Psychic Jinn

Astrological Aspects for the week of 8/3/08

8/4/08 @ 9:52 pm Venus in Leo trine Pluto in Sagittarius ( r)

Excessive passions and a strong attraction do not just “go away” on their own…. There is definitely a need for control and moderation.  There is beauty and sex, with a risk of love.  As long as everyone is in agreement with what’s really going on, then all will be well…well, more than well.  Things can reach great climactic heights!!  But if there are parties that do not agree to these intimate terms, then I see a violent breakdown, which can lead to major regret.  Your call, when it comes to your own.

8/5/08 @ 9:21 pm Venus into Virgo

Thinkin’ about prudence now, after all that ‘afore mentioned mess!  Take care of yourself, purify your body.  Abstain.  Or, get to the nitty gritty about your feelings…strip away all that superfluous bullshit, and get down to what is real about how you feel.  No more denial.

8/5/08 @ 9:50 pm Sun in Leo sextile Moon in Libra

She has high needs, are you sure you are prepared?  There is a demand for attention.  But you will want to give it, cuz your just so damned obsessed with her.  Plus the feelings you get from her make you feel like a king.  Enjoy.

8/6/08 @ 11:38 am Mars in Virgo opposed Uranus in Pisces ( r)

Alright…(sigh)…what can I say here, so that I wont scare you all away!?  Mmmm..maybe…patience, non-judgment.  Please don’t criticize.  Try to work on acceptance.  I know you have you’re own feelings, and no one quite understands what you’re going through.  But we are trying, you know?  The tendency is to run from what frightens us, or to fight and yell and battle.  But accidents happen when such carelessness occurs, and then tragic unfortunate losses could follow.   I don’t want you regretting anything!  I guess all I can say right now is please take time to think before you speak and act.

8/6/08 @ 11:41 am Mercury in Leo opposed Neptune in Aquarius ( r)

I see a lot of smart assyness.  Perhaps I myself am contributing!  Teasing is never good, taunting never works.  But these types of Turrettes-like outbursts sometimes have a degree or two of truth in them, but then if we are so blunt, then we do hurt the ones we love.  Its just…there is so much going on these days, and our minds are rebelling from the traditional ways of communication, to a more psychic and unspoken connection.  So if you can realize your true ability of positive non-verbal communication, then my dears, you have progressed far more than they ever thought you would.

8/8/08 @ 1:21 pm Sun in Leo square Moon in Scorpio

Im going to go ahead and hide now…mkay??  No, just kidding.  Im not leaving for a vacay any time soon.  Calm down.  I do want to hang out and see where this is going, because wow…passions, anger, temperaments flaring, vindictiveness, and waaaayyyy to much arrogance.  Damn good show!

8/9/08 @ 11:18 am Mercury in Leo trine Pluto in Sagittarius ( r)

Are we all talking about "significant change" these days?  Yes, we are all talking about it, but where is the strategy to achieve this?  I dont really see any solid signs of action right now, so show your right!!

Astrological Aspects for the week of 7/27/08

7/27/08 @ 5:45 pm Sun in Leo sextile Moon in Gemini

Gettin’ stuff done!  Seldom do I see this much co-operation, and it does please me so…very much.  When we offer service and assistance, then we become part of the team.  What will happen is that the separateness of your life begins to dissolve, and you have the full realization that you are truly never alone. Move as a unit.

7/29/08 @ 1:06 pm Sun in Leo conjunct Mercury in Leo

Boisterous voices sing praises of glories…shouts of joy seem to split the stillness.  What is it that makes you this happy?  Can you readily identify where your glory will come from?  Does family give you your energy?  Does your career feed your hunger 100%?  If you are single, where will you receive your love from, and once you have attained love, how will you keep it, nurture it, grow it…so that it doesn’t pass you by as fast as it approached you?  I see beautiful and slender fingers, but I see something very precious slip out of that hand.

