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Hi, my name's Olivia. — Sagittarius sun, Leo moon, Leo rising. — Astrologer & Researcher of the world’s secrets *this blog is on a permanant hiatus* my posts – ask – instagram – FAQ

[callistolivia]

Looking for blogs to follow ☆⋆｡°✩

this blog is totally dead, but I feel like it may be worth posting this here because there's almost 8,000 of you. I'm looking for accounts to follow through my personal account @lavenderheroine that are not astrology focused (it's alright if there is astrology, it's just not the main feed I'm looking for). I've had tumblr for SO LONG now, but i've completely neglected curating my feed/algorithm for years so I'm not getting the full potential that tumblr has to offer.

If you have any of the following interests, please like this post so I can check out your blog and maybe give it a follow? 🥹 OR if you have blog reccommendations, please comment?

MUSIC or making music

CDs/Vinyls

Nature

Photography

Pinterest

Sanrio

Cats (or pets in general)

Art (I do mean this broadly)

Archive related content

Nostalgia related content (90s/2000s/2010s nostalgia)

Fashion

having a laugh (if all you do is reblog funny posts, that's awesome)

What I'm not looking for is: -anything that is way too explicitly NSFW -blogs that are very fandom heavy (nothing wrong with fandom, I'm just not currently following any fandoms closely where I would want it to be my entire feed) -far-right, terfs, anti-lgbtq, and the groups that often intersect with these groups. you know what I mean

[callistolivia]

Hey Olivia!! 💓

I wanted to ask about the sappho asteroid in synastry! Somebody I like has their sappho asteroid in my 7th house along with their Juno asteroid. I was curious what that might mean for both the parties. Also, since I know sappho is an asteroid associated with lesbians, I want to clarify that both the parties involved are indeed women. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this! 💓🧿

Hello,

To be honest, I have never studied this asteroid in synastry or in general. That is my short answer.

However, to give you my thoughts and a longer response, I probably wouldn't derive much significance from most asteroids in synastry anyway. Not unless the asteroids are interacting with other actual points of significance (other planets, in conjunction.... or in exact degrees of angles... for example.) The reason for this is that a lot of asteroids were only recently discovered. Sappho (80) was discovered in 1864 whereas the main seven planets we're so familiar with have been observed for thousands and thousands of years– which also means we have thousands and thousands of years of astrological statistics and observations with these planets. For most of the asteroids commonly talked about in astrology spaces we only have anecdotal observations. It's very hard to say for sure what their significance represents. What we know for certain is most of the asteroids admired by the astrology community orbit between Mars and Jupiter, and there are a lot of them! There's anywhere between 700,000 to 1 million asteroids in the main belt. Over 200 of them are 100 km or more in diameter. Sometimes I wonder if collectively the asteroid belt itself carries significance rather than just an asteroid or two, almost like an additional planet between Mars and Jupiter. Additionally, we know that many of the "significant" asteroids in astrology were discovered in the early 19th century. If we want to discover the true meaning of these asteroids, I would wonder what the significance of this period of time would be; I would search here first. Also, the significance of the astronomers who discovered these asteroids... these people who essentially birthed their existence to our consciousness in a way. Many of these astronomers were itching to find a new planet and worked tirelessly in a time where we didn't have super telescopes discovering new asteroids every week. And many of these astronomers named the asteroids after Greek and Roman Goddesses; appointing or crowning their discovery with beautiful, powerful names. I think the obsession and mystique parallel's to the astrology community. We want to derive uniqueness, beauty, power, and discovery from the asteroid placements in our chart. This is okay, I think its signifies inner self discovery and connection. I don't think it equates to fate though. So when it comes to synastry, the personal planets are your best friends for figuring out how you mesh with your crush. You will find more significance in how the Moon and Venus interacts with each other's charts more than any asteroid could. If you feel like you've read all you can on personal planets, I would actually reccommend looking into Arabic Parts (like Part of Fortune or Pars Fortuna) before asteroids. Like if you're interested in fate and auspicious points in the chart, Arabic Parts is basically all about the mathematic relationship between planets (adding or subtracting the distance between points or planets in your chart to create a specific point). It's a bit advanced to interpret, even for me, but it's very interesting.

