Richard Gephardt : Birthchart Interpretations

Birth data: 1/31/1941 , 17:00 timezone 6.0 Standard at St Louis, MO, Lat. 38:38, Long. 90:12

Contents

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

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Chart Patterns

Yod, focal planet Mercury

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.

Mercury in Aquarius gives a balanced and socially oriented mentality, insightful, analytical and detached. You have an inquisitive and scientific mind, with excellent powers of logic and reason. Your thinking is idealistic, yet also well grounded in reality. You are a good judge of character, and you are likely to work well with groups. You appreciate the beauty of things in the world, but not necessarily apart from their utility and ultimate purpose. Your social motivation is strong, and you strive in your communication and contact with others to advance the cause of humanitarian ideals.

Mercury in the Seventh House represents a strong mental connection to other people. You naturally collect and exchange ideas with other people. You are very interested in what other people think about any given situation in which you find yourself. This awareness of other people's points of view can make it difficult for you to come to a decision. When you learn to detach your own ideas from those of other people, you can discover the mysterious balancing act of accepting the differences between self and other.


Important Features

Sun in Aquarius (11° Aqu 42' 36") Sun in the Seventh House Ruler of rising sign

The Sun represents will and purpose, the sense of vitality, and the evolving higher Self. In Aquarius it is Fixed-Air, and rules the circulation and the ankles. You have a rebellious nature, and are eccentric, spontaneous and original. Your ruling planet is Uranus, also Saturn. Aquarius is forward thinking and detached, and you are likely to be ahead of your time. Thinking is your preferred mode of activity. You are scientifically minded and logical, and confident in manner. You truly value society. You can also appear to be more involved with your work than with other people. You are intuitive, imaginative and inventive, perhaps inclined to take chances, especially in the service of your goals. You can be quite noble in your deepest nature, but you also may come across as critical and demanding. Your highest purpose is found in the advancement of social and humanitarian ideals.

The Sun in the Seventh House represents a concentration of one's vital force to relate with others intimately. You gravitate towards others who reflect your deeper self. You are very aware of the other as a mirror for your own selfhood. You keenly feel the need for an intimate partner to flesh out your unconscious areas of self. You have an intuitive sense of what partnership requires. You strive to become more aware of the inner needs of two people relating with one another on a committed basis and you enjoy developing the exchange of interpersonal expression and joint efforts. You sense yourself as part of a unit rather than merely an isolated ego. You may alternate between losing your sense of self from within relationship to finding your sense of identity and power as an individual striving to gain understanding of yourself as compared to another. You will benefit from being social and from being involved with others on an interpersonal level to explore your own nature.

Jupiter in Taurus (7° Tau 23') Jupiter in the Tenth House

Jupiter in the Tenth House (or sign) gives you a serious and conscientious personality. You are also very practical and have a talent for working with the public. You tend to be extremely careful with money, making a good manager, and have a strong drive to achieve success. You can also be somewhat fearful of risking the fruits of your achievement or perhaps somewhat miserly with your affection. You may refrain from taking chances that would in fact succeed. Your opportunities usually come from hard work and dedication. Tradition plays a large part in molding your ideals. You are noble and honorable in your connection with society around you, and enjoy being known as a good role model for others to follow.

Jupiter in Taurus (or the second house) gives you a personality with an appreciation of your home environment and the material side of your existence. You are likely to possess luxuries and the good things of life, which come to you without your even having to try very hard. You have the gift for making money, and are likely to be quite sensual in your appreciation of the finer things that life has to offer. You have an ease with the practicalities of life that many would envy. You are also fond of good food and your waistline may tend to expand. You rarely take chances, and are so secure in your material well-being that you seem not to emphasize this factor, being more interested in personal and cultural values.

