Another 180 degree tale for you today

So I just finished watching an episode of Ancients Behaving Badly, the series that studies many of the great figures of history as criminal psychopaths.  In the end, the show attempts to rate each on of the episode subjects on a scale of criminal psychopathy.

I'm a big fan of this show.  This is the show that teaches us that most of the great figures of history are worthy of our scorn, not hero worship.  They are blood-thirsty megalomaniacs, for the most part.

This episode was about Cleopatra.  It was quite fascinating.   Boy was she one for the record books!  What an eye-opener.  This woman quite literally killed all her brothers & sisters to ensure her firm grip on control of the throne of Egypt.

Of course, sex and seduction are the heart of Cleopatra's tale.  She seduces a 52 year old Julius Caesar, when she is a mere 18 year old nymph.   Later, at the age of 28, she seduces his successor, the 42 year old Mark Antony.  All reports indicate that they had a blistering sexual firestorm for the ages.  It was not just political, in their case.  There was a sexual meltdown in progress there also.

Naturally, this made me curious about the synastry of the situation.  As a dedicated investigator, I wanted to see what I could find out about the situation.  The facts of the case are these:

1. Cleopatra's birth date is not known.  We do not know the month either.  This is despite spurious sources who claim she was born in January.  No ancient sources support this claim.
2. Julius Caesar 's deification celebration was reportedly set for his birthday, and this festival was routinely celebrated on July 12.  This would make his birthday July 12, 100 B.C., making him a Cancer.  That's a fine Cardinal sign for a Roman Emperor.  There is some uncertainty about his birth, but such is the case for all ancient figures.
3. Mark Antony's birthday stands pretty well confirmed.  It is set for January 14, 83 B.C., making Mark a Capricorn.
4. Mark Antony was always a steadfast ally and close friend of Julius Caesar.  This is how he became a member of the Triumvirate after the assassination of Caesar.
5. What a co-inky-dinky!  Julius and Mark just happen to be 180 degree opposites!  January 14 is 182 days after July 12.  182 is pretty dang close to the magic figure of 182.625.

So, for a dude interested in Synastry and the sex of the situation, we just need to guess what sign is mostly likely to set both a Cancer and a Capricorn on fire.  That's not hard to reckon either.  These 180 degree opposites are quite likely to have similar tastes and preferences.  There are two obvious choices:  Taurus and Scorpio.

Why do I say that?  First, Taurus and Scorpio are both well-aspected towards both Cancer and Capricorn; especially in a sexual sense.

Second, Cleopatra was a notorious nymphomaniac.  She had a sex drive that just wouldn't quit.  There are rumors that she once took on 100 men in a gang-bang, just to see if she could do it.  The legend has it that she succeeded.  You are probably going to need to come equipped with the highest of all sex drives if you intend to do something like that.

All sources agree that, on average, Taurus and Scorpio have the two highest sex drives of the Zodiac.  The majority report says Scorpio has the highest of all sex drives.  The minority report states Taurus has the highest sex-drive.  I side with the majority on this issue.  It's Scorpio.

I am going to have argue that Cleopatra was a Scorpio.  Her tendency to use her sexuality for the political cause rivals that of James Bond.  We all know that he was a Scorpio.  {You know that right?}

Further, this is a pretty evil and violent figure.  Call me foolish, call me irresponsible, call me a myopic Virgo dude, but this doesn't fit the profile of Taurus as I know them.  Taurus, ruled by Venus, is a very soft sign for a female.  They are known for the gentility, patients and aesthetics.  I find it hard to believe a Taurus woman could do the things reported of Cleopatra.  My gut says no.

On the other hand, Scorpio is ruled by Mars and Pluto... this is a poisonous little critter of a different order entirely.  I do not find it difficult to believe a Scorpio woman could do the things done by Cleopatra.  On the contrary, I think it is totally possible for a Scorpio woman to do these things.  Maybe even likely.

Of course, Adolf Hitler was a Taurus, but this is a pretty singular exception.

