A Merlin report summary

Ever since I first saw astrology websites, I have looked to the Merlin Report as a means of looking at what astrology supposes people to be like - and always laughing hilariously whether it’s true or not!

One of the interesting features - in an odd way prophetic since demoted Pluto was never included - is that when certain planets conjunction a certain Ascendant, the delineation is revised because the original delineation for the conjunction is inappropriate, as with a Gemini Moon conjunct Ascendant. (It also sometime happens that an out-of-sign conjunction will alter the standard report).

The following table shows where the “normal” delineation is altered for each Ascendant (first column). Red cases indicate it is, green indicates it is not, and yellow indicates doubt (with Sun conjunct Ascendant in ♓ I have often imagined it would have a special delineation but what I have seen may contradict this though the report may have been different or taken as I do from the web).

	☉	☽	☿	♀	♂	♃	♄	♅	♆
♈	☑	☒	☑	☑	☑	☑	☑	☑	☒
♉	☑	☑	☑	☑	☒	☑	☑	☒	☒
♊	☑	☒	☑	☑	☒	☑	☒	☑	☑
♋	☑	☑	☑	☑	☒	☑	☑	☑	☑
♌	☑	☒	☑	☑	☑	☑	☒	☑	☒
♍	☒	☒	☑	☑	☒	☒	☑	☒	☑
♎	☒	☑	☑	☑	☒	☑	☒	☒	☑
♏	☑	☑	☒	☑	☑	☑	☒	☑	☑
♐	☑	☒	☑	☑	☑	☑	☒	☑	☑
♑	☑	☑	☑	☒	☑	☒	☑	☒	☑
♒	☑	☒	☑	☑	☑	☑	☑	☑	☑
♓	☒	☑	☑	☑	☒	☑	☑	☑	☑

Another thing is that when a planet aspects certain pairs of planets, there is an additional delineation (Sun aspects A and B). This never occurs when a planet aspects Pluto in addition to another planet, nor when Jupiter or Saturn aspects more than one planet further out. Thus, we can limit this second Merlin Report summary table to planets from the Sun to Mars aspecting planets from the Moon to Neptune. In fact, there are none of these delineations relating to an aspect between the Sun and Moon in the Merlin Report, but I have included it for completeness.

	☽	☿	♀	♂	♃	♄	♅
☉				♄,♆	♄	♅,♆
☽		♂,♄		♃,♄,♆	♄	♅
☿			♂	♄,♆	♄	♅,♆
♀					♄	♅
♂					♄	♅,♆	♆

What is clear here is that it is primarily aspects to Jupiter (representing growth) and Saturn (limitations) along with those between Saturn and Uranus (originality) that are noted by Merlin.

These two tables should help understand astrological reports for those who do not.