John Edwards: Birthchart Interpretations

Birth data: 6-10-1953, 7:02 AM timezone 5.0 Standard at Seneca, SC, Lat. 34:41, Long. 82:57

Contents

Chart Patterns
Important Features
Angular Planets
Sun, Moon, Rising Sign Features
Other Natal Planets
Other Aspects

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Chart Patterns

Funnel, focal planet Chiron

You have the planetary pattern type called the 'funnel' shape. All your planets form a group, with the exception of the focal point, one planet or two planets in conjunction. Your energies tend to be channeled through this focus. You will have abilities in the occupied area of the chart, and goals in the direction of the focal point. The focal planet(s) symbolizes how your energies will be expressed, and where you seek to have your needs met or achieve your purpose.

Chiron in the Seventh House (or sign) represents issues with one’s vital force to relate with others intimately. With this placement, you have both a tremendous desire to connect with other people, as well as frustrations that have arisen in this area. Your attempts to connect may have been frustrated through experiences of early childhood, when you wanted contact with others but were rejected or somehow prevented from establishing meaningful relationships with them. As a consequence you have been focused on establishing such a connection ever since. It becomes extremely important to establish a connection with another person, yet this contact, so desired and even longed for, can also be extremely painful. Any partial rejection can be seen as a revisiting of your earlier pain surrounding issues of relationship to other people. As time goes on, there may even be some element of self-sabotage involved in your relationship experience. You may also become compulsively attached to the idea of close personal involvement, seeing yourself as more of a part of a desired union than as an isolated ego, “on your own”. Yet your very wholeness does also depend on being able to stand independently, so that there an element of dysfunction in the way you deal with interpersonal relationships. Your path to healing these issues may be to become more fully conscious of the earlier wounding that you have experienced, enabling you to finally move through that pain toward a less fear-based way of relating, without the self-undoing or the extreme sensitivity that may have been unconsciously present. You may also find that you are able to take the conscious knowledge you have gained through this process further by helping other people deal with these same issues, either through work in the helping professions, or just with friends and loved ones in the course of your daily life. As you grow more sure of yourself, this area of interpersonal relationships, while still very important to you, can become a great source of strength for yourself and for others as well.

The following applies to your generation as a whole as well as to you personally:

Chiron in Capricorn (or the Tenth House) represents issues with one’s vital force to act with authority and make a responsible contribution to society. With this placement you are likely to be somewhat rebellious of authority, and yet compulsively drawn to it as well. You have probably had many experiences in your life where you either had to knuckle under against your will or else over-exerted your authority with others in a way that left them feeling oppressed. The compulsion you may feel to be in authority perhaps arose in your childhood, when you were too forcefully controlled, leading to compensatory behavior as an adult. Everyone has a basic need to be in control, and if distrustful of authority as a result of early experiences, we tend to strike first rather than wait to be pushed around by others. Another manifestation is being drawn to achievement in the eyes of the world, yet feeling ambivalent about your successes. You may feel pushed to success by the important parental figures of your childhood, and never really have a sense of belonging to your own true destiny, rather than acting on behalf of others’ beliefs and goals. These feelings are also connected with low self-esteem, and you may seek to be a well-known presence in the world as a way of making up for feelings of lack of self-worth somewhere below your conscious level of reasoning, yet the victory when it comes may be hollow. In order to avoid these traps, it is good to be in more conscious touch with your hidden feelings, and attempt to bring these into the light to explore them in detail. Once you have begun this process, it will continue as a natural part of your growth, as it becomes easier and easier to confront the scary parts of yourself. At this point you can begin to wield a more conscious and integrated form of personal power.

T-Square, focal planet Saturn

You have a T-Square in your chart. With a this planetary aspect pattern, in which three planets or conjunctions are in square with one another, you have a high degree of motivation and drive. Your energies are most easily and habitually expressed by the energy of the focal point, the middle of the T-Square. You may also compensate for overdoing in the area of life represented by the focal point, by leaning toward the empty pattern element opposite the focal point, seeking to balance your activity. The lesson of this planetary aspect pattern is in learning to use your considerable energy wisely in the pursuit of your true goals. There is great tension represented by the focal planet or planets in your chart, where conflicting parts of your personality attain their focus and peak of energy, and you may observe compulsive behavior in the area of life represented here.

Saturn in the Fourth House (or sign) gives a deepening and concentrating, or a blockage in the expression of the feelings. You may seem to be rigid and unemotional. You may have had problems with parental care and guidance in your early years. You may have a fixation with one or both parents. You can be apt to withdraw from too close emotional involvement. You may have a need to achieve, arising out of a sense of inferiority. Security is very important, and may take the form of striving for material rewards. There could also be a tendency to introversion, or strong psychic powers. The lesson is to more fully and deeply understand and value one's true origins, leading to a better sense of security and greater self-acceptance. The personal and intimate world of your feelings must be accepted and integrated, rather than remain locked away behind the barriers of fear and isolation.

