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Heaven Knows
What
Astrological
Report for
Barack Obama
by Grant Lewi
Chart Data
Name: Barack Obama
Date: Aug 04, 1961
Time: 07:24:00 PM AHT +10:00
Place: Honolulu, HI
157W51'30" 21N18'25"
Here are the elements of your birth chart or horoscope
calculated for the moment you were born. The horoscope provides a
permanent record of what surrounded life at its beginning. It is the
blueprint from which the following interpretations are read.
Natal Chart for Barack Obama
Placidus House System
Sun
in Leo, at 12° 33', in the sixth house.
Moon in Gemini, at 03° 21', in the fourth
house.
Mercury in Leo, at 02° 20', in the sixth
house.
Venus in Cancer, at 01° 47', in the fifth
house.
Mars in Virgo, at 22° 35', in the seventh
house.
Jupiter in Aquarius, at 00° 52', in the
twelfth house.
Saturn in Capricorn, at 25° 20', in the
twelfth house.
Uranus in Leo, at 25° 16', in the seventh
house.
Neptune in Scorpio, at 08° 36', in the
ninth house.
Pluto in Virgo, at 06° 59', in the seventh
house.
Midheaven in Scorpio, at 28° 54'.
Ascendant in Aquarius, at 18° 03'.
Grant Lewi (1902 - 1951) is a legendary figure among twentieth
century astrologers. He was a writer and editor for the two largest
astrological magazines of the time. His two books, Heaven Knows
What and Astrology for the Millions, were the first
astrological books to become best sellers and even today, over fifty
years later, they remain among the best introductions to the subject
of astrology.
The astrological
interpretations found in Heaven Knows What and Astrology
for the Millions were unique, fresh, and simple. Llewellyn
George, the prominent astrologer of the time, remarked that Lewi's
interpretations must be intuitive because they were unlike any that
had been written before him. Today these interpretations remain
energetic and forceful and, though some references are now dated,
Lewi's text still provides some of the clearest insights found
anywhere in the literature of astrology.
Lewi was
determined to make astrology more accessible to the average person,
but while popularizing the subject he never watered it down or
reduced it to the level found in "sun sign" astrology. Writing
before computers were available, he made his books function as the
computer, providing the reader with tables to generate their own
charts or horoscopes and then linking his interpretations to the
information found there. Lewi would have made good use of the
computer, so much in his books seem to anticipate them. In his
writing he tried to emulate the interpretation process by using a
computerless version of artificial intelligence: the meaning of a
planet in a sign doesn't stand alone but is modified by the other
aspects found in your chart. Many of his comments depend on a
combination of factors and for this reason you will sometimes find
that he has something different to say about an aspect in your chart
than he does for the same aspect in your friend's chart.
This report
calculates your chart for you and then collects all of Lewi's
comments strictly according to the astrological factors found there.
The text contained here is valid even for those who don't know their
time of birth - Lewi focused on those factors that are in effect
throughout the birthday. The only exception to this is the case of
the Moon which can move between 12 and 14 degrees in a day, so if
the positions were calculated for noon then the Moon could be as
much as 6 or 7 degrees different and possibly even change signs. If
you don't know your time and the texts that involve the Moon seem
unlikely, you may wish to compare reports done for the beginning and
the end of the day.
At all times,
Lewi’s aim has been to show how astrology can be used as an aid in
living a more satisfying and fulfilling life. Astrology offers
indications and pointers - and sometimes insights - to situations
that you find in life. It doesn’t tell you what to do about them,
but if it offers you a better understanding of the situation, then
you are in a better position to decide for yourself what to do. To
quote Grant Lewi:
"It is not
limitations that eats out the heart, but inaction, the knowledge of
powers not used, the sense of having failed to develop to the
utmost. The overcoming of fate is not the overcoming of limitations:
that is impossible. It is the exercise of free will, the assertion
of the full self, expanding to its utmost with the tools at hand, in
the circumstances that are set. Astrology, through the
interpretation of the horoscope, assists men to the achievement of
their maximum by indicating to them the lines along which their will
may be most progressively applied, the goals to be sought, and the
individual means by which each one may arrive at the outermost
boundaries of his world."
Your horoscope of birth is the blueprint of your personality and
character as indicated by the position of the Sun, the Moon and the
eight planets on the date of your birth. This section is devoted to
each of these members of the solar system.
The planets are
the antennae and arms of the horoscope, of which the body and soul
are the Sun and Moon. No planet will ever cause you to act counter
to the testimony of the Sun and Moon in their combined influence on
you. Remember this when you proceed with the following readings. All
planetary vibration must be considered in light of the basic
solar-lunar readings, for these are your character, your basic
nature, which the planets will help or hinder but cannot materially
change.
