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Twelfth House In The Signs

Aries-

When the twelfth house is set in the sign of Aries, it is almost always a sign that problems with healthy boundaries will be present in a person’s life. Others will intrude in their world as if they had no membranes to recognize and defend themselves from those who steal their energy. In time, they will have to “remember” what it was like to follow the passion within, fight for their rights , yell at others if that is what the moments asks for, and be true about everything that is on their mind. While Aries would like to have a certain goal and aim all its energy towards it, this energy seems to get bent here only to end up in a strange subconscious state where it is neither manifested nor used. This is a position that speaks of a past life that ended in aggression, in the army or from fire weapons, sharp objects, and most often “before one’s time.”

Taurus-

If the twelfth house is in the sign of Taurus, the mystery of the material world can remain a hidden for years, as well as hedonism and the chase for satisfaction in this material world. This is a position typical for those who have never felt real pleasure, and everyone with secret sexual encounters, or at least those who have the need to eat hidden from everyone else. Spirituality and real talents fall into the sign ruled by Venus, meaning creativity and inspiration come as a given, but only once they are discovered and approached studiously. True intimacy is found in secret bonds, and warmth will have to be built in solitude, realizing at first just how much we are worth and only later starting to search for someone who will recognize this. If one wants to make their dreams come true, this position is perfect, for it brings the Earth into our personal dreamland, making everything we imagine possible.

Gemini-

The twelfth house in Gemini isn’t very easy because of its Piscean nature and everything it has to do with emotion as an entity entirely apart from rational thought. Speech can be impaired, while those with lower self-esteem easily turn to gossip and matters that aren’t theirs to discuss to begin with. This is also a position that could give a wonderful talent for languages, words and writing. It is a shame to use it on other people and spend too much time thinking of their business, abilities and weaknesses. Those born with the twelfth house in Gemini must have ended their past life with a vast desire to speak their mind, share their inner truth, and express their personality in some way. Ties that get created here will manifest through strange friendships and their relationships with children, but most of the time, they will manifest through difficulties in their mind they cannot fully explain.

Cancer-

With the twelfth house in the sign of Cancer, you can see a family secret instantly, as well as the tendency to idealize one or both of the parents. This is a burden of an entire family tree and a mark that debts were left in spheres of the emotional and the fragile within. Strange matters are hiding in the twelfth house and when Cancer is here, you can see these strange matters in one’s home and intimate relationships. Depending on a very personal position of the Moon, we will see how well incorporated this can be in their everyday life and if disappointment is their family story or not. The emphasis on sensitive emotion is also seen here, and we will come to find that the twelfth house cusp in any Water sign gives one the ability to feel what others feel, often being unable to recognize where one person ends and their emotional body begins.

Leo-

When the twelfth house begins in Leo, the personality itself seems to be strange, sensitive, and unknown. These individuals will have to learn about their power and their inner truth, while they remain in the blurry waters hidden from plain sight. This is often a signal that previous life carried a story of success, and image that was maintained and remained important to the person until they died. It can be extremely rewarding if unconscious memories of it are pleasant and bring confidence and peace. However, if there was any dishonesty in their approach once upon a time, this will be the life to rectify it, accept the flaws in others, those we don’t want to see and don’t want to show, and find brothers and sisters in crime finally set free from self-criticism. Since the clear image of one’s Self is blurry, overall good of the mankind will be important to these people, as well as humanitarian efforts they often turn to at some point in their lives.

Virgo-

If the twelfth house is in Virgo, we can almost imagine the mechanism in a person’s mind making them seem stupid when they want to show how smart they are, and incredibly intelligent at the most unpredictable situations. They will rely on their brains while practical matters will keep some of their mystery at all times. Ties created here will have to do with old, used things, those that can or cannot be fixed. That halfway principle of Virgo can be quite difficult when we speak of someone’s twelfth house, for dreams tend to get crushed by reality, sensitivity by common sense, and vice versa. If a person with the twelfth house in Virgo wants to find happiness, they have to realize where their true talent lies, so they can use it and share it with the world. Very often their talents will be found in writing, detailed analysis or communication with the strangest of beings here on planet Earth.

Libra-

With the twelfth house in Libra it seems inevitable to lie or be lied to, and usually both. Still, if we put this aside, we can see the magical story of Libra in this mysterious house and realize that someone we once left behind is there for us to find them again in this life. Things that were lost in our twelfth house have a tendency to show themselves someday. This goes specifically for great loves, and with strongly set Venus, even greater loving relationships. If Venus is not that strong in this kind of horoscope, the obvious debt has to be repaid through emotional sacrifice of some kind. In most cases, this will develop through a romantic relationship in which the trust has been broken, finally liberating the person from unrealistic expectations. This is always someone talented to recognize beauty, often artistic and with a knack for drawing or music. However, they have to be very careful not to disrespect people around them in any way so that their personality has room to grow.

Scorpio-

The twelfth house in Scorpio is an interesting place. Something as taboo and as hidden as Scorpio rarely finds an appropriate secretive hideout, but this position allows them to. The most unfortunate thing here lies in one’s ability to bury their own feelings, doings, or aspirations, finally ending up without any awareness of their true inner light. This is the sign that speaks of our shadows and everything we want to bury and dismiss along the way, and when it is set in such a secretive house, shoving things under the rug becomes a routine. This can make these people explode in numerous ways, ending up in strange circumstances, weird conversations, interventions, institutions or even jail. To see the magic in Scorpio this person has to be truly and deeply open-minded, fully willing to accept the most devastating, darkest and most dangerous emotions they carry within.

Sagittarius- 

When the twelfth house is set in Sagittarius, we usually see someone who has no idea where they are going. Being lost seems to be the congenital disease in these people and they have no way of knowing where they want to end up. Ties were made to the most distant of places, and past life regression could help them discover where they have lived and what makes them lose their place and their hopes. Beliefs have to be examined, as well as their religion views. Blessings will come from the most unexpected people and places, and although there are a lot of secrets to be expected in lives of others, these individuals are able to sense anyone’s goodness of heart from miles away. This is a very strong position for spiritual work and meditation, but if they don’t get enough sleep, they risk their entire life passing them by.

Capricorn-

With the twelfth house in Capricorn, there is no knowing which responsibility falls under whose jurisdiction. The difficulty of this setting hides in the inability to see that a strong foundation makes all the work, and while good ideas can come a long way, they aren’t easily materialized if hard work isn’t put in. Even though it might not seem like it, this is one of the most demanding positions in the twelfth house, for it speaks of karmic ties and our strong, physical connection to past life experiences. Strange things will manifest as circumstances that are hard to avoid or overcome, with many obstacles standing in one’s way towards liberation. If Saturn is strong in a person’s chart, there will be a sense of security, wisdom and unconscious power in doing the right thing, and that will become a wind in their sails and open them up for real inner experience of faith.

Aquarius-

The twelfth house in Aquarius speaks of a stressful death that happened in our past life. This is a place of stress and strange mental orientation, pulling strongly with its humane gravity and the unconscious need to set free, set apart from everyone else, and sink into all natural oppositions as if there was no other way. Mending the differences and finding middle ground seems distant and impossible to these individuals, as if they had a talent for true friendship, but lack of awareness for those who don’t fall into this category. They need to learn to be humane, so charity work will come in handy, especially if they are the secret benefactor nobody knows about. Their eccentricity will make them happy but in secret and in silence, with as little words said as possible. Even though they might be on the mission of solitude, they are often calmed by the peace of their marriage and relationships that represent a good basis for their personality rather than making them feel at home.

Pisces-

If the twelfth house is set in the sign of Pisces, all secrets will be sunk even deeper than in other cases. This practically means that all digging through subconscious matter will have to be thorough and results will seem more distant than those others tend to dig up. Usually, these individuals tend to look forwards, fully unaware of their dependencies and ties to the mysteries of their distant past. They will live their lives unaware of their own inner faith, needing healthy sleeping routine in order to stay in a calm and peaceful state. In many cases, these people will sleep every day for eight hours, avoiding late nights out or losing sleep over any burning issues at hand. They understand that the night is not to be messed with and hide from their own family in plain daylight. With true faith in the background, it would be good to raise awareness about their talents and their true life within, however scary that might seem.

Source;Astrology-Zodiac-Signsdotcom

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Pluto in the houses

Descriptions could be relevant for houses with the cusps in Scorpio or houses that contain Scorpio

1st house: This house is related to one’s sense of self, one’s sense of definition and individuality. It’s related to one’s energetic signature, to one’s way of navigating in the world. It’s a means rather than an end, a way of projecting one’s energy into existence. With Pluto here the force of existence would seem threatening. The person could feel as if he or she walks a tight rope of doom – one tries to avoid intensity yet is so aware of the inevitability of falling. Life becomes an emotional balancing act of trying to protect as much of one’s integrity and power as possible – yet paradoxically, the enormous sensitivity to violation makes it impossible to do so. Pluto here invokes an all consuming experience of being at the mercy of outside forces and at the mercy of one’s own thoughts and emotion. The threat is perceived to come from inside and outside, making it difficult to define the real ”enemy”. In reality, there is no enemy but the person’s sense of self is so fixed and rigid that the slightest sensation is experienced as a potential danger. The problem lies in the fixed sense of self and it’s inability to be flexible. The intensity of an experience is always decided by the person that is exposed to it and the density of one’s own self. The denser the self, the more susceptible it is to go through extremes. A person with this placement is usually guarded and careful, potentially a bit antisocial. Calculated and subtle attack is the best protection, it’s covert enough to not be an open declaration of war, but an effective tool of gaining respect. The person might like to demonstrate power in a way that correlates with the sign Pluto is in in the chart; Pluto in Virgo might exercise control through sharpness of intellect, Pluto in Libra might wield power through beauty and social etiquette. Pluto in the 1st will always take the position of the superior. Irritability comes easy because of heightened sensitivity and the feeling of being irretrievably psychologically and emotionally wounded by the world and themselves. The person would be prone to condemn and judge things for this reason, to cultivate long lasting resentment and disapproval. The person could be likened to a wild animal in the sense that one lives in the atmosphere of primal survival, even though it might be hidden be done through sophistication and class. Every day is a matter of life and death, a matter of keeping the self intact in the face of inner and outer attack. Self-destruction and subsequent self-transformation is very possible with this placement. In one’s stubborn attempt to preserve integrity one is forced by life into a death of an old identity that didn’t serve the freedom of the spirit – or the survival of the species.

