posted April 13, 2007 03:40 PM         

it talks about depression, aggression, and the quest for a higher truth.....three of the most important unconscious dynamics. i was truly amazed at how they described the roots of depression based on the signs of Capricorn, Scorpio, and Sagittarius. will type out some of it here when i get the time.

posted April 13, 2007 07:38 PM         

I think that there is a basic predisposition toward the experience of depression in certain signs. I have already talked a little about this in relation to Capricorn, Scorpio, Gemini and Sagittarius. Each sign has its own special way of viewing life, and expresses selective vision- that is, one sees what one sees best, as Jung put it. It is as though we look out at life through lenses tinted with a particular coloration, and therefore we interpret life in very selective ways.

Sagittarius for example, perceives through the lens of Jupiter-Zeus, so that, given the enormous range of experiences available in life, Sag will focus selectively on the meaningfulness of those experiences, the lessons inherent in difficulties, the higher purpose behind why things happen. The event is not as important as what it has to teach. Somewhere in the psychic background is a feeling that life has meaning and is moving somewhere, and that there is a beneficent deity of some kinf who infuses things with teleology, with purpose. Therefore, if something bad happens, Sag reacts by asking, "What am I supposed to be learning from this? Why has this experience happened to me? How is it connected with other experiences, and for what purpose?" So Sag selectively perceives opportunities for growth, and will often not deal with the immediate negative feelings which a bad experience provokes. The negative feelings will cloud the intuitive perception of the meaning....
.....Because of this particular way of responding to life, there is often a backlog of difficult emotions tucked away in the basement of the Sagittarian psyche. That is why, if one finds aspects such as Venus-Saturn or Moon-Pluto in a Jupiter dominated chart, they are red flags for depression, because when these configurations are triggered, all the lost feelings come to surface-or, at least, will try to come to the surface. Sagittarius, however, is a good long distance runner, and can succeed in avoiding depression for many years.

On the other hand, Capricorn's perceptions are just as selective as those of Sagittarius; but the god who stands behind Capricorn is not Zeus; it is Kronos. Capricorn is not predisposed to see a world full of inherent meaning pointing toward some profound spiritual goal. It is the mortality of the world that Capricorn sees- its limitations, its inherent struggle, the very fragile nature of life, and the extreme vulnerability of the human animal. For Capricorn, one cannot expect grace from heaven; life is hard, and one must work doggedly to achieve any foothold in the midst of reality's constrictions. Human beings are always at the mercy of their own bodies, no matter how advanced the technology and how sophisticated the intellect. So Capricorn's selective perception does not register the inner meaning of an experience; it registers the experience as a confirmation of the human condition. This is an essentially pragmatic and melancholy perspective. It is an embrace of immediate experience rather than an intuition of the implications of the experience; and the sensation function, rather than the intuition, is the primary tool of adaptation and adjustment. Facts are registered, rather than teleology.

Therefore you can see that depression in a Sagittarian will have rather different roots from depression in a Capricorn. Depression of a kind is there all the time in Capricorn; the individual lives with it because it is built into the way he or she experiences life.......