Draco's Birthday / Feminism

[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 12036

Ginny Love <Slytherin_Daughter at y...> wrote:
> <raises eyebrows> does it not stand to reason that
> Draco was born when something-or-other was in the
> constilation of Draco the Dragon?

Yes, except that as far as I know Draco the Dragon is not on the
ecliptic (the path through the sky on which all the planets (moving
objects) travel) and therefore never has a planet in it.

Ellimist wrote:
>Can you please elaborate on what this signifies? I must have
> fallen asleep in Professor Sinistra's astronomy lesson.
> > it says, Sun at 3 degrees of Cancer (counts to me as
> > Gemini/Cancer cusp)

I am NOT GOOD at astrology. If I were, I would draw the horoscope and
see the aspects (the angles between planet and planet). But here goes.

The Sun Sign is the one that is listed in newspaper horoscope columns.
It reveals some generalizations about your personality that can be much
changed by the other planets (and especially by the Ascendant, which
depends on the time of day that you were born). Gemini/Cancer cusp is
the border between Gemini (late May - early June) and Cancer (late
June-early July). Gemini, the Twins, is ruled by Mercury, and therefore
Geminis are Mercurial: charming, good talkers, changeable, unreliable
(or worse), and frequent travellers and Gemini as a double sign has a
tendency to be pulled in two directions (for Pisces, another double
sign, the two directions are often 'spirituality or worldly success').
Cancer is is ruled by the Moon and therefore inclined to secrecy (I
would like to say sneakiness and underhandedness, but should not judge
all Moon Children (that's the euphemism) by my stepmother). They are
said to be also artistic, drawn to the occult, and homemakers.

Charming - good talker - changeable - unreliable - a flyer - torn
between good and evil - secretive, sneaky, and underhanded = it should
be obvious why I think this is a good place for Cassie's Draco.

> > Moon at 17 degrees of Scorpio!!!!

The Moon tells about your unconscious mind.  Scorpio (my Sun sign) is
involved with some very powerful emotions: sex, lust, and love, grudges
and revenge, that kind of stuff. My astrologer friend claims that he is
tortured by his Moon in Scorpio: 'Moon in Scorpio is too much of a good
thing, it's like Freudian unconscious squared.',

> > Mercury at 24 degrees of Cancer
> > Venus at 19 degrees of Gemini (retrograde)
> > Mars at 21 degrees of Virgo

I already talked about Mercury's nature, and having it in Cancer
reinforces all that stuff about Gemini/Cancer cusp. Venus indicates
love, beauty, and femininity and is considered to be good luck.
Retrograde (that means it looks like it's going backwards in the sky:
that is an optical illusion caused by Earth passing it because it is an
inner planet) means that stuff is messed up. Being in Gemini reinforces
what I already said about Gemini.

Mars has to do with fighting and masculinity. The secret code part also
said Jupiter at 5 degrees of Virgo and Saturn at 21 degrees Virgo.
Jupiter has to do with wealth and power and is considered to be a very
lucky star. Saturn has to do with difficulties and death and is
considered unlucky.

The nature of Virgo is to be a blue-nosed perfectionist (IIRC Hermione
is at the end of Virgo). My friend had a very difficult father who was a
Virgo and she liked the quote about Virgos: "Perfection is barely good
enough."

Dave Hardenbrook wrote:
>I think JKR has made it clear that the Wizarding World
> discovered feminism at least 2000 years before the Muggles
> did... Otherwise Hogwarts would have been founded by
> Godric Gryffindor and Salazaar Slytherin, while Helga
> Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw stayed home baking
> treacle fudge and having Tupper-Caldron parties.

Western Civilisation was a great deal more feminist 2000 years ago than
it was 1000 years ago.  2000 years ago, Hypatia of Alexandria, a woman,
was widely respected as a mathematician and philosopher and ran a school
until a Christian mob killed her because their Bible forbade women to
teach men. The encyclopedia article on Hypatia is extremely sensitive
not to badmouth Christians and said that that mob had been stirred up
against her by a bishop who wanted property she had, and other
Christians, including some philosopher named St. somebody, were good
friends of hers.

1000 years was when Hogwarts was founded, a time when women did not have
many legal rights (and no one had many real rights unless they could
afford expensive swords and had muscles to thump people with those
swords), but IIRC even then there were female saints who somehow managed
to found orders of nuns..
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