The following applies to your generation as a whole as well as to you personally:

Saturn in Libra (or the seventh house) gives a pleasant personality with a deepening or concentration of the power to relate to others. You are easy to get along with, and you usually do well in the areas of partnerships and business relationships. You are possessed of good judgment, diplomacy and tact. You are outer-directed. You are self-reliant and may experience a sense of isolation. You may find sorrow or difficulty in marriage, and yet rise above this circumstance, which can become an opportunity for inner integration and balancing. Your lesson is to make better use of relationship as a vehicle for self-discipline and to further your growth as an individual.

Yod, focal planet Chiron

You have a Yod planetary aspect pattern in your chart, also known as the 'finger of God'. This pattern consists of two different planets forming Inconjunct aspects of 150` to a third, or focal, point. Usually there will be a marked emphasis on the area of life represented by this focal point, which may be one planet, or two or more in conjunction. You may have physical or psychological problems associated with the expression of the energies of the focal planet or planets, creating a subtle form of tension in your life. Your lesson is to transform the expression of these energies along more positive lines.


Important Features

Moon in Gemini (5° Gem 09' 37") Moon in the Eleventh House Ruler of rising sign

The Moon in Gemini gives an active mentality, with perhaps a tendency to be nervous and high-strung. There is likely to be a glibness of tongue and a love of chatter with this position. You must beware of superficiality. Since the Moon represents childhood experiences, possibly there were two sides to your early life. You are shrewd and versatile, but you can be overly critical at times. You can also be hard on yourself. You like to express your opinion, and tend to react to situations with thinking, rather than with direct action.

The Moon in Eleventh House represents emotional sensitivity in social arenas. You seek comfort and security in friends and group associations. You are dynamic in group settings although you do not need to feel like the center of attention. You may be detached and objective in social circumstances because you do not want to commit your allegiance to one group or another. You prefer to have several types of acquaintances in various group settings. You do well as an organizer of group events whether it be a party for friends, group meeting or social event. You have a tendency to overextend yourself and can become divided by being involved in too many group projects at once. You may need to guard against being too naive, friendly and taking too much responsibility for groups. You may do well to focus on reliable friendships and learn discrimination when opening to new activities and associations so that you can manage and coordinate your various interests and activities.

Jupiter in Gemini (7° Gem 27') Jupiter in the Twelfth House

Jupiter in the Twelfth House (or sign) gives you a quiet and unassuming personality. You are good and kind, very considerate of others, and are friendly and easy-going. You need to feel an emotional sympathy in order for your work to be satisfying to you. You have your own personal code of conduct to which you are true, no matter what public opinion may be, or convention may dictate. You are likely to be fond of cinema, or other imaginative flights of fancy. You may suffer in your life from being overly sensitive to the needs of others, or seek to retire from the casual cruelties of the world at large. There is some danger of escapism. You tend to work behind the scenes, and do not seek personal glorification from your actions, but are content to do what you do because it is helpful to other people.

Jupiter in Gemini (or the third house) gives you a charming, talkative, and clever personality. You also tend to be somewhat scattered, with interest in just about anything. You are fond of travel, intellectually enthusiastic and make a good teacher. You are optimistic and changeable. Since you see the value of many different pursuits, it may be difficult for you to narrow down, and you may in fact lose opportunities through lack of an ability to focus. You may speak too quickly, before you have thought a matter through, and benefit from learning to hold off and keep your own council. You should beware of a tendency to superficiality or self-centeredness.

Venus in Taurus (4° Tau 10') Venus in the Eleventh House Leading planet of planetary pattern

Venus in Taurus gives an earthy and practical love nature, very ardent and nurturing. This is a powerful placement of Venus, and your emotions are strong and long-lasting. You are also apt to be a trifle possessive. You are very sensual, social and easy to get along with. You like living the good life, and there is also an abiding sense of enjoyment from music and the arts. You have good luck with finances.

Venus in the Eleventh House represents a strong connection between artistic sensibility, what one values, and group associations or ideals. You are very interested in groups and society in general. Your love and affection may express itself more for the general and all-inclusive vision of social connectedness than for any particular person, even your significant other, or others. Like persons with Venus in Aquarius, you function well in friendships and acquaintances, but you may not be happy in intimate relationships. Your love is broader and more general, and you may be given to spiritual or philanthropic activities. You are likely to possess artistic ability toward music, poetry or painting. You have an idealistic vision for the integration of society into a more unified whole that drives your basic approach to life.


