Labdanum does not like me.
For one thing, I have discovered www.astro.com's free charting service, and just for fun and reference I will put my astrological chart here.
All this fun stuff was happening in the sky at the time I was born. I was hoping for a supernova or something. Instead I get a Scorpio rising.
И когда по вечерам на небосклон
Всходит твой зеленоглазый Скорпион,
Прекращается движение планет
И любви моей горит
Зеленый свет!
Я не верю в судьбу, только знаю одно:
Если б не было этого знака,
Я нашел бы тебя все равно, все равно,
Под любою звездой Зодиака!
And when into the dark of the evening skies
Your yonder green-eyed Scorpio will rise,
The planets cease their circling up above
And a green light is given
To my love!
I do not believe Fate, but know one thing is true:
Even if there ne'er was such a sign,
All the same, all the same, I would still have found you;
Beneath any Zodiac star you'll be mine!
In the horoscope a dozen names you call:
'Twas the Scorpio that turned out best of all,
And I hope that in your love you'll give me new
Little Scorpions that all
Look like you!
I do not believe Fate, but know one thing is true:
Even if there ne'er was such a sign,
All the same, all the same, I would still have found you;
Beneath any Zodiac star you'll be mine!
The vocal-instrumental ensemble Пламя (= Flame) must have had a songwriter who was married to a Scorpio, a sign I never paid much attention to until, of course, I found out it was my ascendant.
Then on the BPAL Forum, the loveliest, loveliest Jarvenpa analysed my chart.
Here is my post on everything she said:
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Jarvenpa, my mom must have been right (although it could have been late enough for Venus to get to the fifth house) because EVERY SINGLE BLOOMIN' WORD YOU WROTE IS TRUE!
I admit I was skeptical of astrology before, but I repent! I believe! I believe!
Thanks, indeed, I have figured it out a couple of years ago, and that is the way I operate. And once I started, I found my life was indeed a lot more peaceful and stable.
Well, eveyone who reads my blog is worthy, but you are the first person outside my inner circle who has, to my knowledge, read my blog. And I love you, jarvenpa.
Ooh yeah, definitely.
Gospel truth!
As in, she writes about a fantasy world and has differential equations governing her magic? And plans out the nervous systems of her dragons? And I couldn't do it any other way; I thought of being free, but I wanted that structure of logic and math to rest on.
Yep, I thought that was my dad's engineering genes, but I guess my planets took them and ran with them.
Always working, she found herself the breadwinner of the family once we moved and my dad still has no job.
Yes! Yes!
I am so going to tell those lads I dumped that it was the fault of Uranus and the Moon!
Novels, poetry, singing, drawing - and my breakup poetry I still like. I have that attitude: the lad went, the poem remains.
As in, when my school friends and I recently met, I found myself the one assigning structure to our reunions because no one else would make decisions fast enough?
That's not love. That is what defines every single minute of my life, waking and sleeping - how would I write about this?
We fought like cats and dogs, but we do care for each other in a deep way. If I am in trouble, I know my brothers will stick by me, and I will stand by them. (They are both Arieses, but my mom is even foggier on their birth times than on mine.)
Sigh - yes.
As in, I have good friends, but there are aspects of my life I share very little with them, and prefer it that way?
Very true, thank all the gods.
Definitely. I have travelled and moved a lot, as my chart shows, and I kind of defined "home is where my writing drafts are."
I have a hard time resisting pretty knickknacks, and I definitely love the way I have decorated my room. However, it is still a bit of a mess in places. Can I blame that errant Venus?
Yeah, fall in love quickly is accounted for, it's getting out again that's the problem.
Good that you tell me that - after an eight-hour shift when I sing whenever I am not talking, my coworkers disagreed. They never said I sang badly; it was just too omnipresent.
So writing shows up a lot in my chart eh? And that "cold hard facts" explains perfectly why I was/am good at Quiz Bowl, but never really felt at home there - I learned the facts so I could put them in stories later.
Nope, I always grow impatient when people say "How are you?" "You know what?" and other redundant questions. Others may treat those as conversational niceties; I see them as wasting time.
Yay, again! Writing all over my chart! I guess I have the astrological right to that Hugo Award, then.
Oh yes, definitely. And for them I will cast any magic spell / I could do without wand or staff... / You want to be one of those people? Well, / By living, make me laugh.
That was so true once I learned that. Next time I start writing and not liking it, I will yell "Saturn, shut up! I'll call back when I need you!"
I have indeed. They love me.
I also have a talent for arranging pictures on walls. As for strategy, in the sense of planning an advertising campaign or something similar, yes, I guess that was Pallas talking.
Definitely. There's the mathematician, and the robotics girl, and the quiz player; that's Pallas.
I will, but I definitely refuse to bow down (I may be negotiated with, though), and I create a lot of tough strong female characters when I write.
That may be why I am not girly-girl and neither am I power-woman tomboy; and I still kind of have issues as to what I am in that respect - how far to go to be sexy and yet respect myself?
