It’s important to keep in mind that a retrograde is not a tragedy, no disaster, no cause for alarm; it’s rather a truce, a respite, a gift from the cosmos. It’s essential to understand the purpose of the planet in this position and how to use that energy.
When a planet is retrograde, it seems to travel the Zodiac backwards. Actually, the planets move forward constantly, but this is not how the human eye perceives it. The retrograde movement is nothing more than a perception, an illusion caused by the fact that the planets, including the Earth, are in constant motion and draw arcs across the sky as if they revolved around the Sun at different speeds.
In addition, we must bear in mind that many astrologers (karmic astrology) think that the retrograde planets in a natal chart are related to past life issues that must be resolved in your current life (if you are interested I can talk about it in another post!).
After this brief introduction, let’s see the retrograde planets!
MERCURY RETROGRADE
Contemplative and introspective mind.
Self-analytical and self-critical.
Perception of psychological subtleties.
Distraction, not harmonized with external details.
Interests or literary skills.
Learn by absorption.
Shy when talking or communicating.
They like to be alone with themselves.
Don’t feel inclined by gossip or casual interactions.
It’s difficult for them to verbally translate their perceptions and establish contact.
They feel that they aren’t understood or that they are disconnected from others.
VENUS RETROGRADE
Create your own social and aesthetic values.
They aren’t demonstrative.
It’s difficult for them to communicate affection.
They love themselves, they are narcissistic.
They fear intimacy and love.
Look for the perfect love, they have ideals out of reality.
Continually create their own value system.
They feel uncomfortable in society, tends to seclude themselves.
Sensitivity and aesthetic talents.
They aren’t materialistic.
They tend to form unconventional relationships.
MARS RETROGRADE
They are inhibited and don’t act.
They aren’t competitive, they compete only with themselves.
Explorer of the psyche, goes inwards.
Lonely or unconventional action.
Repressed or explosive anger, is in continuous struggle with themselves.
They tend to induce that they add it.
They doubt their own abilities, they fear to risk.
They oscillate between being impulsive and lethargic.
Inhibitions or sexual compulsions.
JUPITER RETROGRADE
Extremely philosophical and thoughtful.
Psychologically harmonized and insightful.
Retracted externally but internally expansive.
Harmonized with the inner meaning and purpose.
They aren’t materialistic, seeks inner wealth.
Develop their own attitudes and beliefs.
They oscillate between being very optimistic or very pessimistic.
Internal expansion, tendency to increase achievements to incorporate things.
They are isolated in the social, prefers to be with themselves.
Reject conventional beliefs or those of their parents.
SATURN RETROGRADE
Patience.
Resistance to personal change, rigidity.
Very repressed and selfless.
Very demanding of themselves, they doubt themselves and criticizes themselves.
They can feel inferior.
Inclined to depression or negativity.
They aren’t ambitious.
They doubt of being able to succeed.
Fearful.
They prefer to work alone.
Considerable self-motivation and perseverance.
Difficulty to deal with authority.
Weak father figure.
Defending a lot or not defending.
URANUS RETROGRADE
Externally conventional but internally unconventional.
They feel separated from society, unwell with it.
Psychological mentality.
Inwardly rebellious, they tend to rebel against themselves.
Intuition highly developed.
Original and inventive.
Able to follow the inner direction.
They need inner freedom to follow their path.
Nervous tension.
High level of internal excitation.
NEPTUNE RETROGRADE
Vivid imagination, creative inclinations.
Difficulty translating inspiration into action.
Live in a world of dreams.
Escapist tendencies.
Internal chaos.
Able to devote themselves to an ideal.
Excessively sensitive in the psychic and the physical.
Temperament selfless, like a martyr.
They need to retire, be silent and meditate.
PLUTO RETROGRADE
Desire and anger repressed.
Tendency to depart, to be antisocial or to be a misfit.
Self-destructive turns energy inwards.
Easily lose contact with their own depths.
Brave explorer of the psyche.
Deep psychological uptake and perceptivity.
Withdrawn, reserved, tends to seclude.
Compulsive or obsessive temperament.
Capable of powerful and transforming emotional states.
Patience, considerable ingenuity when under pressure.
A new version of my previous post you can find here. The previous post had a lot of mistakes and I’ll correct them right away. Here you can find how I relate ‘shadow work’ with our birht chart. We can see in our birth chart the ‘places’ where we need to do some ‘shadow work’ in order to solve our dark tendencies.
In this post I will talk about astrological houses. Every astrological chart has 12 houses. Depending on our astrological chart, it may be that one or two houses are of greater importance because they have a large number of planets in them. The more planets you find in a house, the more important that house will be to you. What does each house represent? What information can you give us?
