domenica 31 maggio 2009

Benvenuta Rosa


Sono certo che i molti bravi frequentatori del blog ti risponderanno.
Ho letto: “Non riesco + a trovare la pagina del sito del sig. Discepolo dove si descrive il perchè si viaggia per le RSM”.
Non so se sia una barzelletta o una provocazione, ma la trovo comunque di cattivo gusto.
Buon pomeriggio a Tutti.
Ciro Discepolo
www.solarreturns.com
www.cirodiscepolo.it

sabato 30 maggio 2009

A very special city named Dubai


For Neena. Don't worry: Dubai is one of the best places in the whole world. I was there many times, even last month and even next month. Your friend and her kids have nothing to fear. Reflect: Dubai is the only country in the whole world where you don’t need of a Visa and where you don’t need to fill a paper with your generalities when you enter in the Country… I desire to recount this fact. Many years ago I sent there a mother and a daughter, both Jewish, two splendid people for education, civility, .... They are departing from Rome. When the airplane is departing an electronic voice spiked: “Madame S. and her daughter have to leave the airplane for a control”. The boss of Emirates are waiting them: “But where are you thinking to go? Do you know that you are Jewish?”. “Yes, but we are respectful of every religion!”. “Yes, but I not!”. This men phoned to his boss in Dubai and received a very very hard reprimand and him received even a threat of dismissal. The two Madams, with many excuses, departed for Dubai where received a very lovely welcome.

Per Pino. Ti ringrazio per la segnalazione e per l’augurio. Se si escludono i colleghi italiani di una ben definita squadra e altri elementi "sciolti" e poco numerosi, devo dire che su Amazon, ma non solo lì, i miei libri vengono recensiti con grande apprezzamento.


Per Chandra. Ti assicuro che non sono campanilista e provo tanta rabbia ogni volta che riatterro a Capodichino, ma sono convinto che la baia di Napoli sia stupenda e che la costiera sorrentino-amalfitana sia, effettivamente, come ha decretato l’UNESCO, una delle sette meraviglie del mondo, da salvare assolutamente.


Buona giornata a Tutti.
Ciro Discepolo
www.solarreturns.com
www.cirodiscepolo.it

venerdì 29 maggio 2009

Due foto scattate dal Paradiso




Ecco due immagini suggestive, da Google Earth, della vista sugl’isolotti de “Li Galli” e di Capri in un raggio di 6-7 chilometri da Sant’Agata dei due Golfi dove ci ritroveremo tra poche settimane.

Per Angel. Penso che l’argomento introdotto da te sia tutt’altro che futile. La bellezza Venere-Nettuno è sinonimo, prima di ogni altra cosa, di fascino, che traspare da ogni parte. Il suo limite, se proprio lo vogliamo trovare, potrebbe risiedere in una “chimica” tendente a conservare i liquidi e quindi che potrebbe spingere il soggetto a ingrassare attraverso la ritenzione idrica. Ma se non si insegue il modello Twiggy, allora penso che certe piccole rotondità siano in linea con bellezze classiche tipo una Venere che sorge dalle acque e quella di altri dipinti famosi. Naturalmente nella variabile bellezza giocano anche i fattori familiari, ambientali, economici, culturali e via dicendo. Ricordo che un dittatore africano proibì alle donne del suo regno di mangiare banane perché l’alimentazione a base delle stesse portava una obesità diffusa tra le donne di quel Paese.
Inoltre la congiunzione Venere-Nettuno è anche portatrice di una bellezza fatta di molto fascino: meno di quella Venere-Plutone, ma pur sempre ai primi posti.
Di tutt’altro genere la bellezza Venere-Urano (sto parlando di donne), una bellezza che è già difficile da definire. Prensiamo Elizabeth Taylor che non era alta, non era super credo in nulla, ma aveva una congiunzione al grado di Venere con Urano che le donava una bellezza davvero magica, una bellezza che in film come “La gatta sul tetto che scotta” la rendeva irresistibile. Forse essa era in parte dovuta a quel tanto di trasgressivo che tale congiunzione suggerisce.

Per Al Rami. Sono d’accordo con te quando dici che la nostra cultura in fatto di astrologia debba essere d’acciaio, indipendentemente dal fatto se poi la useremo o meno in “duelli” con gl’infedeli… Ci sono molti galli sul pollaio che ritengono di essere dei mostri sacri su questo o su quell’argomento, ma non potrebbero sostenere neanche un esame di ingresso a un corso di epistemologia, di storia dell’astrologia, di storia delle ricerche statistiche fatte in ogni tempo e in ogni luogo e relativamente a molti altri argomenti della nostra materia. Trovo che un astrologo, degno di questo nome, debba essere in grado, in ogni momento, di sapere spiegare la differenza tra i vari sistemi di domificazione, debba sapere erigere una mappa di cielo natale e di RS senza l’uso del computer e possibilmente a mente e debba conoscere perfettamente ciò che ha detto ogni grande autore rispetto agli altri.

Per Luciana. Ci dispiace che non sarei dei nostri e molti auguri per il tuo viaggio negli USA.

Molti auguri anche a Stefano Mastrosimone per sempre ulteriori successi.

For Neena. Next Solar Return in Australia, for your friend of January 5th, is good for business, with an Ascendant in the eight House, a Jupiter in the forth House and a Venus on the cusp of the second House. I confirm. For the second question. Yesterday you asked to me if a stellium in the seventh House could produce conflicts into a couple of people: yes, it is possible, but, fortunately, these conflicts don’t produce, always, divorces and many times, they are only a time period with more quarrels. I think that every good couple has to affront quarrels, sometimes.

Per Chandra. Ovviamente noi non conosciamo la chimica delle stelle e come tu avrai compreso, l’Astrologia Attiva non nasce dalle speculazioni mentali, ma quasi esclusivamente dalla pratica. In circa quarant’anni di attività ho esorcizzato e ho aiutato a esorcizzare molto la settima Casa nel modo come ho scritto e riscritto molte volte.
Non mi sono mai dovuto pentire di questo tipo di prassi. Certo esistono anche menti malate che pensano alla vendetta di sangue se qualcuno dice loro che sono degl’imbecilli, ma fortunatamente di individui come Olindo ce ne sono relativamente pochissimi in giro e in questo blog.
Per ora resta il fatto che tale sistema ha funzionato per una vita, continua a funzionare e quando non funzionerà più ve ne darò notizia.

Buona giornata a Tutti.
Ciro Discepolo
www.solarreturns.com
www.cirodiscepolo.it

giovedì 28 maggio 2009

Settima Casa e guerre


Per Celeste e per gli altri. Io credo che tu non debba temere tanto questa RL o la tua presunta incapacità a scaricare la settima e l’undicesima Casa. Una persona di questo blog, che stimo molto, a una delle sue prime RSM dovette subirsi un Marte in settima, che non è cosa da poco… Mi chiese consigli e gliene diedi. Egli è di natura pacifica, ma applicò alla lettera i miei consigli. Ogni mattina scendeva in strada e litigava con i vicini che avevano parcheggiato male la macchina: “Ma che t’importa, gli dicevano? Tu non possiedi neanche un’auto!”. Ma lui andava avanti così ogni giorno e lo stesso faceva con i negozianti che sporcavano sotto casa sua e in cento altre cose. Alla fine dell’anno, pur avendo una settima pesantissima, non gli accadde nulla di grave né nel rapporto di coppia, né con la legge, né con altri.
Anche se siete nature pacifiche dovete esercitarvi a “guerreggiare” perché molte volte abbiamo bisogno di piazzare malefici in settima per ottenere tante cose buone da altre parti.


Grazie a Luigi Galli per la segnalazione delle offerte Lufthansa che scadono oggi: pensate, un Dubai a 299 euro e un Hong Kong a 449! Tienici sempre informati.
Grazie anche per le congratulazioni e grazie anche agli altri. Ogni giorno mi scrivono privatamente nuove persone entusiaste del metodo e anche le recensioni internazionali sono assai lusinghiere. Spero di continuare a fare bene in futuro e vorrei che partecipaste tutti voi più attivamente a questo blog. Vi confiderò un segreto (che già conoscete): il mio inglese è lontano dall’essere buono e per questo mi costringo a leggere e scrivere per ore in questa lingua, ogni giorno. Non potete immaginare quanto mi faccia bene, soprattutto con Marte congiunto a Saturno nella terza di RSM!


Per Chandra. Penso che stai procedendo benissimo, pur non essendo una veterana di questa materia. Sono d’accordo con te, intanto, sul discorso “Credo o non credo all’astrologia” e ne ho scritto in diversi miei libri. Poi sono anche d’accordo sul fatto che non dobbiamo avere alcun complesso nei confronti di chicchessia. Non andiamo in cerca di viatici e/o di tutele culturali. I soloni di talune cattedre ci chiedono anche la dimostrazione del rutto scientifico? Lasciamoli fare, caro Al Rami, come saprai a loro stanno iniziando anche a dedicare libri del tipo “Il cretinismo scientifico”.
Non abbiamo bisogno di dimostrare nulla ad alcuno: desiderano restare al buio? Facciano pure.I capi del CICAP e compagni si guardano bene dallo “sfidarmi” a duello perché, come potete leggere nel sito, tutte le volte che ci hanno provato ne sono usciti con le ossa rotte, ma questo non mi dà alcuna soddisfazione e preferisco farli cuocere nel loro brodo.



Per Celeste. Sì, è come hai ricordato tu. Non siamo noi a togliere, di tanto in tanto, i simboli dall’armadio. Essi ci arrivano addosso molte volte al giorno: noi dobbiamo solo interagire con gli stessi, nel modo giusto, seguendo transiti, RL e RS.



For Neena. The whole Solar Return Map has a own logic: every part of this sky is linked in a logical relation with all the other parts. If you have a second House, in Gemini, empty, we can have, contemporarily, some asters in the fourth House. Here we have two possibilities: if you are trying to rent a your apartment to others and the owner of the second House is in the fourth House, it will be very probable that you will able to realize this business. If you are losing your apartment because you are without work and Mercury, owner of the second House is in the fourth, it will be quite certain that you will lose your habitation.
When the Sun or the Ascendant or Mars or a stellium are in the sixth House or in the first House or in the twelfth House there are not protections good to minimize the bad effects of them, even if you are able to put three times Venus or Jupiter in the same Houses.
Yes, if you are the Ascendant e some Celestials in the seventh House, surely you will have a year full of wars, little or big. But, in the same year, if you have not a love relation, it will be highly probable that it will arrive a love story for you.
Pluto in the eight House is good if you are waiting for an assurance repayment, for a heredity, for a little lottery win, to improve your finance by your husband (remember that starting to see the House from the seventh, the eight House is the second House of your husband). But, if you have Mars in the seventh House and Pluto in the eight House, it is possible that your husband will spend money with women…
Buon pomeriggio a Tutti.
Ciro Discepolo
www.solarreturns.com
www.cirodiscepolo.it

mercoledì 27 maggio 2009

Aimed Solar And Lunar Returns







I am happy to announce you that it is ready my fifth American book on Aimed Solar and Lunar Returns.
Under the news about it that you can buy here:

www.solarreturns.com/buynowASALR.htm

Ciro Discepolo
AIMED SOLAR AND LUNAR RETURNS
What you can do when you cannot leave

Product Details: Paperback, 224 pages, 8.6 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches
Ricerca’90 Publisher, 2009, Language: English



Fourth cover’s text:

English-speaking readers fond of Astrology already know the Author, thanks to his previous works - Transits and Solar Returns and Lunar Returns and Earth Returns, which have also been translated into several other languages. In a practice of almost forty years of astrological research, the Author has studied and guided over twenty thousand aimed birthdays; he has also published a dozen books specifically on Solar Returns and Lunar Returns. This is his fifth work in English; two of them can be downloaded free from his webpage www.cirodiscepolo.it – In this volume Ciro Discepolo deals with the second ‘resource’ on which his Active Astrology is based (the first one being the aimed birthday):
the so-called exorcism of symbols. In these pages the Author suggests to the Reader about what can be done when you cannot aim, i.e. actively relocate your birthday (either your Solar or Lunar Return) by a practical application of the notion of ‘activating’ or ‘constellating’ a symbol. For example, Mr. Discepolo claims that if you can not leave for an aimed birthday to avoid Saturn being placed in the 5th House of your next Solar Return, during the twelve months covered by the SR, you had better devote more time to your kids, help them in their studies or in their sporting activities, pay the fee to enrol them in a course, perhaps abroad, where they could learn new subjects and/or nurture and improve their condition in a broad sense.
Planet by planet, House by House, this volume contains all the suggestions of the Author on the exorcism of symbols – a useful practice also in the case you do relocate your Solar and/ or Lunar Returns: for example if you have willingly left some dissonant position in your map of Aimed SR or of Aimed LR, and you wish to lower the threshold of risk a little more.
The volume also explains the philosophical and psychological roots justifying the practice of the exorcism of symbols.