Saturn in Taurus (8° Tau 22') Saturn in the Tenth House

Saturn in the Tenth House (or sign) gives an ambitious and clear-minded individual, with a strong sense of responsibility. You are persistent, careful and calculating, and have a deep urge for mastery and achievement. You are dutiful and may appear grim in your outlook, for you are cautious and rarely take chances. You may have difficulties, limitations or delays in the achievement of your goals, but you usually achieve success in the end. There may have been problems in your early life with finding your own identity, independent of parental figures, and you may in your adult life operate out of a subconscious fear that if you don't conquer the world first, then it will conquer you instead. When you are at your best, you can transform your struggle from a personal drive for power in the world into a model for others wherein society itself is enlightened.

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

Saturn in Taurus (or the second house) gives great loyalty, reliability, stamina and persistence, and a deepening or concentration of the desire to possess, both materially and with respect to loved ones. You are conservative financially, and you may be jealous at times. You are traditional in your approach to life, and a lover of art as well as natural beauty, and the beauty of your surroundings. You can perhaps overrate the importance of material things. You may fear poverty or loosing your possessions (which may manifest as a desire for more and more which can never be satisfied) or you may try on the other hand to denial of the material in an over-zealous attack on "money as the root of all evil". You may have doubts regarding your self-worth. Your lesson is to find your own true inner worth in terms of your character, your high standards, and your service to others.

Moon in Aries (3° Ari 29' 07") Moon in the Ninth House

The Moon in Aries gives an ardent nature with inclinations to impatience, independence and impulsiveness. With this placement, you have a high energy level. You also have a strong competitive streak, which, together with your attack first attitude, may conceal subtle feelings of insecurity. Your emotions are keenly felt, direct and spontaneous. You may have to guard against a quick temper. You should also guard against a tendency toward a too hasty reaction to situations, rather than a more carefully reasoned approach. You are most comfortable thinking of yourself as strongly independent with great physical daring and courage.

The Moon in the Ninth House represents an emotional sensitivity in the area of higher ideals and visionary philosophy. You may be something of a dreamer and tend to romanticize your emotions. Your philosophy is based on your feelings and sensitivity to your ideals regarding the superconscious realms. You constantly study your experiences to redefine your own philosophy about life, which may be the basis for your own vision of religion. Your philosophical attitude may seem difficult for other people to understand. You may suffer from a utopian ideal of wanting to feel good all of the time which can cause you suffering. You tend to be a dreamer yet your dreams may reflect truths about reality when you are in tune to your higher awareness of consciousness. You love travel and are likely to take many journeys. You are constantly trying to maintain your ideal emotional state of being. You are a natural teacher. You have a strong need to share your philosophy of life with other people. In this way, you can share your refined imaginative and creative insights and show others how to refine their inner visions along with you.

Neptune in Virgo (27° Vir 24'R) Neptune in the Third House

Neptune in the Third House (or sign) gives a clever personality with subtle charm. You are witty and poetic. You are fond of higher education, but you tend to be a dreamer and may miss out on serious study because of it. You may have confusion where close relatives are concerned, and there may have been feelings of insecurity or confusion in your early years, which caries over into adult life. You can be indecisive and worrisome but you are also broad-minded and creative mentally. You need to learn to focus your creative potential, which is considerable, and let yourself become a channel for higher forms of thought to flow into your own life, and that of society.

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

Neptune in Virgo (or the sixth house) gives a mentally creative personality but with a tendency to be critical at times. With this placement you can become confused over details. You may have problems with responsibility or feeling that you must be of service to others. Your work could be challenging or frustrating and ultimately dissatisfying. On the other hand, you may have a positive experience with your strong desire to help others. You could achieve greatly in the helping professions, possibly with a specialization in alternative medicine (especially if Neptune is well-aspected to other planets in your chart). On the other hand, you may also have a psychosomatic illness not properly diagnosed, or an unconscious tension between your rational mind and your innermost feelings. You would benefit by getting away from too great an involvement in the limited and personal, moving towards the broader ideals of service to humanity and personal transformation.

