natal astrology report - benjamin david steigmann

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Natal Report for Benjamin David SteigmannBenjamin David Steigmann: June 7, 1991, 6:20 pm Edmonton, Canada

Written by Henry Seltzer of ASTROGRAPH.COM

Introduction

Your natal horoscope, or birth chart, is a snapshot of the heavens at the moment youwere born. It shows what the sky actually looked like at the time and place of your birth.Astrology in modern times has renewed the ancient discovery that the symbolism of theplanets that surrounded you at birth describes your character and personality. Planetsthat were directly overhead at the time and place of your birth are most important, andwould appear at the very top of the chart or the Midheaven. Planets that were just risingabove the horizon in the East at the time of your birth would appear near the horizontalline at the left hand side of the chart or the Ascendant. If the Sun appears in the top halfof the chart, then you were born during daylight hours and have a more outer directedpersonality. All of these features reflect the factors at play in the Universe at themoment of your birth and are significant indications of the basic qualities and tendenciesthat continue to make up your personality.

Each planet's relative position in the sky and significant angles that it makes to the otherplanets, or aspects, are examined in this report. Please keep in mind that you are notlimited by these descriptions. Your natal horoscope does not prescribe your fate. The

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stars incline, they do not compel. Your birth chart shows potentials that you can eitherstruggle to fulfill or deny. The choice is yours. Beneficial aspects, or planetary positions,are areas of life in which you show natural talent and achieve easy success. Challengingaspects, or planetary positions, can become your greatest asset if you can learn to beaware of how that dynamic plays out in your life and the world at large. The strongestand most important features of your chart are described first. For definitions ofastrological terms, please refer to the glossary at the end of this report.

About the Author

Henry Seltzer is a consulting astrologer with over 20 years experience. A wellknownspeaker and writer, he holds degrees from MIT, NYU and the University of California,San Diego, and created the popular TimePassages software in 1995. His approach toastrology is based on personal transformation, an optimistic assessment that more thananything, people want to understand the fundamental meaning of their lives and grow asindividuals. Henry currently maintains an active astrological counseling practice in SantaCruz, CA; visit www.astrograph.com.

Chart Patterns

Yod, focal planet Sun

You have a Yod planetary aspect pattern in your chart, also known as the 'finger of God'.This pattern consists of two different planets forming inconjunct aspects of 150` to athird, or focal, point. Usually there will be a marked emphasis on the area of liferepresented by this focal point, which may be one planet, or two or more in conjunction.You may have physical or psychological problems associated with the expression of theenergies of the focal planet or planets, creating a subtle form of tension in your life. Thekey is adjustment. Your lesson is to transform the expression of these energies alongmore positive lines.

The Sun represents your will and purpose, your sense of vitality, and your evolvinghigher Self. In Gemini it is MutableAir, and rules the arms, the shoulders and the lungs.Your ruling planet is Mercury. Gemini is the sign associated with communication, logicalthought processes (based on duality) and the conscious mind. Gemini people tend to beairy and intellectual, glib of tongue and curious about life and other people. You canexperience two sides of things at the same time, and you may tend to be flighty. Youmove through life like a butterfly, engaging in many varied experiences to gainknowledge. You are witty and have a good sense of humor, and you are likely to be anexcellent conversationalist. You make a good teacher. You can be nervous and highstrung, and may be mischievous. Unlike possessive Taurus, you tend toward liberty inrelationship. You can be easily bored, but under the control of selfdiscipline you havetremendous intellectual and artistic possibilities.

The Sun in the Eighth House represents a concentration of the vital force to transformand regenerate, and to relate with others intimately. You enjoy the intensity of thehuman animal. It is your nature to marry sensitive perception with experience. Throughyour understanding of your inner self, you easily perceive the motives of those aroundyou. You penetrate every variation of deep emotion in order to confront your ownnature. You act from a primal urge to merge with others, and to partake in the sacredand secret relationships between yourself and the world. Through merging with others at

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the depths of human experience, you investigate your own emotional desires. You arevery aware of fathomless human needs through your deep knowledge of the instinctuallevel of interrelation, and the fear of loss, or death. Your aim is to metamorphoseyourself in order to experientially manifest the cycles of death and rebirth from withinyour own inner world. You benefit when you experiment with and confront your fears andinsecurities in healthy ways, around people who support your need to grow intensely, inorder for you to maintain an everexpanding boundary of security.

Yod, focal planet Pluto

You have a Yod planetary aspect pattern in your chart, also known as the 'finger of God'.This pattern consists of two different planets forming inconjunct aspects of 150` to athird, or focal, point. Usually there will be a marked emphasis on the area of liferepresented by this focal point, which may be one planet, or two or more in conjunction.You may have physical or psychological problems associated with the expression of theenergies of the focal planet or planets, creating a subtle form of tension in your life. Thekey is adjustment. Your lesson is to transform the expression of these energies alongmore positive lines.

Pluto in the First House (or sign) gives you a tremendous drive to transform yourself asyou go through life. You have a powerful personality, and a charismatic way about youthat others respect. You may actually appear to be timid or unsure of yourself on thesurface, but you have the potential to suddenly burst out in anger due to repressedemotions finally exploding. You are also apt to sweep all aspects of your former lifebefore you in a sudden change that it seems simply must come. You may feel insecureor afraid or perhaps jealous of others at times, and may compensate by being extremelyforceful. You can also be compulsive, even obsessive, in achieving your will. You havethe power to really get things done, and this power can be used either to bolster yourown ego or else for the good of all concerned. Your challenge is movement away fromfeelings of insecurity and resulting separateness and loneliness, toward an acceptance ofyour own and other's needs and opinions in order to generate a new and better sense ofself. In your most positive manifestation, you possess a dedication to higher ideals and awillingness to be a channel for healing yourself and society.

