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Ami Anne
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posted March 31, 2015 02:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
(I will put it here, YG, so it does not muddy up your thread.)

Yods are quite complicated. That is because they have several parts. The beginner must understand each part before he can make a whole. None of my beloved readers are dummies. I just like to use humor when I write my articles because humor is the spice of life. Let’s see if we can take apart the Yod and then put it together into a whole.


The Yod—Parts

1. One Quincunx

2. Another Quincunx

3. A Sextile

The Yod Shape

1.The Yod is an isoceles triangle. I hated Geometry but it comes in handy once in a lifetime. An isoceles triangle has two equal sides and a base. Each quincunx makes up a side. The sextile makes up the base.

2. The tip of the triangle is called the apex. This planet is the most important planet in the Yod. This planet will take the action needed to make the Yod work. This planet is the driver of the car. The other planets are the passengers.


The Quincunx

1. A Quincunx is 150 degrees. To make it simple, find an opposition and go to the sign on either side. That sign is the quincunx sign. For example. Aries is opposite to Libra. Hence, Aries is quincunx Scorpio and Virgo. Gemini is opposite Sagiattarius. Hence, Gemini is quincunx Capricorn and Scorpio.

2. The Quincunx is a struggle. It can be likened to a struggle to lose 50 pounds. It is hard. It is an effort. It takes persistence. It takes time. It takes patience. However, at the end of this process, you are a new person. The person who lost 50 pounds needs new clothes and usually has a new attitude. The quincunx is the only aspect of transformation in ALL of Astrology. Hence, it is important and special. Many people do not even have one quincunx, so the person with a Yod is rare indeed.

3. The Quincunx involves 2 planets, obviously.

4. The Quincunx involves 2 Houses, obviously.

5. One must understand what each planet represents.

6. One must understand what each house represents.

( I have many articles on what each planet represents. I have many articles on what each house represents. I won’t weigh down this article with that information but one will not be able to do a Yod if one does not have a working understanding of planets and houses)

The Sextile

1. The Sextile is a gift.It is like a trine but a little harder to dig up. The trine is like a diamond lying on the ground. A sextile is like a diamond hidden under a bush.

2. The sextile will show you gifts that can be used to help you act out your Yod.

3. The Yod has to be seen in context of the rest of the chart. The native has other gifts and struggles that will help or hinder her Yod. However, in terms of the actual Yod itself, the sextile will be the gift that can be used to make your Yod work. It could be the gas in the car. The quincunxes could be the car.

The Planets Which Make Up the Yod

1. One MUST know what each planet represents before one can understand what is the “call” of the Yod. The call of the Yod is the call of the purpose of that person’s life. The native with a Yod was made for a purpose. The Yod will show him his purpose, so the Yod is worth understanding.

2. I have a Beginners Series which gives a brief description of each planet. Check that out for a simple guide for the meaning of each planet. I will give a few examples of the key words for planets.The planet Mars is always action. Venus is love. The Moon is heart. The Sun is identity. Pluto is primal power. Neptune is the realms of the mystical and creative. Mercury is the mind


3. You have three planets to deal with in the Yod.

4. The apex is the most important.

5. You have one quincunx— the apex and a planet of the base

6. You have the second quincunx with the apex and a different planet on the base.

7. You have the sextile which is both base planets.

The Houses Which Make Up the Yod

We are dealing with 3 houses. The planet at the apex is in the most important house. The other two houses will struggle to meet the needs of the apex planet and house. I hope this is clear. One must really understand the Houses to understand the Yod. The Houses are the SPHERES of life in which the planets will play out. We need time of birth to generate Houses. If a person does not have the time of birth, he will lose about 50% understanding of the Yod.

I have many articles which explain the sphere of life controlled by each house. To make the wheel easy, we look at a person from the womb onto death. The wheel is very logical. Hence, one can begin to understand the houses by looking at the human life cycle. I will not weigh down the article by describing the domains of each house.


Example Yods

I wrote 2 articles on Yods in which I did a full Yod for two people.