Angular Planets


Sun, Moon, Rising Sign Features

Sun in Gemini (19° Gem 17' 45") Sun in the Twelfth House

The Sun represents will and purpose, the sense of vitality, and the evolving higher Self. In Gemini it is Mutable-Air, ruling the arms, the shoulders and the lungs. Gemini people are airy and intellectual, glib of tongue and curious about life and about other people. Your ruling planet is Mercury, and Gemini is the sign associated with logical thought process, (based on duality) also communication and the conscious mind. Gemini people can experience two sides of things, and you tend to be flighty, engaging in many varied experiences to gain knowledge. You are witty and have a good sense of humor, and you are likely to be an excellent conversationalist. You make a good teacher. You can be nervous and high-strung, and may be mischievous. Unlike possessive Taurus, you tend toward liberty in relationship. You can be easily bored, but under the control of self-discipline you have tremendous intellectual and artistic possibilities.

The Sun in the Twelfth House represents a concentration of one's vital force to be one with the unifying forces of cosmic awareness. You are intuitively aware that you are within the source of creation. You identify yourself as a somewhat nebulous being, very attached to your special sense of awareness. You sense that you are more than merely a body with feelings, emotions, and thoughts. You may in fact reject your own boundaries because you cannot identify with a unitary self as being separate from the universal cosmic self (or God). You may be frustrated and feel alienated from the source of creation. Due to your lack of personal boundaries you are quite sensitive to the collective unconscious as an interior realm of perception. You perceive reality as cosmic forms of creation and therefore are naturally inclined to the artistic, poetic, or musical. Your sensitivity can create a need for you to withdraw and to retreat in order to cleanse your perceptual awareness after collecting psychic debris from outside yourself. You benefit from periodic retreats in order that you create positive boundaries of selfhood from which you can then re-enter the collective awareness with a fresh perception which can stimulate others to clarify their own purpose for themselves as well.

Sun in strong trine (within 1.4 degrees) with Saturn

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. This aspect gives a deepening and concentration of your self-expression. You can be strongwilled and determined, and can appear selfish, or cautious and reserved. You have a strong desire for recognition. In later years you will probably acquire a firm basis for respect in terms of accomplishments over a lifetime of careful and industrious effort. The lesson for you is to deepen and broaden the knowledge of who you really are at the level of your innermost soul, and to really learn to love the person that you find in this process.

Sun in strong trine (within 1.9 degrees) with Neptune

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. This aspect gives a highly sensitive, visionary and creative individual. You are somewhat unworldly, and you are likely to be artistic or musical. You may be open to mysticism or the exploration of other dimensions through psychic perceptions. You are the soft-hearted type, and may be even too willing to sacrifice yourself for the good of others. Extremely aware of your surroundings, you may take on different qualities with different groups of people, or there could be difficulties with your motivation. Once these difficulties are overcome, tremendous creativity is possible, perhaps through artistic channels: music, drama, poetry. You may also find your life's calling in the helping professions, for your compassion is strong. Your aim is to achieve a balance between the spiritual dimension of reality and ordinary life.

Sun in strong sextile (within 1.9 degrees) with Pluto

The planetary energies flow together, open into new possibilities, new connections. This aspect gives a willful personality with a focus on being recognized and admired. You have strong desires, and you also have a powerful urge toward self-transformation, and may go through many changes in your life. You are not shy about expressing your beliefs, and you may even feel a compulsion toward self-assertion or self-aggrandizement. You also tend to champion the underdog, and react strongly to social injustice. In relationships, you tend to become intensely involved quickly, and stay absorbed in the relationship as long as it lasts. There may be underlying feelings of insecurity leading to your rather self-centered and ego oriented behavior. Exploring these feelings can be incredibly rewarding for you, and should be quite possible, for you have tremendous powers of regeneration and rebirth. When you learn to train your considerable energy on these socially oriented as well as personal goals, you can become a focal point for the transformation of society itself.

Sun in semi-square (within 0.1 degrees) with Venus Leading planet of planetary pattern

The planetary energies conflict in determined subtle tension; calmness is required. This aspect gives an excitable and emotional personality, with cheerfulness and warm affections. There is usually artistic ability indicated, perhaps in music and dance, as well as a love of refined surroundings. You may appear flighty in your attitudes and your emotions. You are graceful and charming, and are usually well-liked.

Sun in semi-sextile (within 2.4 degrees) with Uranus

The planetary energies attract each other, require effort, allow entry of new information. This aspect gives an eccentric and strong-willed individual. You tend to want to get your own way, and you love freedom from conventionality. You are inclined to be reckless, and may periodically start over in your life, completely eliminating previous foundations. You are an original and independent thinker with an active, scientific mind, futuristic in outlook, and so are capable of bringing new ideas into being. You are somewhat inclined to nervousness and impatience, and tend to shy away from commitment and responsibility. You can benefit from trying to control your energetic and visionary impulses in order to make these more concretely available in your own life, and in the life of society around you.

