Hello, my name is Joy Asher. I'm a astrologer and have been for 30 years. I met some of you through previous years of working with Sator and workshops, but I'm absolutely excited. It's a very small word to say how much I'm looking forward to working with you this year. I wanted to do a little bit of a background on not on myself, but looking at a chart. So what I'm going to do is, you know, enough about me. I'm going to share the screen. And I'm going to work with these charts here, which is the child of your car owner. So hopefully you can see this very clearly.
One of the ways that students, you know, the students for Sator, but students that we've had through the years is to say, we know all the basics. We've loaded all. We know all the bits and pieces, but how we've put it together. So there's kind of an idea that students have that there is a formula. There you can put something together and always follow this process of doing this and then do this and then look at that and then follow it in this way. So they're looking for, I suppose they're looking for a logical way to step to a chart. But I really have to say that each chart is like a piece of music.
Each chart has its own unique pattern. So it's more about learning how to change the notes and how to change the flow of the music that you see in a chart than it is to say, always do this. So, you know, I've hope people say you must start with the luminaries. You must start with the sun. You must start with the ascended. No, no, no, you've got to do the mid heaven. But I really have to say each one will have its own flow and part of the work of astrologers to say, can I tap into this energy? Can I understand what's going on here?
So I'm going to take this chart for yoga owner. And I'm going to go through the process of how I would look at it and to think about, OK, where will I start? What will I look at next? What is a real process for me? Because you don't always get the opportunity in the time that you spend with a client or when you're looking at any particular chart to cover absolutely everything. That's not what this is about. It's saying, what is important now? What do I need to look at at this moment?
So I'm going to look at this chart and I'm going to kind of go through the process of what I would do just with this chart and are you followed along with me? I'm sure. Having said that, but there's no formula and no whether I particularly start. I'm inclined to always start with set. I'm inclined to look at the set of the chart. Is it a daytime chart? Is it a nighttime chart? Will they born during the day or they're born during the night? So excuse me, if you know.
So what I've got here with Yoko Ono is birth is the 18th of February 1933. Yoko Ono, she's now well, yep, she's turned 90. Unfortunately, we don't see her anymore. She is alive, but she starts from dementia. So that her son Sean manages all her affairs and hopefully that she is at peace. She's had a long and eventful life. She's had a life of tragedy. She's had a life of joys, ups and downs. She's been a performer.
So I asked her, she's been the wife of the beetle, John Lennon. She's for her own creative work into being. She's performed her own music and also Lennon's music into creation. So she's had a lot of years in her long life. So I wanted to have a look at this chart because I think it's an interesting chart. They all are interesting. Okay, so she's born during the night of 8.30 at night. So we have a son below the horizon.
We have the son in the last degree of Aquarius, indectimate. I don't particularly spend a lot of time working on last degrees. I don't know that they are critically important. I haven't seen a lot of work that says, well, we have to pay more attention. The only reason I would say late degrees are interesting is because of the terms or the bounds, because usually the last five degrees or four degrees of any size owned by the millifix, either by Mars or by Saturn.
So it's always interesting to have a look at the term rule of particular planet if it's anywhere. So we know that it's a nighttime chart. So we therefore know that the planets that are going to be most at ease. And I'm going to spend a lot of time and I know that you will have done set. I know that you know the principles. I know that you looked at how to define them, how to find them, you know, what's the first rule, what's the second rule, what's the third rule.
But I'm hoping that I'm going to be working with you in a way that incorporates it in your delineation. It's all very well to know the theory, but you need to be thinking about how this works. So I'll be working leaning heavily into set. And for instance, if you're looking at your car, I know is chart, they're not eternal planets are going to be her main luminaries don't be her moon. So if I'm delineating this chart, first thing I'm going to probably look at is to say, what is the moon ruling on what is the moon doing in this chart.
And you can see here that we have cancel in the mid heaven, we have the moon down here in Sagittarius. It's in the third house. Oh, I didn't mention that on my left hand side of the chart on the left is the placidus charts, a quadrant house system. It's very even in her chart because we have an ascended of eight degrees Libra and we have a mid heaven of nine degrees cancer. So it's very, very evenly based on those three degree increments. And you can see even as it goes around five degrees six degrees five degrees eight degrees. They're very, very evenly spaced house costs. But I will always throw a child into whole sign as well because I want to know what the movement is.