We can go further.  Scorpio has a tremendous desire for dominance and control.  According to many sources, Scorpio women are attracted to men based on their power levels.  They like to borrow power from the guy they are with and exercise control in his name.  Believe me, I have first hand knowledge of this situation.  I have seen it in action, day after day.

This pattern fits Cleopatra to a 'T'.  Cleopatra specifically goes after Julius Caesar and Mark Antony precisely because she sees them as the most powerful allies she can have.  She sees them as a the assurance of her control over Egypt.  She sees them as increasing her power-base, not diminishing it.

Many feminists studies have been done on Cleopatra's behavior, and they routinely lament the fact that this women did not believe she could stand on her own.  Rather, she felt she had to partner with a powerful man in order to secure and retain power herself.  This is quite accurate, and it was also probably necessary at the time.  However, it also fits the Scorpio woman's profile perfectly.

I find all this extremely interesting, and even more pitiful.  Mark Antony was probably a good Capricorn brother before this evil Scorpio bitch got ahold of him.  What a shame!  You know... I know of a Capricorn brother being destroyed in just this way...  It's in progress.  I can't save him from this fatal monster.  She's gonna wreck him.

  

The absolutely worthless astrology apps that are about to die a pigs death

Well, I lost my cell phone this past week, I put in an insurance claim, and was shipped a replacement.  The recovery of my account information was extremely smooth.  Gmail and Facebook reloaded all my contacts.   My Amazon cloud player kept my music for me.

I lost nothing but a series of worthless apps (like Zoosk) that I would liked to have uninstalled anyhow.  This allowed me to start fresh and download a bunch of new apps.  For the first time, I decided to take a look at some of the apps that will be my competitors in the future.

I tested several of them with some well-known, and well understood birthdays.  These are birthdays of women I am extremely attracted to and who have outstanding chart-for-chart compatibility with me.  The results were hysterical.  The results were disgusting.  I laughed until I puked.

I'll tell you what bucko, I were one of you fools selling these applets, I would be shitting my pants with fear right about now.  A 200 ton gorilla is getting ready to jump down on your head and beat you to death.  You'll never know what hit you.  One-shot, one kill.  It's going to be like taking candy from a baby.  You can't cover me in a million years.  You got no chance of survival.  Dead meat.

So just what is wrong with these little astrology applets that say they can compute your compatibility?

1. They don't calculate a natal chart
2. They don't exhaustively compare planetary angles.
3. They don't compute houses
4. They don't arrange you planets in her houses, or her planets in your houses
5. There is no scoring system for aspects
6. There is no scoring system for houses.
7. What they do is an ultra-crass comparison of Sun signs, disregarding all else.
8. Some drag an arcane an unexplained version of numerology into the mix
9. Some drag a very limited Chinese Astrology into the mix.  If it were a full version, this would not be a bad thing.

The results of these piss-poor methods are hilarious.  I'll give you just one example:  I am told that I will certainly have a love at first sight experience with all Taurus females and males.  I can assure you, this is not correct.  I do like my share of Taurus females, but not all of them set my heart a flutter.  I tried 100+ Taurus dates and got the same "Love at first sight" boiler plate text every time.  I can go further still.  Of all the signs who should love me the most, Taurus loves me the least.  I get less interest from these women than any other sign.  If they like me, they like me faintly.  I have to say, I feel mighty damn rejected by the Taurus clan.

Much of the information is also flat-wrong according to the doctrines of Astrology.  For instance, I tried about 20 Pisces dates versus my own B-Day.  In every case, I got the same identical boiler-plate text.  This text claimed the relationship would fail, as the sexually conservative Virgo would not be able to fulfill the unlimited sexual desires of the Pisces.  We all know that Virgo is one of the top two mates for Pisces.  There are millions of Pisces-Virgo marriages out there doing just fine.  My brother doesn't seem to think his Virgo woman is particularly conservative.