If you want to learn more, I recommend reading Kabaleb.
1st House or Ascendant
The 1st House represents our personality and our outward appearance: how others see us, the first impression we make when entering a place or presenting ourselves to a group of people. The genetics we inherit from our parents is likely to focus on this house and our physical condition.
In this house we find the tools we have in this life to fulfill our solar program or our life goal. In addition, this house will tell us the energy we will have to take the initiative in the different situations of our life.
2nd House
The 2nd House is the abode of rest, which allows the individual to rest from creative tasks and dedicate themselves extensively to what they like, without falling on their person. Therefore, peace and rest are indicated here. Along with rest, this house indicates the way, the attitude, of the individual towards their obligations.
This is the house of the material rewards we will get in this life and how we will get them. The collections of this reward will be materialized in money in our world, but at the cosmic level it is where it is organized and decides when and how the individual will collect these material rewards. On some occasions, we expect a charge that isn’t made because we aren’t in the right place to obtain such a charge, since the individual isn’t doing what they should do. This can happen when the planets in this house are poorly aspected.
Therefore, the 2nd House talks about our resources (mostly materials, although it can also refer to internal resources) and the use we can give to them. Our relationship and how we manage them will also be key in this house.
Unlike other houses, the 2nd House talks about the assets generated by ourselves, with our effort and work, whether in this or another life. The resources that we obtain in this life don’t have to be those that we generate in our day to day, but they can be a reward for what we did in a previous life.
Along with resources, this house talks about our material possessions and how we manage and use these possessions (our ability to spend and save these possessions and rewards). It isn’t wrong to relate this house to money and our financial stability, since here we will know where our benefits will come from.
3rd House
The 3rd House represents how the individual pours their thoughts on the physical space where they live. Also, this is the home of our brothers (biologica or not)and your relationship with them. Apart from the brothers, in this house are our blood relatives (such as uncles or cousins), but not our parents, who will be seen in other houses.
Neighbors, whether they are from the same building or the neighborhood, and your relationship with them. Any element that is part of the environment in the life of the person, contacts and relationships with beings and things around us unfolds.
Short trips, words and writings with which the individual expresses his way of seeing the world. Therefore, the 3rd House is the manifestation of human thought and our communicative capacity at all levels (written, oral, etc.). Memory can also be found in this house.
This house governs everything related to expression and all the ways in which it can be disclosed: from speech or writing to the press, radio, television, cinema, etc. Any means that serve the individual to express themselves and dialogue will be reflected in this house.
Depending on how well or poorly this house is, the individual will have more or less facility to express themselves and access to the use of the means mentioned above. For example, the individual may have a lot to say, but little access to the means to express themselves. A 3rd House full of planets, announces the individual will work with their thought in an intense and deep way, either positively or negatively. It will be someone with great mental activity.
Finally, this house is about our experience in primary school (primary studies) and this can be reflected here. Along with it, bureaucratic processes, commercial interactions, sales and purchases... can be seen in this house.
4th House
This house informs us of the birth of our emotions, our prenatal life, our childhood and early youth.
We will be able to see how our relationship with the family will be. If we talk about our family, the house especially marks our relationship with the mother and what she will be like. Although it also tells us about the family that we will form in the future. In this house our origins, our ancestors are treated. In addition, it can indicate the individual's birthplace and how ingrained the particular location feels.
It tells us about the structure of our home, both the physical (our home) and our inner home (our inner world). When we talk about our conventional home, it will also address all of the domestic problems that we may face, either under the care of our parents or in our own home after becoming independent from them. Finally, this house can also tell us about the businesses that we create ourselves, since we can extrapolate ourselves to our second home.
In our 4th House the fall of spirituality on feelings will take place. The 4th House represents our inner emotions, those that we haven’t yet externalized. Everything that is in the individual from the past: our prenatal life, our childhood and our early youth. If 4th House is highlighted by the transit of the Sun, elements of our past lives, of our current past, our childhood or our youth.
Our 4th House talks about our mother. Especially how our relationship with her will be. The work of our 4th House is our spiritual rebirth, which we will achieve by getting closer to our mother, our child world, the scenes of our childhood, the friends we had then.
5th House
The 5th House represents luck. Traditional Astrology places in this house the earnings of the individual through games of chance, speculation, luck or free time. This house represents “doing what pleases us”. The lot I’m talking about is the "help of God", a gift of providence. This luck will depend on the will that the individual has put at the service of the divine work. When the 5th House is activated (either by planetary transits or a lunation), luck will fall on the individual and will result in positive circumstances in love, work, studies, business, gambling... Luck will fall in the area that the person wants most, although if there is some kind of karma in that area, luck can have no effect.
