Rectifying Woody Guthrie’s Chart
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Rectifying Woody Guthrie’s Chart

After looking at the astrological symbolism behind the recent breakthrough in treating Huntington’s Disease, I fell down a rabbit-hole when I realized that Woody Guthrie’s natal Sun was conjunct the Cancer Jupiter Return of the first paper on this disease and the announcement of a pioneering treatment to slow the symptoms of this awful disease (which Guthrie died from). I set about seeing what else I could see in his chart and tried my hand at rectifying it.

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Thinking About Eclipses
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Thinking About Eclipses

I’ve been thinking about the upcoming eclipse season and wanted to share some thoughts. We have a total lunar eclipse on the North Node at Pisces 15°24' on September 7th (UK time). And then we have a partial solar eclipse on the South Node at Virgo 28°59' on September 21st (UK time).

Being obsessed with the nodes, I can't help but pay attention to the kind of eclipse and whether they are happening with the North Node or the South Node, because these distinctions do speak to us and what unfolds as a result.

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Venus, Mars, and the Lunar Nodes
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Venus, Mars, and the Lunar Nodes

So taking all of that into account, we have a dynamic tension between relationships and actions that are in a sense, asking for change. How do we act in our relationships? Which relationships are worth protecting? How might I feel attacked in certain relationships, or how might being in a certain relationship (not just to a person, but to things and concepts, too!) feel like being in a constant state of war?

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