Management of Measurement Constructs Notebook Working with ProbabilitiesI remember vividly some 30 years ago, in the early Summer, just getting my grip on the astounding reliability of the Jupiter reward cycle (twelve years to the month conjunct the same point, usually the natal Sun, once the cycle begins). I was seeing a client on a…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Finding the Statue Within There is a famous quote attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti: “The statue is already inside the block of marble –all that is necessary is to work it out by chipping off everything unnecessary.” In terms of our work in astrology, what about this thought comes to your mind…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Awareness of LEVEL and Fulfillment of Astrological Potentials The handyman who helps keep my house together has a definite aesthetic sense: he clearly enjoys setting things right, keeping things clean and in order, improving efficiency, aligning stones harmoniously in the garden, sculpting large desert bushes, laying tiles, building walls. While he…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Learning beyond Descriptions At the end of a very long, detailed book review in one of my favorite magazines, the reviewer shared a thought incisive for us. He had labored throughout the review to bring out the nuance and importance of the book (non astrological) about which he thought very highly,…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs NotebookReading and Thinking Social commentary throughout the Information Age, some 20-25 years old now, believe it or not, has seen the rise of the computer and the internet as a depression upon writing, books, thinking and discourse. Just as robotics in industry 40 years ago was heralded as a substitute for…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Rulership over Tenancy A planet’s substantive significance in astrological analysis rests strongly in the main on the significances of the House it rules, so much more than the House in which it finds itself. A planet assessed predominantly for the House of its tenancy (where it is located in the natal horoscope)…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Believing is Seeing? The adage in our language “Seeing is Believing” is a reality statement. It’s a statement, a mind-set about evidence and proof. In astrology, it can be applied to knowing that a measurement complex defines a reality situation that can not be denied. We see it there in the horoscope, and…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs How’re you doing, in Astrology?”A Suggestion for the New Year I received a telephone call this morning from a participant on the Forum. I don’t know the person; she was diligently inquiring about the quality of her work on successive submissions in vocational profiling exercises. It was a pleasure to tell…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Take Away the Measurements, and What’s Left? If you know a very good card trick, a well-developed scenario of magical transformation or prediction or an entertaining deception, and you have practiced it thoroughly and gained skill through practice, you are “performing” indeed. Something magical is happening under your attention; you are…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Whose Kingdom Comes? To set the scene of this “Notebook Study”, I am re-presenting some research and projections made by me in 1996, printed in 1997, Predictions for a New Millennium. “Prince Charles will not be King of England –There is an interesting set of astrological measurement variables that emerges from study of…
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