In addition, the 5th House will represent our most unconditional loves: those relationships in which we have loved without expecting anything in return. Those relationships will manifest in our present in the form of love. It isn’t an interested love, but the love that we awaken in people who don’t ask us for anything in return. People who are willing to do anything for us, even if we let them down.
The 5th House represents luck (commonly known as well). How lucky the individual is in this life will depend on our attitude in our past lives. If the individual has been generous and has helped others, in this life they will be rewarded with winnings in lotteries or games, for example.
Children are also represented in our 5th House. Depending on the sign that governs our 5th House, we will be able to know what our children will be like and whether or not it will cost us to conceive them (among others). If our children aren’t carriers of the love that we expected from them, it can be the cause of bad planetary aspects in our birth chart. Everything will become painful and the relationship with the children will be painful and unsatisfactory.
Our creations and our freedom are also inside 5th House. The sign and the planets that are in this house will show us the source of the individual's freedom. This house talks about how to be free, how to overcome the law of karma and where (physical place) the individual will find the freedom that will help them to show themselves as they are (their conscience), without masks or social pressure.
Finally, the 5th House tells us about teaching, what we have ingrained within us. What does the earth bestow on the individual in abundance.
6th House
The 6th House represents the abandonment of everything we have been accumulating to start from scratch. That’s why this house is related to diseases. Especially the vulnerable sectors of our physical body and our habits. In the end, this is the house of health, so all the elements related to our physical and mental health will be found here. From our relationship with food to the physical or psychic conflicts that we can have with ourselves that are the result of our Ego.
On the other hand, it’s the house of commitments. Here we will find all those commitments that we make with our actions and that later we don’t want to recognize or carry out. They are past commitments that we don’t want to accept in the present.
This is house of service. According to Traditional Astrology, these services refer to obligatory services, our subordinate jobs, but our relationship with service will be discussed: how we serve others and how they serve us. It will also deal with the relationship that we will have with everything that is inferior to us: subordinates, domestic animals, vices or perverse habits.
If the 6th House is heavily loaded with planets, this warns us that the individual has many tendencies that have reached their limit in this life. Therefore, you must end all of them. The individual will spend their life cleaning and expelling all the old and useless that are from previous lives and, in the end, it may be that in this life they have a life of servitude.
7th House
The creative capacity of the individual will depend on the collaboration of they other Self. The 7th House can be understood as the search for our other Self, that being, that part, which has the qualities that complement us. The individual doesn’t feel complete only with theselves, so tehy need a complement to feel full.
The position of the 7th House will define the place, the direction, to which the individual will go to look for their complement and where they will begin to create their place of coexistence. This will be conditioned by their character and the work they do abroad, since the 7th House is at the opposite point of the Ascendant.
The 7th House tells us how our spouse will be, their situation, their means, their family, their destiny and all the details that we want about their idiosyncrasy. Also the type of people we choose to achieve our goals (our collaborators, partners or coworkers), as well as our capacity for community life and teamwork (how we are in teamwork, our collaboration in these, etc.). In general, the 7th House talks about social relationships and how we will live them. Besides, we can find here information about contracts and labor agreements that we can reach.
The enemies we do know are also here.
On the other hand, in this house we can find cooperation. If we cooperate with our surroundings, how much cooperation will we receive from the outside or the lack of it in our life. In the same way, and related to cooperation, the collective consciousness is represented in this house. The feeling, the idea or the concept of "us" as a collective.
8th House
The 8th House symbolizes the world of desires and spirituality that may exist in it. This house can be considered that of secret passions because its effects take place inside the individual.
Because of its relationship with Scorpio, this house talks about generation (the act of generating, creating): the individual's aptitude or not for the generation. This concept of "generation" can be related to sexual relations. A poorly aspected 8th House will create difficulties of some kind for any generative activity. These generative activities can range from the conception of a child to the creation of a company or a specific project. However, the individual's difficulties in conceiving children can be seen more clearly in the 5th House than in this one.
The 8th House is the house of joys, as are all houses of fixed signs, and these joys can be “legitimate joys”, those sentimental ones that go from pure emotions to the impure joys of wanting to possess, bend, command over others. The aspects in the 8th House can tell what kind of joys the individual will experience. The illegitimate joys will be those derived from social and political power, the desire for power and wealth. The 8th House can also tell us about the money or material earnings that come through the spouse, partners, income, inheritances or donations. Because the money earned by our own effort corresponds to the 2nd House.
The 8th House is also a very emotional house. It represents the internalization of emotions, our internal feelings, our internal fears and passions, and the structure of all these emotions. This House tells us about our loves (lovers and courtships) and how we will live our sexual relationships (and sex in general) throughout our lives. As I mentioned before, it is the house of the "generation", so fertility and fertility are also represented here.