So let's go back to our not to ever plans. We've got the moon down here and it's wrong in the mid heaven now. You might kind of consider that there is a quencuncts kind of feeling between the moon in the third house and the 10th house, which is not normally Sagittarius and cancer would, you know, you look at them and think, oh, I don't know if these ballad if the moon can see this mid heaven, if it's in charge of the sign of cancer, if we've got a relationship between this, but I use the rules of antisha and contra antisha.
So I'm willing to say I know that the sign behind behind cancer will bring a gantissier or contra antisha and the sign opposite will bring in either an antisha or contra antisha. So I'm quite happy with the fact that the moon in Sagittarius is capable of dealing with the mid heaven and in fact the mid heaven is a very important place for yoga, I know, because this moon is in charge of the child. So we have the whole idea of her direction is driven by this moon, her desire to be out there and to be physically engaged with the world is concerned with this 10th house that this moon is wanting to use some sort of service also or care statement, a nourishment statement that this is very important to her that not only will the MC nourish her moon, but that she gives something of service.
So that's the relationship I would say between the moon in Sagittarius and the mid heaven. Now, one of the things that I will be teaching in detail, I know that you have a course on Moon Kai, but if we come across it in a chart, I'm not going to look the other way and I will say for yoga, I know that her moon in Sagittarius is Moon Kai in contention. So if you haven't come across contention before, I will say this is a nocturnal planet, the moon, it's in a sign of Sagittarius Sagittarius belongs to Jupiter. So the moon is in a sign which belongs to planet from the opposite sect.
Now, there's a lot of this that's coming out now in the translations about same sect rejoicing. It's a term that's being used, Benjamin Dykes uses it, uses it, Robert Schmidt used it in this idea of same sect rejoicing is to say, we belong in the same sect, we are going to get along. So even though I might say, wow, okay, the sun is in the sign of Quarius, it's in detriment, we know that it's opposite the sign of Leo, but its dispositor is Saturn. So we would say that the sun is in the same sect rejoicing situation because it's in a sign which belongs to another dyono plant.
So we know that even though the sun is in detriment, we know that the sun is rejoicing because the planet which is looking after it is going to be Saturn. And then we look at Saturn and Saturn is in all the ships so it's strong. So we know that there's a good relationship between Saturn and the sun in this chart, and this is something that is missing for the moon. It's not in a sign that belongs to a nocturnal planet, it's not in the sign of Venus, it's not in the sign of Mars, it's not even in the sign of Mercury, which is behind the sun here, and is a nocturnal Mercury.
It's in the sign of Jupiter. So we have this kind of upset for the moon already that then has to go, okay, you're my dispositor, you come from a different place, you come from a different mindset, you come from a different set. And then we go to Jupiter and we say, what's happening to Jupiter? First of all, we know it's in Virgo, so we know that it is in detriment, it's in the sign belonging to Mercury, and we know that it's raw sugar Pisces and that Virgo is opposite that we can see that it's retrograde.
So we're starting to see some wobbly things here for the moon, we're starting to see cross-exec, we're starting to see its dispositor is in detriment, we're starting to see its dispositor is retrograde. And then when we look at Mercury, this wouldn't be a problem for the moon if Mercury was in front of the sun, if it rose before the sun, but it's not, it's around here and it's behind the sun. So we have the problem that Mercury is nocturnal, we go from a nocturnal planet, the moon to a diurnal planet, Jupiter, detriment, retrograde, to a nocturnal planet over here.
So we use the word that our Barunis translation uses that talks about contention, there is something contentious about this moon, so we know that something contentious, not just about the third house moon, but about the house that it rules, something about Yoko Ono's career is contentious. It upsets people, it challenges them, it unnerves them, it makes them feel uncomfortable, it's all of these things, and it's nothing that she's doing, although sometimes there is that sense of untaking this action because out of her work and her artwork was really about unsettling people when she did her performance art. Now, performance art is a type of art, which is, which was very, very popular in the 60s and the 70s, and probably still is around, but it was this idea of an artist expressing themselves and bringing the audience with them and saying, I want you to participate, I want you to be part of this act.
