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From an esoteric
point of view your birth chart is a portrait of your soul's intention for this
lifetime, the lessons to be learned, qualities to develop, problems to be
resolved, service to be rendered.
From that perspective, the choices one makes in one's daily life have
reverberations that may last beyond even this lifetime.
This report is
written to help you clarify your lessons and goals, illuminate your struggles,
and encourage you to move in the direction of your true purposes.
The best to you on
your journey...
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Sun 29 Aqu 19
Pluto 24 Lib 12
Moon 18 Leo 47
N. Node 10 Leo 55
Mercury 28 Aqu 03 Asc. 6 Lib 30
Venus 17 Aqu 17 MC 7 Can 31
Mars 8 Pis 47
2nd cusp 3 Sco 03
Jupiter 9 Lib 28
3rd cusp 3 Sag 47
Saturn 8 Lib 59
5th cusp 10 Aqu 58
Uranus 0 Sag 01
6th cusp 11 Pis 01
Neptune 24 Sag 29
Tropical Placidus Standard time observed
GMT: 01:37:00 Time Zone: 5 hours West
Lat. and Long. of birth:
40 N 42 51 74 W 00 23
Aspects and orbs:
Conjunction : 5 Deg 00
Min
Trine : 4 Deg
00 Min
Opposition : 5 Deg 00 Min Sextile : 3 Deg 00 Min
Square : 4 Deg 00
Min
Quincunx : 3 Deg 00 Min
Conjunct Asc: 3 Deg 00
Min Above, 5 Deg 00 Min Below
Chapter 1: The Moon
The placement of the
Moon in your birth chart is very significant from a karmic perspective, as it
indicates the accumulated karmic tendencies, both positive and negative, that
you carry from your past incarnated experiences on earth.
While the Sun reveals
your intended purposes and lessons for this present life cycle, the MOON
represents what you have already done and developed, hence, what is instinctive
and natural to you, and what you tend to do over and over again. Your childhood
is also reflected in the Moon's placement, as it is through those childhood
circumstances that any unresolved past-life issues are re-stimulated. Your subconscious predisposition is
indicated by the Moon's position.
It is the psychic imprint of the past. The nodes of the Moon describe behavior patterns from the
past, as well as delineating a direction out of outworn or overdone behaviors
and habits.
Moon in Leo:
You have a deeply
ingrained sense of personal dignity, and a certain magnanimity of feeling, that
prevents you from acting in a petty, spiteful, or small-minded fashion. Even when under stress you like to
think of yourself as "above all that" and you may well be, but you
may also have a strong subconscious need to impress others, to be thought well
of, so that you withhold any less-than-noble responses and feelings you may
have. Though usually warm and
sunny, you cool off considerably when your pride has been wounded and you will
frequently hide your hurt from the world because of your incarnational past (in
which you have been in roles of authority, position, and honor in your circle),
you tend to feel that you must protect others from your own pains and
troubles. Rightly or wrongly, you
subconsciously believe that "others are depending upon me, I have to put a
bright face on, and not let them know I'm suffering, the show must go
on!". While people generally do, in fact, appreciate your positivity, this
attitude tends to exaggerate your importance and keep others from knowing the
real human being behind the smile.
Usually you have only a chosen few, a small inner circle of devoted fans
and supporters, in whom you will really confide.
Previous lifetimes as
an actor or entertainer are also indicated, which give you a natural gift for
performing and the desire for an audience. You are adept at dramatizing your feelings, really playing
them up, and projecting your emotions for effect. So instead of down playing your pain, at times you milk it
for all it's worth! These
histrionics may or may not be obvious to others, for you may play them out only
on the stage in your mind, but certainly there is a strong habit of
personalizing everything and dramatizing your emotions. You rather enjoy a bit
of melodrama.
In part, you are
motivated by deep subconscious memories of past glory of being the champ, the
best, the star of the show and you still seek top billing, at least in some
area of life. Your need to be in charge stems from this; you find yourself
naturally gravitating toward leadership roles such as, head of the department
or head coach, in short, the one "calling the shots". Because of your
instincts for leadership, if you are not in charge you tend to upstage the
person who is, usually without even realizing what you are doing or why. You have a knack for drawing the
attention toward yourself. You
will be noticed in one way or another, and this personal recognition is very
important to you.