The 8th House talks about the relationship between our present life and the results of past lives. If the 8th House is in an Earth sign, it means that the individual finishes a cycle and the material gains obtained in this life will be the payment of past efforts in past lives. In some way, the individual will receive their material reward for everything previously done. On the other hand, if the 8th House is in a sign of Fire, the individual begins a new cycle and everything he receives will have no relation to their past performances.
This house is closely related to death and how the individual will die: in what circumstances, what will be the cause, in what place, etc.
Last but not least, The 8th House talks about the individual's psychic abilities/level and what kind of relationship the individual will have with them. People who have certain planets in this house will be sensitive to things invisible to most. For example, the water signs in this house or planets like the Moon, Neptune or Uranus can grant the individual outstanding psychic powers.
9th House
It’s the home of long trips, but we will not only understand these trips as a common trip to a foreign country, but it is the home of physical and internal trips. If it is the house of travel, the foreigner and our relationship with all the elements (things, people...) that come from abroad: how we will accept or deny everything foreign.
The 9th House covers higher studies. If the 3rd House was talking about primary studies, this house tells us about university studies and the like. Closely related to studies, this house talks about the search for knowledge by the individual and, if it is well-regarded, the individual will easily find the knowledge he wants.
Ruled by Sagittarius, the Zodiac philosopher, this house will speak about our relationship with our inner teacher, religion, philosophy and spirituality. Intuition, inspiration and spiritual vision both of oneself and of the collective (world). Therefore, this house will define the expansion and mental and spiritual evolution that the individual will live during their life. In the end, the 9th House is the house of the spirit, spirituality.
Finally, here we will find our ethics and morals and our acceptance or denial of it: if we follow established morality or some rebels against any morality. The 9th House defines our relationship with justice and trials.
10th House
The 10th House talks about work. However, society interprets work as a profession, but the things that the individual dominates aren’t always those that they carry out professionally. The 10th House also represents the activities that are done by vocation and working professionally and making money from other activities.
Here you will see the social projection of the individual along with their professional vocation (or activities that he does for entertainment, but that bring them financial satisfaction). A 10th House with good looks can advertise the ease that the individual has for leadership positions, while some negative aspects in this house recommend the individual to dedicate themselves to work related to the 6th House (if the regents of said house are positive). Some bad aspects in this house announce difficulties to exercise command, work in precarious companies or work adversities.
Continuing with the labor issue, the 10th House can help the individual to know what type of professions are best for their working life. Here we will indicate the professions to which the individual is most prepared to achieve and, furthermore, in which areas the individual is a teacher of teachers (what we are good at and what we can teach).
Unlike the 8th House, the 10th House tells us about the father figure: our father. Therefore, this house will tell us what our relationship with them will be like, what he will be like with us, etc. Also the relationship with our superiors in the workplace: bosses, authorities... In addition, in this house you can also see the relationship with our employees if we don’t work for ourselves (self-employed).
On the other hand, prestige, honor and our place in society (thanks to our profession) and our reputation.
11th House
Traditional Astrology defines this house as that of friends and protectors (and social relationships in general). These friends will be the people with whom we will interact without passion, since our romantic interests and our lovers are in other houses. This house talks about people who think like us, those who share our thoughts and our social intentions. Therefore, here we will define what our friends will be like and what relationship we will share with them.
This house talks about goals and dreams. Also about long-term projects. The goals or dreams this house talks about will always be those planned, structured and the individual has been working on for a long time. They aren’t easy dreams to achieve. Therefore, the soil and the ambition of the individual will be defined in this house, and it will tell what these dreams are like and if the individual will have difficulty achieving them. A poorly designed 11th House will announce the individual will have difficulty achieving their dreams and will not be easily satisfied.
A well-respected 11th House will help us easily find the right friends, those with whom we can think and share dreams. The desired friends will manifest themselves because we will let ourselves be seen and they will be able to find us. On the contrary, a poorly designed house, the disorder will settle in the psyche of the individual and, in the end, the friends who appear in their life will create conflicts or protectors that don’t protect us, but throw us into danger. People who share thoughts or dreams with us will judge us inappropriately and they will have wrong ideas about us.
This house talks about our inner thought and how we structure our thoughts.
12th House
There are many astrologers who consider Pisces as the sign through which emotions are externalized and, therefore, the 12th House is the most human of all Earthly Houses. Through the 12th House, the individual's feelings are channeled towards the environment in which they libe and, in this way, he or she becomes a little god who creates their world from the ideas they emit.