You can ask any questions on my Comment Form!

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posted March 31, 2015 02:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If you are interested I have some other articles, YG, but the MAIN point is that you have a fated purpose in life which is quite lovely!

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posted March 31, 2015 03:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for YellowGerbera     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great article, Teacher!!!

Everything you wrote - rings bells for me!!

The transformation you speak of, happened before I was introduced to astrology so it's nice to retrospectively understand some of the struggles I went through.

That losing 50lB is a great example!!

"Transformation" is definitely a big theme in my life. I'm always striving to improve myself and will allow no one from preventing me to do so. This translates well in my career life. If I know I can't move up in the position, I will be looking for next opportunities. I NEED the opportunities so I can keep going forward. This car aint stopping!! lolol

Are your other articles already posted in LL somewhere?? I would love to read more!!

Thank you!!! xoxo

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posted March 31, 2015 03:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I will put some up for you, YG, and then we can get back to your chart. I love working with you. Some people are such a pleasure to do charts with

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posted March 31, 2015 03:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Natty’s Yod


Natty from Linda-Goodman.com asked me to do her Yod. I hope I can make it simple, so you can do your own Yods. Yods are very important for the fortunate people who have them. The Yod is called the “Finger of God”. It is an aspect which shows your destiny and your purpose.

The Yod consists of 2 Quincunx and one sextile. The apex of the Yod is the most important planet. It will ACT OUT the Yod. The natives need to take this planet and go out into the world and make it shine. How that will happen is shown by the 2 quincunx and the sextile. Let’s begin.


Mars is the apex of the Yod.Mars is at 28 degrees Taurus in the 9th House. One quincunx is Mars quincunx Moon at 29 degrees Libra in the 2nd House. The other quincunx is Mercury at 25 degrees Saggi in the 4th House. The sextile is Moon sextile Mercury. Here we have our players. Let’s see how they operate.

Natty’s Mars is at 28 degrees Taurus in the 9th house. She must find God. She must find the spiritual reason for her existence on this earth. The 9th House demands this, in my opinion. The 9th house asks the question of why am I here? The native with strong personal planets in the 9th will make a quest to answer that question. I have a 9th house stellium, so can attest to that. The Moon is at 29 degrees Libra in the 2nd House. The 29th degree is a frozen degree. This tells us that Natty feels stuck with her emotions. She probably feels that she can’t go backwards and is afraid to go forward, so stays where she is–frozen. This is in terms of her emotions.. I bet Natty has angst due to the feeling of being stuck. The Moon is the 2nd House tells us that Natty needs material security to feel safe and sound. The Moon in the sign of Libra tells us that she can out head over heart. I am not saying Natty will marry for money but THIS Moon could. This Moon can divorce feelings from actions.

Now, onto the first quincunx. The quincunx is a struggle, always. That is the nature of the quincunx. For the first quinunx, Natty will struggle between her passion to find God and to go wherever that takes her and her desire for material security. She is afraid to make any moves because she wants security. Her journey to find God may be physical, involving long distance travel.The journey may be intellectual. It may be both. However, Natty will not be happy until she makes it. She will not rest until she does.

On to the second quinxunx. It is Mars quincunx Mercury at 25 degrees Saggi in the 4th House. So, this second quincunx is the struggle between Natty’s desire to find God and her need to communicate that struggle. Also, the struggle will be between finding God and UNDERSTANDING what that all means to her because Mercury is the mind. Natty needs to reconcile her spiritual needs and make them fit with her intellect. Her mind is warring with her spirit. Her spirit may tell her to find God and jump up and down for joy. Her mind may tell her that is silly and intelligent people don’t do that. That would be an example of this quincunx.

I will make it personal from my own life. I am an intellectual person. I grew up in a Jewish household where intellect was revered above all else. Sometimes when I post FB posts about loving Jesus, I feel silly like I look ignorant. I know I DO to many people. The point is that this is an example of my spirit wanting to shout out about my love for Jesus and my mind telling me I look like a fool and silly.