Sun in inconjunct (within 0.6 degrees) with Chiron Focal planet of planetary pattern

The planetary energies do not flow smoothly, one or the other predominates; discrimination must be employed. With this aspect between Sun and Chiron there are indications that you may experience painful realizations throughout your own life and that you also have the ability to heal others as well. Chiron is called "the wounded healer" because it represents the archetype of imperfection and loss which when integrated leads to compassion and understanding of others' suffering. The empathy and the understanding that are gained through life's trials provides the ability to serve as a helper and a healer for others. Since you have come through the fires of difficulty you are likely to be someone with career possibilities in the helping professions. It is often easier to face others' troubles than one's own, and you may even be more ready and available to help others than to help yourself. It is good to integrate your past experiences, no matter how painful they may have been, and no matter how painful these feelings continue to be for you in adult life. Then you will be in a position to truly sympathize with others' suffering and help them to work out their traumas as well.

Moon in strong conjunction (within 2.3 degrees) with Jupiter

The strongest blend of the energies represented by these two planets. This conjunction gives a loving, kind and nurturing personality, friendly and sociable, generous and high-minded. You possess an inherent spirituality, which is displayed not in philosophy, but in acts of love and caring. You work well with the public, and attract material rewards without seeming to try for them. You are a true humanitarian, honorable and dependable in your dealings with your fellow man, and possess a natural sense of security based on what was probably a happy childhood. There may be an inclination toward the poetical and mystical or perhaps the marvelous side of life.

Moon in semi-sextile (within 2.5 degrees) with Mercury Ruler of sun sign - sun's ruler

The planetary energies attract each other, require effort, allow entry of new information. This aspect gives a brilliant mind with a sharp tongue and a witty personality. You are an independent thinker. You can be sensitive at times, and you may find yourself overly concerned with health issues You may appear to have the attitude of the reformer toward your fellow-man, because you have a tendency to let your emotions run away with your thoughts. You should beware of a tendency to indulge in gossip at times, or to speak disparagingly of other people. However you make a loyal ally and will fly to the defense of a friend.

Moon in semi-sextile (within 1.0 degrees) with Venus Leading planet of planetary pattern

The planetary energies attract each other, require effort, allow entry of new information. This aspect gives you a somewhat difficult personality. You are kind and artistically gifted, but you may be hard to live with. You dislike having to act charming in social situations when you may not really feel it, and you have a reluctance to come forward into relationship with others, although you have a good deal of charm when you allow yourself to express it, and can be very popular socially. You may encounter sadness in your life as a result of close personal relationships that go astray. You also may spend your money foolishly, and need to cultivate more respect for its value.

Moon in sesquiquadrate (within 0.5 degrees) with Saturn

The planetary energies conflict in determined subtle tension; control is required. This aspect gives a deepening and concentrating, or a blockage in the expression of your feelings. You may seem to be rigid, rather letting your emotions flow freely, stemming from problems with parental care and guidance in your early years. You can be extremely sensitive and may experience some difficulties in your relationship to the feminine. The lesson for you here is to understand and value your origins more fully, leading to a better sense of security and greater self-acceptance.

Moon in sesquiquadrate (within 1.1 degrees) with Neptune

The planetary energies conflict in determined subtle tension; control is required. This aspect gives an emotionally sensitive, idealistic and loving personality. You possess an ethereal quality, and you may have powerful psychic abilities. You are the soft-hearted type, and you may be too willing to sacrifice yourself for the good of others. You could have issues with self-deception, or experience discontent with the practical realities of life. Your home is important to you, and you may change residences frequently in search of your ideal environment, or fantasize about finding the perfect mate. You benefit from striving for greater clarity in applying your high ideals to the real world.

Moon in sesquiquadrate (within 0.3 degrees) with Chiron Focal planet of planetary pattern

The planetary energies conflict in determined subtle tension; control is required. With this aspect there are difficulties indicated in relating to the feminine - either significant female presences in your life or else and including your own feminine side. This would be true, and different in its sense, in either a man's or a woman's chart. Of course the important early model for the feminine is mother, and it is likely that there was intelligent communication of wisdom and also painful experiences between you. If these experiences become so painful that they are suppressed from consciousness, buried deep in your psyche, in your adult life it is important to move past any resentment you still feel, caused by early wounding in your relationship with the female part, or nurturing influence, of your own nature, so that you can begin to move into a more conscious and compassionate reconciliation with your walled off parts. Once you have begun to make conscious any pain and alienation you may feel surrounding events from the long-buried past, you can begin to truly help others as well as yourself, and let your creative side emerge.

Moon in quintile (within 2.6 degrees) with Midheaven

The planetary energies are positively linked, subtle, and spiritual in dimension. This aspect gives an emotionally sensitive personality who is nurturing and caring. You may tend to be dependent on others for your own feelings of self-worth. It may be important to you that others look up to you. You do well in a business setting, having a dramatic presence that gives you natural abilities to influence others, and an attitude of caring that makes you easy to get along with. You set priorities based on people rather than strictly on profits. Your career may also be quite changeable.