So there are certain acts that she had, which were very confrontational, I'll talk about them at the end of this, but there was a sense of saying, this is artwork, this is not strange, this is not weird, this is how you perceive something creative. So there was always that part of Yoko Ono's work, that was a little bit different, a little bit confrontational, and a little bit disturbing for an audience, and that's where this moon comes into. The moon also, because we're talking about the moon here, we're also aware that there's a statement here about her mother and her relationship with her mother, not just because we have the moon here, and we know it's in contention, but because we have the temp house, which is the most house now.
One of the things I'm going to be teaching in the course coming up this year is I'll be focusing on parents, or I'll be focusing on the family, or be focusing on the children, or all the bits and pieces that bring together a family. So this is part of what we will look at when we're looking at them, we're concentrating on that first unit that we do, and we're talking about parents, so we'll spend a lot more time on this, we will be looking at it and saying, okay, how do we define it, where do we put it, all the rest of it. So I'm just kind of gliding over this a little bit so that you're following hopefully how I would look at this child and how I would interpret it, Yoko Ono's child in this way.
So I know that this is mother's house, the temp house, and that the planet really is the moon mother, and that there is contention here. Yoko Ono's mother was a very high society in Japanese world. She was a traditional woman, she was a traditional wife, she spoke different dialects, she was education highly educated, she played traditional instruments, she wore traditional dress, she was, she was an icon for her generation. So to have this thirst burn born daughter, who was so different, who was so confrontational, who was an embarrassment, her was part of the reason why the mother and the daughter were strange for years, they couldn't get along, they couldn't find common ground.
Yoko wanted to be accepted desperately by her mother, but her mother would say, would kind of say, well, you know, if you were just a beautiful daughter, if you were just the house, if you were just to what you're told, if you didn't do all these, our landish, our rages, things, then it wouldn't be a problem. But that's not Yoko. Okay, so I'll concentrate on the moon. Now, if there's no direction, if there's no spread for the moon, if there's no, nowhere to go from there, I will probably go to a different planet, but you can see that there's a lot of contact this moon has across the chart.
Aspect wise, what it's doing here is it is set to style Venus. And so we have the sex to between the moon and the feminine Venus. So we have this lovely connection between the Lord of the mid-heaven, which is the moon and the Lord of the ascendant, which is Venus. And this is part of her artwork and also part of why with Yoko, some of her best work was in collaboration, was working with somebody else, whether it was a musical car or musical collaboration, working with another musician, whether it was an artistic collaboration, it was about the work brought out the best in Yoko, owner was meshing her work with another medium, but with another person with different ideas.
So she worked best, even though satan is conjunct the Venus and she believed that she was better on her own during these things, she worked so much better when she worked in collaboration with other people. So we've also got another two angled nords here. So this sextile brings in the moon, the Lord of the mid-heaven, the satan, the other side of the mid-heaven, the IC at the bottom, Venus, which rules the ascendant. So we have this connection here between all of them and we also have a sextile on the other side to the Mars, which is the moon is 11 degrees and the moon is touching Mars at 15 degrees of burger.
So we have this, this sorry, not this sextile, the square between the mutables. So we've got contact here between all of these four lords and this is a very active job if you're going to get that, if you're going to have all these lords contacting each other and having relationships and conversations with each other, then you're going to have a lot of activity, you're going to have a lot of movement here and you're going to have a lot of results and a very full life and a lot of choices for this person to go one mile the other. So that connection between satan and Venus and the connection for the moon and the square to the Mars. Yes, there are difficulties here and probably this is part of the again, the discontent between a Yoko and her mother because we've got a square not just to the Mars, but also to the Neptune.
So we have this kind of, you know, boundaryless kind of sometimes aggressive relationship between mother and child here and a competitive kind of them. So we have a very traditional mother on one side and we have a child who is breaking into the world and doing all the things and in some ways as much as I'm sure mother was happy be traditional. There's also when you've seen Mars and the moon connected this a little bit of envy sometimes there's a little bit of in you know if I was born in this generation, I might have a bit more freedom. I might have the ability to do some of the things that you do. I might be able to express myself differently, all the sorts of things can be part of that Mars moon.
And when you've got the Neptune, there's always this little bit of a clang in kind of disharmoning between who's the parent, who's the child, how do we define the roles. No, are we relying on each other too much are we are we kind of expecting and projecting images onto each other. But all these things are potentially there when you've got the relationship to the moon and the nature. So you've got those sort of things you've got the moon sex darling the Lords, you've got the moon also sex darling the ascendant so it is part of the relationship between the center and the descendants are not only do you have the Lord of the ascendant connected to the moon but we have the ascendant itself.
