posted January 20, 2012 02:24 PM
Antiscia / contrascia are EXTREMELY significant imo, but they need a very tight orb, max. 2 degrees.They are reflection POINTS after all.
I once did a bit of an essay / post on antiscia/ contrascia.
"The antiscia are mirrordegrees, shadows or reflection.
A planet on 7° Sagittarius casts a shadow onto 23° Capricorn and 23° Cancer and is thus reflected by those degrees, or rather planets that are on these degrees.
It works like a complimentary connection.
You know Sagittarius likes to walk or hurry through life with his heads in the clouds, joking here and there and taking life the easy way (not ALL Sag`s are like this, of course); he`s the traveller, the gambler, who doesn`T take things to serious. He sais: why worry about tomorrow? Live today instead.
But underneath this sunny exterior, there is a shadow, and that shadow is reflected through his Antiscion and Contrascion.
Does Capricorn show him how to make more out of his dreams, to transform dreams into goals? Does he show Mr Lucky how to get the work done?
Or does Cancer show him how important it is to have a home he can return to? What sense is in travelling when you have nowhere to return to?
Does he maybe show Mr Take-it-easy, that there are people he has responsibility for, people who care for him and who needs to be cared for?
In this way those mirrordegrees reflect our Mr Sag; the result is a mysterious pull towards the other planet`s person. An attraction that sais: "You`re so different from me. I don`t really understand you. But something just resonates strongly within me and I just HAVE to get close to you."
It`s not like the opposition. You know with the opposition I see two magnets that are magnetized to each other, and there is a great spark and tension between them.
With the antiscion / contrascion it`s like we are all kinda jigsawpieces with irregular ends, and Miss Cancer, just fits to Mr Sag`s puzzle.
The opposition to me seems to be a horizontal connection, a straight line, a magnetism, horizontal.
The antiscion / contrascion is a connection from surface to underneath, it`s kinda vertical.
Am I still making sense to you?
Some astrologers even believe that the antiscion-degrees are the real important missing piece to find your Twinsoul. (I personally think there could be truth in it, but there are so many perspectives you can look from).
But what I know is that these connections are really strong and hypnotic, more hypnotic than magnetic probably.
Just think of it:
Aries - Libra: Virgo and Pisces
Taurus - Scorpio: Leo and Aquarius
Gemini - Sagittarius: Cancer and Capricorn
Unlike with the opposition, here is always a connection between a female and a male sign. All elements are included in such a sequence. IT just lookes so WHOLE. COMPLETE
If I have Moon on 28° Sagittarius and someone else has Sun on 2° Capricorn, we would still consider those two planets conjunct (4° orb), but since 0° Capricorn is a "mirror-axis", it also means that the Moon is 2° in front of this mirror and Sun is 2° behind this mirror. And everytime two planets are equidistant from our mirror, they are said to be in antiscion.
So, we would have an aspect (conjunction) and the connection over antiscion.
My longest crush (the gay musical actor) has his Neptune in Scorpio in the EXACT antiscion of my Moon in Aquarius(Neptune rules his ASC and Moon rules my 8th house).
I can tell you TALES about THAT forcefield. Nebulous, dreamy, unreal, surreal, all very Neptunian.
It`s intersting, when we actually coincidentally met, and that whole thing started to solve itself (FINALLY), Transit Neptune was exactly conjunct my Moon and in the antiscion of his Neptune (his Neptune also is in the antiscion of his SN, which conjuncts my Moon exactly, so I guess it was a real OLD tale).
He actually completed me or my Moon in a way. And that is really interesting now. To me at least.
My Aquarius Moon is so intellectual, and before him I have never neve never had an infatuation about actor or anyone else; I was just standing above those things. I detested jealousy and posessiveness. Passion? Not real, just a figment of imagination. Not being able to let go of a person, to be dependent? Weakness of an overemotional soul. Yes, I was convinced you can switch off and on your emotions, if you just try hard enough. Besides who needs such a dirty emotional mess in their lives, when they can have airy thoughts? (Aquarius - Moon, what shall I say?)
And then, he came on the stage of my life, with his Neptune in Scorpio in my 11th house.