2nd house: This house is related to the self as it relates to the body, what it can acquire for itself in terms of possessions, money and value in general. It’s a concentrated version of the 1st house, a ”coagulation” of the energy that’s being asserted in the 1st. When Pluto is here the theme of self-value becomes a sore spot and subsequently a matter of great importance for the individual. Material resources would symbolize survival for the person and the need to be in absolute control over one’s finances and money would be pressing. To lose power in this area of life would cause great pain and would be avoided at all costs. Pluto is associated with extremes and with this placement the person could either be extremely wealthy or extremely poor. The presence or the absence of resources would serve the purpose of Pluto equally well because power can be felt through both polarities. Instead of making oneself a slave to money, the person could reject the idea of placing value on physical objects and buy a kind of freedom that way. On the flip side, the person could be very emotionally attached to physical objects, viewing them as an extension of one’s power and guarantee of survival. The way this person would acquire resources would preferably be done in strategic ways. The sign Pluto is in would give a clue as to how the power is wielded; for example, Pluto in Leo could secure money through calculated charm and confidence, through showcasing one’s talents and creative spark. Pluto in Scorpio could do it behind the scenes, through engaging in the dark and dirty businesses of other people. It’s not unlikely that the person would feel paranoid relative to material value, to be constantly worried of getting deprived of things that are needed for survival. The paranoia itself could be worse than the actual threat of not having enough and the person might willingly get rid of all possessions, just for the sake of not being subjected to unwillingly deprivation. Losing face, being taken by surprise and being deceived is unbearable to Pluto and the person might go to great lengths in order to preserve control – even if it means destroying themselves in the process. I imagine the person being able to destroy everything of value that belongs to them rather than letting it fall into the hands of others. If the person can’t have the cake, than no one else should have it either. I should also mention that that 2nd house concerns the body as something one ”possesses” and the person might be very protective or neglecting of the intactness and beauty of it depending on what serves the person’s sense of control.

3rd house: This house is related to the self as it conceptualizes of itself mentally. Learning, simple deduction and the capacity to handle information relates to this house. It also deals with the ability to relate to the immediate environment through the mental faculties. When Pluto is in this house the identity as it relates to mental concepts is fiercely protected. The mental realm is much more flexible and intangible than the material realm but with Pluto here, words can cut through to the core of the person. Verbal and written communication is taken very seriously, to the point of detriment. Not everyone mean what they say and words carry different emotional weight for different people. Chances are that the person has little patience for people who talk a lot of crap without considering the impact it could have on others. Reversely, the person could be deliberately insensitive and want to use speech as a way to attack and protect the self. One considers language to be the most powerful weapon, the most effective means to control people. As this house relates to early learning experiences, the school years could’ve been quite intense. The person could’ve been the type of person that was difficult to approach and make friends with because of a strong protective barrier. It’s likely that the person’s intellect would’ve been sharp and probing, wanting to know everything and get down to the core of the subject. The person could’ve been an over the top dedicated learner, a student of insane stamina. The sign Pluto is in would illustrate in what way the intensity expresses itself. For example, Pluto in Sagittarius might be dedicated to find the meaning of experiences, the higher purpose of existence, the spirit of life. Pluto in Gemini might be dedicated to all kinds of information, to variety and the amount of fact-gathering one can achieve. In any case, the person could’ve been the type to ask inappropriate questions, to raise awareness around sensitive topics and bring secrets to the light of everyone’s knowledge. It’s likely that one would’ve been perceived as a potential threat to others because of this – but at the same time a positive force to challenge the mind. The person would seek to shock others with words, to shoot verbal arrows meant to test people’s emotional capacity and resilience. This is truly a placement of a skilled manipulator, which doesn’t have to be a bad thing unless one’s skills are employed to sabotage others. Unfortunately with Pluto, as soon as the heat gets turned up, the survival instinct kicks in and everything becomes equally intense – not attacking vs. attacking, one faces death regardless, the important thing is to remain in control of one’s situation.

4th house: This house is related to the self as it identifies with home, family and roots. It has to do with heritage – what is passed down through generations. It has to do with the ancestral background and the influence it has on one’s sense of self. Some say that this house relates to the father, some say the mother – it’s usually the parent that had the least overt influence. When Pluto is here, emotional and physical survival is the tension point. It could be that the person felt a bit like walking on burning coal in the private familial sphere, the atmosphere would’ve been threatening in some way. It’s not unlikely that the person felt overpowered by one of the parents, forced to give up autonomy and freedom because of being emotionally bound to them. The parent with the least dominant presence could have had strong emotional holds, impacting the person’s actions and behavior in subtle but effective ways. Manipulation can be done unconsciously but I would say that Pluto is not usually unconscious in it’s workings. It might be compulsive, but not genuinely below the surface of consciousness – it’s force is too intense and tied to primitive survival needs. Protection of the home and family could be of utmost importance, to put up a front of strength and integrity to the outside world. The person would derive a sense of superiority and dominance through cultivating and preserving one’s own heritage. Even if the person doesn’t have much of an ancestral background to brag about, there would be a desire to contribute, add to or reinvent the status of the family name. There could be an urge to kill off the old and obsolete, to transform the intolerable and unbearable past and rise from the ashes like a phoenix. It could require a significant amount of shedding the layers of the past in order to come out on the other side of the intensity of the emotional heritage. It would likely be a painful process of not knowing where it leads or if it ever will end. The person might have to process trauma and distressing ancestral scars carried over from past generations. Chances are that the person has the capacity to overcome and transcend it all, but it would take bravery of facing outdated and destructive coping mechanisms. Powerlessness might be the most pressing issue to deal with – how to not overcompensate and cover over but to genuinely transform weakness into strength. Brutal honesty might be crucial to flush wounds to the surface. Pluto often functions to reveal the dark and taboo and one must be willing to face it in order to free oneself from the emotional chokeholds of the past. Psychological protective functions are necessary, but it’s a fine line between healthy protection and destroying the very thing one want to preserve through holding on to it too tightly.

5th house: This house is related to self-expression, creativity, play, gambling and games, romance, and recreational activities of all kinds – including the creation children. The 5th house includes unique talents and interests, hobbies and amusement. When Pluto is here, enjoying oneself is not something that is taken lightly. The person would not stop for anything when it comes to self-expression no matter what other people might think – because it’s a matter of life and death, curiously enough. Whether the person do this through partying, dancing, acting, painting, singing, flirting and frolicking with others, it’s done to release some of the intense emotional buildup. The person might go to extremes in this area of life and have no sense of moderation. There could be a strong pull to emerge oneself in one’s hobbies, to take them to their fullest potential, to invest all of one’s energy into them. This could lead to the development of great skills that might prove beneficial in life, but it could overtake the person’s whole existence. The obsession with the pleasure of one’s interests could border on disregard for necessities such as work and other responsibilities. The sign placement of Pluto could indicate what type of venue the self enjoys to express itself through. For example, Pluto in Capricorn might be methodical and strategic when engaging in hobbies, perhaps turning them into businesses to earn some money. Pluto in Pisces might use hobbies as a way to escape reality, to surrender completely to channeling life through it’s creations as a gift to humanity. In any case, it’s done because of a need to be in control in an almost obsessive way – there’s a need to honor the self and be honored in order to survive - to sharpen one’s skills enough in order to be noticed for one’s specialness. The 5th house is generally an easy-going sphere of life, but when Pluto is here it’s suddenly about life and death. One’s creations and talents are taken very seriously and the person is likely to be extremely sensitive to critique that concerns anything related it the uniqueness of the self. If the person has children, they might become an obsessive focus. The person might be overly protective and concerned with allowing the child freedom of expression. One might strive to provide the child with attention and approval to the point of detriment. The all-consuming love that is felt could be overwhelming and threatening to a young person, not to mention that it could border on possessiveness and over-identification with the child’s actions. The child could feel suffocated and attacked by love. The same would apply to romance and flings – they could get very intense and serious very fast. The person might crave constant love bombing, feeling abandoned and threatened every time the lover fails to look at them with complete adoration.

6th house: This house is related to the way the self organizes and structures it’s life to make things work practically. It’s related to work, employment and physical health as well as the keeping of small animals. With Pluto here, the way one leads everyday life in terms of chores and necessities is a focal point of intensity. The person would leave nothing to chance in this area of life. One would be dead set on meeting the requirements for the desired employment – not overlooking a single detail of the practicalities. The person could be the type to want to be in charge of the running of the workplace, at the very least have a specific area of expertise that is completely in their own hands. With Pluto there’s always a tendency to go to extremes and the person might be unable to execute things as to ensure a good enough result – things would have to be perfect. Of course, with Pluto it’s not done out of joy or moral obligation, it’s done because it’s a matter of life and death. Anything that doesn’t go according to the plan is not only unfortunate, but a trigger that evokes primal fear. Because of this, the person might be readily trusted to organize things – because everyone else knows that the person would rather die than fail. This could, needless to say, produce a workaholic that is unable to stop in the tracks and relax. The sign Pluto is in would give an indicator as to how the intensity expresses itself. For example, Pluto in Aquarius might compulsively try new things and rearrange their lives in order to get some cohesion and smooth functioning of the practicalities. Pluto in Cancer might strive to preserve and secure that the things that work continue to work for them – and to always have a backup plan in case they don’t. As it relates to physical health, Pluto in this house could cause some injury to be sure. The body could be resilient but be subjected to extreme treatment due to the overall health paranoia. The person might put the body through insane trials in the name of health. The potential that the body is unhealthy or sick could make this person take precautions that are uncalled for and enroll in extreme health regimes. I imagine this type of person exercising every day according to a fixed schedule, eating according to a carefully selected meal plan never allowing room for spontaneity, cravings or laziness. More likely than not the person will self-destruct through overly exercised control in the long run. If the person has pets the animals would probably be taken care of meticulously in the person’s particular way. However, with all this being said Pluto could flip the tables and be anti routine, anti work and anti health. It’s deadly either way – both ways are taking it too far. There’s nothing casual about the survival instinct, it kicks in to fight dirty, desperately and without precautions.