So we have this moon as a very, very active. I know that we often talk about the moon as the third house I'm sorry as being the house that is about my local environment, it's communication you know it's it's kind of this idea that the third house is a place of where I wander around very familiar with it and I take short journeys and you know nothing nothing to untoward happens or nothing to surprising happens. Because I'm very familiar with this space. Okay, that's true, but the other thing that the third house is very important for is that even without the moon there the sign on the third house particular whole sign and even here and pass it us we have a sex doll between the ascendant and between the third house sign so we have Libra on the center and we have Sagittarius there.
We have Libra on the center and Sagittarius there. If I'm going to talk about all my physical skills in the first house this is my body this is how I move around the environment this is how I understand where everything is and how I put forward what I want how I imprint on the environment how I change the world around me. I know that if I have a connection with the third house I have certain physical skills I know that I can move through the world and I'm going to be alright and I can do things that are so unconscious this is where we have the idea of the third house being the act of the unconscious it's not that you're unconscious of communicating is the fact that you've learnt patterns that you're not even thinking about you're not even thinking about it.
You're not even thinking about how you drive a car when you get into a car you're not even thinking about how you eat when you pick up your knife or fork or whether you know the the ways in which you which you put your life together which which thought you put the shoe on first all these sorts of things are third house things because we've learnt them as children. That we struggle with the when we were children and then usually by the time we five we know all the things we need to know about how to feed ourselves how to find a toilet how to ask for food how to ask for a jump or if we're cold how to how to express to the world what does it we need to feel comfortable.
So when we find the moon in the third house it's in its house of joy here it loves the third house it says I'm pretty good here I can use my skills of my body and my moon and my emotions and all these sorts of things without feeling as if I can't express myself even the moon in my heart is still in its joy in the third house. So not only do we have the connection to the ascendant law the connection to the ascendant the connection to the descendant but also have the connection to Mercury and Mercury is not in a great state here it's in the fifth house here of my creative world in the class of us but because it's in Pisces it's going to move to the sixth sign in the whole sign. It works in both so this idea of her Mercury being connected to a moon and the moon is 11 and Mercury is seven so it's quite a tight aspect I have a square here so this is about her ability to express her emotions in a way which is unusual this is a Mercury which is unusual this is a Mercury that we see is in detriment but it's in the sign of Jupiter and we have a kind of a negative mutual reception between these two Jupiter doesn't want to be in Virgo Mercury certainly doesn't want to be in Pisces but they're each others keeper and they might not be great at it but they're each others keeper so they will look out for each other maintain to each other.
So her Mercury gives her away which is confusing and it causes some issues sometimes and of course there's a lot of emotions because Mercury Pisces will do that. But it's a very big planet because it's with the North node and the North node makes it a big planet but it still works for her MC it still works for this connection to the ascendant it still works for this one over here and what we have an opposition between the Lord of the seventh house and the Mercury over here seven to 15 or nine to 50 or to seven so the Neptune is closer to the Mercury but that gives her also that creative world that spiritual world that place where she can withdraw when things are too hard for her when perhaps mother's words are too harsh for her then that Mercury withdraws into the Neptune and it finds a creative world and it finds a world of imagination and somewhere that it can feel safe and come from there.
Okay. I know that we are going to keep this short I know that I don't want to keep going with this but I do want to show you why I think it's so important and why I want to cover this when we do it is why is it so important to watch the sector but plan and I know again that you have done for Darra you've done for Darra courses with me you've done for Darra courses with Cersei and the other lecturers with Insider but I'm going to make you good at this I'm going to show you how to do this so what we're going to do is with yoga I know this is the division this is you know we get numbers we get dates we get a whole influx of lot of information with Darra but then we can start breaking it down saying okay I'm going to put this over here so it's not in the way.
Okay what if we would have break down these seven periods into Stafford childhood Brown staff for the low ones Pink staff for the romantic associations success is read revival when I come back creative collaboration with others and this has been very much the story of yoga owners life. You know this childhood her moving from Japan to America without her father she didn't meet her father until she was two years old because he was working somewhere else and she was living somewhere else so we have this idea that her childhood was very much impressed on by her mother. Her mother and the servants her mother was very busy social woman she didn't sing much of her except for the direction and her education of she had to have piano lessons when she was four years old she had to learn the language when she's very young she had to learn not just the Japanese language but several dialects because that's what her mother could do she had to learn instruments not just the piano but the traditional instruments.
