BIAS in a chart

Are you objective or biased? Do you have your preferences and do these have negative consequences for those that are ‘not part of it’ or ‘not your kind of people’? Check your chart for indications before you try to became a judge or a referee or want to judge people professionally. And before you make up your mind about a second child. This article is also interesting for those people that do not benefit from bias. What kind of people are biased?

WHAT IS BIAS (IN THIS ARTICLE)

Biased people are those that favour persons like family members or lovers above others. They have different judgements about the one they like and the one they do not like. When an outsider commits a crime it is a capital crime. When it is an insider that person was the victim of circumstances. The working of the mind of a biased person has been studied by Dr. Drew Westen, a psychologist at Emory. All of the politicians he studied had biased brains…

Biased persons think the good job of a fellow church or party member is always better then that of others. The judgement is always in favour of the party member or of the beautiful blue eyed blond. In a larger scale the own political party is always just and even justified when committing crimes. The objective observer sees how biased people use any kind of argument to talk right what is wrong. Sometimes they are real good at it!

Biased people defend the leaders of mass murders and call the victims criminals when it becomes extreme.

ADVANTAGES OF BIAS

Bias is functional When a group of people is united the group is stronger. That is how you manage things. That is why people are part of a group, a union, a party… It is human to favour those you are committed to. That is why we all are in favour of the national football team. That is why we help a family member, but not a stranger when he needs a place to stay. Your own children benefit most of your bias. Who else would you give so much money and presents?

You can use bias by taking advantage of your position as a member of an organisation, family or group. For example by being an heir. You can also use physical attraction to influence others.

DISADVANTAGE OF BIAS

Bias is often injustice. Biased people use to say that the whole world is biased and injustice. You belong, or you do not and that has consequences for you. Bias however is sometimes not very handy for the biased person himself. Than they instantly believe the word of the nice person that belongs or has the looks they like. Think about fraud, abuse in church, commissionaires in enterprises. Famous people can abuse their fame that way. Being biased is: first look at the shape and than look for the contents. <br>

The pitfall of bias is prejudice. Discriminating is making a difference. When you are biased you will, even on equal grounds, judge those with other backgrounds, religions, colours or sexual preferences different than the ones you ‘belong to’…

Bias is in almost all of us. It is getting annoying when others suffer from it. Like in a football match. Or as a child in a classroom. Or as an employee when you need a raise of salary. It is getting dangerous when people in crucial positions (judges, government) are biased.

INDICATIONS IN THE CHART

To be strongly biased you need more than 1 of the next indications in your natal chart:

· Lots of water, specifically in Cancer (emotion involvement0

· Sun conjunct Moon (being concerned about what is ‘your own and just like you’)

· Sun conjunct Mercury (subjective, judgement close to your own world)

· Moon aspecting Mercury (judgement in connection to group- or personal interests)

· Moon in aspect with Jupiter (advantages of descent, spoiling your children, popularity linked to success, believing in your own group or family). Lots of American politicians have this aspect

· Moon in aspect with Pluto (sometimes even though you have problems with your people, family or country you defend them and are intensively involved). This is an aspect for getting problems with involvement or for being stronger by the support of family.

· Venus in aspect with Pluto (strong up to extreme sympathies and antipathies, wanting lots of luxury in life, beauty = power). To make it short: a problematic judgement or having difficulties in making choices.

Finally you tend to favour those with the moon in your sign of the moon because you feel close to them. The child that has the same moon sign could be your favourite…

EXAMPLES

Of course there are examples of biased people. Politicians need to be biased up to a certain point. I discretely limit myself in naming them.

DICTATORS:

- Adolf Hitler had Moon conjunct Jupiter and inconjunct Pluto.

- Stalin had Moon opposition Jupiter and square Pluto.

- Pinochet has Moon in Cancer trine Jupiter.

- Franco had Moon conjunct Pluto.

CHANGING GROUP

- Poncke Prinsen (Dutch soldier who walked over to the enemy Indonesian rebels and so lost his Dutch nationality) has 50% of the objects in water, Moon semi square Mercury and Venus opposed to Pluto.

- William of Orange (the first, the rebel leader against the king of Spain_ had 40% of his planets in water, a conjunction of Sun, Moon and Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter.

- Mordechai Vanunu (Israelian atomic scientist, told the world that Israel had an atomic weapon, was sequestered back to Israel and only after years he was released with severe conditions recently. 50% in water signs, Moon opposed to Mercury, Venus square Pluto.

STANDING UP FOR YOUR PEOPLE:

Martin Luther King, the murdered religious black leader, had Moon trine Mercury and opposed to Pluto and 40% in water signs.

Mahatma Gandhi (spiritual leader during freedom fight of India) had 40% in water signs, Moon quintile Jupiter and square Pluto, Venus opposed to Pluto.

PROGNOSIS and BIAS

With progressed Sun conjunct Moon or Mercury you make a choice to start a new or renewed life your way or according to your ideas.

With Pluto over Venus in the chart or progressed Venus in conflict with Pluto you have a difficult choice to make.

Progressed Moon opposed to Mercury might force you to make the final choice: do what your neighbours want you to do or …what you desire. Possibly you need to adapt to the wished of the family or group you live in . But you might also say ‘yes’ and do ‘no’. A student at the time of this progression might loose interest. Time to make a change!

Progressed Moon in a conjunction, trine or sextile with Jupiter: that is being favoured by the group! For example: you are unemployed and happen to member of the group the job you want is meant for (f.ex. when they have a preference for women). Or you are ill and happen to meat a specialised doctor on vacation. Or it is summer time, everybody is abroad and you see the house you always wanted because you happened to be selected to have the summer watch in the company. You can be recommend by a good friend. All these are advantages of bias and groups!

CONCLUSIONS

Most of us sometimes benefit or not. Your chart shows if you are extremely favoured by commitments to groups. And your experience knows for sure if you do not. Maybe because you are not able to build up a network of relations. Or you are not good at communications. Or you are not charming at all. In all of those cases there is a solution: never make yourself dependent on the choices of biased people.

Are you biased? But you do not mind? You enjoy the advantages. Or would you like to be more objective? You can always work on it. By making sure the information you get does not come from one side only. And: keep thinking for yourself. Than you can never be blamed for having favoured one child over another!

Translation of the Dutch article of July 2004, made January 2006.

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