What does it actually mean when a planet is strong? And how do we avoid confusing planetary strength with human goodness?
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The night Cassius Clay shocked the world.
In 1964, 22-year-old Cassius Clay—soon to be known as Muhammad Ali—entered the ring an eight-to-one underdog. Six rounds later, he was heavyweight champion.
That night, Jupiter stood within two minutes of arc of an exact trine to his birth chart's Ascendant.
But the timing didn't begin that night.
Its origins still matter.
- Sources
Ali's recorded birth time lets us reconstruct the planetary conditions on the night he won the title.
- Method
At 22, Ali's annual profection reached the house that held Jupiter. Jupiter ruled his major planetary period. Mars, in his tenth house of honors, ruled the subperiod.
- Judgment
Ali's win fell at the meeting of three scales of time: his profected year, his Jupiter–Mars period, and a trine just shy of exact.
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