7th house: This house is related to the self as it finds itself in a social context, in partnerships, business deals, marriage, open enemies and lower court matters. Planets in the 7th house are experienced through other people. When Pluto is here, the primal instinct of control and survival is felt in interaction with other people. The person might perceive other people as a threat of some kind, to one’s emotional well-being and safety. This placement lends itself well to psychological manipulation because the social sphere is a battle field no matter how one looks at it. Other people are out to get the person somehow and one must be prepared as to not fall into the trap of conforming to social pressure. The person would be inclined to remain in command of one’s social presentation, not not fall victim to enemies that seek to invade the integrity of the self. It’s likely that the person would be very aware of the undercurrents in relationships, seeking to always have the upper hand through inflicting pain ever so often. The person would like to remain in a superior position in terms of power at all times. This means that emotional intensity and passion is frequently reversed into coolness, a fake detachment in order to buffer oneself from the affect other people might have on the person emotionally. Any partnership that the person gets in to should be trailed with drama. However much the person denies it, there’s a craving for existential angst and being dragged through the dirt metaphorically speaking. Obsessive protectiveness of the partner would be likely, as would as would refusal to let the partner call all the shots. The need for friction in relationships could make the person be perceived as a threat on the market, someone who preys on people’s souls and leaves them changed forever. In the 7th, Pluto compels the person to never forget and never forgive things that happened in the context of relationships. The individual would be transformed through the intensity of his or her engagements and cooperations with others. There would be the tendency to crave and despise one’s need for an alliance, an inclination to want and fear a special relationship of gore and galore. Once the person is bound to another by a legal contract there would be no turning back – if the person has committed, they would not allow the other person to leave. In fact, there could be a strategy of making the partner unable to leave because there’s too much pride invested in the union. Alternatively, the person with Pluto in the 7th might leave before the other half gets a chance to. Court dealings and divorce matters could turn ugly to say the least, as the partners take their revenge.

8th house: This house is related to emotional intimacy, to shared resources, sex, death and the occult. The 8th relates to the self as it merges with the lives of others – the 7th is about cooperation and two separate parties joining hands. This house is concerned with the psychological and emotional impact people have on each other. It relates to fixations and attachments that are violated and transformed. Everything that affects one person affects the other in the 8th house, which makes it impossible to destroy the other without destroying the self. When Pluto is in this house, the person is likely to find themselves in emotional binds with other people. There could be people in the person’s life who manage to get under the skin -too close and too fast as to evoke dimensions within that wasn’t known before and that is beyond the person’s control. This can be frightening and activate basic survival instincts, yet the person might not be able to break free from the emotional bind. There could be a compulsive need to do what another asks or suggests, a need to act out a certain behavior to secure closeness with the other. On a more superficial level, it could take the form of financial dependency, of having one’s means merged with another person’s. The struggle to remain in control and to preserve autonomy could make the person exhausted. It’s likely that the power others can have on the person’s life is a source of fear rather than pleasantness. Intimate relationships might have a life or death tension to them. There could be a feeling of having to die as an individual in order to be close. If such a sacrifice is to be made, it should go both ways in Pluto’s book. The person might be dead bent on making the other feel the way they do in order to establish a bond that goes both ways – which means that what affects one of the parties will affect the other. There’s little to no wiggle room in this dynamic which would be what the person wants. The person’s sensitivity and survival instinct is extremely charged with this placement. Psychological manipulation and covert means of control used by others usually don’t go by unnoticed and is actively used by the person as a counter attack. Every little seeming betrayal or disapproval that comes from others causes great distress. A lot of hatred could be triggered quickly – by a glance, a word, a tone of voice, which could result in violence, humiliation, blackmail, emotional abuse or any other method of hurting others. The person might be paranoid to the point of seeing threats where there are none, compulsively inflicting pain on people who had no intention of being threatening. Fear of death could be a major issue for the person, perhaps more so than for any other Pluto placements. What is usually failed to be noticed is that the agony of fear while living is a death itself – a prison of doom. The efforts to protect oneself are futile because one is surely dying anyway. It’s necessary for the person to loosen the boundaries rigid sense of self and be reborn and transformed by intensity. There’s light in darkness, there’s strength to be gained through seeming powerlessness. None the less, death is dramatic, unexpected and all-consuming with this placement, metaphorical and literal.

9th house: This house is related to the self as it gives it’s existence meaning and purpose. It’s related to higher education, long distance travel, publishing and spreading of knowledge, the higher courts and the law, philosophy and religion. With Pluto here, the search for the source or core of existence could be an intense endeavor. I can picture this type of person dedicating themselves to extreme experiments in order to squeeze new discoveries and knowledge out of life. If the person is religious, the most orthodox path would be the most appealing since it requires the most discipline and will power. Lighter, spiritual paths would feel fake to the person – one would need something more dramatic and meaty. Pluto is a planet of extremes and doesn’t do anything half-heartedly. If one is to take the topic of God seriously, one should not set out to only have a jolly good time and experience only the light and sunny heights of bliss. It’s in life and death experiences that one can begin to find some answers to the mystery of existence according to this placement. There would be a compulsive need to find out what it’s all about, especially to penetrate and transcend the heavy dimensions of reality. There would be a deep concern around wanting to uncover the purpose of pain and the confront the sensation of conflict. There would be a definite bravery to the person’s willingness to face every facet of life. Books and publishings that deal with existential topics might be scrutinized and subsequently discarded or kept. At the core of the person’s striving there would be a desperation, a deep existential agony and a need to gain some personal power. No stone would be left unturned. In the spreading of information and knowledge however, the person might be tempted to withhold certain bits and pieces of value in order to have the upper hand. Or, one might not want to share anything of value at all and instead mislead people. If one published something of one’s true philosophy however, it might not be the most encouraging and easy to digest message out there. In fact, Pluto would have a quite sombre view on life that isn’t designed to gloss over or smooth over any rough edges. It might primarily deal with subjects like death, pain and suffering – in short, all the darker themes. In doing so, the person might hope to transform the lower states of being into the higher, to find some gold in the dirt or realizing that there’s no innate difference between the two. The person would be prone to have extreme believes that is way beyond what is conventionally accepted. Beliefs that are fundamentally anti-establishment, anti-religion, anti-society and anti-culture. Pluto often functions as a counter force to established power structures that threatens the progression of life which is in no way all bad, but it certainly causes friction.

10th house: This house relates to the self as a member of society. It relates to career, social status and public image. It’s also said to be related to the most dominant parent or caregiver the person had growing up. With Pluto here, the person would seek to gain power as part of one’s career path. The urge would be to climb the ladder of societal esteem, to stand out as an important member of society. A lot of time and energy  would be invested in one’s accomplishments and achievements. There’s no way that the person would play 100% fair and square though, because in reality, nothing is fair with this planet. On the surface, the person could seem like a exemplary individual, but deep down one is desperate for societal recognition and status, and would do anything to secure it. Power is never gained by being harmless, it’s earned through clever strategy and mentally taking note of people’s subtle weaknesses and pitfalls, including one’s own. The person would be aware of the psychological games played underneath the surface level of social interaction and be a master at it. There’s an official version of how things work and there’s an unofficial version as well. This kind of person would do all the things right on the official level and not hesitate to play nasty power games on the unofficial one. If there’s a chance of being screwed over despite the deliberate strategy to avoid ever being subjected to attack, one would surely not be inclined to forgive or forget. The person would demand respect in the public eye, constantly on guard to preserve integrity and control. A person’s career is closely linked to one’s value as a citizen, as a contributor to society. If one steps out of line in this sphere of life it could have big consequences – to Pluto in the 10th, it’s a matter of life an death. In the case that the person can’t manage to conform to the current picture of the conventional exceptional, one could resort to turn the tables completely and embark on a path of undermining collective pillars, to vent everyone’s dirty laundry. If ”society” as a static structure attacks the person and pulls the rug out from underneath the person’s basic safety, there’s nothing that prevents the person bringing other people’s reputation down with their own. Taking the ”high road” is not an option because morality doesn’t have bearing on the instinct for survival. As the 10th house relates to the most dominant parent growing up, Pluto here would indicate a perceptive and suspicious parent, someone with their guard up and strong a strong protective instinct. The parent would’ve made the person aware of the risk of being deceived and outmaneuvered. It might even be, that the parent posed some kind of threat and needed to be ”disarmed” in order for the child to feel safe.

11th house: This house is related to the self and it’s association with like-minded people and friends. This house also relates to hopes, dreams and wishes that wants to be actualized in the future. When Pluto is here the groups one might be inclined to join or happen to find oneself in could be designed to enhance one’s magnitude of power and feeling of safety. The person would be prone to think that strength is found in numbers and that it’s is correlated with the ability to make in impact. Being part of a movement or an organization that is larger than oneself could provide some padding to the fragile and rigid ego of the person but it could also enhance the amount of control one can have over securing primal needs. The needs would depend on the sign Pluto is in; Pluto in Taurus would put an emphasis on material circumstances while Pluto in Pisces would be focused more on the need for emotional closeness. Pluto always takes things to the extreme, and so the group cause could be quite emotionally charged and radical. Stereotypical dark topics of death, betrayal, wrong-doings, twisted psychological complexes, crime and forbidden passions could be common factors among the friends in the person’s circle. The mutual desire to reclaim control and act out dramatic feelings could serve to tie the members closely together. However, with the person being so intense in this sphere of life, it could prove difficult to remain friends with others unless they crave the same experience or seeks to validate their own intensity. Alternatively, the person could self-destruct through associating with the wrong people and joining dangerous movements in order to feel alive. Pluto works quite well within in a tribal context as it’s first and foremost concern is for protection – the group might provide some amount of guarantee of safety and survival from outside threats, none the less a group itself is never entirely healthy and wholesome and probably poses as big a threat to individual survival as the outside world does. The person might find themselves in a lose-lose scenario for this reason – one can’t let go of the membership and a sense of community the group provides, but one can’t deny the psychological enslavement it represents to be in need of something other than the self. This dilemma might be perceived to be a curse, but it can also be viewed as a realization of freedom. When nothing is better and nothing is worse, one is free to act and say whatever, because there’s a potential threat around every corner and it will always be the case. If this can be conveyed to the group, it might set others free and help them transcend their torturous fear of life.