The following applies to your generation as a whole as well as to you personally:

Pluto in Scorpio (or the eighth house) gives you a serious and willful personality, with anintense focus on personal transformation. You feel deeply, and may have an almostpsychic awareness of the feelings of others. You have strong desires, and are singleminded about pursuing them. You may need to combat a tendency to manipulate othersfor your own purposes. You may also exhibit compulsive behavior around the issue ofsexuality, or in insisting that you get your own way, and you benefit from loosening yourgrip. There is a tendency to project onto others the issues that you are called upon todeal with in yourself, in your own inner temple, and to seek to change your situation inthe battlefield of sexual encounter rather than through the independent actions of yourwhole and entire self. You will likely go through many changes as the course of your lifeunfolds. The challenges that you meet are for the ultimate purpose of allowing you tosee more deeply into your own inner motivation. You may become fascinated with occultstudies as a way of tuning into a deeper reality than that of the surface. It benefits youto turn away from manipulating others and to learn to use your powerful presence toregenerate your own life, transforming selfcenteredness into a more spiritual sense ofpersonal power.

Important Features

Mars in Leo, in the Ninth House



Mars in the Ninth House (or sign) gives a friendly and optimistic nature. You are likely tolead a physically active life, and are fond of sports and gambling. You are idealistic,outspoken and honest with your opinions. You are also likely to be spontaneous and evena bit impulsive. You can be scattered in the application of your energies, and it willperhaps benefit you to work at becoming more reliable. You have a great propensity forlearning. Your energy is most naturally invested in adventures of the higher mind:travel, education, perhaps publishing. You like many different pursuits, and have a kindof haphazard way of going about things that can get you into trouble. You may tend tomiss the details, by fixing your gaze on "the big picture." You also can be dogmatic attimes, when you get too carried away with your own point of view. You profit by learningto slow down your enthusiasm and focus your concentration on reachable goals.

Mars in Leo (or the fifth house) gives an energetic and passionate nature. You aredramatic, enthusiastic, ambitious and proud, with tremendous vitality and courage. Youusually put your best foot forward, being possessed of an innate charm and animalmagnetism that other people immediately recognize. You have strong opinions and arenot shy in voicing them, and may have a tendency to be extremely stubborn andconvinced of your own point of view. You are likely to be physically quite active. There isa creative streak in you that must find its outlet, or you will suffer from energysublimated into anger or unnecessary aggression, for the urge is strong to produceworks of art or commerce that are uniquely yours, the fit expression of your ego. Youmay need to work through being selfish, or jealous of the success of those around you.You benefit from initiating a spirit of greater concern for others.

Uranus in Capricorn, in the Second House

Uranus in the Second House (or sign) gives an individual who is likely to be concernedwith changing his or her physical environment. You have a unique value system, and youmay "march to the tune of a different drummer" or choose to experiment with differentlifestyles. You have a tremendous drive for independence, and you don't like to work forother people, so that you may be motivated to start your own business. You also may beinvolved with New Age business ventures, or those involving modern communications,such as Internet resources. You have a unique way of looking at the world, and of findingyour own way to its abundance. You may have possessions that you value at one point inyour life, but this can change rather suddenly, and you may have to start over. Yourincome can also fluctuate. You can appear selfish at times to other people, or you maybe something of a crusader. You benefit from getting in touch with what you truly value,as opposed to what conventionality dictates. Then your efforts will allow new resourcesto evolve in your life and your consciousness, and lead to the greater good of society.


Uranus in Capricorn (or the tenth house) gives an ambitious and willful individual who isrebellious of authority and also somewhat hung up about it. With this placement you area definite nonconformist. You have a forward thinking mentality, and will not besatisfied with existing stagnant political solutions. You have a strong imagination and areso sure of yourself that you often cannot be argued out of your opinion, which can be atrifle eccentric at times. You have the impulse toward prestige and authority, but mayfind yourself bored with conventional approaches to attain worldly success. You may gothrough many different jobs and careers. You may also come into conflict with othersover what are perhaps merely egogratification issues. You do better when yourmotivation is to benefit society rather than for personal gain. Your challenge is to movefrom a kneejerk reaction against established authority, toward establishing your ownpersonal authority, in your own way, to make your vision available to the social matrixsurrounding you.

Jupiter in Leo, in the Ninth House



Jupiter in the Ninth House (or sign) gives you an outgoing and optimistic nature, veryidealistic and highminded. You are freedom loving, and enjoy travel and adventure. Youpossess an innate sense of spiritual possibility in ordinary life, and are especially fond ofbeing in natural surroundings. You tend to seek opportunity through education andexploring new horizons, and are constantly expanding your repertoire of skills andknowledge. You are generally quite successful at what you do. You like to take chances,and do not care much about security or material rewards. Any work that motivates yourideals will capture your undivided attention, for as long as those ideals are motivated,and not longer. You are truly devoted to the principles of higher education, metaphysicsand philosophy. Being so aware of the big picture may allow you to miss out on thedetails, and you benefit from grounding yourself from time to time in the practicalconsiderations of your situation.

Jupiter in Leo (or the fifth house) gives you a generous personality with good vitality.You have dignity, pride and dramatic presence, and are courageous in your sense of self.You are likely to be a loyal companion. You possess excellent executive abilities. You liketo show off your good side, and have a natural flair and sense of showmanship thatcarries you far in life. You enjoy the limelight, and would always rather shine out on ahillside than hide your light under a barrel. You are attracted to higher learning, and thefine arts, including the theater, and may try your hand at acting. You can also beextravagant at times, or suffer from errors in judgment. You may tend to overdo, andneed to beware of egotism. You have good intuition; you make a capable leader whenyou follow your own inner guidelines.