Pluto in Leo (3° Leo 01'R) Pluto in the Twelfth House

Pluto in the Twelfth House (or sign) gives a "divine discontent" to the personality. With this placement, you may feel confined and limited in the physical world, perhaps feeling more at home in the world of unconscious fantasy. You may even exhibit a compulsive escapism creating problems for you that need to be overcome (especially if Pluto is poorly aspected). In any case you may feel preoccupied with your own inner world, or may find yourself so sensitive to the pain and suffering of others that you retreat from involving yourself with them. There could be confusion and a loss of identity until an effort is made in moving toward a more universal sense of self involving the subordination of the personal will to a more spiritual outlook based on the true needs of others or of society at large.

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.

Chiron in Cancer (27° Can 29'R) Chiron in the Twelfth House

Chiron in the Twelfth House (or sign) represents issues with one’s vital force to be at home in the world of physical manifestation. You may feel frustrated and alienated from rest of mankind, or more at home in a world of fantasy than in dealing with what is laughably called “the real world”. You have a talent for that which is beyond this world, and can make your mark on it in your own particular fashion, which may perhaps be achieved in the worlds of music, or poetry, or as a seeker for higher truth. But these are ways of being in the world without actually participating in it. Possibly there were painful episodes from early childhood that drove you into a world of your own, but you have come to be quite at home in this world, and the issue for you is coming out with style and dignity, rather than by totally abandoning your inner cosmos. Again and again, you attempt to be a part of it all, just like everyone else, and again and again it just doesn’t quite work. There may be many painful episodes before you realize that what is “for everyone” out there is just not for you at all. You may do work with other people, in helping them to be peaceful and comfortable in connecting their own lives to a higher truth, without ever really getting it yourself. Of course one is tempted to blame oneself for this sort of failure to connect. There are deep emotions associated with withdrawal from the world that must be examined if you are to begin to operate from a feeling of wholeness and truly make your own way. There is a part of yourself that has been carefully hidden away, defended from the pressures of consensus reality, and it may take a lot of work to get in touch with these dark places. It may be that you come to a sense of peace with your darker, more hidden self only after a long period of soul-searching. When you begin to make your way on this process of integration, then you find that there really is a way to be a part of the world at large, to participate and share in its wonders and its disasters too, without giving anything up. It is not easy to make this transformation, but it is vital to your emotional health and well-being, and makes it possible for you to reach out to others as well, who may be fumbling towards a similar apotheosis.

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

Chiron in the Cancer (or the Fourth House) represents issues with the vital force of self-nurturing and taking care of those closest to yourself. With this placement you have a strong drive, even a compulsion, to be centered in home and family, but this desire does not easily find its fulfillment. There may have been painful episodes in connection with early family life; perhaps you had trouble getting settled down to enjoy the comfort that a safe and secure home brings to a child. As a result, you may be even more motivated to having this firm base of security in your adult life than others to whom it is second nature. You may alternate between over-identifying with your family or under-identifying with them, or you may find yourself constantly thwarted in finding this important level of security as you go through life. On a more symbolic level, you are also painfully challenged in finding your own center in a psychological sense. Because of the inherent insecurity of your inner world you may struggle to find yourself, and become easily influenced by others due to lacking your own clear sense of self. Without this base you are more easily unbalanced, and you may find that you move in many different directions emotionally, as the wind blows. You may long for a more secure and comfortable sense of who you are, independent from others’ opinions, a place where you can truly be yourself. Part of the problem with connecting to your inner self and externally with home and family, is that the conflict you feel may be largely unconscious in nature, running on autonomously as a result of long-buried experiences too painful to recollect and consciously examine. You may have difficult times with issues regarding home and family as you go through life, until you can become more conscious of these influences, and less easily overtaken by them. There may be conflicts with your mother, or other primary parental figure, that need to be worked through, as you really begin to get in touch with your blocks and difficulties in these areas. Once you begin to nourish yourself and to provide your own parenting, rather than depending on the external world to provide comfort and security, you can come around to being a source of inspiration for others as well as yourself.


Angular Planets


Sun, Moon, Rising Sign Features

Sun in square (within 4.3 degrees) with Jupiter

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. This aspect gives an optimistic and high spirited individual. You are likely to be fortunate in your material surroundings. You are convivial and lively, and generous with your money and your affections. There may be a tendency to overdo things, or to expand the waistline. You are attracted to higher learning, and the fine arts, and are courageous and loyal , but you can be extravagant and suffer from errors in judgment. You should also beware of too much egotism.