The 12th House is considered the house of the tests or difficulties (emotional tests) the individual will face to create their world based on their feelings. However, the world isn’t the same for everyone, so each person must act and adjust the circumstances around them will help them understand the importance of understanding with the people around them and, finally, accepting the functions of the 7th House: form groups and establish cooperation with the people around us.
If the feelings of the individual, when creating or adjusting, are positive, the person will build a world of goodness and brotherhood, thus freeing their environment from impurities. If, on the contrary, their feelings are negative, the individual will create a corrupt world full of vice that will lead to drama, destruction and negativity. Therefore, the 12th House will talk about what the environment of the individual is like.
Along with tests or difficulties, the subconscious has an important role.
The 12th House is the house of the secret enemies, the jails, the impediments, the deprivation of liberty produced by the need for our feelings to fit into a reality that doesn’t allow them to exist. When the feelings, the desires, don’t fit, the individual becomes violent and tries to force things. This reaction prevents them from being free, since they don’t let themselves flow, but they live forcing something that isn’t possible.
This house talks about the Karma (the Law of Action-Reaction or Cause-Consequence) that the individual will have during this life. This house is related to Divine Grace (which we have mentioned in a previous house). On the other hand, it can be considered as the house of charity, be it the charity that we give to the world or the one we receive from it and the people around us. The 12th House is related to hospitalizations and medical interventions you may receive. Furthermore, this house defines loneliness and the individual's relationship with loneliness and the role of the individual in secret societies.
Traditional Astrology considers the 12th House as that of secrets and mysteries. This is true, since the 12th House expresses our inner world and, normally, the individual keeps secret everything that has to do with their feelings (they keep it as a secret to others). A 12th House full of planets or with its ruling planet with numerous aspects, defines us as an individual who will put great efforts in building their environment (their world) in their image and likeness, being able to face others, lead a very hectic life and full of experiences (which will be positive or negative depending on the aspects).
Hii! How are you? I was wondering if there's anything in a person's birth chart that shows the shadow work they might have to do through their life. I thought of chiron, "the wounded healer", and maybe lilith, but idk. So that's why i would like to hear your opinion. Sorry if the question is kinda dumb, i was curious. Thank you so much for your time! Have a beautiful day/night💖
Hi, dear! The question is not stupid, but it seems very interesting to me. I love that you ask me questions, so don't be embarrassed to keep asking when you need to. Let’s answer your question!
From my point of view, I think there are 9 main points in our natal chart to know our "dark side" and to know what kind of "shadow work" we should work on.
1. 4TH HOUSE
Our 4th House indicates where we take refuge from our suffering. Some people have more work in this house than others, since here the person must open up to the blocked, repressed or ignored feelings for the fear of suffering or accepting them in the past. The individual must understand that these feelings must be externalized, but he or she must find the correct way to do so in order to avoid causing unnecessary harm to himself or herself and the people around them.
2. 7TH HOUSE
This is the house of relationships and personal expression, and it can talk about the parts of ourselves that we are in full negotiation with. The planets that are in this house can show aspects, attitudes or habits of ourselves that we don’t want to show the world and that, in the end, we project on our romantic partners, our friends and our work/study partners. We can also find in this house what we lack and that we seek others to complement when they are with us. For example, Mars in the 7th House are people who repress anger, a person with Mars in this house looks for people who easily express their anger and help us express ours.
3. 8TH HOUSE
The 8th House has a lot to do with our psychic abilities, although it can also tell us about the relationship that we have with our dark side and whether or not it will be easy to work on during our life. Therefore, the planet/s that are in our 8th House will tell us about these abilities, while the sign will tell us the relationship with our dark side and the ease that we will have to accept it and work with it.
Our 8th House can talk to tell us how the wounds or emotional problems related to our intimate relationships can help us bring about change and growth in us.
This house reflects our shadows on our friends, our partners and our partners (whether formal or not). If the planet or sign in our 8th House symbolizes or causes permanent anger in us, our partner will be an angry person and you will experience your own anger through your partner, as he or she will direct that anger towards you. In the end, whatever is in this house will be projected like a mirror. All this will end by accepting our shortcomings and taking responsibility for these shortcomings.
4. 12TH HOUSE
In the 12th House resides the dark side of the person, that mask that he uses in front of the world to obtain the approval he needs. Here you can see how collective wounds influence us: how the pain of others affects us, the thoughts or actions of a generation, etc. In addition, the 12th House is related to issues of reincarnation, so in this house we can find many karmic issues that must be solved in this life.
On the other hand, in the 12th House reside the dreams that our parents, and even grandparents, have not managed to manifest, along with this also reside their limitations and preconceived notions that we will adopt as our unconsciously (especially during our childhood and adolescence).
In this house you can work on “who we are and who they expect us to be”.
