A brilliant, kind, generous, amazing man -- one of my dearest friends died last night :(

R. Gary Patterson, "The Fox Mulder of Rock n Roll" . . . you were my true soul brother

Gary was one of a kind, with a huge heart and an infinite capacity to give love . . . a true scholar and a very wise fellow

Now my, quite literally, two closest professional colleagues and certainly two people for whom I cared the most have died, in successive months . . . both people I LOVED and with whom I was tight tight tight

and both people, too, with whom I had plans to do significant work with in the future, Allie on radio and with Gary radio as well as something we've talked about, quite seriously, for the past year or two, television

also, both of us used R for the same reasons -- our first name is Rudolph. We talked about past lives together, had planned on vacations together, all sorts of things together, but helping my mother put a crimp in some of that . . . never put off what matters
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God I will miss you :(

Years back, this must have been around 2010/2011, I was sitting in the back by the pool in Concord, California when I started having "visions" and hearing voices from what I began to "understand" was the "spirit" of the late country music star Tammy Wynette

basically, telling me, that her husband had progressively poisoned her and that is why she died

ok

I knew NOTHING about her death and even less about her husband -- as the last time she showed up on my radar was YEARS before when she dated Burt Reynolds

anyway, it turned out that the husband in question had just died not too many days PRIOR to this "visitation"

and after a few days of this I "asked" . . . "why do you come to ME?"

and this was the song I was led to find "look for this song I did with George, it will tell you"

and so, in thinking of this song as a message from the dead -- and why the messenger had you on speed dial
you may find it
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#interesting

as an astrologer, I have struggled for many years trying to decide what "house system" worked for me . . . Placidus, Koch, etc etc

none seemed "right to me" and so I went into meditation to "look for" a system that made sense TO ME (and just "felt right") . . . and what I came up with is taking the quadrants and dividing the houses within the quadrants into equal parts . . . so the ascendant and mid-heaven give us two "poles"

and within each of the four quadrants, there are 3 astrological houses (and in this system, the houses within the quadrants are divided into 3 equal parts) . . . I never "felt" as if what I was finding in most astrological literature was in harmony with what I saw

and so, armed with this idea of equal houses within the quadrants, I went to see (thinking this can't be original) what this system might be called and who might currently use it

and the house system is called PORPHYRY

soooooo, my preferred house system and the one I use when creating my past life charts (as there are specific points I look for in addition to the planets, and I also do a 3-D chess kind of layering effect, too, including mid-points

as well as a spiral system that is hard to describe in only a few words but, ultimately, works from taking various points and creating spirals from those points based on degree signatures and taking those spirals as overlays)

anyway . . . for the astrologers in the family, my preferred house system IS
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Porphyry

In past life Astrology, not only are the moon nodes important, so (too) the vertex and anti-vertex

these points on the wheel give insight into the shadow of your "pursuit"; many times, we do things as "compensation" for a feeling of inadequacy in other areas . . . but, in embracing this "dark shadow OVER the self", we often find something quite magical

even if we are warned "not to go there"

the vertex / anti-vertex points (both by sign and house, as well as any aspects and/or other lights in the same sign as the vertex) show us what we run from

as well as give us some clues as to what might come from facing this shadow, embracing "the darkness"
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and moving in the direction of our "truth"

when you are looking within the natal Astrology chart for past lives, everything is layered out (as, remember, life times are not all the same but, rather, are reflections of "themes" that continue to consistently "show up:)

one of the ways you do this involves literally following the bouncing ball that begins bouncing in the 5th House (the natural home of the Sun) . . . from here, you look to planets in the 5th, the sign on the cusp of the 5th, the houses associated with the ruler of the cusp's sign and any 5th House planets, their placement, as well as the house position and sign of the Sun and and, from there, where the Ruler of the that house is parked, etc etc etc

it is a spiral and to get down to the "truth", because the truth cannot be expressed in a straight line . . . you start with the 5th House and you look for expressions of 5th House "energy" -- which will be wildly different and unique in every chart

influencing factors, of course, are the Rising Sign and Sun Sign, as well as the house positions and aspects of ANY planets in Leo

planets on or near the angles (tight tight orbs) also show certain themes . . . it is a spiral and you add elements with each "swirl"

if you look for a cookbook approach you will only see the surface -- to get down "to it" you have to be willing to ride the Astrological waves

because wave patterns reflect "karmic truth"

and Astrology is a date stamped "record" of this journey

ps -- this, boys and girls, is what Chatty Cathy is "suggesting" I do . . . create a business model that focuses on what I "know" about reincarnation AND ASTROLOGY

and create books, products, etc

connected to Astrology and Past Lives

stop being all things for all people and become a recognized "brand expert" on this specific topic
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Chatty Cathy of the Dead, unicorn love :)