Sun in square (within 3.4 degrees) with Saturn

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. This aspect gives a deepening and concentration, or a blocking of your self-expression. You are ambitious and may make your mark in the world. There may also be a barrier between you and your self-realization, so that your true feelings are denied outlet. You may be strongwilled, or even autocratic, and can appear selfish, or cautious and reserved. There is usually a sense of rejection or coldness in relationship to your father, and a sense of lack of love in your life, generally, leading to a subconscious desire for recognition. There may be feelings of hostility or a physical ailment that prevents your total participation in life activities. Your heartcenter may need developing. 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 sesquiquadrate (within 0.7 degrees) with Neptune

The planetary energies conflict in determined subtle tension; control is required. This aspect gives a highly sensitive, visionary and creative individual. You are likely to be artistic or musical. You are the soft-hearted type, and you may be too willing to sacrifice yourself for the good of others. You also may have issues with deceptions practiced on you by other people. In order to develop a clearer sense of self, accurate feedback from other people is crucial, so that to avoid these traps, you should strive for utmost honesty in your dealings with others. The other-worldly energy of Neptune must be used wisely. Your lesson in all this is to achieve a balance between the spiritual dimension of reality and ordinary life.

Sun in opposition (within 3.4 degrees) with Ascendant

The planetary energies are polarized; outer events stimulate their interaction; integration is the challenge. This aspect between the Sun and Ascendant gives a strong-willed and generous personality. You are dramatic and assertive, also creative, self-confident and more than a bit self-indulgent. Like Leo rising people you expect to be the center of attention, and often are. You also have great energy, courage and honesty and are very proud. Your challenge is to become more aware of yourself; to refrain from arrogance and egotism, and rather to develop humility and compassion, and to learn detachment in the gift of your affections.

Moon in strong trine (within 0.5 degrees) with Pluto

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. This aspect gives a moody and introspective personality with a strong desire for emotional security. You are likely to be very sensitive and emotionally extreme, with a tendency to become completely absorbed in interpersonal relationships. You are also an extremely forceful individual, with the urge to transform yourself and your surroundings. When you have a goal in mind, nothing will stand in your way. Your need for security may manifest as an almost compulsive desire for a safe and secure home life, or a home environment which can be completely controlled, possibly even through dictatorial behavior. You have an unusually clear insight into the emotional depths of other people, which may border on an actual psychic attunement with their states of being. You also have the urge to break through the limitations of the parental influence you experienced as a child. You may have experienced controlling behavior on the part of one or both parents, especially your mother, and you may find yourself still involved in the battle for your own autonomy many years later. These struggles can be worked through in your life, beginning with a deeper understanding of what it is you truly need on an emotional level. Your challenge is to transform your sense of insecurity, by coming to terms with your survival issues based on a better insight into your own hidden motivations.

Moon in quintile (within 1.1 degrees) with Venus

The planetary energies are positively linked, subtle, and spiritual in dimension. This aspect gives a calm and steady emotional nature, with a refined and artistic sensibility. You are habitually cheerful and are likely to be happiest in your home and family. You possess a great deal of personal charm, and also have a love for the arts, especially music and dance. You are courteous and popular, and supportive to your friends. It is important for you that your home environment be aesthetically pleasing.

The ruler of your Sun Sign is Uranus in Taurus (22° Tau 09')

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

Uranus in the Tenth House (or sign) gives an ambitious and willful individual who is rebellious of authority and also somewhat hung up about it. With this placement you are a definite non-conformist. You have a strong imagination and are so sure of yourself that you often cannot be argued out of your opinion, which can be somewhat unique at times. You have the impulse toward prestige and authority, but may find yourself bored with conventional approaches to attain it. You may come into conflict with others over what are perhaps merely ego-gratification issues with worldly success. You do better when your motivation is idealistic rather than for personal gain. Your challenge is to move from a knee-jerk reaction against established authority, or unconsciously seeking the authority of ego gratification, toward establishing your own personal authority, in your own way, to make your vision available to society at large.

