Saturday, May 26, 2007
Monday, May 21, 2007
The Astrological Moon

Most people are familiar with Sun-Sign astrology. When a person says s/he is a Sagittarian, it means that when s/he was born, the Sun was in (under the influence of) the constellation Sagittarius. There is, however, another very important planetary body in our solar system – the Moon, Earth’s closest neighbor.
The Sun is 93 million miles away from the Earth. The Moon, on the other hand, is just around 253 thousand miles away. The Earth revolves around the Sun, but the Moon does not just revolve around the Earth. Both the Earth and the Moon revolve around a common center of gravity called the barycenter. The Moon is more than just a satellite of the Earth. The Moon is more like Earth’s smaller twin planet.
The Moon’s influence on the tides, on the migratory paths of birds, and on animal and human behavior is very well documented. Astrologers consider the position of the Moon at one’s birth just as important as the Sun’s position. Some people consider Moon-Sign astrology as a better gauge of the character of a person.
Astrological Charts and Aspects
An astrological chart is a snapshot of the cosmos at any given time and place. From the chart, one can see the angular relationships of the various heavenly bodies. For example, if Mars and Saturn are separated by zero to 8 degrees, they are said to be in conjunction. Physically, this means that from the vantage point of the Earth, both planets appear to be close together. The combined gravitational and other effects of these planets will certainly affect the Earth and its inhabitants in some ways. By looking at a chart, the astrologer can say how these planets will affect the person concerned. If two planets are separated by 180 degrees, they are said to be in opposition. Physically, this means that both planets are in opposite sides of the earth. Thus, the Earth and its beings are affected by two planetary forces in opposite directions. These angular relationships are called Aspects.
Electional Astrology
Astrologers believe that the Moon has very strong influence on Earthlings. As the fastest moving planetary body, the Moon is of utmost importance in Electional Astrology. Electional astrology is the approach used by astrologers to determine the most opportune time for endeavors or actions.
For predicting outcomes, the astrologer creates the progression chart for a future event. For example, if one wants to know who will win in the next Pacquiao fight, the astrologer looks at the chart of the specific date of the fight, and will study the characteristics of the planetary bodies, especially the Moon.
If somebody wants to ask a specific question, the astrologer builds the chart for the very moment the question is being asked. This is called horary astrology. In horary, predictive and electional astrology, the Moon’s characteristics – i.e., its House position, phase, aspects and Sign, are of utmost importance.
Void-of-Course
From ancient times, astrologers noticed that as the it passes from one Zodiac sign to another, there is a period when the Moon is “aspect-less”; i.e., it has no aspects with other planets. The astrologers have observed that this aspect-less period of the moon is quite inauspicious for Earthlings.
Every two and half days, the Moon does not make any aspects to any planet while moving from one sign and entering another. This period can range from a few minutes to a couple of days. When this happens, the Moon is said to be void-of-course.
If a person wants to know how an event or project will turn out, the astrologer would cast a chart and study the sign and aspects of the Moon. If the Moon has no aspects, then the project or event would have practically no outcome; i.e., it would come to nothing.
When the moon is void-of course, astrologers suggest that no important business should be planned or initiated. Even sending important e-mails or registered mails or faxes or making important calls are not advised. Most, if not all, actions started and / or made during the void-of-course moon would come to naught.
During this period, it is common for people to have many seemingly great ideas which would later turn out to be quite mediocre. For first time endeavors such as a first date or a job interview, it is advised not to do them on a Void-of Course Moon. As for weddings, unless you want the marriage to be annulled at a later date, better do it on another day.
According to astrological reports in the United States, one out of two major presidential candidates was nominated during the Void-of-Course Moon. George W. Bush seems to know all about the void-of-course Moon. He was twice nominated on a “good” Moon while his opponents Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004 were both nominated on a Void-of-Course Moon.
Time for Meditation
An aspect-less Moon is a good time to meditate, pray or study. The Mind goes inward during the void-of-course Moon. During this period, one usually feels relaxed, detached or even “spaced out”. Listening to Mind-Programming tapes or classical music, reading literature, watching movies, cleaning up the house or the car are just some of the things that one should do during the Void-of-Course Moon.