Saturn in Aquarius, in the Third House

Saturn in the Third House (or sign) gives a profound mentality, deepening andconcentrating the mind and the powers of speech and communication. You are shrewd inbusiness, and are adaptable to a variety of professions. Long hours of concentration canproduce a brilliant scholar. You also may have subconscious fears of inadequacy inmental pursuits, or a sense of isolation and loneliness, especially in your early years, orwith regard to siblings. You may compensate by strenuous effort to communicate clearlyand precisely, and yet still feel somehow at a loss in truly getting your point across. Youmay have a reputation for being taciturn and largely silent, or seem to talk much andwell but stray from the objective so that the real matter at hand is not disclosed. Youshould also beware of weakness in the lungs, or a tendency for nervous disorders. Yourlesson is to learn faith in your mental powers and to cultivate a positive attitude towardthe frequently untapped power of your mental process.


Saturn in Aquarius (or the eleventh house) gives a socially adept and responsibleindividual, with a deepening and concentration, or a blockage, with regard toparticipation in groups and around causes. You are careful, conscientious and humane.You are gentle and strong, apt to be fairminded and can appear at times impersonal, orcold and unloving. Group participation is quite important to you, and you place so muchemphasis on it that you may have difficulties in feeling as though you belong to aparticular group, or you may draw back from friendships from a fear of not beingaccepted. You have good powers of concentration, and place much importance on thebetterment of society through constructive communal activity. You may be devoted to aspiritual discipline. Your lesson is to transform your narrow view of social acceptance ona personal level into a broader vision, in which you can meaningfully participate, of amore sharing society, one beyond the present level of a divided humanity.

Neptune in Capricorn, in the Third House

Neptune in the Third House (or sign) gives a clever personality with subtle charm. You



are witty and poetic. You are fond of higher education, but you tend to be a dreamer andmay miss out on serious study because of it. You see the world through the mysticalthird eye, rather than the usual binocular setup that allows most people to get along.Because of your extraordinary visionary viewpoint you may see more than others andalso miss out on some of the mundane details. You may suffer some confusion regardingcommunication received, or perhaps where close relatives are concerned, or havefeelings of insecurity stemming from your early years, that carries over into adult life.You can be indecisive and worrisome but you are also broadminded and mentallycreative. It benefits you to learn to focus your considerable creative potential, and to letyourself become a channel for higher forms of thought to flow into your own life, andthrough you into the world around you.


Neptune in Capricorn (or the tenth house) gives a charming personality with an idealisticnature. You may achieve much in the helping professions, or as a spiritual leader. Youmay also have a musical career. You tend to give more than you receive in youremployment, and possess an almost naïve idealism where your work is concerned. Yourwork must be spiritually satisfying or you will lose interest. You are apt to be susceptibleto suggestion, and may suffer disappointment in other people coming through for you.You also have a tendency to avoid responsibility. There may have been difficulties orconfusion in your early years, especially with regard to parental motivations. You alsomay idealize parental figures, and the image that you have of your parents may changeand become less idealized as you mature. In general, you must learn to clarify yourgoals. You will not be content with an ordinary job, but must seek out some career thatis a real calling. At your best you express the highest ideals of society and find true joyin your vocation.

Sun, Moon, Rising Sign Features

Scorpio Rising

The Rising Sign is the mask shown to others, also the physical appearance.

Scorpio rising people are passionate and deep and can be secretive. Your ruling planetsare Mars and Pluto. You can have a dark look to your appearance, but you may alsoappear sweet and refreshingly innocent. Scorpio is the most intense sign of the Zodiac,and is associated with sexual activity and with the symbolism of death and rebirth. Youremotions run deep, and you also have great personal magnetism, and even the power tocoerce others. Your will is strong, and you let nothing stand in your way. You may sufferin your life, but your pain leads to important personal transformation. You are very goodat group dynamics, and working with the public. You are a shrewd judge of otherpeople's motives, and you may be willing to use your special knowledge to your ownadvantage. Although you can be manipulative, when you work out your issues to bemore in line with your own higher nature you have also the power of a healer, totransform yourself, and society around you.

Mars in strong square with Ascendant

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards througheffort over time.

This aspect gives a rash personality with a quick temper. You lack patience and tend tobe argumentative. You are restless and have a forceful drive, which can lead you toaccomplish great things, if properly harnessed. You are likely to possess a wiry andspare physique. You are also excitable, tend to run risks, and can be opinionated. Youare daring and have great physical vitality and stamina. You can definitely "hold your



own" in a dispute. You are sometimes hard to talk with, seeming to take your ownposition at the expense of others, and you should beware of abrasive behavior towardsthem, such as bragging or pushing yourself too much. You usually mean well, and needto temper your physical drive with calmness and judgment.

Jupiter in strong square with Ascendant


This aspect gives an optimistic and high spirited individual. You are likely to be fortunatein your material surroundings. You are convivial and lively, and generous with yourmoney and your affections. You can sometimes be extravagant or suffer from errors injudgment. You may have a tendency to overdo things, or for being overly optimistic, butin general you have good executive abilities. You have generally simple tastes, but yourenthusiasm for life may give your waistline a tendency to expand. You are attracted tohigher learning and the fine arts, and you are a courageous and loyal friend.

Mercury in inconjunct with Ascendant

The planetary energies do not flow smoothly, one or the other predominates;discrimination must be employed.

This conjunction gives a personality who values mental pursuits and communicationhighly. You have a need to connect with other people. Your attention is so much oncommunicating with others you may constantly worry about how you are coming across,and this may interfere with good communication with other people. You are quickwittedand glib, and may also be nervous and highstrung. You should beware of a tendency todominate any conversation you enter into. Your pride in your mental abilities andeducation may overshadow your ability to hear other people. You may turn to writing orpublic speaking as a way to share your enthusiasm for your own ideas. You are inessence an independent thinker with your own way of looking at things, and you may beinspired and even visionary in your outlook.

Saturn in square with Ascendant


This aspect gives a deepening and concentration, or a blocking of the selfexpression.You are serious about your responsibilities, and possess good executive abilities. You arealso ambitious and are likely to make your mark on the world. There may also be abarrier between you and your selfrealization so that your true feelings are deniedoutlet. You are likely to be strongwilled and autocratic, and can be selfish, or cautiousand reserved. You may feel a sense of lack of love in your life, leading to a subconsciousdesire for recognition. You may have feelings of hostility or a physical ailment thatprevents your total participation in life activities. Your heartcenter may needdeveloping. Your lesson in all this may be to deepen and particularize the knowledge ofwho you really are, make contact with your own inner significance, and learn to loveyourself.

