning.

When it comes to Mars/Chiron, how could we express the delineation ? I am curious for your suggestions.

That being said, I thought that it was strange that the best player of all time, Daigo, only had a Mars/Chiron conjunction. To my knowledge, Daigo, mostly play games from Capcom. The most famous being Street Fighter of course within which he won countless of tournaments but he also did so with other games produced by the company.

In its natal chart Capcom has a Mars/Chiron conjunction in Taurus. Daigo is born two years later, and as you know Mars turns around the Zodiac in two years, and given the speed/retrogradations of Chiron, what happened ? Daigo is also born with a Mars/Chiron conjunction in Taurus. Adding to that, Daigo’s Venus is exactly conjunct Capcom’s Sun/Mercury conjunction, the love for the core expression (the games) of the company ?

He also had major victories with Guilty Gear XX made by Arcsys which we mentioned before. His Mars/Chiron conjunction happens to be conjunct Jupiter/Sun of Arcsys. Oh, and Arcsys’ Mars is square... Daigo’s Sun.

Commentators

But the FGC is not only made of players. A central piece of it are the commentators (and more recently the content creators too, of course). A big reason why so much people watch the competitions is the skill of the commentators to explain what is going on with so much speed on the screen. And this where things get even weirder :

In a match, the rounds’ duration is usually between 30sec to 60sec long. And depending on the format a match can have three or more rounds. This is very short. In order to dedicate you entire life to analyze and comment repeatedly for thousand and thousand of times, you really have to love it, hence why the overwhelming presence of Venus/Mars makes sense.

Final words

As mentioned, a lot of data has been skipped to simplify this presentation, but, in my opinion, it remains quite compelling. The Sun-Mars cycle does correlate with the fighting game industry.

That being said, despite the repeating patterns seen, it is still hard to tie a specific aspect to a specific type of event for a specific game/franchise. Also, the industry has to be considered as a whole or else, important pieces will be missed.

Surely that if we were to consider the other planetary cycles, it would give a clearer picture. But I will leave the research here for the time being.

What is quite clear though, is that if someone reading this had in mind to launch a new fighting game, a good electional time would be when the Sun is conjunct (and parallel) Mars.

As one of the main characters of a franchise mentioned would say : 戦いの中に答えはある

Shower thought: The 7H and descendant and their ruler(s) are generally considered to embody the spouse and partners the native attracts or is well-suited to in many vedic and tropical astrology practices, so how come oppositions in synastry charts, which would technically also embody opposite energies, are generally considered difficult and unfavorable? Seems contradictory

I linked a post I made here last year about the transits to the US chart on July 19th, where a World Cup game would be hosted in NJ. I noted a lot of tension especially with the Saturn-Saturn opposition happening in the 5H of entertainment / 11H of crowds or audiences.

Revisiting it now I think it’s interesting because a lot of people are upset at the US for clearly intervening (with the player who got the red card) , prompting people to call FIFA corrupt. People are saying it’s not fair, which I think is interesting and reflective of the opposition involving Libra as the 11H of spectators.

At the time of the post it also didn’t occur to me that July 19 is the height of Barbault’s basket. I know the US is now out of the World Cup, but this should be interesting. I know people are upset with Argentina now too and thinking FIFA is rigged in favor of Messi/ Argentina.

Idk— it’s obviously not July 19 yet so maybe i’ll revisit this again in a week (July 19 is a week from today) and see how it pans out. But I thought it would be interesting to revisit this now as we get closer! Does anyone else notice anything about this chart or have any more predictions now that we are closer?

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The murder time is approximate - the police put it at 12:39. From reading transcripts of her last messages, it's fairly clear she was murdered between 12:19 and 12:48. With just a brief look, it's obvious that Widdecombe's natal chart and murder chart are both Libra Rising. It's interesting how the murder chart has a kite pointing to the Pisces NN. She was murdered while working or doing a normal routine, or by a colleague. Also, a Grand Yrine between the ASC, Mars and Pluto. The famous Mars and Uranus hangout is in her 8th so perhaps immigration policy, the Reform Party itself (which focuses a lot on immigration and borders and could be symbolised by Saturn) was a cause, or the murderer is one of the Reform members.

Another Grand Trine involving Venus in Leo (ego and publicity) and Chron in Aries (wounded due to impulsiveness).

Looking at Widdecombe's natal chart, transit Jupiter conjunct Mars. 6H activity with Saturn and Neptune could suggest an adversary trying to stop Ann, or she herself blocking an intruder from entering. Neptune could suggest deception or disorientation, drugs or mental health issues were involved regarding the murderer.

