Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Life Report: The Stars Above, the Earth Below

The stars above, the Earth below:  MorganFire's
Life Report.


Natal Report
for Morgan

Introduction
This report presents the raw materials that you have been given for building a life. It outlines how the overall shape of your chart reflects the overall shape of your personality. It shows what your greatest challenges are likely to be, the strengths you have been given to meet these challenges, and the main arenas you are given for playing out your life’s drama.

You may notice certain places where the information seems contradictory. This is to be expected, because people are complex. For example, in some situations you may be shy and in others, aggressive. When you see repeated patterns, though, take special note: these are apt to be the dominant themes in your life.

The Main Emphasis in Your Chart
Before looking at your chart in detail, let’s stand back for a moment to see whether there are any overall tendencies that stand out.

Greater planetary emphasis in the eastern half of the chart.
With the bulk of of your planetary strength in the left-hand half of your chart, you prefer to be in charge of your own destiny, rather than following someone else's dreams, adventures, projects or proposals. This tends to make you an outgoing, active person, in charge of your affairs. Independent and outwardly directed, you are conscious of the direction in which you lead your life. An entrepreneurial pursuit of some type will find you at your best. You need followers to help you, so be sure that you attract those who are willing to follow your vision. Be clear, however, as to who is in charge. Joining forces with someone as strong-minded as you are may cause the kind of stress that will distract you from your goals. Make all possible allowances for practicality; and then go ahead and pursue your vision.

Greater emphasis below the horizon.
Since the lower, or inward-directed side of your chart is stronger than the upper half, your personal sense of identity tends to be especially important. For you, who you are and where you’ve come from are constant sources of interest. This special understanding of your cultural heritage and family roots will help you to determine your direction and goals in life. You feel that answers to important questions can best be found within, rather than in the outer world or in a relationship. This self-awareness helps you to be composed and assured in your career and relationships.

Greater emphasis above the horizon.
Since the upper, or outward-directed side of your chart is stronger than the lower half, you tend to identify who you are with what you have accomplished in the world. This may make you highly competitive in establishing yourself within a definable lifestyle or career. Your trophy case or the diplomas on your wall may be a source of great personal satisfaction. It is important to balance your need for outer-world- accomplishments with care for your inner self. Also, take great care not to lose sight of the needs of your loved ones.

Fire signs are especially strong.
With a main emphasis in signs like Aries, Leo and Sagittarius, you are likely to be one of the original self- starters. Passionate and full of strong feelings and ideals, you do not need external stimuli to get you moving in new directions. Drama is your mantra. Perceiving life as a game with high stakes, you are just as passionate when you win as when you lose.

In many ways you act and feel as if the world revolves around you, and sometimes it does. You tend to dominate your sphere, and when you come across other Fire types you instantly like or dislike them with no feelings in-between.

You are devoted to your ideals and beliefs, and will play the game to the end, displaying your boundless enthusiasm no matter what the outcome. You despise static, unchanging and unyielding situations, and will put forth your best efforts to change them. With your courage, energy and dramatic flair, you can be an effective leader, and will be the first in line to explore uncharted regions.

Your tendency to act first and think later, however, may lead others to accuse you of insensitivity. Learn to be more aware of others’ feelings. Realize that your actions affect others’ lives in ways that you may not have considered. Remember to develop sensitivity and appraise situations intellectually before you act with your heart.

Earth signs are under-represented.
With a marked lack of emphasis in Earth signs like Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn, you may find it difficult to handle the practical, everyday details of living with any degree of grace. Practical knowledge is not one of your higher priorities, and you may not particularly like doing things that require hands-on manipulation. You tend to be either unconnected with the day-to-day reality of your life or to make plans that reality dictates cannot come to fruition. Because you dread taking on everyday responsibilities, you may do things that others judge to be childish or irresponsible.

Establishing good habits for daily living will help smooth out some of your inconsistencies. By taking the time to stick with a plan, regimen, or project, you will learn the value of creating things that last. Otherwise you will tend to drift from one idea or concept to another without really settling down and experiencing life on its most fundamental level. Try also to develop your sensual side. Take the time to feel, smell, taste, and physically experience things. Doing this will help keep you in focus and connected to the larger world around you.

A strongly Fixed quality.
Your strength in Fixed signs like Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius gives you the persistence to bring any project to its conclusion. You are the one who can be counted on to do whatever must be done. A preserver of old traditions and customs, you know that forward progress can occur only if there is a firm foundation to begin with. You are glad to build that foundation. Be aware, however, that others may sometimes view your noble persistence as stubbornness, cussedness or pigheadedness.

Special strength in Leo.
You do things with a style and flair that demand to be noticed. Indeed, when you are not noticed for who you are, you get morose and arrogant. Your overdeveloped and dramatic sense of “self” is probably quite appropriate, because you usually add honor, grace and integrity to any venture with which you choose to associate yourself. A shining source of energy around whom others naturally gather, you function best in positions of leadership. Sometimes your personal charisma is all that is needed, but in some situations it is good to make sure that you bring to the role something more substantial.

Aspects: Keys to Your Inner Drama
In your birth chart, the Sun, Moon and planets play the central role. They are the actors in the drama, the moving figures on the stage, each with a character of its own. How these characters relate to each other, whether and how they clash or harmonize, whether they bring out each other’s best or worst qualities, is shown by the aspects, or angles, between the planets.

