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Give'em The 29th Degree
So where does the 29th, the Anaretic Degree come
from?
There are only a few references to it with astrologers like Ivy Goldstein
Jacobson and Barbara Watters, and those are veiled in terms of terrible tragedy,
and weeping. Ivy calls it the place of the Weeping Sisters, where there is
something to Weep about partly because of the closeness of 29Tau to some nasty
stars in that Cluster. But she does make a point that it shows defective vision
in some way. My copy of Devore calls it the Anaretic degree, and lists it
as the “planet that destroys form”. In 10 out 12 of the sign degrees
Degrees of the Zodiac by Charubel and Sepharial: 29th of Taurus is typical:
“A powerful man holding a scourge in his right hand, driving two slaves
in manacles.”
And even more so, what good is it?
Alright! If you look deep and hard you can find it. But there are some caveats
to start, and I’m assuming that you’ve taken them first. The 29th
degree is only 1/38th of all the degrees of the Zodiac, so it may not be a
really big, really impacting issue.
1. Make sure that you’ve made a
determination of the strength of the Planets, Houses, and Signs in your chart.
If the 29th of the Sun, normally powerful, is weak by sign, aspect, and house,
it's impact is not going to be much to weep about. Even if you are good at
this, I would suggest a study of Cosmodyne Research. make sure you’ve
determined whether the house that its a cusp at, whether the sign its in,
and whether planet that at the 29th, have any strength in your chart.
If they are at the bottom of the power curve, you may still see the effects,
but they may require more to set them off, or more of item Number 2(next).
2. Remember the famous Rule of Threes,
put out by IVY Goldstein-Jacobson, Henry Weingarten, and many others: If you
see it once, maybe; if you see a reference to it twice, possibly; if you see
it three or more times, increasing degrees of certainty. The characteristics
of the 29th degree are visible in other ways. Look for them.
Alrighty then!!
Characteristics of the 29th degree:
1. Its the weakest point in the sign it represents. This is because its been
diluted with two decanates of other signs, and because its at the end of its
options for the characteristics of the sign its in.
2. The sign in the 29th degree is tired, and often shows more of the next
sign than the sign its in. This is especially true if you are of the same
mind as Sepharial was(and this author agrees), that each degree starts 30
seconds before the actual degree, and ends 30 seconds after the actual degree.
This leads to a common concept in astrology of the increasing and decreasing
in light
3. The planet and house placement is always getting ready to make a change.
Depending on sign/planet/house, the native will find themselves of two or
more minds on a subject. The twenty-ninth degree, states Pat Geisler, is like
the 2-headed Roman god Janus, always looking into the past and the future.
The Bottom Line
The 29th degree is more able to see both sides of an issue. But more than
that, this degree tends to send the native into an oscillation between one
view and the other, often struggling to make any decision at all. Decision
making becomes agony.
The native with a strong placement of this degree in a planet , or in a cusp
of a sign, seems to be in a situation where decisions tend to be put off and
to be made much later. Decisions are all up for continuous re-evaluation with
new information. And there is always new information. But eventually a decision
must be reached.
This is where Ivy G-J’s concept of defective vision comes in. While the
native collect information on all sides of the issue, s/he can see good points
with every side and cannot make a decision.
Unfortunately, the native, at the proverbial end of his rope(last degree in
the sign), will tend to make a quick decision just to do something, anything!!,
without looking. Metaphorically, he may dive into the pool before checking
to see if it has water in it.
Lets look at some of the more typical examples of how this can manifest in
a chart :
A. Sun in the 29th degree often causes a major career change in mid life.
We’re not talking about changing a job, we’re talking about a whole
new event. One client I know switched from an advertising executive to an
elementary school teacher(Sun in 29Pis). Another was a teacher, but suddenly
decided to start her own school, which while still in education was about
as far a change as one could make.
B. Moon in the 29th, is also often Void Of Course. In the parlance of Horary
Astrology, there’s not a lot of options left, and the time to accomplish
things drops to nothing. These are the people who may continuously leap before
looking to see how far down it is if they miss the other side. In a wedding
chart, it suggests that the wedding was based on pregnancy, or that a co habitation
has already taken place.
C. The 29th degree in a Sun position can slow down career success because
of poor decision making skills.
D. A placement of a planet in the 29th degree in a house automatically makes
the ability to manifest the characteristics of that house structure more fuzzy,
and the interaction with the people of that house more vague and less decisive.
It adds a kind of decision making complication to the house, much the way
that Having Dark Moon Lilith then adds disruption to the house, or having
Mars there causes something to be cut out.
E. Women with their Sun in a 29th degree have a tendency to marry men who
are ineffectual in some way: trouble keeping a job, born followers, too passive,
emotional problems. Again this is related to the concept of poor decision
making(both on the part of the woman and on the part of the husband).
F. In Mundane Astrology, the 29th degree seems somewhat characteristic of
having an afflicted 7th house. Marriage charts tend to end in divorce, real
estate ventures seem to go badly.
G. A 29th degree in a progressed chart often stimulates the characteristics,
either positive or negative of the relationship, and a last fling jump for
the characteristics of the sign, in the house that it is in. Mars in Sagittarius
tends send the person on wild causes, or its energy levels collapse altogether;
Jupiter in Taurus tends to give away too much money, or freezes up completely
the money spigot.
H. Saturn in 29th Capricorn: this is the degree of the workaholic. The native
can’t seem to get enough hard work. But s/he runs into obstacles in getting
it, and often vacillates between working to death, and no work.
I . Mercury in the 29th of Leo: Too much talk....about him/herself. And then
they stop because no one listens anymore, and then they start up again.
There are many other possibilities(please check Garrett for them).
In summary,
..................................the 29th degree, tends to give the native
a difficulty in properly making decisions. But the native doesn’t stop
with that like they might in some aspectual relationship. They find themselves
oscillating like a wind vibrated steel bridge, until a sudden response is
made. This oscillation takes on the characteristic of Too Much or Too Little,
Too Much or Too Little, Too Much or Too Little, Too Much or Too Little, until
the native either jumps for one or the other, and often without thought of
consequences of actions.
Copyright@Eric J. Uberseder, 2002.
Bibliography
1. Charubel. The Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolized. Aries Press, Chicago,
1943
2. Devore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. Philosophical Library,
New York, 1947
3. Garrett, Helen Adams. The Anaretic Degree A is A Publishing,
Bellville, IL, 2000.
4. Geisler, Pat. Sagebytes Website.
http://www.weathersage.com/vs/geisler/29thdeg.htm
5. Goldstein-Jacobson, Ivy. Correspondence Course in Astrology Self
Published 1968