Higgledy piggledy
Quiz volunteer coaches
Say their reward is
The joy of the game.
Once I get out of this school
What I deserve for me,
I'll recant and say - No,
It's the glory and fame.
I take the comfy chair.
For both reasons - I want to make sure I am doing it right, and who are you to mess with what I'm working on and rush me?
I stayed with taekwondo almost until my dojang died. I stayed with aikido almost until my dojang died, and now I am still going to stay with it. And I have lost count of the time students at my high school I now volunteer at have said to me "Didn't you graduate?" - "It's harder than it sounds."
You love me or hate me - probably envy more than hate. But all the profs will remember me, whether the class had eight people or two hundred in it, whether I got an A+ or a D.
Yes, my friends do quote back my line "Imperious? Me?"
I did toy with "cryptanalyst" as a career path.
But that's what makes the best stories.
Actually, some of both - as in, I write at home, realise that the day is done and I am really happy, and tell myself to get out more, and not listen to myself. I guess Venus was right on the cusp.
That is why I sing. All the time. I'll blame Taurus next time.
Yeah, I play well with others, but have a hard time acquiring truly clsoe friends - or boyfriends. But I keep trying, and your chart gave me good advice (see that Jupiter/Moon optimism again?)
"Stop talking and talking about it and do something! Less talk, more whacking!"
Mmm, chocolate. Mmm, darling, touch me again right there... Mmm...
Well...I was quite bad at middle-distance running - but I have been shouted at "You're one of those people who swims the English Channel for kicks!" And I am always the first one on the dance floor and the last off, and I do not sweat as much as other people do, I've noticed.
I wouldn't respect them if they were any other way.
Makes an awful lot of sense.
My father and I speak completely different languages.
See Higgledy Piggledy above.
And he didn't understand that!
That was what stuck me into my role of advisor-consultant (my Star Trek character I am most like is apparently Deanna Troi). Them asteroids.
Or "Less talk, more whacking!" As in work.
Oh my god, yes, you bore me, don't expect to see me again.
I wouldn't say she is TOO chattery, but I can definitely count on her to give good advice a lot of the time.
As above with them asteroids.
He is all of those things (evidence for loyalty as well). Maybe we still have a future.
It is his fault I am what I am today. And I don't regret a minute of it.
Given the varied circles I circulate in, that is one need taken care of.
I did toy with the idea of a diplomatic career, and I find sociolinguistics fascinating stuff; and as seen above, my chart has enough artistic stuff that if I don't get that Hugo Award eventually, someone please shoot me.
The excitement and adventure of finding out!
It gives me hope. Without hope I am nothing.
Jarvenpa, thank you ever so much! Yay, I have no reason to think that my writing is bad - I have Uranus and Neptune and Mercury and Jupiter and the Moon and Vesta and Ceres and Chiron all ganging up to say I will be good at it!
So should I, like, when I am writjng, send them positive energy? "Uranus, bring down the brilliance, and Neptune, give it beauty, and Capricorn, give it structure, and Saturn, you take care that I see where I went wrong, and Mercury, make sure I can say what I mean, and I love you guys"?
I am definitely sending positive energy to you, jarvenpa.
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For one thing, I have discovered www.astro.com's free charting service, and just for fun and reference I will put my astrological chart here.
The report was generated with the following birth data: female, born on 23 April 1985 at 10:00 pm in Moscow, Russian Federation.
Your sun sign is Taurus. This is the sign in which the Sun is in your birth chart. Your Ascendant is in Scorpio, and your Moon is in Gemini.
Partner references which may occur in the text are set for a relationship with a man. That's fine by me.
Sun in Taurus, Moon in Gemini
You were born with the Sun in Taurus and the Moon in Gemini. Your Taurean individuality is strong-willed and purposeful. You are warm-hearted and amorous, but you lack mental flexibility. I do? I am not imperious, I told you!
The Taurean nature is dedicated to the gratification of your physical and psychological needs.
I take care of my needs, thank you. For one, I have just gone and gotten myself some tea.
Having the Moon in Gemini, however, has determined that your personality role will be oriented more to dealing with intellectual concepts and activities, which you may oppose emotionally. Do I like math?
Others consider you somewhat of an intellectual. Yep. Because your mind and body require activity, you will travel and change your residence frequently. Indeed? I thought that was my parents' fault! Only those who are close to you know you as a stubborn and strong-willed person.
Yes, I tend to hide that from those far from me, so that they don't be scared to be close to me.
Circumstances (Moon in Gemini) have forced you to earn a livelihood through activities that may conflict somewhat with your real nature. So I sold bagels and transcribed child language and it was all the Moon's fault. If you can somehow project your stability, it will carry over to your life work and your relationships with others. I sing. That's a stable and predictable thing, that I will sing to myself. Does that count?
Your shifting mind would benefit infinitely from the stability that lies deep within you. As in: finish that novel, dear. Allowing this to permeate throughout will assure success in all you undertake. On the other hand, if you could somehow lend to your internal nature the versatility of your personality, you would achieve a complete harmony. Are you saying my inner life is boring? Are you saying that?