Your Major Challenges
We start with your conjunctions, oppositions and squares because these tend to point out the challenges that you have been set in life. Most people experience these aspects as problems, at least at first. Armed with awareness, however, you can come to view these so-called “ hard” aspects as the blessings that they really are. These are the forces that spur you forward. When you face the challenges that these aspects pose, you grow in strength, confidence, wisdom and maturity.

Sun conjunct Mars
Action is your first name and aggressiveness is your style. Once you decide you want something, you go for it — full tilt, at a hundred miles an hour, and damn the consequences. Your courage may never be doubted, but your lack of tact, grace and practicality may be issues that concern you throughout life. Though it may be difficult to do, it is worth while to try to control your impulsiveness and that temper of yours which continually gets you into hot water.

Sun opposite Jupiter
Your desire to constantly grow and expand often causes you difficulty because you try to do too much too soon. It is just not in your nature to move slowly and cautiously. Instead, you want the whole shebang right now. In your case, good-natured optimism is in danger of becoming arrogance, conceit and extravagance. The lessons of humility, practicality and self-discipline may be hard for you to learn, but learn them you must if you want to get along in the world without lots of resistance.

Sun square Pluto
You have enough charisma, will and ambition to become a presidential candidate or, at the very least, a leader in your chosen line of endeavor. The danger is that you tend to use and manipulate others to get what you want. Sometimes, you get away with it. At other times, you may find that you’ve stepped on the toes of someone even more powerful than you, and just as you’re about to reach your long-sought goal, your hopes are dashed. Only then are you open to learning the lessons of tact and humility. It may be too late to save the situation this time around, but if you can learn to respect the rights of others, you will eventually be unstoppable.

Moon opposite Venus
You are known to be very loving and affectionate, but not very aggressive. Your blissful placidity may make you appear to be rather shy in social situations. Your love of ease and comfort can lead to overindulgence, with the attendant problem of physical and material bloat. Lavish your wonderful gift for affection on people (children, relatives and friends), and be sure to get enough exercise.

Moon conjunct Neptune
You have an accentuated sensitivity to emotions and energies in your environment. No matter how others may want to hide negative or discordant energy patterns, you have the ability to discern such “vibes” in those around you. Be careful when dealing with negative people. You may not have the strength of will to avoid the adverse consequences of their energy patterns. When you sense negativity, it can be advisable for you to retreat and just not deal with it. You are very intuitive and maybe even quite psychic. Your ability to empathize with those who are in pain can make you very effective in the helping professions. To avoid burnout, however, you must allow yourself ample time off to recharge and soak up positive vibes.

Mercury square Saturn
At your best, you are extremely cautious and conservative. But often you analyze situations to such an extent that you develop a feeling that all of life is difficult, hard to deal with, and oppressive. This leads to your feeling depressed and alienated. Often you are paralyzed by inaction because you are afraid that what you decide to do may be the wrong thing. Try to lighten up on yourself. Don’t be afraid to act. Even though you are faced with a number of choices, your decision-making processes are so thorough that probably all your possibilities are correct and appropriate.

Mars square Pluto
You have enormous drive and ambition, but you often find that the forces that you need to overcome in order to attain your goals are much stronger than you are. A probable cause is that you tend to overlook the needs of others in order to get what you want. If you control and manipulate others and use underhanded or unethical tactics, you force others to be as violent and dictatorial as yourself. When you learn to counter your more selfish tendencies with tact and altruism, you can be a powerful force for constructive change.

Jupiter square Nodes
A great deal of your time and energy is spent in working on charitable, religious or political projects. You enjoy portraying yourself as a high-minded, community-oriented person, but you’re not above using the contacts that you make for your own personal gain. A little of this is perfectly acceptable, but others may shy away from your assistance if they think that there are always going to be strings attached to anything that you do. Learn to give of yourself selflessly if you wish to be truly appreciated — don’t always try to “cash in” your favors.

Chiron opposite Uranus
Due to separation from a parent or lack of communication in your earliest environment, you have difficulty in sharing and opening up to others. Creative, independent and yet high-strung, you will be successful so long as you develop patience and refrain from being provocative. Asserting a contrary opinion or taking an unpopular stance for the sake of rebellion can be as disruptive and destructive as it can be creative and productive. As life goes on, you will get the knack of being spontaneous without provoking others.

Your Sustaining Strengths
Trines and sextiles tend to work with a natural harmony that calls for little effort on your part. They show the things that you just seem naturally good at. Usually they point to the more positive parts of your nature, and act as support that you can call on in difficult times.

Because these aspects are so comfortable, they are not likely to push you to expand your limits or cause you to change. It is actually helpful to have a balance of hard aspects (like oppositions and squares) to stimulate you to grow, and soft aspects (trines and sextiles) to ease your passage and provide places to rest.

Sun sextile Ascendant
You are at your best in social situations, and find it easy to mingle your energies with others. You can be a positive force in bringing people together so that substantive things can happen. You understand how to deal with others, and they trust you. You tend to form relationships with men or authority figures, because you are comfortable with them and they with you.