Ciro Discepolo is a journalist and a former researcher of CNR (National Research Council). He’s been dealing with astrology since 1970. He has written over fifty books – most of them on this particular subject. Astrologically speaking, he followed the school of André Barbault. He then founded the school of Active Astrology.
He has been doing statistical researches from the very beginning of this interest in astrology. At the beginning of the ’90s, he obtained very brilliant results with researches on astral heredity on a sample of over 75,000 subjects. His works have been translated, from Italian, into English, Spanish, French, Russian, German, Hungarian, and Slovenian. www.cirodiscepolo.it


Dedication:

To André Barbault, my great master

Initial distiches:

“In the very moment of your birth our entire destiny is written in our birth chart down to the smallest detail – but we can change the screenplay”.
Ciro Discepolo

“Gli astri non sparano mai a salve (The celestials never fire a salvo)”.
Ciro Discepolo



Preface to the English Edition

Active Astrology is well know all over the world, thanks mainly to my previous books in English http://www.cirodiscepolo.it/english_corner/English_corner.htm), together with several other works published in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Slovenian, and Russian.

Many of my readers have urged me to have this volume published in English. Unlike other works of mine, this volume does not explain how to ‘aim’ the relocation of a map of Solar Return: it rather tells you what to do if you can not leave for an aimed birthday and you wish to make use of the technique that I called ‘exorcism of the symbol’ – or more properly said: ‘exorcization of the symbol’.
I trust that you can find good, practical, and useful pieces of advice in these pages.

This volume contains also certain chapters similar to (but not the same as) a previous book of mine titled Astrologia Attiva. Here I’ve added several chapters and I’ve revised and expanded other sections.
As a support to the explained theory, I have also added some astrological portraits of universally known historical personalities such as Giacomo Casanova, Luigi Pirandello, and Ernest Hemingway.

Before you start browsing this volume, I would like to remind you that you can always join my blog (http://cirodiscepolo.blogspot.com/) with queries or comments in English or in the Italian language. There you’ll actually find a sort of an ‘extended family’ made up of my passionate followers, colleagues, pupils or people who simply are fond of Active Astrology – they will be able to help you go on and deepen your studies of Active Astrology.

Yet another thing though. This is probably my very last book in English, as a publisher. In future, if my readers from the States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia (and so on) wish to read my works on the rectification of the time of birth or on the dating of events within the frame of the twelve month of a given Solar Return, they should mention these works of mine to publishers urging their translation into the English language. This is the only way in which they will be able to go on reading my works in their own language.
I wish you all a fruitful pursuit in the deepening your understanding of this wonderful topic called Active Astrology, which is not The Truth, but it is surely Truth.

Ciro Discepolo

Naples, the 6th of February 2009


Index

Preface to the English Edition pag. 7
Preface pag. 9
1. Praise of escape pag. 15
2. The reasons for a vocation pag. 21
3. To antagonize and to potentiate pag. 23
4. The problem of expectations pag. 27
5. Jeoffrey’s theorem pag. 37
6. The added value pag. 41
7. A complete failure pag. 43
8. On the precision of the time of birth pag. 47
9. The ‘gap’ pag. 51
10. When the natal Sun is in the 10th or in the 9th House pag. 55
11. The case of Mrs Smith pag. 59
12. An easy case and a hard case pag. 63
13. Stardust pag. 71
14. Transits of Mars pag. 83
15. Transits of Saturn pag. 107
16. Transits of Uranus pag. 131
17. Transits of Neptune pag. 157
18. Transits of Pluto pag. 171
Appendix
19. Astrological portrayal of Giacomo Casanova pag. 187
20. Astrological portrayal of Luigi Pirandello pag. 195
21. Astrological portrayal of Ernest Hemingway pag. 205
22. An essential astrological bibliography pag. 211
23. Index pag. 219


You can read a chapter of this book, here:


TRANSITS OF MARS

You should never underestimate them. One reason is that they can last for entire weeks or months. Another reason is that they can be responsible for real calamities, if they add to more intense transits. Their action is mostly maleficent. In fact, Ancient – who didn’t know the meaning of the world demagogy – called this planet the little malefic, in comparison with Saturn who was considered the great malefic. Similarly to the fever, which is always present in virtually all the diseases of the human being, Mars and Saturn stand out in virtually all the tragedies of the human being – in my opinion this says a lot about the maleficence of this planet. Therefore you had better have no illusions about it: when Mars passes over your head, at best you can exclaim, “Thanks God, I didn’t hurt myself!” But it’s a quite rare event. Try and test it! For in the overwhelming majority of cases the rule is: you have always to give something to Mars, the ruler of Aries and Scorpio. Usually, it would be wounds, tears, rifts, lacerations, blood and so on. The nature of Mars is clearly of a destructive kind, and this is exactly how it behaves. Only in extremely rare cases it may play a constructive role. Usually this happens in those situations that require determined will, and with those natives who lack of willpower. Only in these circumstances, when Mars transits over the native’s Sun or Ascendant or Moon, it is possible – and only in few rare events – that the subject may become the protagonist of a leap in which he/she takes a brave decision and becomes able to get rid of years of stagnations and slothfulness. Otherwise, Mars usually acts provoking tears, wreckage, destruction, wounds, and bleeding. There’s nothing left other than testing what I’ve just written down.





Mars in a dissonant aspect with the Sun

When Mars creates a disharmonic angle with the Sun – including conjunction – at a theoretical level you should face a positive surplus of energy that you can spend just the way you prefer. Say that you can rely on a credit of energy and that you feel as strong as never before, whishing to employ this benefit somehow. So you leave home and you see a poor man lying on the street under his own motor bicycle. He’s unable to stand up, so you may help him. By doing so, not only you would do your daily good deed, as any member of the Junior Woodchucks should do – you would also make a good use of that bonus on which you can rely. With a less imaginative example, say that you can rely on it for bearing – better than usual – the whims of your chief clerk early in the morning. You may even dare to give him/her a sharp answer, and then prepare for enjoying the usual calm for the rest of the day. On the other hand, if this transit of Mars adds to other dissonant positions in your natal chart and it also forms part of a bad Solar Return and Lunar Return, you run the risk of getting involved in an explosive situation with a final ‘deflagration’. In the given example, the final explosion may be a very bad quarrel with your chief clerk, or with a colleague or with any other collaborator in your job; or perhaps with the policeman giving you a fine, and so on. In other words, on a day like today there’s a special temperature in the air floating around you. You may get in serious troubles with the law, or with any other thing connected with what I call the ‘officially stamped paper’, including being in bad terms with your partner or with your mother-in-law. Furthermore you may also hurt yourself. This can be in a real physical meaning of the term, i.e. you may cut while shaving; you may wound while dismounting a flat tyre; you may be run over on a pedestrian crossing; or when trying to open a carton box with inappropriate cutting tools.

It is the least apt moment for urging a rise in salary. It is not the moment for trying to win over a superior, trying to behave friendly with him or her. On the contrary, you should try and exorcize this transit by performing hard but not dangerous tasks. For example it may be a very good idea to chop wood; to move pieces of furniture from one floor to another; to empty shelves and arrange the books into carton boxes; to rearrange things in your attic or in your cupboard; to arrange the folders at office… It is also a very good day for making sports, provided that it is not something dangerous. For example jogging, trekking, marathons on the ground and on the water... Also going to the dentist would suit, as well as any other sort of operation such as incisions, removal of cysts, birthmarks, tonsils, etc. If you have to undergo a clinical examination under effort, such as certain heart exams, this is the best day to do so. At most, I may say that any surgical operation is welcome during this transit, provided that you obey all the other rules given in my volume Astrologia applicata by ed. Armenia. The most important of those rules says that you should never undergo an intervention when the Moon is in the sign corresponding to the organ to be operated. For example, do not have your throat operated when the Moon is in Taurus. This day – or these days – may also be apt for a good quarrel, provided that you cannot avoid it anyway. For example, it is very apt to give somebody a piece of your mind under the square Mars-Sun. If this Mars transiting in a bad aspect with the Sun also creates any angle with Saturn, it is also a good moment for making tattoos, piercing and so on, or for having them made on your skin.





Mars in a dissonant aspect with the Moon

In the previous section we faced an objective situation. I mean, the source of conflict given by Mars-Sun may or might produce a real laceration, such as for example the wreck of a car in a traffic accident; a bone fracture; a black eye caused by a punch; and so on. While in the case of the transits Mars-Moon we are dealing, I may say, with a more ethereal dimension. It’s still a form of ‘belligerence’, but such ‘belligerence’ may remain at a stage of temper: e.g. you may nurse a grudge against somebody or you may be in a bad mood, but you may not express it, or perhaps you would express it but in the least apt forms. Sometimes you feel your blood boiling, your heart quivering with indignation, fury, and anger. You would like to declare war to the entire world and you feel ready to burst out for nothing. The great Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Young claimed that the subjective reality corresponds to the objective reality. This means that if you have war inside you, you meet war also outside you. Under this logic, at least it is convenient to invent real battles against anybody. If you wish to avoid war coming and visit you, you had better start war against somebody. It may be a neighbour, a colleague at work, a public organization, somebody who opposes our ideas, and so on. This simply means acting according to the Latin motto similia similibus curantur: like cures like, the fundamental healing principle of homeopathy. You’ll surely feel like having more ‘caffeine’ and everybody around you feels that you are ready to jump for nothing. Now, this is exactly the bottom line: do you wish to throw such an important energetic potential out of the window, or do you want to make good use of such energy by deploying it for anything that can be extremely productive for you? You cannot always rely on such an interesting determination. Therefore it is worth to try and look for the correct way to invest this stamina. Before anything else, you should direct your ‘belligerence’ against a female figure, or against any situation connected with the house (for example, quarrels with the neighbours). It is also a good period if you to get a load off your chest and preach your daughter, your sister, your mother… If you have to solve a situation by phone, you had better start your conversation like this: “I’m warning you, this is not a friendly call…” In other words, there’s no use in wearing mantles of false pacifism if your blood is boiling with indignation. So blow the trumpets and roll the drums. And if you have to shoot, shoot… There’s moment for construction and a moment for destruction. Well, this is the moment for destruction, so behave consequently. If you can, you may also carry out heavy duties at home, such as chopping wood, moving pieces of furniture, fixing the roof and so on.