I'm sorry this is probably not the answer you wanted lol

[callistolivia]

Hiii ❤️❤️ I wish to be in a stable relationship next year (and eventually to get married). Can you feed my delulu or help me stay grounded explaining this stellium transit in my 5th house ?⭐️

Hi,

So I can see you’ve already taken a look at my “Love Transits” post which is a good place to start for this kind of info.

I think it’s best to take a simplistic approach. Like having a concentration of planets moving through the 5th house may be as simple as your consciousness focusing on this area of life (love, dating, art, pleasure, etc). Especially with fast moving planets like Venus and Mercury, these two won’t be in this house for long. The mind and the heart has desire on the brain, that’s all.

I don’t believe Neptune ever has much pull in one’s personal life, but you may want to be weary of your expectations around relationships. I might call Neptune transiting the 5th and Uranus transiting the 7th an orange flag for being unrealistic and hasty… or as you might call it “delulu”…

I recommend you try dating, especially dating apps since that’s the new norm for dating. Meet lots of people, don’t fall in love too quickly. The most unassuming person might surprise you.

I also recommend putting more focus on dating when planets like Venus, Mercury, or Jupiter interact with the more social or selfish houses (1,5,9 and 3,7,11). You’ll feel the most confident and more open to the different fish in the sea.

[callistolivia]

Hi, I have a question about the fact that I have a bit of a unusual thing in my chart. My MC is in fact in the 7th house when I do whole sign. I was born quite near the arctic circle and I know it affects some charts in a strange way. When my MC is in the 7th does that mean my 7th house is more visible and important than say my 10th?

Thank you 🙏🏻

Hi there,

So essentially what you're asking is what is more important, an angle or the sun's zenith? The truth is, both are equally "important" and play a role in interpretation. There's a really interesting article here talking about different house systems and defining the Midheaven. And to pull a quote from this article talking about why we associate this exact 'point' in the chart outside of angles; "The idea behind this precision is that the sky is not something static, but is in permanent motion. As a result, all celestial bodies reach a certain point in their diurnal arc where they attain the highest possible altitude according to their declination. Being the Midheaven, in any of the possible definitions, the place where the stars reach their maximum elevation, it is quite obvious that the ideas associated with the 10th house such as advancement, promotion, profession, vocation, reputation and public image, derive of said elevated condition in the upper part of the celestial vault."

Regarding the angles, to put it very simply the nature and theme of astrology is all about balance and ebb and flow. This is why I use the equal house system for readings and why many others praise the whole sign system. It's best to imagine the birth chart as a colour wheel where the colours blend into each other, they have a direct relationship with each other. The houses are simply an overlay that we use as a guide for interpreting the meaning of a celestial body's position within this painting. The angles are the most definitive overlay because they happen to be the most polarizing. What you'll notice is that your Midheaven, despite being in the 7th house, is still above the horizon and therefore still has this "relationship" with the most southern (Public, top of the chart) half of the birth chart.

Think of it as an extra layer of interpretation. The 7th house is already a house that's in a realm of being "seen," it has to be. The Midheaven being there means there's some self-actualization in that part of your life.

[callistolivia]

It’s so crazy dating someone who has the same sun sign as you. You just feed into each other’s energy. I’ve never been more “sagittarius” than I am now. The stereotype that sagittarius is kind of sporty always made me like “nah, not me, will never be me” and yet my bf and I just threw an entire kickball event. This among other examples. Good synastry can make for great personal growth, obviously

[callistolivia]

Any guesses on how my work life is going rn

[callistolivia]

One of my closest friends is an Aries with an air moon and while I’m forever grateful that she entered my life, I always at the back of my mind wish I had more friends (making friends as an adult is so so so hard when you’re introverted, don’t drink/go to bars, and you’re not in like uni) and the universe literally threw another aries girl with an air moon my direction. It’s like the same girl in a different font. I’m grateful. The resemblance in their personalities is funny to me though. And I guess I’m meant to be friends with lots of Aries folk

Aries Sun/Air moon combo is so easy to befriend too. Very easy-going, they love both small talk and deep discussion and the conversations are enthusiastic and inquisitive. They really like to try new things all the time. I think Aries often get a bad wrap for being haughty and too boisterous. These people are just fun, good company.

