Eric (Fëanen)
@feanen.bsky.social
Whovian, gamer, amateur astrologer and Tolkien enthusiast. Lover of lists, oddities, old sitcoms and classic rock. Crazy cat guy. Mostly replies. He/him.
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I take it you have certain midpoints you focus on, in the same way as those of us who use lots have only a handful we regularly calculate?
December 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I take it you have certain midpoints you focus on, in the same way as those of us who use lots have only a handful we regularly calculate?
That's where I draw a hard line. It's fine to create new lots with modern astrological theory but anachronistic thinking blurs what the old astrologers were really up to, which is certainly related mathematically but not interchangeable conceptually.
December 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
That's where I draw a hard line. It's fine to create new lots with modern astrological theory but anachronistic thinking blurs what the old astrologers were really up to, which is certainly related mathematically but not interchangeable conceptually.
The usage of lots (always called parts) by Marc Edmund Jones, Ivy Goldstein-Jacobson and others as is definitely closer to how midpoints and planetary pictures are used. But it also led to some modern astrologers trying to project ideas of modern midpoint theory back on the ancients.
December 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The usage of lots (always called parts) by Marc Edmund Jones, Ivy Goldstein-Jacobson and others as is definitely closer to how midpoints and planetary pictures are used. But it also led to some modern astrologers trying to project ideas of modern midpoint theory back on the ancients.
To elaborate: nobody I've ever seen would ever look at a midpoint for its ruler, to see what planets are in the same sign (not degree). But this is exactly how Valens and Dorotheus used lots. Over time (and this is a topic I've been researching) they slowly got defined as simply sensitive points.
December 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
To elaborate: nobody I've ever seen would ever look at a midpoint for its ruler, to see what planets are in the same sign (not degree). But this is exactly how Valens and Dorotheus used lots. Over time (and this is a topic I've been researching) they slowly got defined as simply sensitive points.
I'll push back a little bit, I think they're mathematically related but there are enough differences to not treat them as being variations on a theme (as many modern astrologers did in the 20th Century). The biggest difference is that traditional lots are actually a topical house system.
December 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I'll push back a little bit, I think they're mathematically related but there are enough differences to not treat them as being variations on a theme (as many modern astrologers did in the 20th Century). The biggest difference is that traditional lots are actually a topical house system.
To quote Doctor Who: halfway out of the dark.
December 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
To quote Doctor Who: halfway out of the dark.
Mars putting the cart before the horse is also on brand.
December 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Mars putting the cart before the horse is also on brand.
Linguistically, these language models tend to give a script that reads like a script and is inhumanly consistent, or are peppered with inhuman inconsistencies.
December 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Linguistically, these language models tend to give a script that reads like a script and is inhumanly consistent, or are peppered with inhuman inconsistencies.
What these models will likely never be able to replicate is what I call "congruent deviation". It's the ability of humans to do things which are simultaneously unpredictable and yet make sense, including our capacity to change with effort. Or create truly novel yet self-consistent works of art.
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
What these models will likely never be able to replicate is what I call "congruent deviation". It's the ability of humans to do things which are simultaneously unpredictable and yet make sense, including our capacity to change with effort. Or create truly novel yet self-consistent works of art.
You definitely should! I always thought the weakness of the Turing Test was the...ahem, critical faculty of the human on the other end.
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
You definitely should! I always thought the weakness of the Turing Test was the...ahem, critical faculty of the human on the other end.
They do happen! The little tuxedo girl in my profile pic likes to burgle my bedroom in the dead of night. Stole my eyedrops and was rolling them around the kitchen floor.
November 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
They do happen! The little tuxedo girl in my profile pic likes to burgle my bedroom in the dead of night. Stole my eyedrops and was rolling them around the kitchen floor.
Kinda throws me that they're different from the official shiny colors. Which actually varied a lot back in the day (sample from my personal notes)
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Kinda throws me that they're different from the official shiny colors. Which actually varied a lot back in the day (sample from my personal notes)
A version that doesn't even add up to the correct planetary sums, even!
October 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
A version that doesn't even add up to the correct planetary sums, even!
Who's ever "seen" an aspect in the sky? "Yessir, that's a nice 120 degrees between Jupiter and the Moon!"
September 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Who's ever "seen" an aspect in the sky? "Yessir, that's a nice 120 degrees between Jupiter and the Moon!"
Those things are so loud. My neighbor, separate building and down a hill, had one that I could hear. For months! How do people live with that?
August 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Those things are so loud. My neighbor, separate building and down a hill, had one that I could hear. For months! How do people live with that?
Some day it would be nice to do a series starting from the end of Pisces and working backward. Our whole astrological lives are waiting at the back of the line!
August 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Some day it would be nice to do a series starting from the end of Pisces and working backward. Our whole astrological lives are waiting at the back of the line!
Do you know how to make an archer laugh? Tell them a nock-nock joke!
August 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Do you know how to make an archer laugh? Tell them a nock-nock joke!
Honestly, part of me thinks the development hell with constant roster changes may have worsened matters. And as nostalgic as revisiting Kanto is, it may not have helped that they didn't want to have lv 50+ Pokemon on, like, Route 2
August 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Honestly, part of me thinks the development hell with constant roster changes may have worsened matters. And as nostalgic as revisiting Kanto is, it may not have helped that they didn't want to have lv 50+ Pokemon on, like, Route 2
My experience is that A is truer in Johto or with a non-full party and B is truer in Kanto or trying to raise a full party. I do love Gen II but there's a few Pokemon like Sneasel, Tyranitar and Houndoom that I love but would only raise in another gen or as a trade because of availability and levels
July 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
My experience is that A is truer in Johto or with a non-full party and B is truer in Kanto or trying to raise a full party. I do love Gen II but there's a few Pokemon like Sneasel, Tyranitar and Houndoom that I love but would only raise in another gen or as a trade because of availability and levels
Hmm...maybe Jupiter rules Turritopsis dohrnii, the jellyfish that doesn't die of age?
July 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hmm...maybe Jupiter rules Turritopsis dohrnii, the jellyfish that doesn't die of age?