Mars in a dissonant aspect with Mercury

Here we deal with two different notions: on the one hand, the idea of effort (Mars) and on the other hand, the idea of communication (travel, telecommunication, etc.). It is possible that you should start for a journey against your own will, if you wish to exorcize this transit. You might cover a long-long distance while you really wished to stay at home. Sometimes travelling is a pleasure, with a brand new and comfortable car, and with a nice weather. But if your car is old, if it doesn’t work fine; or if the bad weather conditions (say, cold and lack of visibility) make the route uneven, then your journey may become rather uncomfortable and this may be the case when you make a sacrifice for the sake of the exorcization of this transit. So this is a good thing to do during this transit. Furthermore, according to the principles detailed in this volume the more you suffer in travelling, the more you ‘discharge’ this symbol. The negativity of the journey may also be connected with the reason of your moving around: for example, you may have to take a close relative to undergo a serious surgery; and in this case, in my opinion, no further explanation is needed. Often the objective aversion towards the journey may be caused by a specific reason which makes the travel harder or even unbearable: for example, you may have to travel together with your tiresome and haunting mother-in-law. In other cases this transit may imply the repair of your car or any other vehicle: this is another good way to exorcize this transit properly. At another level, your journey may be only a virtual one. From this point of view, it may be connected with communication or telecommunication rather than a physical displacement of your body. For example, it is pleasant to browse the Internet searching for relaxing or – even better – for something to play with: but it may be less amusing to navigate on the WWW in order to carry out a precise assignment, perhaps something boring in which you can not use your creativeness, such as a repetitive job in which you may have – just to give an example – to delete a sequel of items from a list, one by one. At a similar level you may try to exorcize this transit by making efforts of fixing up your printer, your mobile phone, or your satellite receiver by yourself, without even calling a technician. You may play the technician yourself by installing a satellite dish on the roof of your house. You can also invest your strength in compliance with the symbols Mars-Mercury by dealing with a brother, a sister, a cousin, a brother-in-law… You may have to take care of one of them, for example. You’d attain the utmost from this transit if you took one of these relatives to run an errand a few hundred miles far from your own place. Last but not least, a clever trick to leave this transit may be to embark on a huge sacrifice and try to quit smoking; or withdrawing into a lonely room in order to write down a report, or to study for an important exam.





Mars in a dissonant aspect with Venus

The best way to exorcize a transit of Mars dissonant to Venus is to have se, much sex – you might ‘gorge yourself’ with sex. Mars is the synonym for strength and Venus stands for love. Hence the best way to constellate these symbols is to have much, healthy sex. This is valid regardless of the kind of transit, i.e. opposition or conjunction or square, it’s the same. It is also important ‘how’ you make love. Each pair has his own fashion of making love, but he symbolism of Mars-Venus recalls a style of making love which may be considered a little bit ‘violent’ or ‘virile’. According to this, during this transit it may a good thing to insert certain variation in your way of making love. Also quantity is important – hence it would be a useful thing to have more frequent sexual intercourses until this transit lasts. Another way in which you can exorcize, or constellate, this transit is to manage – provided that you are able to do so – the creeping tension with your partner in love. This implies having a tense relationship, but not so tense as to provoke a real crisis. When you act following the logic of exorcising transits, the most important thing is to keep always a good sense of humour, which above all allow you to consider thing ‘from the outside’, without feeling too much involved. If you follow this rule events would hardly overcome you; if you don’t, you run the risk of becoming yourself a victim of your own ploys. If during these days you were able to handle a fairly argumentative relationship, this would not harm to your love affair – on the contrary, it would precisely benefit it. Another way of constellating this transit may consist in helping your partner in carrying out heavy tasks. For example, say that your wife has to empty a whole case at office in order to allocate the files into another archive or in two-three cases. So you had better summon all your patience and go and help your wife even if this implies spending a couple of week-ends for this purpose. Or vice-versa: if you have to arrange or rearrange your tools in the garage, she should help you to do so. In a similar attempt of keeping the situation (i.e. this transit) under control, you may exaggerate and indulge in some sort of pleasure. For example you may have a special dinner with your friend, say for example a stag party, where you can indulge in intemperance and debauchery, overeating, and so on. This way you’d act perfectly according with the transit. Or, once in a lifetime, you may indulge in poker or any other gambling game – but remember to set a limit before, and then leave the game as soon as you reach the limit you had imposed to yourself. And now for something completely different: you may do your utmost for helping or giving assistance to a sister, a female cousin, or a young female friend of yours – and this has nothing to do with play and games, of course.





Mars in a dissonant aspect with Mars

You can only ‘discharge’ this transit making use of your own brute force. You can not mistake: you should chop wood, move pieces of furniture from one room to another, perform heavy physical tasks, sweating, sweating, and sweating over and over again. Any attempt of coming to terms with the symbology of this transit is doomed to failure. Under this transit you are bound to suffering at a physical level, so the more you suffer the better. Let me be even more drastic and put it this way: if you don’t sweat, you bleed. In fact, this transit may correspond to a period in which you find yourself laying on the dentist’s armchair, who – with a drill in his hand – gives to the flaming ruler of Aries and Scorpio all that it wants. This is the aptest transit for being scalpelled, drilled, flayed, bled, and so on. You should have no doubt about it. The only thing that you should be concerned with is the ancient yet very good rule by Ptolemy: already in the second century before Christ, he suggested that you should never undergo any operation when the Moon is in the sign corresponding to the portion of body that you should heal – Taurus corresponding to the throat, Virgo the bowels, and so on. If you find no heavy tasks to carry out and no lesser or major interventions to undergo (this would sound weird, after all), you may try to exaggerate a little bit and start quarrelling with your neighbour, with your fellow creatures, even if you don’t know them personally. For example, with an ill-mannered deliveryman; an unpleasant telephone operator; the impolite assistant of a medical doctor, and so on. Instead of the heavy tasks, you may perform mechanical tasks or work with electricity, water tubes, motors, and so on. Another way of exorcising this transit is facing up situations: i.e. acting so that truth will out. Say that you feel a creeping friction in your relationship with somebody, but so far you haven’t felt like facing up this unpleasant situation with him/her because if you did so, you would have an unfriendly and disagreeable confrontation, while your nature is of a pacifist kind. But you know: there’s a time for peace and there’s a time for war – and this transit marks undoubtedly a time for war.





Mars in a dissonant aspect with Jupiter

In this period you tend to hypertrophy and you suffer from a scarce critical sense. Your superficiality would grow consequently and you underestimate the difficulties that you have to face. Under these circumstances, prudent people would remain alone at home, doing their best to do… nothing at all. But if you did so, what would you give to Mars? Similarly to other cases, also in this case making sports may help. For example, archery would show you – and not only figuratively – how many times you can hit the bull’s eye. Under this transit something interesting happened to a friend of mine. It was during our mid-August holidays, and the event took place in one of those tourist villages in which they just organized a swimming competition. My friend took a deep breath, jumped into the water and started swimming. He was convinced to be the first but when he eventually emerged and opened his eyes, he sadly realized that everybody was before him, and that he was actually behind everybody else. This is exactly what may happen to everybody during this transit – and also losing your face in a sporting competition may help you exorcise the symbol of the transit. Otherwise you can pamper yourself with a period of controlled intemperance, such as overeating with friends, yet without ever exceeding beyond the limits imposed by decency and by rational logic. You may also indulge in little crazy expenses; for example you may resolve to buy some new garment, and in this case you’d reduce the risk to the chance of paying 100 what really costs 70. In these days you may also donate your blood: it would be a wise and socially useful thing to do. And by doing so, you’d know if your blood is OK or perhaps something may be wrong in it, especially in connection with the liver, and do something to avoid further troubles. And last, you may renounce to a little but fix amount of your budget and devote it to losing it in gambling games.





Mars in a dissonant aspect with Saturn

During these days or months you feel nastier and perhaps you really are nastier, in so far that you natal chart allows you to be a bad boy or a bad girl. During this transit you should take those decisions that you normally are unable, or refuse to take. For example you may resolve to take your aged mother to a retirement home or to an old people’s home, although this is something that anybody would hate. Yet it is something that you have to do under certain circumstances. Nonetheless this is life: there are days for enjoying and there are days for suffering. And there are days of gathering consent and other days in which people consider you to be a fierce torturer. And this is exactly the case of this transit. So if there isn’t any other possible solution, you should sacrifice this sort of lamb on the altar of Mars-Saturn: taking one of your dear old ones to the old people’s home; parting from a dog cub or a pussy cat that you could not keep at home so that you have got to give it away; taking your dear suffering pet to the vet to have it suppressed – an act of mercy that, in my opinion, should also be allowed for those men and women who are suffering in the terminal stages of their illness. That cold SS torturer who sleeps within each individual – more or less depending on each natal chart – comes out during this transit and reclaims his right to existence. Hence, this period is apt for certain particularly delicate surgical operations, such as acting yourself as a doctor and give rescue to somebody who needs help because, say, his or her leg is broken, while you are waiting for a professional assistance to arrive. On the altar of this transit you may also wish to offer a surgical intervention on your own body: it may be the meniscus, the knees in general, orthopaedic surgery, and above all – the dentist. Dentist-related suffering, their curing on the base of drilling, the laceration of the gums, their stitching up: all they are operations typically connected with the dissonance Mars-Saturn. The same can be told for demolitions. For example, if you have to demolish anything build without a planning permission, an unsteady external wall, or a former shelter for your dog and so on; but it also refers to the scrapping of cars and motor bicycles. And last if you have something unpleasant to tell to anybody, for example an unfriendly telephone call, declaring any sort of war etc. this is the right moment to do so.





Mars in a dissonant aspect with Uranus

This transit implies a sort of destructive or radically proactive energy tending to solve problems. Spurts of adrenaline seem to make all of your action ‘sparkle’. You feel absolutely unsatisfied before anything that takes a longer time to evolve or develop. In fact during this transit you may become impatient, particularly with people who ‘work’ slower than you, or who don’t understand what you say. You tend to go straight to the core of any situation; during these days you are as loyal, sincere, and genuine as ever. You had better take advantage of this situation and bang the table with your fist: for if there are days for mediating, it is also true that there are other days for making war. Everybody has got situations that need to be removed radically, without any wavering, after sought, or weakness. This transit marks exactly this kind of ‘bus stop’ in your life. So you had better summon all your bravery and make a clean-up. So get rid of old and useless ‘friends’ and any sort of dead weight, including your own mental ballast. Hold your nose and wear brand new garments. Get rid of your old taboos, obsessive manias, little fears of your being ‘a very little man’, and take a deep breath of fresh air even if this might cause you wounds. You’ll have time to put in stitches to your lacerations later on. So the best way to discharge this sort of transit is to humour your nature of these days. And your nature of these days is, more or less, coherent with your basic nature. During these days or weeks you should make efforts to be as natural as possible, even in those occasions in which being natural means being brave. At any cost you should avoid any activity usually considered dangerous, such as riding bicycles and motor bicycles; skating; skiing; driving at high speed; climbing mountains; diving from high cliffs, and so on. Nonetheless, we have to give something to Mars and Uranus. So you also had better try to go in for brave yet not really dangerous sport such as the kitesurfing. This is also a good moment if you have to undergo a little surgical operation with minimal sedation or anxiolysis. You will be also attracted by techniques and informatics; you may take advantage of this by opening the case of your desktop computer – although the successful result may not be guaranteed. This transit is also good if you have, for example, to support a relative of yours in a ‘quarrel’, for example against his/her neighbours.





