posted October 27, 2010 10:41 PM         

1. What is the sign on your IC?
2. Where is its ruler by sign? house?
3. What are the hard aspects to it? (conjunction/opposition/square)
4. How do you think it describes your role/interaction with your family?(immediate family)

1. Aries
2. Mars in Scorpio in the 10th house
3. Mars conjunct Saturn (4 degrees orb)
Mars square Sun (4 degrees orb)
4. I think it totally fits me, I am the youngest of 3...the only girl. On the one hand I was treated like one of the boys and was expected to compete (academically, behavior etc). Now, I'm realizing that my family (specifically my brothers and my father) tried to suppress (Mars conjunct Saturn) my femininity and my sensual/sexual nature as well as my Aries qualities of being independent, creative, and a leader. But they encouraged it at the same time. Definitely mixed messages! I was never allowed to wear anything remotely revealing, and if I did I was reprimanded immediately and called a floosy. I was encouraged to be athletic. Obviously with Mars in Scorpio, I am a very sexual person and its a deep part of how I express myself. But now I am understanding that somehow this was a threat to my family or made them feel uncomfortable.

Mars in the 10th house - My family puts a LOT of pressure on me to succeed in my career and I have internalized that and have become extremely hard on myself, I hardly ever let up on me as far as my career/where I'm going is concerned. They like to take credit for a lot of things in my life and say that it is only because of them that I have accomplished things or am able to do things in my life. This is like the worst thing you could say to a person with an Aries moon!

With Mars square Sun, my family thwarted my every try at truly expressing myself. I was such a freer Aquarian as a child. I was imaginative and always wanted to dress quirky and do strange things to my hair etc. I dreamt of the planets and stars and talked to strangers. I called the operator often just to talk. But with the Mars Square Sun I definitely was encouraged to be more conservative and tone down myself expression and conform. (On another topic, I am starting to think that the state of the IC ruler plays into the development of the Ascendant identity)