posted October 07, 2005 11:24 PM              

With this chart - too many effing Grand Trines for its own good?
Do you think that this person would be satisfied, frustrated, or both with a relatively staid domestic life and myriad obligations? Do you think she'd be one to create a little chaos just for the sake of livening things up a bit?
How prone to escapism would you say this person is?
Also, how funny is it that I married my mother?
(This is my mother's chart - I married a man with 10,000 Grand Trines...and a Star of David...and Uranus conj. Jupiter in the first).

Does this guy stand a very real chance of being eaten alive by his own sensitivity given our family's prediliction towards addiction?
That is to say, how far and how fast should he run from anything remotely addictive?
(He's my brother.)

Given this chart's preponderance of 7th and 8th House planets, would it be fair to say that that is where her primary motivations lie?
If not, perhaps her primary areas of growth and exploration?
If so, would she do well to pursue them given her Nodal Axis - would doing so be destructive or would that just serve to create dynamic tension?
Also, look at the 4th - just how much was this person screwed over by her early family life?

posted October 08, 2005 08:13 AM              

What I noticed most about all four charts was that they all had a high number of squares. I am not sure what is an average number but thought this was something to examine.

Each of us has challenges to work through with our squares. I try to study the squares of my father to understand why he is the way he is...and it helps with my compassion towards a chauvanistic man who thinks he knows all and so misses his lessons much of the time!

posted October 08, 2005 01:18 PM              

Sometimes also difficult aspects are what jumps out to be first. Difficult aspects aren't simply negative in the sense they're always bad: they can represent things like vulnerablity, personal weakness, suspectibilty to bad habits, insecurity, doubt, fear, and so for - things that in and of themselves aren't really negative, but *potentially* negative. Someone could have the exact same set of aspects and be quite OK - difficult aspects don't doom a person, even if they are always challenging.

However, if someone comes to be with a chart of their husband/father/brother and says "He's a abusive alcoholic. Why?" then I know to look for how those potentially negative aspects and how they may have been turned against the native, either by life circumstances, past experiences, or personal choice. In which, yeah, what I say can sound pretty negative.

posted October 08, 2005 01:44 PM              

Lessons learned and remembered can be so frustrating yet when we incorporate them into our Being, it often becomes a strength! Personally, I wish more people wanted to grow beyond where they are, however, that is also part of this Life....and thank goodness for astrology!! It is such a fabulous tool to review our own selves and others to gain deeper understanding-even compassion.

Thanks GN for giving further clarification!

posted October 08, 2005 01:56 PM              

I could be deeply cynical about this - in some ways I am, as evidenced by my fears about various things. I'm not the moost trrusting person, and am prone to be hypercritical, condescending and arrogant. That's part of my struggle - I fear getting hurt by others who use their free will unwisely, so in turn *I* use my free will unwisely to protect myself. This interstingly is represnted in my chart by a T-square - Virgo Pluto rising oppo 7th house Pisces moon, squaring Gem Sum-Merc in 10th.