Mars in a dissonant aspect with Neptune

During the transit of Mars on a dissonant angle with Neptune (including conjunction) you feel a sort of ‘mental blindness’. This means that you tend to exaggerate a notion, an ideal, a point of view, a professional practice. The dangerousness of the transit we are talking about is totally inscribed in this sort of ‘altered state of consciousness’. This leads you to behave in a way that you usually wouldn’t do – unless you have already got this aspect in your very natal chart. Those who are in a leading position of nations, countries, armies, mass movements and so on, they should be careful not to take any important decision during this transit, because otherwise their highly subjective decisions might provoke some sort of ‘holy war’, or ‘one-way fanaticism’. So this transit is not something that can be solved with some Valium or valeriana or any other anxiolytics to be taken in homeopathic doses. So what I am suggesting you to exorcize this transit is to find out some specific situation in which you may behave so blindly without being too harmful to yourself and to the others. There you could take those unique, final, extreme decisions – just like if it were the last thing you would do. For example, you may declare your resolution of quitting smoking; you may lie in bed with sedating infusions to detoxify from morphine; or you may resolve seriously to embark on a slimming cure – under the spur of this transit, all these things would lead you to exceptional results. The same if you are a victim of alcoholism or drug. At another level, you may resolve to run ten miles a day; to join a gym; to do a minimum daily quantity of push-ups. In a word, this is the season of the statements of compromise, in which you are also able to fulfil them. All of your proposals of the kind “from today onwards…” taken during this transit are bound to lead to firm and constructive actions. During these days no one can stop you: so you had better take advantage of this and jump over any sort of gap – geographical, social, or political ones. If your heart quivers with indignation for anything, for example, you may resolve to join a political party or a mass movement. Take part in environmental campaigns, for example you may join a group of volunteers cleaning up the parks and the hills of your town; or you may even take part in some ‘extreme’ actions performed y environmentalists, green activists and so on. For example you may have yourself enchained to the gates of the embassy of a country in which experimental nuclear explosions are carried out. If you have an important surgical intervention to do, or even a mere extraction of the wisdom tooth, well this is the right time to be brave and undergo any sort of torture. And if you feel so brave to take the consequences of this transit to the extremes, you may try to walk barefoot on burning coals, like certain fakirs do. And last, this is a good period for studying astrology, esotericism, parapsychology, Eastern cultures, yoga and so on.





Mars in a dissonant aspect with Pluto

When the worst and deepest energies inside you tend to emerge to the surface, you should try to channel them and keep them under strict control. I can imagine that even psychology would agree with astrology in suggesting you to go to the cinema and watch some film like Death Wish. I’m sure that it has happened to you too, to find yourself in a metro coach in the presence of a gang, a group of hooligans, drifters behaving in a clearly criminal way. You know, those dropouts that start singing in chorus obscene songs; but they go further and beat the passengers, spit on them, perhaps they even rob them. In moments like this, the civilized part of you (the Dr. Jekyll) feels uncomfortable, but at most it switches on the mobile phone and calls the police. But during a dissonant transit of Mars with Pluto – including conjunction – the other half of you, the Mr. Hyde emerges and you’d like to shoot with a Magnum or any other gun, just like the cops in the American films. This is why I suggest you to go to the cinema and watch that film with Charles Bronson shooting at the head of hooligans. This is certainly not a masterpiece of culture, but by watching this sort of films you could sublimate all of your destructive strength. It would be him, the killing vigilante who does the real thing – not you. So you’d be happy that the crime rate is dropping and that somebody is doing something about crime, but you won’t pay the consequences of your imaginary self-made justice. Somebody, of those who love demagogy, would claim that violence is violence in any case, and that violence produces violence. But I don’t believe in allopathy, I prefer homeopathy – similia similibus curantur: like cures like. On the other hand I am suggesting this to adult people who are supposed to be perfectly able to discriminate between reality and invention while watching films like Pulp Fiction. During this transit also your sexual impulse might improve not only in quantity but also in quality; and you may be led to do something ‘weird’, strange, morbid. And if you partner agreed, you’d be able to have unusual experiences in this field. Since this transit also implies a wave of wrath, you may channel it to spoil the friendship between you and somebody that you don’t like anymore; or to give a sharp answer to your boss; perhaps to resign after a quarrel. There are days for constructions and days for destruction: these are the days for demolition.





Transit Mars in the First House

This transit takes place approximately every two years. It usually last a couple of months. Keep in mind though, that if the planet becomes retrograde and then it reverts to direct motion again, this transit might last five or six months. This transit gives you an extraordinary stamina; you can behave like if you had taken dozens of cups of coffee; you feel like moving without gravity, like if you were walking on the Moon. Of course such a surplus of energy must be channelled carefully; otherwise it can provoke real disasters. Those who generally lack of a strong willpower may feel the thrill of being able to take brave decisions on the spur of the moment. On the contrary, those whose basic nature is strong and volitional should make use of particular tactics. My first suggestion is to go to the dentist. I am confident that Mars would appreciate those nightmare-like drilling, scalpelling, root lapping, and bleeding that the dentist’s care might imply. Given that everybody has to visit the dentist on a regular basis, you had better go there when Mars is transiting in your 1st, 6th, or 12th House. In those periods you should also concentrate, if possible, any other lesser or major surgical intervention: such as incisions, haemorrhoids, removal of cysts, birthmarks, tonsils, etc. If you really have nothing to offer from this point of view, then you had better devote yourself to a massive sporting activity. The more you go in for sport in this period the better you discharge this transit, and the safer you can feel. If you don’t feel like going in for sport, or if you aren’t accustomed to carry out physical efforts, then proceed gradually, starting with jogging in the woods or on the shore early in the morning. You may also devote some time to the gym. If you are really lazy you may avoid joining a gym club and do it at home. You may buy a rowing machine or a stationary bicycle, or you may simply do push-ups on the carpet. As Woody Allen would say, you may also ‘sweat in the sheets’: i.e. an increased sexual activity would discharge this transit very, very well. And if you have got to move pieces of furniture; to empty shelves and rearrange your book collection; to carry out any sort of huge, heavy tasks – well this is the perfect time to do so. Don’t you have any heavy task to carry out? Then create them, or help you friends and relatives who are just moving; or help them rearrange the garage or the attic or any other thing like this. Of course you should avoid the most dangerous tasks such as cutting or sawing wood, otherwise you may run the risk of wounding yourself.





Transit Mars in the Second House

During this transit you stand the chance of having a little but intense haemorrhage of money. In this case it may not be enough to suggest you to be generically careful, to keep alert. You had better try and rule over the symbol, i.e. ‘exorcise’ it at your best, channelling it in a way that may be even advantageous to you. To do so you should do your utmost to increase the income of your own personal finance or of the family budget. If possible, accept a second job. This may be a temporary activity and it may last only until this transit lasts. Depending on your field of expertise, you should try to make extra money from giving consultancies, private classes, working as a freelance translator, and so on. So buy the local papers of classified ads and something useful will surely occur to you. For example, you might also earn from selling an old piece of furniture. If there’s a chance to work overtime in your company, do so as much as you can during this transit. Perhaps you have never considered getting into high finance and you simply spare your money by leaving it sleeping in a current account? Well, during this transit you might study for days, for weeks, trying a solution for earning more by investing your money in something more productive yet safe; for example you may buy a state bond or transfer your money to another account granting a higher rate of interest. Or on the contrary, if you have to make expenses and you cannot avoid it, then spend your money exactly during this transit. Buy anything – tools, garment, whatever – provided that meets somehow the symbols implied in this transit. Remember that if you don’t do so, you run the risk of losing that money anyway – for example you might be robbed. At another level you had better enhance your physical aspect: so go to the hairstylist, to the barber, to cosmetologists, beauticians, tailors, and whomever can help you improve your looking. Another valid way of exorcising this symbol may be having a little incision made on your body: e.g. to remove a birthmark or a cyst or any other blemish on your skin. You may also invest more time than usual in visiting shops in search for better pieces of garment. This can also apply to any tools connected with the notion of ‘image’. Thus you may learn to use a complex software of CAD; study photography; buy a larger monitor, and so on.





Transit Mars in the Third House

During this transit it is a wise thing to become a commuter, or if you already are, increase your daily commuting. This may be connected with an actual need or a changed situation, such as taking your kids to a farther school or your assignment to another branch of your company - but you might also be able to create such a situation of commuting deliberately. In the latter case you may grasp many different occasions. for example you may resolve to assist a course on Shiatsu at the other end of the town; join a gym club far from home; meet a group of friends after work; and so on. The bottom line is: let it be a larger commuting, a longer way to pass every day. The same if you make it by foot or by car or tramway or train. Each symbol should be ‘weighed’ in comparison with the individual who wish to constellate it: therefore the distances involved may depend on the natal chart of he, or she, to whom the transit refers. For example, for a native Cancer who spends a lot of time at home, it may be enough a distance of a few blocks; while for an extremely mobile Gemini the distance should involve dozens, if not thousands of miles. During this period it would be useful to spend also resources, energy, and money to take care of your car from the technical, mechanical and esthetical point of view: So go and visit more often your carwash, your tyre repairer; your auto-body repairer; your mechanic… And if you are so smart to be able to put your own hands in your car, even better! Roll up your sleeves and spend several hours of Saturdays and Sundays with a wrench. At another lever, the transit may be efficiently discharged by diving yourself into a deep study, for leisure or necessity. In the latter case you may get ready for a contest or an exam at university. In both cases the transit gives you the required energy. You may also try and invest your passion in learning a new software programme; studying o reading a book of your favourite author; you may also take benefit in assisting courses, lessons, seminars, lectures. Moreover, you had better intensify your communication – especially the written ones – via Internet or telephone, although you may run the risk of getting quite high bills if you don’t pay a flat fee. If you are engaged at a cultural level, grasp the chance and write some important chapter for your next book; or the text of an article, a lecture, an essay... If you had to swallow a bitter pill because of your brothers, sisters, brothers-in-law or sisters-in-law during this transit you have the chance of getting it out off your chest and giving them a piece of your mind. Last, you may take a strong compromise and quit smoking, if you are a smoker.





