in message , Elisa Francesca Roselli
') wrote:

OK, I am a Very Superstitious Person. Especially as relates to all
things bike because this is an area like love, gambling and
sea-voyages, fraught with uncertainty, hazard and fear, and in the
hands of capricious gods.

I was hoping it would arrive today or tomorrow because the transiting
planets are quite well-placed in relation to my own natal chart.
However, there are two factors, the Moon placement and the
Ascendant/House Cusps, which depend on the _exact_ time and place of
birth and cannot be estimated just on the basis of the day.

I signed the delivery note for Flyzipper, for such is his name, at
11:55 am, and am taking that as the time of his "birth".

To my dismay, the chart cast for that time has the Moon sitting on the
worst degree of the whole zodiac - under the influence of an evil
Fixed Star called Scheat which just happens to symbolize extreme
danger, injury, violent - especially transport related - death,
murder, suicide, drowning, imprisonment and confinement.

Fear not. The bicycle in question was made in China. Consequently it is
subject only to Chinese horoscopes, and is a Red Cow born in the
auspicious year of the Green Monkey.

Furthermore, of course, my own assessment (above) is based on your
assumption as to the date of birth. My own estimate would put the date
of birth at least three months earlier, because, of course, Flyzipper
has spent a good deal of time on a slow boat from China.

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; When all else fails, read the distractions.