Moon trine Mercury
You wear your heart on your sleeve. Others almost always know what you are thinking and feeling — usually because you tell them as soon as the thought occurs to you. You love to chatter on about whatever interests you at the moment and are a good listener, too. You are sincere, open and good-natured, which makes you a pleasure to be around. The only problem you have, and this is a recurring one, is that you tend to be overly subjective — reacting to situations too quickly and sometimes feeling embarrassed later on by what you said and did. Don’t feel bad, though, because most people respect you for your spontaneity — and you are easy to forgive.

Mercury sextile Venus
You have a keen sense of proportion and balance. This is why you are so diplomatic in speech and manner. You prefer things to move smoothly and will take the necessary steps to see that they do. Once you have focused on an object of affection, you have the ability clearly (and seductively) to express yourself to the lucky person. You are also gifted aesthetically and can communicate your ideas easily through writing, arts or crafts.

Jupiter sextile Uranus
You have a positive, upbeat and slightly zany attitude toward life. You are quite creative, optimistically suggesting new and innovative ways of doing things no matter what the cost — let others worry about that. You are unafraid to do things your own way, and lucky breaks seem to happen to you more often than to others of your acquaintance.

Jupiter trine Ascendant.
You enjoy being with people. You have a jovial optimism about you that others admire. You are sincerely interested in the problems and concerns of those you meet and are willing to help them in most any way you can. You also may find yourself receiving beneficial support from a wealthy or influential person who takes an interest in you. Your strong moral fiber and tolerant and cheerful attitude make you stand out in a crowd.

Jupiter trine Chiron
You have amazing ideas, but do not always have the means to see them through. Naturally undisciplined, you may spend a good part of your life learning to organize your time and finish what you begin. Sometimes you become so frustrated by the challenges of your work that you may satiate yourself with sensual pleasures. If you successfully divide your time between your professional and personal life, you will have more to offer in both areas.

Uranus sextile Ascendant
You are known to others as being a bit of a flake due to your tendency toward erratic and eccentric patterns of behavior. But you prefer it that way. Relationships must be constantly stimulating for you to keep your interest up. When the excitement dies down or the novelty wears off, you simply (and unemotionally) move on to someone else. This does not mean that you are not a caring person, just that you have an unusually short attention span.

Neptune sextile Pluto
You, and society as a whole, are witnessing a gradual spiritual transformation that affects everything that you encounter. A solid foundation for protecting the rights of individuals (and especially the underprivileged) was being laid in the era when you were born, so that those in the future will have an equal opportunity to grow, evolve and gain greater understanding.

North Node sextile Midheaven
You’re far more comfortable working within a group than you are “going it alone.” Good fellowship and companionship seem to bring out the best in you — you thrive on being in the center of a large crew of like- minded people. Your unselfish, understanding demeanor makes you acceptable just about anywhere. You’re sincerely concerned with others and their needs and will give out that extra effort needed to accomplish group goals, even if you don’t advance very far on your own score. You can be counted on by your compatriots to be “there” when the going gets tough.

Chiron trine Ascendant
Enthusiastic, outgoing and driven, you have the ability to instill confidence in others. Overcoming major disappointments has taught you how to rebuild self-esteem and faith even when it looked as though you would never recover. Others are inspired by your sparkling personality, resilience, and ability to endure in the face of adversity. Compassionate and forgiving, you are a wonderful and loyal friend upon whom others can rely.

Rounding Out the Picture
Two other families of so-called “minor” aspects add yet more information about the way the planets relate to each other in your chart. Semisquares and sesquares (also known as sesquiquadrates) share the dynamic, crisis-prone nature of the square but need to be quite exact in order to be felt.

Mercury semisquare Ascendant
You have an abundance of nervous energy, and you tend to release it by buzzing around from friend to friend and talking of this and that. You love to share ideas and opinions, and will often be the vehicle for spreading gossip and rumor. This is one of your less desirable traits. Make sure that your speech is kind and has substance, because people will only tolerate idle chatter for so long.

Mercury semisquare Midheaven
With your wide range of career interests, it would be best not to focus too narrowly on just one career. This will just frustrate you. If you concentrate too much on one job, your tendency to lack self-disciplined be easily distracted may make you feel as if you are headed in a direction other than your chosen one. It helps to imagine your career as just another of your many hobbies and to take it less seriously than many others do.

Mars quincunx Neptune
You experience a continuing conflict between the need to stand up and defend yourself — to motivate yourself toward a clear and definable goal — and the feeling that you just do not have the requisite will power or energy to act on your own behalf. You are much more comfortable helping others to reach their goals than you are in helping yourself to do so. The problem here is that you know that this is not right for you and it frustrates you greatly. Your physical energy is an issue for you and you should recognize it as such. Do not attempt any major effort if you are tired or weak if you do, you will probably become ill. Also, build up your self-confidence wherever possible. You have a valid contribution to make.

Jupiter quincunx Midheaven
While you usually have a balanced approach to your career and life objectives, at times they seem to be working at cross-purposes to what you really want to be doing. This makes you very restless and unsure of your life path and can be very frustrating to you. It is not that you are doing poorly in your career, it is that there is a siren song calling you, making you believe that there might be a better path. You must realize that this is a serious problem and you must learn to face it. Find a way to pursue creatively these other interests, perhaps in the form of a hobby, in such a way that your career will not be damaged. Then, later, if the pressure becomes too great, switch careers. But plan the move out well in advance in order to make the transition as smooth as possible.

