Orchid Said It at the Time

by Sharon Pearce

Overview

Fictional astrological Orchid Whitestone, delicate and touchy, author of Day-By-Day Fly-By-Nights, chooses to explain with humor how mundane planetary aspects affect the birth charts of nations, leaders and events. She brings the ancient basis of mundane astrology, that which happens to Kings and Queens happens to their subjects, into modern times with the actual birth chart of nations and events.

"Orchid Said It at the Time" contains snippet-size chapters of usually 2-3 pages for an easy bedside read. Discover how mundane astrologers interpret the big picture, as well as the little picture. Orchid adds a chuckle here and there. Read chapters titled "...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, shares tea and discusses the state of the world. Orchid is also visited by her cousins Burdock and Valerian Root, the latter, a recluse, who rarely leaves home or socializes. Another cousin Seaflower Whitestone shows up at times.

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 new world traveler, and other various clients.

"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." S.J. Perelman, US Humorist, Playwright, Cartoonist.

A nation's acknowledged time and date of birth are the basis of its birth chart, which reveals events to come to pass of a sort relative to planetary aspects reflecting off any individual birthchart. When a catastrophe or 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 compare that to its actual birth chart, and interpret the dynamic transiting effects called aspects or pressure, and their projected period of influence. They also may have plotted same prior to an aspect and prepared for its potentials - as best they could.

The original purpose of charting astrological events was for the general population, that being a mundane report. As the nation went, so went its people. Later, as individuals developed wealth, they could afford to order their own astrological birthcharts.

Orchid, being a thinker, produces some short serious essays, especially as she delves into the intense purging of Pluto as it moves ever so slowly.  She must also assess the pressures of intense transits by Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the latter two, with Pluto, called generational planets as they move so slowly through a sign, affecting in some similar ways all born during those long periods.  Plus there are smaller, but no less effective planetoids, Ceres, Lilith, Chiron and others aspecting the world stage, particularly beginning 2017 to Covid. So the world was set for its current situation by the influence of the heavens and us. Through Orchid, one learns how to recognize and remember how the pressures of individual planets may be interpreted in feelings.

Powerful planetary transits are spreading across the winter, spring and summer zodiac signs now, and are not as compacted, or focused on a single direction, as they have been in the past few years. Still they continue receiving intense aspects projected from the planetary heavens from 90 degrees (Square) and 180 degrees (Opposition) pressures.

It has been said that "If one knows what is happening above them, they may better be able to prepare themselves for what will happen to them..." if they want to!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781667819105
Publisher:	BookBaby
Publication date:	03/09/2022
Series:	Orchid...Time , #1
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Sharon Pearce graduated from Midwestern Broadcasting School, Chicago, IL at age 20, obtaining an FM Third Class Engineers License; and began working in radio as an all-around voice, news gatherer, reporter, weather reporter, commercial writer and FM Music DJ and Programmer. She worked as sole personnel on the FM night shift of an AM/FM radio station in downstate Illinois. At 23 she became the Feature News Editor of the Naperville IL edition of the Aurora Beacon News, a Copley newspaper.

She relocated to Los Angeles where she studied voice and singing, developed accent and dialect skills, and performed in stage plays and entertainments. She attended Los Angeles City College and California State University at L.A. where she earned a BA in Theater Arts.

She wrote a number of one-act plays, and a three-act play; those not digitally scanned, were later stolen in a storage locker break-in. In 2004 she graduated from Allied Business School where she studied Real Estate Appraisal, obtaining two licenses by passing the rigorous California test and the Colorado test.

In 2014 she studied astrology more formally, and began writing about it in 2016. She started posting writing to the free publishing online site, Booksie, in 2016. In 2019 she originated and published bimonthly an innovative free newspaper, NEWSCIE, covering the North Delta of Central California, West Coast and Pacific Rim. Its website is https://www.spnews-cie.squarespace.com. She is its content writer, editor, photographer, publisher, and manages advertising. She also designs calendars and logs.

Orchid-Said-It-at-the-Time, is a short serious study of the effects of astrological transits in the mundane, revealed through Orchid Whitestone, some chapters set whimsically. It is meant to be light learning of how astrologers interpret the effects of planets' transits and aspects.

Ms Pearce writes light humor, as well as seriously on politics and culture. She feels she is an essayist…but also a whimseyist!

Table of Contents

1 Pluto - Sun Conjunction 1

2 Uranus is a Piece of Work 3

3 Was California Ever Mundane? 6

4 Nevada 8

5 Restraining a Population in Delusion 10

6 …Potty Mouth…Scream the Headlines 12

7 Jupiter Is On the March, By Jove! 15

8 Can Saturn Restrict Jupiter? 17

9 Pluto Cannot Be Stopped 19

16 Neptune's Lost Horizon 21

11 Toppling History 22

12 Assignations 24

13 Sideswiped 27

14 You Don't Have To Be an Ath About It 30

15 Perfect for the Holidays 33

16 Light in the Window, Fire at the Hearth 35

17 Does the Pet in Your Home Have a House? 38

18 Enter Dr. No 42

19 Aunt Twerpy Von Twerple Takes a Flyer on a Holiday 44

20 Who's Gonna Build a Wall? Saturn! 47

21 Let Me 'Splain Again… 50

22 Missiles Midst Squares and Trine 58

23 Is This the End of1492? 60

24 If It Looks Like a Duck…Saturn 66

25 Unbounded Liberties, Boundless No More 70

26 Orchid Sees the Revolution 72

27 Saturn is Economics 101 75

28 A Light Breeze across the Land 78

29 Light Breeze, Part II 82

30 Vapor, Fumes, Smoke and Mercury Conjunct Neptune 87

31 Saturn Quarantines 91

32 2018: Favorite Spaces for Each Sign 95

33 Venus Retrograde At The Scorpio Theater 97

34 Orchid Perceives Pluto 100

35 The Pluto Cracks 105

36 Countries Attacked by Electro-Magnetic Impulses? - Oh, That's Uranus! 107

37 Orchid Gives the Supreme Court a Thrashing 110

38 Under Neptune 113

39 Whose Pluto Return Is This Anyway? 117

40 The Little Guy is Back in the Revolution - on Both Sides 122

41 Good Evening, Ed. What? Financial Crash? Oh, It's in the Retrogrades! 129

42 Alert! Sidelined Children of Generation X - Not! 134

43 The Princess and The P… 138