Exegesis V07 Issue 001

Exegesis Volume 07 Issue #001

In This Issue:

From: Exegesis Moderator
Subject: [exegesis] Hello!

From: "Roger L. Satterlee"
Subject: [exegesis] Astrology seems a matter of relating verbs to one another.

From: Exegesis Moderator
Subject: [exegesis] Sorry about the duplicates!

Exegesis Digest Thu, 17 Jan 2002

Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:57:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Exegesis Moderator
Subject: [exegesis] Hello!

In case it wasn't obvious (and I did forget to mention it) you can send messages to the list by directing them to:

if you like. Messages are queued up and sent at my midnight (-5.00 from GMT), or when the list has about 40K of messages. I plan on -lightly- moderating, unless wacky things start to happen. I've been investigating some list software that ensures a reasonable level of security and privacy and will swap it in if we feel that the current package is too shoddy in that regard...but I've still got a lot to learn about administering the machine to get it right.

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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 22:24:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Exegesis Moderator
Subject: [exegesis] Hello!

In case it wasn't obvious (and I forgot to mention it) you can send messages to the list by directing them to:

if you like. Messages are queued up and sent at my midnight (-5.00 from GMT), or when the list has about 40K of messages. I plan on moderating lightly, unless wacky things start to happen. I've been investigating some list software that ensures a reasonable level of security and privacy and will swap it in if we feel that the current package is too shoddy...but I've still got a lot to learn about administering the machine to get it right.

I can tell that Mercury is about to retrograde since I'm starting to encounter all sorts of weird network problems...last night, right after sending the announcement, my ISP (or someone upstream) changed my IP address, which means that the URL stopped working for some unknown period of time. Sigh. It is fixed now and I will keep an eye on it, but expect more of the typical Merc Rx stuff for a few weeks. I was hoping to get the list stable before this one. Oh Well! Nevertheless, I intend to proceed and hope for the best.

In any case, welcome aboard, glad to see so many familiar names again! Please pass on the word to anyone you know who may be interested.

From: "Roger L. Satterlee"
Subject: [exegesis] Astrology seems a matter of relating verbs to one another.
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:31:37 -0500

Whatever astrology is, I guess I should observe my own astrological behavior to see what it is that I do when I am occasionally arm-twisted into "doing astrology" by some family member. I read my own words (below) and find that they seem like something I would expect to hear from one of the many females in my life--I seem to have avoided the use of nouns in favor of trying show some kind of individualizing (characteristic) relationship between life's major functional categories. Apparently I stay as close to an algebraic formula (without constants) as I can.

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> >......could you look at a chart for me? Place of birth
> >somewhere in North Jersey (closer to Poconos than Newark), April 8, 1971
> >approx. 1:30pm.

> >Here's the graphic:
> >http://www.geocities.com/pedantus/John-Jane_Doe.gif
> >
> >The native probably likes to employ a talent for re-routing >materials and data; so as to find alternative solutions for some kind of
> >allocation/distribution task/puzzle. Leadership skills peak when fine
> >tuning the creative efforts of others, finding practical applications for
> >the raw insights and inventions of others. In short, management via
> >indirect activities--the wizard of Oz....:)?

The Wizard of Oz works in radio, technical aspect of running the station most of the time, part-time DJ. :)

So, I think that as long as nouns seem to be completely useless to my personal thought processes while reluctantly *doing astrology*, then there is no-*thing* for me to count, for the purposes of any statistical analysis. Nouns like "technician" of course occurred to me while looking at the natal Sun opposite Uranus...but that's because I was once a Navy radar tech. It seems that looking like an astrological wizard is always just a gamble--the rolling of spheroid dice with nouns written upon their innumerable facets. However there does seem to be some kind of pattern to planets in the role of verbs which are qualified by Zodiac signs, aspects and, perhaps, by natal angles and houses as well. All of which seems to *do* no more than to help one tap into one's life-long store of intuitively derived conclusions as to *what goes with what and why*.

Lori (above), my 20yr old daughter, once emailed me to show me a painting she had selected as her favorite, one by a painter whose style and subject matter generally pleased her very much. Now it is my personal assumption that all persons are seeking something of their own reflection in all that they chose as their "favorite" whatever. In support of my assumption I want to show these graphics which compare a drawing by Lori to her own chart, and the chart of Lori vs the "favorite" painter, John W. Waterhouse (birth time unknown). I've taken the liberty of exaggerating the likeness of the charts by picking a birth time that best shows the parallel of emphasis I had in mind. Lori also gave me the year of the painter and ask me if I could guess his birthday using the contents of this painting, "The Lady of Shalott". I told her that the centralized yellow circle, with the chaotic looking quilted pattern in it, seemed to me an expression of a the natal Sun conjunct Uranus...the chain depicted here is also very often a Uranus token, or whatever word you like. Using this assumed conjunction data I hedged my bet so as to surround that conjunction's date by 5-6 days either side...:) My guess at a possible birthday was 8 days off the mark.

My conclusion, if there is one here, is that persons do seem to seek a sense of unity in life by finding their own "likeness" in the world of things and ideas. And, in all of this, the nouns of life are not the primary targets of their search. The patterns of interrelated actions and feelings, as communicated to the intuitively guided and filtered senses, signal both "like me" and "unlike" many times during all novel experiences. The search for novel experience does turn out to be a search for one's self...or one's feeling of being integral and represented, occasionally reflected, by various items and situations throughout the fabric of one's life.

Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:21:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Exegesis Moderator
Subject: [exegesis] Sorry about the duplicates!

Sorry to send the same message twice, I thought the first version got lost while I was configuring the email service.