Neptune - Sure he was a GAY MUSICAL ACTOR. How can you describe Neptune better (he could have been a drug addict, too, actually I met those too in that period)?
He drew my Moon, my emotions into his forcefield; well, drew, pulled, hypnotized me into it, fits it rather. Actually when it all started I had a dream I have never forgotten. And in that dream I had been pulled into a painting. Really pulled into it. And at one point in the dream I was walking on water, but then I remembered that I can`t swim, and I started drowning and that man told me that I drowned because I didn`t have faith. And then he disappeared.
But back to reality his Neptune in SCORPIO led me to experience all that I had suppressed, because my intellectual Aquarius-mind didn`t want to acknowledge it. And I experienced it all, the passion, the dependency, the emotional ups and downs, the obsession, the jealousy, the pain, the ultimate loss, the need to let go and surrender, I think I learned devotion, that I am NOT on a higher point as a mere observant. I am deeply involved in it all.
Funny enough when I noticed him Transit Pluto was exactly square my Moon and roughly conjunct his Neptune and opposite his Moon (seems he has had an exhausting period, too).
I think that is how it worked. I had to integrate him, or rather the part he symbolized, the part of my soul I had pushed away, and now I had to reintegrate this part. It is a step on the way to wholeness.
And us humans learn that by meeting people, on which we can project all that is hidden and suppressed; they make us aware of it, so we can reintegrate it and finally return home into our own soul.
(it`s not always about letting go though; as a matter of fact antiscia probably provide some kind of glue due to them being so closely associated with each other)
However, I think this is how antiscion work, on a deeply spiritual, yet very real and physical level.
There are people who would see the contrascion as an opposition, but I do not make a difference here.
The thing is some people put the mirror on 0° Capricorn - 0° Cancer.
Some people put the mirror on the axis of 0° Aries - 0° Libra.
And if you change the place of the mirror, suddenly the antiscion will transform itself to the contrascion.
Example:
Aries has the antiscion in Pisces if you put the mirror onto 0° Aries.
If you put the mirror onto 0° Capricorn, Aries will have its antiscion in Virgo.
So, I don`t make a difference here.
There COULD be a symbolic difference between the Aries- LIbra and Capricorn-Cancer-axis though. Like Antiscions over Cancer - Cappy reflecting more something parental, while Aries-Libra are more equally relationship oriented.
But since you will always get the same point, either as antiscion or as contrascion, I would treat them the same."
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They are definitely an important piece of the puzzle imo.
And expanding on this I would expect Twinflames to have the most individual and rare connections; such that you will not share with dozens of other people.
I also expect their astrology to be reflecting their similiar and complimentary energy. Same soulenergy/ essence expressed in complimentary ways: Yin and Yang.
I don´t believe that people can be twinflames if ther are no strong connections to their angles. And I am talking conjunctions here! 2 degrees tops.
(though I do take the angle ruler into consideration as well).
In a nutshell I think that twinflames probably will "tick" all the boxes / checklists, no matter which method you choose.
They will have strong natals. They will have strong Draco-tropical connections. They will have very energetic composites / Davisons. They will resonate with each other even into the depth, to those things that seem more "hidden" at first - antiscia/ contrascia. Dwads. Etc.
And one thing that I want to emphasize is the IC. It always gets so neglected, but it is the deepest part in our chart. The midnight point. it doesn`t get deeper than that. It is the root and core of the natal.
How would your twinflame NOT be connected to the core of your soul?
It doesn`t mean though just because you have someone`s planet on your IC, that you are twinflames.
No single aspect will indicate that. But a pattern will emergy, and I think it will include near to exact aspects to the most time-and spacespecific points (ASC/DESC, MC/IC, Vertex/Antivertex maybe, too), and on top of that the outer planets in strong tight aspects to the personal planets and points (I feel they have to be there simultaneous; personal planets aspects AND outer planets affecting personal planets and angles - the outers are transformators and intensifiers, transcending everyday life, and I thin kit is is one aspect of twinflames, this transcendance / spirit permeating life), conjunctions to the nodal axis of course, and it will vibrate through all possible charts and comparisions, be it a comparision of the natals, synastry, composite, Davisons etc.
Just my thoughts here.
Lindaland
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posted January 19, 2012 06:59 PM