The 12th house: This house is related to the dissolution of the self, the confiscation of autonomy, the return into oblivion, the return back to one’s source. This house relates to places like hospitals, prisons, mental asylums and places of solitary confinement. It is the domain of the unconscious and forces beyond individual control. When Pluto is here, the instinct for survival operates unconsciously the majority of the time. The person is probably unaware of immediate or potential threats to their emotional integrity and physical safety. The strong Plutonic intensity of needing to be in control operates within the person but is not a part of the person’s perception of the self. Chances are that darker themes like violence and death primarily exist within the person’s fantasy world or dream scape. The person could encounter threats through symbols rising from the unconscious, yet would have no idea how to deal with them consciously – or how to make them stop. Since the desire to control and power within the person is not integrated into the personality, the disowned instinctive forces is flooding the person with experiences - frightening visions, obscure threats and murderous thoughts stemming from deep seated fear. It’s not unlikely that one lives out Pluto in real life but remaining curiously unaware of it. To the outside world the person may show signs of manipulative strategy and acute surveillance of one’s surroundings, involuntarily on guard all the time. The person could attribute Plutonic behavior to something that overcomes them occasionally that has nothing to do with their own identity. Pluto is a powerful force and might cause trouble as to get the person in prison or in need of care for committing crimes. The unconscious doesn’t necessarily discriminate between good and bad, it contains urges and qualities that doesn’t belong to the person but will sooner or later need an outlet through them. If people close to the person has a suppressed Pluto, the person might ”take on” the burden of acting it out for them. The unconscious always wins over the conscious mind and primal fear and rage could be released with no seeming connection to the person’s overt personality. Obsessive compulsions could get the person into trouble, forcing one into isolation and over seeing by other people in appropriate institutions. It could also be that the person finds themselves in physically violent situations, having to visit the hospital frequently and be treated for debilitating wounds and breakage. The fear of death could be great but the intensity of living with forceful impulses of protection and destruction could make the person exhausted to the point of wanting to surrender completely to it all. The person has a particular receptivity for collective survival needs and if they’re channeled constructively, they can to provide strength and resiliency.

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The Midheaven and Careers

In career readings, I interpret the midheaven as your ideal output into the world through your career. It represents the public image, professional reputation, and style of work that will bring you the most satisfaction in life. While I don’t believe that astrology tells you exactly which career to pursue, it can give some excellent pointers for which themes in the workplace will resonate with you in the best ways so that you can find personalized ways to meet those needs and maximize your workplace potential with whatever you choose to do.

Aries Midheaven

You thrive on the cutting edge of your field, pioneering new horizons and taking a leading role in the beautiful chaos of action and innovation. You’re happiest diving head-first into the action of your field rather than watching and analyzing from afar. In your career, nothing makes you happier than getting your hands dirty (literally or metaphorically), riding the waves of chaos, and channeling that momentum into something truly powerful and beautiful. Seek out hands-on positions where you get to work right in the action, and the results (both personally and professionally) won’t disappoint.

Taurus Midheaven

You have a powerful eye for beauty that shouldn’t be ignored in your career. You bring an incredible amount of beauty and positive energy into your professional life and you’re happiest when you’re about to exercise that through what you do. When there’s something in the world that you find particularly beautiful, whether that’s a concept, topic, idea, or item, look for ways to channel that into your work and you’ll find yourself feeling more inspired and satisfied than ever with what you do.

Gemini Midheaven

You’re articulate and expressive in your work, bursting with strong communicative energy that wants to be seen and heard in your professional life. For you, just thinking about something isn’t enough and you’re much happier taking that extra step of expressing your thoughts, ideas, and work. You find much more satisfaction by finding ways to make your work seen and heard, whether that’s through writing, speaking, or leveraging the multitude of communicative tools online to share your unique insights with the world.

Cancer Midheaven

You’re a nurturer by nature and you’re happiest being able to use that skill in your career. Rather than just pursuing your own success, you strive to help your peers grow and develop, too. Finding ways to guide or mentor people ignites a powerful spark that motivates you to produce amazing work and inspire others to do the same. If you ever feel disconnected from your work, seeking out ways to guide and nurture others could be the “missing piece” in your professional life that you’re looking for.

Leo Midheaven

Your work sparkles in the spotlight with a beautifully personal flare. Whether it’s as a supervisor, mentor, or role model to your peers, you have incredible leadership potential that wants to shine. Serving as a leader in any form makes for a mutually beneficial relationship in which you inspire those around you to go that extra mile in what they do and you get a sort of acknowledgement and recognition that ignites your passion to keep growing as a professional and leader. Seek out ways to use your flare and charisma to inspire others in your professional life and both you and them will benefit immensely.

Virgo Midheaven

When met with an intellectual challenge, you’re truly a force to be reckoned with. A challenging and mentally stimulating puzzle in your work is often exactly what you need to kick your brain into the top gear, a feeling that can be incredibly motivating, empowering, and inspiring for you. Your career potential is geared towards intense thinking and problem solving, so you will most likely benefit immensely from a job involving lots of puzzles for you to solve - one where you can really use the full extent of your intellectual capability and push your brain to its limits and beyond.

Libra Midheaven

You bring a profound sense of kindness and harmony to your professional life that you thrive off of being able to share with others. You’re blessed with the ability to add a personal touch to your work relationships, making your colleagues, clients, and whoever else you work with feel comfortable and at home in ways that most professional relationships are unable to achieve. Being able to connect with others in a genuine and personal way in your career can bring you immense happiness and satisfaction in your work and can be an incredibly valuable asset to your workplace in the right setting.

Scorpio Midheaven

You’re not afraid of intense, gritty, and hands-on work. What matters to you is that your professional life is deep, meaningful, and most importantly that it feels real and genuine to you. You probably burn out easily from tasks that feel shallow or superficial, but reaching new levels of emotional depth in your work is unbeatably empowering and rewarding for you. Don’t be afraid to get your hands dirty in your work to make this happen - you thrive off of a good emotional challenge and can stand strong where most would just run away.

Sagittarius Midheaven

You’re a true pioneer in the workplace, unafraid to lead the charge into new endeavors and boldly go where no-one has gone before. You’re happiest on the cutting edge of your field in a workplace that encourages you to explore, innovate, and venture to new horizons. Repetition in your professional life bores you and you’re much better off when you’re able to put your intellectual enthusiasm to use at its full potential.

Capricorn Midheaven

This is a real career powerhouse placement in a lot of different ways. It’s bursting with potential for growth, advancement, and leadership in your career, a real force of nature that’s longing to be exercised to its fullest. Look for jobs that really let you show your worth and earn your right to spread your wings. You know you’re in your element when mobility and opportunity for advancements are within your sights in your professional life.

Aquarius Midheaven

You’re bursting with unique and innovative new ideas that you strive to develop and act on in your professional life. An ideal workplace for you is one where your thoughts are taken seriously and you’re given the freedom and support needed to develop them into fruition. Seek out positions where your opinions are valued and you’re given the creative freedom to spread your wings, and the results won’t disappoint.

Pisces Midheaven

This placement channels a very thoughtful, reflective, and emotionally driven energy into your professional life. An ideal career for you is more than a chance for money and advancement, but a hotspot of personal growth and self-reflection. A work environment that shares those values and encourages you to take your career achievements to a more personal and internalized level is an incredibly powerful and inspiring experience for you, giving you that extra push to be the best you can be as a professional and as a person.

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DRACONIC ASTROLOGY

What is Draconic Astrology?

Your draconic chart represents a lot of things. It’s karmic, spiritual and unconscious, pertaining to the soul and the soul’s desire, linked to destiny, fate and soulmates. Some think of the Draconic chart as the true purpose behind the soul’s intentions. 

Draconic astrology is derived from the True Nodes of the moon. Instead of starting at 0 Aries at the Vernal Equinox, 0 Aries begins at the Moon’s North Node. If you were born with the North Node at 0 Aries, your Draconic and Natal charts would be identical. The Houses, and Planets in Houses remain the same, but the signs, degrees and degrees in the houses can change drastically. 

Like the North Node, a Draconic chart will tell you about where you’re headed, if you choose to reach out, and like the South Node, it will tell you about where you have been, what’s comforting, familiar and secure. It’s said that as a child you were more your Draconic chart than Natal, as you were closer to your soul and true personality. It also has connections to reincarnation, the thought that your soul will carry it’s Draconic chart with it to each person it visits throughout your multiple lives. It can also explain attraction you cannot see in normal synastry and comparison.

A Draconic chart will represent deep values, belief patterns, individual purpose, meaning and clarity. It’s less characteristics and personality traits, and more higher ethics and the soul. Draconic placements indicate soul qualities and suggest the ideal the soul wants to attain in the world, as well as areas of growth, and who we subconsciously dream of becoming. The Moon of the Draconic chart is also said to represent your ‘true sign’ and the barest form of who you really are deep inside, whether you understand/know it or not. 

Each sign still applies to it’s planetary meaning, but we view Draconic signs a little differently, turning their power inward and forwards. The Draconic chart is sensitive to transits and can be progressed, pertaining to life-changing events and encounters that we aren’t consciously aware of, such as someone accidentally being in touch with our Draconic inner qualities and guiding our lives. These events are thought of as ‘spiritual prompts’, guiding inner impulse to the surface. 

The Draconic chart is best understood in comparison to the natal chart, as it interacts as two parts of your being; active and unconscious (Though Draconic astrology acts on a much deeper level than the subconscious persona chart characteristics of each planet)

Conjunction and Opposition aspects and where they fall when the two charts are compared are important. Through Draconic charts we can discover that those closest to us can be acutely aware of our soul’s purpose. (Amplifying the weight of advice coming from those closest to us. They may be more aware of what our soul and true selves need much more than we are consciously aware of.)

Some identify heavily with their Draconic aspects, while others don’t, showing us who is more in touch with their spiritual side and who isn’t. In the many layers of the Horoscope and personality, Draconic may represent the inner most layer, the one that shines through when everything else is peeled away.

The Draconic sun can tell you who exactly you want to be, and what traits and paths in life you wish you could follow. For example, my Draconic sun is in Cancer, and represents a lot of the emotional vulnerability, trust and security I deeply desire and wish I could apply to my life, but can’t as I’m not completely in touch with this side of my personality – rejecting it in fact, as guided by my natal chart. 