Uranus quincunx North Node
You find that casual relationships with people you care for keep ending prematurely — and this bothers you. It seems as if, once the excitement in a relationship fades away, all you want to do is move on quickly. You cannot stomach a dull, routine sort of relationship, but you’re jealous of those who can make relationships last over long periods of time. Indeed, sometimes you get quite lonely because of your insistence on keeping things lively and interesting. But don’t worry, someone new is bound to enter your life unexpectedly and then your adrenaline will start flowing again.

Chiron semisextile North Node
Obsessed with being the best at everything you do, you can be extremely demanding of yourself and others. You have the reputation of being a hard taskmaster who demands nothing less than perfection from your personal and professional relationships. Striving for excellence is admirable, but it can alienate those who want to be close to you. Accept your strengths as well as your weaknesses, and you will be much more pleasant to be around.

Chiron semisextile Midheaven
Rather than run from a situation in which you must take orders, take advantage of the opportunity to learn skills that can expand your horizons. Playing the victim is a thing of the past. Unless you take control of your life, you will never fulfill your lofty ambitions. Thinking positively and surrounding yourself with supportive friends will drastically improve your resolve.

Houses: Bringing the Planets Down to Earth

Your Interface with the World
The first house focuses on the basic equipment that you have been given for interacting with the world: your body and your physical constitution, your face, your appearance, your personality, mannerisms and the way you present yourself. It may not be how you see yourself, but it is how others tend to perceive you, and you should be aware that it has an important effect on how you are accepted in social situations. Planets in the first house tend to be strong and “out-front,” especially when they are close to (that is, conjunct) your Ascendant.

Libra on the First
Attractive and popular, you have a charm that helps you to get your own way and prevents others from getting angry with you. “Peace and harmony at all costs” is your battle cry. You like to ameliorate or to cosmetically hide any physical ugliness or any angry feelings between people. You prefer to dress elegantly, and pride yourself on your taste. In your attempt to be agreeable at all times, beware of the tendency to compromise yourself. You tend to be a bit of a social butterfly, and at times can be vain and lazy. For the most part, however, you are gracious and affectionate, and your refined and aristocratic demeanor serves as model to others.

Pluto in the First
You have a personality that is known for its intensity — you tend to take life very seriously. When you have focused on a goal (or an object or a person), you pursue it with such total commitment and all- encompassing dedication that you make others who are less committed than you uneasy (and even fearful). You love to push things to their limit — you are happy when living at the cutting edge of life. You are a powerful and charismatic person and you may have to be careful not to abuse the power that you do have.

Pluto in Scorpio
Your entire generation was born at a time of radical changes in society’s attitude toward sex. With the rise of AIDS, the previous generation’s free attitudes were replaced by an emphasis on exclusivity and depth of commitment. This was also an era when society became focused on what to do with its waste. There was also an intensification of research into areas once considered mysterious, remote or taboo.

What You Own and Value
The second house goes a step outward from your own person and has to do with resources that you possess, including money. It shows your attitude toward what you own or would like to own: what you crave and covet, what you most value, how you go about getting it, how you take care of it, and whether or not you hang on to it. By extension, it can also indicate your sense of values: not just material things but also the attitudes and ideas that you hold dear.

Scorpio on the Second
You are emotionally involved with your own personal resources — so much so that you rarely, if ever, share what you have with others. You tend to think that, if you give of what you have, you yourself will become personally diminished. This unreasonable fear of loss makes you very withdrawn and secretive and, at times, quite miserly. You regard your resources as tools to push life to its uttermost limits. You enjoy making investments and are willing to take risks, and you are devastated when things do not work out as planned. But you are a careful planner — your nest egg should grow over time.

Saturn in the Second
You are extremely cautious and conservative about money or any other resource. You tend to have a (perhaps unreasonable) fear that you will not have enough — that there will be shortages — and therefore you stockpile money or supplies. You are not afraid to work hard and long for what you want, so much so that at times you forget how to relax and enjoy what you’ve got. But you are very thrifty and a good planner. Just be careful that your anxieties do not make you too stingy or miserly.

Saturn in Scorpio
Your emotions are complicated and intense, and you are reluctant to express them. This is partly due to your fear of what horrible calamity might occur should they be released. Try not to repress these emotions entirely, however, or you will succumb to negative and destructive forms of compulsive behavior. Give yourself the freedom to look awkward or silly once in a while. The relief that you feel will be therapeutic, and the embarrassment (whether it is real or imagined) will pass quickly. If you feel that an emotion has a real potential for destructiveness, simply acknowledging to yourself that you feel it, and possibly writing about it or expressing it in art, will help.

Your Immediate Surroundings
Going a step further out from your own body and possessions, the third house has to do with your immediate surroundings and how you interact with them. The first “social” house, it describes brothers and sisters, neighbors and anyone who just happens to be near you on a daily basis. It also describes daily communication and transportation: letters, phone calls and emails, and routine journeys such as commuting to shopping, school or work. The first “mental” house, it governs early education and basic skills training, paving the way for higher education in the ninth house which is directly opposite it in the chart.