[callistolivia]

I had a feeling Chappell Roan was Libra in some way, she definitely looks like a Libra. If astrotheme’s source is correct, she is the most Libra rising, Jupiter/Pisces dom looking person to reference when it comes to astrology and physical appearance/outward expression

[callistolivia]

Transiting Jupiter and Uranus are going to enter my 10th house near the end of this month/early next month and I’m projecting that I will have some sort of career or job change with a bigger salary within the next 6-12 months (as long as I remain optimistic and opportunistic as I have been feeling!)

Ever since I started pursuing a more Taurus-esque type career (my Midheaven) I’ve noticed a lot more opportunities and I feel like I’m not fighting against a current, there seems to be a lot more grace. I believe what is held in our 10th house and its ruler are natural skills and opportunities that can be utilized if we desire success.

[callistolivia]

I think it’s happening guys 👀

[callistolivia]

Transiting Jupiter and Uranus are going to enter my 10th house near the end of this month/early next month and I’m projecting that I will have some sort of career or job change with a bigger salary within the next 6-12 months (as long as I remain optimistic and opportunistic as I have been feeling!)

Ever since I started pursuing a more Taurus-esque type career (my Midheaven) I’ve noticed a lot more opportunities and I feel like I’m not fighting against a current, there seems to be a lot more grace. I believe what is held in our 10th house and its ruler are natural skills and opportunities that can be utilized if we desire success.

[callistolivia]

I think it’s happening guys 👀

[callistolivia]

Greetings ❤️

Any advice on finding someone who could give a quality birth chart reading?

I'm a novice in the topic and am skeptical especially when there are AI generated readings online ( are these legit? ) which is almost a topic in itself.

You know I’ve never even thought of that until you mentioned it. It would be so easy to scam people these days with readings. The only person I’ve ever had do a chart reading for myself was somebody who was briefly my mentor when I was a teenager. She obviously had 30-40+ years of experience and knowledge, much of that knowledge accumulated before the internet was so heavily utilized.

If it were me, I would first try to determine if I could get a reading done by someone locally. Then I would do some research into the person’s relationship with astrology (e.g. is chart readings their primary source of income? What kind of readings do they do? What are others saying about this person? Have they published their work anywhere? Who do they source info from? Who do they recommend? And so on). If their approach kind of reads as fortune telling, that’s a bit of a red flag to me also.

When it comes to online readings, I think a lot of the same questions apply. I think you need to be a bit more careful though because I think both influencers and regular people can market themselves in a very attractive and relatable way.

If you’re someone who is passionate about astrology more so than just someone looking for a chart reading, I highly recommend just studying astrology yourself and reading your own chart. I personally never really had interest in others reading my chart (even my mentor, she gave me a reading without asking me lol) because I wanted to be able to do it myself

[callistolivia]

Chiron

“Traveling between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus… Astronomers believe that Chiron originated outside our solar system and will eventually leave it. Likewise, mythological Chiron came from another realm and left the human kingdom after he had completed his teachings. Thus, Chiron serves as a link between our solar system and the galaxy, between the known (Saturn) and the unknown (Uranus).”

–Demetra George & Douglas Bloch, “Asteroid Goddesses”

Chiron’s realm of expression in one’s psyche can often be intuition or higher knowledge (in a specific area of life). This is especially true when we interpret Chiron’s interactions with other planets. In positive contacts with other planets, Chiron can represent wise, grounded energies as well as expertise. Chiron challenges set ideas and views in aspecting planets. In negative contacts, there can be debilitating self-doubt, instability, and fear of the unknown.