5. SATURN
Saturn can help us achieve self-control. Saturn shows us everything the individual wants to keep hidden, which is damaged and cannot be functional in this life. For this reason, what is damaged must be placed, once rebuilt, in its correct place within our psyche. Working with Saturn can be one of the most painful, since Karma is closely related to this planet. Wherever Saturn is (sign and house) we can know what kind of Karma we bring from other lives.
Saturn is related to the judgment we make about ourselves: criticisms, fears, limitations that may be a projection of our parents or other relatives on us. Saturn causes the individual to learn to reject or repress him or herself in order to gain the approval of the people who protect, support, or deliver well-being. Saturn-related injuries or trauma are often those that we think aren’t good enough.
6. NEPTUNE
Neptune represents our spirituality and our connection to divinity. The sign and the house in which this planet is will indicate how and in what area of our life we will experience a spiritual connection and merge with the divinity to lose the idea of individual. Neptune tells us where we try to escape from the real world in search of a harmonious fantasy full of everything we long for. Therefore, here we can see if the person seeks to imagine and live in a parallel reality to avoid the pain of real life. What do you avoid living and why.
7. PLUTO
Pluto is a "shadow planet" along with Saturn. Pluto refers to the experience of evil, darkness in the world, and darkness within us. Pluto indicates what kind of destructive, violent and inhumane behavior inhabits us. Also our fears when we express these negative behaviors.
Pluto's injuries can often involve child abuse, be it sexual, psychological, or both. The wounds of this planet make us feel insecure, vulnerable and about to lose control.
Pluto indicates the search for personal power, and this search is unstable, since we cannot reclaim our personal power without embracing our destructive and violent behavior: the ability to destroy and create (transform). Everything we hate about the human being, the forgiveness that surrounds us, are fundamental aspects of our own being. To know and evolve, we must take responsibility for our negative aspects.
When the person doesn’t understand his dark side and manages to balance their shadow and their light, this person becomes a victim of abuse of power and stops the externalization of their fears. However, this person can also become abusive towards others and project their darkness against others in search of a balance within themselves and expel all the negativity within them.
8. SOUTH NODE
The South Node, regardless of the house and the sign where it is, it gives information about our old way of being in another life. While the North Node can help you improve your soul by challenging you to face those changes you need to improve.
The sign and the house in which it is located can give many clues of what the experience was like in other lives. It feels like the imprint that has been left on your soul without you doing much to avoid it. It tells us of memories, of the unconscious, of the experiences already lived, of fears, phobias and blockages that we don’t find the reason for, of attitudes that we take without being very sure of what motivates them and of the reactions that we choose more easily (acquired behavior patterns).
9. CHIRON
In the house and sign where Chiron is, it will indicate a painful area that we need to heal during this life. How can it be done? Discover what kind of wound it is, accept it and let that same wound show you how to accept yourself along with your shortcomings and strengths. Along with Saturn, Chiron can refer to everything that we believe we do not deserve to receive.
The sign (element) will tell us what we perceive as a weakness in us. For example, having Chiron in a water sign indicates fear of being carried away by emotions; a Chiron in an earth sign will speak about fear of the material. Empathy and work towards others will be essential to successfully work with Chiron.
The 12 signs of the zodiac are the 12 primary sources of energy that have allowed the creation of everything we know. We humans are small universes made of matter subject to the laws of the twelve signs, but this matter would remain "asleep" if it weren’t for the activation by the planets. For this reason, the position of the planets on a birth chart will indicate the active zodiacal parts in a person, to what degree they are, and their zodiacal strength. Everything will depend on the planet that transmits it.
The Zodiac is made up of 12 signs (in this order): Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.
This is the traditional order, but we must bear in mind that during the creation of our universe, the God of our solar system didn’t use the zodiacal sources in this order, but organized life with the signs of fire, then the signs of water, the air signs and finally the earth signs.
These forces manifest in us in three phases:
It penetrates inside us: the force becomes a potential that makes us act to achieve something. The "penetrating" signs are the cardinal signs.
Stay inside us: the force works internally and they plant that potential in us (as if it were a seed). The "internalizing" signs are the fixed signs.
It comes out: the force that penetrated and later planted itself inside us, now manifests itself in the outside world. The "externalizing" signs are the mutable signs.
From this list we find the following classifications of the twelve signs:
First, we can classify the signs by elements: fire (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius), water (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces), air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) and earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn).
In the same way, we can classify the signs according to their modality: cardinal (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn), fixed (Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius and Taurus) and mutable (Sagittarius, Pisces, Gemini and Virgo).