Another hilarious boiler-plate text declared that in business relations, Virgos should not work with Capricorns.  A Capricorn boss brings out the rebellious nature in a Virgo.  {That's not true unless an evil Scorpion bitch gets into the mix.}  The fact is that these are legendary business partners.  Even when the relationship is somewhat afflicted, such as Chuck Noll and Terry Bradshaw, you still wind up winning.  Don Shula and Dan Marino didn't have problems.  I realize coach Coughlin is the Virgo and Eli is the Capricorn, but this only proves it works in the other direction as well. 

Even Jim Fassel and Kerry Colins made it to one Super Bowl together.

Stoooooppppoddddd!

No folks, the project I am brewing is cut from a totally different material.  I am working on a product entirely different from these crap-hounds.  I am orders and orders of magnitude over and above what they are doing.  It is my objective to put a Synastry applet on your phone that will exceed everything Sirius 1.1 and Janus 4.3 can do.  I intend to do the full job of a Jyotish Match-Maker.

We're going to grind out the most accurate birth-charts anybody every saw.  We're going to do exhaustive aspect comparisons with a numerical scoring system.  The focus will be on the personal five planets, with higher scores for these aspects.  All the planets will be arranged in the houses, and scores will be assigned for these arrangements.

I will even provide a Davison chart and a Composite chart even though I do not endorse these methods.

Further, I intend to leap well beyond that.  I intend to compare your chart to 200 years worth of charts ranging from 1900 to 2100.  We're going to find your top prospects.  We're going to show you how you line up versus historical figures.

Further, I intend to do some nice 3d renders in Modo to make my graphics beautiful.

You guys are going to get ripped to shreds.  Death awaits you all with nasty big, pointy teeth.

Sometimes I think I really am a Jyotish Leo.  I am way too ferocious to be a Virgo.  

The 8th House

Live and learn.  I did a considerable amount of reading last night before falling asleep.  The reading was about about the Astrological House system.  It was quite fascinating  It would seem that there is one more important House I need to consider in MySynastryEngine.  This is the 8th House.

The 8th House is naturally ruled by Scorpio.  It is associated with Death, Rebirth, Transformation, and... yes... you guessed it... sex.  Scorpio is a femmie water sign, exhibits high levels of fertility, and we all know that Scorpios have the absolute highest sex drive in the zodiac.   Scorpio rules the male gentiles, according to rumor.  This makes the 8th House a big one for karmic unions.

I had a fairly poor understanding of the 8th House before this reading.  I understood the 8th House as the house of death, reincarnation, and transformation.  I understood it had things to do with regenerative processes such as surgery, medical treatments and healing.  It turns out that this House deals with the wheel of Samsara more than anything else.  This is the cycle of death, sex, conception rebirth, life death, sex, conception and rebirth.  The mysteries of life and the life-force are found here.

According to the readings last night, this is the House ruling the reproductive drives, mergers of all kinds, marriage consummation  and intimacy in all forms.  These authors deny the 5th House controls reproduction.  The 5th House is just the house of child rearing and parenthood as an occupation, not conception, fertility or sex.

So the 8th House is absolutely crucial, is it?  What implications does this hold for yours truly? It means any woman with an Aquarius Ascendant is in mega-deep dooh-doo versus me.   Why is this?  If her Ascending sign is Aquarius, Aquarius rules her 1st house.  If Aquarius rules the 1st House, Virgo rules her 8th House and Leo rules her 7th House.  This is a double-whammy versus me.  This means most of my power-planets {e.g. Ascendant, Sun, Mercury, Uranus, Pluto, etc.} land in her 8th House, and whilst Venus and Mars land in her 7th House.  The effect is devastating, like a 5 megaton H-bomb.

There are some warnings about join finances in this configuration, however, the results should be impressive.

Conversely, any woman with a concentration of power planets in Aries and Pisces is going to put the whammy on me.  Pisces is on my 7th House and Aries rules my 8th House.  For the first time, Sirus's projections of the 538 score for the 4/13/1979 Aries woman would seem to make some sense.  This is an Aries woman with considerable Pisces in her chart.  As such, she is afflicted with internal Fire-Water conflicts, but she has the right stuff to mess me up... this according to the Housing system.  The strange thing is that Sirus seems to make it's calculations without reference to the Housing system... go figure.