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

Uranus in Taurus (or the second house) gives an individual who is likely to be concerned with changing his or her physical environment. You have a unique value system, and you may "march to the tune of a different drummer" or choose to experiment with different lifestyles. You have a tremendous drive for independence, and you don't like to work for other people, so that you may be motivated to start your own business. You may have possessions that you value at one point in your life, but this can change rather suddenly, and you may have to start over. Your income can also fluctuate. You can appear selfish at times to other people. You benefit from getting in touch with what you truly value, as opposed to what conventionality dictates. Then your efforts will allow new resources to evolve in your life and consciousness, and lead to the greater good of society.

Leo Rising

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

Leo Rising people are dramatic, extroverted and assertive. Your ruling planet is the Sun. You have great energy, courage and honesty, and are very creative, self-confident and perhaps a bit self-indulgent. You expect to be the center of attention, and often are. Even so, people forgive you for your excesses, sensing in you the incurable romantic. You are likely to have a leonine appearance, with a thick mane of hair and a dramatic flair to your clothing and appearance. You also enjoy the warmth of the physical sun. You are determined and usually get your way when you really want to. You also possess great integrity, and are a natural leader. Leo people are very proud, and your challenge is not to be arrogant or egotistical, but rather to develop humility and compassion, and to learn detachment in the gift of your affections.

Jupiter in strong square (within 1.0 degrees) with Ascendant

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. This aspect gives an optimistic and high spirited individual. You are likely to be fortunate in your material surroundings. You are convivial and lively, and generous with your money and your affections. You can sometimes be extravagant or suffer from errors in judgment. You may have a tendency to overdo things, or for being overly optimistic, but in general you have good executive abilities. You have generally simple tastes, but your enthusiasm for life may give your waistline a tendency to expand. You are attracted to higher learning, and the fine arts, and you are a courageous and loyal friend.

Saturn in strong square (exact) with Ascendant

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. This aspect gives a deepening and concentration, or a blocking of the self-expression. You are serious about your responsibilities, and possess good executive abilities. You are also ambitious and are likely to make your mark on the world. There may also be a barrier between you and your self-realization so that your true feelings are denied outlet. You are likely to be strong-willed and autocratic, and can be selfish, or cautious and reserved. You may feel a sense of lack of love in your life, leading to a subconscious desire for recognition. You may have feelings of hostility or a physical ailment that prevents your total participation in life activities. Your heart-center may need developing. Your lesson in all this may be to deepen and particularize the knowledge of who you really are, make contact with your own inner significance, and learn to love yourself.

Moon in weak trine (within 4.9 degrees) with Ascendant

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. This aspect between the Moon and Ascendant gives a nurturing and protective personality. You are subtle in your actions, rather than direct, and are likely to reflect the moods of those around you. Security and your home is important to you. You have a habit of moodiness, with your emotions frequently changing, and are also drawn to seeking emotional contact with others. You tend to relate well emotionally with other people. You also may find yourself reacting instinctually rather than consciously to a given situation, and you can therefore benefit from shedding the light of conscious reason on your habitual patterns, and working toward greater focus on your true individual goals.


Other Natal Planets

Venus in Capricorn (22° Cap 34') Venus in the Sixth House

Venus in Capricorn gives a serious and conservative love nature. With this placement, your instinct is to do what you feel you should do, and to refrain from passionate outbursts that may prove harmful to self or others. You are reserved, and respond to conventional wisdom in the gift of your affection, seldom taking emotional risks. You may feel insecure about giving your love and thus becoming vulnerable to another. You may also exhibit ambition and pride, or a desire for status. You are likely to have disappointments in love until you learn how to overcome any fears you may have regarding intimate relationship.

Venus in the Sixth House represents a strong heart connection to service and detailed everyday life. You may feel somewhat restricted in the expression of your passional nature. You have a tendency toward fastidiousness, and perfectionism. You are likely to blossom in the process of service to others. You could also be a detail artist. You have a talent for design wherein beauty and functionality combine. You have an inherent love of the health and perfection of the physical body, and may feel called to do energy work with other people.