Sagittarius on the Third
You are known for your wide-ranging mental interests. You need constant mental stimulation in order to feel vibrant and alive. You are an eager student and a willing teacher of what you know. You are at your best when those who need your knowledge are allowed to come to you for advice and assistance — and you freely give it. However, you are not known for having a great deal of self-discipline in your studies and, although you usually understand the overall picture, the small but significant details of a subject often elude you. You are not overly sentimental about your home life — you need a place to check into once in a while in order to rest up. But, because you tend to be so very restless, you are soon on the go again.

Moon in the Third
How you think about things and how you act and react to life’s everyday situations has been strongly influenced by habit patterns that you picked up at a very early age. If they were negative patterns, they will be very difficult to unlearn. You have a very subjective approach to life — be careful not to depend too heavily on your ingrained prejudices and beliefs or you will not be open-minded enough to see the necessity to grow and evolve. Your feelings and emotions sometimes interfere with your normal ability to be logical and reasonable. You may experience a very close attachment to your siblings or to the neighborhood of your youthful years.

Moon in Sagittarius
An idealist, you prefer the grand, the beautiful, the good and the noble. You get very disappointed when your high expectations in life are not met. Very curious by nature, you enjoy traveling and learning about other peoples and cultures. Try to avoid your tendency to ignore the small but important details of living. You are independent and free, and you want others to be that way, too. Optimistic, buoyant and cheerful, others like to have you around. You have an incessant desire to learn as much as possible about metaphysics, religion, philosophy and any other broad, deep subject. Your life tends to be punctuated by bursts of energy and frenetic activity.

Uranus in the Third
Your mind is very quick, innovative and original. You have the ability to quickly grasp complicated subjects and are attracted to new and unusual ideas and concepts. You love to be the first one to know about something new. Pranks and practical jokes appeal to you and you will go out of your way to shock others with your outrageous conduct or lifestyle. Extremely nervous at times, you tend to be quite undisciplined. Your attention span is quite short and you seem to need constant new stimuli in order to be effective and functional.

Uranus in Sagittarius
You, and most of your peers, have the tendency to think that all ideas, customs and traditions from the past are outmoded and irrelevant. You are attracted to radically new ideas, philosophies and religions that will, hopefully, cause sweeping changes throughout the world.

Neptune in the Third
Your rich and vivid imagination can be used creatively in writing or speaking if you are so inclined. You are so trusting in the power of your inner visions that at times you confuse the truth with what you want to believe. Be careful not to embroider or distort the truth to fit your own needs. You are so idealistic, and you accept so many things on faith, especially if the ideas are packaged in such a way that they appeal to your imagination, that you are often easily conned by others who are less scrupulous than you are. So be careful when taking advice from others — always get a second or third opinion before taking any action.

Neptune in Capricorn
You, and your entire generation, will idealize work, practicality and the ability to attain reasonable goals. But, because you will also stress the need to be selfless and giving, you may find it difficult to attain your goals unless you have lowered your expectations on all fronts.

Where You Come From
Being at the very bottom of the wheel, the fourth house is both where you originate and where you come to rest. As such, it describes your parents and ancestral background, and later the home or protected space into which you retreat each day for nourishment and sleep. A deeply personal house, the fourth is concerned with security and peace of mind, the safety of loved ones, and how you care for others and yourself. The place of your roots and the earth beneath your feet, the fourth house rules the house or apartment where you live and also real estate in general. In your trajectory through life, the fourth house shows your origins and where you are coming from, just as the tenth house and Midheaven describe your career and where you aim to go.

Capricorn on the Fourth
You prefer a structured and regimented home life — everything in your home must have a purpose and must be “in its place.” You regard disorganization or clutter as a personal failure and if there is anything you hate or fear it is to have others think that you made a mistake. You have very specific goals for your family and family members and are devastated when they are not met or are deviated from in any way. You are at your best when maintenance of your home is efficient and carefree — this lets you concentrate on whatever else you need pay attention to in order to get you where you think you should be going.

Jupiter in the Fourth
A very positive, tolerant and unprejudiced childhood environment assists to make you quite self-confident and self-assured. Your balanced and reasonable attitude toward life allows you to be outgoing and generous. You prefer large, comfortable and elegant surroundings and your home demonstrates this to the extent that your budget can afford. You are known for your hospitality and you delight in showing off all the things that you love to collect.

Jupiter in Aquarius
Your personal growth occurs when you have the freedom to do things in new and interesting ways — this brings out your natural inventiveness. You are an individualist, but you are also attracted to mass movements that emphasize social betterment and you will devote much time and energy to their efforts. Very fair-minded and objective, you have extraordinary skills at organization and administration.

Playtime
After being nurtured and restored in the fourth house, you are refreshed and full of energy for play and creative pursuits. Replenished by dreams, you have creative ideas. Nurtured by your parents, you are ready to have your own children. Fresh from the security of home, you are ready to trust the universe and take risks. For all these reasons, the fifth house traditionally rules the child in you and the children around you, your own personal creativity and self-expression, plays and amusements of all sorts, gambling and speculation, and courtship, love affairs and romance. This is an outgoing house, but it is still beneath the horizon, in the territory of your heart’s desires.