So the object lesson for the Synastry engine designer is this:  The whole game of Synastry is beginning to resemble a game of Spades played on a roulette wheel with 12 slots on it.  Those 12 slots are almost like books in Spades.  You want your cards to naturally fall into book 5, 7 and 8.  This is how you score victories in the romance game.  Likewise, you need her cards to fall into books 5, 7 and 8 of your housing system.

A short little diddy about House-Based Synastry

Welcome to Sagittarius Season.  Today, November 22, is the first day of Sagittarius... at least from a tropical Zodiac and goecentric point of view.

This past Scorpio season turned out to be quite a learning experience for me.  I studied the charts of many female Scorpios as their birthdays passed by.  I frequently compared them to mine.  I learned several unexpected things.

First of all, any Scorpio female born around noon time is likely to have an ascending sign Pisces.  This trend becomes more pronounced as the Scorpio month continues. According to certain Synastry engines--not Sirus or Kepler--I have blistering scores versus *_ANY_* female with an Ascending sign of Pisces.

Why is that?  A Pisces Ascendant means that the first house of the individual's chart is in Pisces.  We start the housing system there.  Mathematically, this necessarily means that Virgo is the ruler of the 7th House of the individual's chart.  The 7th House is the house of marriage and partnership.

Now, you have to understand that I am no ordinary run of the mill Virgo.  I am a Super Virgo.  I am a Virgo with an Ascendant of Virgo, and a whole bunch of Virgo planets in my first house.  This includes my Sun. Mercury, Pluto, and Uranus.  I also have some asteroids there, including Vesta.

Theoretically, any female with an Ascendant of Pisces, and therefore Virgo on the 7th House, has to deal with the influence of all my power-planets right-schmack in her 7th House:  The house of marriage and partnership.  According to Janus 4.3, this is supposed to have a pretty overwhelming affect upon the lucky girl or the unfortunate victim.  Particularly, Uranius in the 7th House is supposed to create instantaneous love-at-first-sight experiences.  Further, Pluto in the 7th house is supposed to give me overwhelming power and influence over such females.

In a good scenario, such a female may believe immediately that I am 'the one and only'.  In an adverse situation she may feel overwhelmed, panic, and run away from me.  In a truly adverse situation, she may feel completely dominated and oppressed by me, despite the fact that I have done nothing to warrant such a conclusion.

So be warned:  Any Scorpio female born around noon is in big trouble if she comes up against me in a party.  Further, any female born with an Ascendant of Pisces is in trouble if she bumps into me in a singles situation. You are doomed.  You are like an unfortunate quarterback facing Ndamukong Suh.

I also learned that any female with an Ascendant of Taurus is immediately & completely doomed to an obsessive and compulsive, all-consuming, exhausting sexual relationship with me... if we should happen to meet.  We're talking fatal attraction here. 

Why is that?  A Taurus Ascendant means Taurus rules the first house.  This means Virgo rules the 5th House.  The 5th House is the house of sex, pleasure, reproduction, and recreation.  Any female with an Ascendant of Taurus is going to find all of my power planets schmack in her 5th House, tugging away at her sexual and reproductive drives. Besides that, you have a natural affinity between Virgo and Taurus at play here.

She won't know what hit her.  The presence of Pluto in the 5th House is supposed to have nearly unspeakable consequences.   She will want to play house immediately.  She might become violent if I should happen to hesitate.  Be warned...  You can't say I didn't warn you...

[As a quick side note:  It's funny that this has never happened to me.  There must be plenty of girls with an Ascendant of Taurus.  In fact, at this point, I am feeling mighty damn rejected by the earth clan.  The Taurus and Capricorn girls will have nothing to do with me.  Nearly all the chicks who have flirted with me on-line have been Leos.]

