HSHQTASK049: ZODIACS + TAROT
Princess Ana María Bolívar y Tovar, born July 11, 1992 in Caracas, Venezuela at 9:36 am local time. She is a Cancer sun, Sagittarius moon, and Virgo rising. Her tarot cards are the Empress and the World.
“you, like everyone and everything else here, are an amulet of celestial significance”
Ana’s Relationship to Astrology
Ana María very casually engages with astrology and tarot. If someone offers her a free reading, she’ll absolutely take them up on the offer. And she’s probably been to a psychic once or twice with friends. She probably has a cute crystal or two somewhere. But she doesn’t charge her crystals or take much stock in the readings she receives. It’s more like the personality quizzes from when she was a kid, but for grown ups.
Tarot
The Empress/The World
The World and The Empress have in common clear minds and presence in the moment. In crown and wreath and hand-held symbols they share a sense of high purpose. In the gold of ornament and detail they have a common concern for spiritual elevation. They contrast as active and settled, as expressive and reserved, as personal and formal, as symmetrical and organic.
The World brings measure to The Empress' abundance; she brings orderly conclusion to The Empress' fertile beginning. The World's energy and openness balances The Empress' immobility and formality.
Together they can be spontaneous and graceful, beautiful and proportionate. Between them, things do what they were born to do, live as they were meant to live, and last as long as they were meant to last. Between them, destinies are realized and completed.
Astrology
Cancer Sun
Your Sun in Cancer holds all memory. Cancer is the primordial waters of creation, the womb of humanity that carries with it our entire human story and every feeling we’ve had about it. If you have the Sun in Cancer, your waters run deep. Cancer is known to be the most caring, nurturing sign of the zodiac. When you love someone, they’ll know it.
Your Sun shines when forming emotional bonds with others. Water signs are reflective. Ruled by the Moon, Cancer’s job is to mirror the light of others. Like a parent or caregiver, you are always sensing what others need to hear, know, or receive as support. Your Sun in Cancer wants to create spaces where bonding can occur. Unafraid of intense emotional experiences, your Sun in this water sign may need you to purify yourself from the impact of the emotional residue you unassumingly soak up. Old resentments poison your waters. A regular therapeutic flushing out of the psychological system helps you feel more vital and alive.
Your Sun in Cancer is exceptionally good at intuiting and meeting the needs of others. A natural caretaker, your Sun in Cancer might hold on to an emotional slight, but it will also remember your loved ones’ favorite restaurant, movie, or teacher from high school.
Cancer is as changeable as the Moon that rules it. When distorted, your Sun in Cancer can become a personality that is known for its moody, melancholy ways. Morbidly defensive and attached to the past, your Sun in Cancer can easily swing between martyrdom and irritability when too much care goes out and not enough comes in.
As a crab, you can develop too hard a shell, a good defense for your tender underbelly but one that can lead to isolation. With this placement you’ll need to find ways to honor the strength of your vulnerability while developing the healthy boundaries necessary for living a life connected to other messy, loving, and changeable humans.
Sagittarius Moon
The Moon in Sagittarius seeks what it needs with bravado. It takes care of itself by taking action. It nourishes itself by pursuing the truth.
The Moon in Sagittarius needs adventure. It is comforted by travel, leaps of faith, new ideas, philosophical study, and anything that helps it feel expansive, alive, and in motion.
Its optimism makes you resilient. You survive by searching for the best in people, places, and situations. You connect to others through positivity and need to feel like you are growing and developing every day.
If your Moon is in Sagittarius, you’ll function well when you allow yourself to be led by your inspirations, insights, and intuition. You may be extreme in your emotional responses and feel the need to take off in a direction before you have really understood the consequences, especially if you are trying to avoid something.
Rising Virgo
With your Ascendant in Virgo, the mutable earth sign, you’ll be known for your ability to make the information you have access to useful. Practical. Applicable. Through the development of your skill, your Virgo Ascendant will be happiest when working on something meaningful to you. Never finished perfecting whatever you are fixated on in the moment, your ability to pinpoint what doesn’t work is mind-boggling to the rest of the world.
Virgo is exacting, critical, deeply introspective, intrigued with intelligent systems—especially ones that are healing, efficient, and naturally occurring. Your Ascendant is motivated to analyze, digest, and integrate the information that you acquire. Virgo is always in the process of putting things together and removing what isn’t needed.
Virgo’s symbol is the virgin, usually with a sheaf of wheat and bird to depict the double-bodied nature of this mutable sign. In the ancient world, the term virgin referred to those who belonged to themselves, not someone who had never had sex. Dedicated to discovering one’s own nature through disciplined devotion, the Virgin uses the practice of self-regeneration as a way to connect spiritually.