Ascendant in Scorpio, Mars in the Seventh House
At the time of your birth the zodiacal sign of Scorpio was ascending in the horizon. Its ruler Mars is located in the seventh house.
Your life will be marked by your shrewd, secretive, obstinate, clever, and reserved disposition. Dunno about the shrewd part, but obstinate, clever, secretive, and unpredictably reserved are present and accounted for. On the other hand, I can coil up wires, so I guess that's shrewd. You remain an enigma: with these traits, your life events could be either very tragic or very fortunate. Fortunate, please, fortunate is good! To which category of Scorpio do you belong? There are two types, the extremely emotional, attracted by those pathological aspects of biological relationship, or the highly mystical, concerned with spirituality. Call back later.
You are a person of extremes, very sensitive and desirous of attachment. I thought that was my ego. There is some attraction to the occult or to psychic phenomena. Well, why do you think I am posting you, dear? You are active in the sense that there is a psychological struggle going on inside you between the positive and negative poles-those of affirming and satisfying or rejecting and repressing. You are very intense in your feelings and remain passionately attached to the person you love. Or persons. Which is why the school has a Reach coach, the Dark Lord and Lady Cauchy get my visits and my chocolate, and Irene gets regular emails; that rising Scorpion is to blame. Similarly, when you dislike someone you are very fixed in that feeling. I will never forgive that couple who stood me up at Magda's wedding. However, there is room for optimism in that: whatever type of Scorpio you may happen to be, there exists a desire deep in your inner self for psychic regeneration. But I am not out being mean to them.
At some point in your life, after the occurrence of a major dramatic event that will affect you deeply, the goal and entire expression of your ego may alter entirely. Let me know. The intensity and profundity of your passion, however, will always be constant. Relax, sweet lover. You have a tendency to go into the shadows and secretly plan the course of action you will take, reluctant to let others know the exact nature of your mood or feelings. Not even me blog. In your sexual affairs you are full of passion and strong attachment. Ya hear that? Ya hear that?
Exert more control over your passions; don't be so resentful of others. Only when I'm hungry. Use your strong will and character for favorable and beneficial things.
You have a strong inclination to be involved in medicine, perhaps even surgery.
There's my mother and there's Concolor, and that's enough medicine in the circle, thanks,
but I do tend towards teaching people to stretch. You are attracted by research and investigation in general. I guess so; I only work there.
The position of your ruler here denotes a life geared to the acquisition of successful business unions and intimate relationships. Trying to acquire them, yes. Although a little aggressive and impulsive at times, your dynamic assertiveness will bring you a good degree of success in your dealings with the non-egotistical environment. You mean, as long as people are not egotists, they and I will get along?
Your partner may be too aggressive for your well being. A great deal of tact and diplomacy will be required in order to maintain the continuity of the relationship. Thanks for the heads-up.
You may feel that your life is one of continuous struggle; fighting with the environment; involvement in wars and conflict. To these situations you will react with impatience and determination. I do, I do: "Ok, executive decision: we're doing things my way!" It may be wise for you not to become too involved in circumstances so that you may see things from an objective viewpoint and act accordingly. I try - but then how do I make sure it's done right?
Try to observe the qualities of others that you lack so that you may better fulfill your spiritual duties. I can't sew. Should I go watch others sew?
Saturn in the First House
Saturn is in the first house. Saturn's placement here gives you a conservative, sometimes gloomy and self-denying outlook on life. Well, I guess so; my politics are more conservative than I admit. It's Saturn's fault.
Because every contact is of great importance, you tend to be rather detached and even aloof so that you can be sure exactly where you stand. Yep, yep, on first contact. You can be self-conscious and may feel awkward and prudish with others who appear to take things more lightly. I don't wear tank tops comfortably, yes. That's Saturn's fault too. I should make a T-shirt: "The reason you aren't seeing my boobs is that Saturn was in the first house!" The depth with which you look at yourself is characteristic of the way you relate to others. I don't understand that. Does that make me shallow? Does it?
You were taught very early in life to be self-reliant, and you were often given more responsibility than usual for your age. Yep, that's why I was the only kid in my grade six class at Camp Cameron to know what a dustpan was for. And my two Robotics Club virtues: using a brick separator and coiling wires.
Your intellect is constant and usually unfettered by momentary feelings and whims. You mean, other people get stupider when they fell like it? I never knew that! That explains a lot! Logic plays an important role in your thinking processes. That's why I am a mathematician, dear, and though I am not fantastic, I am okay at it. Grandiose schemes and theories have little interest for you. So that's why I don't get along famously with my dad. It's Saturn's fault.
Once you accept your own limitations and face up to your challenges and responsibilities with a sense of purpose, you will be able to succeed in whatever field you decide on. I bet you tell that to everyone. Your health is generally good, so long as you exercise sufficiently to relieve tension.Yep
Venus in the Fourth House
Venus was found in the fourth house at the time of your birth. This is usually a very favorable and fruitful position that grants excellent family relationships within peaceful and beautiful environments.I love my family, but peaceful? That's Scorpio and Saturn's fault.