Finally, I discovered that any female with an Ascendant of Aquarius is also in for a shocker if she bumps into me.  Why is that?  Well, we start her housing system with Aquarius, and this naturally makes Leo the ruler of her 7th House.  I just happen to have two crucial power planets in Leo:  Venus and Mars.  If you put Venus and Mars in the house of marriage and partnership.. well... let's just say that's like putting dynamite in the oil furnace.

Same thing if her Ascenant happens to be in Aries. This would place my Venus and Mars in her 5th House.  Put Venus and Mars in the house of sex and pleasure and we're talking about big trouble in little China.

There is a general lesson to be taken out of my specific case.  If you happen to have a concentration of powerful planets in one sign, you look for people with an Ascenant of the opposite sign.  Alternately, you count back 5 signs from that concentration, and look for people with that Ascenant.  Your power planets will be concentrated in his/her 7th House or 5th House.  This will lead to some serious shaking and quaking.

There is also a lesson here for the software engineer working on a synastry engine.  My synastry engine should be designed to look for these concentrations of power planets, and automatically seek candidates with opposing Ascendants, or Ascendants 5 signs back.  These will be the highest-percentage candidates for life's journey.

A full day of rest leads to a synastry breakthrough

As I mentioned in previous blog posts, I am walking pile of training injuries.  I am having great difficulty making the jump to Kettlebell and CrossFit training intensities.  About 8 days ago, I suffered a pretty serious shoulder injury which has left my right hand numb most of the time.  That's right, I am currently typing with a partially numb right hand.

Because I have only slowed down, rather than stopped, it just hasn't gotten better.  In truth, this may require a visit to Dr. Bachner's surgery center, and he may need to perform the Sam Bradford procedure on me.  In the interests of healing, and in view of our harsh weather conditions today, I declared a full day of rest.  No exercise, period!  I mean zip, zero, nada, nothing; not even abs.

Naturally, I was at loose ends today.  It might have been impossible if it hadn't been a football Sunday.  Even so, I was at loose ends, not knowing what to do with my spare energy.

I found myself doing extensive searches online for key aspects in the pseudo-science of Synastry.  As you know, I have a project in progress (currently on hold) to build my own Synastry engine.  The objective is to create a collection of webservices that will power both a collection of mobile apps, and a major-league Windows WPF application.

As I did my research, it suddenly dawned on me.  I had the massive ah-ha! experience.  I suddenly snapped on a perfect, simple, elegant, high-performance architecture for this Synastry engine.  I now know how I will do the high-speed computations for millions of people per minute.

In short, this is a classic application of Multi-Dimensional Analytics.  Multi-Dimensional databases are popular and vogue stuff in the business intelligence market.  The notion is fairly simple, mathematically speaking.  Each point of data has three or more dimensional coordinates.  Think of each coordinate in a hyper-cubic space.

In a simple cube, each data-point has an X, Y and Z coordinate.  You can fetch any point of data in the cube by referencing it's three coordinates   However, the cube is only the start.  You can have n dimensions, where n is any finite number.  This means 6, 8, 9 and 12 dimensions are all possible.  One word of warning: As you increase the number dimensions in your hyper-cube, the exponential explosion of data points can easily blow even the most powerful server's capacity.

I am not worried about this.  In my case, Synastry is a relatively manageable 4 dimensional data problem.  Consider the following Dimensions:

1. The A chart {e.g. Ascendant, Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, etc.}
2. The B chart {e.g. Ascendant, Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, etc.}
3. The Angles {e.g. Conjunction, Sextile, Square, Trine, Opposition, etc.}
4. The Categories {e.g. Romance, Communication, Creativity, Aggression, Mutual Success, etc}

I need one point of data corresponding to the unique combination of each of these four coordinates.  As soon as I populate the four-dimensional cube, it is just a of looking up the scores in the cube.  Of course, we still need to compute and compare two people's charts, but this is the relatively easy part.  Scoring their potential for a relationship accurately... this is the hard part.

