{"id":23066,"date":"2010-02-24T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=23066"},"modified":"2010-02-24T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T19:10:14","slug":"the-comic-genius-tarnas-ncgr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-comic-genius-tarnas-ncgr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Comic Genius with Rick Tarnas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reporting from the NCGR Conference in Cambridge, MA<\/em><\/p>\n

Rick Tarnas, author of Cosmos and Psyche<\/em>, is introducing the concept of humor and satire in the context of astrology. We’ve begun with the chart of his friend John Cleese, one of the elemental forces behind the British Monty Python comedy troupe. Rick notes that Cleese has a square between Mercury and Mars, which describes his aggressive, tense comic style.<\/p>\n

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John Cleese Natal Chart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But he also has Uranus in the aspect structure, giving a think-on-your-feet quality of inventiveness; which in this case combines with the assertive, competitive vibe: the mishap. Adding Uranus gives you the archetype of the trickster and the Prankster. Steve Martin, Woody Allen, Peter Sellers all have a Mars-Uranus aspect in the mix.<\/p>\n

Cleese also has Sun-Saturn in opposition — the ability to never break irony; the ultimate straight-man. Sun-Saturn is pretty much the opposite of the Mercury-Mars-Uranus setup: deadpan, negative, constrained, contained.<\/p>\n

He tends to begin his routines with a negative: “No it’s not,” “Your time is up,” and so on: a limit of some kind. He’s just shown us the Argument Clinic<\/a><\/strong> sketch from Monty Python.<\/p>\n

Skipping ahead a few years, we got to see the Sex Education<\/strong><\/a> sketch from The Meaning of Life<\/em>, the last Monty Python film. Note the incredible sexual tension of the Venus-Mars square, from Scorpio to Aquarius. In so many ways this chart is bursting with sexual energy — look at that 8th house! Imagine that much Aries in the 8th, with its feeling of being driven to find one’s identity in the midst of merging with others and uncompromising libidinal energy: SELF.<\/p>\n

Check these clips out — and I’ll be back in a moment with a comment about Cleese’s minor planets, which touch on this point several ways.<\/p>\n

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Okay. Rick does not use the minor planets. He’s not against them — if they’re “burnished in your soul,” as he puts it; but they’re not part of his work. He also avoids use of the signs and sticks to the planets. It’s an interesting method (avoiding the signs) but you get used to it. Now — there are two minor planets that blaze out of this chart. One is the Moon square Chiron, from Aries to Cancer. There is a sense of a hurt child underneath this aspect, and that looks to me like the emotional engine driving his intensity. He is able to focus his sense of alienation into something that others can relate to and laugh at. I would say if you like the “wounded healer” concept of Chiron, this is a good example.<\/p>\n

Yet the healer part is not a given; the emotional quality will work as a healing energy only if the person who has the aspect is aware of the energy and takes responsibility for it; which in this case would mean putting it to use. (This aspect is echoed in a nearly exact Sun-Nessus opposition, and for Vesta fans, notice Vesta-Nessus conjunct.)<\/p>\n

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Rick Tarnas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the ways he covers the hurt kid is by putting the parent archetype — Sun-Saturn — out there first; and then you get the rebellion of the Mercury-Mars-Uranus. Underneath it all, the troubled soul piece of the equation is Sun-Nessus. The expression aspect of this comes from the Sun; Nessus is what is being expressed from deep underneath. We will tend to express the most boldly that which is aspecting our Sun.<\/p>\n

Second minor planet aspect is Jupiter-Eris in Aries, on the Aries Point. I don’t know what to make of this (I have a feeling Len will crack this riddle) but it has some involvement with how famous he is, because the Aries Point is all about fame. Eris describes a chaos factor in the psyche; the sense of not knowing who you are, and the sometimes mad attempt to find out. There is a bit of Everyman in the Aries Point connection.<\/p>\n

We have the wisdom attribute of Jupiter; and the chaos of Eris. There is power in that eternal search for “wisdom” which is really the search for self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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