This position indicates many social affairs, feasts, parties, celebrations, and related activities.Love 'em, bring 'em on, just get me home afterwards.
Near the end of your life you should experience financial gain and an overall economic improvement.Whoohoo, I am a rich dowager!
A natural lover of country life and nature, you will find many opportunities to gratify these sentiments.I'm a city gal through and through, but I CAN find raspberries.
Sun in the Sixth House
The Sun was found in your sixth house at the time of birth. This position indicates that in all your activities you will be subjected to the impositions of the environment.It'll rain on my wedding day? The overall orientation of your existence is that of accomplishment through fulfillment of professional responsibilities. So that's why I get scholarships but can't get a date: I am too much i' the Sun. In matters of health, this astrological combination is not ideal, as the vital energies of the Sun here have less power, causing you to feel an occasional lack of physical strength. I feel sleepy You are, however, inclined to be careful with your health. I thought that was my parents' neuroses in me. In your dealings with work associates and subordinates you will show dignified, strong, but open- handed attitudes. I suppose so
You work with a well-developed sense of pride in everything you do. Well, mostly.
Moon in the Seventh House
The Moon was found in the seventh house at the time of your birth.
Exciting romance may occur at an early stage in life. We must warn you, however, that unless modified by further interpretations, the partner may have fluctuating affections.Yeah, I had a mad unrequited love. I still have a mad unrequited love.
You're also one of those who throughout the relationship manifests a great variety of personality roles and who seldom shows in intimacy her real nature.I thought my real nature was stubborn and strong-willed, as above. So I am only a dominatrix on the second Thursday of months that begin with J.
Here is the rest of the numbers game:
Planetary positions
planet sign degree house motion
Sun Taurus 03°31'09 06 direct
Moon Gemini 11°59'22 07 direct
Mercury Aries 08°27'33 05 direct
Venus Aries 06°01'58 04 stationary (D)
Mars Taurus 28°09'52 07 direct
Jupiter Aquarius 14°16'48 03 direct
Saturn Scorpio 26°24'38 01 retrograde
Uranus Sagittarius 17°33'52 02 retrograde
Neptune Capricorn 03°31'24 02 retrograde
Pluto Scorpio 03°21'22 12 retrograde
True Node Taurus 18°10'25 07 direct
House positions (Placidus)
Ascendant Scorpio 15°50'10
2nd House Sagittarius 15°22'19
3rd House Capricorn 25°53'36
Imum Coeli Pisces 07°37'05
5th House Aries 08°21'27
6th House Aries 29°52'21
Descendant Taurus 15°50'10
8th House Gemini 15°22'19
9th House Cancer 25°53'36
Medium Coeli Virgo 07°37'05
11th House Libra 08°21'27
12th House Libra 29°52'21
Major aspects
Sun Trine Neptune 0°00
Sun Opposition Pluto 0°10
Moon Sextile Mercury 3°32
Moon Sextile Venus 5°57
Moon Trine Jupiter 2°17
Moon Opposition Uranus 5°35
Mercury Conjunction Venus 2°26
Mercury Sextile Jupiter 5°49
Mercury Square Neptune 4°56
Venus Square Neptune 2°31
Venus Quincunx Pluto 2°41
Mars Opposition Saturn 1°45
Jupiter Sextile Uranus 3°17
Jupiter Square Ascendant 1°33
Neptune Sextile Pluto 0°10
Numbers indicate orb (deviation from the exact aspect angle).
All this fun stuff was happening in the sky at the time I was born. I was hoping for a supernova or something. Instead I get a Scorpio rising.
И когда по вечерам на небосклон
Всходит твой зеленоглазый Скорпион,
Прекращается движение планет
И любви моей горит
Зеленый свет!
Я не верю в судьбу, только знаю одно:
Если б не было этого знака,
Я нашел бы тебя все равно, все равно,
Под любою звездой Зодиака!
And when into the dark of the evening skies
Your yonder green-eyed Scorpio will rise,
The planets cease their circling up above
And a green light is given
To my love!
I do not believe Fate, but know one thing is true:
Even if there ne'er was such a sign,
All the same, all the same, I would still have found you;
Beneath any Zodiac star you'll be mine!
In the horoscope a dozen names you call:
'Twas the Scorpio that turned out best of all,
And I hope that in your love you'll give me new
Little Scorpions that all
Look like you!
I do not believe Fate, but know one thing is true:
Even if there ne'er was such a sign,
All the same, all the same, I would still have found you;
Beneath any Zodiac star you'll be mine!
The vocal-instrumental ensemble Пламя (= Flame) must have had a songwriter who was married to a Scorpio, a sign I never paid much attention to until, of course, I found out it was my ascendant.
Then on the BPAL Forum, the loveliest, loveliest Jarvenpa analysed my chart.