Sometimes the blame for unsuccessful undertakings lies not in us humans, but in the stars; or, in this case, the Moon.
This December’s Moon
December 2005 starts with a dynamic New Moon in Sagittarius. For those who want to start a project or a business, do it during a New Moon. The Moon makes a T-square with Mars and Jupiter on December 6. T-squares are difficult aspects, thus it would be better to simply relax on this day. Better make it a one and a half-day holiday as the Moon is void up to the 7th at 1:45 pm. The Full Moon is on the 16th but start your day after lunch when the Moon is no longer void-of-course. The week-end of December 17-18 should be a time for relaxation and recreation. The Moon is void-of-course for the weekend but on the 17th, the Moon forms a Grand Trine with Uranus and Jupiter. A grand trine aspect usually signifies a grand time. This may be the perfect time to bring the office staff on an outdoor trip or the family to a Christmas week-end out-of-town.

A “Mystic Rectangle” aspect oversees the Winter Solstice on the 22nd. Winter solstice is a time of celebration for most ancient and traditional cultures of the Northern hemisphere. The Mystic Rectangle aspect promotes the best use of one’s potentials. If you have an important date for December, do it on this day. A post-Christmas rest would best be done from the afternoon of the 27th up to the following day, or you can simply ride out the Void-of-course Moon. This month not only begins with a New Moon but ends with it as well. New Year’s Eve celebration will therefore be done during the New Moon, which is quite auspicious for the coming year.

Published in Mr. & Ms. Magazine, Supermonthly of the Body, Mind and Spirit, December 2005
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Saturday, May 12, 2007
Eve, the First Woman, Wife and Mother
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Eve, the Mother of all the Living
”The man called his wife Eve, because she became the mother of all the living.” (Genesis 3:20)
Muslim women enjoy such a bad press in non-Muslim societies. They are pictured as suffering martyrs with no rights of their own, second-class citizens in their own societies. Any proofs to the contrary are usually ignored.
But it would be interesting to know how the Jews, Christians and Muslims regard Eve, the first woman. (The story of Adam and Eve is not universal. Only these three groups believe in it.). All three religions believe that God created Adam and Eve, the first humans. For the Jew and Christians, Eve was made out of Adam’s ribs. (”…This one shall be called ‘woman’, for out of ‘her man’ this one has been taken.” Genesis 2:23)
All 3 religions also believe in The Temptation and the subsequent Fall of the First Humans. But herein lies the difference. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the serpent “who was the most cunning of all the animals that the Lord God had made” tempted Eve to partake of the Forbidden Fruit. “So she took some of its fruits and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” (Genesis 3:6) When God asked Adam about it, he replied: “The woman whom you put here with me — she gave me fruit from the tree, and so I ate it.”
God then “banned (the serpent) from all animals and from all wild creatures” and to crawl on its belly and eat dirt forever. And God said: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel.”
And God said to Eve: “I will intensify the pangs of your childbearing; in pain shall you bring forth children. Yet your urge shall be for your husband, and he shall be your master.” (Genesis 3: 12-16)
In contrast, the Qur’anic version is thus: “O Adam dwell with your wife in the Garden and enjoy as you wish but approach not this tree or you run into harm and transgression. Then Satan whispered to them in order to reveal to them their shame that was hidden from them…”(Qur’an vii: 19-20)’ When asked by God of their violation of His command, “They (Adam and Eve) said: ‘Our Lord we have wronged our own souls and if Thou forgive us not and bestow not upon us Thy Mercy, we shall certainly be lost’ ” (vii : 23). God then said: “Get ye down, Both of you,– all together (including Satan), From the Garden, with enmity to one another: but if, as is sure, there come to you Guidance from Me, whosoever follows My guidance, will not lose his way, nor fall into misery.” (xx: 123)
The contrast is very clear. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, Eve was to be blamed for the Fall, for which God punished all women with the pain of childbirth and subservience to their husband-master. God also decreed enmity between the woman and the serpent.
