Orchid Said It at the Time

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“Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.” S.J. Perelman, US Humorist, Playwright, Cartoonist
Orchid Whitestone, the delicate and touchy mundane astrological researcher, author of Day-By-Day Fly-By-Nights, assays a witty, humorous light on aspects in astrology forecasting. She takes her work seriously, charting the course of nations, other entities and events, the historical basis in mundane astrology. She’s received a lot of attention for her comic touch, especially as to her article titled Loosening-the-Asteroid-Belt in response to which many astrologer critics were not friendly.
Orchid’s rustic cousin Orris Root, CEO of the fragrances, mouth products and toothpaste Root family business visits Orchid from time to time, where they share tea and cookies and discuss the state of the world. She 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, and others.
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 true commitment to paper, or anything else, once Orchid announced she was dedicating herself to the mundane. Orchid occasionally receives visits from her Dutch aunt, Twerpy Von Twerple, a world traveler, and various clients.
Orchid is a thinker. Let it not be misunderstood, 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. In them one feels change’s pressure,
Mundane astrology refers to 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 gives it a birth chart, as it does 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 challenging at the time, or they will have already done this prior to the event, and forecast it and its subsequent effects. 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 individual. Only Kings, Queens and nations could afford astrologers and whither they went, so went their nation.
Astrologers can identify an individual’s chart whose planet positions and aspects at birth may make strong correlations to a nation’s birth chart, and predict a highly successful political career for that individual, or some other type of public career due to the complementary nature of the 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 for tension for people, and entities as revealed in transiting aspects in their birth charts. Intense aspects are called 90 degree (Square) and 180 degree (Opposition) tensions. It is asserted that if one knows what is happening above them, they may better be able to manage themselves and their environment when intense pressure arrives. “Orchid Said It at the Time” is intended to be light training with some humor for those who want to understand how mundane astrologers predict minus the cookies.
It is an easy companion book for traveling, and a short bedside read. Orchid Whitestone’s searchlight is ever on the lookout for humor. But her work’s mantra is “The language of astrology can sort the multiple levels of global chaos.” Orchid Said It at the Time contains the fictional Orchid Whitestone’s assessments and forecasts in the study of mundane astrology for recent times.
The most powerful recognized planets are now traveling closely through the zodiacal signs representing public business, the masses, and the collective unconscious. Students of astrology consider and weigh the aspects these planets make to other planets, and to planets in individual birth charts. They anticipate how those combined energies may express when they affect an entity at a pressure point when transiting in relation to it. Mundane astrology is replete with warnings.
Humorous characters in Orchid’s world meet planets intent on bringing peril or potential. How people meet them is the key. We have been traveling through astrology noir, and Orchid Whitestone teaches how to recognize the vibes and never forget them for the seeming slow movement of distant planets affect us for a long time.
In the world, the significance of these events is that politics and cultures are transmuting. Much of what was important is gone now. Generations have passed away before us in the twinkle of an eye. Our job now is to discern the public world, each one of us, and determine how we want to live our lives in it. Orchid, herself, is a traveler who knows there’s no going back.
Orchid Said It at the Time contains snippet chapters for an easy bedside read for picking up how mundane astrologers interpret the big picture. Orchid adds a chuckle here and there. Perfect read to carry on a train, boat or plane – and use to foretell your own journey into the future. 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!