According to the
sign position of your Sun, one planet will be more important than
the others and should probably be read first. Your Sun is in Leo and
your dominant planet is the Sun (also Mars and Jupiter). Not only
the action of this ruling planet will be very important in your
life, but also the attribute over which it rules. Thus Gemini, ruled
by Mercury, lives a great deal in the senses; Libra, ruled by Venus,
responds most readily to emotional stimuli; and so on. Study your
ruler carefully.
Remember in all
planetary readings that they work within the pattern of your
solar-lunar nature; never against it. The synthesis of your
horoscope from the following series of paragraphs to a working unit
depends on your keeping this in mind, which will enable you to weld
all the readings into a unified and significant whole.
Sun in Leo and Moon in Gemini
You are a person
of both action and ideas. Both rationalistic and sentimental,
emotional and vigorous, you eventually get your mind and your
physical energies working in unison and go far. Emotional
flexibility hampers your progress at the beginning of your life. You
cast about for an anchor in books, in thought, in ideology of some
sort and if you don't find it, you fall back on your strong
emotions. A sort of wanderlust obsesses you always - you want more
worlds to conquer, either in actuality or in ideas. You love to
impress yourself, and your thoughts, on people and whether you do it
through the written or spoken word, or in politics or public life,
you become an influence on your group.
Your mind is
facile, intuitive, glib rather than profound, facile rather than
scientific; but in some way or other you manage to find the appeal
that will win the public, and make it very persuasively. Thus you
are a successful writer, journalist, editorial writer, or public
speaker and through any of these mediums may work yourself into a
position of influence. Your ideas, while not based in deep
philosophy, have a certain plausibility about them, and your manner
of expression is persuasive. You will rarely be found working hard
for a living, for you believe in easy money, and seem to know how to
get it; you are capable of exerting physical energy, but you'd
rather not. You are romantic and not especially constant in love.
This position tends to produce two marriages and a whole lot of
romance outside of marriage.
You are good
company, able to smile when you don't want to, and always putting on
a good front. You believe that those who have, get; and you put your
best foot forward even when the other one is halfway inside the
poorhouse. Some of the finest bluffs in history have been pulled off
by people with this configuration, who seem to be at their best when
swimming against the tide or recuperating from one of the blows of
fortune which their dashing natures seem to attract. There is
something of the bad child about you all your life, with an impish
delight in doing or saying the dramatic, the unexpected, and the
perverse. On the other hand, you're capable of doing a complete
about face, and when you do, no one (not even the person you have
offended worst) can resist your charm and plausibility.
Sun
The Sun
indicates the appearance you will present before the world and the
psychological bias which will dominate your actions. What you seem,
and why, are told in the reading for your Sun. In many ways the Sun
is the dominant force in your horoscope and in your life. Other
influences, especially that of the Moon, may modify the Sun's
influence, but nothing will cause you to depart very far from the
basic solar pattern. For this reason a whole literature and a whole
business have grown up around Sun-sign astrology; and many people
exist who think there is nothing more to the horoscope than knowing
what "sign you were born in" and what the Sun in that sign means.
This is a mistake, as you will discover when you have read the
influence of the other bodies. But throughout your reading, keep in
mind always the basic influence of the Sun, and remember that all
other influences must be interpreted in terms of it, especially in
so far as other influences play a visible role in your life. You may
think, dream, imagine, hope to be a thousand things, according to
your Moon and your other planets, but the Sun is what you are, and
to be your best self in terms of your Sun is to cause your energies
to work along the path in which they will have maximum help from
planetary vibrations.
Sun in Leo
"'We are Earth's
best, that learnt her lesson here.
Life is our cry.
We have kept the faith!' we said;
'We shall go
down with unreluctant tread,
Rose-crowned
into the darkness!' . . . Proud we were,
And laughed,
that had such brave true things to say.
- And then you
suddenly cried, and turned away."
Rupert
Brooke, born in Leo, August 3, 1887.
The mainspring
of Leo's great energy, vitality and charm is his instinctive desire
for both public acclaim and self-approval. Of all the signs, Leo is
perhaps the most aware of himself; in a sense he is always before
the looking glass, seeing what effect he is making. In shallow types
this makes for mere vanity, pompousness, pride. Add profundity, and
all this is changed. Your best Leo type is earnest, sincere, eager
to please himself and the world around him and willing, in order to
do so, to take on infinite work and go to infinite trouble. He is
not genuinely introspective; he has little capacity to discover his
inner faults; but he is very sensitive to the effect he makes on
others, and studies therefore what to do to make a better effect.