7/31/08 @ 9:31 am Venus in Leo opposed Neptune in Aquarius ( r)

On one side, there is loud beauty and active attraction, strong feelings of passion.  On the other side, there is a detached and vague air, which doesn’t sit very well with our brave and loud lovely.  Everyone’s’ needs should be taken care of.  But we also desire our own space to think, ponder, and explore our inner realities.  So there is the applying clash, people…  outward excessiveness that is quite sexy and aggressive, but it goes up against a scientific hermit-like idealism, which is not geared towards sharing, outward exchanges, or even communication (at all).  Which side is right?  There is none that will win right now because there is a balance in an equal opposition.

8/1/08 @ 3:14 am Sun in Leo conjunct Moon in Leo (new moon)

I see the divine couple celebrating.  There is fertility coming, and new generation, and new creation.  The father and the mother will provide blessings to the children that show them positive attention and gratitude.  It is wonderful to witness pure love.

Astrological Aspects for the Week of 7/20/08

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7/22/08 @ 3:56 am Sun into Leo

I see a golden glow that radiates perfect light.  The will of success comes from within this place, and when we are centered, then we are happy.  Energy will flow from where the vision is kept, but balance comes when the source is glorified for all that it really is.

7/22/08 @ 2:11 pm Mercury in Cancer trine Uranus in Pisces ( r)

Attention to detail is a cliché, and something that makes me want to run for disorder.  Constant assessment and then control of circumstance can mentally overwhelm energies that are unique and unpredictable. Instead of controlling, try unification of your several selves.  One thinks, one feels, one acts, one is.

7/23/08 @ 3:03 am Sun in Leo trine Moon in Aries 

Positive and negative are perfectly proportioned to bring you advancement and strength.  With both so dominant, hopefully they will like it.  I said hopefully, because do you ever hear of two successful alphas living in perfect harmony?  Perhaps similar temperaments bring some form of temperance.

7/25/08 @ 11:43 am Sun in Leo square Moon in Taurus

They will definitely want to have their way now, and rule in glorious grace-given perfection.  There are comforts and beauty, but there is a risk of gluttony. There is lots of gold, but then it morphs into greed.  One sees all.

7/26/08 @ 4:49 am Mercury into Leo

It is good to be in the know, no?  Bytes of information can stimulate an already growing appetite.  It can fuel things and speed things up.  I see endurance.  There is a large mental capacity that will work with the center to achieve the greatest good.  With energy traveling at the speed of light, then what we may want to do is align ourselves with where it is going, and perhaps hitch a ride to this destination as-yet-un known.  Just be aware of this thing…everything flows to and fro; our heart is the real gateway.

7/26/08 @ 3:05 pm Mars in Virgo trine Jupiter in Capricorn ( r)

So goddamn cheap.  Did you get a free toaster with this?  Whatever.

Life as an Augur

I am an Augur.
The definition of augury is essentially the definition of divination, which is the process of deciphering signs to predict the future. But the practice of augury stems from nature, and using signs from nature specifically, rather than the term divination, which describes the art of deciphering the future using any means really,  whether it be from tea leaves left in a cup and saucer, tarot cards, a pendulum, or the flight patterns of birds.  So, all augury is divination, but not all divination is augury.

In Ancient Rome, at the college of Augurs of Rome, there were initially 5 official Augurs, men who whose job it was to decipher signs in nature to predict outcomes of public events and issues.  They would use thunder and lightening, comets, stars, animals, birds, odd events, to predict the future.  The number of official state appointed augurs continued to grow in Rome and the variety of ways they would perform the auguries grew as well, as there are limitless ways that signs appear to us in life.   In augury, there were two classes, or ways to define the sign.  Class 1 is a sign that appears because a question is being posed, and it is called Auspicia Impetrativa.  Class 2 is an unasked-for sign that appears randomly,  called Auspicia Oblativa. The augurs at the College in Rome were only concerned with class 1, as their duty was to look into official acts of the Republic/Empire, and if the outcome of the augury was good, ie, a good omen, the act would proceed.  If the outcome of the augury was unfavorable, the events were delayed until a better time.1