Here is my post on everything she said:
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Jarvenpa, my mom must have been right (although it could have been late enough for Venus to get to the fifth house) because EVERY SINGLE BLOOMIN' WORD YOU WROTE IS TRUE!
I admit I was skeptical of astrology before, but I repent! I believe! I believe!
She was born on Shakespeare's birthday, April 23, in 1985, in Moscow, Russia. Students of astrology are now thinking slightly unkind thoughts about her dear mama, but trying to trust that "around 10 pm" was accurate (and that, had it been 10:30 or later, mom would have recalled that, and likewise if it were much before 10--like closer to 9:30).
So, she has the reserved and passionate sign of Scorpio rising (and has taken Scorpio into her bosom, if you read her blog--might as well embrace your chart, I always say, makes the planets much happier). Scorpio in fact has two ruling planets--Mars, which is in Taurus in her 7th house (if we are going to trust mom), and Pluto, which is in Scorpio in the 12th house.
Mars is opposite Saturn (which is in her first house in Scorpio). The Mars/Saturn opposition can give a great deal of determination to a person's nature, but it may express itself in a sort of stop and go pattern--rushing forward all determined, falling back, having to retrace steps (metaphorically anyway). Once you understand that your rhythm is not "full speed ahead forever and ever until we crash" but more back and forth, go and pause, you can probably accomplish a lot.
Thanks, indeed, I have figured it out a couple of years ago, and that is the way I operate. And once I started, I found my life was indeed a lot more peaceful and stable.
As the computer has told her already, Saturn in the first house does bestow a certain air of responsibility, conservativeness, discipline. Childhood for the first house Saturn person almost always has more responsibilities in it (and sometimes actual sorrows) than those of other kids her own age. There can also be (especially with Saturn in Scorpio) a kind of reserve to the nature, or even shyness--people must show that they are worthy to know more of her real nature (which, actually, includes some pretty expansive Sagittarian energy as well--it's not all ponderous responsible dark reserve at all. But to get to the jokey side you have to have shown you are a worthy person, in her terms.)
Well, eveyone who reads my blog is worthy, but you are the first person outside my inner circle who has, to my knowledge, read my blog. And I love you, jarvenpa.
The second house (if we are trusting mom) has Sag on the cusp and has two planets having fun inside: Uranus in Sagittarius, and Neptune in Capricorn. Uranus is opposite her natal Gemini moon in the 7th house; Neptune trines her 6th house Taurus Sun). This is the house that tells us something of what is important to the person; what she possesses and cherishes. Old style always said "money house"; we nice new agers have extended the meanings--and we are right to do so, of course. We look to concepts like "what's worth most in your life?" and "how do you define your self worth?" "what would you never let go of?" It can show us innate talents, or areas of life in which the person best develops their own sense that they are worthwhile.
Sagittarius on the cusp would tell us this is a person who values expansion--learning, travel, ideas--and who values inclusiveness.
Ooh yeah, definitely.
Uranus here would say she has some rather advanced ideas, that she is not adverse to shocking people (and may find that change, tumult, and the ability to cause people to sit up and go are really great things).
Gospel truth!
And yet, there's a lot of Capricorn here (the steady sign of which her first house Saturn is the ruler)--and Neptune, full of idealism. So we might say she greatly values imagination, but wants it to be structured somehow; she wants to work with the brilliance of Uranus and the sympathy of Neptune to create/do/possess new concepts/things/whatever.
As in, she writes about a fantasy world and has differential equations governing her magic? And plans out the nervous systems of her dragons? And I couldn't do it any other way; I thought of being free, but I wanted that structure of logic and math to rest on.
With Neptune in the 2nd house, she values Neptunian virtues (Neptune rules Pisces). This may be why she relates so well to the Pisces qualities--the sympathy, fantasy, beauty, etc of Pisces--because these are qualities she finds most worthwhile in life, the ones she'd hold to, given a chance, the ones she'd choose to develop (but always with that Uranian twist--something unexpected, intellectual).
Yep, I thought that was my dad's engineering genes, but I guess my planets took them and ran with them.
The Neptune trine to the Sun also brings in Piscean qualities to the outer sense of self, but more on that later. The Uranus/Moon opposition often comes up in charts in which in childhood the mother was not fully available (usually not because of lack of love or anything, but more because of life issues and complexities).
Always working, she found herself the breadwinner of the family once we moved and my dad still has no job.
Uranus/Moon can give, in some cases, a sense of...well "if I get too attached to someone/something they will leave/vanish/not love me". Gives a fear of giving oneself to love, or a tendency to fall in love with unreachable people.
Yes! Yes!
This is also the "oh, the relationship isn't doing so well--guess I'm out of here!" aspect. (the thought is that pain is less painful if you are responsible for it).
I am so going to tell those lads I dumped that it was the fault of Uranus and the Moon!
There are other factors in this chart, however, that serve to mitigate this.
Remember: freewill! You can use the energies positively if you choose to (one use of Uranus/Moon, given the strong Neptune, might be in using this emotional passion in the creation of works of art, songs, books, whatever. Longing of the heart speaks to everyone, and will heal).
