Physical pain: Moon Mars, Saturn, 6th house
Emotional pain: Moon, Mars, 8th house, 12th house
Psychological pain: Moon, Mercury, 6th/8th/12th house
Spiritual pain: Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, 9th/12th house
General pain: The placements you struggle with most
You can also interpret these as descriptions of how you handle pain in the area of life related to a planet or house in a certain sign (so pain related to identity for the Ascendant & sun sign, love for the Venus sign, and so on).
ARIES: Your survival instincts are hyper-activated, and it’s a decision between “fight or flight.” There’s a need to express or release the pain through physical activity. Tumultuous emotions erupt as a result of or in response to pain, which can be displayed as anger and hostility. You handle it like a child, with instant explosive reaction, so much noise and feeling, but you don’t dwell on it.
TAURUS: You have incredible endurance; your threshold for what is “too much to bear” is quite high. Self-indulgence and material comfort are used to relieve pain or cope with it; there may be an immature view of pain where everything that ‘feels good’ (or at least better) is confused for healing, even if it makes it worse. Rest and relaxation increase pain tolerance and bring healing.
GEMINI: You search for distractions from your pain; you’ll attach to anything that takes your mind off it. It can become all you think about, or it can slow/mute your mental activity in general, so you desperately need stimulation that separates you from it every now and then. Communicating what hurts & why can help you cope. When others understand what you’re going through, you feel better.
CANCER: You can fall into a downward spiral, thinking that you are all on your own or that the pain will last forever. You need others to validate and comfort you. Being alone can help you heal, or hurt you more. Nostalgia and reflecting on ‘better times’ is a coping mechanism. There may be a return to old (usually bad) habits or the formation of new habits to relieve & cope with the pain.
LEO: You may doubt or inflate the importance of your pain; you may put it on display in order to better understand it. When others pay attention to your pain, you feel validated and relieved, perhaps comforted. You express & cope with pain creatively, through art or other meaningful manifestations. You draw inspiration from your pain. You may identify with it & “wear it on your sleeve.”
VIRGO: You wish to understand your pain rationally, objectively; you want to know its source and purpose, the events that led up to it, and how to heal or get rid of it. You prefer to handle it on your own so as not to be a burden for anyone else, but it can help you to communicate your pain to others. There can be a fixation on healing/coping, possibly an obsessively perfectionistic approach to it.
LIBRA: Having someone to experience your pain with eases it immensely, or helps you cope with it. Even just the company of another person can make it easier to handle. You may inadvertently avoid healing by distracting yourself with social pleasures. You can be prone to “beautify” your pain or romanticize it somehow, so expression of it is often dishonest & dissatisfying.
SCORPIO: You feel pain so deeply that it can consume you. Pain tends to have power over you until you learn to take control of it; you become self-isolating and self-destructive, but also have the power to be incredibly self-healing if you learn to release/express the pain in healthy ways. Pain changes you, and influences other areas of your life. It shapes your will and your soul, and thus your behavior.
SAGITTARIUS: To you, pain feels like a cage; you can’t bear to be limited by the burden it creates, so you run from it and avoid the problem altogether. It scares you, and you have extreme difficulty facing it. You lack adequate coping mechanisms. There may be a false philosophy of “being mature and freeing yourself through positivity” but that is actually recklessly immature escapism.
CAPRICORN: Your endurance surpasses everyone else’s; you can suffer so much and show nothing, never letting your facade of stoicism falter. You handle almost every problem entirely on your own. You are strong, but you can confuse self-sabotage, self-destruction, immaturity, and masochism for strength. You see expression of pain as weakness & imperfection, which is untrue and unhealthy.
AQUARIUS: You are prone to self-erasure and self-neglect; you pour all your energy into issues that are ‘bigger’ than yourself, so you tend to downplay your pain to the point of believing it’s insignificant. You keep it to yourself. Pain can make you resent yourself. You repress your issues and refuse to open them up to anyone due to the idea that it makes you weak, selfish, or attention-seeking.
PISCES: You easily get lost in, drown in, and submit to your pain. It is difficult for you to understand; your own wounds can be a mystery to you. You also tend to romanticize your pain, and can be very masochistic & self-victimizing, often choosing to suffer (perhaps without knowing it). You try to use your difficult experiences to help/heal other people. Pain may enlighten or inspire you.
