birth chart

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huh.



o.0 so unbalanced...

[screencap via free download here]

I get into bouts where I get maudlin and thus contemplate the bellybutton. Occasionally this gets me to dig up my birth chart again to stare long and hard and try to figure out what rut I got into *this* time.

What's creepy about this chart is that even though people snort at 'astrology'; it basically nails everything I've ever managed to learn (bad and good) about myself and sheds light on actions I never before understood was there. If nothing else, it acts as a pictoral reminder of ruts that are too easy for me to fall into if I'm not careful. Piscean obsessive tendancies and bleed-through effect.

Any dabblers or pros in astrology out there willing to give a 2 cents? I'm not sure how my chart is reacting to the current alignment, thought I can pull that up for you too...

[edit] planet alignments atm

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[firesignwriter.livejournal.com]

You can get a better idea of what's happening with your transits (or progressions or returns -- two other branches of predictive astrology) by going to astro.com, creating a profile with your natal chart, then going to "free reports" on the main page, then "extended chart selection," then selecting "natal chart and transits" from the top dropdown menu. That'll combine your natal chart with the current transits all in one, which is much easier to read. (It'll look like this (http://www.astro.com/cgi/chart.cgi?nhor=1&nho2=4&btyp=24&mth=gw&hsy=&zod=&sday=3&smon=6&syr=2005&rs=&orbp=&cid=5t5fileh70Tlj-u1016606351&lang=&gm=a1&ast=), with the transits in green on the outside. Very user-friendly.)

[firesignwriter.livejournal.com]

Hm, yeah, another advantage of astro.com is that you'll have precise measurements and locations for each of the planets. I was just glancing over your natal chart above to pick out major planets and important aspects, but without the numbers, it's mostly guesswork. For instance, it looks like Neptune is just barely into Capricorn, but it might be at the very last second of the very last degree of Sagittarius. Then again, it might be moving retrograde, in which case it'd be moving into Sag from Cappy... But Neptune's a major planet in your chart since you're a Pisces Sun, and Neptune rules Pisces. Whatever sign/house it's in, and any major aspects it forms to other planets/points, is going to be a big influence on how your Pisces Sun manifests.

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but your right, astro.com is great, thank you for pointing this out to me!

btw, the info from them, if you want it...

Planetary positions
planet sign degree house motion
Sun Pisces 25°57'37 10 direct
Moon Aries 24°04'58 11 direct
Mercury Pisces 17°15'37 10 direct
Venus Aries 27°14'03 11 direct
Mars Aries 15°23'35 11 direct
Jupiter Sagittarius 10°44'24 06 direct
Saturn Scorpio 03°32'53 05 retrograde
Uranus Sagittarius 09°06'26 06 stationary (R)
Neptune Sagittarius 29°10'10 06/7 direct
Neptune is technically near the end of house 6 and is interpreted in house 7.
Pluto Libra 29°00'03 05 retrograde
True Node Gemini 29°47'33 01 retrograde

House positions (Placidus)
Ascendant Gemini 29°22'26
2nd House Cancer 19°36'45
3rd House Leo 10°42'39
Imum Coeli Virgo 06°17'06
5th House Libra 09°57'33
6th House Scorpio 21°00'13
Descendant Sagittarius 29°22'26
8th House Capricorn 19°36'45
9th House Aquarius 10°42'39
Medium Coeli Pisces 06°17'06
11th House Aries 09°57'33
12th House Taurus 21°00'13
Major aspects
Sun Square Neptune 3°13
Sun Square Ascendant 3°25
Moon Conjunction Venus 3°09
Moon Trine Neptune 5°05
Moon Opposition Pluto 4°55
Moon Sextile Ascendant 5°17
Venus Trine Neptune 1°56
Venus Opposition Pluto 1°46
Venus Sextile Ascendant 2°08
Mars Trine Jupiter 4°39
Jupiter Conjunction Uranus 1°38
Saturn Sextile Neptune 4°23
Saturn Conjunction Pluto 4°33
Saturn Trine Ascendant 4°10
Neptune Sextile Pluto 0°10
Neptune Opposition Ascendant 0°12
Pluto Trine Ascendant 0°22

[firesignwriter.livejournal.com]

It's a little complicated because the info from astro.com disagrees a bit with the info in the graphic and link you've got above. Since it seems to be primarily the house placements that's off -- for instance, see how above your Sun and Mercury are in the 9th house, while the Moon, Venus and Mars are in the 10th? In your astro.com info, the Sun and Merc are in the 10th and the others are in the 11th -- that makes me think that one or the other chart calculation program didn't take into account Daylight Saving Time (a common problem because DST wasn't standardized in its current form in the U.S. 'til the 1980s, and it's hit or miss whether other international bodies observe it, so a chart program has to have a really detailed place/date/time-history reference built in to account for all of the variables). I've never found astro.com to be off wrt DST -- it got mine right even when astrology.com, another popular site with free chart calculation, was getting it wrong (astrology.com has fixed that error now, I think) -- but it's possible. You might wanna get your chart calculated at a few sites and compare.

House placement is not the most important part of interpretation, but it matters a good bit. The planets can be thought of as actors (each with a certain personality that's going to affect how it fills a part); the signs they're in are the roles they play (so if Mars is, say, a belligerent little Russell Crowe, it's gonna find it more comfortable to play the warrior Aries or the grand king Leo than a domestic, service-oriented Virgo or a diffused and spiritual Pisces); the houses are the scenes in which they make their primary appearances; the aspects between the planets/angles are the relationships they form with other actors/parts of the personality. Additionally, each house has a sort of natural affinity with a particular sign/planetary ruler -- in the "natural zodiac," Aries/Mars rules the first house, Taurus/Venus the second, Gemini/Mercury the third, and so on -- so each house can be easier or harder for a particular planet to act from. Mars working from the Leo/Sun house (5th -- the house of creativity, romance, children) will have more freedom to act as itself than Mars in the Virgo/Mercury house (6th -- health, daily work environment, service and attitude toward subordinates).

Blah blah blah, I ramble... Anyway, tell you what: I'm in the middle of a quick and annoyingly complicated move across the country right now so I don't have much time for chart-work, but if you're still in the mood for some astro-analysis in a couple of weeks, near the end of June, poke me again. Here or via e-mail (firesignwriter at yahoo dot com) is fine. I enjoy reading charts when time permits, so it's no bother. Just be forewarned that I'm definitely a dabbler -- been playing with this now for just a few years -- and nowhere near a pro.

In the meantime, if you decide astro.com has the calculation right for your chart, you might wanna play around with their astro click feature. Go to "free charts" on the main page, then scroll down to "interactive horoscopes" and start with "astro click portrait." You can learn a lot from that -- or at least learn which areas you wanna know more about.