An interesting note about synastry

As you know, I experienced one heck of a synastry reaction with Rihanna's back-up singer, Ashley Haney, just a couple of days ago.  I went looking around for her birthday information.  I found nothing certain, but I found some fascinating clues.

I found two "happy birthday" videos dedicated to Ashley Haney uploaded to the Youtube.  One was dated September 1, 2010.  The other was dated August 14, 2011.  Logically speaking, her birthday must be bracketed by 8/14 and 9/1.  As you know, I was born September 2.  If my analysis is correct, this makes Ashley my home-girl.  She's a summer time girl from around the way in my hood.  She is almost equally likely to be a Leo or a Virgo by date-space:  9 days of Leo, 8 days of Virgo.  Under the side-real, she's all Leo, but then again, so am I.

There are a couple of very quick lessons to take out of this:

1. Conjunction is a very powerful thing, if she is a Virgo.  Conjunction is a very powerful thing, if she's a Leo and I am a Leo.
2. If she is a Leo, what is it 'bout 'dem Leo girls and your author...?  I seem to have made a deal in the Akashic Record Library in which I swapped Taurus for Leo.
3. Rihanna was born 2/20/1988.  Tomorrow is her birthday.  There are 175 days between August 14 and Feb 20.  175 is pretty dang close to 182.625.  These two are pretty dang close to that magical 180 degree Yin/Yang angle I keep harping about.
4. Don't you find it a bit curious Rihanna would chose a 180 degree angle girl for her back-up singer?  Would this not fit the theory perfectly?
5. This seems to be a feather in the cap of the Side-Real or Jyotish camp.  The Vedic Astrologer has an easier time explaining Ashley's effect on me, and her partnership with Rihanna at the same time.  Under the Jyotish scheme, Ashley is a Leo, and I am a Leo (conjunction).  Under the Jyotish scheme, Ashley is a Leo and Rihanna is an Aquarian (opposition).  Pretty parsimonious.
6. Under the Tropical scheme, Ashley is probably a Leo, whilst I am a Virgo and Rihanna is a Pisces.  Leo is not especially fantastic with either Virgo or Pisces, on average.  Under the Tropical scheme, both Rihanna and I would have considerable quantities of fire in our charts, ergo it could work.  Nevertheless, this scheme requires access to a lot more variables to make it all make sense.  This is not parsimonious.
7. The principle of parsimony is pretty simple.  If two theories have equal explanatory power and accuracy, the simpler theory is the better theory.  The Jyotish system seems to enjoy the lead in parsimony here.
8. In short, the final lesson emerging from all of this is that conjunction and opposition are the two most powerful aspects in the system.  Everything else is weaker.

Who knows... maybe I love them Leo girls and they love me because I am one of them.  Perhaps the Jyotish Side-Real system is the correct system.

This still leaves open the difficult question of why Taurus women don't seem to like me.  Under the Jyotish system, many of these women would become Aries, and some would become Pisces.  We would expect the Jyotish Pisces to be disinterested (or even afraid) or the Jyotish Leo.  However, we would expect the Jyotish Aries to very attracted to the Jyotish Leo.

I have not found it to be so.  I have found that there are plenty of girls born 182.625 days away from me who don't give a damn about me.  They are Jyotish war goddesses.  Some of them should love a Jyotish fire-lion.  I need to decode this riddle.  The puzzle bothers me.

Meet ashley Haney, Rihanna's backup singer

Check out this live performance of Rihanna's "Rude Boy"

So I stumbled across this live performance of Rihanna's "Rude Boy" whilst playing around with my new Android phone.  For about the first 20 seconds, I didn't like the more rock-n-roll revision they did here.  Then it hit me.  I love it.  I think I love it even more than the original studio track.  Believe me, that's saying an awful lot.  I am a major addict when it comes to the original studio track.

And just who is that back-up singer in at the rear/right there?  She is driving me absolutely nuts!  You want to talk about a major synastry reaction!  Jesus!  She looks French, and I bet she's a water sign.  I bet Rihanna has a bunch of water sign girlfriends (just like Katy Perry) hanging around with her.  If you want to know the phenotype most likely to drive me beserk just do a freeze frame on that backup singer on the rear right.