You are extremely
uncomfortable in impersonal environments, and most definitely do not want to be
just a cog-in-the-wheel. Large companies where there is little room for
personal expression and creativity are not for you. You have a strong creative bent. You also see people as
individuals, not functions (it's Joe, not "the Mailman", Caroline,
not "the Secretary"). You bring warmth, color, energy, humanness,
heart, and joie de vivre into whatever environment you are in. You have a personal touch which is much
appreciated. At your best, a sense
of personal honor, integrity, sincerity, and pride suffuses all that you do.
Deep within, you feel
that you are someone special and that you deserve the lion's share of life's
bounty. You expect great things
for yourself and when you are willing to work for them, you often excel. But when things do not work out well
for you, you are often perplexed and more than a little put-out. ("How
could this happen to ME?" or "How could I have gone unnoticed?")
To put it bluntly, you can be a big baby!
Learning to view things from a larger, more inclusive perspective
(everything does not revolve around you), and that everyone is special, are two
important lessons for you.
Moon Opposition
Venus:
You have a great
capacity for and one might even say craving for tenderness, devoted love,
family belonging, and the sweetness of shared domesticity. Your marriage and your children may
well be the focus in your life, but this arena is not apt to be completely
harmonious. You have conflicting
urges when it comes to satisfying your erotic love feelings. What you want and what gives you pleasure
in love may be at odds with what makes you comfortable or secure. Your ability to give and receive love
freely may be inhibited by messages you received or experiences you had in
childhood, or you may feel conflicting loyalties between your parents and
family of origin verses your mate or lover. Or, perhaps, your identification with your role as parent
interferes with your lover-relationship with your spouse. Along with this is a tendency to become
overly "close" and dependent on family. On another level, you are apt to have a lazy,
pleasure-loving side that enjoys being pampered and is disinclined to real
effort and self-discipline.
A habit of doing
things the easy way, and a certain passive desire to be taken care of, may
develop. Also, quite possible is
an addiction to sweets, and thus an ongoing weight problem.
North Node in
Leo:
In your incarnational
past, the needs of the group or collective took precedence over your individual
wants and needs, and while you perhaps enjoyed the sense of belonging and
comradery, your individuality was submerged. Your growth direction now is to become a strong individual
in your own right, developing your own creative talents and abilities.
North Node in
10th house:
Your past tendency is
so much a part of you, and is reinforced by your family, parents, or cultural
tradition, so that it may be particularly tricky for you to even be aware of
how compulsive it is. Your
"new attitude" or growth direction can be applied to your
professional or vocational goals and to achieving something concrete, with
great success.
Chapter 2: The Sun
The Sun in your birth
chart represents the primary creative thrust for this lifetime, those qualities
you are to develop (or further develop) and express, and your current life
focus. This may be in harmony with
your instincts and your emotional habits, or along completely different
lines. The Sun represents your
conscious identity in this lifetime.
Sun in Aquarius:
In this lifetime you
are very much concerned with what happens in the world, the larger sphere
outside your own immediate personal concerns, and you cannot separate yourself
from the issues and challenges of your generation and society as a whole
whether you are active in politics, community service, organizing and managing
groups of people for a unified purpose, promoting new concepts and innovations
which will affect many people's lives, or simply living your life in a socially
conscious way. You need to be involved in influencing the larger social fabric
of which you are a part. Thus, you
tend to look at the broad canvas, the political, social, or group context of
any problem or situation. A simple fight between a man and a woman becomes, to
you, how women are oppressed by the dominant male power structure in this
society. The decision to eat a hamburger or a soy burger is not, to you, simply
a matter of personal taste or health considerations but also a moral and
politically relevant issue, considering the impact of the beef industry on the
rain forests in South America...
Even if you are at home raising children and not significantly involved
in the public arena, you will try to raise them to be thinking individuals,
aware of the effects their actions and choices have on the rest of the world. You foster a community spirit, a sense
of connectedness with the rest of the planet.
In whatever field you
pursue, you are likely to be an innovator, a maverick, a little unusual or
ahead of your time, and surround yourself with other free thinking individuals.
While you are very much attuned to whatever group with which you identify
yourself, you are also very independent minded. This dichotomy between the freedom of the individual and the
needs of the group can be the source of ongoing tension in your life.