Mars in Sagittarius (18° Sag 22') Mars in the Fifth House

Mars in the Fifth House (or sign) gives an energetic and passionate nature, which is dramatic, enthusiastic, ambitious and proud. You have tremendous vitality and courage. You usually put your best foot forward, and are possessed of an innate charm and animal magnetism. You are physically active. You need to work through being selfish, or jealous, as well as a tendency to be extremely stubborn and convinced of your own point of view. You could benefit from cultivating greater concern for others.

Mars in Sagittarius (or the ninth house) gives a friendly and optimistic nature, spontaneous and impulsive. You are sometimes scattered in the application of your energies, and need to work at being more reliable. You lead a physically active life, and love sports and gambling. You are idealistic, and outspoken and honest with your opinions. You also have a propensity for higher learning. You have a kind of haphazard way of going about things which can get you into trouble, and tend to miss the details, by focusing on "the big picture". You could benefit by learning to slow down and concentrate your energies.

N Node in Libra (2° Lib 54') N Node in the Third House

Lunar North Node in the Third House (or sign). South Node in the ninth house or sign. With this placement you have unusually clear and direct communication skills. You are interested in the practical application of knowledge, in helping to bring people together, rather than knowledge simply for the sake of it. In the past, or in past lifetimes, you got far into solitary philosophical concerns. Perhaps religious values were quite important to you. Now your focus is on a more mundane or worldly view, where higher knowledge counts, but only in so far as it is useful in the analysis of day-to-day events and in order to spread the word to others regarding practical life. Although you may be tempted at times to drift off into deeper reflections, your real goal is to be in touch with people, and your mental abilities serve your purpose well.

Lunar North Node in Libra (or the seventh house). South Node in the first house or sign. This placement gives a personality with a focus on forming close partnership attachments. You may have difficulties in marriage and partnerships; but there are also great rewards to be gained in this area. This is ultimately a spiritual placement of the North Node. In the past, or in past lives, you have been concerned with yourself alone, but now you must make the transition to being mostly concerned with others. This concern for the other person does not come naturally to you, for it is easier to rely on yourself, as you have always done. Now, in this lifetime, though, you need to focus your energies outward. The welfare of the other person, your intimate partner or your partner in other types of relationship, is a necessary key to your own spiritual evolution. Your lessons in this life revolve around true giving of yourself to another.


Other Aspects

Mercury in strong sextile (within 1.8 degrees) with Midheaven

The planetary energies flow together, open into new possibilities, new connections. This aspect gives a mentally active personality, who is very involved in mental pursuits. You are a good communicator, and a gifted thinker and organizer, who can use these abilities in your professional life to great advantage. You also like variety, and may be changeable in your self-image. You may also be tempted to have too great an ego-investment in your mental abilities, and would do well to cultivate humility in your dealings with others.

Venus in strong trine (within 0.4 degrees) with Uranus

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. This aspect gives an individual who is independent and original in the expression of social activities and in relationships. You are enthusiastic socially and are attracted to the stimulation and the excitement of new contacts. You have great creativity which may express itself through artistic endeavors. You also have a tolerant and accepting attitude toward other people which usually makes you well-liked. 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, and from recognizing your need for freedom and making space for that need in relationship with others.

Jupiter in strong conjunction (within 1.0 degrees) with Saturn

The strongest blend of the energies represented by these two planets. This conjunction gives a serious and conscientious personality. You are strong morally, and likely to be socially active. You are quietly ambitious, with a good sense about you that impresses other people. You make an excellent manager, and have a strong drive to achieve success, with a talent for working with the public. You also tend to be extremely careful with money. You may have difficulties with the material side of life, but you have the capacity for hard work which will help you to overcome such difficulties. You desire to be a force for good in society. If you live up to this ideal, you will be a natural leader, being optimistic, yet practical, and possessing excellent judgment. For the early part of your life you may tend to hide your light under a basket; your powers are likely to grow as you mature.

