Dobyns, Zipporah
26 August 1921 at 21:48 (= 9:48 PM )
Place Chicago, Illinois, 41n51, 87w39
Timezone CST h6w (is standard time) - daylight saving time integrated into the date provided in 1978
American clinical psychologist and astrologer. As an astrologer she counseled up to 100 people a year and was the author of many books and a researcher on asteroids. Well respected in the field, Dobyns was the winner of the 1992 Regulus Award for Education and a second Regulus Award for Discovery and Innovation, 1995. On 29 June 1999, Dobyns had a large tumor removed from her ovaries, a complete hysterectomy followed by six chemotherapy treatments on 16 August, 7 and 28 September, 19 October, and 11 and 30 November 1999.
Natal chart (zodiacal)
At first glance MO is hyleg (I) but peregrine. However, some practitioners (Noel Tyl, Hubert) consider that a planet exchanging an aspect in the Ptolemaic sense of the term, is not peregrine. This is not what the astrologers of the past believed, starting with Morin de Villefranche :
A peregrine planet is not in its own signs—domicile or exaltation—nor in the opposing signs, but simply in some other one. The Sun in Aquarius and Libra is in its respective exile and fall, while it is peregrine in the water and earth triplicities, as well as in Gemini; and so on for the other planets. Therefore, a planet which is peregrine acts in a manner intermediate between cither good or adverse celestial state; this is always to be understood essentially, however, because a peregrine planet could accidentally be in a better state and have greater effect than another one essentially well-placed provided it had strong and favorable aspects with other planets.
[Astrologia gallica, book XXI, cap VIII]
We will therefore consider that MO is peregrine. Note that it would be excessive to consider that a peregrine planet is out of the astrological chessboard; in fact, if it effectively loses the character of intentionality attributed to it, it gains that of the star which is capable of dominating it; at least that is the teaching of ancient astrology; Zoller writes:
'A peregrine planet lacks either dignity or debility in the degree it is in. Such a planet acts more in accordance with the nature of the ruler of the sign it is in than other planets. If the ruler is a benefic, the peregrine planet will act beneficially. If it is a malefic, the same planet will contribute to the destruction of the things it is associated with.'
[Robert Zoller, Diploma course in Medieval astrology, Lesson Five Sign Subdivisions and Rulerships, p. , 27, 2002]
Second : we have a zodiacal MO * MA in long sign ♌ . And it turns out that this sextil is a mundane square (orb 0.92°). A joined square MO and ME in zodiac; but it disappears in mundane. Note the other mundane aspects of MO: sex VE (♋, long); trig JU (♍, long); trig SA (♍, long). The zodiacal square of ME disappears in mundane. These differences are of course attributable to the difference in the ascension of the signs. See that from Anthony Louis :
'The ancients called the signs that took longer to rise the “straight signs,” and the signs that rose more quickly than average the “crooked signs.” [...]
One might call this ancient theory of straight and crooked (or stretched and crumpled) signs the “rubber band” theory of the ecliptic. Using their rubbery ecliptic, these early astrologers argued that, during long ascension, squares (90°) got stretched into trines (120°), and conversely, during short ascension, trines got squeezed into squares. Ptolemy repeated this idea in the Tetrabiblos when he wrote, “And sometimes, also, among the signs that ascend slowly the sextile aspect destroys, when it is afflicted, and again among the signs that ascend rapidly the trine.” Ptolemy is saying that sextiles can be stretched into squares, and trines can be compressed into squares.'
[Anthony Louis, Horary astrology plain and simple, llewellyn pub, 1998, cap 7, 115]
We have already insisted in another section on this phenomenon which plays a crucial role in the very definition of the aspects and their interpretation which can thus vary completely. So we see that here, in th case of this theme, MO seems to be quite good aspected, although peregrine and a priori absent from the astral scene. But some practitioners like Nicholas Culpeper have doubted the validity of these phenomena:
'...why do they hold that a Quartile in Signes of long ascensions is aequivalent to a Trine, and a Trine in Signes of short ascensions as pernicious as a Square? put the rest of the non-sence into the bundel, and when you have done, look upon it a little while; and when you have viewed it a little, tell me 1 pray; Doth the longness or shortness of the ascensions adde or take away any thing from the quality of the Signs?'
[Nicholas Culpeper, Astrological judgments of diseases from the Decumbiture of The sick, p. 29, cap 3 on the sympathy and antipathy on the signs and planets, London : printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil, neer the Royal Exchange, 1658]
We have HYLEG = MO and ALCHOCODEN is probably ME (RU and cb).
Primary directions
1)- 2003 (death)
opp SU conj MO the 27/8 at 5h36 (time dir 3h24 TU) REGIO EQU 1.035
It is the most notable direction arc.
2) disease (diagnostic, 1999)
a)- conj SU square MA at 5h19 the 27/8 at (time dir 3h 07 TU) REGIO EQU 1.035
b)- opp MO conj (C) MA at 5h19 (time dir 26/8 at 16h28) REGIO EQU 1.035