There is a difference here from self-analysis to improve character
from the inside, but the difference is in method rather than in
result.
For Leo, in the
process of appearing something desirable, actually becomes something
desirable. He knows instinctively the wisdom of the advice Hamlet
gave his mother: "Assume a virtue if you have it not". By assuming
the appearance of a virtue for the sake of winning approval, he
actually acquires the virtue itself, for he is the soul of truth and
cannot behave as he doesn't feel. He thus removes the curse from his
play acting, for his sense of the dramatic is strong, and the roles
he assumes are noble. This would be unbearable if in the process Leo
did not actually become noble - but he does; some of the greatest
spirits who have ever walked the earth are these very Leos who chose
for themselves a high role in which to merit the world's approval,
lived up to the role, and actually became what they wanted to be
admired for. "Such a price do the gods exact for a song, to become
what we sing." Whether he is found in business, on the stage (and he
often is), or in a love affair (where also he often is), Leo is
acutely aware of himself, always standing off and appraising the
effect he is making. He will usually be found, if not conventional,
at least discreet. Self-approval replaces conscience; he'll do
anything if he thinks it is right, and will brave public opinion if
his self-approval is sufficiently important to outweigh the loss of
public approval. However he behaves, you can rest assured that he is
always acutely aware of what people are thinking of him and that he
is striving to make them think as well as possible.
Following are
the aspects to your Sun. In a general way, the trines and sextiles
to your Sun make ease, contentment, happiness, luck; while squares
and oppositions give you energy, drive, success, ambition.
Conjunctions bring both energy and luck, and are translatable in
terms of whether the Sun receives squares or trines, along with the
conjunction. Similarly, squares and trines to the Sun together bring
success through work and perseverance, and luck develops in
proportion to the work done and the effort extended.
Sun Square Neptune Orb: 03°57'
This is a
treacherous aspect, subtly weakening the will power and making you
susceptible to influences that arise not always from worthy sources.
You are a sensationalist and will go out of your way for the
bizarre, the unusual, or the mysterious in experience. You have to
look out for this tendency, which leads you to seek strange and
unreliable associates. A certain nebulous and impractical idealism
attaches to your emotional and thought processes. You are likely to
think in beautiful and vague circles and to give yourself up to
dreams and emotions of a hypnotic and dangerous quality. Reason
should be your constant aim, and you should avoid thinking or acting
along inspirational, intuitive, or sensational lines.
Moon
While the Sun's
position by sign determines what motives and urges dominate your
life as it meets the naked eye, the sign position of the Moon tells
the desire of your heart which may or may not be expressed or
realized in your life. When you "know what you mean but you can't
say it," it is your Moon that knows it and your Sun that can't say
it. "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears" are the thoughts
of your Moon's nature. The wordless ecstasy, the mute sorrow, the
secret dream, the esoteric picture of yourself that you can't get
across to the world, or which the world doesn't comprehend or value
- these are the products of the Moon in your horoscope. When you are
misunderstood, it is your Moon nature, expressed imperfectly through
the Sun sign, that you feel is betrayed. When you know what you
ought to do, but can't find the right way to do it, it is your Moon
that knows and your Sun that refuses to react in harmony. Also, when
you "don't know why I said that," it was your Moon expressing
despite your Sun (if you are innerly satisfied with the involuntary
speech), or the Sun expressing against the will of the Moon (if you
are displeased with what has slipped out). Things you know without
thought - intuitions, hunches, instincts - are the products of the
Moon. Modes of expression that you feel are truly your deepest self
belong to the Moon: art, letters, creative work of any kind;
sometimes love; sometimes business. Whatever you feel is most deeply
yourself, whether or not you are able to do anything about it in the
outer world, is the product of your Moon and of the sign your Moon
occupies at birth.
Moon in Gemini
Nothing ever
loses any fat in the telling when you tell it, and the tales of your
own prowess and ability that you tell yourself are tall indeed. The
picture of yourself that pleases you best is that you are a great
intellect to which the world listens gratefully. To be as
intellectual as you would like to be is a big order and may take
more application than you are willing to put in on it. Cleverness
pleases you better than profundity. You would rather be funny than
fair, exciting than stable, provocative than learned. Said George
Bernard Shaw, with Moon in Gemini, "My method is to take the utmost
trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the
utmost levity." The great wit told the truth in the latter half of
this statement, but it is much to be doubted if anyone with the Moon
in Gemini ever took "the utmost trouble" over anything. You don't
have to. What you want doesn't take trouble: if it did, you wouldn't
want it, and you would find excellent, clever, sophisticated reasons
why it would be silly to want it. You are a master of chop-logic, of
making the worse appear the better cause, and of making yourself
appear the best cause in the world. Being articulate, loving to have
your words applauded, you go to the limit of your capacity and will
not stop going till you have extracted the maximum from life
according to your tastes and your abilities. By spreading yourself
thin, you cover a prodigious amount of ground, collect hosts of
"friends" (whom another might think of as mere acquaintances),
please yourself mightily and appear more dashing, popular and
successful than many an honest soul who, with deep integrity, has
dug consistently in one spot to strike more valuable, if less
flashy, ore.