Neptune in strong sextile (within 0.1 degrees) with Chiron

The planetary energies flow together, open into new possibilities, new connections. 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.

Chiron in strong square (within 0.1 degrees) with Midheaven

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. With this aspect of Chiron and your Midheaven, you likely have issues around exerting personal will versus knuckling under to authority. You have enormous energy and endurance at your disposal, although you may appear timid or unsure of yourself, since your power urge is likely to be repressed. It may be that you have had many painful experiences with authority. As a result of these experiences, you may fear the expression of your own personal power, and alternate between complying with the standards of society around you, or rebelling against them. You may avoid situations where a direct confrontation seems to be brewing. You also may feel more empowered in helping others than in getting your own act together, and this aspect can be the sign of someone with a career in the helping professions, perhaps involved with new age healing. It is often the case that the powerful emotions associated with this aspect hover below the level of conscious awareness in your psyche. As you become more aware of these patterns, you will less and less need to act them out either suppressed with passivity, or with bluster. Another manifestation of this aspect, perhaps paradoxically, is the ability to lead and be willful, to not take "no for an answer", to be ruthless in accomplishing one's aims. A better level of integration produces a newly self-assured personality whereby you do not depend on others either to fully express your own desires, nor to be swayed by theirs. When you have integrated the walled-off places in your psyche that inhibit action on the part of your whole entire self, you are available to yourself in situations of leadership, as well as in truly helping other people.

Mercury in quintile (within 0.4 degrees) with Jupiter

The planetary energies are positively linked, subtle, and spiritual in dimension. This conjunction gives a quiet and unassuming and clever personality, which is also somewhat scattered. You are good-natured, and usually above-average in intelligence. You would make a good teacher. You may be absent-minded, also apt to be somewhat changeable. You likely prefer a simple mode of life and possess a good balance between the spiritual and physical realms.

Mercury in quintile (within 0.6 degrees) with Saturn

The planetary energies are positively linked, subtle, and spiritual in dimension. This aspect gives a profound mentality, deepening and concentrating your mind and your powers of speech and communication. You are shrewd in business, and are adaptable to a variety of professions. You like to do things by the book. Long hours of concentration could produce in you a brilliant scholar, or a star of the legal profession.

Mercury in inconjunct (within 1.6 degrees) with Neptune

The planetary energies do not flow smoothly, one or the other predominates; discrimination must be employed. This aspect gives a clever and imaginative personality with subtle charm. You are visionary and poetic. You are likely to be an inspired thinker, and may excel in literary accomplishments, or the visual arts, but you may suffer from a lack of concentration and discipline. You may possess an over-active imagination, or appear to have your own private version of reality, or you may over-glamorize the object of your ideals. You need to learn discrimination, and to focus your creative potential, which is considerable, in order to become a channel for higher forms of thought to flow into your own life, and that of society around you.

Mercury in inconjunct (within 1.7 degrees) with Chiron

The planetary energies do not flow smoothly, one or the other predominates; discrimination must be employed. With this placement you may exhibit difficulties in communication or in how you express your ideas. There may be painful realizations in your background in connection with how you expressed yourself while a youngster. Stuttering is one possible manifestation of this type of influence, or you may have difficulty in believing your own ideas rather than the ideas of others. You probably experienced a wounding in your earliest exploration with other youngsters, possibly siblings. With this placement you are clever, yet there is blocking and frustration, until you begin to gain more conscious understanding of the ways in which you have been wounded, and also unconsciously wounded others. You also have a sharp and very intuitive mind. When you begin the process of transforming your painful memories into clear pictures with less emotion attached to them, you'll discover healing energy within your own psyche, and for your communication with others as well.

Mars in sesquiquadrate (within 0.4 degrees) with Pluto

The planetary energies conflict in determined subtle tension; control is required. This aspect gives a personality with a tremendous drive for power and transformation of self. You are strong-willed and you have enormous energy and endurance at your disposal. You may appear timid or unsure of yourself, since the power urge is commonly repressed, but then there is the potential for sudden bursts of anger due to the repressed emotion finally exploding to the surface. The challenge is movement away from feelings of insecurity and resulting separateness and loneliness, toward a better acceptance of other's needs and opinions in order to generate wholeness, forgiveness towards self and others, and a new and better sense of self-worth.