I'll comment more when I have more time. Please add anything you notice! This is fascinating to me as I have wished her political career would end since I was an adolescent. A Google search will show a several year's break from politics, but that's only officially. Widdecombe continued to be politically active socially such as through participation on popular reality TV shows and appearing on TV spouting her extreme right-wing views such as criticising people for being poor, criticising people having children while not being married, denying climate change and supporting reinstating the death penalty (which was abolished in the 1960s). These are just a few examples, she has also made homophobic comments and supported anti-LGBT policies. She comes from a rich family.

Hi all! Emerging professional astrologer here!

What are some of the things that helped you feel more like a professional? What are some of your favorite books, courses, and other tools you swear by?

Are you a part of any mentoring programs, astrological associations, or communities?

I'm trying to branch out. There is always more to learn and I am hoping to keep building my confidence with astrology. I'd love to connect with other professional astrologers or emerging professionals!

Thank you for any helpful tips, tricks, and advice!

Telstra is the main telecommunications company in Australia. Today there was a major outage that affected thousands of people, 000 services (our emercency number), businesses, banks and transport.

I had a chuckle on the tram thinking.. oh you naughty mercury retrograde but the chart is really striking and I thought I'd share for not only interest but to have it documented.

Natally Sun in 3rd Aries- Communication.

Mars- Cancer 6th- Health, service and daily routine.

Mercury pisces 2nd- movable resources.

Honourable mention- Uranus and Neptune in the 12th

Mercury retrograde bam on mars activating that t-square configuration.. The chart speaks for itself really.

Has anyone noticed that the most recent Mars + Jupiter, and upcoming Mercury + Saturn, all station(ed) direct (and rx for Saturn) within 1 or 2 degrees of the same degree?

I did, bc they are also all within 1 degree of my MC or DSC. This is quite curious to me obviously on a personal level; I haven’t read anything about multiple transit stations to natal angles.

And as far Mundane, as far as I can tell it’s pretty rare for multiple planets to station at the same point in succession. I’m not too versed in degree theory or mundane astro, though.

Anyway, I would love to hear any takes on this, or resources! Generally, the ancients didn’t spend a whole lot of time on rx stations, and most of what I’ve read references the nativity or by progression. Besides “fated” or turning point” (and yes, each one has been so far!) I’m wondering if there’s research or theories around this. Thanks!

ETA: happy to share specifics if needed

I'm interested in the historical reasoning behind Modern Astrology assigning Neptune as the ruler of Pisces. I know Neptune was discovered long after the traditional rulership system was established, and I'm wondering what criteria astrologers used to connect it specifically with Pisces. Were other signs ever seriously considered, or was Pisces seen as the obvious choice from the beginning? I'm looking for historical sources or discussions that explain the arguments, debates, and logic behind this decision rather than whether the assignment is considered valid today.

My Perspective:I recently came across a post discussing the case of Uranus and Aquarius. In this thread, though, I'd like to focus instead on Neptune and Pisces, as well as Pluto and Scorpio. My impression is that Neptune and Pluto seem to have a clear affinity with the symbolism of those signs, perhaps also through their connection with the elements and with emotional themes, and that this may be why they were assigned to Pisces and Scorpio. I'm also interested in similar cases, such as Ceres with Virgo and Eris with Libra.

I haven’t cast a chart for each event specifically, and please forgive my lack of astrocartography education but this does seem to follow a bit of a pattern of alignment as the planets cross, following a vector we often see captured on those charts, or in the pattern of where we see eclipse visibility.

These are considered mass shootings. The mars-Uranus conjunction has been well documented by this community, but this seems to capture the true essence of randomized aggression. The violent impulses under Mars and chaos involved with the act of a shooting (and the fall out) speaks to the Uranus influence and how it has been felt across the country.

July 4th was on my mind for a while with this influence. I was suspecting something quite significant and localized, but this seems to capture the larger energy.

https://www.wafb.com/2026/07/04/2-killed-7-hurt-overnight-shooting-wilkinson-county-mississippi/?outputType=amp
Centerville MS

https://www.wdtn.com/news/two-shot-in-the-oregon-district-on-fourth-of-july/amp/
Dayton OH

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/us/july-4-shooting-coney-island
Brooklyn NY

https://amp.islandpacket.com/news/local/crime/article316386525.html
Hilton Head SC

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2026/07/05/1-dead-5-injured-in-east-side-shooting-police-say/
San Antonio TX

https://www.wave3.com/2026/07/05/man-killed-6-injured-shooting-after-hundreds-unaccompanied-youth-gather/?outputType=amp

Radcliff KY

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2026/07/05/pensacola-shooting-florida-last-night-july-4th-downtown/90811912007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z113123p003150c003150e001600v113123&gca-ft=5&gca-ds=sophi

Pensacola FL

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-fourth-july-weekend-shootings-2026.amp

Chicago IL

I’ve noticed a lot of the speculation over the exceptional astrological activity this year has focused on politics and global conflicts. However, given yet another extreme heatwave is gearing up here in Europe at the same time the much-anticipated Mars-Uranus conjunction is taking place followed by the Jupiter-Pluto opposition I’m starting to wonder if there might also be a connection?