On the other hand, the Qur’anic Eve was not blamed at all. Both she and Adam shared the act and were both punished. God decreed enmity between Adam and Eve (mankind) on the one hand, and Satan on the other.
In Judeo-Christian tradition, Eve was the cause of man’s fall from Paradise and that she and her kind deserve the worst. In the Bible (Sirach 25:18-23), it says: “There is scarce any evil like that in a woman; may she fall to the lot of the sinner!…..In woman was sin’s beginning, and because of her, we all die.”
Jewish Rabbis listed nine curses inflicted on women as a result of Eve’s succumbing to Temptation: “To the woman He gave nine curses and death: the burden of the blood of menstruation and the blood of virginity; the burden of pregnancy; the burden of childbirth; the burden of bringing up the children; her head is covered as one in mourning; she pierces her ear like a permanent slave or slave girl who serves her master; she is not to be believed as a witness; and after everything–death.”
To the present day, orthodox Jewish men in their daily morning prayer recite: “Blessed be God King of the universe that Thou has not made me a woman.”
For Christians, Eve’s fault was truly great because it was the Original Sin, which their descendants bore and for which the Son of God had to be sacrificed on the cross.
The foremost Christian thinker St. Paul had this to say: “A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I don’t permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner”(I Timothy 2:11-14).
St. Tertullian was even more blunt than St. Paul. While he was talking to his ‘best beloved sisters’ in the faith, he said: “Do you not know that you are each an Eve? The sentence of God on this sex of yours lives in this age: the guilt must of necessity live too. You are the Devil’s gateway: You are the unsealer of the forbidden tree: You are the first deserter of the divine law: You are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed so easily God’s image, man. On account of your desert even the Son of God had to die.”
St. Augustine has this to say about Eve and her kind: “What is the difference whether it is in a wife or a mother, it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any woman…I fail to see what use woman can be to man, if one excludes the function of bearing children.”
Poor Eve, she was / is blamed for everything while her husband, and partner-in-crime remains unscathed.
Nowhere in the Qur’an can one find anything degrading about Eve or women in general. In the Qur’an, it says: “He (God) it is who did create you from a single soul and therefrom did create his mate, that he might dwell in her (in love)…” (vii : 189)
From the holy books, it is clear who regards women as second-class or even worst-class beings. Eve, the first woman and the mother of mothers, is reviled in Judaeo-Christian literature. She was the archetypal Siren, the Temptress, the Enchantress. She was the cause of Man’s fall from Grace and loss of Immortality.
It can fairly be said that how one regards the First Woman is how one regards ALL women.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Sexual Kung Fu: Transcendent Orgasm
To come or not to come (?), that is the question that concerns practitioners of Taoist sexual kung fu. In Taoism, the life force energy is hugely concentrated in the male semen. The conservation of this energy is thus imperative. For monks, celibacy is the traditional way but there is a more practical way – the path of the Seminal and Ovarian Kung Fu.
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Annabel Chong
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Eastern Concepts


Sex Hormones
Sex hormones are steroids and can be considered as great medicine against diseases and aging. Sex hormone production is best stimulated through sexual intercourse. Thus, the Tao prescribes ways to enhance the process of love-making.
Taoist Dilemma

Saturday, May 5, 2007
Anagrams - The Secret Behind Names
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According to the esoteric sciences, NAMES are sacred. There are secrets buried in one’s name. In Numerology, each letter corresponds to a number. By calculating the number according to some equations, the name’s properties, and hence, the destiny of the bearer of the name can be discovered.
For those not mathematically inclined, there is another mystical procedure to uncover / discover the secrets of Names. This is called Lexigram. The procedure is simple: write down all the words that can be made out of the given letters of the particular name(s). Then create sentences out of these words.
Another method is the Anagram. An ANAGRAM is word or phrase formed by transporting the letters of another word or phrase. All the letters in the original word or phrase must be used in the anagram with nothing added or left out.
Anagram-making became a very popular pastime during the Middle Ages in
But the Tarot also evolved from the game of cards. And even the ordinary cards are still used as divinatory tools by countless people.