Uranus in quintile (within 1.2 degrees) with Pluto

The planetary energies are positively linked, subtle, and spiritual in dimension. This combination gives an individual who is willful and possesses great depth of passion. This is a generational aspect, which many of your contemporaries will share with you. You are to an unusual degree tuned in to the energy of the collective, especially with regard to the ultimate transformation of society. You are compassionate toward your fellow-man, and you are apt to be a helper in the creation of a new world, based on humanitarian ideals of universal brotherhood.

Neptune in inconjunct (within 0.2 degrees) with Midheaven

The planetary energies do not flow smoothly, one or the other predominates; discrimination must be employed. This combination gives a charming personality with an idealistic nature. You may have a musical career or achieve much in the helping professions. You tend to give more than you receive in your employment. You are susceptible to suggestion, and you may have a tendency to avoid responsibility. There may have been difficulties or confusion in your early years, especially with regard to your parents. The image that you have of your parents may change as you mature. In vocation, you must learn to clarify your goals. You will not be content with an ordinary job, but must seek out some career which is a real calling. At your best you express the ideals of society and find a spiritual joy in your work.

Moon in weak opposition (within 6.1 degrees) with Neptune

The planetary energies are polarized; outer events stimulate their interaction; integration is the challenge. This aspect gives an emotionally sensitive, idealistic and loving personality. You possess an ethereal quality, and are likely to be imaginative or even to withdraw from the world into internal fantasies of your own. You may have powerful psychic abilities. You are the soft-hearted type, and you are perhaps even too willing to sacrifice yourself for the good of others. You were probably strongly influenced by your home life, and may tend to idealize these formative experiences. You could have issues with self-deception or experience discontent with the practical realities of life for the urge within you to seek the highest ideal is very strong. Your home is important to you, and you may change residences frequently in search of your ideal environment, or dream of the ideal romantic attachment without ever finding the perfect mate. You benefit from striving for greater self-control in holding back your emotions, as well as clarity in applying your high ideals to the real world of logic and fact.

Moon in weak trine (within 6.0 degrees) with Chiron

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial. 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 you have a deep and intense relationship with your mother, which may have been productive of much wisdom. There also may be emotional scars from the very intensity of your experience together. These experiences may be so painful that they become 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. A creative side of your nature may emerge like a butterfly out of the outgrown past.

Mercury in weak square (within 3.6 degrees) with Uranus

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time. This aspect gives an individual who is restless and mentally acute, with an ability to quickly grasp new concepts. You like to explore new ways of thinking and being. Education is important to you. You are scientifically minded and futuristic in your outlook. You are interested in occult realms of thought, applying conscious mental processes to these areas. You have the ability to think freely, unhampered by conventional attitudes, but you can also appear opinionated, or display a "know-it-all" attitude. There can be problems in communicating with others. There is an unpredictable and erratic aspect to your thought process that makes it difficult for others to understand you. You may lack discipline and persistence in bringing your vision to practical realization, and benefit from attaining better control of your mental process.

Mars in inconjunct (within 3.8 degrees) with Uranus

The planetary energies do not flow smoothly, one or the other predominates; discrimination must be employed. This aspect gives an individual with an original and eccentric mind, whose intuition is strong. You are a strong-willed nonconformist, and are energetic and visionary in your outlook. You may be rebellious at times, and can display fits of temper. You can be rash and impulsive You may also be restless or lack steadiness in the pursuit of your goals. You may feel a sense of isolation, and can appear emotionally insensitive at times, seeming to be more excited by ideas than by other people. Your basis for action derives from a sense of high ideals, rather than from mere egotism. Change and variety excite you, and your mutability can frustrate or confuse those around you. You can benefit from bringing more consciousness and clarity to the expression of your goals in life.