The ruler of your Sun Sign is Mercury in Cancer (7° Can 38')

The ruler of your Sun sign is characteristic of your personality:

Mercury in Cancer gives an extremely sensitive and emotional mentality. With this position you tend to be easily influenced by the information of the senses. You may have a tendency to personalize your sense impressions, for they directly affect your emotional state. You learn a given subject by feeling or by contact with others rather than by study. Your memory is excellent. Because the sign of Cancer is closely involved with storing up sense impressions in memory, you may have a tendency to live in the past. You are likely to have strong psychic abilities, and your artistic sensibility is also strong.

Mercury in the Twelfth House represents a strong mental connection between one's inner awareness and the deep and nebulous realms of magical inner worlds. You have a refined and visionary mentality. With this placement, you are likely to be poetic in the expression of your thoughts and feelings, and you may possess musical ability as well. You are fascinated by the unknowable mysteries of your own inner world. You are inclined to search to the depths in order to sort through your communication with yourself. Mundane reality doesn't interest you. You may avoid dealing with it by being evasive or vague in your communication with others, or you may be prone to day-dreaming or fall prey to self-deception. You are highly sensitive in your reaction to your surroundings, reacting from the unconscious and instinctual level of your mental function rather than the logical level. You may have difficulty in communicating the results of your inner explorations with other people. However, when you have sorted through your most awesome and perhaps even fearsome inner experiences, you can help others who may have difficulties in their own connection with mundane reality.

Cancer Rising

The Rising Sign is the mask shown to others, also the physical appearance.

People with Cancer rising are nurturing and protective of other people. Your ruling planet is the Moon, and you tend to be moody, with your emotions constantly changing. You are security-conscious and your home is important to you. The position of the Moon in your chart is very important, and shows the way your personality is likely to develop. If the Moon is well-placed by sign and aspect, life flows easily for you, while stressful aspects or sign placement may reflect difficulties (check the position of the Moon). Cancer people are apt to appear passive, and to rely on their feelings. You are subtle, rather than direct, and are likely to reflect the moods of those around you. You are also good at working with the public. You are likely to be involved with the past in some way, because the sign of Cancer is the sign of nurturing, protecting, sustaining, and is strongly tied to the past, and Karma. You are probably the type who can be happy for hours in an antique store. Cancer people tend to collect the residue of past experience and hold onto it, as a coloration of their present activities, leading to instinctual action. You can benefit from shedding the light of conscious reason on your habitual patterns, and focusing on your true goals.


Other Natal Planets

Mars in Gemini (27° Gem 33') Mars in the Twelfth House

Mars in the Twelfth House (or sign) gives a sensitive and retiring nature, possible quite introverted and withdrawn. You are easily influenced by others, and can be moody and introspective. You tend to resent and be discontent with your situation or that of the world. You tire easily, for the physical energy is variable. You may need to work through a lack of truthfulness or being indecisive, and you should always be true to yourself and make an effort to overcome difficult circumstances. Your quiet exterior masks a restlessly searching interior process, which strives for nothing less than the transformation of yourself and society into a more ideal system.

Mars in Gemini (or the third house) gives an alert, witty and energetic nature, possibly inclined toward sarcasm. You are adventurous and physically active. You are glib and communicate very well with others, although you may be a better talker than listener. If you have any weaknesses in this area, it is in being somewhat sharp with friends and relatives, or possibly indulging in gossip. You have a natural mechanical ability and do many things well, although you may scatter your attention, and could benefit by learning to focus and concentrate your energies.

Uranus in Cancer (16° Can 57') Uranus in the First House

Uranus in the First House (or sign) gives an individual with an original and eccentric mind, whose intuition is strong. Change and variety excite you. You are a nonconformist, and totally have your own code of ethics. You are constantly asserting your freedom and independence, which is the very breath of life for you. The Uranian energy can be impulsive, as well as insensitive to others' needs, and you can appear to be cold at times, or you may seem to be more excited by ideas than by other people. You may feel unrest and isolation, as though on a separate wavelength from the rest of mankind. Your mutability and urge for constant change can frustrate or confuse those around you. You may also feel uneasy in your sense of self, as you attempt to come to terms with this basic instability. You benefit from more balance in applying your energy, and an awareness that everyone is not as impulsive as you are. You are a free spirit, courageous and pioneering, whose mission in life is involved with bringing new ideas into being.

The following applies to your generation as a whole as well as to you personally:

Uranus in Cancer (or the fourth house) gives an eccentric individual with volatile emotions. You may change your residence frequently. You may also feel insecure at times, possibly stemming from a disrupted home life in your early years. Your home life may have been stimulating and challenging, or else there may have been difficulties, perhaps your parents were quite busy with their own affairs, leaving the children out of the picture. You may have difficulty in being sure of yourself, or become focused on your own subconscious process, and have a strong sense of your own unique individuality. You are on the path of transforming your sense of self, creating integration and stability from your own efforts, rather than what comes through from more conventional attitudes of society or your early parental environment.

