Hi,
I tried to find the time of Benedict?s possession. The best I could find was between 5:15 pm and 7:15 pm

http://www.studiumurbis.org/menu/benedictxvi.html

I notice two things that may be of importance: first is that venus is in algol (and moon is in algol in the ingress chart). Second is that mercury is squaring saturn (opposing saturn in the ingress). Depending on the real ascendent (that we don?t know) it may be that mercury is opposing the asc in both charts.

Although these scandals have been going on for more than a decade now, I am not sure if they really are getting "worse" now.

It's more that info about the scandals, and the apparent covering up of the scandals, keeps coming out, more and more lately.

Of course, some people are now looking for scapegoats ... http://www.salon.com/news/antisemitism/ ... s_open2010

Although these scandals have been going on for more than a decade now, I am not sure if they really are getting "worse" now.

The issue is not whether abuse is more common than it was in the past. The point is that the issue has reached an unprecedented level of prominence in public awareness. Not least amongst practising Catholics. I think the influence of the scandals has been insidious and very damaging to the image of the Church. The issue has surely reached a new level of intensity when the Pontiff himself is being personally criticised for failing to act on an accusation of sexual abuse.

Mark

margherita wrote:
For me, we can cast the chart for 0.00 Aries without any problem.


margherita

(Hi Margherita!)
I am not sure if I read it at Ben Dykes' site, or here on the forum, or whether it was somewhere on the InterpresStellarum-group, but I am absolutely positive that either Ben Dykes, or Steven Birchfield, quite adequately and definitely explained this degree/minute matter; as Deb a.o. also mentioned you can rest assured 00?00'01" Aries is what should be used, not 00?01'.
I am sorry I cannot produce a link/reference here, but maybe someone else remembers?

hervaro wrote:

margherita wrote:
For me, we can cast the chart for 0.00 Aries without any problem.


margherita

(Hi Margherita!)
I am not sure if I read it at Ben Dykes' site, or here on the forum, or whether it was somewhere on the InterpresStellarum-group, but I am absolutely positive that either Ben Dykes, or Steven Birchfield, quite adequately and definitely explained this degree/minute matter; as Deb a.o. also mentioned you can rest assured 00?00'01" Aries is what should be used, not 00?01'.

Thanks, I will check around,

margherita

margherita wrote:

hervaro wrote:

margherita wrote:
For me, we can cast the chart for 0.00 Aries without any problem.


margherita

(Hi Margherita!)
I am not sure if I read it at Ben Dykes' site, or here on the forum, or whether it was somewhere on the InterpresStellarum-group, but I am absolutely positive that either Ben Dykes, or Steven Birchfield, quite adequately and definitely explained this degree/minute matter; as Deb a.o. also mentioned you can rest assured 00?00'01" Aries is what should be used, not 00?01'.

Thanks, I will check around,

margherita

Perhaps you could try the links I mentioned in my Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:41 pm post in this thread. Those are the discussions about the subject at Skyscript.

Eddy wrote:[Perhaps you could try the links I mentioned in my Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:41 pm post in this thread. Those are the discussions about the subject at Skyscript.

thanks for the input,

margherita

Yet more info about abuse scandals comes out: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100420/ap_ ... ex_scandal