posted August 13, 2020 03:09 PM            

Breathe! ..
You're taking this MUCH too seriously.

Declinations involve planet-positions in relationship to each other in the actual-visible sky--- using your eyeballs (telescopes).

Look on the other side of your chart across from your Sun.

You'll notice Mars and Chiron have 'r' after them? Retrograde.

They "appear" to move backwards from the Sun, in earth's perspective. Directly across from your Sun is the position of The Earth.

The 'r' bodies in Declination will be contra-parallel. (Appear on the other half of the apparent sky-space). The 'r''s have a more direct-influence to earth. Not buffered by Sun's rays. Your retrograde Mars therefore has a stronger effect being in a more-direct close position to the Earth.

Half the sky-space from earth will be contra-P. The other half is P parallel.

"Visually" via eyeballs, anything Parallel is on the same side of the sky together. The opposite{contra} side of the sky, if will visually appear as opposite {contra-Parallel}.

In mythology, Sappho was a Writer. She had feelings that she wrote Beautiful Thoughts and Words about. We know that she was also a compassionate soul. To this day, her words, her literary works, can be read in preserved poems we still have of hers. She was a compassionate and passionate soul with a gift for writing.

In your round chart, you have Venus in Pisces, next to Mercury in Pisces. Venus is extra sensitive to Beauty in Pisces. Mercury relates to your thoughts, your words.

Pluto is deep passions. In Sagittarius, is wide and philosophical.

Think of the Declinations as people arranged in conversations in a Ballroom. Topics of conversation have different perspectives as you wander from clusters of groups in the room.

Sappho, Venus, Pluto ... beauty and writing/communications, philosophical and sensitive.

Lilith? .. She's on the other side of the room. Lilith is about power-issues. She's playing the 'observer' in contra-parallel {across the room from them whom she 'sees'}. Probably taking in what she hears being said, and contemplating it. She might get a cool idea of inspiration for them.

Through Lilith, when we pay attention to what is being said in an impersonal way, we learn the art of negotiations. The power of being able to figure out the way everything can fit-together. (Lilith-- when we figure out how she works in our charts, can be a talent and vocational indicator.)

Use your imagination .. storyteller.
The meanings are not crisply 'flat' and inflexible.