We have to look at Mercury’s placement in the 4th House as the Yod is about Houses, too. Natty has a strong mental connection with her home. My guess is that when she finds God, it will be a God different than that of her childhood. Hence, her struggle breaks down to Houses as well as signs and aspects.


Now, onto the sextile. the sextile is the engine of the Yod. It gives the gas to deal with the Yod which could be looked at as a stalled car. . We have our 2 quincunx’ kind of hanging out in the wind and what are we going to do? We take the positive traits of the Moon in Libra in the 2nd House and we blend them with the positive traits of Mercury in Saggi in the 4th house. How do we do this? The sextile is a mini trine, in that a trine is a free, effortless gift. A sextile is the same way but needs a little effort to unearth it. However, remember it is a gift and this gift will release the Yod. So, in the sextile between the moon and Mercury, we have a person whose heart is connected to her mind. This is very special, in that many people have their minds divorced from their hearts. For Natty, she can explain her feelings even though her Mercury is in Saggi, which is in the Detriment. The sextile is a power aspect.

To put the Yod together. Natty needs to find God. She won’t stop until she does. She will seek God wherever it takes her. Nathy will probably be called on to communicate what she finds. I don’t know how this will play out. She may write a book. She may do public speaking. She may be a missionary. She may just help friends and family.Her struggle will be between wanting material security over spiritual discovery. In other words, she will want to take the route that provides her material security because she wants to feel safe. I am sure that she feels almost locked into the task of providing material secuirty for herself. Yet, she dreams of soaring intellectually to find God. This means really using her intellect and her spirit to go to new places. She will have to leave behind the God of her childhood, most likely. If not, He will have to be modifiedThen, she must communicate her search to others. She will be called upon to do all of that. I think that is the purpose of this Yod.

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posted April 01, 2015 12:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for YellowGerbera     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Wow.. Interesting... Her purpose seems very grand - finding God. Was she able to find?

Philosophically speaking, "god" is where she can truly feel blessed.. where she can really express her beliefs or being understood and accepted?? I'm not a religious person, but I do feel it's important to have your own beliefs.. whatever that may be. The best example I can think of is the movie, "Cast Away".

I hope Natty found her happiness Her personal planets are involved in her yod so it must be tough...

Thank you for sharing this!!

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posted April 01, 2015 09:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for TheTruthIsTheWay11     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What's your opinion on using the Ascendant and the Midheaven for a YOD?

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posted April 01, 2015 09:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by TheTruthIsTheWay11:
What's your opinion on using the Ascendant and the Midheaven for a YOD?

Why the alien lol

This is my opinion.

I have one with the ASC/Venus and Chiron, so I can speak for the fact that it does play out.

In practical terms, it plays out but according to actual terminology, it is not a Yod

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Originally posted by YellowGerbera:
Wow.. Interesting... Her purpose seems very grand - finding God. Was she able to find?

Philosophically speaking, "god" is where she can truly feel blessed.. where she can really express her beliefs or being understood and accepted?? I'm not a religious person, but I do feel it's important to have your own beliefs.. whatever that may be. The best example I can think of is the movie, "Cast Away".

I hope Natty found her happiness Her personal planets are involved in her yod so it must be tough...

Thank you for sharing this!!


I don;t know, YG. Thanks so much for appreciating it! xx

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posted April 01, 2015 10:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for TheTruthIsTheWay11     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Ami Anne:
Why the alien lol

This is my opinion.

I have one with the ASC/Venus and Chiron, so I can speak for the fact that it does play out.

In practical terms, it plays out but according to actual terminology, it is not a Yod


"Why the alien lol" - I'm a Starseed (although sometimes when I'm in a rush I forget to change it to the Alien).

I have one with the MC, Mercury in Virgo in the 2nd House and Jupiter in Aquarius in the 7th House. Presumably it'll help a lot later with careers and stuff.

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posted April 01, 2015 11:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The 7th House may involve marriage( a partner) as part of your career goals like working in a business with your partner.