The Draconic Moon is who you truly are. (as Draconic is based on the Moon’s True Nodes). You can call it your ‘soul sign.’ You may be a Sun Libra in your daily life, but your soul sign may be in Taurus, representing your soul’s true desire and true driving purpose. A more free spirited person who subconsciously strives for complete security. 

The Draconic ascendant differs from the Natal Ascendant in that it represents our ‘intuitive identity’ rather than our ‘outward identity’. The Decan your Draconic Ascendant is in is important, as it can be heavily influenced by the sign next to it. Think of your Draconic ascendant as your ‘soul’s mask’.

The Draconic midheaven speaks of super consciousness, and the soul’s true quest, rather than our career paths and online persona, as the Midheaven is usually spoken of. 

 When you were born, you were your Draconic self. Your spiritual self, before the world and your Natal Chart shaped you to be who you are today. What you go through as a person decides how in touch you are with your Draconic chart, or how far you drift from it. Life may have stripped you of it, and made you fully your Natal self, or it may have driven you back to your soul’s spiritual values, and carved you into a more rounded person, in touch with your true self. 

Both your Draconic and your Natal are truly you, as we are all a combination of things, layers upon layers and more than one person. A Draconic chart, especially in comparison with your Natal chart can help you find who you truly are. 

Where do I find my Draconic chart?

Astro.com is the easiest place for this! Just go to the extended chart selection, and in the drop down menu you’ll find “Draconic” and “Draconic - Natal comparison”

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Mercury and Learning Style

*Survey Results*

The four main learning styles are Visual, Aural, Read/Write, and Kinesthetic. There are different systems for learning style, but most seem to be some variation of these. In terms of these, I don’t think that there’s any strong trend in regard to where one’s Mercury is placed by sign or house. There were, however, a few signs who seemed to struggle with a certain learning style, and I’ll make note of those. There were also interesting little idiosyncrasies that I noticed, and I’ll be making note of those as well. I decided against doing a post on learning style for each element, and I’ll be writing about the Fire Mercuries again here. I’m literally just going to copy and paste what I wrote before.

Just because I don’t mention a specific learning style with a sign doesn’t mean that they can’t learn that way. Every sign mentioned every learning style, and it’d be redundant to rewrite that for every sign.

There were responses for every sign that said they learn best when they’re interested in the topic. 

If you want to know why it is that I have come to some of these conclusions, or if there is anything specific you wanted to know regarding this question on the survey, feel free to ask and I’ll let you know! For the sake of making the writing smoother I’ll be mostly making statements. 

Aries Mercury

♈︎ Aries Mercuries have trouble with listening and auditory learning. Only one respondent stated that they learned in an auditory way. Many others said that they have difficulty listening; it goes in one ear and out the other.

♈︎ They generally prefer independent learning, but there are a few exceptions. One being that they like having someone demonstrate what they are learning. Another is that they do well with one on one learning, such as tutoring.

♈︎ They like things to be short and to the point. If you take too long to say something you’re going to lose them.

♈︎ They enjoy hands on learning and learning by doing

♈︎ They learn best when information is presented in a fun, unusual, or exciting way.

♈︎ Writing things down helps them remember information

Taurus Mercury

♉︎ Taurus Mercuries like repetition, whether that means writing something down repeatedly, saying something out loud repeatedly, hearing something repeated, etc.

♉︎ They like “practical” learning, which I think means hands on. They aren’t the only ones to write practical, but I thought it was an interesting choice of words. If you’re one of the people who told me that they learn in a practical way, Taurus Mercury or not, I’m very interested in hearing what you meant!

♉︎ They learn slowly, but they’re effective. In other words, it may take them a while to learn something, but once they’ve learned it, they’ve learned it.

Gemini Mercury

♊︎ Gemini Mercuries like to be able to fiddle with things or move around while they’re learning or studying. They have a much harder time if they have to sit still.

♊︎ Saying things out loud helps them.

♊︎ They like discussion and debates, and they find it valuable to hear others’ points of view. Talking about different approaches really helps them learn.

♊︎ They like seeing examples before trying things, or trying things and working them out on their own before working with others.

♊︎ They like quiet music in the background

Cancer Mercury

♋︎ Cancer Mercuries learn best when they can connect emotionally to a subject, or when the subject gets an emotional reaction out of them. It doesn’t matter what the emotion is.

♋︎ Cancer Mercuries also like repetition

♋︎ They flop like fish 

♋︎ They like to write while listening to something, but they don’t like to learn by just listening.

♋︎ They benefit from seeing an example before trying it themselves

Leo Mercury

♌︎ At least 6 Leo Mercuries specifically said that they learn best with a mixture of auditory+something else concurrently. For example, listening and writing at the same time, or listening and doodling. I know that doesn’t seem like a lot, but it’s just so interesting to me that that many had such a similar answer.

♌︎ Leo Mercuries like hands on learning and learning by doing.

♌︎ Many Leo Mercuries also stated that they like repetition when learning.

♌︎ Like Aries Mercuries, they write to remember information.

♌︎ They repeatedly specified that they need to be interested in the subject matter if they want to learn it.

♌︎ Leo Mercuries are very visual learners. One or two in every house stated that they learned best visually.

♌︎ 8th House Leo Mercuries expressed more of a desire and/or tendency to throw themselves into research than other Leo Mercuries. I noticed this trend with the other Mercury signs as well.

♌︎ 1st House Leo Mercuries wrote that they specifically like learning and working alone than the other Leo placements. Again, I noticed this trend with other Mercury signs.

Virgo Mercury

♍︎ Virgo Mercuries don’t like deadlines. They like to work at their own pace, and in a low pressure environment.

♍︎ They also like graphs, diagrams, spreadsheets, etc. They’re very visual learners in this way.

♍︎ More than one noted that information just comes to them naturally and without them having to put much effort into it. One of those was a 12th House Mercury, and the other was a 1st House Mercury. That was not the norm for Virgo Mercuries, but it was very interesting.

♍︎ If they’re in the right mood, they can go for marathon study sessions.

♍︎ They like knowing the “why” behind things

♍︎ They ask lots of questions in general.

♍︎ They are detail oriented

♍︎ They like seeing examples and observing

♍︎ Some like music while studying, and some like total silence.

Libra Mercury

♎︎ Like Virgo Mercuries, Libra Mercuries are visual learners in the sense that they like charts and graphs.

♎︎ They really like writing their notes in different colors, color coding in general, and highlighting things.

♎︎ They like to immerse themselves in the learning process

♎︎ They like discussion and debate as well as teaching or helping others

♎︎ Sometimes they like learning/studying with other people to stay focused

Scorpio Mercury

♏︎ Scorpio Mercuries are very aware of the environment that they’re learning in. They prefer casual, comfortable environments where they feel safe making mistakes.

♏︎ 3rd House Scorpio Mercuries liked learning things step by step more than other Scorpio Mercuries.

♏︎ Like Aries and Cancer, they generally aren’t the best auditory learners.

Sagittarius Mercury

♐︎ I had 68 responses from Leo Mercuries, and 50 from Sagittarius Mercuries, but the responses to this question for Leo Mercury took up about a page and a half, whereas the responses for Sagittarius Mercury took up nearly five pages. So that should tell you something.

♐︎ Sagittarius Mercuries like having examples. It seems to really help them to have someone to watch while they’re learning.

♐︎ Their learning style is more auditory than Aries and Leos

♐︎ Interaction while learning is important to them. It would be hard for them to sit back and not ask questions.

♐︎ They like hands on learning and learning by doing.

♐︎ They also like learning with repetition.

♐︎ They prefer to be shown an example of how to do something instead of having it explained to them.

♐︎ They like to ask questions and understand “Why”

♐︎ They like teachers that are entertaining and funny.

♐︎ 5th House Sagittarius Mercuries have trouble with math. They were the only Sagittarius Mercuries who made note of this.

♐︎ They like to experience things to learn them. Walking through things step by step, and really getting to where they understand those steps and the point behind them helps. Expanding on this, figuring out how to apply the information helps them understand the information itself.

♐︎ The trend of 1st house Mercuries preferring to work independently continues here.

Capricorn Mercury

♑︎ They like to work with or learn from experts. They were the only sign that said anything like this!

♑︎ They like to engage, whether it’s with a teacher or a group of friends, if it’s worthwhile. Other than that, they prefer doing their own thing.

♑︎ Repetition

♑︎ They like manuals, textbooks, workbooks, etc. 

Aquarius Mercury

♒︎ Interestingly, they also learn through emotion. More than one mentioned it, and other than Cancer and Pisces, no other signs mentioned emotions, so I’m counting it. To the Aquarius Mercury who wrote that you learn best through emotional hurt: Are you okay? I’m honestly a bit concerned about your school experience.

♒︎ Aquarius Mercuries like having someone or something to hold them accountable. For instance, studying with a friend might keep them focused. They may doodle or take notes to stay engaged in class. I’m not an Aquarius Mercury, but I switch between print and cursive while I’m taking notes to keep myself from zoning out, and that reminds me of this.

♒︎ They also want to know “why”

♒︎ Although it was only one response that mentioned it, this was the only sign to have someone mention the internet and apps with learning style.

♒︎ They also like feeling immersed.

♒︎ They like diagrams, drawing, and visual learning.

Pisces Mercury

♓︎ Every sign had people who said that they had to be interested to learn something, but Pisces Mercuries gave the most consistent reason for this. They really have a hard time paying attention/staying engaged/not drifting off when they don’t have an interest.

♓︎ They also learn best when they can connect emotionally to or empathize with the topic at hand

♓︎ They have a tendency to remember random or extra information

♓︎ Immersion

[astubborntaurus]

I LOVE this! It goes to show what a powerful tool astrology can be for helping us learn, grow, and live our best lives

[astubborntaurus]

Looking for friends and mutuals!

Hey all! I’m Perci (he/him). I’m pretty new to the Tumblr scene and would love some new friends to follow and connect with. Here’s a bit about me and a general idea of what I post. If I sound like someone you want to chat with more, feel free to leave a reply or send me a message!

About me:

I’m a 21-year-old college student studying a very niche tech topic. I’m really big on environmentalism, humanitarianism, and anything else about making the world a better place. As far as typology and astrology goes, I’m an ENFP, 2w3, Taurus Sun, Virgo Moon, and Libra Rising. If there’s ever anything you want to know, just ask! I’m pretty much an open book. 