Consider a simple hypothetical scenario.  I am a Virgo.  A female I am interested in is a Capricorn born January 14, 1979.  Her moon is in Leo, her Venus is in Sagittarius.  There are a number of excellent aspects here.  We have a near-trine between suns.  Her Sun conjuncts my Vertex.  Her moon trines my moon and conjuncts my Venus.  Her Venus trines my Mars.  What should her score be?

It depends on the category.  Each aspect I just mentioned will have an impact on several different category scores.  Romance, Aggression, Mutual Success will all be impacted to varying degrees by each of these aspects.  Without calculation, we can already know the score will be very, very good, but just how good?

Using a four dimensional hyper-cube, and I can look up each score, for each aspect, for each category.  The sum can be fetched using MDX SQL code query.

Of course, there are other ways you can do it.  You could do it in a purely functional manner, but this could be extremely computationally intensive in a situation where you are attempting to serve a million people in an Internet/Smart Phone world.  A pre-calculated hyper cube should be faster and more scalable.

It's also extremely well organized, testable, verifiable, and maintainable.

Homage to the Virgo Women

It would appear that Virgo Sisterhood is far stronger than I originally presumed. It would appear that I under estimated them... severely. That statement comes from a September 2 Virgo.

For whatever combination of reasons, I have never really taken a hard look at my astrological home girls. I have had a strong tendency to discount any female I encountered who happened to be a Virgo.

Perhaps it because I actually do happen to have a Virgo sister (born on 9/10/1963)... Perhaps it is because the two of us have an aggression score of 650 Sirus 1.1... Perhaps it is because she really has been my nemesis in scores of years past... I don't know...

We are almost at the end of Virgo season. Tomorrow is officially the last day of Virgo season. Next comes Libra. As these past 30 days have rolled by, I have been more and more astonished by the names that have come up on the IMDB.com birthday list.

I already knew that most of classic dames of Hollywood's golden era were Virgo women. I already knew Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Berman, Greta Garbo, and Sophia Loren were all born around my birthday. I noticed this through the years.

I already knew about my birthday buddy, Salma Hayek. I knew about Shania Twain and Faith Hill, two of my all-time favorite women. I hesitate to mention this, but I already knew about two-time defending AVN performer of the year, Tori Black.

I did not know that any of the following women were Virgos:

• Angie Everhart
• Barbara Eden
• Claudia Schiffer
• Heather Thomas
• Jacqueline Bisset
• Rachel Ward
• Rachel Hunter
• Raquel Welch
• Rose McGowan
• Shannon Elizabeth

I'm not even naming all of the famous women whose photos I just posted.

Folks, is it just me, or does this list contain most of the biggest sex-symbols from the 1930s clear up to the 1980s? You have 50 years of the biggest names on the Virgo list. No wonder the Scorpio dudes rank Virgo women #1.

Before I continue with my opinion, you should know conjunction is a tricky thing in Astrology. It's an incredibly powerful aspect, and often ranked as the single most powerful aspect. Unfortunately, it is unpredictable. You may love them. You may hate them. It depends on how they strike you. If they remind you of everything you hate about yourself, you will certainly dislike the conjuncted ones. If you strongly identify with them, and have an intuitive understanding of the conjuncted one, you're going to love them.

As a Virgo, I usually disdain Virgo women. It's not easy for them to get me to react to them. I would have told you I was biased against them. I would have also told you I had few, if any, good Virgo scores. Upon further review, I find plenary evidence to overturn that call. It would appear that I am wrong on all counts.

It seems that I have been reacting to Virgo women all along. Barbara Eden, in particular, was my first childhood flame. When I was 5 or 6, I thought she was the ultimate woman. I wasn't the only one. All my buddies in school thought she was the ultimate woman also.

Later, during the 1970s, I thought Raquel Welch was the reigning goddess of women. I always thought Lauren Bacall and Ingrid Bergman were insanely gorgeous. I recall seeing Rachel Ward for the first time in 1981 when I saw Sharky's Machine with my dad. She blew my brains out. I didn't know what hit me.