Transit Mars in the Fourth House

During this transit you have certainly to carry out some work at home. You may do it yourself or have it done by an expert. You may rearrange the whole house or simply have your bathroom repainted. In any case you should spend efforts, compromise and suffering. The discomforts caused by coming home and finding dust and sand everywhere, up into your sheets; or finding a lime of scuttle left on your best armchair, they should be enough to discharge this symbol properly. If you are smart enough in doing-it-yourself you may spend all of the week-ends of this transit in painting walls and mounting shelves. The bottom line is that you should channel as much stamina and money as you can in this sort of things. These weeks or months are a favourable span of time for you to have a new heating system mounted; or new tiles in your bathroom; or any other lesser or major fixing or renovating or refurbishing job that your place may need from time to time. The same may also refer to you office, your workshop, your atelier, your shop, your laboratory, your working space whatever it is. The notion of making efforts aimed at your home or house may also refer to a different layout of the furniture, which may be achieved by physical tasks; or simply mounting news curtains, which is a much lighter job. Gardening may also attain to the symbology we are talking about. You may constellate it also by applying for a mortgage loan and start paying instalments for the purchase of a flat. More precisely speaking, this implies all those direct and indirect expenses relevant to your house or flat, including insurance or the payment of inheritance tax which you may deliberately try to postpone or anticipate so that it takes places exactly during this transit. Furthermore it would be a good thing to deal more with your parents, to take more care for them: go and visit them more often; take them with you on holiday; assist them in a therapy; take them to hospital if they need it, and so on. I can say that this transit can be discharged quite fairly by upgrading the hard-disk of your personal computer. This seems to be an easy task, but it may be difficult even for an expert technician and it often implies days of reinstalling your favourite software, applications, drivers etc. one by one. But if you do so you may avoid the bad surprise of having your computer infected by a virus, which in certain cases can be solved only by reformatting all of your drives.





Transit Mars in the Fifth House

The ideal would be to sport – to sport very much. If you are already a sportsman or a sportswoman you may simply intensify your activity. If you are not, you had better move somehow: play tennis, dive, swim, and run, make gymnastic at home or in a gym club. Sports are surely the right activity to discharge this transit in the best way. Yet the Fifth House also refers to anything that may be defined playful and recreational – so dance may be suitable as wall, since it is a sort of ‘sport’ that one can perform at any age, it is only good for blood circulation, provided that you don’t exaggerate – and by the way, exaggerating hurts whatever you do. The 5th House of the natal chart also refers to love. So in order to tame the transiting Mart claiming for its rights, you can also have a more intense sexual activity, or simply meet you partner more frequently. And remember: if you don’t discharge this transit you run the risk of falling into temptation and start frequenting quire dangerous places such as casinos, where the harmful suggestions of the rules of Aries and Scorpio might lead you to spend and losse quite consistent amounts of money. While if you guide this Mars at your best, it may lead you to learn a new sporting activity, such as bridge or chess – you can sweat and loose weight also by playing bridge or chess. These months favour also the practice of teaching. So if you are a teacher or if you are asked to do a seminar, you should try and concentrate it during this transit. You should also make more efforts in connection with your beloved ones, your partner, you kids: for example, for their medicines, for their spirit. Try and demonstrate in a tangible way how much you care for them. This is also a good time for going to holiday in one of those resorts where the animators don’t leave you in peace but make you work even harder than you normally do at work.





Transit Mars in the Sixth House

With this transit, it’s a matter of warding off a stronger blow. Whether it expresses itself in your job (i.e. in your relationship within your working environment) or in your health, this is a rather treacherous transit. In the first case, you had better give it vent by giving a piece of your mind to, say, a colleague whom you can’t stand any longer. If you have to quarrel, this is the aptest moment. Certain interpersonal rapports in your working environment can last up to certain point – not forever. At most, during these days you can try and accept harder physical tasks: for example, reallocate the files from one case to another; move huge bulks of heavy folders; do-it-yourself and move pieces of furniture even if those tasks do not fall within your competence. As far as health is concerned, the dentist is always the best solution: as much ‘drilling’ as possible and you’ll avoid more serious troubles. So visit the dentist as often as possible and ask him to undergo a deep cleaning of your teeth, implying the cutting of your gum and a profound removal of the tartar (this technique is called root lapping). If you are a woman, you may find benefit in an extra visit to the gynaecologist, who might find out some little wound to be cicatrized with an electrosurgical knife. Everybody would find benefit also in chiropractic: hands up those who haven’t got any little pain in the bones… Nonetheless, with a transit like this – which in certain cases may last up to several months – one cannot underestimate the problem. So it would be a wise thing to put into effect all those things that I have gathered under the term of ‘a prosthetic technique’ in another section of this volume. In other words, during this transit it would not be enough to simply act according to the homeopathic principle similia similibus curantur – before anything else you should prevent, and only then combat using certain opposites. I give a few examples. Those who suffer from chronic gastric diseases know it very well: at any change of season their acid secretion grows; and as a consequence, also their disturbances also grow, making it possible the risk of gastric ulcer. So, as this transit approaches – I mean, already when Mars gets closer to the cusp of the 6th House – you should ask your doctor to prescribe you ranitidine or other similar compounds; stop drinking coffee; stop taking any other substance that may hurt your stomach, such as orange or lemon juice, spirits, and so on. Similarly, those who suffer from cervical arthrosis would start going out wearing a wooden scarf and a hat; sleeping with an electric heating-pad in their pillow; adopting all those precautions that any patient like them knows very well. In other words, you have to defend rather than attack, for this is a really bad transit and if it happens together with other bad transits, it may imply a very critical period for you. So if you don’t want to become its victim, avoid the underestimation of this transit and take all the required steps against it. Above all, remember that during these weeks you’ll get all the relapses of the troubles from which you suffer periodically. Of course, if you have to undergo surgery, this is the time to do so, always keeping in due consideration the general astrological rules that refer to any operation; namely, that you shall not undergo an operation when the Moon is in the sign connected with the organ to be operated. Furthermore you should not forget that when Mars passes through your 1st, 6th, or 12th House as well as in any other particularly negative situation, if possible it is a good thing to observe a total, therapeutic fast. If you cannot, a partial fast also may suit. Eat as little as possible – a small cup of hot clear soup; a few chestnut to fill your stomach; very little bread and cheese, or fresh fruit. Through total fast or a frugal diet it is possible to overcome safely a good part of the aggressions of Mars. This is also valid in general, so you can follow this behavioural direction also in presence of other ‘malefic’ celestials.





Transit Mars in the Seventh House

Unlike the previous situation, here you have absolutely to attack: the harder you attack the less you’ll be attacked. So you should do your best to develop many little battles – or one single war, but be an important one. This may or may not imply legal stuff, i.e. your war may also take place before a court, but it may also have absolutely nothing to do with lawyers, attorneys, or judges. For example you might pick up the phone and call your neighbour to complain against his doggy making poo-poo just before your own door. You may also join a residents’ meeting and start fighting for your rights before each of them. If somebody owes you money, you may also ask for legal assistance to have your money back. And if you really think that you’ve got nothing to quarrel with anybody (in which case I dare say that you… live on Mars), you can always create or invent occasions of battling: for example you may take part – at least during these weeks – to actions of environmental activists, animal welfare, and so on. Also having yourself enchained to the gates of the embassy of a country in which experimental nuclear explosions are carried out may be quite useful to discharge this transit. You may also invent or hype a dispute with a newspaper or a magazine, by writing tons of letters to them showing your indignation for one or another subject. So join meetings, protest rallies, public debates, any sort of popular happening. If you are so shy to be unable to speak in public, you may always ask a legal representative to act for you. The golden rule is: the more you produce war, the less damage you suffer from this transit. Ironically, sports may help you. So join a club and make karate or boxing. By giving kicks and punches to an opponent – either for hunger or for sport – you’ll be able to discharge this symbol partly or completely. In my experience I have noticed that I have explained these things several times to those who asked for my counselling, yet very few of them took me at my word. An honest and respected professional, a very good man, did not start any sort of battle or struggle or quarrel against anybody during this transit. One day two young men waited for him before his consulting room; when they saw him they simply asked for a confirmation of his identity; then they assaulted him with kicks and punches. The professional never understood who ordered them to do so. Remember that during this transit you may have your driving licence confiscated; you may undergo the control of a custom officer; you may be interrogated by a judge; you may suffer from little or serious legal troubles. So the only way, let me stress it once again, is to invent wars, and attack, attack, and attack once again. The more you attack the less you’ll be victim of attacks. In this case, this rule proves true and works very well.





Transit Mars in the Eighth House

Before anything else, you have to administrate a series of controlled expenses. Since you cannot avoid expenses during this transit, the idea of not spending anything is not really advisable. It is much better starting with anticipation, say when Mars is still in the 7th House: then you should start scheduling your future expenses so that you spend the money exactly when Mars is in the 8th House. In other terms, it is really advisable to postpone, if possible, your expenses when Mars is in the 6th and 7th House, and then, when it enters the 8th House, you can buy all the things you had programmed. This way you produce that outgoing flow of money that this transit requires. Willing or not, you’ll have to spend during this transit, so the clever action consists in spending well. What you have to avoid and ban at any cost is any sort of speculations and games. If you usually play, you had better spend more money for your house or for a holiday rather than wasting money in lotteries or bingos. In other words, if you really wish to ward off the sinister blows that the celestials may bring to you during this transit, you should learn to programme – and to programme with due anticipation. If during the year you have to have something fixed at home; if you have to buy some electrical household appliance or a new car – you simply have to postpone the event until Mars reaches your natal 8th House. In other words, concentrate your expenses in those weeks or months. The same applies if you have to pay certain bills, such as the dentist’s bill, or the psychologist’s bill, or the bill for the lessons of piano for your son. In a word: spend, spend and spend once again. But – only spend for useful things, for things that you cannot avoid. Furthermore, it is possible that during these months you may have to face legal controversies in connection with disputed inheritance or taxes, with the assistance of a lawyer or your bookkeeper. If this didn’t happen in a natural way, but you judge that it may happen, you had better provoke such a situation. At another level, you may increase your sexual activity; considering the symbols involved in this transit, this should happen quite naturally.





Transit Mars in the Ninth House

The time has arrived for you to make that journey that you have postponed so far, because you do not see it as a holiday. It may be a displacement for job, for study or to undergo a therapy – so be strong and resolve to leave at least. The longer and more tiring is the travel, the better you discharge this Mars in the 9th House. According to the notion of exorcism of symbols, the deal would be to go very far away to undergo surgery, incision, perhaps an aesthetical operation. I know people that don’t trust Italian dentists and they travel periodically to Switzerland to be cured there; they also claim to spend less then here in Italy. And this is exactly what you should do in order to oppose safely this transit. On the other hand, this transit usually takes place every second year and it would be a little bit to wait for this transit to happen until your next visit to a foreign dentist. So what you could do instead is covering a distance of two-three hundred miles to run a particularly annoying errand: for example, visiting some bureaucratic machine in the capital. Or you may travel in order to visit and/or take care of a relative who lives far away. Or you may resolve to take a plane and struggle with the chief officer of your company in order to attain better working conditions. The bottom line is that you should move against your own will, or in order to perform actions that you dislike. Mars in the 9th House might also be discharged by going in for sports – yet in this case you had better beware of possible accidents, so only go in for the least dangerous sports such as swimming or gymnastic. At a mental level, the ideal would be to learn a new language, or improving your skill in a language that you already know. This may also refer to programming languages. Hence you may also spend these weeks or months in learning how to use and make profit from a new software package. It would also be a wise thing to channel this particular sort of libido into the so-called ‘superior’ studies, meaning in this case all the disciplines that go far beyond your daily life: history of religions, Eastern cultures, Zen, yoga, astrology, parapsychology, esotericism, philosophy, analytic psychology and so on. And last, also dealing much (or more than usual) with animals (possibly your own pets) would also be useful to discharge this transit.