Rihanna is taking over my car stereo

As you can see from the digital display on my car stereo, Rihanna is really taking over my play list in the car. What you can't see is that the stereo is currently playing We Found Love [in a hopeless place] for about the 10th time of the day. Five of the first six tracks are Rihanna.

Katy Perry then takes over the next two slots. Taylor Swift bats clean-up with the last four tracks on this home-brewed CD. Of course, Naked and Famous leads off with Young Blood.

This is my current Pop CD. I have entire 160GB iPod full of Heavy Metal in the elbow compartment. That doesn't even come close to covering my Metal collection either. The last time I checked, I had 202 GB of Metal in my music directory.

It is clear that females such as Rihanna (167), Pink (273), Katy Perry (88), Kelly Clarkson (367), Taylor Swift (165), Nelly Furtado (213) have taken me way out of my comfort zone. Am I just getting old? It may be the other way around. I happen to wield exceptionally high synastry versus nearly all of these girls. I think these girls are stimulating my hormones.

In particular, Kelly Clarkson, Pink, and Nelly Furtado score big points according to Sirus and Kepler. Kelly Clarkson just happens to have been born on my top Taurus date. I've liked her music pretty much since inception. The computer claims she scores 367 points. I recently read that she has never been in-love. It would be interesting to see if lightning struck...

Pink is a Virgo, and therefore should be a little lower on the scale. Not true according to the computer. I've enjoyed her stuff pretty much since her origin point as well. I've never felt particularly attracted to her, but I love her stuff.

Nelly Furtado (213) is a Sagittarius, and therefore should not score that well, but she does. I would tend to agree. She has to be the hottest Sagittarius chick of all time. I dispute the small score of 213. She's got to be in the 300 range.

But right now, as of this moment in time, the water women led by Rihanna (167) and Katy Perry (88) are dominating the scene. I dispute Katy Perry's score. She must have been born around noon-time; she must have a Pisces Ascendant. The House-Wise comparison system must be boosting her way up, because there ain't no way she scores only 88 points. I would say 450 is a more likely figure.

I sure seem to like those water-women. This is not surprising, tho. We earth boys are supposed to.

One of these days I am going to have to write a piece on the subject of synastry and the enjoyment of pop music.

Ooooppss! Rihanna did it again.

It would appear that Rihanna released a new jam late in October.  The title is "We Found Love".  The full title chorus is we found love in a hopeless place.

I was exposed to it early last week.  This could be the biggest groove monster she has released yet.  Unbelievably infectious!  It borrows a little thunder from Jim Rome's favorite tune, Sandstorm.  I can already tell that I am going to wear this one out just like Rude Boy and S&M.

I tell you, I am going to have to write a piece of high synastry and musical preference soon.

The video is dark.  It deals with quite typical Piscean themes of the struggle with basic pragmatics in life, escapism through drugs, alcohol, and sex.  Being very muscal people, Pisceans frequently compose music about these subjects, and deal with them as a single complex.  Kurt Cobain sure did.    For some reason, the fish seem to struggle with these issues more than anyone else.  For the record, here is the video for "We Found Love".

Rihanna is chosen by Esquire as the Sexist Woman Alive 2011

Hard to believe it has already been a year since Esquire Magazine declared Minka Kelly to be the Sexist Woman Alive (2010).  I guess it has been.

I blogged on the subject back in March of this year.  I have a pretty massive set of synastry scores vs. Ms. Kelly, according to Sirus 1.1.  I wouldn't care to deny that either.  It's not unusual for Virgos and Cancers to have a thing for each other.  It happens every day.  It is considered a 5 star match-up.

I have a strong hunch that this Esquire feature must be run by a 1966 Virgo born in close proximity to me.  He just went and selected another water-clan female who I have fairly substantial scores with.  This time it is the notorious, even infamous, Rihanna.

Rihanna is 23 year old woman born February 20th, 1988 in Saint Michael, Barbados.  She is a Pisces female if there ever was one.  For the record, my Synastry scores versus Rihanna are as follows:


 1. Romantic and Sexual Attraction:  167
 2. Similarity of Interests and Temperament:  171
 3. Mutual Success and High Achievement:  25
 4. Problem Solving, Communication, and Mutual Understanding:  113
 5. Mutual Kindness, Friendliness, Pleasantness, and Peace:  46
 6. Aggressiveness, Competition, Power, Success, or Violence:  163
 7. Adventurousness, Surprises, Disturbances:  53
 8. Shared Creativity, Imagination, and Inspiration:  128

As always, and for the record, any score above 150 is considered extremely strong.

