posted March 05, 2015 01:25 AM            

I'm the queen of escapism and it is not always a good thing. Actually it has really hindered my chances of success and I'm trying to crawl out of it.

Pisces is my most prominent sign in my chart because of my Pisces Mars & Jupiter being so heavily aspected. Neptune is also closely conjunct my Sun and my Scorp ASC is in the Pisces decan.

Moving constantly, inability to stay committed to ANYTHING, drugs, alcohol, other addictions/vices, you name it.

posted March 05, 2015 01:24 PM            

Gotta say I love escaping.. but it does get seriously unhealthy at times.
Growing up I began looking closer at reality as much as I could, just to stay on the safe side

posted March 05, 2015 01:28 PM            

Sun-Neptune-Jupiter conjunct.

posted March 05, 2015 02:05 PM              

There are times where I long for a better world with lesser evils and others where I appreciate them. Without them we'd never learn or grow. I just want happiness for everyone.

posted March 05, 2015 03:03 PM            

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Originally posted by DeepFreeze:
I think of it as a response.
In other words I don't live in a state of unhealthy escapism but when I am dissatisfied with reality, I will escape and shut people out. I go into myself and try to heal. I can heal but it's unhealthy in how it makes others feel when I don't include them or turn to them for support.

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I do this, as well. Although I can't relax enough to daydream anymore, so I lose myself in television shows. If I need a certain energy - like the tone of Justified, or Gilmore Girls - then I will watch that for as long as necessary. I disappear, I go to the bookstore, go for walks, take photographs.

I used to be like Barbie: I would daydream a lot more, and lose myself in artwork. It wasn't an escape, I just loved it.

posted March 05, 2015 03:13 PM            

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Originally posted by Aries23Degrees:
I am a big fan of "Lord of the Rings", "Star Wars, "Harry Potter" books/films and the like. I am always living in a dream world.

Sun-Neptune-Jupiter conjunct.

Whatever it is,Neptune/12th house is sure to be involved.

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I loved Harry Potter. I bought the first book for my sister, because a book club reminded me that I had so many books that I needed to buy, to complete the agreement I'd signed. When it arrived, I peeked inside, and wanted to read more, so I asked my sister if she would mind if I read a book I'd bought her for Christmas. I would have waited if she'd said that she minded. God, I miss those days. I settled into the couch, and was hooked. I got her hooked on the series.

Oh: I also have Mars in Pisces, square Moon/Venus/Nodes, trine Uranus/ascendant, and I think I'm forgetting something. It rules my Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, co-rules my ascendant. It's a big player in my chart. I'm not that competitive, I wasn't that aggressive until I had to be in recent years.

posted March 05, 2015 07:05 PM            

I only know the chart of one and his Taurus Saturn makes it difficult for him to feel supported (I understand after I left he pretty much became a homeless hermit) and his Cancer rising also makes him prone to retreat from a world that is unsupportive if not downright hostile. I expect his Pisces moon and maybe even Scorpio Neptune contributes to it but I'm pretty sure it was the abuse he endured growing up that pushed him more into it, especially as that's a trait shared by about everyone I've known like him (which includes a Capricorn sun, btw).

posted March 06, 2015 02:11 AM            

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Originally posted by PixieJane:

It's difficult to say because escapism is a fact of daily life for the vast majority of people and where that thin line between healthy and unhealthy (and also exploitive by TPTB) are debatable. (As an extreme example, what about the woman who showed up to jury duty in a Starfleet uniform?

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Oh wow :0

Although it's completely internal (no costumes here) I feel that it's on that unhealthy side because it causes me emotional anguish.

posted March 07, 2015 04:31 AM            

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Originally posted by teasel:
I loved Harry Potter. I bought the first book for my sister, because a book club reminded me that I had so many books that I needed to buy, to complete the agreement I'd signed. When it arrived, I peeked inside, and wanted to read more, so I asked my sister if she would mind if I read a book I'd bought her for Christmas. I would have waited if she'd said that she minded. God, I miss those days. I settled into the couch, and was hooked. I got her hooked on the series.

Oh: I also have Mars in Pisces, square Moon/Venus/Nodes, trine Uranus/ascendant, and I think I'm forgetting something. It rules my Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, co-rules my ascendant. It's a big player in my chart. I'm not that competitive, I wasn't that aggressive until I had to be in recent years.

One of my new favourite things to do, is to prop up my tablet on something secure, and watch Netflix in the bath (epsom salt baths). I feel so spoiled, stretched out with the jets going, bubbling the water around me, watching a movie or a series - and there's no danger of having to buy another library book that's fallen into the water. It's a safe distance away from the tub.

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posted July 22, 2015 11:25 PM            

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Originally posted by fenia:
moon square neptune http://astromatrix.org/Horoscopes/Planet-Aspects/Moon-Square-Neptune

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posted July 22, 2015 11:55 PM            

Also in my personal experience, I quit smoking in a year ago. This happened when Saturn conjunct my moon and Pluto in the 6t house. When it went rx in October or something I "slipped w/ two"

posted July 23, 2015 01:37 AM            

Very important -- these factors don't 'make' someone go into unhealthy escapism, but just allow a greater likelihood of it if the person reaches a certain amount of dissatisfaction or discouragement in life.

posted July 23, 2015 11:34 AM            

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Originally posted by Selenite:
Yes I live in a dream world.. (But it's a fun one)

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posted July 23, 2015 02:57 PM            

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Originally posted by Kibriana:
I've always had a serious escapism problem, and it used to be so bad that I literally dreamt away a better part of my twenties. My excess daydreaming and seclusion from the world caused me so much trouble, from not being able fo finish college or finding a job when I was supposed to because my dream world was so precious to me that I couldn't be bothered to step out of it. As a matter of fact, I'm still dealing with the mess escapism got me into.
Actually, astrology helped me a lot to identify the root of my problems. I've got Moon in 4th square Neptune in 6th. Also, Venus in 12th also doesn't help because it adds a desire for escapism in romance as well. I've also have NN in the 5th house and I read that this can also cause escapist tendencies to emerge.

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posted July 23, 2015 03:10 PM            

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Originally posted by fenia:
I had a difficult time in my adolescence with my family and i couldn't escape from situations. So, i transformed my natural tendency to fantasize to escaping imagination. As a result, I had problems with my studies and my relationships too. I still feel that "my dream world" is the most precious thing in my life and I have to push myself to get real and down to earth. I think from one hand we are lucky that we have that weapon to face the hard reality but it's a curse as well..
Astrologically I think it's my Neptune trine moon, sextiles sun and mercury and Asc, conjucts jupiter. Also my venus sag in 9th house that makes me desire the ideal..
Here is a great article that speaks to me
https://llword.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/imagination-as-escapism-imagination-as-exploration/

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