Neptune in Libra (21° Lib 14') Neptune in the Fourth House

Neptune in the Fourth House (or sign) gives an emotionally sensitive and loving personality. You have powerful psychic tendencies. You were strongly influenced by your home life, and may tend to idealize these formative experiences. You may have suffered by being let down by the same-sex parent, or there may have been an unsettled home life leading to deep-rooted feelings of insecurity. Your home is important to you, and you may change residences frequently in search of your ideal environment. You may tend to repeat previous patterns learned in early life, which would be better avoided in the adult setting. You could perhaps suffer a loss of family, or part of your family connection, leading to potentially painful realizations. These realizations may in turn lead you to a more depersonalized and spiritual basis for the concept of family life.

The following applies to your generation as a whole as well as to you personally:

Neptune in Libra (or the seventh house) gives a charming, generous and idealistic personality. With this placement you have an intense love of beauty and the arts, especially music and painting. You are imaginative and visionary. You may feel a sense of obligation to other people. You can give a great deal to others without expecting anything in return. You dream of finding the perfect partner, but you may encounter difficulties in making that dream a reality. There can be emotional confusion, leading you to depend too much on the strength of another person. There are likely to be karmic lessons for you in regard to partnership and marriage. Making an effort to pull back from too much self-sacrifice can bring greater clarity to relationships, which can be of benefit to all concerned.

Pluto in Leo (21° Leo 08') Pluto in the Second House

Pluto in the Second House (or sign) gives a personality somewhat focused around the issues of money and material possessions. With this placement you are on a path of transformation of your attitude toward the material, and of your values in general. You may have a tendency to associate a sense of security with material possessions, or possibly compulsive expenditures may be a problem. You can overcome these tendencies by self-discipline and re-aligning of values. When your values are transformed, your sense of self no longer depends on physical possessions, but rather depends on the deeper meaning associated with these things, which are symbolic of love and sharing.

The following applies to your generation as a whole as well as to you personally:

Pluto in Leo (or the fifth house) gives a personality with a focus on being recognized and admired. You may feel a compulsion toward self-aggrandizement. You may have underlying feelings of insecurity leading to rather self-centered and ego oriented behavior. Your desire for reputation may be thwarted, but this can lead to benefits for you, by forcing a re-evaluation of your need to achieve. Transformation in this area is quite possible, moving toward a more positive expression of personal power. In expressing the more positive form of your creative energy, you can perform a service for yourself and society.

N Node in Aquarius (4° Aqu 04'R) N Node in the Eighth House

Lunar North Node in the Eighth House (or sign). South Node in the second house or sign. This placement gives a focus on personal transformation, and on deeply felt relationship with other people. In the past, or in previous lifetimes, you paid a great deal of attention to ownership of property and material things. You need to gradually let go of these attachments in the course of this lifetime. This may prove difficult for you, especially if you have strong conjunctions between the South Node and other planets. As your life unfolds, you may develop an interest in occult science. Your focus as you mature will be more and more on how you can be helpful to others in your relationships with them, and less and less on status, prestige and the accumulation of riches. The sexual act itself can be transformative for you as you relate to others in a deeper and more spiritual way. Your evolutionary payoff comes from letting go of the material world in to order to accept the deep and universal connection with others that is the root truth of the social condition.

Lunar North Node in Aquarius (or the eleventh house). South Node in the fifth house or sign. This placement gives an individual with a focus on friendships and social groups. Although creativity on a personal level comes easily to you, and working creatively with other people is more difficult, it is the more difficult that you must attempt in this lifetime. In the past, or in previous lifetimes, you were proud of your individuality and of your individual contribution. You may have had an ego attachment to the products of your personal energy, and were on the other hand not very interested in promoting social values or a group ideal. Now, in this lifetime, you find yourself envisioning possibilities for larger social groupings than just yourself and your immediate family. Perhaps the betterment of all of society becomes your focus now. As you develop along your evolutionary path you find that you are ever more future-oriented and socially responsible, for this is the way for you to find your true fulfillment.


Other Aspects

Mars in strong square (within 1.8 degrees) with Midheaven

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. This aspect gives an assertive personality who desires success in public life. There is likely to be an excellent ability to get things done, and also tremendous drive to succeed. Career issues are very important for you, but you need to beware of too much ego-involvement in your work or professional life.

Saturn in strong conjunction (within 0.5 degrees) with Neptune

The strongest blend of the energies represented by these two planets. This conjunction gives a clear thinking and discriminating personality. Saturn brings an extremely practical dimension to the visionary idealism of Neptune. You are likely to be responsible, compassionate and take social issues very seriously. You may also have a musical career or achieve much in the helping professions (especially if close aspects exist between this conjunction and the ‘personal' planets). You may also suffer confusion regarding restrictions imposed upon your life, in which you feel both attracted to the security imposed by such limits, and simultaneously repelled or stifled by these restrictions. You are usually able to work with both energies in an effort to balance between either extreme of behavior.