What others may not understand is that Virgo is excruciatingly sensitive. Beneath the ability to critique is a deep desire to align. Virgo purifies and, in love, Virgo needs a partner who is willing to constantly process the material of the moment.
When Virgo is distorted, your exacting ways are turned inward. Your Virgo can find fault with so much that you either convince yourself you have nothing to give or that no one and nothing is good enough to pursue. You’ll need to develop a keen ability to intercept your own self-sabotage, self-loathing, or self-scrutiny and instead turn that energy toward work in service of something greater.
When Mercury is the ruler of your Ascendant, your life’s direction is steered toward being able to communicate, learn, distribute, facilitate, and deliver the information most important to you. The sign that Mercury is in will reveal the distinct style in which you do this. You can honor Mercury by making sure that you have as many interesting things to learn as you do to teach. Mercury is a planet of duality; honor this by always taking in and giving out the information that you have acquired.
Miscellaneous quotes from her cafe astrology write up that drag her for filth:
just the whole venus in cancer section: “Love for Venus in Cancer is best when it is committed and rather predictable. These people are sensitive in love. You may even say their egos are a little underdeveloped when it comes to love, but they have a lot to give in return: namely, security, comfort, and care. Venus in Cancer people show their love by caring for you. They pay more attention to your feelings than your words, and observe you rather carefully. They want a safe, solid relationship. They can be a little moody in love, and some go so far as giving silent treatments and engaging in pouting routines to get attention from their mate. They are turned off by anything too impersonal, and too much rationalizing leaves them cold. They are not afraid of emotional confrontations. Still, these lovers are always worried they'll be left high and dry. If you've hurt them, they'll have a hard time forgetting. Every so often, they'll retreat into themselves (not unlike a Crab), and it can be difficult to pull them out. This is when they use their extraordinary "nursing" abilities on themselves, instead of you...and you simply don't want that!”
“You are generally charming with an easy-going manner. It is generally quite important to you that you are personally popular, to come across in a pleasant way, and to be liked and appreciated.”
“You have a desire to be something special or to experience something more than the ordinary. You are a day-dreamer and idealist.”
“A father figure may have been absent or distant and ineffective. You may have a glorified image of your father.“
“You readily assign meaning to what others might consider "ordinary" events. You look for symbols, and read between the lines in most any situation.“
“You long for a sense of true belonging, but you may be quite restless in your search.“
“In fact, you are more able than most people to get others talking, simply because you are very receptive and sympathetic. You pick up others' feelings and body language readily.“
“You make an excellent confidante--you are very discreet and secrets go into the vault. You might make matters too complex by overanalyzing motives or hunches, and then have problems acting on your intuition as a result.”
“Social success may be slow and laborious, but she does not give up easily and is patient. Can spend a lot of time on communications and getting them just right. Whatever you say and write is self-censored to some degree. It's hard for you to pour out your emotions, no matter how emotional or needy you feel on the inside. This is because you are always aware of what others might think of you with what you say. You are careful with what you reveal to others.“
“You rarely accept compliments whole-heartedly, yet you crave them and need them.“
“She may take on risky enterprises for the good of the community. She will often pour tremendous energy into an endeavor. She has a great need for her independence, insisting on her freedom of action. Very open to new methods and different ways of doing things.“
“Her feelings are dominated by wisdom, intuition, and instinct and geared towards the ideal. She likes water, sea voyages. Can often use a gentle approach to pursuing desires.“
“You perceive the cruel edge in people, and understand its source. Self-confidence develops out of self-control in your interaction with others.“
“She attracts the most good fortune when she is helpful, honest, orderly, and pays attention to details. The service industries, nutrition, and health are prosperous avenues.“
“She may have a secret love affair but the secret doesn't last, or at the very least there are complications. Otherwise, this aspect can point to scandals whether or not they are real.“
“Her path is to allow herself to be vulnerable, and from time to time, release the need to feel in control and on top of things. Once she does let others in, her life improves.“
Sun: Cancer
Moon: Sagittarius
Rising: Virgo
Mercury: Leo
Venus: Cancer
Mars: Taurus
Jupiter: Virgo
Saturn: Aquarius
Uranus: Capricorn
Neptune: Capricorn
Pluto: Scorpio
credits:
tarot template
tarot illustrations from cristian ibáñez (empress and world)
sun/moon/rising descriptions and color text above come from chani nicholas (highly recommend, one of the most compassionate approaches to astrology and i know i didn’t understand a ton of it, but very thorough, very complete)
a lot of quotes from cafe astrology
