posted July 19, 2003 01:50 PM              

If you are one of life’s misfits, never entirely comfortable in your birth family or with people in your age group, you may have an intercepted chart.
If you can never figure out what should keep and what to throw away–not just things, but sometimes relationships, jobs, etc., you may have an interception.
If you could never make sense of the beliefs of people close to you, if you grew up in an environment where your actions did not bring dependable reactions, or where you could not figure out what you did to cause the things that happened to you, you probably have an interception.

All of the above refer to the interception of a pair of opposite signs. If you have a chart in which two pairs of houses have the same signs on the cusps, and one pair of signs that show up on no cusps, you have an interception. Such chart areas are submerged beneath the surface for a significant part of your lifetime. Only when the time is right–do they emerge as a source of power. Until they do, it is common for us to attract people who sense that power and assume that we will do with it, what they would do with it, if it were theirs. From this can come some very unexpected reactions and responses, including various types of attacks, most often designed to drain our energy and/or our finances.

While some intercepted areas are empty, most have one or more planets caught within them. Occasionally we see the nodal axis intercepted, and rarely, the Part of Fortune. These further complicate the chart. Not only do they behave differently from the norm, they also affect the signs which they rule, making them seem partially or wholly intercepted as well.

Perhaps the most important single attribute of interceptions is that they mark individuals born outside the general consciousness. Something about natives is an unknown in the early environment. What they were born to be is often something unknown or unaccepted in that environment. That makes it hard to discover, simply because it is an unknown possibility. In our first book, we often referred to such natives as Starseed, in deference to a term coming into acceptance at the time. In reality, each such individual is intended to join the ranks of the group that is birthing, midwifeing, bringing in the next age. Each has some contribution to make to the raising of human consciousness. Most have the appearance of one who incarnates from the future, or from some different planet, system, or dimension. All are somewhat Aquarian in nature.

At the beginning of my astrologcial studies in 1976, I was confronted with an interception in my own natal chart. That interception also contained my Sun and Mercury. It soon because clear that my Aries Sun did not entirely fit the descriptions of the sign, and my Mercury sounded more Sagittarian than Aries. So began my quest to discover what it meant to have part of your natal chart intercepted.
When I began my professional practice twenty years ago, the universe cooperated with my studies by brining me a clientele that had a far higher incidence of interceptions than ever occurs in the general population. Eventually this brought out my first interception book, Heralds of a New Age in 2000. I knew then that it would be the start of a series, and the second volume, Possibilities for a New Age, is now ready for distribution.

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posted July 19, 2003 09:27 PM              

*tips hat* from one to another

posted July 19, 2003 10:20 PM              

I'm so glad you posted this. I began learning about interceptions a few years ago when I realized my first and seventh houses were intercepted, with Neptune in my seventh. It definitely clarifies why I've felt misunderstood and "lost" at various points in my life. In just the past year, I have been learning to embrace being different instead of either fearing it or worse, trying to conform and compromising who I really am. Thank you!

posted July 20, 2003 01:40 PM            

We were both born in Alaska and grew up forming some very strong progressive beliefs about the world that were quite out of place in that hyper-conservative right wing land.
Each has some contribution to make to the raising of human consciousness I would say that statement could be applied to us. We are both going into school for psychology, being quite interested in human consciousness and what we can do to help people heal.

posted July 21, 2003 12:04 AM              

Thank you for that article, I too have my sun, mercury, and jupiter intercepted in Aries. I have never felt truly like an Aries, which always confused me. They are all in the 12th house as well, even more confusing. This definitely sheds some light.

posted July 26, 2003 09:27 AM              

When in doubt, I have one rule of thumb. If the interception in one sytstem contains one or both rulers of the interception in the other system, I use the one with intercepted rulers--to include all of the factors involved.

posted July 27, 2003 06:36 AM              

My 3rd house (Cancer) contains my moon conjunct my north node by 3 minutes however.

posted July 27, 2003 07:20 AM            

If you use the Koch House system you have
Scorpio - 6th house
Taurus - 12th house

posted July 27, 2003 12:02 PM              

Niki....your doubled 6-12, 1-7 cusps show an "unconscious self-image"....often goes with an intercepted Sun which has no means of knowing what it "looks like" to others, and commonly attracts odd reactions. The point being, if you cannot "see" yourself through the eyes of other people, you cannot develop a true self image. This is like not having an ascendant--for the first part of your life...sometimes up to 40 or 50 years old.

posted July 27, 2003 07:59 PM              

look at your chart wheel. the sign on a 'cusp' is the ruler of that house. so if the 2nd house starts in libra, libra rules the 2nd house. if scorpio is totally inside that house, its intercepting the 2nd house. in that case, sagittarius would be ruling or 'on the cusp' of the third house. poor little scorpio and by polarity taurus wouldnt rule a thing. thats an interception. its always the same on one side of the chart as the other, so the same rules apply to the 8th house, being the opposite of the 2nd.

posted July 27, 2003 08:03 PM              

forgot to say, theres two lutons? have you looked at the latitude and longitude? you will have to narrow it down that way i spose, if you havent already. ^_^

posted November 11, 2003 11:52 AM            

Could someone please verify that I am right about not having any interceptions?

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