Saturn in strong sextile (within 0.5 degrees) with Pluto

The planetary energies flow together, open into new possibilities, new connections. This aspect gives a forceful personality with a focus on issues of authority, power and control. You may have the charismatic personal magnetism of a natural leader. It is also possible that occult studies will attract and fascinate you. You may also find yourself with an ambivalence toward power, leading you to demonstrate rebellious attitudes toward established authority. You may seek a position of authority, if for no other reason than to be your own master, and then run into the difficulties inherent in maintaining such a position of authority, once achieved. This can work to your ultimate advantage, since the security of such a position can be a hindrance to necessary growth and transformation. What is needed is a re-evaluation and transformation of the urge for power and control, based on a deeper understanding of and more conscious and socially responsible use of personal power.

Saturn in strong square (within 0.8 degrees) with Chiron

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. With this aspect, you can be rigid or stuck in situations; unbending. You have an attachment and also great difficulty with authority; for example you may endlessly achieve positions of authority and then have second thoughts about it. You likely suffered through potentially painful experiences as a child, when you were forced to submit to an arbitrary authority or limitation of some kind. Perhaps you had the experience of a bad father. The relationship with your father was damaged in some way; perhaps it was a relationship you had to get away from, either from his overbearing nature or from his neediness and lack of presence. In other words, your father figure was either too strict, or not present and therefore not strict enough. With this aspect, you need to make your own form of personal authority, independent from the parental influences or that of society. This gives you the potential for great strength and leadership, if you can integrate your powerful and perhaps repressed emotions regarding your concept of authority. In this way you can lead others into the New Age. You may be one to re-work the structure of society itself in some way, or to become an advisor or even a leader in the social sphere; perhaps in connection with organizations devoted to new age healing techniques. You may also feel the need to redeem yourself or your family; to restructure your heritage, perhaps even your entire relationship with the physical realm.

Neptune in strong sextile (within 0.1 degrees) with Pluto

The planetary energies flow together, open into new possibilities, new connections. This combination gives an individual with a personal involvement in the energies of the collective. This is a generational aspect, which many of your contemporaries will share with you. You have a subtle intuition and unusually clear insight into others. The influence of the unconscious is especially strong in you. You need to connect with your higher self in order to be happy. You function at your best in service to the world, helping to move it closer to a vision of spiritual union between all mankind.

Neptune in strong square (within 1.4 degrees) with Chiron

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. With this combination of planetary energies in your chart, you may have gone to the depths and back again in your life. You have a particularly strong access to the world of dreams and inner fantasy, which may serve as an escape valve for you. You may also be extremely sensitive to the psyches of others, may vicariously experience their pain. Something keeps you out of touch with consensus reality, but you also are not comfortable with this role. It is as if you stand on the other side of a glass door from the rest of society, through which you alternately gaze longingly and then lose interest and wander away into your own fantasy. You are capable of tremendous spiritual powers once you have begun to work through these difficulties and establish a better sense of where you stand vis a vis the remainder of society. You may exhibit great poetic or musical talent or the empathy of a born healer. Having come through a painful examination of your own psyche you are able to see more clearly and compassionately into the minds of others also.

Mercury in semi-sextile (within 0.2 degrees) with Jupiter

The planetary energies attract each other, require effort, allow entry of new information. This aspect gives a talkative and clever personality. You are also somewhat scattered. You are optimistic and may tend to exaggerate at times. You may be superficial, or changeable, or you may be too quick to judge others. Opportunities may be lost through lack of an ability to focus. You may be rash of speech, especially if there are challenging aspects to Jupiter. You also should beware of a tendency to be self-centered or conceited. You are fond of travel, intellectually enthusiastic and would make a good teacher.

Mercury in semi-square (within 1.5 degrees) with Pluto

The planetary energies conflict in determined subtle tension; calmness is required. This aspect gives a sharp and penetrating mind, together with unusually clear and direct communication skills. You are likely to be quite interested in the occult, or other hidden and potentially taboo areas of thought. You can also be compulsively attached to your communication or the results of your mental process, so that there is a danger that you may feel yourself to be correct in what you say in spite of what others may think. You can be a great source of inspiration when you use your powers of insight and expression responsibly, enabling you to share your gift with your fellow-man

Venus in quintile (within 0.8 degrees) with Uranus

The planetary energies are positively linked, subtle, and spiritual in dimension. This aspect gives an individual who is independent and original in the expression of social activities and in relationships. You enjoy the excitement of new contacts. You have a creative attitude which may express itself through artistic endeavors. You are also tolerant and accepting of other people. You may be unconventional in your attitudes and you tend to occupy yourself with multiple interests and explorations. You can benefit from attempting to bring a steady and consistent focus to your many interests and activities.

