posted December 01, 2008 12:46 AM         

I had horrible grades (2.4 GPA... this is out of 4.0 for people that don't live in America), but I got a high score for reading on the SATs. I'm very good with tests but I never did homework because I'm lazy and undisciplined (Moon opposite Jupiter I'm thinking).

posted December 01, 2008 01:01 AM         

I also prefer to be self taught. Perhaps it's 10th house in the 1st? My 9th house ruler (Gem Merc) is in the 9th house.

Another thing that probably contributed to my dislike for studying is probably Saturn/Uranus conjunct in the 3rd. I like to read for fun, but I don't necessarily like to "study" just because I'm told to. I'm really stubborn like that. I always listened to what the lesson was though. I just didn't do homework unless I wanted to. If I wanted to do it, I did it.It was as simple as that.

My teachers' second most common complaint was that I didn't do anything unless I was in the mood to and that I did whatever I wanted. A lot of the time I was really depressed because my home life was sh!t and I was bullied a lot (teachers did sh!t to help that, too). Lucky for them, all that I wanted to do was read The Lord of the Rings trilogy and not anything else. I never acted out. I do admit to being very talkative, but only with my small group of friends and never with my teacher or the rest of the class. I never answered questions outloud.

Freshman year of high school, I remember going to Parent Teacher conferences with my Dad because I was getting a C for not turning in homework. They showed that I was getting As on all my tests and quizzes and that if I just did my homework that I would be getting an A instead of a C. While they were talking, guess what I was doing? Reading Fellowship of the Ring. Third Chapter. Three is Company. Probably for the 5th time that semester. That night my Dad took the book from me. And you know what I did? I borrowed the library's copy. And they had many.

I'm not completely sure how my depression and schoolwork are intertwined, but I guess I was so sick and tired of being sick and tired that I spent a majority of the time tackling trying to be happy that homework seemed like a pointless, unfulfilling thing to do at the time.

posted December 01, 2008 05:18 AM         

Strange enough I've always done GREAT at work, whatever job I've had, I think I'm reasonably intelligent, if I can say that without sounding like I think I'm so freaking great, I usually average somewhere in the mid 130's on every IQ test I take (I even like to take them for fun, and in English, not my native language).
As long as I'm interested I can get deeply engrossed in the most complex subjects, but that is also the recurring theme here, I have to be interested and see a point with it. If I got really good grades in something in school (like English) it was simply because I had a personal interest in the subject and therefore had good knowledge of it. If the interest was there it didn't feel like an effort and it didn't feel pointless.
My teachers would really throw a fit about that, because they had seen and knew what I was capable of, but most of them couldn't reach me and handle me the right way, and we would get into a right old mexican standoff, only problem was that they'd get to keep their job and be no worse for wear and I'd ruin my entire adult life... I kind of knew that I was the overall loser, but I just couldn't get over that stubborness and pride and wouldn't go against my principles. Kind of sucks, huh..

posted December 01, 2008 11:33 PM         

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Despite a plethora of 9th house placements, I've never enjoyed academic life growing up.

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The 9th house only rules higher education. I'm not sure what rules primary education... I think the 3rd house.

Actually, I consider the 9th house to be a learning through experiences, more worldly experiences usually. The 9th is ruled by Sagittarius, which, though they supposedly enjoy higher education, they also enjoy looking at the big picture and viewing life in a more broad sense. Honestly, I would think that it has more to do with being self-taught because Sadge is a sign that heavily emphasizes experience, which is really only something you can do on your own. Gemini and the 3rd house is all about academics, hard facts, communicating knowledge, and book learning, whereas Sagittarius and the 9th house is all about going out into the world, experiencing, and applying knowledge and forming your own opinion.

I had straight As all the way up until high school and college when I realized that there was more to life than just grades. I became a lot more relaxed in my studying then. I felt like I learned so much more when I was experiencing life and I was teaching myself different subjects. Life is a classroom. Listening to lectures, taking tests, and reading only gets you so far in life, and it's only one type of intelligence.

I think this came from the fact that I was a super Virgo when I was a kid (I have 3 planets in Virgo, 2 of which are in the 10th house) so there was a huge focus on achieving. Then as I got older (and potentially due to Pluto going through my first house), I relied more heavily on my Sagittarius side (I have 3 planets in Sadge in the 1st house). I also have two planets in the 9th: Venus in Virgo and Mars in Leo. In general, I tend to be very 9th house oriented, since I have the 3 planets in Sadge and the 2 in the 9th.

posted December 01, 2008 11:55 PM         

I had straight A's until transiting Saturn came into opposition to my natal Saturn/Pluto at about 14/15 years old, a conjunction to my MC in Taurus. I began obsessing about a Taurus girl, and my grades went to sh*t.

I took several years off from academia after high school, and then started college at 23 years of age, when transiting Saturn came into conjunction with my ascendant. I'm now taking another break to figure out my direction. I have a 3.47 GPA, which would be better if I didn't take the class "Bach to Beethoven" which was *ridiculously* complex, that crap ruined me... my only "C" grade in college...