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The above writing was in part of a Chiron post I had planned to write and publish over two years ago and I never found the time to finish it. I wanted to post something about it now, but something different from what the original post intended to be. I really wanted to understand Chiron in the birthchart, and I mean REALLY understand.

If there’s one thing I love about astrology, it’s that you can learn a lot through comparing and contracting expression. Just like tuning an instrument by ear, you can compare one note to the other to understand where you are in the scale. You can compare Venus and Mars and find differing qualities; or gather information from aspects in harmony versus dis-harmony. This is what I was trying to do with Chiron.

It all clicked for me (and please don’t make fun of me for not seeing the obvious lol, I need to understand the ‘why’ very deeply) when I considered the fact that Chiron makes a full cycle after about 50 years. THE MIDLIFE CRISIS! Literally! Chiron is the wound, not a wound. Chiron is the comprehension of recollecting all that is our past experiences and understanding and staring off into the future at that halfway point. It’s how we handle a timeline of information that comes from within. How our past interferes with now (especially if the “now” heavily regards our future) and our willingness to change, survive, and overcome. This is why we often see people discussing Chiron transits as some sort of catastrophic event or in the birth chart it’s described as trauma. It’s really just activation in the face of change and challenge. We become very activated in anticipated milestones (like turning the age of 50) and when we are in this state of activation, this is where that ability to access higher knowledge and wisdom within ourselves comes from.

[callistolivia]

Hey! Hope you’re well. What would you say are the characteristics of a scorpio mars in the 5th house? It is my dominant placement along with my Uranus in Aquarius in the 8th house

I’ve heard mixed opinions and strange assumptions like, “masculine ppl are attracted to them”, “they’re angry people”.

Hi there,

A key component to recognize about the fire houses (1, 5, 9) is that they have a lot to do with one's identity. The 5th house illustrates an individual's ability to create as well as parts of themselves that they seek (being the precursor to the 9th house' purpose). Sometimes we seek ourselves through others hence why the 5th house is associated with attraction, it shows desire and what we are drawn to. The things we are drawn to play a part in aiding or building our identity. So with this all in mind, your 5th house says less about this sense of "other" where there's a group or type of person attracted to you, but more so what you're attracted to and people that share a relatability with you. There's a harmony at play because of the 5th house' relationship to your ascendant or 1st house. It would make more sense that you're attracted to martian type people. This could be masculine people, but it can be broader than that– it can be ambitious people, people with a very active lifestyle, maybe someone who's kind of edgy, someone who is willing to take risks, and so on. In response to “they’re angry people,” Mars in Scorpio is a lot more subdued in their expression thanks to being in a water sign. Mars in the water signs makes for expressive complexity for sure though. Aspects would be more telling of what this looks like as an average functioning person isn't likely to be just an angry person. There's usually a root to anger, or a proneness to being angry that I would search for in the chart before labelling a domicile Mars in the chart an angry person signifier. Aspects to any of the other personal planets with Mars for sure tells a story about someone's relationship with anger. In general, Mars in Scorpio when faced with conflict can be cunning and eloquent in their solution. In its negative expression– jealous, vengeful, self-sabotaging, and manipulative. Unlike Mars' other home placement in Aries, Scorpio is NOT reckless. Risks are not taken without very careful consideration of the outcome. Mars represents one's life force as well. So the house its occupying will tell you what you do in order to maintain your life force. Mars being in the 5th house means you need consistent hobbies in order to stay sane and feel good physically. There's likely a strong interest in Martian hobbies (and this is a broad bubble of things... could be cars, sports, fitness, anything that involves building or constructing, martial arts, and so on. With Scorpio being involved, there might be an occult or edgier touch in your hobbies/interests). A strong social life is important too, particularly romantic connections. a watery Mars in the 5th is drawn to substances, particularly alcohol. Despite this feeling great for maintaining one's self, obviously practice caution with this vice.