Transit Mars in the Tenth House

Under this transit it’s a matter of upgrading, i.e. enhancing your social and/or professional position, or more generally speaking – achieving a better emancipation. If you are a young woman you may insist and have your boyfriend engage and eventually make arrangements for your marriage; if you are a clerk you may relentlessly apply for better positions; if you are a teenager you may ask your parents the permission of going out with friends and coming back home later at night. You may also engage a sort of competition with yourself as well. So you may study harder; learn something new; get more expert and proficient in your job; computerize your activity; produce more; or enlarge the area in which your product is sold. In any case you’d have to work harder for your prestige, particularly at a social and professional level. For example you may pick up the phone and call twenty different persons asking for their vote in a local election in which you are a candidate. Only be careful not to mix up job or prestige with money: they are two completely different worlds. Cutting your umbilical cord may be another way of expressing the spirit of the efforts required to you by this transit. You may get rid of your chains also by quitting smoking; stopping and resolving a long-lasting therapy of deep analysis; making efforts and channel energies to stop taking a pill that you might consider unavoidable, while it only causes you harm with its collateral effects. A good way to exorcise Mars in your 10th House may also consist in working until late. Do not forget that the natal 10th House also refer to your mother; so if you wish to avoid quarrels and troubles with her, you had better do your utmost for her during this transit. For example go and visit her more often; take her to the doctor; take her to the blood test; simply devote more time to her. In other words, show her in practice how much you care; she who has spent a whole life in making sacrifices for you deserves that you make sacrifices for her form time to time.





Transit Mars in the Eleventh House

It is very easy to discharge this transit if you are a musician: simply play and play. If you usually play much, well – play more then. If you don’t play any instrument you may start learning, although it is clear that not everyone can afford such an ambitious project, also considering that this transit takes place every second year. So you must do something else. The most logical thing to do during this transit is to deal more with your friends; devote more time to them; spend energy for them; give them your help and support; show them that friendship is not merely a nice word for you. Since transits never arrive by chance, you can be sure that during these months one of your friends will surely need your help: so just give him (or her) a hand if you only can. Otherwise, at the very least you should expect that this transit will cause hostilities from your friends. Mars transiting in the 11th House may also imply many efforts in making projects, and this doesn’t mean wasting time in staring at the infinite, lost in fancies. No, making projects means, for example, taking steps to change your job; write and send resumes; preparing a list of recipients to whom you’ll send the catalogue of your products or services... At the same time you may also trying to obtain the assistance or support or sponsor of important individuals who might give you a hand. While Mars is in you 11th House you should knock at as many doors as possible. You have to understand that those doors won’t open as easy as when Jupiter passes through your 11th House; so you know that you’ll have to knock stronger and louder, if you wish to achieve your goals. Last but not least, you may also live this transit by making practical efforts to make friends with new people; for example you may volunteer in cleaning up the parks of your town, or join the Red Cross, or Caritas.





Transit Mars in the Twelfth House

This transit implies a scenario similar to that of the passage through the 1st and the 6th House. So you should behave keeping in mind that you have to give as much as possible to the planet of war, wounds, and troubles in general. The more you give of your own free will, the less you run the risk of Mars choosing the brick falling onto your head. Be clear that you may have this transit forty times during your entire life, and not always happens anything serious. But if this transit takes places together with other negative transits of the slower planets such as Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto – and if the whole scenario involves an overall negative situation – then you really can run serious risks. So, in the majority of cases you’ll simply have to do with less importance events; nonetheless they might keep you concerned for weeks, and you might be able to overcome or avoid them if you only succeeded in discharging this transit well enough. As I always do in these cases, once again I suggest you to be visited by a dentist or a surgeon: more than anybody else, it’s them who might exorcise this transit at best. On the other hand, you may not really need surgical help during these few months. So if you really wish to act accordingly to the symbol implied in this House, you should be hostile with your ‘pseudo-hidden’ enemies. I say ‘pseudo’ hidden ones, because if they were really hidden you wouldn’t even know about them. No, I mean those people who bury their head in the sand after having done something evil against you, so that you can easily understand who did it. Unlike their way of behaving, you had better act directly, bravely and openly against them. In this period, facing directly those who hate you may help discharge this transit. So speak aloud if you need, and let them know that it is not your intention to suffer passively any longer. At another level you may enhance your concentration of strength and energy and channel them in esoteric researches, or in search of anything that is – somehow and in the broadest meaning of this term – hidden. For example, if you suspect that your beloved one betrays you, this is the best moment to investigate: you may do it yourself or charge a private eye who will be able to do it more professionally by placing electronic bugs or shadowing your partner. If you belong to that group of people who love helping the mankind, you might also join associations of volunteers who give assistance to those in the need.


Cari Amici,
Sono certo che questa notizia procurerà molto piacere a tanti colleghi e allievi. Si tratta della pubblicazione del mio quinto libro in lingua inglese, destinato soprattutto ai mercati degli USA, del Canada e dell’Australia.
Il libro si potrà acquistare esclusivamente qui:

www.solarreturns.com/buynowASALR.htm

Esso parte dagli argomenti trattati nel mio “Astrologia Attiva”, edizioni Mediterranee, ma con testi del tutto rivisti e ampliati e con l’aggiunta di nuovi capitoli, si occupa principalmente di come utilizzare l’esorcizzazione dei simboli, sia quando non si riesce a partire per un compleanno mirato e sia quando si parte e si desidera depotenziare, mettiamo, un Marte in quarta o in quinta Casa…


Spero di avervi fatto cosa gradita nel segnalarvelo.


For Neena. In my experience every placen, in a Solar Return or in a Lunar Return, works contemporarily in positive and in negative. For example, if you have Venus in the second House and Saturn in the seventh House and the Ascendant in the eight House and Jupiter in the fourth House, very probably the subject will realize good business from real estate, but he even will see to end a love relation (Saturn in the seventh House and the Ascendant in the eight House that means even good business). It is always the crossed play of the celestials in the Solar Return Houses to determine the weight positive and negative of many situations during the year.



Per Chandra. Scrivi “Ci porta, astrologicamente parlando, qualcosa di bello al di là degli aspetti dinamici o scorrevoli che fara? ...a me cade in III^ e il trigono con Nettuno di Rb a 29°sarà per il prossimo anno...”: se tu intendi un aspetto all’interno della RSB, ti ricordo che nel nostro metodo abbiamo verificato che gli aspetti angolari, all’interno di una RS, contano quasi zero.


Buona giornata a Tutti.
Ciro Discepolo
http://www.solarreturns.com/
http://www.cirodiscepolo.it/

martedì 26 maggio 2009

Un libro da consigliare


Vi raccomando molto di non mancare a questa presentazione, anche se io, purtroppo, sarò all’estero e non potrò parteciparvi. Non ve lo raccomando per una questione di nepotismo (Rossella Savarese è professore ordinario di Sociologia delle comunicazioni e di Comunicazione di crisi alla Facoltà di Sociologia Federico II di Napoli, oltre a essermi “quasi-suocera” è un’amica e una studiosa che stimo da sempre e affronta, in questo volume, l’annosa questione dei rifiuti solidi urbani nel Napoletano, ovviamente da un punto di vista principalmente sociologico, ma anche con l’occhio e la mente della cronista, della politica, della persona colta e intelligente che riesce a cogliere molte verità insieme su ogni singolo argomento).
Saranno presenti ospiti assai illustri e vi riporto, qui di seguito, l’abstract della locandina:

Franco Angeli editore

di b a t t i t i
Giovedì 11 giugno 2009

ore 18.00

la Feltrinelli Libri e Musica

Via S. Caterina a Chiaia, 23
(ang. piazza dei Martiri)

Napoli

INVITO


Dibattito in occasione della presentazione del volume

GALLI SULLA MONNEZZA


Silenzi, grida e bugie sui rifiuti in Campania

di Rossella Savarese

Intervengono con l’autrice

Domenico De Masi

Franco Roberti

Igor Staglianò

Modera

Marco Demarco

Proiezione del video "Invisibile cities" di Giampaolo Rampini

“Fa ’o gallo ’ncoppa ’a munnezza”, si usa dire per descrivere chi esercita
posizioni di comando su persone o situazioni di basso profilo. Cosa che
non capita solo a Napoli. Questo, infatti, non è solo un libro sulla
negoziazione simbolica dei rifiuti della Campania. È un libro sul paese Italia,
di cui Napoli è una tragica metafora con la sua camorra alimentata dagli
scarti tossici delle aziende settentrionali, non meno che dai burocrati
corrotti. Metafora della dissoluzione sociale dove la mala politica gestisce il
danaro pubblico per un tornaconto elettorale e stringe patti perversi con gli
imprenditori. Alcuni dei quali riescono a invertire il rapporto fino a farsi
eleggere. A partire dall’armatore-sindaco Achille Lauro, che introduce la
figura dell’imprenditore che considera la politica una prosecuzione dei suoi
affari con altri mezzi. Fino a Berlusconi. L’area metropolitana napoletana, in
particolare, con i suoi tre milioni di abitanti e più, rientra nel modello delle
megalopoli, gravate dalla miseria dei poveri, dagli iperconsumi dei ricchi,
dall’incertezza globale e dalle problematiche connesse allo smaltimento dei
rifiuti.
Utilizzando l’informazione circolante, il volume ricostruisce la rete di
interessi e di responsabilità, le indagini della magistratura, i conflitti tra gli
stakeholder e le proteste dei cittadini. La vicenda mostra come alle grandi
narrazioni politiche del secolo scorso si siano sostituite, oggi, le narrazioni
mediatiche ed è esemplare del mutamento dei rapporti tra giornalismo
oggettivo finanziato dagli editori e giornalismo autoprodotto e
partecipativo, reso possibile da Internet. Mentre il giornalismo entra in una
nuova epoca, che si suggella con il dramma della Campania, alla politica, che
ha banalizzato e ridotto i problemi a mera emergenza, è sfuggita di mano la
gestione simbolica degli eventi.


pp. 256

Collana

La Società – Saggi

Rossella Savarese

GALLI SULLA MONNEZZA
Silenzi, grida e bugie sui rifiuti in Campania

Indice
Introduzione

1. La società liquida e i suoi rischi
(L’esclusione spaziale nella modernità liquida, La società contemporanea tra rischio
e incertezza, La gestione dei rifiuti nel mondo, Il ciclo ideale dei rifiuti… , ...e
quello reale, Definire l’emergenza, Crisi, rischio, pericolo, Disastri e catastrofi,
Riferimenti bibliografici, Sitografia)

2. Una brutta storia
(Cominciamo bene, Di emergenza in emergenza, Che ci sia ognun lo dice, cosa
sia… , Un quadro chiaro per i magistrati, Imprenditori pericolosi, Spartacus non è
un gladiatore, Il sistema, Da democrazia a camorracrazia mediatica, Gli inganni di
Fibe, Le sviste di Bassolino, I conti della Corte, La Sirenetta non incanta i
camionisti, Da mediatori d’interessi a soggetti interessati, Contrada Pisani non sarà
un campo di golf, La rivolta dei cafoni, Il partito trasversale, I due canovacci per
l’emergenza, Balle ed eco balle, Il tramonto di Bidognetti, La vendetta dei clan, I
fratelli Orsi, Chiaianesi, brava gente, Bugie sulla cava, “La camorra ci difende”,
Una borghesia chiacchierata, La Santa alleanza, Mazzette e panelle, Santa, ma
divisa, Riferimenti bibliografici, Sitografia)

3. Vivere tra i rifiuti
(Cosa cercare e perché, Percezioni e reazioni dei cittadini, Responsabilità e reazioni
accettabili, Emergenza, crisi o disastro?, Il ruolo dei media)

4. L’assalto dei media
(Spazzatura da notizia, Si scatena la cronaca locale, Le strategie della stampa, I
giorni del diluvio informativo, L’emergenza in redazione, Istituzioni colpevoli, Da
scrittore impegnato a fenomeno mediatico, Riferimenti bibliografici)

5. Navigando tra discariche
(Perché analizzare il Web, Parlando lingue diverse, Il più amato dagli italiani, I
cittadini si sfogano, Bassolino blogger, Lessici differenti, Struttura narrativa e
giornalismo partecipativo, I copertoni bruciano lentamente, Chiaiano in rete,
Riferimenti bibliografici, Sitografia)

6. Si scoprono le carte
(Domiziana km 43, Medici ciechi e killer vedenti, Collaborare per giustizia, Segnali
e simboli, Politica con gli scarti, La famiglia Cosentino, La verità su Pianura, L’altra
vulgata, Da monnezza story a spy story, Magnanapoli nobilissima, Riferimenti
bibliografici)

Conclusioni. Rifiutare l’emergenza

Riferimenti bibliografici

Acronimi

Rossella Savarese è professore ordinario di Sociologia delle
comunicazioni e di Comunicazione di crisi alla Facoltà di Sociologia
(Federico II) di Napoli. Pubblica su testate scientifiche tra cui l’American
Journal of Communication e l’European Journal of Communication. E’ membro del
Comitato di consulenza del Capo di Stato Maggiore della Difesa per la
legge sulle donne soldato. Tra le sue recenti pubblicazioni: Guerre intelligenti;
Comunicazione e crisi: media, conflitti e società; Infosuasion in European Newspaper:
A Case Study on the War in Kosovo; Comunicazione, media e società. Modelli,
analisi, ricerche; Max Weber: un nuovo sguardo (cur.).