I ran my scores versus all Virgos born between 1966 and 1994, and it would appear that there are far more good scores than err I thought before. Top Virgo was born on August 31, 1985. She just turned 26 years old, and she's got a madness-educing score of 390. There are many marvelous Virgo scores in 1985. 1987 features a top score of 304. 1980 has a score of 303. 1976 holds a top score of 280. I have a 275 versus women born on 9/21/1974.

It would appear that it is indeed theoretically possible for me to hook up with a fellow Virgo. I would have scoffed at that notion just 30 days ago. I am more compatible with my own than I would have originally suspected.

In any case, these past 30 days have forced me to re-evaluate my home-girls. I am not prepared to say that the girls of my clan are hotter than those of the Capricorn or Pisces clans. I am still very, very biased in favor of these two clans.

However, it seems that for every Capricorn like Eva Gardner, I can show you two Virgo women like Lauren Bacall and Ingrid Bergman. For every one Pisces super model like Cindy Crawford, I can show you two like Rachel Hunter and Angie Everhart. I am leaving Claudia Schiffer out of this.

This may be a function of our general numerical superiority. Virgo is one of the most common signs. We are born during the baby boom that happens at the end of every summer. However, you have to give our tribe it's due. We got a lot of good looking women (and men).

I wanna go on the record and say that God only made one perfect Virgo woman. That was Faith Hill. Shania Twain and Lauren Bacall came within micro-fractions of a nanometer of perfection, but they didn't quite make it.

A gallery of Virgo women

Another case where Sirus got it wrong

Those of you who read this blog know I am a fan of the Sirus 1.1 astrology package. You also know that I view this engine as imperfect. It generates a lot of solid results. Then it screws up. It screws up not because I say it screws up, but because it does not identify key synastry aspects any keen-eyed astrologer would spot on close examination.

In other words, it fails to consistently apply the rules of the game. It makes mistakes, and that can be demonstrated by the book. This is probably just a simple defect in coding in some cases. In others, it may be that writers of this software subscribe to a different philosophy. Nevertheless, errors are made.

Such is the case with Poppy Montgomery, the new star of the new TV series called Unforgettable. If you are like me, you are watching a lot of preseason football right now. If you are like me, you are seeing preposterous numbers of commercials for the upcoming TV season. You may or may not have caught the advertisement for Unforgettable. If you have, you may agree with me that Poppy Montgomery is pretty unforgettable.

She just about knocked me over when I first laid eyes on her. She's a stunner. Of course, Hollywood is overflowing with stunners. I see a hundred stunners on the tube every single day. Few, if any, blow my brains out like this one did.

Naturally, I had to have a look at the synastry scores to see what was going on. Poppy is a 6/19/1975 Gemini, cusping on Cancer, born in Sydney Australia. She happens to be a gorgeous red-head also.

As a rule, I am not all that thrilled by Geminis. They make good buddies, but the girls don't often flip my lid. When they do, they really do, however. What does Sirus 1.1 have to say about the situation? Nothing to warrant a synastry reaction. Check this out:

1. Romantic and Sexual Attraction: 104

2. Similarity of Interests and Temperament: 229

3. Mutual Success and High Achievement: 21

4. Problem Solving, Communication, and Mutual Understanding: 61

5. Mutual Kindness, Friendliness, Pleasantness, and Peace: 32

6. Aggressiveness, Competition, Power, Success, or Violence: 0

7. Adventurousness, Surprises, Disturbances: 88

8. Shared Creativity, Imagination, and Inspiration: 68

I've learned that whenever my gut disagrees with the scores, it is time to have a look at the planet lineup, and see what Sirus missed. So it was this time. Consider the following snapshot of data:

As you will notice, her Moon is in Libra, mine is in Aries. Roughly speaking, this is a 180 degree opposition. What do we know about opposition? Opposites attract and balance one another. Now this is not precisely a 180 degree angle. It's more like 158, but let's not split hairs. She is a lunar Libra, and I am a Lunar Aries.