[callistolivia]

For the last like three nights in a row, I’ve been having dreams about random people I know from the past. Like really random people, some people I haven’t thought about in over a decade or more. If it was a one off thing, I wouldn’t think much of it, but it’s been back-to-back different people. One of the people was a girl I knew from elementary school, and we weren’t even close friends then. I probably had completely forgotten about her and her name if it weren’t for the random dream. It’s so strange what comes out of your deep, deep subconscious.

[callistolivia]

I hope you are well!

I was wondering if you have ever heard about there being esoteric consequences for divining ones fate through astrology? It's known that religion forbids such practice but is there anything else outside that context ?

This ask has been sitting in my inbox for months because I didn’t know how I wanted to approach it. I do think it’s an interesting topic and I do hold strong spiritual opinions on it. However, the more I think about it, a layman, logical approach is more helpful than saying something like “wishing ill on others puts karma on you threefold!” (If this is in line with what you mean by “consequences”)

I think many religions forbade practicing things like astrology simply because most people don’t know how to use spiritual tools for what they were intended for (I guess I don’t mean simply, this is the “esoteric” reason. Historically shamans, priests, and religious leaders covet and hide practices like these because they were exclusively used for strengthening their relationship with God/religion. It’s control too I guess). Generally divining one’s fate might be seen as devilish because it doesn’t really fall in line with being a virtuous person, in a lot of ways it’s seen as selfish.

The reality is, for many types of ‘fate’ we might determine for ourselves, we increase the probability of that fate by believing in it. This is, of course, not for everything, I don’t think an extremely low probability event can turn into a higher probability just by believing it’s fate. For certain things though, this is true. When we search for destiny, we recognize it’s opportunities whereas otherwise we wouldn’t have if we didn’t determine that fate. In a lot of ways, this is beneficial. It inspires a future for ourselves. On the other hand, if we determine a negative fate about ourselves, it could alter our behaviours in a way that shoots ourselves in the foot. For example, if someone determines a fate of loneliness, they might become more hyper vigilant in relationships, constantly questioning their partners and friends loyalty, asking when they’re going to abandoned, etc. The consequence being that their overcompensating behaviour fulfills the prophecy and people want to get away from their anxious attachment.

So both spiritually and literally you can be someone’s executioner when you claim to divine one’s immovable, unmoldable fate. Always with astrology, I recommend seeing things with a grain of salt and a complete control of one’s own destiny. And always if you need to point out someone’s fault, you need to provide a solution. There’s no dead ends in astrology.

[callistolivia]

there’s a popular astro account on Instagram claiming that Virgo is one of two of the unhappiest signs. I of course had a knee-jerk reaction to disagree because like honestly how? If we ignore the fact that this is a vague generalization, I don’t know how Virgo is at the top of that list. Can we define ‘unhappy’?? Virgos are maybe anxious or easily uncomfortable I suppose.

The other sign was Cancer, I can’t really argue with that hahaha

[callistolivia]

In my solar return chart, can Pluto Conjunct Part of Fortune in the 2H indicate a life changing financial windfall?

I wouldn’t consider this lineup to be a financial windfall in a lottery sense. If it is indicative of finances, it will be by means of inheritance.

Both Pluto and Part of Fortune have very limited data in their meaning I’d say, but taking note from other astrologer’s observations we know that Pluto may be destructive yet transformative, and we know that Part of Fortune represents a very physical essence (because its calculation is based on one’s big three, it must have something to do with the physical body and a person’s being). Additionally, in a lot of ways the 2nd house represents the physical body, it’s an extension of the ascendant… while the ascendant is very much indicative of one’s physical appearance, expression, and condition, it’s like that in a spiritual-soul-essence kind of way… Whereas the 2nd house is entirely material… material body, physical conditions, real possessions, etc.

There’s so many ways I could see this playing out, maybe you get super sick with something, or drastically change your diet, or cover your body in tattoos, or get a body altering surgery, or become a gym rat, or a psychological trauma begins to affect you physically. It could be so many things, there are other things that would have to be considered in the solar return chart to get the full picture.