What I post:

- LOTS of astrology stuff. I’ve been studying astrology as a hobby for about 6 years now and love sharing information and resources to give back to the astro community. 

- Quotes and aesthetics that fit my vibe.

- If I’m ever obsessed with a new show or video game I’ll probably post about it, but I won’t post any spoilers without a warning first.

Anyway, feel free to reply or message me if you want to get to know each other more. Life in the pandemic has been really isolating for me and I’d love some new friends to connect with to pass the time. 

[astubborntaurus]

But what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game.

Here’s a moodboard inspired by Taurus Saturn in the 8th house. 

[mystical-heretic]

The Great Conjunction

This is one of the KEY astrological phenomenons every astrologer talks about, occurring every 20 years and often mark times of great geo-political and societal change. It is when the two giants of the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, align together in the sky. 

Why is everyone raving or freaking out about this conjunction? Well it’s the beginning of a new cycle. The conjunctions cycle through the elements - fire, earth, air, water - which take around 200 years each. 

The last 200 years has been the earth element, all about material wealth, the earth, structures, rules, and establishments. The Great Conjunction on December 21st will occur at 0° Aquarius, the first of a 200-year air element cycle. 

This is truly marking the transition out of the Piscean Age into the Age of Aquarius. Being in an air sign, and being the future-oriented sign of Aqua, the themes of this next era will be defined by rapid technological expansion (well even more so than what’s been happening), collaboration, decentralising power and returning it to the individual, reinvention, radical change, and a focus on the ethereal over the earthly material. 

The last time The Great Conjunction was in Aquarius was in 1405 during the Renaissance era - perhaps we are entering the Renaissance 2.0, where we will experience another cultural, artistic, political, and economic “rebirth”. 

And on top of this MAJOR cyclic ending/beginning, it’s the Winter or Summer Solstice! Plus the moon is in Aries today, the first of the zodiac. Nothing seems to be a coincidence as we enter into the portal of 2021… 

[astubborntaurus]

2020 may have been a total rollercoaster, but it set the stage for so much to look forward to. Here’s to the Age of Aquarius and everything that we’ll make of it 🥂

[astubborntaurus]

Locational Astrology Part III - Choosing the Best Places to Go

Part I - Relocation Charts

Part II - AstroCartography Maps

Welcome to the 3rd and final part of my Introduction to Locational Astrology lesson! In Part 1 we talked about why location matters in astrology and the role of relocation charts, in Part 2 we talked about AstroCartography maps, and now we’re going to use that knowledge to pick out the best places in the world for you to go. If you haven’t read Parts 1 and 2 yet, I highly suggest reading through those before continuing so this lesson will make sense. Also, again, these techniques depend on having an absolutely exact time of birth for your chart, down to the precise minute. Even just a several minute inaccuracy can completely throw off the entire interpretation.

Here we go!

Start with the natal chart

Now that we understand relocation charts and AstroCartography maps, we’re equipped to start answering the fundamental question of locational astrology: “where are the best places for me to go?” The first step in answering this is to look at your natal chart to get a sense of your most advantageous and most challenging placements. If you have any planets that are in their ruling sign, are exalted, or have trine and/or sextile aspects, make a note of that. If you have planets that are in their detriment or fall, or have squares or oppositions to other planets, make a note of those, too. What we want to do in the next step is find places that put your best-placed planets on top of your AC, MC, DC, or IC, and in ways that line up with what you want to achieve through relocation.

Getting to know the planets

First, let’s look at the planets. Remember, moving to a location on one of these lines could turn up the volume of any of that planet’s traits for you, including those that come from more personal configurations in your chart rather than just the planet’s “normal” archetype. Things like rulership, aspects, sign placements, and anything else from your natal chart can’t be accounted for in this general intro lesson here, but make sure to consider those when interpreting what one of your lines will do. Each line will turn up the volume of that planet in your life exponentially, so you’ll want to get to know the planet’s role in your life as intimately as possible when interpreting what that line means for you.

The general effects of each line

Once you understand the personal role of a planet in your life, it’s a great time to start thinking about what the lines mean. Below are some general interpretations for each planet and angles on the lines. Be sure to check the interpretation for both the planet and the angle. For example, to learn about the Mercury MC line, read both the “Mercury Lines” and the “MC Lines” interpretations below to see which theme is being amplified and where in life it’s being channeled. 

Planets: Which themes you’re amplifying

Sun Lines: If you have a well-placed and well-aspected natal sun, these lines can amplify your vitality and life force, making you feel bolder, energetic, empowered, and inspired in these places.

Moon Lines: These lines put more of a spotlight on your emotions, family, fundamental roots, and sense of security. If you have a well-placed moon, this can go very well on your DC or IC, but it’s typically best to avoid more public-facing moon lines unless you have a really good reason for wanting to go more public with your emotions.

Mercury Lines: These lines can make you much busier and immerse you in constant communication with others and intellectual stimulation.

Venus Lines: These lines put more of an emphasis on themes like beauty, romance, and indulgence. These also tend to be great places to develop your sense of charisma if you have a well-aspected Venus.

Mars Lines: These places can really stimulate your passion, energy, and willpower, but also make you more prone to anger, recklessness, and accidents. They’re exciting, but can be a bit of a wildcard. They’re typically safest if you have a very well-aspected Mars.

Jupiter Lines: These are ideal lines for adventure, growth, and expansion. Your activities on these lines will probably expand to things much vaster than planned. They’re fantastic places to go if you’re feeling restricted and looking to expand more on something in your life.

Saturn Lines: On these lines, you may be forced to work harder and develop a much more rigid sense of discipline and responsibility. They also can make you feel very trapped and restricted, though, and you may end up stuck in these places (literally or metaphorically) and stay for longer than planned

Uranus Lines: These places will make you feel more rebellious and unsatisfied, demanding that you act on your need for freedom and independence to make changes and fight the status quo. They require a large amount of self-motivation, or else you might end up feeling angry and unsatisfied.

Neptune Lines: These lines are excellent for escapism and artistic endeavors. However, things might not be what they seem to be here, and you may find yourself seeing the world through rose tinted glasses in these places if you’re not very careful.

Pluto Lines: These are very intense places that will put you face-to-face with themes of death, the taboo, and very intense transformation.

Lunar Node Lines: These are probably the weirdest of the lines, and visiting them will likely be very deep and karmic experiences that feel too strange to be coincidence. These usually aren’t ideal places to live long-term because they are so spiritually exhausting, but shorter trips to these places can be life-altering experiences in unexpected ways.

Angles: Where in your life that planet will be channeled

AC Lines: These relate to your self, identity, and expression. These put the corresponding planet on the forefront of your identity, allowing you to explore formerly repressed parts of your identity and express yourself more truly to that part of yourself.

MC Lines: These lines make their corresponding planet become extremely public to the world and prominent in your career and public image. If you’d rather keep the traits of a particular planet private, such as your moon, don’t move to its MC line.

DC Lines: These relate to your relationships, coworkers, close friendships, and enemies. The corresponding planets of these lines might manifest in two ways: in the way you experience your connections with others, or in the kinds of people who come into your life here.

IC Lines: These lines make their corresponding planet manifest very strongly in your home and family life. This is ideal for stability-seeking planets that can help you build a solid foundation in your home life in the new location, but planets like Mars and Pluto on the IC can make your home life more volatile and unstable.

Good lines for challenging placements

Some lines may be extremely beneficial for some people, but rathe dangerous for others because of how the corresponding planet is placed and aspected in their natal charts. Earlier in the lecture, I said to take note of the strongest and most challenging placements in your chart to avoid moving to a line that will put your more challenging areas of your life on a pedestal. If there’s a theme in life that you want to develop, but it’s connected to a more challengingly-placed planet in your chart, another way to get beneficial effects for planets that are more harshly placed or aspected in your chart is to click the “w. harmonious aspects” button on the AstroClick travel map from Part 2. This shows where you can go to form trines and sextiles between planets and your AC, IC, MC, or DC in the relocation chart, getting a softer and more mellowed-down but harmonious version of what you’d get on the conjunction line. These can still be very powerful places to go with an incredible impact on your life. Seriously, these lines are epic - don’t underestimate them. 

What to do next

Looking at your AstroCartography map, make note of some specific locations on lines that you like. Once you have a few places in mind, check out your relocation charts for those places more detailed information about how they could impact you, and there you have it! You’ve done a locational astrology reading!

Advanced AstroCartography

These are just a few techniques used in interpreting relocation charts and AstroCartography maps, but many astrologers have their own individualized approaches to it. Some astrologers use techniques such as Zenith Latitudes to Crossing Latitudes to create even more lines, and some people even cross-check planets in both tropical and sidereal charts to see if a planet is well-placed in one but debilitated in another. Also, looking at any transits and progressions impacting the planets you’re hoping to amplify can give you a much more detailed view of what’s going on, but that’s more advanced and outside the scope of this lesson. That only begins the list of many other locational astrology techniques, but I hope that this lesson helped you get a feel for the general idea so that you can start building an approach of your own!

Thank you so much for reading this lesson, and I hope that it was helpful. As always, I’m here if you ever have any questions. This is one of my favorite topics in astrology and I’m always happy to talk about it more.

[astubborntaurus]

Locational Astrology Part II - AstroCartography Maps

Part I - Relocation Charts

This is the 2nd part of my 3-part introduction to Locational Astrology. In Part 1 we talked about relocation charts, which show how any single place in the world could impact you astrologically. If you haven’t read through that yet, I highly suggest reading that first. Also just to reiterate, these techniques depend on having an absolutely exact time of birth for your chart, down to the precise minute. Even just a several minute inaccuracy can completely throw off the entire interpretation.

Let’s get started!

Why we use AstroCartography maps

Like we covered before, relocation charts are extremely powerful and specific charts that give us a lot of information about one specific location. This is great if you have a specific place in mind and you already want to move to or visit. However, if you’re trying to figure out the best place to move to or go on a vacation to, things might get harder because the world is a big place with tons of locations to make charts for, so it’s a pretty unrealistic plan to try to make one for every possible place. Your AstroCartography map solves this problem, by making a map of the world (or of a smaller geographic area) and labeling all of the places that would put one of your planets on the AC, DC, MC, or IC of the relocation chart. While relocation charts provide much more information for individual places, your AstroCartography map gives you a brief overview of which places in the world will have the strongest impact on you, highlighting where you should make relocation charts for.

