posted July 26, 2013 08:37 AM            

For some time I've felt: moody, judgemental, depressed, reserved, not friendly or outgoing at all, quick to anger, uber sensitive, head stuck in the clouds, combative and sadly, this list could go on.

* What aspect/sign is dominiating my chart?
* How come I don't feel like much of an Aquarius?
* Why have I been feeling life sucks so bad (dead end job, work, home, myself) I mean is their something up with the stars?

I've tried to take each sign and the house and read up on them and its overwhelming to understand at times. Thanks in advance for your insight!

posted July 26, 2013 08:47 AM            

Mad Poe (female)
born on 10 February 1974
local time: 7:29 am
in Killeen, TX (US)
U.T.:12:29
97w44, 31n07

Planetary positions

Sun
Aquarius 21°23'30 in house 1 direct
Moon Libra 9°31'32 in house 8 direct
Mercury Pisces 9°29'05 in house 1 direct
Venus Capricorn 25°57'53 in house 12 retrograde
Mars Taurus 20°55'08 end of house 3 direct
Jupiter Aquarius 23°48'54 in house 1 direct
Saturn Gemini 28°03'57 in house 5 retrograde
Uranus Libra 27°44'23 in house 9 retrograde
Neptune Sagittarius 9°22'26 in house 10 direct
Pluto Libra 6°32'06 in house 8 retrograde
True Node Sagittarius 26°59'56 in house 11
retrograde

House positions (Placidus)
Ascendant Aquarius 5°25'10
2nd House Pisces 16°29'15
3rd House Aries 23°18'01
Imum Coeli Taurus 22°08'06
5th House Gemini 16°02'33
6th House Cancer 8°57'46
Descendant Leo 5°25'10
8th House Virgo 16°29'15
9th House Libra 23°18'01
Medium Coeli Scorpio 22°08'06
11th House Sagittarius 16°02'33
12th House Capricorn 8°57'46

posted July 28, 2013 03:04 AM            

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Originally posted by Madpoe:
If someone can take the time to look over my natal chart below and help me understand a few things about astro self. I'm an aquarius sun, aquarius rising as well. However, I do not feel like one. No matter what astro sites or books I've read, I hardly see my astro makeup as true.

For some time I've felt: moody, judgemental, depressed, reserved, not friendly or outgoing at all, quick to anger, uber sensitive, head stuck in the clouds, combative and sadly, this list could go on.

* What aspect/sign is dominiating my chart?
* How come I don't feel like much of an Aquarius?
* Why have I been feeling life sucks so bad (dead end job, work, home, myself) I mean is their something up with the stars?

I've tried to take each sign and the house and read up on them and its overwhelming to understand at times. Thanks in advance for your insight!

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Hey there,
The sign that is dominating your chart is aquarius: both your sun and your rising are in aquarius, and your sun is on your jupiter and trines both uranus and saturn. Aquarius is ruled by these two planets, so it would make you an ultra-aquarian.

However, your moon is next to pluto, conjuncting in libra. This would make your emotions very intense.
From http://www.cafeastrology.com/natal/moonplutoaspects.html

"Emotional satisfaction for you runs deep and is very complex. You yearn for intensity, but at the same time you may fear your own emotional nature, leading you to take great pains to keep it under wraps. Compulsiveness is a byproduct, and you find yourself easily swayed by your emotional yearnings and desires. The desire to merge with another human being is strong, yet can also be a fear at the same time."

Also, this conjunction is in the 8th house, amplifying this intense energy. 8th house is the house that is ruled by pluto, and represents death, transformations, secrets, etc. Moon in the 8th house is especially sensitive to undercurrents of energy, and add that with pluto, and emotions are very strong.
In addition to this, your most powerful planet, uranus, is in scorpio. Which adds further to all of this intensity.
However, aquarius is naturally inclined to be detached and doing things one's own way: so you need a way to combine this intensity with your freedom.

As for feeling stuck in the clouds, you have mercury in pisces in your birth chart.
From http://www.cafeastrology.com/articles/mercuryinsigns_page2.html

"These people come across as dreamy and indirect. It can be hard to pin them down to any one belief or decision. It's not that they want to drive you crazy or anything--it's just that Mercury in Pisces takes in so much information from the world and their open-mindedness prevents them from taking a stance for too long. They have an unusual aversion to cold facts and hard decisions. Driven more by intuition than facts, these people avoid list-making and the like. Others might think them disorganized but they have an uncanny knack of finding things nonetheless. There is a tendency to avoid detail work or tying up loose ends, not to mention the mind drifting off to Never-Never Land."
In addition to this, mercury is square neptune, which exaggerates these tendencies, but also gives a powerful imagination.

So the combination of this would be mercury in pisces very easily picking up very small signals, but your intense moon-pluto in the 8th would react immediately towards these, causing you to be combative.

Also, your sun-jupiter conjunction in aquarius squares your 10th house cusp (labeled MC, and represents your ideal career)in scorpio (ruled by pluto and the 8th house) and squares your mars in taurus, which is opposite from your 10th house cusp, in your 4th house. This combination of two planets that form a square opposing one another is called a T-square, which creates a lot of inner tension.
Here, it would give a lot of willpower, but there needs to be adjustment, because who you are and your growth (represented by sun-jupiter) conflicts with your action (mars) and your aims and ambitions (MC).

As for the stars placements now, uranus is retrograde, or traveling backwards. So uranus controls all of these placements in the chart, but because uranus is retrograde, those placements would be expressed "backwards" as well, or would be difficult to express. It's also at 12 degrees in aries, which is approximately directly opposite your moon pluto conjunction, and is setting it off.