So this was a very intensive time about being directed by mother, but more about being directed by mother to be the perfect child than to be a child. You know, she was brought up by servants. She really saw her mother. She might have seen her for an hour a day. So her loving, caring people were people who were employed to care for her, to see to her needs. And not necessarily to give her love and to give her support and to give her security. So straight away we know that that moon, which Worry said, is in a state of mankind, intention. Already we have kind of nine years where this child feels like she's abandoned by the mother or that mother is a stranger.
Now what we get is sat and comes in. So this is the second period. Now her mother and now three children is a brother born and there's a sister born. These three children move from America back to Japan because we have the years of the second world war and things are starting to get very hostile in America for anyone born with Japanese heritage. So we have the idea there in Tokyo and I put the low point in here because these are the years, the 11 years of sat in this period where they were in Tokyo, where the war was on, where after Pearl Harbor, Tokyo was being bombed constantly.
There was not enough food, the buildings were collapsing, 100,000 people died in a short period of something like six months, it was horrific. And her mother gathered her children, her three children, put them in a wheelbarrow, took everything that they could and marched for miles up into the mountains in the hope that they would survive up there, that there would be food and there would be shelter, but the mountain people, there wasn't enough for them. So we have this idea that these were periods, this sat and period for Yoko Ono was a period of being hungry.
It was a period at last of about two years. It was actually in the sat and mass period here where there was not food, there was not shelter and it was terrifying for this child to be in a state where all the things that the moon would need are being taken away from. This is two marriages here. In the Jupiter period, her first marriage, which she moved to America, her second marriage after the first marriage collapsed and she returned to Japan and she was in such a poor state.
Now remember that this is the Jupiter which is retrograde. This is the Jupiter which is in square to the moon. This is the Jupiter which is in detriment. What happened to Yoko Ono was that she couldn't cope with the collapse of her first marriage. She married very young, her parents didn't approve of the man that she chose and she thought that she could find refuge if she returned to Japan because that's where her parents had her father had retired and she thought that she could stay at her family home and just look over it.
She had such chronic bouts of depression that her parents convinced her to make them her legal guardian and they against her will, they put her into an institution and they wouldn't release her, they wouldn't let her go. They wouldn't, yes, she looked like she was going to stay there and she said let her back, this is again Jupiter in Virgo, she said let her's back to America begging for help, there her friends back there and eventually a film producer came to Japan, smuggled her out of the institution, put her on a plane, flew her back to America with him and she married him.
So this was the second marriage and we have a relative amount of success then. She then starts to put all that energy into what happens into her into this performance art. This is why some of her performance art is so jarring, it's so confrontational because of these experiences, it's very, very hard for her to deal with this because of what's happened before this Jupiter. The Mars period is John Lennon's marriage, the collaboration with John Lennon, the low point where she has a child with her second husband, this is the marriage of Jupiter.
In the Mars period, he smuggles the child, a daughter away from her, he sits a judge, she tells a judge that she was in depression state and he says to her from Japan, therefore she can't be a fit mother and he disappears and he goes into a cult, a religious cult and she doesn't see her daughter for years. So we have this low point here, but we also have the creative point where she comes back, the green one is the revival and she comes back with John Lennon, she collaborates with them and she sees success.
So we have all this sort of idea that we can look at these fedareas and I know that we have looked these before, but we're going to focus on them a lot more as we go through this process of what we're doing this year because we've got time to do it. So we will do this in the sessions that I record, we will do this in the live sessions and we'll look at people's charts and then take them through this process of predictive. There's no way in traditional astrology that a practicing astrologer would not have gone from the native to the predictive and this seems to be a bridge that doesn't happen in modern so much.
There's almost this sense of we're just going to talk about your chart and that's the end of it we're done. But in traditional work you couldn't do one without the other, it was like being blinded. So this is one method we will use, we'll use others, but as you can tell I'm very passionate about this and I really want my students, any students to be able to do this, to be able to look at the chart and be able to process the information and then take the information and put it into this level.
The other thing we're going to spend time on is we're going to look at combustion and not just what combustion is and how to identify it but how do you delineate it and this is something new that I've been working on and we'll also be going through checklists like this that says, okay this is how we do fedaria but this will relate to the native chart.