Publisher's Synopsis
"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." S.J. Perelman, US Humorist, Playwright, Cartoonist. Orchid Whitestone, the fictional delicate and touchy mundane astrologer, author of Day-By-Day Fly-By-Nights, chooses to set out with humor and wit aspects in mundane astrological forecasting. She takes her work seriously, charting the course of nations, other entities and events, which is the historical basis of mundane astrology. "Orchid Said It at the Time" contains snippet chapters for an easy bedside read to learn how mundane astrologers interpret the big picture. Orchid adds a chuckle here and there. See the chapter titles for a sense of Orchid, such as "...Potty Mouth...Scream the Headlines," "Does the Pet in Your Home Have a House?," and Venus Retrograde in the Scorpio Theater." Orchid's rustic cousin Orris Root, CEO of the fragrances, and mouth products Root family business visits Orchid from time to time, where they share tea and cookies and discuss the state of the world. Orchid is also visited by her cousins Burdock Root, who helps her file, and Valerian Root, a recluse who rarely leaves home or socializes, as well as her cousin Seaflower Whitestone. Orchid invested in Orris' start up company, Brushing-Through-the-Stars Ltd. Another relative, the Dutch Venus Von de Fly-Paper, of the fragrant stationery company had always questioned Orchid's commitment to paper, or anything else, once Orchid announced she was dedicating herself to the mundane. Orchid occasionally receives visits from her Old Dutch aunt, Twerpy Von Twerple, a world traveler, and from various clients. Mundane astrology is the astrological charting of entities such as nations, businesses and events, distinct from a person's birth chart. A nation's acknowledged time and date of birth give it a birth chart, as they do for a business of any size, a world event, an incident and any occasion. When an event, even a catastrophe or a cataclysm, occurs relative to a nation, its time and date of occurrence is noted and a mundane chart can be erected for it against which astrologers will interpret the dynamic effects called aspects set in challenge for it at the time. They may have already done this prior to the event, and forecast it and its potentials. Timing is everything. Mundane charts are erected for events happening to world leaders, public persons, financial collapses, discoveries, incidents occurring to high profile figures, noteworthy births and deaths, and any other incident of note. In fact, history tells us that the original practice of charting astrological events was mundane, not personal. Only Kings, Queens and nations could afford astrologers and whither they went, so went their people. Orchid is a thinker. Orchid Whitestone's short essays are serious, especially as one delves into the intensities raised by Pluto and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and other planets in aspect over the world stage in these years, particularly from 2017 up to the time of Covid. Through Orchid, one learns the feel of such pressures never to forget them. Astrologers can identify in an individual's chart planet positions and aspects at birth that may make strong correlations to a nation's birth chart, and thereby predict a highly successful political career for that individual, or some other type of public career due to the complementary nature of the two charts. This is an ancient, serious and sacred art. Much is happening in planetary transits in these times, especially due to slower moving planets making tension-filled aspects. Intense aspects are at 90 degree (Square) and 180 degree (Opposition). It is asserted that if one knows what is happening above them, they may better be able to manage themselves below, in their environment, as pressure arrives.