Aquarius on the Fifth
When it comes to speculation, you have a detached and objective point of view which can be very helpful — you will avoid the trap of impulsiveness or of making decisions with your heart rather than with your head. But this is disadvantageous when it comes to romance because you are inclined to be turned off by overly emotional reactions on the part of your lover. Also, at times when spontaneity would be desired, you are at a loss. You prefer relationships that have a common intellectual base and tend to be less critical of the other person's quirks and oddities as long as you both think alike. You are very concerned about the welfare of your children and will push them to develop their mental skills, but you would rather not get too close to them emotionally.

No planets in the Fifth
The fifth house of your horoscope contains no planets. This does not mean that you are any less self- expressive or creative or fun-loving than the next person. It just means that your overall character is balanced to the extent that these issues are not usually paramount for you.

Taking Care of Business
After the candle-lit dinner comes the credit-card bill. Courtship is followed by the nitty-gritty of married life: babies, diapers and saving up for college. After your creative impulse comes the need to learn the technique of actually making something. And if you overexpend your energy, you get health problems. The sixth house rules taking care of business on an everyday level. This includes your job, paying bills and keeping the house clean. It also includes maintaining your body with medical checkups and a daily regimen of nutrition and exercise. In the old books it ruled servants, and it can by extension rule the way you offer service to others. It also ruled useful animals, particularly small ones like cats, dogs, chickens and pigs. Today this usually means small pets, which exist in the personal, intimate part of your life that is signified by houses that lie below the horizon.

Pisces on the Sixth
When you are at your best, you are self-sacrificial and giving at the work place. You try to ease the burden of those around you by doing tasks they disdain — make sure that others are not merely taking advantage of your better nature. When you are at your worst, you fear involvement with others and try to shrink from any responsibilities whatsoever. Health problems occur most often at those times when you are feeling weak and vulnerable and some symptoms can be quite difficult to diagnose. Try to work in a positive environment because you tend to soak up the energies of those around you — negative people drain you and make you dull and listless.

No planets in the Sixth
Your sixth house is not activated by planetary activity. Health and work-related issues are not usually paramount concerns for you. Of course, outside influences can temporarily upset this balance, causing you to devote more time and energy to these parts of your life, at least on a temporary basis.

Relating One-to-One
If you courted in the fifth house and woke up in the sixth yoked to another in a daily routine, the seventh house gives you a chance to hammer out a relationship of true equals. The goal is wedded bliss and a true sense of relatedness, but along the way there may be fights as you each define your individuality and establish your own territory. Not only is the seventh the traditional house of marriage, it is also the house of open enemies, your sparring partners in life. In general, since the first house is you yourself, the seventh house, directly opposite, is the other person in a variety of situations. Besides signifying a marriage or sparring partner, the seventh house rules business partners, or those on the other side of a desk, such as consultants, lawyers, therapists or astrologers.

Aries on the Seventh
You have an aggressive attitude toward relationships. You need others in order to feel complete, but you always want to maintain the upper hand — to be in charge. You exult in the give-and-take of relating because you learn so much about human motivations and character from your partner. But you tend to be so uptight when you think your rights are being threatened that you often aggravate your partner and this brings the two of you further and further apart. This also causes you to fight equally as hard to maintain the relationship — you are afraid to face the world alone. Thus, relationships, whether of a business or personal nature, can be quite stormy and tempestuous, but you would really not have it any other way.

No planets in the Seventh
You have no planets in the seventh house of your horoscope. This does not mean that you will never have any relationships or that you will never get married. What it does indicate is that you will not find your life overly dominated by working out problems associated with relationships. You will experience more or less activity in these areas occasionally, along with everyone else.

Merging into Something Larger
Having achieved a relationship of equals in the seventh house, you are ready to give up your separateness in the eighth, merging in sexual union and becoming one on a deep emotional level. If the second house was about grasping and possessing, the eighth is about sharing and letting go. While the second rules your own money, the eighth rules how you deal with other people’s money and how you pool resources. On a mundane level the eighth rules taxes, but on a fundamental level it can rule giving up anything you value, including your ego and even your body. In relaxing your grasp on what you find most dear, you may find that you are really not as dependent on it as you thought. In relinquishing, you achieve a new level of freedom, and feel lighter, renewed and more alive. Related to all this, the eighth signifies mysteries such as death and resurrection, magic and the occult, and the deep parts of the psyche that are beyond our conscious grasp.

Taurus on the Eighth
You have a cautious and conservative approach to investing your resources or the resources of others. You would rather wait and build up your kitty so that you can buy the blue chips with a guaranteed rate of return instead of taking a flyer on some unknown or risky commodity. This is not to say that you do not have huge appetites, though — you are very, very acquisitive. The same applies to your attitude toward sex. You are very loyal to your partner, and very sensual — you demand that your partner pay you a great deal of attention. Your cautious and careful attitude can usually forestall the many financial and personal crises that others seem to have to go through.

North Node in the Eighth
You’re usually not really interested in forming many casual relationships with others. You’re much more comfortable when you can deal with an extremely small, close-knit group of like-minded friends and acquaintances. But once you’ve made a commitment to someone or to some group, it’s total and forever. You delight in sharing ideas and experiences with those you know — and you usually do so with an intensity that those who know you only casually would find surprising. It takes a while to gain your trust, but once given, you reveal the true depths of your inner nature. If involved in a group effort, you’ll work tirelessly to attain its goals, and you probably don’t care who assumes the leadership role.