When young you may be so
identified with your group or a particular segment of society or social circle,
that you apparently have no real heart or individuality of your own, parroting
the thoughts, values, ideals, and desires of that group. At this time, you are
especially prone to peer pressure, even though you may act out the role of
nonconformist, free-thinker, the kooky one. You are apt to be very naive about people and almost totally
unaware of the darker aspects of the human soul. You believe in fairness,
equality, a better world. Ultimately you are an idealist, and striving to live
out your ideals while at the same time accepting all of the very human, flawed,
limited aspects of other people and yourself is a real challenge for you.
At your worst, you
can be rigidly ideological, dogmatic, stubborn, impersonal, adept at organizing
groups or working with people for a common cause, but hopelessly inept when it
comes to relating personally and emotionally. Your head tends to rule you, and you can live in some
detached, isolated Ivory Tower, or make some egregious mistakes in your
personal life based on your predisposition to think rather than feel.
The application of
creative intelligence to further human progress is the underlying theme in your
life, thus, your interests are in science, discoveries, inventions and new ways
of doing things. When you are living out your highest potential, you are
creative and inventive, promoting positive change in society, opening people's
minds, challenging old and outworn paradigms, all in an integrative and healing
way, rather than in ways that alienate and polarize people against you.
(Your finely honed
social conscience may be at odds with what you as an individual really want or
are naturally inclined to do.)
Sun Square
Uranus:
In many ways you
"dance to the beat of a different drummer", and thus may feel out of
step with the "norms" and societal expectations of the majority of
mainstream culture. Even if you
appear, or actually are, conservative in some respects, you are intended to
question authority, break old rules, and introduce progressive change into the
world. You are fulfilling your destiny when you are innovating. You need to be using your creative
intelligence, inspiration, and opening up new channels of expression. You are "an original",
unusual in some way, not one to follow the prescribed ways of living or being.
Unless you surround yourself with others who share your unusual interests and
inclinations, you may feel like a "weirdo" or an outsider. Certainly
there are people who would consider you too "far-out", and you may
enjoy provoking these people, shocking them, shaking up their limited
world-view. You can be prone to a
kind of extremism, embracing anything new, experimental or avant-garde simply
because it is novel. You are
likely to reject "normal", regardless of its intrinsic value. You tend to be impatient with convention,
bureaucracy, the old school, and are unwilling to compromise yourself for the
sake of fitting in. Freedom,
self-expression, and individualism are very dear to you, and there is a part of
you which finds any sort of commitment or mutual dependency binding and
irksome. There is a rather
impersonal quality to you in that your allegiance is to yourself, living your
own truth, and "going where the spirit moves you" first and
fore-most. Though you are apt to go to extremes, it is still important for you
to live out these impulses which others may find odd or incomprehensible;
otherwise you are apt to become quite tense, unhappy, and out of step, not only
with convention but even with yourself.
You do need to
incorporate steadiness, rhythm, and regularity into your existence in some way,
in order to utilize your creative genius and originality to its fullest. The use of certain gemstones and
crystals may be of some benefit to you, including clear quartz, topaz, fire
agate, and opals.
Sun conjunct
Mercury in Aquarius:
Physical
coordination, manual dexterity and a great deal of innate intelligence, even
brilliance, are your gifts.
You also have a way
of communicating that is clear and lively and full of energy, so that others
want to hear what you have to say.
However, you may be so ego-involved with your ideas and opinions that
you do not really take in, listen to, or perceive any other point of view. You may allow your rational mind to
dominate your life-expression and find it difficult to relate to the world in
any other way.
Chapter 3: Rising Sign
The point that was on
the eastern horizon at the moment of your birth is called the ASCENDANT, or
rising sign. While the Sun
describes your conscious direction and current life focus, and the Moon your
subconscious predisposition and past, the Ascendant indicates a way of being
that transcends and embraces past, present, and future. It describes the way you engage and
merge with the outer world and how you bring through into life the energies
depicted by the Sun, the Moon, and the rest of your birth chart. Everything is filtered through the
Ascendant from an esoteric point of view.
It indicates your soul's function and thus a key part of your destiny.