How to generate your AstroCartography map for free

The best way to create a relocation chart for free is to go to www.astro.com > Free Horoscopes > AstroClick Travel (or click this link). From there, enter your birth info and select the “Scalable Map” option, and there you’ll have an interactive map that you can move around on and zoom in and out of, displaying your AstroCartography Lines. You should be seeing something like this:

What the lines mean

Now let’s make sense of what all this is. Each line shows where on the map a planet would be conjunct the AC, DC, MC, or IC in the relocation chart. For example, near the top of the left side of the map above, there’s the beginning of a blue line labeled Moon DC. In the relocation chart of any location that touches that line, this person’s moon would be conjunct the DC. This is how all of the lines work. For the Venus MC line, that shows all of the places where Venus would be conjunct the Midheaven in the relocation chart, on the Uranus AC line Uranus is conjunct the Ascendant in the relocated chart, and so on.

Additional options for more lines

In the top left corner, there are checkboxes tabled “w. harmonious aspects” and “w. disharmonious aspects”. Checking these show lines representing which locational charts have aspects between planets and the AC, DC, MC, and DC. The harmonious aspects include trines and sextiles, which generate a more mellow and complimentary energy between them, and the disharmonious aspects show Squares, which put them at odds with each other and have more friction. We’ll dive deeper into interpreting all of this later, but for now you might want to keep these unchecked because they make a lot more lines appear and it can get quite messy.

Interpreting AstroCartography maps

Going to a place that’s on one of these lines will drastically “turn up the volume” of that planet in your life. For example, going to a place on your Moon MC line will make your emotions much more open and public, putting you in situations where your emotions are active and very visible to the world. Keep in mind that this isn’t because the new location changes your personality but instead it’s because of how your new environment interacts with you. For example, there’s one relocation astrology story where somebody was visiting his Pluto (the planet of death) AC line, and he quite literally accidentally walked into a stranger’s funeral and had to sit through it to avoid an awkward moment. How we handle this depends a lot on how our planets are placed and aspected in our natal chart, which shows which planets are safest and most beneficial to put in the spotlight through relocation. That wraps it up for this part, but we’ll dive deeper into that in the next section.

What comes next

Now you know how to calculate an interactive AstroCartography map and what it means. In the 3rd and final part of this lesson, we’ll talk about some more advanced techniques for interpreting how different lines on the AstroCartography map affect us and now to calculate the best places in the world for us to visit to best suit our individual charts and personal goals. If you have any questions at all about any of this, I’m always happy to help. I hope you enjoyed this lesson and I’ll see you in Part 3!  

Part III - Choosing the Best Places to Go

[astubborntaurus]

Locational Astrology Part I: Relocation Charts

This is Part 1 of a 3-part introduction to one of my favorite astrology topics: Locational Astrology. In this lesson we’re going to talk about relocation charts and then apply that to AstroCartography. By the end of this lesson you’ll be able to use relocation charts and AstroCartography maps to explore how any place in the world could impact you astrologically and how you can use travel to sculpt your life like never before. My goal here isn’t to teach you a one-size-fits-all approach to locational astrology, but to help you understand how it works and how to start building up your own personalized toolkit to locational astrology interpretations.

Disclaimer: These techniques depend on having an absolutely exact time of birth for your chart, down to the precise minute. Even just a several minute inaccuracy can completely throw off the entire interpretation.

Without further ado, let’s begin!

Why location matters

Your natal chart depends on 3 pieces of information: the date, time, and location of your birth. The date and time is important in calculating the exact positions of the planets when you were born, and the location is important because the houses of your chart depend on how your location of birth lines up with the sky relative to the earth’s rotation. Your Ascendant (the cusp of your 1st house) and Descendant (the cusp of your 7th house) represent which sign the horizon lined up with when you were born, the Midheaven (the cusp of your 10th house) represents the highest sign in the sky when you’re born, and the IC (the cusp of your 4th house) represents the exact opposite point of your Midheaven. The other house cusps are calculated differently in different house systems, but ultimately all of the houses depend on your location of birth. This means that if you were born at the same time, but in a different place, all of the planets in your chart would be in the exact same position as they are in your actual natal chart, but your houses could be completely different.

Where relocation charts come from

A relocation chart is calculated by creating a chart with your date and time of birth, but instead of your location of birth, use any location. Your relocation chart for any location will look a lot like your natal chart since all of the planets will be in the same signs and in the same degrees, but the houses will be shifted, putting the planets in different houses. This chart examines how you and the environment of that location could interact, such as which traits it gives you the most opportunities to express, what parts of you might be repressed by the place, and which areas of life would be most prominent for you there.

Interpreting relocation charts

When interpreting the relocation chart, think of the planets’ placements in the houses in the context of what qualities our environment draws out from us rather than how they affect your personality (which is more in the realm of natal charts). For example, if you have a well-aspected Sun that’s in a more repressed house in your natal chart, such as the 12th, you probably have a very powerful personality, vitality, and drive that’s not getting to express itself fully and benefit you as much as it could. By moving to a location where, in your relocation chart, the sun is in either the 1st or 10th house, you would receive many new opportunities to make that vitality more visible to the world and outwardly active so that you could reap the full rewards of it. On the other hand, if you have a harshly aspected Moon, moving to a place that puts your moon in the 10th house would probably lead you to situations where your emotional turmoils are extremely public to the world and this could be overwhelming.

What to look for in relocation charts

The most dramatic relocation charts are ones that put planets on the Ascendant, Descendant, Midheaven, or IC. These are the most sensitive points of the chart, so putting a planet on them through relocation will put major emphasis on that planet in that place. Depending on which planet you’re putting on them, this can be extremely helpful, filling your live life with new opportunities and chances to let your best characteristics shine, or it can be very difficult, putting too much emphasis on traits that should stay out of the spotlight. For example, once somebody moved to Hawaii, a place putting his well-aspected Venus on his Descendant, and on the day that he arrived he met the woman who would later become his wife. This, in a nutshell, is the power of locational astrology.

The problem with relocation charts

Now, you should be able to look at the relocation chart for any location and come up with a general conjectures about how moving to that place would affect the native. In summary, an ideal locational chart puts the most well-aspected planets in the most prominent houses or (especially the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th) or conjunct the Ascendant (AC), Descendant (DC), Midheaven (MC), and IC, and keeps harshly-aspected planets away from them. Here’s a question, though: with so many locations in the world to choose from when generating a relocation chart, how are you supposed to find places that do that? Sure you could take on a trial-and-error approach and calculate relocation charts for a bunch of locations, but it’s a big world out there with countless places to choose from. In the next part of this lesson we’ll dive into AstroCartography, a technique to quickly pinpoint the places in the world that will impact you the most.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed this lesson, and if you have any questions at all I’m always happy to help to the best of my ability. Take care!

Part II - AstroCartography Maps

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🌚 Composite Notes✨

🌙Pisces or Sagittarius placements/rising doesn’t just mean the couple met overboard it could also indicate that there is a cultural/religious difference, 9th house synastry or natal Sagittarius is also involved.

🌙Sun conjunct Mercury is the most common composite aspect, it indicates intellectual compatibility, this aspect actually appears in relationships that can last for a very long time, and they seem to get along very well on the surface, especially as friends but when you actually dig a little bit under the surface and check both charts, it appears to be that these people probably have a lot of frustrations in that particular relationship. (yt: AstroMartine)

🌙moon-Saturn aspects (conjunction, trine) can point to Juno contacts to personal planets in synastry. Juno being about marriage and Saturn about commitment means the people involved in the relationship, friendship expect to go into it long term and somewhat desire stability. They would want to include the other in their life and actually see themselves committed and being with that person, and compromising to making things work. However It depends on overall synastry/composite of the individuals to indicate if they would be in it for the long haul.

🌙Venus-Pluto aspects signifies the natives could take in or at random times get caught up looking at the others body, especially private parts and their behind 👀 I’m not even kidding, at random as well both people do this haha and sometimes not get caught physically but the other person can sense what they’re looking at. Also jealousy is big here!!! With the conjunction these people are probably not eachothers type but there’s still this attraction that pulls them in. Venus-Pluto means the own natal of the individuals is scorpionic or plutonotic.

🌙Gemini in the planets and the theme of that planet indicates what the natives are curious about each other. Ex: Gemini mars the people are curious about the others sexuality, animalistic drive and how they cope with anger so they’d probably poke at each other a lot, dirty talk, inappropriate name calling. Gemini mercury would be interested in the eachothers intellect and how their mind works, curious about what the other is thinking. Gemini is in its home mercury, so there would a lot of mental stimulation and conversation, asking lots of questions between the two, but when they are together they’ll tend to be detached or have more of a logical, practical conversation about topics. The house mercury is in would perhaps change this a bit, in water houses, the natives may go in depth, and are able to surpass being just lighthearted about the subject.

🌙 Venus/mars conjunct, trine even sextile Jupiter indicates consistent sex in the relationship.

🌙 Earth planets= warmth, drive, loyalty

Water planets= sensitivity, deep, intuitive

Air planets= Accepting, Understanding, vocal

Fire planets= controlling, adventurous, passionate

[d3monicas]

BIGGEST FEARS

moon in 1st house: criticism, rejection, being disliked

moon in 2nd house: financial instability, dependency, being used

moon in 3rd house: being misunderstood, being ignorant, not being heard

moon in 4th house: growing up, stepping outside your comfort zone, losing your loved ones

moon in 5th house: boredom, being forced to do something mundane for the rest of your life, not being able to follow your passions

moon in 6th house: imperfection, being stuck in unhealthy habits, your own overthinking

moon in 7th house: being alone, being unloved, not being good enough for others

moon in 8th house: yourself, betrayal, people's secret intentions

moon in 9th house: being trapped, ignorance, feeling like you're running out of time to experience life

moon in 10th house: FAILURE, not meeting yours and others' expectations, being seen as incompetent

moon in 11th house: rejection, the state of society and the world, the future

moon in 12th house: mental health issues, wondering if you'll always feel stuck, confronting and expressing your emotions

[sunsetquotes]

You had to be that person to become this one.

Rupi Kaur (via sunsetquotes)

[astubborntaurus]

They fill with fire, exhale desire. I know it’s dire, my time today. 