North Node in Taurus
It’s not in your nature to seek out many casual acquaintances in your daily round of activities. You feel more comfortable with a small, close-knit group of people, those with whom you can relax, or those with whom you can work toward known and clearly defined goals. Once given, your loyalty to a person or group is forever, and you’ll expend all of your energy in seeing that the group stays together and prospers. You choose your partners and relationships so carefully that you’re bound to gain certain advantages from them, including those of a material nature. Make sure that there’s an even give-and-take, and do not let self- service be your sole motivation for establishing connections.

Expanding Your Conscious Awareness
Approaching the highest point in the sky, the ninth house wafts you up and out of your rut, giving you a broad and lofty view of the terrain beneath. Whereas the third ruled basic schooling and short trips, the ninth rules higher education and long-distance travel. It removes you from your everyday routine so you can see the overall pattern, the overlooked connections between things. It rules all-embracing concepts (such as your philosophy of life) and institutions (like religion and law) that stand over society and keep it bound together. It can also signify your teachers and mentors, your library, and all else that broadens your outlook.

Gemini on the Ninth
You have the approach of a dilettante when it comes to forming your life philosophy. You are fascinated by so many different ideas and concepts that you find it difficult to choose any one given philosophy as your standard. You do manage, however, to become quite learned in many different areas because of your insatiable curiosity. You have the ability to remain detached and objective enough to sort out competing claims and explain their differences to others. This makes you a good candidate for the teaching professions. You are an avid reader and your innate restlessness probably attracts you to traveling around quite a bit.

Venus in the Ninth
Any activity that allows you to expand your consciousness will be attractive for you. You have a deep and abiding interest in art, literature and poetry, especially those art forms that might be considered unusual or exotic. Your life’s philosophy depends more on your refined aesthetic sense and your need for harmony and beauty than it does on reason or logic. You will tend to choose the path of least resistance if given the opportunity to choose.

Venus in Gemini
You are friendly, warm, open and tolerant toward others. You love variety in relationships, indeed you may even prefer to maintain more than one relationship at a time. Very witty and humorous, you have the ability to amuse and please others. This makes you quite popular. You love to play the field and thus find it difficult to settle down and make any deep emotional commitments. Your innate charm and vivacity makes you welcome most everywhere you go.

Chiron in the Ninth
An effective and influential teacher, you developed your own unusual outlook on life at a very young age. A precocious but serious child, you may have been admonished and teased for being “different.” A superior attitude could have prevented you from cultivating lasting friendships. Your independent streak and singular manner of self-expression will serve you well as a writer, publisher, teacher or raconteur. Success will be forthcoming once you realize that you are equal to, not better than, your peers. Always remember that students are your very best teachers.

Chiron in Gemini
Fearful of being alone and unloved, you may overcompensate by surrounding yourself with a large circle of friends. Filling your hours with endless activities distracts you from obsessing over emotional problems or fear of abandonment. You are an entertaining and humorous raconteur but often lack the ability to listen. At times, you offend others with the pointedness of your words. Your greatest asset is the power to make others laugh.

Your Public Self
If the fourth house showed your roots and where you came from, the tenth shows what you are ultimately aiming at in life. Whereas the sixth shows your daily job and how you make a living, the tenth signifies your career, your personal contribution, your reputation and what you become known for. Some astrologers also believe that the fourth house signifies one parent, and the tenth signifies the other. The tenth-house parent is most likely the one who prepares you for the world. The closer a planet is to the Midheaven, the more likely that planet is to be the major significator of your life’s direction.

Cancer on the Tenth
You have the unique ability to strive with great energy and initiative to reach the top of your chosen field and, at the same time, not make anyone feel bitter about how you got there. Your strong sense of compassion and sympathy and true caring about the needs of others makes you respected and loved by your colleagues and those you supervise. Very sensitive to the moods and feelings of others, you pick up “vibes” quickly and can turn them to your advantage. But avoid becoming too overly protective and smothering of those in your care — or they will resist all your best intentions.

Many planets in the Tenth
You want to get ahead in the world, to be noticed for your achievements, and you will work hard and long and tirelessly to achieve your goals. Your experience of your father (or the person who played that role in your life), whether it was positive or negative, will play a very important role in determining how you will react to the need for discipline and structure that will be required in order for you to realize your goals. You are at your best in highly structured situations and can be counted on to carry out a project fully and completely.

Sun in the Tenth
You want to make your mark in the world and to be in charge of your own destiny. If your past and early upbringing has supplied you with proper goal structures and a sense of discipline and dedication, you should have no problem attaining your desired ends. A consummate achiever, you must learn to cooperate with and tolerate and respect the authority figures in your life in order to ease your path.

Sun in Leo
More than a bit of a showoff, you love to be the center of attention. But others do not usually mind because they tend to enjoy your genuine warmth and affection. Very spirited and willful, proud and self-important at times, you demand your own way. You are quite honest, however, and the respect of others is very important to you. You never compromise yourself and you pursue your goals with persistence and dedication. Your regal presence and demeanor draw you to positions of leadership and authority. But beware of being overly hardheaded, domineering, ostentatious or patronizing or you will lose the goodwill and admiration that you enjoy. Very theatrical, you live life on a grand scale wherever and whenever possible. Your strength and energy vitalizes those who come in contact with you.