Now consider the all-important Mars vs. Venus aspects. These are the most important key determinants in sexual attraction. My Mars is a 5 degrees Leo. Her Venus is at 12 degrees Leo. That is what we call a conjunction folks. When his Mars conjuncts her Venus the two of them are going to react to each other. This is one of the most powerful guarantees of sexual attraction in the book. Here we see it strike once again. Sirus just flat-cold missed it.

Incidentally, I encountered this same conjunction earlier in the summer with that 8/19/1990 Leo girl I mentioned. There was a big reaction there. Still love her to death, folks, but it is better that she find a guy closer to her in age.

But wait! There is still more. Notice that Poppy's Mars is at 21 degrees 18 minutes Aries. Notice that my Venus is at 22 degrees 04 minutes Leo. This is close to a perfect Trine, or 120 degree angle. This is the most favorable angle possible. It may not produce quite the high level of attraction as conjunction or opposition, but it leads to far better things. It is better in quality. Once again, the scoring engine in Sirus blew it. It just flat cold missed on this Trine.

What does the Trine found here mean? It means she would pursue me almost as hard as I would pursue her. She would be on offense, and I would be on offense. Nobody would play any defense.

One more thing: My moon Trines up with her Venus. This leads to very nice emotional understanding and harmony. Why the Sirus engine declares low pleasantness and peace between us I will never understand.

It is true that Sirus makes bad predictions, but this is only because the software fails to identify key and clear aspects that are there in the charts. If the software identified these aspects and scored them correctly, we would see a big score here.

This one should not score less than 300 points. There is some elemental conflict between Gemini and Virgo, but it ain't that bad. I can testify that these two signs love to chat together. We are both Mercurial.

I need to make sure my engine catches these things and scores them correctly.

Welcome to Virgo season

90 days have passed since the end of Taurus season. We've already zipped through Gemini, Cancer, and Leo. The Sun moved over to the constellation of Virgo about 2 hours ago... according to the Tropical zodiac... and from a Geo-centric point of view. We're back on earth turf again.

There's no place like like home. It's good to be here, but the older you get, the more chagrined you are to see another birthday rolling around. I guess I am the last guy who should be complaining about getting older. I just lost 120 pounds and reversed the clock 25 years. Arthritis pain doesn't bother me anymore. I am the dude 34 year old women mistakenly think they are going to cougar.

One of the sayings about Virgo is that we have the gift of eternal youth.

With the exception of the start of the school year, this has always been a good time for me. Sports Talk finally comes back to life with talk of football. We have had a few preseason games. Things are beginning to shape up for the new year. I get a new football season each year as my birthday present. The college kick-off weekend happens just about every year on my Birthday. Many an NFL season has started around September 2 also.

All I want this year is a new management position, and an end to the career dead end. Well... I want a lot more than that, but this is the single most important thing that has to happen this year.

I've usually not paid much attention to who was born around this time of year. I've accumulated a lot of anecdotal knowledge about who was born around my birthday, but I don't have a broad knowledge of just who is who among the Virgos. I'm going to track things pretty closely this year and give you a report.

The funny thing is that I noticed a lot of Virgo women on the list during a recent preview on imdb.com. I seem to like these girls more than I thought. I'm not the only one. You're going to be surprised by the list of Virgo men and women. A lot of your personal favorites are on this list. I'll bet you real money you like the people on this list more than I do.

Surprisingly enough, a bunch of the leading men from the chick-flicks are on this list. I was shocked to see the number of ROM-COM dudes on this list. I never thought of myself as ROM-COM leading man material. I am shocked that my bookish and nerdy brethren are. Gene Kelly, Sean Connery, Hugh Grant, Mark Harmon, Richard Gere, Keanu Reeves and Adam Sandler have all had their chick-flick moments. More than several, actually. Lately, James Marsden and Chris Pine have been moving in on this territory.

There are some serious heart-throbbers in our clan. I guess mother Virgo has some good looking sons.