posted October 25, 2007 05:18 AM
Ok so I just had this random thought and it's a *little* mind-boggling to me. Anyone care to discuss?As people who are interested in astrology, we know that our natal charts represent aspects of our personality. And like most other people, we would also agree that our personalities are also shaped at least in part by events and people in our lives, right?
Let's say that in my childhood it was my sister who really got me laughing and having fun. I'm a Sag rising and laughing and fun is a big part of who I am. Did my sister come into my life to play this role because I'm a Sag rising? Would my personality have been less of a Sag rising if she had never come along? She's a Leo rising with Jupiter conjunct AC, so she has the Jupiter thing happening in a similar way to me. You could say that it was me who fully got her into performing and acting at a young age, and this has been important in her adulthood. Was I born to play this role because she was going to be born a Leo rising?
As a Taurus sun I'm down to earth and I like people who are down to earth. I've had a lot of down to earth, straightforward and honest people in my life and I like that. My parents got divorced when I was very young, and my dad as far as I can tell isn't really that straightforward. But my stepdad is very earthy and straightforward and fun. Would I have been less of a Taurus if my dad had stayed in the picture? Would I have turned out more serious and taken on more of his own attributes? Is it because I'm a Taurus with Sag rising that he was pretty much destined to exit stage left to allow me to develop my personality better? I feel like if he'd been around I might have turned out less fun, or I'd have a harder time having fun. Also my sister, the sister I now have with her own unique genetic attributes, would not have been born if my parents had stayed together. I dunno really but it just seems like everything in my life was for the big reason of allowing me to fulfil my chart...
What are others' experiences of this kind of thing? (I mean with early events and people who came and went during your formative years)...