Uranus in sextile with Ascendant

The planetary energies flow together, open into new possibilities, new connections.

This aspect gives an independent and strongwilled individual. You can be determined toget your own way, and love freedom from conventionality. You like to start new projects,



or make major changes in your life, but without completely eliminating previousfoundations. You may feel conflicts with the norm, or with others regarding conventionalattitudes. You are unpredictable at times, and it can be hard for others to keep up withyou. You may have issues with commitment and responsibility. You are an original andindependent thinker with an active, scientific mind, futuristic in outlook, and you arecapable of bringing new ideas into being. A task that you are ably suited for is to morefully express your visionary impulses to others in order to make these more concretelyavailable in your own life, and in the life of society around you.

Venus in weak square with Ascendant


This aspect gives a warmhearted, affectionate and perhaps manipulative personality.You are cheerful, charming and likable. You are sensitive, with an inclination for artisticpursuits and refined surroundings, and you may possess considerable talent for the arts,especially music and dance. Relationships are important to you. You are inclined to reachout to other people, and may work even harder to charm them when they do not respondas you wish. You are firmly in contact with what you want and you are likely to be quitesuccessful at getting it. With your poise and charm, this is usually not difficult for you.

Sun in strong sextile with Moon


This aspect gives a welladjusted and stable personality. You proceed with confidenceand a sense of wellbeing to accomplish what you set out to do. You are likely to behealthy, optimistic and popular, and look upon life's problems as challenges to beovercome, rather than as obstacles. You have experienced your parents as harmoniouslyrelated, and in your own relationships you expect sound communication and mutualunderstanding. Your family is important to you. You are poised and cheerful, and yourcreativity flows freely. It benefits you to overcome complacent or lazy thinking and torise to the challenge of tackling any problem areas in your life.

Sun in inconjunct with Uranus


This aspect gives an eccentric and strongwilled individual. You can be determined to getyour own way, and love freedom from conventionality. You are inclined to be reckless,and may periodically start over in your life, completely eliminating previous foundations.You are likely to rebel against the norm, or conflict with others in this area. Because youare unpredictable at times, it can be hard for others to be comfortable with you. You arean original and independent thinker with an active, scientific mind, futuristic in outlook,and are capable of bringing new ideas into being. You are also inclined to be nervous andimpatient, and shy away from commitment and responsibility. You can benefit fromstriving to control your energetic and visionary impulses in order to make these moreconcretely available in your own life, and in the life of society around you.

Sun in inconjunct with Neptune


This aspect gives a highly sensitive, visionary and creative individual. You are probably



somewhat unworldly, possessing an ethereal quality, a marked remoteness fromordinary reality. You are likely to be artistic or musical. You are the softhearted type,and you may be too willing to sacrifice yourself for the good of others. You may also bedissatisfied with your work activities, or life in general, leading to the habit of evadingdecisions, or to other forms of escapism. In feeling unfree to assert yourself, you mayengage in selfdeceptive illusions, or even the use of drugs. You also may have issueswith deceptions practiced on you by other people. In order to develop a clearer sense ofself, accurate feedback from other people is crucial, so that to avoid these traps, youshould strive for utmost honesty in your dealings with others. The otherworldly energy ofNeptune must be used wisely. When the proper outlet is found, tremendous creativity ispossible, perhaps manifested through artistic channels: music, drama, poetry. Yourlesson in all this is to achieve a balance between the spiritual dimension of reality andordinary life.

Sun in inconjunct with Pluto


This aspect gives a willful personality with a focus on being recognized and admired. Youlike to get your way; you have strong desires, and are singleminded about pursuingthem. You also have a powerful urge toward selftransformation, and you may gothrough many changes in your life. You are not shy about expressing your beliefs, andyou may even feel a compulsion toward selfassertion or selfaggrandizement. You alsotend to champion the underdog, and react strongly to social injustice. In relationships,you tend to become intensely involved quickly, and stay absorbed in the relationship aslong as it lasts. There may be underlying feelings of insecurity leading to your ratherselfcentered and ego oriented behavior. These feelings must be explored moreconsciously, or else they will continue to haunt you from beneath your level ofawareness. Such an exploration can be incredibly rewarding for you, and should be quitepossible, for you have tremendous powers of regeneration and rebirth. When you learnto train your considerable energy on these socially oriented as well as personal goals,you can become a focal point for the transformation of society itself.

Moon in Aries, in the Fifth House

The Moon in Aries gives an ardent nature with inclinations to impatience, independenceand impulsiveness. With this placement, you have a high energy level. You also have astrong competitive streak, which, together with your attack first attitude, may concealsubtle feelings of insecurity. Your emotions are keenly felt, direct and spontaneous. Youmay have to guard against a quick temper. You should also guard against a tendencytoward a too hasty reaction to situations, rather than a more carefully reasonedapproach. You are most comfortable thinking of yourself as strongly independent withgreat physical daring and courage.

The Moon in the Fifth House represents an emotional sensitivity in the area of interactingwith other people. You feel a need to express your emotions in an expressive ordramatic way. You may feel the need to be seen or witnessed in order for you to feelconnected with other people. You are demonstrative with your compassion and youraffection. You are passionate in your approach to life. Your affections are alsochangeable. You can be very charming. You enjoy amusing others, and you are drawn toplaces where people play and take holiday from the serious realms of critical andanalytical thinking although you may overwhelm others who are not inclined towards theoutward theatrical expression of their emotions. You have a need to be surrounded bypeople who enjoy being your audience and who value your playful performances of selfexpression. You are at your best when you can drop your concern for other's opinionsand relax into just being yourself.