Therefore, the God of our solar system first used the forces of the fire signs to fuel their design and helped the create the seed of the universe they desired. Then they made use of the forces of the water signs and, with these, love. At this point, God united love with their design. Later they used the air signs, which allowed the birth of logic and reason in our world, along with the laws that govern the universe. The last ones were the earth signs that offered their crystallizing force with which to wrap the forces of the signs and place them within a material body in order to manifest within this created universe. So did the God of our solar system, but we also do it in our day to day.
If a person has a majority of planets in signs of fire, this indicates that this person carries within them a design, an initiative, and he or she will be used by God to plant a seed in this universe. In this life, he or she will come to plant a seed, an idea, a thought, etc.
If the majority of planets are in water signs, this indicates the feelings dominate the person and everything that happens around them sees it as something personal, since he or she has a powerful internalizing force. Everything that happens in your life will be manifested within you, but it will not be externalized, much less crystallized.
If the majority of planets are in air signs, it indicates the person will be very attached to laws, logic and reason. He or she will have a predictable behavior, since everything there is will obey the laws, the universal values, the established. In some way, he or she will do things by following the laws of our God and therefore will come to create, renew, or follow the laws.
If the majority of planets are in earth signs, it indicates the person will manifest and carry out all their aspirations. They are in a way someone who turns everything they propose into reality (a builder).
Therefore, and after this short introduction, we reach the following conclusions:
People with a lot of fire in their birth chart aims to plant the seeds of things in this world. Their actions will manifest themselves in the distant future.
People with a lot of water in their birth chart aim to bring love and use that love to nurture that planted seed. Their actions will be manifested in the near future.
People with a lot of air in their birth chart aim to carry logic and reason and define the laws where the seed can grow.
People with a lot of earth in their birth chart are the ones who institute the physical world. They are the projection that the spirit made in its day.
In the end, any experience we live will go through a cycle of fire, one of water, one of air and, in the end, one of earth. When the four cycles have been completed and brought their fruit to the individual, the soul will leave the physical body to begin a new cycle that will begin again in the cycle of fire.
I found your question super interesting and I wanted to put it in a post so more people can discuss it. I hope it doesn't bother you, @chopinpapi!
Aside from the general unrest over everything that is happening worldwide with the coronavirus, @chopinpapi you should bear in mind that Pluto and Saturn are retrograde and, to be honest, these retrograde planets may be helping little to calm the situation. Especially for those unfamiliar with astrology.
We also have Jupiter and Venus retrograde, but I think Pluto and Saturn are the ones that may be affecting the world the most as a "collective" (especially Pluto). In addition, Pluto is retrograde in the Capricorn sign: excessive ambition, control, obsession with power and destructive ideas are the order of the day.
Although, in all sincerity, I think we should prepare for Saturn retrograde in Capricorn starting in July, as it can get tough for all those who have not yet understood and implemented the necessary changes in our "new normal".
Hello! I read your post reagrding planets in retrograde and as a person with Saturn in retrograde in their natal chart, I found your post extremely relatable. I was wondering what are your thoughts on Aries in Saturn in retrograde in a natal chart? What kind of challenges does this person face? And what do they need to work on in order to overcome those challenges? Any advice? Thank you!
Hello, anon! Thank you very much for your words! The post you are talking about is one of the most popular on the blog and, like everything I post here, I hope it helps you learn more about astrology or the topic the post is about. Below I have answered your questions in the best possible way. I hope I can give you the answers you are looking for and, if not, ask again what you need.
Saturn is known as the "Lord of Karma" by many astrologers. When this planet is retrograde in our natal chart, the individual lives in a constant internal struggle between the realization of ideals and practicality: there is a disconnection with the creative spirit that all individuals have within. Work issues and studies may be under constant review, the person has little ambition or is too serious or fearful when taking risks in their work world or making decisions about their studies.
A retrograde Saturn usually appears in the lives of "old spirits", someone who has experienced many reincarnations by not having carried out their life mission in any of them. The individual carries a very heavy karmic debt, since they didn’t manage to release it in previous lives and must now repeat it. Some people with retrograde Saturn have little or very bad relationship with their father and grow up with a strong feeling of guilt and unable to express their feelings and thoughts as they are limited to observing but not expressing themselves.
Saturn in Aries is a complicated position, since planet and sign tend to block each other because they are opposite energies. People with Saturn in Aries often have a lack of self-confidence (aggravated by being retrograde) and difficulty asserting themselves in life. These people tend to hide these characteristics by showing an aggressive, tough, unforgiving or overwhelming attitude towards the exterior. Less evolved people (with less divine consciousness) will be very selfish or primitive, since they don’t know how to act without being destructive towards others or oneself.
This position can become a problem for intimate relationships and marriage. The balance will come to them as their life progresses, but this balance will appear because of painful situations, almost like an imposition. To avoid these painful situations, the individual should learn about patience and self-control before it is too late to change their attitude towards the world and themselves. The individual must understand that uncontrolled energy is useless.