Frankly the line-up of planets is more favorable than the scores indicate.  It would be difficult for a test-blinded Astrologer to justify how low these scores are.  Her Moon is in Aries, conjuncted with mine.  Her Mars is located at 28 degrees Sagittarius, which forms a nearly perfect Trine with my Venus at 22 degrees Leo.  My Mars is located at 5 degrees Leo, forming a near perfect Trine with her Venus at 13 degrees Aries.  It is a criss-cross Mars-Venus Trine situation.  Fire, fire, fire baby!  The exception is the Sun sign, in which case we have an opposition, the most powerful angle for attraction.

It's hard to justify the score of 167.  Am I disputing this score?  In this case, the answer is no.  I am comfortable with the verdict of 167.  I wouldn't care to move it higher.  I might want to move it lower, but that might be a dishonest move.

Frankly, those scores pale in comparison to Minka Kelly's.  For the record, you can see those scores here. Rihanna's scores can't hold a candle to those of the theoretically perfect Pisces female born 3/12/1986.

To say that I am ambivalent about Rihanna would be the understatement of the century.  I have spoken many times about the love-hate-love ambivalence astrological opposites experience toward one another.  This is certainly one of those cases for me.

On the positive side, I have to admit that I love Rihanna's music.  It is a guilty pleasure for a Heavy Metalist like me.  I can't seem to make it through the day without listening to Rude Boy at least 10 times.  This is probably my favorite song.  That may be an understatement.  I am steadily wearing out the CD in my car stereo.  I am playing it to death.  For the record here is that video:



On the negative side, you will never find a Pisces girl at her naughty, nasty, bad worst like this one is.  Consider some quotation from the Esquire article declaring Rihanna the Sexist Woman Alive (2011).

She grabs her own radiant ass--she handles it, offers it--like it's a rump roast.  She squats and spreads her legs, settles a hand between them, where it stays. Caresses her breasts.  She masturbates a dancer with the help of cane.  She pretends to go down on the keyboardist.
Rihanna doesn't really dance... Altogether it amounts to choreographed oozing.
She picks a member of the audience to have simulated sex with.  She guides the subject over to the platform in the middle of the stage.  She commands the subject to lie back.  She straddles the subject.  She grinds.  This part is not simulated.
... She is the indisputable champion of carnal pop.  At this moment, in this room, she is the essence of Fuck.

This dude is not going to get high marks for his prose poetry, but he does capture the essence of the phenomenon.  She is the next closest thing to a Porn Queen dancing at a strip joint.  Like I said a moment ago:  This is a Pisces woman at her naughty, nasty, bad worst.

As reserved, wholesome, conservative, and retrained as a Virgo woman is, that's how exhibitionist, dissolute, sensual and carnal a Pisces woman is going to be.  It is a perfect Matter-Antimatter dichotomy.

Grant that this is a relatively extreme case, but it is hyperbole that makes a very fine point.

I still find it bizarre and offensive that we polar opposites attract one another as powerfully as we do, but I cannot deny that we do.  Perhaps it is because we Virgos are not quite as wholesome as we pretend to be, and the Pisces are not quite the sensual party animals they pretend to be.  Perhaps we are just trying to balance-out by combining our strengths.  I don't know...

Ben Roethlisberger (a Pisces) was reportedly relieved to be busted by the Comish (who is himself a Pisces guy) because it relieved him of the obligation of being BIG BEN:  The hardest drinking, rootenist-tootenist, most carnal bad-boy the world has ever known.  He said he got caught up in an image he was never comfortable with, and this reputation forced him into things he was never comfortable with.

You have to wonder if Rihanna isn't in exactly the same spot Ben Roethisberger was at this point in her career.  Perhaps she isn't quite the carnal monstrosity she pretends to be, but she is caught in a game of "Can you top this!"

Maybe not.  Oh well, it was just a thought.