posted December 11, 2011 08:12 PM            

Does anyone have experience with this and what should I expect?

The Sabian for the conjunction is:

Aries 9. A crystal gazer. Keywords: the higher faculties of human understanding, occultism, curiosity.

posted December 12, 2011 01:57 AM            

Then once I clicked on it and saw it's about synastry I was like, "...Oh." *insert heavy sigh here*

No one ever really talks about midpoints much at all which I don't understand because I actually think they're REALLY important from a natal-chart standpoint.

Here's mine :

PHASE 169 (VIRGO 19°): A SWIMMING RACE.

KEYNOTE: The stimulation that comes from a group effort toward a spiritual goal.

When man has become an expert swimmer he has symbolically learned how to operate in a new element. This element, water, represents the ever-flowing stream of psychic energy, and, in a sense at least, the "astral" world. In a still deeper sense man is now able, mystically speaking, to cross the river and reach "the other shore" — or to swim back toward the source. Whether or not the symbol should suggest the competitive spirit at work is questionable. At the biological level a host of spermatozoa are swimming toward the ovum, and each presses on toward the goal, the act of impregnation. A seeker after spiritual rebirth actually does not strive alone. It is Man who, acting through the most advanced individuals of the race, is taking a step toward "rebirth," or toward a new mutation. The personal ego-centered ambition to succeed and to be "first" is indeed a sign of expectable spiritual failure.

At this fourth stage we are confronted with a problem of interpretation. Is not ambition a subtle form of deviation under the pressure of ancient karma, and the competitive spirit so valued by our civilization a sign of failure to understand the deeper reality of existence? What is needed is EMULATION, not competition.

Charubel Symbol:

19-20 deg Virgo A lion whose head is the only part exposed. Denotes one who is ever on the defensive, and being on the alert, is always prepared for any attack. One void of fear, ever living in the consciousness of his superior strength. Thus, instead of shunning an opponent, he prefers to wait, or rather to provoke the onslaught. He may not be the first in the arena but he will be the last to quit it.

posted December 12, 2011 04:39 AM            

Like BP, I am also fascinated with sun/moon midpoint in the natal. Mine is
"PHASE 152 (VIRGO 2°): A LARGE WHITE CROSS DOMINATES THE LANDSCAPE.

KEYNOTE: The wisdom and compassion which only the experience of suffering and isolation can bring.

The individual must have gone beyond the state of ego-subjectivity in order truly and objectively to "see" and to discriminate. He must have learned detachment; and it is a lesson that no one can learn without the "crucifixion" of the ego-centered emotional life. In the occult tradition, the eye that "sees" must be washed by the blood of the heart. The experience of the Cross dominates the mystic Path that leads to Initiation, i.e. to the entrance into a greater realm of activity and participation with an exalted Company of perfected beings.

While the discovery of significant features in any situation implied the use of the mind, both analytical and intuitive, now a contrasting stage is reached at which the mind itself has to be left behind and perhaps even seemingly destroyed in order that compassion and understanding may rise from the depth of the innermost being: a LIBERATING ORDEAL."