Novels, poetry, singing, drawing - and my breakup poetry I still like. I have that attitude: the lad went, the poem remains.
House of siblings, communication, networking, etc (3rd house) has Capricorn on the cusp and loads of Aquarius, including Jupiter in Aquarius trine the Gemini Moon.
Jupiter in Aquarius loves the big picture, loves seeing how everything fits into a vast theoretical world view, enjoys ideas, loves learning about new concepts, new ideas.
There is a certain veil of "structure your communication, or your relationships with those who are like brothers and sisters in your life, let's not get all giddy" to this house, but it is the Jupiter energy that is paramount here.
As in, when my school friends and I recently met, I found myself the one assigning structure to our reunions because no one else would make decisions fast enough?
There is probably a love of learning and communication (particularly writing)
That's not love. That is what defines every single minute of my life, waking and sleeping - how would I write about this?
and relationships with sibs, if any, were probably mostly positive.
We fought like cats and dogs, but we do care for each other in a deep way. If I am in trouble, I know my brothers will stick by me, and I will stand by them. (They are both Arieses, but my mom is even foggier on their birth times than on mine.)
You might be a bit careful not to tell folks things they don't really need to know, not to reveal too much when you start chattering.
Sigh - yes.
And you may, oddly, love folks better when they are distant from you (close up and you might start to feel a bit crowded).
As in, I have good friends, but there are aspects of my life I share very little with them, and prefer it that way?
Jupiter/Moon gives you a gift of innate hopefulness, no matter what is happening; this can add a lot of resillience to your spirit and your life, and may get you through difficult times.
Very true, thank all the gods.
Pisces is the cusp for the 4th house, where you are at home, your roots, where you thrive and feel that "yes, this is as the world should be" (another reason you might relate to the description of Pisces). Your sense of "where home is" may be fluid, is very emotionally based, very changeable and sympathetic. Pisces 4th house people may in fact believe they are children of the universe, at home wherever they are, because they are in touch with a deeper sort of reality, some spiritual center. "Home" might also be found in poetry, music, healing, or sympathetic contact with others (including critters).
Definitely. I have travelled and moved a lot, as my chart shows, and I kind of defined "home is where my writing drafts are."
With Venus in the 4th house (if it really is...*sighs again about mothers who remember vaguely*) you need a home that is "charming", that is harmonious. Pretty things are nice, but need not be all showy; it's more a desire for a lovely feeling place to be at home within.
I have a hard time resisting pretty knickknacks, and I definitely love the way I have decorated my room. However, it is still a bit of a mess in places. Can I blame that errant Venus?
Venus in Aries is quite directly affectionate (and prone to fall in love quickly--and out again, just as quickly--but your chart has other more steadying factors).
Yeah, fall in love quickly is accounted for, it's getting out again that's the problem.
Venus is conjunct Mercury (which is in the 5th house--it is possible that if your birthtime were, say 10:07, Venus and Mercury would be playing together in the fifth house). You have the ability to communicate exquisitely; you may have a lovely voice,
Good that you tell me that - after an eight-hour shift when I sing whenever I am not talking, my coworkers disagreed. They never said I sang badly; it was just too omnipresent.
you have a flair for writing, and you like it if thought and communication have an attractiveness to them (much as you may enjoy learning things, pure hard cold facts are not really your thing at all).
So writing shows up a lot in my chart eh? And that "cold hard facts" explains perfectly why I was/am good at Quiz Bowl, but never really felt at home there - I learned the facts so I could put them in stories later.
Mercury in Aries has a bright and direct mind, and may be a little blunt of speech--tactless (though maybe Venus will filter this out for you).
Nope, I always grow impatient when people say "How are you?" "You know what?" and other redundant questions. Others may treat those as conversational niceties; I see them as wasting time.
Mercury in the 5th--well, the fifth house is about play, romance, creative work, kids, etc. Mercury here gives lots of talent for self expression through writing, speaking, etc.
Yay, again! Writing all over my chart! I guess I have the astrological right to that Hugo Award, then.
And you probably do not do the strong silent type really well--you fall in love with communicators, with people who stimulate your mind as well as emotions and body.
Oh yes, definitely. And for them I will cast any magic spell / I could do without wand or staff... / You want to be one of those people? Well, / By living, make me laugh.
Uranus trines and Saturn squares this Mercury: mixed messages! Uranus gives a nice jolt of extra creativity, an ability to see things in new ways, express things originally; Saturn gives a bit of diffidence (maybe fear of exposing/changing how people perceive you); could also give ability towards disciplined writing, thought--but watch for the inner critic (don't start judging what you do as you are on the first draft of something--that will hold you back and make you crazy. Just tell Saturn to sit quietly until you need him--which would be in the revision time)
That was so true once I learned that. Next time I start writing and not liking it, I will yell "Saturn, shut up! I'll call back when I need you!"