Moon in strong square with Uranus


This aspect gives eccentric personality with volatile emotions, and a strong sense ofintuition. You are likely to have changeable emotions, and may appear unpredictable attimes to others around you. Novelty excites you; you may change your residencefrequently, or be tempted into starting a new career. You also may feel insecure attimes, possibly stemming from a disrupted home life in your early years, or fromparents who were quite busy with their own affairs. Your early home life may also havebeen very stimulating and challenging. You are likely to go through fundamentaltransformations of identity in your life, and you are stifled if these impulses are notallowed expression. You are so individualistic you may have difficulties in settling downwith a steady partner. You can benefit from learning to balance your needs for securitywith your urge for freedom and experimentation.

Moon in strong square with Neptune


This aspect gives an emotionally sensitive, idealistic and loving personality. You possessan ethereal quality, and are likely to be imaginative or even to withdraw from the worldinto internal fantasies of your own. You may have powerful psychic abilities. You are thesofthearted type, and you are perhaps even too willing to sacrifice yourself for the goodof others. You were probably strongly influenced by your home life, and may tend toidealize these formative experiences. You could have issues with selfdeception orexperience discontent with the practical realities of life for the urge within you to seekthe highest ideal is very strong. Your home is important to you, and you may changeresidences frequently in search of your ideal environment, or dream of the idealromantic attachment without ever finding the perfect mate. You benefit from striving forgreater selfcontrol in holding back your emotions, as well as clarity in applying yourhigh ideals to the real world of logic and fact.

Moon in trine with Jupiter

The planetary energies flow smoothly; the connection is easy and beneficial.

This aspect gives an idealistic and humanitarian personality, friendly and sociable, withan inherent spirituality. You are loving and caring and are also strong in character, witha keen sense of right and wrong. You are fortunate in finances, and attract materialrewards without seeming to try for them. You are honorable and dependable in yourdealings with your fellow man, and work well with the public. There may be aninclination toward the mystical side of life.

Moon in inconjunct with Pluto


This aspect gives a moody and introspective personality with a strong desire foremotional security. You are likely to be very sensitive and emotionally intense, with atendency to become completely absorbed in interpersonal relationships. You are also anextremely forceful individual, with the urge to transform yourself and your surroundings.When you have a goal in mind, nothing will stand in your way. Your need for securitymay manifest as an almost compulsive desire for a safe and secure home life, or a



home environment which can be completely controlled, possibly even through dictatorialbehavior. You have an unusually clear insight into the emotional depths of other people,which may border on an actual psychic attunement with their states of being. You alsohave the urge to break through the limitations of the parental influence you experiencedas a child. You may have experienced controlling behavior on the part of one or bothparents, especially your mother, and you may find yourself still involved in the battle foryour own autonomy many years later. These struggles can be worked through in yourlife, beginning with a deeper understanding of what it is you truly need on an emotionallevel. Your challenge is to transform your sense of insecurity, by coming to terms withyour survival issues based on a better insight into your own hidden motivations.

The ruler of your Sun Sign is

Mercury in Gemini, in the Seventh House

The ruler of your Sun sign is characteristic of your personality:

Mercury in Gemini gives a keen, alert and expressive mentality. You have greatversatility, and can take up many different skills. You love variety in your life. You areconstantly perceiving the world around you, and relaying your perceptions to your mind.You approach mental pursuits in an intellectual rather than a practical way, and tend toprefer breadth in these matters to depth. You speak rapidly and well, and enjoyconversation with many different types of people. You are restless and can be prone toanxiety. Beware of stress to your nerves. It is beneficial for you when you cultivateperiods of inner stillness.

Mercury in the Seventh House represents a strong mental connection to other people.You naturally collect and exchange ideas with those you find yourself in partnership with.You are very interested in what other people think about any given situation in which youfind yourself. Intellectual expression is for you a very natural medium of relatedness.This awareness of other's points of view can make it difficult for you to come to adecision. When you learn to detach your own ideas from those of other people, you canbegin to discover the mysterious balancing act of accepting the differences between selfand other.

Neptune in strong sextile with Pluto


This combination gives an individual with a personal involvement in the energies of thecollective. This is a generational aspect, which many of your contemporaries will sharewith you. You have a subtle intuition and unusually clear insight into others. Theinfluence of the unconscious is especially strong in you. You need to connect with yourhigher self in order to be happy. You function at your best in service to the world,helping to move it closer to a vision of spiritual union between all mankind.

Other Natal Planets

Venus in Leo, in the Ninth House

Venus in Leo gives a proud and willful love nature that is also loyal and affectionate.With this placement you are dramatic and dignified, and at the same time very caringand compassionate. You are a seeker for pleasure and are given to the grand gesture inthe expression of your affection. Your values are definitely your own, and you make awork of art out of your presentation of yourself to the world at large. You are likely to bequite attractive. You are warmhearted and spontaneous but knowing so well what youwant, you also can be very controlled in the expression of your relationship energy. You



love society in the sense of the impact that you make upon it, and benefit from pullingback and considering other points of view as equally valid to your own.

Venus in the Ninth House represents a strong connection within you between your senseof aesthetics, including what you value, and higher mind, philosophy or religion. You aredrawn to higher learning, and to the spiritual principles underlying belief systems. Youmay be attracted to philosophical structures that express the fundamental idea of rightliving and right relationship. You are also drawn to the learning that comes from contactwith other cultures. You have an affectionate personality, with good intuition. You tend tobe idealistic in your approach to love, and also changeable in the expression of your loveinterest, seeking the adventure of new connections. You are a perpetual learner, with alove of exploring through travel and other means of broadening your horizons, and youmay feel called to educational pursuits as a way to express your enthusiasm. If you areinclined to selfexpression in the arts it may be regarding these more philosophicallyactive areas, in written, spoken or graphical form.