I have very specific ways of determining not only who you may have "been" in a past life, but also "when" you likely were born

An example: My Ascendant is 18 Gemini . . . reversing backwards through the natal chart, we come to my natal Sun at 17 Aquarius (121 degrees in a clockwise fashion from the Ascendant)

based on my theories, this number "signifies" a past life -- so (for me) 1955 - 121 = 1834

the planet is in Aquarius and the sign on the House in which it is housed is also Aquarius; the 9th House is the "natural" house of Jupiter and my planet Jupiter is natally in Cancer (and the sign on the House in which it is housed is also Cancer -- although the sign could be "intercepted" and so there could be two signs here)

so based on my "theory" I will have a past life, born in 1834 who was either an Aquarius or a Cancer

based on the relationships of planets to house "rulerships", with this person (since the Sun is the planet) we would look to the 5th House, where we find Neptune in Libra (whose home is the 12th) and the Vertex in Scorpio (who is most at home in the 8th)

also, the Sun is LEO so looking for any planets in Leo we find the Moon in the 3rd and Pluto in the 4th (Moon natural home 4th, Pluto natural home 8th)

there is method to my madness . . . so this person has a strong water element to his or her chart but the 8th House is the one with the most "action", the House of Death and Pluto, the ruler, is in Leo

so a King in the House of Death . . . perhaps a spiritualist or perhaps a person whose "profession" involves Death in some way -- an undertaker or perhaps a professional soldier

and we could continue to drill down (too long for this post) to refine the elements and make some suppositions as to profession, location, personality and even "life span"

it just turns out that I have ALREADY identified a potential past life, an Aquarian (who shares the same birthday as me) born February 6, 1834

a professional soldier, named William Dorsey Pender and ID'd as my past life by several very well known professional psychics over the years, including Allie Cheslick and the Psychic Twins

. . . and to some mild degree he WAS a bit of a king, as he was a General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War

this is but a peek into how past lives are laid out in the natal chart and how I "recover them", not only the how and why but, with incredible "detail"
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the "WHEN"

I am continually ASTOUNDED at the lengths people will go to deny anything is "off" with the current administration

that firing the FBI Director or giving state secrets to Russian diplomats or having the country function as a concierge travel agent for Trump's friends and family -- not to mention the preponderance of evidence that he is trying to stop this investigation (for some reason) suggesting (at a minimum) "obstruction of justice"

even with ALL THIS, they will pretzel themselves into knots spouting Hillary this, Obama that and then some crazy mad thing about wikileaks or pizzagate . . . in 1974, during Watergate, most people picked sides but when something obvious was, well, "obvious" people could see it

now we have been ritalin'd and Fox News'd into some sort of cognitive catatonia

there is no "alternate fact" big enough to obscure the facts which most people can see -- somebody did something and the somebody includes people close to Trump (and perhaps, still TBD, Trump himself)

and the something is allow oneself to be bought and paid for by a foreign power whose interests supersede the collective good of most Americans

and for you few still holding on for dear life that Trump is a hero for the "common man", please please PLEASE look at his policies and look at his political appointees

Trump cares about Trump and the ONLY thing he cares about with the "common man" is that the common man ALSO

cares about Trump
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clang clang clang -- the alarm clock is going OFF

There are (of course) things one can see of benefit to repealing some of the policies enacted during the Obama administration and yes, fiscal soundness is critical moving forward

but what tends to happen is that rather than ground decisions in "best practice" what works best for the most, it (instead) devolves into a special interests buffet and a stick up the ass to anyone not on the preferred guest list

and far too often politicians give their "ear" to those with large pockets and fail to see a holistic, fully integrated "big picture"

what I said before the inauguration was that Trump's "style" would be one of quick hits, with little analysis and so lots of smoke but a tiny fire behind it

moderate, middle ground thinking -- what might in a rational universe seem like a fair way of doing things (I'll compromise on this if you can meet me half-way over here on that)

is thrown out the window and it is a my way or the highway double or triple down 'tude that rulez the day

until we find some meaningful way of splitting the difference and can have an actual DISCUSSION that doesn't immediately digress into some he said she said trip through Hell

we will continue to go further and further down some ill-defined and quite slippery slope

something is "terribly off" and finding a solution doesn't mean you throw everything out -- it means you root out the underlying problem and "address it"
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sadly, in our sound bite 140 character universe we, as a nation, seem to have lost this "skill"

It should be entertaining when Trump supporters who work in Agriculture or home building realize the people they scream so loudly about deporting

are actually the backbone of their labor force, doing higher quality work for a lot less than whomever they MIGHT find to replace them

and the "quality of the people" is much higher (both in terms of devotion to family and being a hard and honest worker) than any "replacements" the ones crying the loudest they need to go home could recruit
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yeah . . . that