Libra Rising:
Your soul function
involves establishing balance, and harmony in your world, and an awareness of
beauty, of relationship, of style, and how things fit or blend together.
Reconciling opposites and finding "the middle way" is your path, and
the fine arts of compromise, negotiations and cooperation are key
elements. You are the dove, the
diplomat, the peacemaker, the friend; partnership and personal relations are
your forte.
Libra Rising and
Venus in Aquarius:
Your ruling planet,
Venus, is in the idealistic, free-thinking, and unconventional sign of
Aquarius, suggesting that you seek new solutions and alternatives in order to
create harmony and make the world a better place. A concern for social justice and social betterment are woven
into your very fabric. You have an "us" (rather than "I")
approached to life. Active
involvement in your community, especially in conflict resolution and
facilitating or coordinating groups of people to cooperate and help one
another, is essential to fulfilling your soul function. The arts or entertainment may well be a
key part of this, also.
Jupiter Conjunct
Asc.:
You are one with
vision and a gift for seeing the big picture and over arching patterns, as well
as sensing future trends and potentials.
Faith, hope, an innate expectation of good outcomes, and the ability to
transmit these to others are essential aspects of your life and your
contribution to life. Inspiring confidence, you engage others in your expansive
plans, beliefs, and convictions.
Self-righteousness or over generalization could be your nemesis.
Saturn Conjunct
Asc.:
Realism, serious and
sustained effort, discipline, and a sense of responsibility color your entire
life expression. When out of
balance these qualities hinder your self-expression through excessive caution,
fearful inhibition, grimness, negativism, rigidity, and an inability to trust
your own goodness. Or, your self
confidence increases and your life blossoms with age and experience, as you
choose to concentrate your energies on achieving sustentative, meaningful
long-range goals. In some arena
you are to be an authority.
Chapter 4: Saturn, Your Achilles Heel
Karmically
considered, the placement of Saturn in your birth chart indicates where your
energetic blockages, weaknesses and fears lie, and the areas of your life where
the most concentrated effort and discipline will be required to master and
overcome them. Yet it also points
to the aspects of life which can become your greatest strength if you are
willing to face your fears and difficulties honestly, and work with them
patiently.
Saturn in Libra
Finding a balance in
your life between participating in a close relationship, and attending to your
own requirements and your own personal development, is a crucial issue for you
in this lifetime, and not a particularly easy one. For you, relationships with people usually come at a rather
steep cost, and they may seem more of a burden or more work than mutual pleasure. You may thus enter into personal
relationships cautiously and reluctantly, or you may reserve some part of
yourself and, in effect, refuse to be fully engaged. Expecting, at some level, to be disappointed, you opt not to
invest yourself entirely, and then wonder why you do not feel fulfilled, why
there is a vacuum. At other times,
you may find yourself taking on much more than your fair share in your
partnerships, and can even martyr yourself for the sake of a friendship,
marriage or other cooperative endeavor.
Because of the frustration and disappointment you experience in this
realm of your life (or at least in certain key relationships), you will be
thrown back on your own resources in order to truly become a whole person
capable of relating to other individuals.
What you seek from or through the other, you will have to find or
develop from within.
Saturn in 1st
house:
You tend to get tied
up in knots when it comes to presenting yourself to the world, and it is
frequently difficult for you to express yourself (the person you feel yourself
to be inside) without a great deal of editing, censoring, or "polishing
the goods". As a result you
may seem rather stiff and self-controlled but even if you do not, even if you
seem quite spontaneous and open, you are apt to feel a definite barrier between
yourself and the outside world. In
many ways you take yourself too seriously, particularly in your concern about
how you come across, what impression you are making and how you impact
others. Your orientation to life
in general is apt to be serious, possibly too much so. You are very aware of your own flaws,
and also of your duties and responsibilities. All of this can add up to a certain heaviness which you
project onto life at times. The
above description of your particular areas of difficulty or struggle are very
much on the surface for you, others see them because you identify strongly with
those very characteristics.
Saturn is
Retrograde:
All of the above is
complicated by the fact that you carry a rather heavy burden of self-doubt,
mistrust, or guilt over having let yourself and others down in your past, when
you struggled (and failed) with these same issues. You now have the opportunity to correct your course, make
amends and resolve a difficult karmic tangle, or a difficult state of mind.