In Lexigrams, a name or set of names can have hundreds of sub-words and thousands of sentences can be made from those words. For example, the name George Bush contains 111 words – from the interjection O! to 7-letter words like buggers and rehouse. You can imagine how many sentences you can make by re-arranging 111 words. One sample sentence is ‘He buggers rogues.’ It is therefore no wonder that the Bush administration loves calling their perceived enemies “rogue states” like
For anagrams, the choice is limited. All the letters must be used, nothing added nor left out. It is simpler and more to the point. In Magick, like in Physics, the simpler method or theory is always preferred. There is also perfect symmetry because the word and its anagram use the very same letters. For this reason, anagrams are written with an equal sign (=). Thus, ‘George Bush’ = ‘He bugs Gore’. For anagrams that complete the sentence, a tilde sign (~) is used.
SIMPLE AND TRUE
When one finds an anagram, there is usually a sense of awe and wonder at its Simple yet Profound Truth. You can immediately agree with the principle in the Occult that says, “There is no coincidence in the Universe”. When you see the anagram equation ‘George Bush’ = ‘He bugs Gore’, you wonder if Bush was really destined to win the electoral votes yet lose the popular votes, which presumably bugs Gore eternally.
What do you think of this anagram – ‘President George W. Bush’ = ‘This bugger needs power’ ? Or this, ‘President Bush of the
A look at some of the anagrams of famous people further lends credibility to their simple truthfulness:
Adolf Hitler. = ‘Heil, old fart!’ (Jean Fontaine, 1998) =‘Do real filth.’
Milosevic = ‘Cos I'm evil’ (Larry Brash, 1999)
Chairman Mao. = ‘I am on a march’ (Mick Tully, 1998, Wayne Baisley, 1999)
Diana, The Princess of Wales = ‘Elton's idea is crap. He fawns’ (Larry Brash, 1998)
Elvis Aaron Presley. = Seen alive? Sorry, pal! (Bourke, 1999)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. = A famous German waltz god. (Jones, 1999)
Thomas Alva Edison = Aha! Ions made volts! (Larry Brash, 1999)
William Shakespeare = I'll make a wise phrase. (Grantham, 2000) or
=He's like a lamp, I swear, or
=speaks well, I hear. (Dent, 2005)
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy = O, it's a lovely thick novel! (Grantham, 2000)
The Israeli general, Moshe Dayan = Hail, great hairless one-eyed man! (Richard Grantham, 2000)
Sir Peter Paul Rubens = Superb painter rules. (Jaybur, 2000)
(The names in parentheses are the people who worked out the anagrams and the year they registered their “discoveries”. I think one can register through the Internet.)
THE AMERICAN IDOL
As an exercise, I took the anagrams of this year’s contestants of American Idol. For this season, the Anagram clearly favors one candidate. She is MELINDA DOOLITTLE whose anagram is ALL-TIME NOTED IDOL.
Her strongest rival, LAKISHA JONES, does not seem to have a good name. Her name anagrams to J AS A SINKHOLE or J a.k.a. HOLINESS or KISS HEAL JONA or AHA! J SINK LOSE or AHA! J LOSES INK.
The dark horse of the contest, JORDIN SPARKS has RAJ DROPS KINS or DROPS INK JARS.
And so it seems that Melinda Doolittle will become the ALL-TIME NOTED IDOL while Lakisha and Jordin will both SINK or DROP / LOSE INK.
Among the Top 24, there were good singers who should have been in the Top 12 but whose names have bad anagrams.
Nicole Tranquillo anagrams to LO! ILL QUAINT CRONE
Rudy Cardenas has A CURSED RANDY or D CURSED ARYAN or UNREADY CARDS
Jared Cotter = DO REJECT RAT = O! DRAT! REJECT!
Sabrina Sloan = SLAIN ARAB SON = BOAR SANS NAIL
Unfortunately for the Filipino-American contestant ANTONIO TABALDO, his name anagrams to TAN, AN IDOL TABOO.
It would be interesting to see how accurate the anagrams would be in this year’s American Idol finals. (All anagrams for the idol’s names are mine).