Here’s an Aries Mercury moodboard that I made a while back.   

[astrologanize]

2021 for the ascendants 

aries ascendant: man, it’s like you’ve forgotten what you want for the past few years but you’ve been trying with all your might to run through a list of desires with the hope that eventually something will provide you with contentment. worry not, you will be met with situations that highlight your principles so that you are able to decipher what it is that brings you oneness. ask yourself if the company you keep is meeting expectations and if there are behaviors you’ve been allowing, but more importantly, ask yourself if you are leading by example and what you are leading with. this is a time for you to make sure that you are taking the proper initiative towards your own fulfillment, if you’re feeling a disconnect then maybe you should seek for an understanding of the objective; how can you expect others to meet expectations if you aren’t doing the same for yourself? why are you tolerating what you shouldn’t have to? it’s time to up your ambition and strive for resolution by making sure that you are setting yourself up for greatness. “if you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything” 

taurus ascendant: life has been a slippery slope for the past couple of years, the way life can change in the blink of an eye and the way we can get carried away without intending to is something you’re awfully familiar with by now. you’ll feel like you’re getting somewhere, you figure things are on the up ya know, and then of course something totally stops you in your tracks and it makes you question yourself - which has only made your taurus ascendant self clam up harder buuuut you’ve been trying to process it. you will be met with situations that allow you to reap the benefit of your efforts. it is time for you to go after what you want, this is prime manifestation time so if you are desiring change to circumstances make sure you are working towards it and utilizing the power of affirmation. if you don’t have a job then i would strongly advise this as a time to obtain one or attempt to obtain one; if you do have a job/are in a career then expect there to be change that is ultimately positive for you even if it may not seem like it at the time. 

gemini ascendant: you guys have been on a mission of self-discovery through the numerous voids we utilize to dissolving other parts of ourselves, i’m getting very “cranes in the sky” by solange - “i tried to drink it away, i tried to put one in the air, i tried to dance it away, i tried to change it with my hair” (etc. read the rest of the lyrics if you’d like!) sometimes in us getting caught up in excessive behavior we’re able to understand that there’s a bigger issue at play and we’re acting from a place that is without authenticity. you will be met with situations that reveal the answers that you’ve been searching for and your perspective will begin to breakdown and reform. this year you should try to think before you speak, in fact, let your actions speak for themselves so that you don’t have to start running off at the mouth. absorb and filter through the information that you have so that you are leading with the facts; no more following unreliable curiosities, bouncing back & forth, and wallowing in careless behavior. 

cancer ascendant: for a while you’ve had to take a hard look at family, support systems, what you bring the to the table, and how you can find liberation for yourself in relation to these things. it’s been easier for you to fall into a pity party because you’ve had to deal with and be met with responsibility in a new way, a way that has showed you where you’re needing to grow up, and this can make you want to sink further into your shell with all your vices of comfort (those ‘security blankets’ can be so pesky). you will be met with situations that can soften out your old ways and in doing so provide you with a chance to have a legitimate regeneration. finding acceptance and embracing vulnerability at it’s most candid is how you will find your footing. this is a time to try to re-evaluate your patterns of behavior so that you can work on creating new, healthier habits for yourself so that you are able to lay down those roots of security that you long for. you have been receiving the tools you need and all you have to do is utilize them instead of trying to shield up and be overly defensive. 

leo ascendant: i feel like life for you has kind of felt like someone took you out of your home, drove you to a forest in the middle of nowhere and dropped you off with the bare necessities and said, “okay, now figure out your way back.” thankfully you are getting a groove back for yourself and taking on a new outlook of the hindrances in your life. you will be met with situations that make you reconsider the way you’ve been carrying yourself, what you’ve been allowing, and the situations that you have been placing yourself in. it’s time for you to be more selective and imagine what you want for your life, what is your ‘dream life’? - answer this question and start taking the steps to getting there, decide what isn’t aligning with this dream, what you need to pull back from, and what is worth the effort. if you have family or a support system then examine your relationship with them - are they holding you back or are they willing to work on things with you and vice versa because it could be you who is needing to be more deliberate with people. if your home (life) isn’t ideal then find a way of to move elsewhere or renovate your space by getting rid of what has no use in your life so that you can add or rearrange accordingly. 

virgo ascendant: ah, attachments and feeling withdrawn, dissatisfied, ineffective are issues that you have been dealing with but this year you will be tending to the source of this by learning how to keep momentum. though you have been putting in effort, it’s you working harder and not smarter because you’re working from a place of inadequacy instead of working from a place of ingenuity. along with working harder and putting in unnecessary effort is you nitpicking to the very last crumb when really this is you just, again, being dissatisfied with where you are in life. you will be met with situations that force you back down to earth and emphasize what it is that you have been evading or how you’ve been evading. this is a time to make the transitions that you’ve been yearning for, this is not a time for waiting things out, if you want something then you need to act on it. you’ve been in your head in a very unhelpful way, you’re like “nope, this won’t work for me because xyz, i can’t do that because of abc, this is too wrong, this isn’t lmnop enough, blah blah blah” and it’s been excuse after excuse. get out of your own way and revise!!! make the best with what you have!!!

libra ascendant: gosh, why has everything felt like it’s been crumbling away? things are supposed to come together, not fall apart, right? as of late your efforts have felt as though they’ve been in vain - other people aren’t taking to you, you’re not attracting what you want, and everything has felt unfair. this balance beam has been feeling anything but balanced! you will be met with situations that bring you back to the notion that what we attract is based around what we’re putting forth. have you ever pointed the finger at yourself? are there any issues that could be stemming for you? maybe it’s you who is needing to learn how to keep yourself in check. after all this crumbling away you should be able to start piecing together the leftover fragments to gather an understanding of what life has come to be. omg i just envisioned the mulan scene: “when will my reflection show who i am inside” - this is your mulan moment!!! negativity has clung and been projected from you in recent years and it’s on you to mend those behaviors and in doing so your paths will narrow down, the indecision will cease, and you’ll see where you can go, where you’d want to go.  

scorpio ascendant: feeling as though you’ve missed something is not something you’re that familiar with because you like to think you have awareness but unfortunately recognition has not been your strong suit as of late. you’ve reached that “who am i?” stage of rock-bottom and the “what in the hell am i even doing?” but what a year 2021 will be for you in terms of being able to end certain cycles, which is a pretty major thing for your ascendant. you will be met with situations that force you to gather your bearings and revise your demeanor, which can be a nerve-wracking thing for someone who doesn’t like to adhere to what they would consider the follies of others. it’s a time for openness so lessen your grip and consider the possibilities rather than feeding into your sensitivities and fixations. how can you transform if you’re too busy digging yourself in deeper? the way scorpio is able to bring together both boldness and vulnerability is what you should be striving for, the self-sabotaging is for the other birds - you’re a Phoenix! 

sagittarius ascendant: i extend my deepest condolences for the past couple of years but you’re starting to get a better idea about the part that you play in matters and what you’re needing to improve upon so that you can find a direction, or better direction, in your life. hopefully you have been paying heed to the areas in your life that have accumulated to the point of no return and are planning a big ol’ yard sale because it is time to bring back some decency. you will be met with situations that test your ability to make the right choices/decisions by infringing upon your lifestyle. this is a time to explore inwardly and address the emotions that you’ve kept tucked away, seeing as your decisions are too often dictated by these unturned emotions. you’ve done enough wandering by now, these upcoming days should be about you tying up loose ends and bettering the circumstances you currently have so that you don’t feel the need to flee. don’t let things go unexpressed this year because this baggage is what is hindering you and freeing yourself of this as much you possibly can would be in your best interest. 

capricorn ascendant: ah, those dark feelings of being misunderstood and having a chip on your shoulder because let’s be honest, you’ve been having an identity crisis and haven’t been the most reassuring person to have around. all i’m hearing is “it’s my life!” and envisioning a person who is refusing to be told what to do, we get it - you think you’re above cooperation. you will be met with situations that challenge the security within yourself and in your life through having to face your own inability to properly articulate yourself to others. it’s time for you to take on the mindset of a novice. everything you’ve established or think that you’ve established? yeah, leave it at the door. try your best to pretend that you know nothing and that the world is brand new because it’s your own preconceived notions that are clamming you up. other people won’t be receptive to you if you’re not being receptive to them. not everything is about standing on the mountain or being ready to die on a hill, you should be enjoying the process and experimenting and considering alternatives because that’s how you find what works. 

aquarius ascendant: so you guys have totally recoiled into yourselves to the point of being lost within, huh? i just know y’all have been going full weirdo and doing shit that probably even you can’t grasp because it’s been coming from such a subconscious place. once you’ve hit a low point it’s easy to become a bitter betty and partake in not the greatest of coping mechanisms because you’re feeling alienated from yourself. there is a reason for this though - you have unacknowledged feelings! have you had any regrets or lingering emotion towards people or towards situations? perhaps these are stifling your ability to feel present. you will be met with situations that turn you inside out by taking away the option of preparing yourself so that there’s no time to go robotic about it. this is a time for you to revel in activity, get out of your ~woe is me, nobody wants what i have to offer~ and start showcasing your abundance! give for the sake of giving, have fun with your generosity, try to tap into that aquarius energy of playful but well-intentioned nonchalance. 

pisces ascendant: well, you have been trying to work on your celestial flow and have dove deeper into your visions and idealisms for life but your moods have never been more easily swayed. these have not been the sort of tides that you have cared to ride because they don’t lead anywhere! they crash and dissolve, crash and dissolve, crash and dissolve - when will they carry you somewhere you’d like to go? your escapisms and illusions have been getting the better of you and floating is a pretty accurate way to describe where you’re at. you will be met with situations that question/alter your reality and reveal to you what you’ve been overlooking. i imagine it as your *record scratch* *freeze frame* “yup. that’s me. so you’re probably wondering how I got myself into this situation.” moment. it’s time for you to gently pull back and take note of what you’re investing your energy into and what this has been producing in return. your energy is best left being funneled into yourself this year so that you can thoroughly examine where you’ve been pigeonholing yourself; in you examining such you will be able to tap into your intuition in a way that you have not been able to before, it’ll be like unlocking a new level of your own consciousness. 

[astubborntaurus]

I really needed to see that. As a Libra Ascendant I couldn’t relate more. These interpretations really are beautiful, thank you for these 💕