Chiron in Cancer, in the Ninth House

Chiron in the Ninth House (or sign) represents issues with one's vital force of abstractingand understanding universal truth. This placement can lead to high achievement in thescholastic arena, but it may be nagging doubts that you are not really good enough thatspur you on, rather than a pure love of learning. There is likely to be some form ofpainful realization surrounding the pursuit of wisdom, or perhaps in the area ofphilosophy or religion. It may be that parental figures had different notions of whatmakes the world make sense than you did, but for one reason or another you didn't takethem on. Perhaps you were too young at the time for such a challenge, and now in youradult life you feel the pull of the beat of a distant drummer, but feel ambivalent or notsure enough of yourself to really do anything about it. In your frustration you may evenseek to help other people to work out their own concepts of higher knowledge, while youyourself remain stuck in the mud of prior patterns. If so, it is time to shake off theshackles of the past and get on with your individual sense of your own philosophicalvalues and visions. Perhaps by delving into what associations you have with bad modelsfrom early childhood, you can begin to more fully and completely inhabit the naturalvision that belongs to your higher self. Then you can truly shine in the world of ideas, asyou move out from your own center rather than the point of balance represented byother, more alien, philosophies.


Chiron in the Cancer (or the Fourth House) represents issues with the vital force of selfnurturing and taking care of those closest to yourself. With this placement you have astrong drive, even a compulsion, to be centered in home and family, but this desire doesnot easily find its fulfillment. There may have been painful episodes in connection withearly family life; perhaps you had trouble getting settled down to enjoy the comfort thata safe and secure home brings to a child. As a result, you may be even more motivatedto having this firm base of security in your adult life than others to whom it is secondnature. You may alternate between overidentifying with your family or underidentifyingwith them, or you may find yourself constantly thwarted in finding this important level ofsecurity as you go through life. On a more symbolic level, you are also painfullychallenged in finding your own center in a psychological sense. Because of the inherentinsecurity of your inner world you may struggle to find yourself, and become easilyinfluenced by others due to lacking your own clear sense of self. Without this base youare more easily unbalanced, and you may find that you move in many differentdirections emotionally, as the wind blows. You may long for a more secure andcomfortable sense of who you are, independent from others' opinions, a place where youcan truly be yourself. Part of the problem with connecting to your inner self andexternally with home and family, is that the conflict you feel may be largely unconscious



in nature, running on autonomously as a result of longburied experiences too painful torecollect and consciously examine. You may have difficult times with issues regardinghome and family as you go through life, until you can become more conscious of theseinfluences, and less easily overtaken by them. There may be conflicts with your mother,or other primary parental figure, that need to be worked through, as you really begin toget in touch with your blocks and difficulties in these areas. Once you begin to nourishyourself and to provide your own parenting, rather than depending on the external worldto provide comfort and security, you can come around to being a source of inspirationfor others as well as yourself.

N Node in Capricorn, in the Third House

Lunar North Node in the Third House (or sign). South Node in the ninth house or sign.With this placement you have unusually clear and direct communication skills. You areinterested in the practical application of knowledge, in helping to bring people together,rather than information simply for the sake of it. In the past, or in past lifetimes, youlikely got far into solitary philosophical concerns. Perhaps religious values were quiteimportant to you. Now your focus is on a more mundane or worldly view, where higherknowledge counts, but only in so far as it is useful in the analysis of daytoday eventsand in order to spread the word to others. Although you may be tempted at times to driftoff into deeper reflections, your real goal is to be in touch with people, and your mentalabilities serve your purpose well.

Lunar North Node in Capricorn (or the tenth house). South Node in the fourth house orsign. This placement gives a personality with a focus on recognized achievement.Although you are comfortable in your private home life, which is what comes naturally toyou, you are determined, as you mature, to move beyond the personal and secureenclosure of your home and family and out into the sphere of public achievement.Something is calling to you to come forth and shine your light so that the outer world cansee it. You search for public recognition is not however a goal in and of itself, butconnects you into a larger picture of social commitment and service to the collectiveideal, that reinforces your sense of self as a part of the whole, an important cog in theturning wheel of world events. Thus you come full circle to a selfconcept that includesits own sense of security in beneficial interaction with the social matrix that surroundsyou.

Other Aspects

Mercury in strong sextile with Mars


This aspect gives great mental energy with an aggressive attitude and a disputatiousmind. You are never at a loss for an answer, and are able to succeed well in debate,being able to find the weakness in your opponent's argument. You are courageous andsomewhat rash in speech, and have a strong will. You possess great talent for literaryactivities. Your excellent reasoning ability and action orientation work well togethergiving you tremendous analytic talent but not always the enthusiasm and drive toaccomplish all that you may. You are always on the go, with a restless nature that is noteasily satisfied.

Mercury in strong trine with Saturn


This aspect gives a profound mentality, deepening and concentrating your mind and yourpowers of speech and communication. You are shrewd in business, and are adaptable to



a variety of professions. You like to do things by the book. Long hours of concentrationcould produce in you a brilliant scholar, or a star of the legal profession. You may feel asense of isolation and loneliness in your life. Your lesson is to learn faith and to cultivatea positive attitude toward your mental process, restructuring that process along morepersonal and less rigid lines.

Mars in strong opposition with Saturn

The planetary energies are polarized; outer events stimulate their interaction;integration is the challenge.

You may be reserved or controlling, and may even appear cruel or manipulating attimes. This aspect gives a deepening and concentration, or blockage, in selfconfidenceand selfexpression. The purposeful articulation of your will may be inhibited bysubconscious fears, preventing action, and you may appear shy, stiff or awkward, orperhaps selfeffacing, or you may overcompensate by attempting to strongly assertyourself, or to seize control of situations. In extreme situations, you may find yourselfexpressing actual cruelty by the violent imposition of your will or by mentalmanipulation, or you may experience it from others. In a man's chart there may besymptoms of an exaggerated maleness, such as emotional domination or recklessness.You possess a strong desire for freedom of expression that does not easily find itsrealization. Your lesson is in striving to overcome your fears of selfexpression, and thuscome to a better understanding of yourself and others.