I am an Augur.  Ok, so I don’t work for the Roman Republic , but I live in a modernized version of the republic, because I live in the US, and this is the most Romanized civilization I have ever known, other than the actual time Rome existed two thousand years ago.  Anyway back to me and my life as an augur.
For years, I have looked to animals, nature, and odd events to predict other events, to predict the future. I know that the earth is a living organism in and of itself, and animals and weather, stones, plants, stars, man, everything is linked by the spirit of the divine. The thunder will come if you call it (you know what I’m talking about) and the moon will be where you want it to be, when you want it.  Everything in existence is linked together by everything else in an unending web, from the center of the source of the all.

Birds… I look up and see a hawk, and it is a good sign, unless I hear their hungry cry, and then I know that there is a need that will remain unfulfilled.  If I see two hawks playing up in the air, circling, intermingling, flying in figure eights, I know there will be love.  If I am stressed or angry, and I don’t want to be, then I summon the vultures to me, and they do come, and then they carry away whatever I don’t want.  But If I am doing augury, and I ask for an omen about a random subject in general, and then I see the vulture, then I know it is an unfavorable omen.  When I ask a question, and I see a butterfly, does it come toward me (good), fly away (bad)  does it go from left to right (good) or right to left (bad)?

One day on a walk, I had a sudden vision of a snake wrapped around me, but I was startled out of the vision by a red car speeding too fast and too close by me.  A minute later down the road, I saw a dead snake that had just been run over by the car that had just passed me by so close.  I moved it to the side of the road in the dirt, and then I kept walking.  On my way back up the road, I saw a hatchling (a baby snake) scooting across the road with the same markings I had noticed from the dead snake.  I witnessed a full cycle of death and life on my walk, and it all started with a day dream of a snake squeezing me.   After the walk, in my life, a series of events occured that prompted me to make important changes in myself. That is what a vision quest is.  You may not  see it coming, but when it happens, it is profound.  This perhaps, would be considered augury of class 2 Auspicia Oblativa.

Late at night when I am thinking, and I pose a question in a formal augurial manner, Auspicia Impetrativa, (such as “will I get this”…or what will happen with that”…)  I will hear the owls outside respond to my thoughts, as if on cue.  I will hear the sharp shrill metallic scream of the screech owl, and I know the outcome will be difficult in the current thought or topic.  If I hear the barn owl, I know things will be less intense and slower.  Outside…the Bats, they are trouble.  The closer they get, the more trouble is coming.  When I hear the coyotes cackle and howl because they made a kill, then I know that the bonds between individuals  will hold, and all will work together to overcome the odds.  And then there are the invisibles, and the whisperers, and well…um..no comment.

My vocation is augury; it is a challenge and a gift.  However, I dont live in pagan Rome where I would have been highly respected and regarded.  In perhaps most major civilizations, augury, divination, fortune telling, reading omens, were so important to everyone…the individual and the society as a whole.  Divination was part of the structure of functioning government in most cultures of times past.  Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, the Aztecs, the Maya, Native America.  But then the practice of augury had to go underground because of certain religions, as the doctrines of the judeo/christian/Islamic traditions do not allow or approve of divination in any form.  So as a modern-day augur, it is hard to get respect. 

Those that turn to a diviner, psychic, or augur, don’t openly discuss it with their friends and family, and quite often, they are talking to me in secret.  Which is ok, I perfectly understand why, and it does not offend me.  We live in a society and time where it is not always socially acceptable to openly discuss matters of the occult.  But I hope that will someday change, because in the huge and vast subject of the occult, there are wonderful things to learn, and great secrets to know, and one of these jewels is the ancient art of augury.

Sources
1.   Three Books of Occult Philosophy written by Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim,
Annotated by Donald Tyson, Llewellyn Publications 1993 — Chapter L111–Notes– Notation #2. Auguria