Nei giorni scorsi qualcuno mi ha chiesto consigli per la propria RSM: vi prego di non farlo dal pomeriggio del venerdì alla domenica sera e, se non rispondo, vogliate riscrivere la richiesta, per favore.

Per Andrea. Non vi sono problemi. Tu hai pieno diritto a usare il metodo composito per studiare l’astrologia di coppia. Personalmente non lo trovo funzionante, ma ciò non deve bloccarti. Va solo precisato, come avevo fatto precedentemente, che il metodo composito è uno dei metodi per studiare una sinastria e non un’alternativa alla sinastria. Tutto qui.

Per Paola. Molto bene, così, durante il viaggio, avremo modo di chiacchierare già.

Per Valeria. Sono lieto che ci sarai anche tu. Il posto che vedi è il Paradiso (Relais Blu, Termini, a 7-8 minuti di macchina da dove saremo noi: www.relaisblu.com). Ma non pensare che sia l’unico luogo magico della zona. In questo, in particolare, quando sorseggi un aperitivo sulla terrazza, con il Sole che tramonta esattamente dietro Capri, se allunghi la mano, hai l’impressione di toccare l’isola tanto cara a Tiberio…

Per Chandra. E se sulle piramidi avessi ascoltato anche cosa avevano da dirti i professori Vincenzo Di Napoli, Renato Palmieri e l’ingegnere Giuseppe Callegari, presenti a un nostro storico convegno, rimarresti ancora più incantata… Sì, quell’isola è la meravigliosa Capri che, a mio giudizio, non ha nulla da invidiare alle isole della Polinesia.


For Neena. In my experience I think that the only transits working are the transits respect the Natal Chart. I think that doesn’t exist “the aspects to the planets in the Transit chart”. In other words I think that transits are only in relation to the natal chart.


Per Al Rami. Da sempre si dice che Einstein credesse nell’astrologia, ma io non ho mai trovato uno straccio di prova che confermasse ciò. Tuttavia non ho mai trovato neanche il contrario e ti consiglierei di verificare attentamente la frase contro l’astrologia da te riportata: potrebbe trattarsi di una delle tante bufale del CICAP…

Buon pomeriggio a Tutti.
Ciro Discepolo
www.solarreturns.com
www.cirodiscepolo.it

lunedì 25 maggio 2009

Astrology and Fantasy



For Neena. There is another method to read Transits. If you consider the relocation chart and if you correct this map with the Ayanamsa value and if you read the map looking in a mirror, than you can obtain, changing even the Domification System (Placidus, Regiomontanus, Koch, etc.) many maps and then you can choose if you want that Saturn is transiting in the first or in the second or in third or in the fourth House…
Don’t worry: I don’t want to rag you. Simply, I think that Transits are referred only to the natal map. Saturn, now, is about 15° in Virgo, in the tenth House of this subject. DOT. Any other position (with a bi-wheel or a 3-wheel or a 4-wheel chart), in my experience, is fanta-Astrology (Astrology of fantasy). Then, if you want using my book “Transits and Solar Returns”, you have to read in the chapter “Saturn transits in the tenth House”. Dot.
Remember, even, that transits, in the economy of the facts of a year, have a very low weight respect the House positions of the celestials in the Solar Return Map and in the Lunar Return Maps.

For the second question. The planets aspects, in a Solar Return, value about zero. A Mars in the second or in the tenth House can be good because improve the efforts of the subject to have a better job or a better economic situation. But we prefer, obviously, to put Venus in the second or in the tenth House in a Solar Return and not Mars. If you put Venus in the second House or in the eight House, in a Solar Return, it is good both for job and for real estate.

Buon pomeriggio a Tutti.
Ciro Discepolo
http://www.solarreturns.com/
http://www.cirodiscepolo.it/

domenica 24 maggio 2009

Sempre relativamente all’incontro di San’tagata


Per Valeria e per gli altri.
Ricordo che il nostro incontro del terzo weekend di giugno, a differenza dell'altro di Budapest del terzo weekend di ottobre, è un incontro informale dove ci scambieremo soprattutto esperienze di RS e di RL. L'unico programma sarà di non avere programmi. Ci sposteremo anche nelle vicinanze, tipo il luogo che vedete in foto (pensavate che il Paradiso fosse in cielo e invece...), ma lasceremo sempre detto in hotel dove andremo affinché chiunche ci possa raggiungere.
Ho visto che più d'uno di voi ha risposto alle domande di altri frequentatori di questo spazio. Se io avessi dimenticato qualcosa o qualcuno, per favore, ricordatemelo domani.
For Neena. I hope that Pasquale was satisfying in his answers: if you desire asking olther, please, post again tomorrow.
Buona serata a Tutti.

sabato 23 maggio 2009

Quando i Romani andavano in America


Mi è appena giunto. Più sotto leggerete il comunicato stampa.
Vi consiglio vivamente di leggere questo libro, non perché l’Autore sia un amico che stimo molto, ma perché affronta temi interessantissimi, come quello di un presunto approdo, in epoca romana e da parte dei romani, sulle coste americane.
Nel libro si affrontano misteri vecchi e nuovi da una posizione credo del tutto originale: non dalla “nostra” parte e neanche da quella del “CICAP”, semplicemente dal punto di vista di un ricercatore che ha studiato una vita intera questi fatti e riporta il proprio pensiero senza essere schiavo né di censure né di lusinghe.
Su alcuni punti non potremo trovarci d’accordo con lui (per esempio, per quanto mi riguarda, sulla nascita prima dell’astronomia e poi dell’astrologia e non viceversa), ma sono temi che vorrei dibattessimo assieme e dove mi farebbe piacere intervenissero i nostri colleghi più colti e più ferrati in materia di storia e soprattutto di storia antichissima, ma anche di argomenti legati all’ufologia e non solo a questa.
Io ho appena ricevuto il libro e lo leggerò con grande attenzione.
Poi mi piacerebbe se ne discutessimo in questa sede.
Intanto i miei più vivi complimenti a Elio Cadelo con cui condivisi i miei primi anni di giornalista a Il Mattino.



Titolo del libro:
Quando i Romani andavano in America
Scienza e conoscenze degli antichi navigatori
Autore:
Elio Cadelo
Editore:
Palombi Editori
Prezzo:
e 15,00
Il Nuovo Continente fu scoperto ufficialmente da Cristoforo Colombo nel 1492, ma non
era la prima volta: antiche civiltà marinare, tra cui quella romana, erano già sbarcate nelle
Americhe lasciando numerose tracce come monete, statuette, tombe ed anche una nave.
Il racconto dei viaggi avvenuti molti secoli prima di quello “ufficiale” è oggetto del saggio
di Elio Cadelo Quando i Romani andavano in America (Palombi Editori, pagine 220, euro
15), che illustra la cultura scientifica e le basi teoriche in possesso del mondo antico,
in particolare per quanto riguarda la matematica, l’astronomia e la geografia, e dimostra
come i Romani conoscessero la scienza nautica e avessero anche navi adatte per
attraversare l’oceano Atlantico.
I Romani furono grandi navigatori. Ad est commerciavano con l’India, la Cina e l’Indonesia:
le loro esplorazioni raggiunsero e superarono la Nuova Zelanda; navigarono lungo le
coste atlantiche dell’Europa fino alle Orcadi, l’Islanda ed oltre. In Africa sono state trovate
tracce della presenza romana nello Zimbabwe e lungo le coste orientali. Questo è quanto
ci dice la vulgata, ma in età imperiale i marinai romani raggiunsero anche l’America, che
i geografi del tempo ritenevano essere la “terza India”. Equivoco che rimarrà anche dopo
la scoperta di Colombo.
I ritrovamenti archeologici e molti passi della letteratura latina parlano di nuove terre (o
isole) ad ovest e provano che i Romani conoscevano bene cosa ci fosse al di là delle
colonne d’Ercole. Un testimone attento del tempo, Plutarco, scrive che «a cinque giorni
di navigazione dalla Britannia, verso occidente, ci sono isole e dietro di loro un continente»;
e Plinio nota «che tutto l’Occidente al di fuori delle colonne d’Ercole è ormai osservato
ed esplorato».
Ma anche piante come il mais o l’ananas, la cui diffusione in Europa è fatta risalire alla
scoperta dell’America, in realtà, come è ampiamente descritto nel volume, erano presenti
nel Mediterraneo già in epoca romana.
Nel volume vengono esaminate anche diverse culture che con il mare ebbero un rapporto
importante, come quella babilonese (che è all’origine del calendario e del concetto di
latitudine e longitudine), quella indiana (che nell’antichità sviluppa eccezionali strutture
portuali ed estese i suoi commerci in tutto l’oceano Indiano) e quella polinesiana, che fece
della navigazione la base della propria organizzazione sociale: tutte elaborarono in maniera
molto simile la scienza della navigazione.
I Romani non furono i soli a giungere nel Nuovo Continente: la genetica ha fornito prove
della presenza in America dei Polinesiani, l’archeologia e la letteratura della presenza
cinese ed indiana almeno duemila anni fa.
Perché di tutto ciò non ci sono tracce prima di Cristoforo Colombo? Le rotte commerciali,
spiega Elio Cadelo, erano segretissime e le mappe non venivano diffuse, avendo un enorme
valore economico per i loro proprietari che potevano così avere l’esclusiva per importazioni
di prodotti provenienti da terre sconosciute. E poi, come scrive nella sua prefazione l’astrofisico
Giovanni F. Bignami, c’è il paradosso di Cristoforo Colombo: «L’importante, per avere il merito
di una grande scoperta, è essere l’ultimo a farla, non il primo».
Collaborazioni
Al lavoro hanno collaborato astronomi dell’Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, storici del Consiglio
Nazionale delle Ricerche, scienziati dell’Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, dell’ENEA,
ammiragli e note personalità della scienza. Il volume è presentato dal professor Giovanni F. Bignami.
Elio Cadelo,
giornalista, laureato in Scienze politiche, caporedattore e inviato speciale del Giornale Radio
Rai per la Scienza e l’Ambiente. Ha lavorato al Corriere della sera, al Mattino, è stato collaboratore
di Panorama, Scienza Duemila, Epoca. Autore e coautore di numerose pubblicazioni quali:
Sette Nobel per un futuro (Teknos), Un rito, un diavolo, due culture (Storia e Medicina Popolare);
ha curato per Marsilio Idea di Natura, 13 scienziati a confronto. Premio ENEA 1999 per la
divulgazione scientifica, è stato membro del Gruppo di lavoro sulla Informazione e Comunicazione
in Biotecnologia del Comitato Nazionale per la Biosicurezza e le Biotecnologie della Presidenza
del Consiglio.
Giovanni F. Bignami,
astrofisico, scopritore delle prime sorgenti gamma del cielo, ha proposto il metodo, ora
seguito in tutto il mondo, per la loro interpretazione. Professore di Astronomia presso l’Istituto
Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia, è stato Direttore Scientifico della Agenzia Spaziale
Italiana, Direttore del Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements del CNRS/Université de
Toulouse (2003-2006), Presidente del Comitato Scientifico della ESA. È membro della
International Astronautics Academy, dell’Accademia Europea e dell’ Accademia dei Lincei.