Saturn Quincunx
Mars:
Overcoming a lack of
confidence, fear of expressing or asserting yourself, a harsh or discouraging
early life, and/or a deep distrust of the "masculine" side of life
(including your own forcefulness) is part of your karmic package in this
lifetime. You will struggle against oppression, from a parent, prevailing
circumstances and attitudes in your environment, or your own inhibitions and
fears, and may receive very little external support. Difficulties and frustration in sexual or creative
expression, with men, with anger and competition, or with authority is
likely. If you do not allow
yourself to become resentful and bitter, you can become strong and self reliant
through patience, self-discipline, persistence, hard work and building your
dreams one small step at a time.
Healing your wounded male side will be an important key to your eventual
fulfillment.
Chapter 5: The Hard Aspects
The following is a
description of your MAJOR LIFE CHALLENGES, both in terms of energies you are to
learn to develop and express in a positive way, and those which are the result
of struggles and unresolved karmic issues which you have brought into this
life.
Mercury is
Retrograde:
A prior lifetime in
which you were discouraged to think, learn, or express your ideas is
indicated. This may have carried
over in this lifetime as a mild learning problem in childhood, or inner
(somewhat unconscious) doubts about your ability to learn or to
communicate. Thus, you have a
habit of rechecking, reconsidering, reviewing, and rethinking everything before
you put it out. You may even have
a desire to learn about subjects that seem archaic, to learn about those things
which were denied to you in the past.
Mercury Square
Uranus:
Your unusually
inventive, creative, restless, and original mind can have both advantages and
disadvantages. If you can balance
or overcome tendencies toward extreme restlessness and going off on mental
tangents, you have gifts of a creative genius, inspiration, and a direct awareness
of truth which is apt to descend upon you like lightening, in terms of suddenly
seeing the solution to some problem or grasping an idea without needing a
methodical explanation. You simply
have an intuitive "knowing" about something. You can be a channel for new
information and ideas. A certain
rebelliousness and dislike of formality and "tradition for tradition's
sake" is an aspect of your mental patterning which may prevent you from
taking advantage of the wisdom of the past. Often, you will "reinvent the wheel", or make
changes simply for the sake of change, not necessarily to improve upon the old
but because in your mind "new" or "different" is superior
to the past. Your mind is very
future oriented and progressive but one way this manifests is in a kind of
nervous, erratic, unsettled way of being which is always moving on, unable to
be present or stay put.
Centering meditations
and other techniques you find helpful to calm and stabilize you are necessary
on a regular basis. Regular contact with the earth, through gardening or walking
for instance, can be very helpful also.
The development of a regular rhythm and routine, daily rituals which
give continuity and a form of stability, are also enormously helpful.
Stones that promote
feelings of peace and sooth the nerves include rose quartz and jade.
Others that may
benefit or inspire you include clear quartz, larimar, and opals. Avoiding
caffeine and other stimulants may be necessary too, at least from time to time.
Mars Quincunx
Jupiter:
You have broad,
expansive goals and will not be content with humble achievements or success on
a small scale. Enthralled with the
joy of the conquest, your desires and enthusiasm may gallop away with you. You often do not know when you have had
or done enough. Many things do
come easily to you--athletics, leadership, creative efforts of all kind--and
you are apt to have King Midas's touch, especially early in life. However, this may lead to
overconfidence or inflated expectations later on. In your work you are apt to be an overachiever with an
overemphasis on physical and/or sexual adventure. Once again, not knowing when to stop or say no can be your
downfall.
Mars
Sesquiquadrate Pluto:
In this lifetime you
must confront the nature of power, and you have the opportunity to transform
your relationship to power, clear away deep-seated anger and resentment, and
release karmic patterns of perpetrator/victim.
If, in your past, you
have been the victim of aggression, ruthless force, or misdirected male energy
- you may subconsciously fear or even hate men, have great mistrust of people
in power or experience problems in sexual relationships (the arena where
power/fear dynamics are often most apparent). In addition, you are prone to
self-repression, either of anger or of your own strength. If you have very little energy,
consider yourself a weak person, or become extremely uncomfortable when others
express any anger, you may be holding down a great deal of hostility. Or, you may be angry all of the time
"for no reason". The question of appropriate expression of these
intense energies is a delicate one.