I’m not well-versed in applying astrology to changes in climate, other than the more acute bad transit=one-off storm kind of thing. Is there anything in the charts to support something more significant at play here? Is it possible some of the big changes many have speculated may be as much environmental as technological or political?

These are the transits for July 1, 2026 when Ivan Beerkus/Kuznetsov (first chart) and Angela Nikolau (second chart) climbed to the top of the Empire State Building where they hung a flag that said "When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace."

Then they got engaged up there before climbing down.

This stunt is the poster-child of the Mars-Uranus conjunction as they climbed to the top of a 1,400+ feet tall building without safety tethers or a harness, and evaded law enforcement until they came down.

Transits:

This happened as the transiting moon applied to conjunct Pluto and oppose Jupiter in Leo, an opposition about ambition and all-or-nothing opportunities; this was an ambitious stunt with a massive safety risk and had obvious legal repercussions as they're now facing various charges.

Ivan had the Mars-Uranus conjunction on his natal Mercury in Gemini (and possibly his moon depending on TOB).

Transiting Mars-Uranus was also square his natal Chiron, so likely motivated by a need to face or overcome a fear.

He was born with a Mars-Uranus square and this would have been a recurrence transit for him.

Angela had the Mars-Uranus conjunction square her natal Mars in Virgo (and possibly her moon depending on TOB).

She was born with an exact Saturn-Mars opposition, an aspect I see a lot for people who gravitate towards challenging themselves constantly, and the transiting nodes are exactly conjunct this opposition! This was a karmic project and must have felt like she had to do it.

She was going through her Mercury return, transit Mercury having just stationed rx, it might be ruling something important in her chart, maybe her timelord this year?

I know they have a documentary on Netflix "Skywalkers: A Love Story" (3rd chart) about other similar climbs which was released on July 19, 2024 under a Mars-Uranus conjunction in Taurus! (and their Saturn return). I wouldn't be surprised if they've pulled similar stunts under previous Mars-Uranus conjunctions, but couldn't find exact dates for those.

In their synastry, Ivan's mercury squares Angela's Mars and this Mars-Uranus conjunction aspected both. This is a perfect example of how explosive transits aspecting a couple's chart doesn't have to manifest in a negative way, as long as the energy is channeled in a more constructive way, in this case it was climbing the Empire State Building lol

I found this story to be a spot on manifestation of this Mars-Uranus conjunction and the beginning of the Jupiter-Pluto opposition.

Hey.

I think the single most confusing aspect of sports-related analysis is which house to assign to which team.

Robert Zoller and his students assign 7H to the "home" team.

David Frawley goes for home/away association, or the favorites get 1H and the underdog is assigned the 7H.

Then, there are few who use corresponding colors and symbolism to assign houses to sports teams.

In your experience, what seems to work? In venues where one is clearly a home side and the other is a traveling side, we could use Zoller's approach. What if it's a neutral venue?

In horary, Lily assigns 1H the plaintiff and 7H the defendant.

I don't think I've seen consistent results using either or the other.

I saw another post about this, but I wanted to put some more feelers out since there doesn’t seem to be a place where people are gathering online to talk about it.

I’ll be going on my own, and I’m hoping to make some new Astro-friends. It would be nice to have people in my circle to talk astrology with. I studied off and on for many years. Then I decided to do two years of the nightlight astrology course, and now I’m doing a little bit of client work.

I’m wondering who everyone is excited to see, what you’re looking to get out of it and if there are any meet-ups that are planned!

While doing some research on the Nodes, I stumbled upon rather curious occurrences regarding Elon Musk.

It seems like Musk is getting major successes or making significant steps towards reaching his goals, when Mars is at the bending of the Nodes (another way to say that Mars is making a square to the Lunar Nodes). Though, there were some instances where failures also occurred.

I have not noted a specific pattern correlated to whether Mars was situated at the Northern or Southern Bending, but there is probably more to investigate in that regard.

Here is Elon Musk’s chart :

As you can see, he isn’t born on a Mars square Nodes time, but rather with a (fairly wide) conjunction between Mars and the North Node.

From a symbolical standpoint it is also quite fitting given his obsession about Mars’ conquest, more so that Mars is also the ruler of his 10th House (of career/public recognition).

So here is a small list of events related to him when Mars was squaring the Nodes (in a mundane way, unless it is specified otherwise) :

[EDIT : it seems that I explained myself poorly and that some people missed the point. When I say "Mars squaring the Nodes" it means transiting Mars and transiting Nodes in a general sense, that is to say, not related to Elon Musk's natal chart. That's the strange part of this and why I wanted to present it. Whether that's affecting Musk chart or not, it seems like Mars square the Nodes (as a mundane transit) has a correlation with his "successes")]

Falcon 9 failures

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is a partially reusable space launch vehicle. So far it has made 658 total launches with 2 failures.