Mercury in sextile with Venus


This aspect gives a charming manner and an idealistic philosophy. You are friendly andsociable, and lean toward the beautiful and artistic side of life. You have artistic abilitiesand a youthful attitude, and tend to like young people. You like to dress attractively,although not necessarily expensively, and are likely to be cheerful and optimistic. Youalso usually have a pleasant speaking or singing voice, and express yourself well inspeech or writing. You can be very persuasive in a quiet way.

Mars in conjunction with Jupiter

The strongest blend of the energies represented by these two planets.

This conjunction gives a personality strong in self esteem. There is expansiveness andabundant energy, and usually there is good luck with the material side of life. You havean optimistic nature, and love freedom and independence. You are fond of sports, traveland political or religious activities. You are likely to be blunt and outspoken. A feeling of"can do" is an important part of your selfimage. This is valuable, but may need to betempered with a healthy sense of limitation. You should be careful of too much egotism,especially if there are challenging aspects to Mars.

Jupiter in opposition with Saturn


This aspect gives a serious and conscientious personality but one that may beimpractical. You are motivated to achieve success, but you are likely to run into someselfimposed barriers on the road to achieving it. There is a gap between your ambitionand what you actually accomplish. You tend not to be content with the extent of yourresponsibilities until you have taken on too much, leading to the problem of actually



fulfilling these obligations. You also may have too limited and narrow a view of yourpotential, so that you aim too low, and garner less than you are capable of. This couldlead to problems with your material wellbeing, or with being too cautious and thrifty foryour own good. You can benefit from cultivating a more giving and generous attitude,greater contentment with your present resources, and trying for a better balancebetween dreams and reality.

Jupiter in inconjunct with Uranus


This combination gives a socially conscious, optimistic and intuitive individual who workswell with groups. You have a strong sense of optimism and possess high ideals. You areinventive and original, and are able to motivate others by your example. You like toexplore new horizons, either real or imagined, and do not value security on a personallevel. You can be rebellious, even restless and excitable, because you have the capacityto visualize new possibilities rather than accept an outmoded status quo. You may havesudden and surprising opportunities in your life, and you will usually act to takeadvantage of these, which may involve travel to distant places. You should beware ofyour capacity to envision possibilities too vast to achieve. You can benefit fromcultivating a more practical approach.

Uranus in conjunction with Neptune


This conjunction gives a future oriented and idealistic individual, very aware of collectiveenergies. This is a generational aspect, which many of your contemporaries will sharewith you. You may feel a pull to the service of humanity at large. You are likely to beinterested in mysticism and the occult. You may also be inclined to nervousness(especially if the conjunction makes close aspects to the 'personal' planets in your chart).You may feel some sense of confinement or restriction in the freedom to be who youwant to be. Social ideals will strongly affect the expression of your individuality.

Sun in weak conjunction with Mercury


This conjunction gives a person who values mental pursuits highly. Your logical andcommunicative abilities are excellent. You are quickwitted and glib, and can also benervous and highstrung, or perhaps stubborn and difficult to shake from your opinions.You are an independent thinker with your own way of looking at things, and may beinspired and even visionary in your outlook. Although you value your mind, when the Sunand Mercury are quite close to each other, within a degree or so, you may be moreinclined to take a broad view of life's activities and not consider things from a strictlymental orientation.

Sun in weak trine with Saturn


This aspect gives a deepening and concentration of your selfexpression. You can bestrongwilled and determined, and can appear selfish, or cautious and reserved. Youhave a strong desire for recognition. In later years you will probably acquire a firm basisfor respect in terms of accomplishments over a lifetime of careful and industrious effort.The lesson for you is to deepen and broaden the knowledge of who you really are at the



level of your innermost soul, and to really learn to love the person that you find in thisprocess.

Moon in weak trine with Mars


This aspect gives a vigorous and daring personality. You are outgoing, and may also bea profound thinker. You have a practical and matteroffact way of going about things.You speak directly and to the point, although you may be overly sensitive to criticism. Allin all, you have good control over your passions and balance well between the extremesof getting close to other people and maintaining your own sense of individuality.

Moon in weak square with Chiron


With this aspect there are difficulties indicated in relating to the feminine eithersignificant female presences in your life or else and including your own feminine side.This would be true, and different in its sense, in either a man's or a woman's chart. Ofcourse the important early model for the feminine is mother, and it is likely that therewere painful experiences of some kind in your early relationship with your own motheror significant female parental figure. Perhaps you had a close relationship, but yet yourneeds were somehow not met, resulting in unconscious resentments which only surfacedlater in your adult life. You may in this case exhibit a strong feminine side through andoverattachment to your mother's feelings. It is important to note that there also mayhave been actual abuse, physical or otherwise. These experiences are so painful thatthey are often suppressed from your consciousness, and buried deep in your psyche. Inyour adult life, it is important to move past the resentment caused by early woundinginto a more conscious and compassionate reconciliation with the walled off parts of yourown nature. Therefore, deep psychological work of some variety is strongly indicated.Once you have begun to make conscious the pain and alienation surrounding events fromthe longburied past, you can begin to truly help others as well as yourself. A creativeside of your nature may emerge for the first time. The integration of the feminine side ofyour nature is a tremendous challenge for you, but the gold at the end of the process iswell worth digging for.

Moon in weak trine with Midheaven


This aspect gives an emotionally sensitive personality who is nurturing and caring. Youmay tend to be dependent on others for your own feelings of selfworth, so that it maybe important to you that others look up to you. You do well in a business setting, havinga dramatic presence that gives you natural abilities to influence others, and an attitudeof caring that makes you easy to get along with. You set priorities based on peoplerather than strictly on profits. Your career may also be quite changeable.

Venus in weak conjunction with Mars


This conjunction gives a warmly affectionate and selfsufficient personality. You have agreat love of life. You are likely to be sexually attractive as well as attracted. You arealso disposed to be much involved in family life, and relate well to the opposite sex. Youmay be very sensuous, especially if this conjunction is in a sign where Mars



predominates, such as Aries, Leo, Scorpio, or Capricorn. You are interested in music anddance. You are likely to be sensitive, perhaps quick to anger, but just as quick to forgive.