Mars in the Tenth
Once you have chosen a career, you will work very hard to become a success at it. You will have sharply defined goals and move quickly and decisively to attain them. Because you are so self-directed and self- confident, you may find it difficult to work well in cooperation with others. It helps to be self-employed or in a position of leadership. The harder your career forces you to work, either physically or mentally, the better you will like it and the faster you will move ahead.

Mars in Leo
You are a very proud person. Strong, bold, courageous and self-possessed, you love to be the one to initiate significant actions. When people expect a lot of you, you respond positively and will work hard to maintain their respect. But when your dignity or pride is threatened, you tend to become sarcastic, arrogant and domineering. Try not to take any challenge or resistance that you meet as a personal affront. You are stubborn about your right to live your life according to your own principles.

Your Circle of Acquaintances
The eleventh is the last house of relationships: not brothers, sisters and neighbors who just happen to be around you, not one-to-one partners, but the circle of friends and associates whom you actively choose. It shows the way you make and keep friendships, the organizations you join, the networking you do, and the general way you interact with groups. After you have established yourself as an individual and learned to form personal relationships with others, you are ready to think about the common good. This is why the eleventh often signifies groups dedicated to social or other sorts of collective improvement.

Leo on the Eleventh
You take great pride in your friendships and associations. Because it takes a major creative effort to attempt to work out group rather than personal goals, you gladly donate your time, money and prestige to worthy charitable and community projects. You are attracted to associations with those who can advance your own power, prestige and influence. You usually give back as well as you get, but just make sure that you are not merely trying to toady to others who you may think are better than you. Also, beware of a tendency to be arrogant and supercilious of those you consider your inferiors — it does not become you.

Mercury in the Eleventh
A good team person, you do your best mental work with others who share common life goals. Very gregarious, you need the support of others in order to feel that you are making a contribution. Your humanitarian impulses usually allow you to rise above personal judgments and to work for the good of all. You enjoy testing your mind on your friends and associates, and love puzzles and strategy games.

Mercury in Leo
You appreciate truth and honesty, not only practicing it yourself but also expecting it in others. You are usually convinced that your own ideas are correct, and you enjoy persuading others of their correctness. In fact, you can be stubborn about your beliefs and principles, and can get defensive when they are challenged. You also have a talent for organizing, directing and planning, and take delight in being asked for your advice and counsel.

The Hidden You
The twelfth house is where planets go just after they have risen. Here planets are still wet behind the ears, blinking in the sunlight and unsteady on their feet. Feeling completely vulnerable, planets in the twelfth tend to hide. Their energies can become repressed and secretive, and sometimes they lurk as complexes in the subconscious. This is why the twelfth is associated with self-sabotage, with hidden enemies, and with prison and whatever else makes you feel confined. The traditional association with hospitals and prisons suggest that constructive ways of dealing with twelfth-house problems include helping others who are similarly repressed or confined. Also, some with a strong twelfth-house emphasis become successful as undercover workers or as the power behind the throne.

Virgo on the Twelfth
Beneath your usually placid surface, you are often troubled by petty annoyances and anxieties. As a matter of fact, you devote much time and energy to seemingly being in total control of your life simply because you are afraid of what might happen should things get out of hand. This, of course, can be quite confusing to you until you learn to deal with this problem with the objectivity that you are known for. Do not be afraid to order and discipline your life in such a way that you can assuage these hidden fears of inadequacy. You should be especially aware that if you ignore these psychological issues, they may surface as physical health problems that will be difficult to diagnose.

No planets in the Twelfth
Your twelfth house is not activated by planetary activity. This does not mean that you will never have to deal with energies in your life that are difficult to understand, although most people would consider this a blessing. It merely means that these will not be paramount concerns for you. Occasionally, due to influences that come from outside of yourself, you will find yourself in situations that prove to be temporarily uncomfortable or even mysterious, but these incidents should not dominate your life as they do for some others.

A Mirror of Your Uniqueness
As you’ve seen, this report has been based on the position of the Sun, Moon and planets at the moment of your birth, as viewed from the place on Earth where you were born. This relationship of planets, stars and Earth is unique and never will be repeated. Like the genes that determine your body and temperament, your astrological chart is made up of the same basic parts that other humans have. However, as with your genes, the arrangement of these parts applies only to you.

Like the unique patterning of your DNA, your birth chart symbolizes the raw materials you’ve been given from which to fashion your life -- in other words, the deck you’ve been dealt. Now that you’re more conscious of what you have to work with, the way you play your cards is up to you.

Nobody is perfect. As well as being given our special strengths and beauties, everyone born is presented with special problems to solve and special lessons to learn. Knowing what you have to work with, you will be better able fill in (or at least understand and accept) what you lack. Then you can appreciate and develop your special gifts, and grow in the life directions that are right for you and you alone.

Astrology’s special message is that there is no universal norm for everyone. Life is not about measuring up to some one-size-fits-all standard. What it i/ is about is growing more fully into the unique person you were meant to be. Hopefully, this report has given you some clues about who that person is. Hopefully, it will help you better to fill the role that you have been given in this lifetime, and to enrich the world with the gifts that only you can bestow.

Your birth moment is a precious seed that contains the potential for how you will unfold. Nurture it lovingly, observe how it develops, then supply the light, moisture and nutrients that its special nature calls for -- and it will burst into flower and bear nourishing fruit that you and the world can enjoy.

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