posted July 11, 2008 08:58 PM
PeaceAngel,
I agree with Diandra about Valentine. My notes on Valentine say that Valentine conjunct ASC is true love. IQhunk said Valentine was one of the most important factors in synastry. That Valentine tells us about our ability to give chaste and sacrificial love to our spouse. This is someone who loves you so much they would take a bullet for you. I was also going to mention Cupido, because that is supposed to be Super Venus. But more along the lines of marriage and togetherness. I compiled some of my Vertex notes for you. Transiting Valentine was conjunct my Vertex the day I met my guy. 
Hand of fate - to change or turn, the common theme here highlights change or movement.
Saturn transits to the vertex - encountering authority figures, or encountering a long awaited responsibility
The nature of the Vertex is about the "relating" principle. The house the Vertex is located in your own birth chart will define the types of relationships you seek or draw into your life and how you utilize the principle of relating in all of your relationships. When people you meet have planets conjunct your vertex or visa versa you will see something special about them...and you do not usually forget the person. There is an instant connection on some level and for some specific purpose. The nature of the relationship can be intense and have a sense of fatedness. It seems that the vertex attracts important or fated people and events into our lives.
If you look back to significant people and events in your life you will find connections to your Vertex and Anti-vertex, the point opposite the Vertex. In some ways the energy seems to be similar to that of the nodal axis...but the Vertex, unlike the Nodal axis, doesn't store past memory or talents and abilities. It serves to draw the necessary people, events and learning experiences into our lives. When it does those people and experiences are significant in some way, as indicated by the house placement and sign. There is a fated quality to these contacts.
When there are transits or progressed aspects to the Vertex, the qualities of the Vertex sign will be emphasized. Under favorable aspects, we are drawn by people (indicated by the House position) to express the aptitudes of the Vertex sign. Under afflictions, we seem to have problems with the Vertex sign energy.
The vertex appears as a sensitive point linked to fateful encounters with others, seemingly sudden epiphanies, turning points in life and a destiny over which we have no control. Activated, it can synchronize with an experience of another whose effect registers as some degree of profound or extraordinary.
Transits to the vertex can bring inner and outer events corresponding to a pivotal point, significant encounter with another or a sudden change of perception. The transiting planet activates the symbolism of the vertex, coinciding with a major or minor event.
Meetings with significant people, as seen through synastry and composite charts, may also link strongly to the vertex. (Think of people as constant transits.) When one person's inner planets or asteroids (Sun through to Jupiter), angles, nodes, vertex or certain Arabic parts conjunct the vertex, there can be a feeling of fate, destiny, rightness or wrongness about the encounter. Something in the contact with that person may have the ability to create profound change in the native, over a long or short period of time. The change may be perceived as pleasing or acrimonious, the conjunction often reflecting the former, the opposition the later.
The vertex is a point in the horoscope that can indicate a sense of destiny working through another person or outstanding event. It may be stimulated by transits, progressions or directions, other people (synastry/composite) or a change of location. The house and sign position can offer clues as to where the change or turning point may take place and in what way.
The Vertex is a sensitive point that is often considered another Descendant. It shows up frequently when people meet significant partners. It is often activated in progressions at these times.
Vertex transits are times we experience life-changing events. Transits to the Vertex often bring major job events or relationship changes. Vertex may well have other spiritual or karmic connotations; i.e. what we produce is what we "do", and from spiritual perspective, our actions have a ripple effect both on others and on our own future dealings with other people and situations
The Vertex acts as another kind of 'Descendant' type of energy with what feels like 'karmic' overtones. It seems to be a most prominent feature found in synastries/composites of important, seemingly 'fated' relationships or encounters.
Lindaland
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posted July 11, 2008 02:39 PM