Jupiter in sesquiquadrate (within 1.8 degrees) with Saturn

The planetary energies conflict in determined subtle tension; control is required. This aspect gives a serious and conscientious personality but one that may be somewhat impractical. You are motivated to achieve success, but you are likely to run into some self-imposed barriers on the road to achieving it. There is a gap between your ambition and what you actually accomplish. You may have too limited and narrow a view of your potential, so that you aim too low, and garner less than you are capable of. You can benefit from cultivating a more giving and generous attitude, greater contentment with your present resources, and trying for a better balance between dreams and reality.

Jupiter in sesquiquadrate (within 1.2 degrees) with Neptune

The planetary energies conflict in determined subtle tension; control is required. This aspect gives an imaginative and unassuming personality. You are good and kind, considerate of others, and are friendly and easy-going. You are inclined to the mystical, seeing life in terms of visionary and poetic feelings, rather than in practical terms. You benefit from attempting a more practical and reality-based view of life.

Jupiter in quintile (within 1.7 degrees) with Pluto

The planetary energies are positively linked, subtle, and spiritual in dimension. This combination gives a positive and determined personality, with an ability to develop your powers to the fullest. You are inclined to transform yourself in the course of a lifetime. You have good judgment, and a constant sense of what is important to you. Your focus is excellent, and you make a good leader because of it. You work well in the area of interpersonal relationships, and may be interested in the occult, or possess the powers of a healer or mystic. Your best use of your powers of focus and self-transformation are in the area of working with other people, for you have much to share with your fellow-man.

Jupiter in quintile (within 0.3 degrees) with Midheaven

The planetary energies are positively linked, subtle, and spiritual in dimension. This aspect gives a positive and optimistic personality. You are lucky and are likely to be successful at whatever you strive for. You have an expansive attitude toward new projects, so that there can be almost too much growth potential for you to handle. You have good spirits and are able to see the big picture, so that others find you an inspiration to be around. You have possibilities for a career in travel or education, or perhaps in a spiritual context. You may have to beware of too much self-satisfaction however, and should try to cultivate humility in your dealings with other people.

Uranus in opposition (within 2.9 degrees) with Chiron

The planetary energies are polarized; outer events stimulate their interaction; integration is the challenge. With this aspect, you are prone to sudden insights and departures. You have a unusual combination of personality traits in which you are both very unconventional yet also somewhat unsure of yourself in your very departure from the rest of society, so that you may surprisingly show flashes of a conservative side. You have a brilliant mind, and are undoubtedly a witty conversationalist, although with a slightly erratic tendency to switch topics arbitrarily. This aspect is the hallmark of an inventor or other type of creative thinker, perhaps in the health fields or the helping professions. You are likely to have great difficulties with walking the straight and narrow but something seems to be forcing you to. Or it is a compulsion based on your own painful experiences with authority. It is important to become more conscious of your hidden motivations and patterns, so as not to be ruled by them from below, as it were.

Pluto in inconjunct (within 1.3 degrees) with Chiron

The planetary energies do not flow smoothly, one or the other predominates; discrimination must be employed. With this aspect you are likely to possess a somewhat compulsive nature. You have a tendency to plunge into the depths of despair as well as the heights of manic madness as a form of compensatory reaction to the over-indulgence of wallowing in the depths. There are great depths of passion within you, likely the result of painful experiences from early childhood. As long as these experiences remain unintegrated, they will cause a stir, both for yourself and for anyone you become close to. When you become more conscious of these patterns you have a great capacity to heal yourself and others. You have a keen intuition and great power to transform yourself and your personal relationships as you evolve.

Mercury in weak sextile (within 3.5 degrees) with Venus

The planetary energies flow together, open into new possibilities, new connections. This aspect gives a charming manner and an idealistic philosophy. You are friendly and sociable, and lean toward the beautiful and artistic side of life. You have artistic abilities and a youthful attitude, and tend to like young people. You like to dress attractively, although not necessarily expensively, and are likely to be cheerful and optimistic. You also usually have a pleasant speaking or singing voice, and express yourself well in speech or writing. You can be very persuasive in a quiet way.

Saturn in weak square (within 3.8 degrees) with Uranus

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. This aspect gives an impractical, eccentric and future-oriented personality. You are definitely not a conformer. You have a strong imagination and good conceptual level. When you function at your best you have the capability to bring a concrete and real-world practicality to the intangible and visionary Uranian energy. You also may alternate between too great an attachment to social approval and authority and too violent a rebellion against it, or refuse to be argued out of your opinion, which can be unique unto yourself. You may have a strong desire to move on to new ideas, yet refuse to let go of conventional attitudes that stand in the way. Your challenge is to move from a knee-jerk reaction against established authority or in favor of it, toward establishing your own personal authority, in your own way, and to help make your brilliant visionary impulses available to society at large.