While repressing them can wreak havoc on your health and sense of
well-being, you do not want to unload the deep rage of centuries on innocent
people. You may hold your anger or
aggression back not only because you fear repercussions (you may have been
bludgeoned to a pulp in the past), but also because you sense that whatever is
triggering your emotions in the present is not the real problem. In a word, you overreact. (Wanting to
kill someone because they forgot to walk the dog is an overreaction).
On the other hand,
you may carry an immense burden of guilt because you have been the one who
misused your power, strength and/or sexual energies in the past.
Another way you may
be expressing this energy is to be intensely and compulsively competitive,
acting as if each and every event is a mighty struggle for supremacy, a contest
with life or death consequences that you MUST WIN at all costs. You may become compulsively active and
productive and driven to "succeed" at all costs. This type of thinking and being creates
great stress on your physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies. Very likely it
will also have a negative impact on all of your relationships. You will make a lot of enemies and
actually force people to turn against you and bring you to your knees.
Ruthlessness attracts ruthlessness.
Coming into balance
with all of this is a major challenge. Finding a safe place to explore your
war-like, destructive, and sadistic self can help. Another key is becoming sufficiently detached so that you
can feel and acknowledge all of these energies, and choose when and how to
express them without being "taken over" by them. If you are willing
to become conscious, you can actually become a great force for good, and can
heal and release some very deep wounds you have carried for a long time.
Jupiter is
Retrograde:
Moral concerns
(including lingering unresolved issues stemming from a prior lifetime or
lifetimes in which you exercised poor judgment in moral, ethical, or religious
matters) come into play here.
Thus, it is especially important for you to maintain high standards
while pursuing your aspirations.
Pluto is
Retrograde:
These issues are further complicated by the fact
that in a prior life or lives you experienced a terrible betrayal, and may even
have been tortured or put to death when you claimed power (social, political or
spiritual). You may have misused
power or employed Machiavellian strategies in which many suffered. Whether you
were a perpetrator or a victim of such abuses, deep fears were engendered at
that time, of being powerful or of people in power who would crush you if you
display your strengths. An unconscious
desire for revenge may motivate you and prevent you from healing. Letting go of this may require deep
inner work and some kind of therapeutic energetic release of the grief you
hold.
Chapter 6: Soft Aspects
The following is a
description of your GIFTS and STRENGTHS which can help you work with your major
life challenges. These are abilities and qualities of heart, mind, and soul
which are quite natural to you.
You probably take them for granted. Because these represent the lines of
least resistance for you, you may rely too much upon them at times; hence,
there are some cautions suggested.
Still, these are the areas where good flows into your life and/or where
you have considerable inner resources.
Mercury Trine
Pluto:
You have a gift for
intellectual strategy and solving mysteries and puzzles. Intense mental focus and concentration,
combined with your acute perceptions, enables you to do "magic" when
you set your mind to it, and your wizardry in some specialized field may be
well known.
You are deeply
interested in what lies below the surface in any situation or person, and have
an instinctive grasp of these subtleties.
You may, for instance, use your hands to perceive the auric field, discover
imbalances, and transmit healing energies to the one in need. The deep study of esoteric subjects, as
well as the development of your mental powers, is natural to you, for you have
pursued these areas in your incarnational past. This knowledge can be reawakened in you rather easily, and
you are likely to be a teacher and/or transmitter of the understandings you
have gained.
Jupiter Conjunct
Saturn:
You have a
well-developed understanding of how the larger systems of the world operate,
and how to succeed within the confines and limitations of the mundane
world. Business on a large scale,
the law, financial principles, all of these could be your forte. Your ability to make long-range plans
and goals, and then to be consistent in implementing those plans is an
important asset. You have vision
and optimism combined with pragmatism.
Blessings, help,
guidance and strength will come to you from elders with a particular mentor or
grandfather figure being especially influential.
Neptune Sextile
Pluto:
Collectively, this is
a time in history that enables you and those of your generation to advance
spiritually through a heightened awareness of the invisible and intangible
realms. A rebirth of spirituality
through direct contact with higher forces is occurring in this generation. This contact takes many, many forms,
including a compelling interest in life beyond death. You may or may not have a personal involvement with this, as
it is a group karma rather than a primarily personal one.