Those 2 failures happened when Mars was at the bending of the Nodes.

On June 28th 2015, a SpaceX Falcon 9 explodes after taking off for a resupply mission to the ISS. Mars was squaring the Nodes, within around 2° orb.

On September 1st 2016, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets explodes during a firing test. Mars was squaring the Nodes, within around 1° orb.

Another interesting data is that its first launch happened on June 4th 2010, here are the transits for Elon Musk at that time :

While it is a slightly different configuration than the one being discussed, it is nonetheless interesting to see the prominence of the Nodes as they are on its Ascendant-Descendant Axis. We can also observe transiting Mercury squaring his natal Mars/Nodes.

Various successes

In December 1984, at age 13, Musk sold a video game (Blastar) he created the previous year to a PC magazine and won around 500 dollars. While I did not find the exact day of the issue of the magazine, between December 20th and 23rd of 1984, Mars was, within 1° orb, squaring the Nodes.

On March 30th 2017, SpaceX achieves the world’s first reflight of an orbital-class rocket. Mars would only be at the bending 20 days later, but in Elon’s birth chart, transiting Mars was actually at the bending of his natal Nodes, with less than 1° orb :

On October 22nd 2019, Elon Musk sends his first tweet using SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet. Mars is exactly squaring the Nodes.

On April 4th 2022, public disclosure that Musk has acquired about 9,2% of Twitter making him the largest individual shareholder. Mars is squaring the Nodes within around 1° orb.

On April 25th 2022, he reaches the agreement to fully acquire Twitter. This time the transiting Nodes were actually squaring his natal Mars.

On May 25th 2023, the FDA approves Neuralink’s first human clinical study of brain implants. Mars is at the bending of the Nodes, with 1° orb.

On January 29th 2024, Neuralink announces it has implemented its brain-computer interface in a human for the first time. Mars is squaring the Nodes with less than 1° orb.

On September 12th 2024, an american billionaire becomes the first person to perform a commercial spacewalk as part of the Polaris Dawn private spaceflight which is operated by SpaceX. Mars is squaring the Nodes with less than 2° orb.

On June 12th 2026, SpaceX made its IPO, which, to my understanding, is the largest one in history so far. Transiting Mars was making a square to his natal Nodes, though it was around a 3° orb.

Next occurrences

The next two times Mars will be at the bending of the Nodes (within a 2° orb) are :

• from June 28th to July 2nd 2026, so currently.
• from September 16th to September 20th 2027.

We will see if any notable news related to Musk and/or his companies emerge.

Taking it further

It could be interesting to gather more data on natives who have a planet conjunct/square the Nodes and whether or not when that transiting planet is at the bendings of the transiting Nodes some major events unfold.

Horary is a very complex area to speciallize in modern days, if you allow me to vent. For you to learn it, very specific rules should be followed. After that, you start to see the limitations of said rules, as in any area of the study. However, for some reason unknow to me, Horary is treated like something that "only works in said boundries". I strongly disagree. I would like to suggest interpretations for a chart with a Void of Course Moon, which should immediatly invalidate the reading, but can have meaningful and profound suggestions if read in the correct way.

I've migrated from tarot to horary astrology some years ago. Many of my querents, however, couldn't undestand the concept of "the chart was rejected for not being radical". So I started offering redings about the rejection of the question. Why it was not radical, how to reframe it, how to not even ask it again. On many of those cases, the reading, although not aswering the main question of the chart, helped the querent.

For starters: I do belive, the same way modern tropical astrology adopted it, general planets and calculated points should be adopted. I do', however, belive a system of Old Regents, New Co-Regents works best with the model, instead of switching a sign's regent. And for the Void of Course Moon, we'll need the Black Moon Lilith.

The Moon, at least for me, is the Mirror of Gaia, the Image of Earth itself. All the meanings associated with the moon in astrology are usually associated with Gaia on Myth. The moments where the Moon is Void, we look at Lilith. The Old, Forgotten parts of Gaia, the dreams of another time.

The void of course moon is good for internal reflection. The reason, however, is that the only mirros we can use are the Dreams we no longer hold. The times that will not come. The Void of Course moon allows us to look to the impossible and say "what if?". That promisse we do for our own internal silence, and forget 5 minutes after, and months latter, being realized, we remember the silent words.

Void of Course does not mean nothing can be done. It means nothing can be done in a material sense. In the perceptive way. When we start looking at the relationship of Lilith and the rest of the chart, we can see the soul and it's actions.

I write this post while the moon is Void of Course in Saggitarius. Conjunct to Lilith. It should yeald nothing. I can see it yelding a silent reflection. Let's test it, shall we?