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GAY ASTROLOGY
I was recently asked wherever astrologers believe homosexualy uld be reprented wh an dividuals natal chart?, and found to be a very tertg qutn that got me thkg; pecially relatn to our ials of genr, generalisatns and an active search for e and ditors of such a a path of sexual orientatn - I feel that is about time that I at least st a sual eye on the subject self.
CAN YOU TELL IF SOMEONE IS GAY OR STRAIGHT WH ASTROLOGY?
(In reflectn this is anythg but sual, a b long, wdg and badly eded so I suggt that if you are up for you grab yourself a nice cuppa) In begng this blog entry I feel that I uld simply change the tle to homophobic astrology as seems would better reprent some of the works on morn astrology, that are sadly by and large eher very homophobic or credibly unr rmed on the realy of beg gay. Of urse homosexualy and beg gay self is far more than jt a sexual orientatn but sadly our current rctive Virgoan society mands that dividuals sexually polarise and intify themselv as eher homosexual or heterosexual, stead of beg somewhere between or beyond a fixative label of orientatn. I first began my path wh astrology and beg gay myself I undoubtedly like many other gay neophyte astrologers out there rearched the topic, immediately I was stck by a number of problems: aquacy of material available astrology on same sex relatnships or ed on any aspect of homosexualy astrologil lerature.
Sadly is clear om his work that he assumed (as many astrologers and most of the general public still do) that homosexualy was a nrosis and astrologilly lked wh Uran hard aspects to the ner plas. It is tertg to note that one person he selected was Edward the 8th later De of Wdsor) ltle astrologers have wrten to date about homosexualy merely to my ey unrl the still wily held notn that homosexualy is a nrosis, a parture om the "norm" and hence n be tected the astrologil none of them have ever as far as I am aware backed this up wh sound empiril evince. The followg quot taken om an article by Peter Clamp which n also be found some current astrologil texts (that are currently wily available) are among some that I believe will support my view:Derek and Julia Parker state that aspects between the Sun/Moon and Uran "…are often prent the charts of homosexuals of both sex.
Francis Sakoian and Louis S Acker The Astrologers Handbook (which is a very popular paperback published by Pengu Books sce way back 1974) has associate the hard aspects of Ven/Neptune and Mars/Neptune wh homosexual exprsn. "Whout pickg too much at the sually typed words of others (hec, who among haven't said anythg easily terpreted the ntrary sence was meant wh) I uldn't help but notice the proximy of the words "bcheri" and "homosexuals", a clear implitn that homosexualy is a fe moral Ven opposn Neptune the suatn is worse: "There is danger of practicg or beg the victim of subtle sexual sctn.
THE CHART OF A GAY MAN
In some rpects easy aspects n be as troublome as hard on as they lack the tensn required for acplishment and/or a later book Arroyo's, Relatnships and Life Cycl, the suatn which astrologil elements seem to support homophobia do not seem to of improved: "There's often a certa ldns (about Ven/Uran aspects), Uran is always somewhat impersonal, and that, htg Ven, giv a kd of impersonal tge to their attu toward emotnal and sexual behavur.