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I look around a business class airport lounge and there are so many walruses. Why, when Ozempic buys you normality? These guys can easily afford it.

I’m sure there's more, but wanted to get this out, and also am curious as to people's reactions. Just a totally random set of observations.

In no particular order:

The ascendant should be treated as a third benefic… it gives you certain powers.

The sign of the ascendant is also how you initially see the world. It also represents your body and the way others see you initially.

Second house among other things represents self-worth.

The chart ruler and its position doesn’t indicate how you see the world… but rather the destination towards which you are trying to steer the ship. The chart ruler is the captain and decision-maker, but it is in a sense blind and dependent on the ascendant, which is its first mate and does the navigation.

The sun explains what gives you energy, motivation, drive.

The moon explains your emotional life and your access to your emotions.

Sun and moon can also represent father and mother. Saturn can also represent father.

Look for key events in your life and see what the very closest aspects activated on that day are… that tells you a lot about how the planets function in your chart.

Related: you may find that certain odd aspects are extremely critical for you -- e.g. biquintiles and the like. Note that down.

A house in a mutable sign suggests the possibility of more life changes occurring there.

Look at powerful oppositions and squares as huge opportunities. Look at the relevant planets and houses, and try to come up with a SYNTHESIS that satisfies all the different planets’ needs. If you can do that, you’ll gain a huge amount in your life.

Sect matters. Your sect benefic typically delivers huge good fortune and luck in whatever house it’s in.

Time lords in whole sign houses work. They are the most powerful predictive instruments.

The ancient/traditional predictors of death (look them up if you’re interested) can be surprisingly accurate.

Different house systems and even different zodiacs (tropical, sidereal) can often symbolize the same stuff in different ways. E.g. a sun in Aries in one system might be reflected by a Mars in the 1st house in another. Not exactly the same thing, but there’s definitely some overlapping symbolism.

To understand how a chart works, you need to really start piecing together the person’s personality and events and see how that’s reflected in the chart. Then you can start to extrapolate from there. There’s a kind of back and forth between understanding the life and understanding how the chart reflects that life.

Progressed sun and moon say a lot about your current personality and overall desires/inclinations.

A planet works in the STYLE of the house it’s located in to serve the PURPOSES of the houses it rules.

Debilitation doesn’t mean a placement is bad; a debilitated placement can have many cool qualities. It DOES however mean that the planet has trouble serving the purposes of the houses it rules — meaning there’s some difficulty brining those houses to their most mature, integrated state. Debilitations can be mitigated by aspects from benefics.

4th and 8th are profoundly psychological. The 12th house is the most spiritual. The 9th house in terms of religion is more academic.

Mutual reception of signs is a good thing

Natural rulerships of the houses (e.g. 12th house = Pisces, ruled by Jupiter) can be quite useful in seeing what's going on

The ultimate goal, I think, is to get as close to allowing each planet and all the aspects their mutually harmonious expression in your life

People are looking for all kinds of gimmicks, positive thinking, and other bullshit that will be a quick fix to change their mindset. There is no such quick fix. What you actually need is therapy to look into yourself, understand your past, heal yourself from various traumas and wounds, gain self-esteem and self-confidence, and none of that happens quickly.

It all takes time, it takes money, it takes effort, and people don't realize this. You need the help of another person.

Also, not all therapy is the same. Psychoanalysts are the best and deepest trained therapists, and they're not going to just give you some kind of mechanical fix. They're going to help you look into yourself and learn relational skills and heal parts of your mind that are unconscious.

So google a local “psychoanalytic institute” and ask for a referral. You can get inexpensive therapy from there with a candidate in training, although if you can afford it, go with someone experienced, and you won't regret that either.

I'm not sure how this works, so sorry if this is a dumb question.

I'm looking for bets I see on the website, and I don't see them on the app.

Actually, on the app even searching for bets ON THE APP doesn't work. E.g. I put in "Iran" into the search and don't get anything back.

What am I doing wrong?

So I have my iPhone charging on my nightstand, and I'm in bed, and I often wake up in the middle of the night and I just had a dream, and I want to quickly dictate that dream into my iPhone. I use a dictation app which uses AI dictation.

What I find is that when I pull the phone off the charger and try to speak into it, I'm often speaking quietly and mumbling a little and the audio quality is not that great, and so the dictation accuracy is good, but not amazing. I'm thinking an external mic would help.

The question is, which one? What would be most convenient?

And actually, is there a solution where I could just leave the mic connected to the iPhone and it would be sensitive enough for me to dictate to it without removing the iPhone from the charger? Is that even possible?

But if not, or either way, what is the best microphone for my purposes?

Psychoanalysis seems to have very little to say about the conditions of inspiration or enthusiasm that lead to extraordinary creativity. It also seems to have very little to say about the conditions of flow or “the zone” that musicians, actors, athletes, and other creative people experience from time to time.

These sets of experiences seem to have been entirely the province of humanistic, new age, or “scientific” psychological thinkers. Why is it that psychoanalysis has nothing to say about these things?

It seems like there's an inherent conflict between being a psychoanalyst and being one's full self in a publicly accessible way.

Yes, it certainly seems common to publish on psychoanalytic matters in relevant scholarly journals and things like that, but if one had a more eccentric, unorthodox, creative side, it seems like it would be problematic to publicly associate oneself with that. Do other analysts feel differently? How do people square this issue?