This position can create suspicious (even paranoid) individuals because of their fears or insecurities. On the other hand, although this position can be extremely aggressive because they are in Aries, sometimes they will not be the ones who exercise authority, but others will exercise authority over them.
The individual needs to discover how to be and flow with the lessons that their life brings. Responsibilities must be assumed and not run away from them as could be done in past lives. If the individual carries out these lessons, the rewards will be great in this one or in next lives. The individual must reinforce security in himself or herself and manage to take risks to trust. Remember that nothing comes alone: luck comes for individuals who work with discipline and effort.
I hope I have been helpful, anon. If you want more information, don’t hesitate to ask again! Good luck!
Any thoughts on Venus/Mars in cancer? I always felt like the descriptions didn't fit me. Thank you 😊
Mh… I recommend you keep looking for different descriptions in books or websites of leading astrologers. For example, when I discovered what my astral chart was, many of my placements didn’t convince me or I feel identified with them. Everything changed when I spoke with people aware of the subject. Sometimes we can have some kind of conjunction or opposition that gives us more information about our placements, in addition to what angels of the abyss are working in that area of our lives. Why don’t you look if you have any conjunction, opposition, trigon or sextile? It would also be important to see which dominant planet is in your natal chart.
For the rest, I’m going to propose some descriptions about Venus/Mars in cancer.
Venus in Cancer
We must remember that Cancer is a sign closely related to our feminine side, our mother (motherhood), family and home. A more feminine, receptive energy of negative polarity prevails (in astrological terms). Although Cancer is a cardinal sign, it has its rhythms (quite unstable, by the way): it will seem that everything is moving backwards. Thousands of laps, complications, hints and hints will be the order of the day (or better, of the night) under its influence.
Venus in Cancer will seek the protective heat of the home in everything they do. People with Venus in Cancer will look for a person to help them find their identity and feel they belong to a family group that supports them before the outside world. They are people who need comfort and comfort in the place or the person they call ‘home’.
In addition, almost as much as Moon in Cancer, people with Venus in Cancer may feel some attachment to the past. With a lot of interest in the traditional.
People with Venus in Cancer can also have a great bond with their family or their loved ones. They are people of deep tenderness and goodness (although some don’t externalize it) with a desire to emotionally nurture those around them. Feelings are usually very important to them. They experience a deep yearning to be understood, to give and receive tenderness, to “dissolve” in the loved one. But that enormous sensitivity can also hinder success in marriage or in relationships in general.
If your Venus in Cancer is poorly aspected, these people may be “lunatic” in their love life, and be subject to continuous mood changes. They long to be loved and protected, and they often want to see in their partner a substitute for the mother, who loved them unconditionally; their great dream would be to return to the paradise maternal breast. They are terrified of rejection more than anything, precisely because of this they sometimes appear cold or insensitive, trying to prevent them from being hurt or hurt.
Mars in Cancer
Remember to keep in mind that the personality described below will be softened or emphasized depending on the Dominant Planets of the natal chart. If there is any kind of conjunction or opposition, the person may feel that destiny fights against it. When there is concordance (trigon or sextile) the person may feel that destiny helps him to realize his aspirations.
In this lunar and hypersensitive sign, Mars is not well placed. Its nature is weakened and it cannot do its best. They will manifest themselves in an inconstant way, directed by emotions, moods, fantasies or momentary impulses. Often, people with Mars in Cancer lack practicality or their projects are unrealizable. Other times, they don’t fight for their goals in an open and direct way, but instead do so in an indirect or overlapping way since they tend to avoid combat or deny their aggressiveness by directing it inwards. Therefore, people with Mars in Cancer may end up hurting themselves so as not to hurt others.
Sometimes people with Mars in Cancer defend themselves passively and tenacity replaces direct action, others can even end up restraining or completely renouncing the fight. However, given the emotional nature of the sign it may be an appropriate position to carry out a fight or a work of a spiritual nature.
This position can favor important tensions and conflicts with the family since aggressiveness tends to repress and internalize itself by turning and exploiting in the home or with the intimate environment. It gives possibility of damage or traumatic experiences in childhood, in relationships with parents or in the home in general. On the other hand, it favors digestive disorders related to nerves and internal tension, as well as the danger of damage or accidents in the home, theft or fire.
Finally (sorry for making such a long answer), I recommend you look more deeply at your birth chart. Especially the aspects of it. If you want, you can come over and tell me what aspects affect your Venus and Mars in Cancer.
💓Good luck!💓
(I’ve been studying astrology for a short time, so I’m sorry if I make a mistake!)