Pluto right now is transiting your 12th house in capricorn, 12th house= house of undoing; so it's bringing up old wounds. You can read more about it here: http://www.bobmarksastrologer.com/transitspluto18.1.htm

Neptune is retrograde as well, so again with the backwards energy, and is conjuncting your natal placement of mercury in pisces; so again with the difficulty of expression of mercury. Neptune also represents creativity, spirituality, and disillusionment- the last one could be why you feel so dissatisfied with everything right now.

Yeah, sorry that was a sh*tload, quite frankly (apologies for cursing).

posted July 29, 2013 09:30 AM            

my 8th house has been extremely burdensome for me. I feel things, other peoples vibes even without them speaking, just walk into a room and its like stepping into comsic web. I've been told I've read too much into it, but I KNOW what I FEEL. I do believe I am rash to react to what is done or said to me. Like going zero to one hundred in a second.

with my mercury squaring neptune given a powerful imagination, maybe I am exaggerating certain feelings. With the T-square, you mentioned who i am and growth conflicting with my actions. Is that to say I undo things for my own good? No matter what job I've held I've never been please with it. and this year I haven't been able to take information in and focus on what I need to learn. Baffling.

So many planets in retrograde right now its made me batty! I'm certainly feeling neptune & pluto!

Since the stars can't be changed I'm wondering how to put to use the intensity of my 8th house moon, dreamy watery mercury and this t-square all work more in my favor then head butt with the cosmos all the time. Here I was thinking Saturn was the most evil in my chart. Since I read have 5th house saturn one will have trouble having children, which has been true for me.

posted July 29, 2013 03:33 PM            

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Originally posted by Madpoe:
"Also, your sun-jupiter conjunction in aquarius squares your 10th house cusp (labeled MC, and represents your ideal career)in scorpio (ruled by pluto and the 8th house) and squares your mars in taurus, which is opposite from your 10th house cusp, in your 4th house. This combination of two planets that form a square opposing one another is called a T-square, which creates a lot of inner tension.
Here, it would give a lot of willpower, but there needs to be adjustment, because who you are and your growth (represented by sun-jupiter) conflicts with your action (mars) and your aims and ambitions (MC)."

This t-square - I'm looking online to understand it further. Does it mean trouble in my career house and/or domestic life? my growth/ego is conflicting with my ambitions/actions?

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Yeah, so basically the t-square is in the fixed signs (aquarius, taurus, and scorpio) meaning there is a conflict between your values.
"Mars is a combative energy and describes how one commands and takes action. He symbolizes virility, action, violence, courage and boldness. He bestows dynamism and enterprising spirit, but he can also turn the chart's owner into a despotic, irascible and primary person."
From http://www.astrotheme.com/astrology_planets.php
And mars in taurus is opposing your MC, meaning that the career that fits you the most isn't being achieved because of how you act.
Then sun-jupiter in aquarius is squaring both of these: so you feel uncomfortable adopting either what your ideal career would be or your personal motivation because it conflicts with your ideals/personality.
So, yeah, there's a tendency to create problems for yourself, and in order to resolve that issue, you need to examine yourself to see past your initial reactions and adjust.

BUT t-squares are super powerful for people; they don't make things come easy, but they can create self made people.

here's some info on your MC:

"MC in Scorpio
The sign of transformation, death and creation anew is a potent symbol to have as the guiding light of your Midheaven. Scorpio is one of the most mysterious signs, of deep inner responses and processes, intense, focused, determined. As a signpost to destiny it can suggest that your life path will take you through so many changes, it may seem as though you’ve had several lives in one. Scorpio is a sign of Mars, like Aries, and like Aries can have a military and competitive streak. It is also a sign of passionate curiosity and can make you superlative in research, leading to a career in the sciences or anything investigative – including the police force and even espionage! Many of you may feel compelled to do something that plays with fire, literally as well as metaphorically.
Scorpio is also, like its opposite sign Taurus, associated with money. Often this money belongs to someone else – so a Scorpio MC can point you to a career path in accountancy, investment advising, stockbroking and banking. You should have a good head for business and would tend to be fairly conventional both about worldly affairs and personal conduct – despite anything you may have read or heard about Scorpio’s torrid sex life! Seriously though – the realm of interpersonal relationships can be of vital importance when Scorpio is strong. The desire to understand what most deeply makes everyone tick, and the labyrinth of human intimacies, may lead you towards a career as a psychotherapist or psychiatrist, or as a marriage or a prison counsellor. You understand so well the deeper urges of the soul, both light and dark, and can help others to do the same.
Underpinning your intense approach to life is a thoroughly grounded Taurus IC, which seeks practical outcomes and proper recognition for effort expended. Your physical security is terribly important, and there is the possibility that pretty basic Taurean anxieties about money, possessions and possessiveness could rise up unattractively if you haven’t put them through Scorpio’s purifying fire first. This is what fuels the most famous negative of Scorpio – envy – that fear and fury that someone somewhere might have more than you do. Note that qualifying “might have”. Very likely they don’t have more at all; everyone has some advantages over other people, with relative disadvantages to match. There may be a major lesson in your life around what you most deeply own in relation to others, and what others own too; and how everyone can share what they have in safety when there is trust and goodwill.
When you are certain of the stability of your Taurus base and your secure possession of things spiritual as well as material, you can rise like the phoenix through your Scorpio MC on wings of fire, understanding the fears and foibles of other hearts and able to share with them the wisdom you have gained, a truly profound intimacy of the soul."