The asteroid Pallas (see, we get to them finally) is in this house, in Aries. Great ability to think up games and pastimes (wonderful if you ever work with kidlets);
I have indeed. They love me.
good sense of form (good for artists and writers), really good inner sense of strategy (which can't hurt!).
I also have a talent for arranging pictures on walls. As for strategy, in the sense of planning an advertising campaign or something similar, yes, I guess that was Pallas talking.
Pallas here loves to dash in and solve problems, and enjoys competition.
Definitely. There's the mathematician, and the robotics girl, and the quiz player; that's Pallas.
Blackmoon Lilith is also here (this one I am still trying to understand). My guess for now: in the realm of creativity, and play, you are called to an understanding of deep and strong female qualities: the power of the woman who refuses to bow down, who claims her dignity and her creativity. (you might want to read up on Lilith on your own)
I will, but I definitely refuse to bow down (I may be negotiated with, though), and I create a lot of tough strong female characters when I write.
This Lilith (and there are three points for Lilith, this is just one, and sorry not to be able to reveal more--cause I don't know more!) is conjunct your Taurus sun (yes, even though Lilith herself is in independent Aries), so these issues around power, woman (what is it to claim one's womanhood? And remember--Lilith is in the charts of guys too, and these themes are universal, we all have power and sympathy and such that go far beyond current western cultural norms for "man" and "woman"). How do you become whole? Wholly you?
That may be why I am not girly-girl and neither am I power-woman tomboy; and I still kind of have issues as to what I am in that respect - how far to go to be sexy and yet respect myself?
Your Taurus Sun is in the 6th house, and is opposite Pluto in the 12th (Pluto is in Scorpio). When you are at work, or involved in doing things that are of service to others, you really put your heart into this--but you want to be acknowledged, you want praise, you want recognition. Without this you feel that work has become mere drudgery.
Higgledy piggledy
Quiz volunteer coaches
Say their reward is
The joy of the game.
Once I get out of this school
What I deserve for me,
I'll recant and say - No,
It's the glory and fame.
A Taurus Sun is very sensuous, can be stubborn, has a wonderful sense of the glories of the physical world. To be healthy you need to have a lovely and comfortable surrounding (including wherever you may be working to pay the rent or whatever).
I take the comfy chair.
Interestingly, although your Aries Mercury makes your mind quite nimble, usually a Taurus Sun does not particularly enjoy being rushed in any way--it's perhaps partly a control issue, and partly that they need to examine things carefully to feel that they are doing the correct thing.
For both reasons - I want to make sure I am doing it right, and who are you to mess with what I'm working on and rush me?
Once they have decided on something they do tend to dig in their heels and stick with it. (this is in contrast to the Gemini Moon, btw, something I think indicolite's computer generated reading also references).
I stayed with taekwondo almost until my dojang died. I stayed with aikido almost until my dojang died, and now I am still going to stay with it. And I have lost count of the time students at my high school I now volunteer at have said to me "Didn't you graduate?" - "It's harder than it sounds."
Pluto/Sun opposition gives you an inner intensity; people will have strong reactions to you throughout your life (positive and negative); people will usually not have a "oh, yeah, her, she's nice" reaction--nothing all mild and simple.
You love me or hate me - probably envy more than hate. But all the profs will remember me, whether the class had eight people or two hundred in it, whether I got an A+ or a D.
With a strong 12th house Pluto you yourself may not realize how powerful you are, or with what intensity you come across ("Me? I'm just a sense-loving sweet Venus ruled Taurus gal, why are you looking at me like that and backing away??").
Yes, my friends do quote back my line "Imperious? Me?"
Strong Pluto people are innately good at healing, tremendous at uncovering secrets (doubly so with your Pluto in the 12th house).
I did toy with "cryptanalyst" as a career path.
And--maybe--at home with inner tumult.
But that's what makes the best stories.
Taurus is ruled by Venus, this gives some added energy to the fact of your Aries Venus in the 4th (or 5th; I keep thinking she is in the 5th really, and your birthtime is a bit later than 10 sharp). You express your self either through homebased activities (if the 4th house is right) or through creative activities/fun/romance/play, etc (if it's the 5th house),
Actually, some of both - as in, I write at home, realise that the day is done and I am really happy, and tell myself to get out more, and not listen to myself. I guess Venus was right on the cusp.
and with more directness and activity than one would expect from a purely Taurus nature.
Taurus Sun people are often much moved by music, as well as being fond of experiencing deliciousness through all other senses.
That is why I sing. All the time. I'll blame Taurus next time.
Your northnode is in Taurus in the 7th house; southnode in Scorpio in the first house: this is an indication that although you are very good at self reflection and refining your own projection of yourself into the world, what you are challenged to do is to understand the nature of true partnership :romantic, business, political, creative--it doesn't matter which flavor, the theme is learning to do things by understanding and working with the Other.
Yeah, I play well with others, but have a hard time acquiring truly clsoe friends - or boyfriends. But I keep trying, and your chart gave me good advice (see that Jupiter/Moon optimism again?)