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President Marcos dreamed of changing the Filipinos and called his utopia, ‘The New Society’, which anagrams to ‘Chinese wet toy’. The Chinese flourished during the Marcos regime and many Chinese nobodies became rich tycoons. The New Society became their wet toy.
President Arroyo wanted a ‘
PRESIDENTS AND LADIES
‘Ferdinand Edralin Marcos’ anagrams to ‘Aced informer drains land’ (Mary Ann 1987). So maybe it is true that Marcos drained the country of so much wealth. It also anagrams to ‘Fair, damned scorn’ (mine) or ~‘red, mad, infernal, sardonic’ (mine)
His widow’s name has very interesting anagrams: ‘Imelda Romualdez Marcos’ = ‘A lurid sole-crazed momma’ (Mesterton-Gibbons) (2007) = ‘Our mild sole-crazed mama’ (by Pinchas) = ‘Demoralized amoral scum’ (by Jewell 2005)
I worked out Fidel V Ramos ‘s anagram to ‘Favored, slim’(mine). We all know that he was favored (anointed) by Cory Aquino and he won the presidency by a very slim margin.
Joseph Estrada has ‘Oh, sad jeep star’ (mine). Indeed, the movie star’s jeep (Jeepney ni Erap) has a sad journey.
In spite of having only 6 letters, the name Gloria has quite a number of anagrams: ‘Oil Rag’ = ‘O Grail’ = ‘Air Log’ = ‘Rio Gal’ = ‘Go Lira’ (all by Jewell 2005) = ‘Go, Liar!’ (Domingo Marcelo 2005) = OA Girl.
The www.hotmanila.ph website has the anagram ‘President Gloria Arroyo’ = ‘No leader, a sorry pig riot’. But I worked out this anagram: ‘President Gloria Arroyo’ = ‘O, a Tory leader’s iron grip’ (mine). This means that some people see her as a sorry leader while others recognize her as a conservative leader with an iron grip on Philippine politics.
POLITICIANS
We are in the midst of elections. From the anagrams of the word 'Politicians', we can see that work makes them panic – ‘Toil is panic!’ ( Ryan 2004). They also ask for pain as in ‘Solicit pain’ (by Fathallah2002). A Politician’s office ~‘Is in Capitol’ (Kastner 2002). And of course, politicians love to argue on any topic -- ‘Topical is in! (Rothstein 2001) and ‘I nail topics’ (Rothstein 2002).
Most of the candidates in the coming elections are ‘Career Politicians’. They ~ ‘repair, conciliate’. The ‘career politician’ = ‘a reptilian
In ‘senatorial elections’, one should ‘retaliate in coolness’, according to the anagrams. It would seem that in these elections, the ‘Genuine Opposition’ will fare better as it will spark with ‘Genius Poet Opinion’ while ‘Team Unity’ will ‘Eat Mutiny’. But the anagram ‘Allan Peter Cayetano’ ~ ‘to clean penalty area’ is baffling. Could this mean that he would be made to pay some penalty, perhaps by the Justice Secretary?
MR. & MS. MAGAZINE
‘Mr. & Ms. magazine’ anagrams to ‘& Man’s grim maze’. During the latter days of the Marcos era, Mr. & Ms. magazine was one of the shining beacons that helped the Filipinos get out of the grim maze of Dictatorship. Today, the Filipinos seem to be in another labyrinth – not only politically but also spiritually. And the Supermonthly of the Body, Mind and Spirit could be another light that could free the Filipino from this yet another grim maze.
And this is possible because the magazine’s publisher - editor is ‘Eugenia Duran Apostol' whose name anagrams to 'Utopian, aroused angel’. (END)
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Mr. and Ms. magazine cover - Pirates of the Caribbean

Mr. & Ms. Magazine - the Supermonthly of the Body, Mind, and Spirit May 2007 is now out in the streets and in cyberspace.
The cover story is the movie Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End.
It also features my film column QUANTUM CINEMA, where I reviewed the film PAN'S LABYRINTH.
I have another article there -- the Art of the Anagram.
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