Venus in weak conjunction with Jupiter


This conjunction gives a refined and idealistic nature. You always see the big picture butmay miss out on the practicalities along the way. You are incredibly optimistic, and seeopportunity in everything. You may therefore suffer from a lack of focus, and notknowing what you really want. You are perhaps too easily influenced by others, and mayhave difficulty in making decisions. You are a great lover of art and beauty, and are verysocial and attractive.

Venus in weak opposition with Saturn


This aspect gives a personality with a deepening and concentration, or a blockage in thearea of interpersonal relationships. You are sensitive and have a strong sense of duty.You are likely to be very loyal. You may have experienced coldness from one parent, orearly love experiences may have proven painful. You may seem cold or uncaringyourself at times, or express jealousy or other feelings of inferiority, which may alsomanifest as a nagging discontent with life in general, or sorrow and difficulty inmarriage. In a woman's chart there may be feelings of unattractiveness or fearsregarding your femininity. You could also feel bitterness and disillusion with romance orfears of rejection concerning romantic contacts. Yet you also have an opportunity to riseabove these circumstances in concentrated effort over time toward inner integration andbalance, toward relationship more fully explored and felt, based on the selfconfidenceborn of actual experience and mutual understanding.

Venus in weak conjunction with Chiron


This combination gives a personality that experiences difficulties with relationships. Youare likely to have had painful experiences surrounding marriage and intimatepartnerships, but there are also great rewards to be gained in this area. You are drawnto relationship at the same time that you fear it, so that you may also have a strongfocus on forming close emotional attachments. You may have had early childhoodexperiences that made it hard to accept the love of others in your adult life. With thesedistractions, you also may strongly desire to help other people, and yet be unable to givethem the full benefit of your higher self. It is good to make the effort to connect yourselfconsciously with any painful events that may be buried in your unconscious, so thatthese will no longer have so much power over you. Once you have begun to integratethese painful feelings consciously, and shed the baggage of earlier frustrations, you canbe a more fully participating partner to others, and be more of help to them as well.

Jupiter in weak square with Pluto


This combination gives a positive and determined personality, with an ability to developyour powers to the fullest. You are inclined to transform yourself in the course of alifetime. You have good judgment, and a constant sense of what is important to you.



Your focus is excellent, and you make a good leader so that you may be tempted to takeadvantage of this in an attempt to control other people, or to convince them of yourpoint of view. You do work well in the area of interpersonal relationships, although youshould beware of this tendency to dominate others. You may be interested in the occult,or even possess the powers of a healer or mystic. Your best use of your powers of focusand selftransformation are in the area of working with other people, for you have muchto share with your fellow man.

Pluto in weak trine with Chiron


With this aspect you are likely to possess a somewhat compulsive nature. You have atendency to plunge into the depths of despair as well as the heights of manic madness asa form of compensatory reaction to the overindulgence of wallowing in the depths.There are great depths of passion within you, likely the result of painful experiencesfrom early childhood. As long as these experiences remain unintegrated, they will causea stir, both for yourself and for anyone you become close to. When you become moreconscious of these patterns you have a great capacity to heal yourself and others. Youhave a keen intuition and great power to transform yourself and your personalrelationships as you evolve.

Pluto in weak square with Midheaven


This combination gives a forceful personality with a strong and difficult focus on issues ofauthority, power and control. There may in fact be a compulsion for control manifestingin problems with interpersonal relations or in rebellious attitudes toward establishedauthority, or perhaps in the charismatic personal magnetism of the born leader. You tendto seek to be in a position of authority. There are however likely to be problems inherentin maintaining a position of authority, once achieved. What is needed is a reevaluationand transformation of the urge for power and control, based on a deeper understandingof personal power and a more conscious and socially responsible use of it.

Glossary

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AscendantThe point in the sky of the Eastern horizon. In the chart, the Ascendant isrepresented by the horizontal line at the left hand side of the chart which crossesbetween the Twelfth and First Houses. The sign on the Ascendant is also referredto as the Rising Sign.

AspectsWhen the relative positions of two planets in the horoscope form a significant anglewith each other, they are said to be in aspect with one another. The type andquality of the aspect is determined by the number of degrees between the twoplanets and is only considered significant if it is within a narrow range of degrees,or orb. A list of the aspects used in this report is given below.

Conjunction — 0° ± 8 degreesOpposition — 180° ± 8 degreesTrine — 120° ± 8 degreesSquare — 90° ± 8 degrees

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Sextile — 60° ± 6 degreesInconjunct — 150° ± 4 degrees

Chart ComparisonAn astrological technique in which the planets of two individuals are shown in a biwheel chart, one within the other. This allows the interaspects between the twocharts to be examined.

Composite ChartAn astrological technique in which the midpoints of two individuals' planetarypositions are used to create a third chart, the composite chart, which is theninterpreted as the chart of the relationship itself as an independent entity.

HoroscopeOriginally horoscope referred to the astrological chart itself, but is now popularlyused to refer to the description of how current planetary positions are affecting youpersonally, as in "your monthly horoscope."

MidheavenThe point in the sky directly overhead relative to the position on Earth. In thechart, the Midheaven is represented by the vertical line at the top of the chartbetween the Ninth and Tenth Houses.

NatalFrom Latin, meaning of or pertaining to birth; therefore your birth chart, orplanetary positions at birth.

NodesThe Lunar Nodes are the two points where the Moon's orbital path crosses theplane of the ecliptic (the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun). Symbolicallythey represent talents and life path, or destiny.

PlanetsIn astrology, the word planets is used to describe astrologically significant points inthe sky which includes the Sun and Moon, as well as many objects that are notcurrently astronomically defined as planets such as Chiron and Pluto.

TransitsAspects formed between the current positions of the planets and the positions ofyour natal planets at the time and place you were born.

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