And in Taurus, the theme is using the emotional depths of Scorpio and creating something that is enduring and present in the world of the senses and actuality; not being content merely with dreaming of things, but actually working with others to build....something.
"Stop talking and talking about it and do something! Less talk, more whacking!"
And, perhaps, not to be afraid of the delights of the sensate universe?
Mmm, chocolate. Mmm, darling, touch me again right there... Mmm...
Mars is in Taurus as well, giving strong energy, good physical endurance,
Well...I was quite bad at middle-distance running - but I have been shouted at "You're one of those people who swims the English Channel for kicks!" And I am always the first one on the dance floor and the last off, and I do not sweat as much as other people do, I've noticed.
and in the 7th house, a tendency to draw partners who are possibly argumentative, certainly active.
I wouldn't respect them if they were any other way.
(with a 7th house Mars, if you don't want to be fighting with your partners, make certain you are physically active, and that they are as well. With romantic partners sexuality is an important factor in the relationship).
Makes an awful lot of sense.
Chiron is in Gemini in the 7th house. Fears about communication, a sense from childhood of not being heard properly;
My father and I speak completely different languages.
fears that the partner/s may abandon one (and possibly experience of this heartbreak) People with a 7th house Chiron can be very caring in their partnerships; they need to make sure they also are getting cared for.
See Higgledy Piggledy above.
This caring that comes into the partnership situation is reinforced by the presence of the asteroid Ceres here, conjunct Chiron, and conjunct the Gemini moon.
Ideas, exchange of information, learning, talking, writing--these are things that feel to indicolite as "yes, I am being cared for" and are the primary ways she tries to care for others--through the realm of the intellect (very interesting for a Taurus sun person).
And he didn't understand that!
That was what stuck me into my role of advisor-consultant (my Star Trek character I am most like is apparently Deanna Troi). Them asteroids.
This suits the Gemini moon, and her internal sense of herself, absolutely; her conscious sense of self may be out of connection with this though ("so much talk, why don't we cuddle?").
Or "Less talk, more whacking!" As in work.
Ideally both sorts of styles can be combined compatibly in her soul, and within people she choses to do equal and harmonious tasks with.
Gemini Moon--very active, very interested, don't bore me, must move about and have fun and share ideas and--absolutely do not bore me.
Oh my god, yes, you bore me, don't expect to see me again.
Was/is your mom talkative?
I wouldn't say she is TOO chattery, but I can definitely count on her to give good advice a lot of the time.
With this moon sharing communication with partners is essential--and fun.
As above with them asteroids.
Juno tells us what sorts of partners we attract (not always, interestingly, the ones we find attractive). Indicolite draws to her partners from the public realm (10th house) who are precise, service oriented, possibly a little critical, extremely loyal (Juno is in Virgo).
He is all of those things (evidence for loyalty as well). Maybe we still have a future.
The partner may be important in her career, or she may find she is in fact "married to her career"; the partner (with the trine to Mars) may stir her to greater activity and force in pursuit of her career goals.
It is his fault I am what I am today. And I don't regret a minute of it.
The asteroid Vesta is in the 11th house, she is going to need breaks from involvement with associations of people, or from her friends (or from straight on pursuit of her dreams). If it's her friends, they need to understand that from time to time she needs her own space, and this doesn't mean she hates them all of a sudden.
Given the varied circles I circulate in, that is one need taken care of.
Vesta in Libra is great for understanding the social ramifications of a situation; also for focus on artistic things.
I did toy with the idea of a diplomatic career, and I find sociolinguistics fascinating stuff; and as seen above, my chart has enough artistic stuff that if I don't get that Hugo Award eventually, someone please shoot me.
And we've talked a bit about the 12th house Pluto in Scorpio...
What do all the outer planets retrograde mean? Good question. Might be that at the time of your birth a lot of heavy forces were temporarily on hold; that there are things within your spirit that will need a little more focus to release, experience?? These are only speculations--I'm really not certain of this at all.
The excitement and adventure of finding out!
It is interesting that indicolite says she "likes" the outer planets a lot; they are pretty intimately connected to her personal planets--at least Neptune and Pluto are (to moon and sun); Saturn is opposite Mars, Uranus connects to Mercury/Venus. It's as if her chart has invited all the outer planets--those distant aunts and uncles--to come in to the intimate family circle. So the energies they bring are pretty familiar ones to her, and this is probably a blessing. (oh, and Jupiter trines the Moon, definitely a blessing).
It gives me hope. Without hope I am nothing.
Jarvenpa, thank you ever so much! Yay, I have no reason to think that my writing is bad - I have Uranus and Neptune and Mercury and Jupiter and the Moon and Vesta and Ceres and Chiron all ganging up to say I will be good at it!
So should I, like, when I am writjng, send them positive energy? "Uranus, bring down the brilliance, and Neptune, give it beauty, and Capricorn, give it structure, and Saturn, you take care that I see where I went wrong, and Mercury, make sure I can say what I mean, and I love you guys"?
I am definitely sending positive energy to you, jarvenpa.
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