Questo era il blog che avevo preparato e che mi apprestavo a mettere in rete di lì a poco, ma poi non ho resistito e ho iniziato a leggere il libro del mio amico Elio: l’ho “divorato” in un’unica appassionata lettura!
Quello in oggetto è certamente uno dei libri che ho letto con maggiore interesse, nel settore geografia-astrologia-storia-astronomia. Lo consiglio caldamente a tutti e trovo che sia un lavoro meritevole dei massimi elogi da parte di chiunque. Personalmente, negli ultimi vent’anni, ho avuto il piacere di ascoltare, dalla viva voce di Elio Cadelo, nel corso di rare ma piacevolissime cene assieme, delle anteprime sul libro. Il testo, con tanto di documenti e testimonianze storiche difficilmente cancellabili, vuole dimostrare, tra le altre cose, che i Romani navigavano fino alle Americhe e fino all’Indonesia, dall’altra parte, che i Polinesiani, migliaia di anni prima di Cristo, facevano altrettanto dall’altra parte del globo, che gli Egizi e non solo loro circumnavigavano l’occidente europeo per giungere fin quasi al Polo Nord… Importantissima la parte astronomica e relativa alla geografia sferica e alla matematica contenuta nel testo, per gli appassionati di capolavori del tipo “Longitudine” che anni fa mi segnalò l’amica Elisabetta Possati e che divenne subito uno dei miei preferiti in tal genere.
Come si sa, quando si supera la soglia ufficiale in cui storici importanti (Carl Bezold, Franz Boll, Wilhelm Gundel e più recentemente Kocku von Stuckrad) hanno datato a circa l’anno 2800 aC i primi ritrovamenti su tavoletta con indicazioni astrologiche (re Sargan di Akkadu, IV dinastia egiziana) e ci si avvicina, invece, alle molto più remote date a cui fa riferimento l’Autore (epoca sumerica, V-VII millennio aC), allora il discorso diventa complicato e il nostro diverso punto di vista sull’esistenza di un’astronomia prima di un’astrologia, può avere ragione d’essere.
A monte, vorrei ricordare per la seconda volta, in pochi giorni, che anche il grande Carl Gustav Jung riteneva che fosse impossibile, per quelle civiltà antichissime, a quel livello di conoscenze, decrittare un sistema tanto complesso e ipotizzava l’esistenza di una civiltà umana assai precedente e molto più progredita della nostra attuale e poi scomparsa per ragioni a noi ignote che avesse lasciato tracce di tale decodifica del complicatissimo puzzle astrologia.
Mi è stato chiesto di ricordare dove Jung scrisse ciò: mi è abbastanza difficile dirlo subito, avendo studiato, più che letto, oltre cento libri di Jung o su Jung. Se qualche profondo studioso di Jung volesse ricordarmelo, gliene sarei grato. Tuttavia, solitamente, ho un’ottima memoria e anche a distanza di anni riesco a risalire a una frase che ho letto e di cui non rammento, temporaneamente, la fonte.
Ma indipendentemente da Jung, credo che anche Carl Bezold o Kocku von Stuckrad potrebbero fare la stessa osservazione.
Ora, invece, se noi ci fermiamo alla storia ufficiale, possiamo ragionare come segue.
Gli egizi del terzo millennio aC osservavano il cielo in modo romantico o per semplice curiosità? Oppure finalizzavano l’osservazione dello stesso per scopi pratici. Elio Cadelo, giustamente, nel suo lavoro, parla di un’astrologia antichissima, con o senza Zodiaco. Nella seconda si potevano cogliere, osservando le fasi lunari, notizie utili alla semina, al raccolto e via dicendo. Invece, come noi sappiamo da ritrovamenti oggettivi, gli antichi sacerdoti osservavano il cielo e comprendevano che era cosa saggia consigliare al Re di emettere un editto che obbligasse i sudditi a concepire nel mese di luglio per ottenere figli Arieti in grande misura, Arieti che già si sapeva essere ottimi guerrieri. In questo caso, com’è facile intuire, parliamo non solo di un’astrologia con Zodiaco, ma anche di un’astrologia che studia le stelle per ottenere pronostici e quindi di un’astronomia al servizio dell’astrologia che l’aveva preceduta.
Diversamente, se accettiamo la tesi, rispettabilissima, di Elio Cadelo, di una nascita antecedente di alcune migliaia di anni e non dislocata in Mesopotamia, ma sviluppatasi presso popoli prevalentemente navigatori, allora sì che potremmo affermare che l’astronomia, in tutta la sua meraviglia di trigonometria sferica, ha potuto precedere l’astrologia perché quei popoli erano interessati, prima di ogni altra cosa, alla navigazione e, conoscendo le stelle, potevano navigare ovunque.
Come potete ben comprendere, però, in questo viaggio affascinante e meraviglioso che ci propone un giornalista e uno studioso di valore, forse per noi non è così fondamentale stabilire una verità storica del genere, anche perché difficilmente la si potrebbe “validare in senso scientifico”, come usa dire oggi.
Io credo che questo fantastico libro, che non deve assolutamente mancare nella vostra biblioteca, sarà molto più apprezzato da noi che dalla “Scienza Ufficiale” a cui sembra più essere diretto.
Mi sembra già di vedere i sorrisi beffardi e ironici dei soloni che condanneranno un simile lavoro perché privo del bollino blu del Palazzo, come lo fu la scoperta dei quattro satelliti di Giove attraverso il cannocchiale di Galileo.
Caro Elio, come scrissero i nostri concittadini sui muri della città quando il santo patrono di Napoli fu declassato in serie b: “Futtetenne!” (infischiatene).
Con amicizia e con migliori auguri di un grande successo editoriale.


Per Giulia. Bentornata (alcuni colleghi stanno studiando la ciclicità, con le eclissi, delle tue apparizioni). Forse tu, insieme a poche altre persone, sai più della media dei miei lettori e conosci già la risposta che ti darò, ma fai bene a volerla registrare per iscritto.
Neanche a me dispiace chiarire meglio questo punto.
Molti anni fa, prima dell’inizio del terzo millennio, feci la mia previsione sulla flessione attuale della curva dell’Indice Ciclico Planetario fino al 2013 e dissi che a mio parere esso avrebbe riguardato stragi per malattie, soprattutto il cancro, e non guerre o terrorismo o terremoti o crisi economiche. Alla luce dei fatti attuali sembra che la mia previsione si stia dimostrando purtroppo valida (anche se poi poco importa, credo, all’umanità, se milioni di morti arrivino per guerre o per malattie).
Per tale motivo, come sai, pur non essendo ipocondriaco (non vado mai dal medico se non per la visita periodica dal medico omeopatico e passano anni e anni tra un’analisi del sangue e un’altra), cerco di mettere al primo posto, per me e per le persone che amo, la salute.
Tu sai che da cinque mesi sto tentando di organizzare il mio prossimo viaggio di compleanno in una zona quasi impossibile della Siberia. Potrei andare comodamente, in tempi brevi e assai economicamente, a Petropavlovsk, uno dei luoghi più lontani e temuti della Terra, dove sono già stato e invece mi attende un viaggio difficilissimo e dove occorre davvero molto coraggio per raggiungere la destinazione finale.
Non so se ci riuscirò, perché potrei essere bloccato, negli ultimi 50 Km circa, dagli uomini o dalla natura, ma puoi essere certa che ci proverò con tutte le forze. Pochi giorni fa lo raccontavo a una coppia di amici che mi vogliono bene e lei si diceva preoccupata non tanto per le oggettive enormi difficoltà del viaggio, ma per il mio coraggio che non mi fermerà di fronte a ostacoli anche durissimi.
Ecco, questo per non piazzare un Saturno in prima Casa, lontanissimo dall’AS (e scegliendo deliberatamente di metterlo in seconda) e un Mercurio in dodicesima: tutto qui? Tutto qui.
Ora, premesso che tali posizioni, secondo la mia esperienza, non hanno mai ucciso nessuno, va detto che esse, fino a prova contraria, danno i problemi che ho più volte descritto in testi diversi.
Le posizioni che, a mio avviso, inviano almeno qualche seme cancerogeno al nostro organismo che poi se ne accorgerà anni dopo, sono quelle che ben conoscete e sulle quali diversi nostri colleghi si fanno matte risate (chissà se poi se le faranno anche nei prossimi anni).
Ma, allora, perché tento di evitare anche queste? Beh, è semplice spiegarlo: nella logica del fatto che a mio avviso partiamo tutti fortemente svantaggiati nella lotta contro il cancro, nel mio piccolo tento di rafforzare le mie difese, mangiando poco, eliminando i grassi, avendo abolito del tutto alcol, fumo e droghe che non ho mai assaggiato, tenendomi sempre assai impegnato con la mente e via dicendo. In questa logica, se io posso evitarmi anche dolori alle ossa, me li evito e, vivaddio, a sessant’anni ho ancora tutti i miei denti in bocca e nessuna carie.
Se noi potessimo piazzarci ogni anno Venere e Giove in prima o in sesta, lo farei volentieri e lo consiglierei a tutti, quando non si può mi prendo anche un Saturno in sesta o un Urano in dodicesima, con poca gioia e qualche preoccupazione, ma senza pensare all’irreparabile.
Tutto sommato penso che sia giusto vivere bene, ma possiamo anche morire quando arriva il momento e senza fare troppe storie…
Diciamo anche, se la vogliamo vedere da un altro punto di vista, che siccome sto vivendo un stagione abbastanza magica della mia vita, cerco di non offuscarla con colori tendenti al grigio più che al nero.
In conclusione, però, vorrei aggiungere che è impensabile tentare di non far cadere mai nulla che non sia bellissimo in sesta, prima e dodicesima Casa e allora, filosoficamente, dobbiamo accettare che ci siano delle priorità assolute da rispettare, dopo di che, umanamente parlando, possiamo anche concedere qualcosa al destino…

For Neena. I am departing for a very short weekend, please, listen the advices of Pasquale.

Per Valeria e per Tutti. Sto fuori per un mini-weekend. Per favore, ripostatemi le vostre domande lunedì. Grazie.
Buona giornata a Tutti.
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