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posted April 02, 2015 12:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for TheTruthIsTheWay11     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Ami Anne:
The 7th House may involve marriage( a partner) as part of your career goals like working in a business with your partner.


That's interesting. I don't think it would be being in a business with a significant other as I'm going to be going into Politics. But perhaps she will be incredibly supportive and be actively involved herself in some way. Since the apex is at Mercury, I wonder how that's supposed to play out.

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posted April 02, 2015 08:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You need a great spouse in politics lol

The apex is the PLAYER/ the Actor. You would use your mind/communication to make money and/or make a difference in the material world which could be anything from food production, banking, construction etc

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posted April 02, 2015 12:42 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for YellowGerbera     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by TheTruthIsTheWay11:
"Why the alien lol" - I'm a Starseed (although sometimes when I'm in a rush I forget to change it to the Alien).

I have one with the MC, Mercury in Virgo in the 2nd House and Jupiter in Aquarius in the 7th House. Presumably it'll help a lot later with careers and stuff.


So if you have YODS involving the angles, you are considered starseed??

You know I have 3 YODS with MC and Vx as base, my Pisces stellium as apex.

Funny, I did wonder if I was a starseed after reading some threads on here. I did those quizes and it did say I was one BUT I don't know how valid these quizes are. I suppose I can ask iQ for chart reading...

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quote:
Originally posted by YellowGerbera:
So if you have YODS involving the angles, you are considered starseed??

You know I have 3 YODS with MC and Vx as base, my Pisces stellium as apex.

Funny, I did wonder if I was a starseed after reading some threads on here. I did those quizes and it did say I was one BUT I don't know how valid these quizes are. I suppose I can ask iQ for chart reading...


No. YODS have nothing to do with Starseeds. Not exactly, anyways.

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posted April 02, 2015 08:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for TheTruthIsTheWay11     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Ami Anne:
You need a great spouse in politics lol

The apex is the PLAYER/ the Actor. You would use your mind/communication to make money and/or make a difference in the material world which could be anything from food production, banking, construction etc


I've actually been a Politican throughout all of my Past Lives and last time I wasn't even married haha. But I totally agree, choosing a spouse is important in Politics. Good thing I have Venus in Libra lol.

What orb do you use with YODs? My YOD might actually be with Saturn, and that makes a LOT of sense since Jupiter and Saturn are Planets that have to do with leadership. Either way, Saturn is going to get affected since I have Saturn conjunct the MC (it's a degree away in the 10th House, which is why I ask about the orb).

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posted April 02, 2015 08:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Orbs? Well, I use up to 6, I suppose. I feel that a wider orb can be ambient. It is a hard question. I use my intuition with charts and the orbs may vary with different charts would be the best answer lol

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Originally posted by Ami Anne:
Orbs? Well, I use up to 6, I suppose. I feel that a wider orb can be ambient. It is a hard question. I use my intuition with charts and the orbs may vary with different charts would be the best answer lol


In that case I definitely have a YOD with Saturn, Jupiter and Mercury at the apex. Intuitively, I feel that's the case. I mean, everything else in Astrology and even things like Numerology suggest being involved in a leadership position, so I certainly feel as if it's my "Finger of Fate" (that was a really bad pun haha).

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Very interesting- thanks for posting!

I have two, and I have no idea what they mean.

Will be delving into this soon.



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posted April 15, 2015 09:17 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Eirlys:
Very interesting- thanks for posting!

I have two, and I have no idea what they mean.

Will be delving into this soon.




WOW

You have 2. Put your chart up on a new thread.

I cannot do the whole Yods because it will take me too long but let me give you a little insight.

You have been so sweet to me and I appreciate it

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Originally posted by Ami Anne:
WOW

You have 2. Put your chart up on a new thread.

I cannot do the whole Yods because it will take me too long but let me give you a little insight.

You have been so sweet to me and I appreciate it



Yes ma'am, two bonafides.. planets only.


Will post shortly, and thank you.

Any insight would be appreciated.


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