Following are
the aspects to your Moon. Look to the trines and sextiles to give
you charm and clear-thinking; and to the squares and oppositions to
provide you with concentration and driving force.
Moon Sextile Sun Orb: 09°11'
This adds an
element of luck to the life and will tend to strengthen any good, or
minimize any evil, that may be indicated by the rest of the chart.
It inclines to a strong, sound body and an ability to take the ups
and downs of the world in your stride. While it will not negate in
any large degree the difficulties of the powerful aspects, it will
cushion the blow, give you internal resilience and external poise,
as well as an elastic power to bounce back to normal from any
personal or economic difficulty.
Moon Sextile Mercury Orb: 01°02'
This is a good
aspect for sound common sense, strengthening the sanity of the mind
and giving you the power to absorb knowledge readily and quickly.
You are inquisitive, eager, intelligent, an apt student, and a good
conversationalist, witty and apt in expression, logical and
reasonable. You have some adaptability for business, especially
salesmanship. You can succeed in one of the "vocal" occupations,
such as speaking or radio announcing. You have manual aptitude and
can do things with your hands, although you'd rather use your mind.
Through cleverness you can generally succeed in life without too
much hard work for you're a good talker and can sell yourself as
well as your product, which eases the road for you.
Moon Trine Jupiter Orb: 02°30'
You are
idealistic, humanitarian, and expansive in your outlook, animated by
genuine charity, and probably in a position to make it practical.
You are cheerful, optimistic, good-humored, and tactful. Courtesy is
innate in you - one of nature's gentlefolk. You have excellent
family connections especially on your mother's side, and probably
some financial help from them in gifts or legacies. Necessity has
never taught you to be careful of money, which you more or less take
for granted. If put to it, your earning powers are good, for friends
put you in the way of earning. Character is your strong point: you
have a keen sense of right and wrong. Your ideas run along
conventional lines; you belong to the conservative, right-wing,
pillar-of-society group, believing in noblesse oblige rather than in
socialism. You are devotional and probably religious in an orthodox
sense, but the pillar of your religion is the god in you - that is,
character - rather than metaphysics and dogma.
Moon Trine Saturn Orb: 08°02'
Character is
your strong point: you have a keen sense of right and wrong. Your
ideas run along conventional lines; you belong to the conservative,
right-wing, pillar-of-society group, believing in noblesse oblige
rather than in socialism. You incline to be serious, sober, a trifle
proud and reserved, and maybe a little forbidding. Life is real and
life is earnest to you, and you take yourself rather seriously. You
inherit your mental traits directly from your mother, resembling her
and her side of the family in your internal make-up if not in your
appearance. Duty is important to you; you will never shirk a job and
are capable of considerable self-sacrifice if you think your duty
requires it. You are able to achieve this without self-pity, taking
certain obligations for granted as your lot in life and approaching
them with sobriety and philosophy. Concentrative powers are not
strongly marked, and you have some tendency merely to accept what
comes in the way of duty, without going out and creating
opportunities for yourself. You lack aggression and that eternal
tension that pushes men and women to the heights. Relaxation and
contentment are your two worst enemies, for although they keep you
from the blows of the world and allow you to maintain inner poise
and calm, they also keep you from getting too far ahead. If you
aren't contented you are likely to go on being discontented for a
long time without doing anything about it. Control the restlessness
of your body and put some restlessness into your mind, your spirit.
What you need to do is work up steam in the boiler so that the
engine can get places.
Moon Square Uranus Orb: 08°05'
You have had a
high temper in your day, and if you've controlled it the credit goes
to your good sense. You are rebellious, headstrong, abrupt in
speech, quick on the draw - a sort of hair-trigger personality, full
of fire and dash that need the control of a vigorous intellect. This
is one of the marks of the advanced thinker, the Bohemian who is a
law unto himself and must make a conscious effort to get in line
with society. You are on the side of the underdog, the downtrodden,
the underprivileged and believe in some form of social control where
inequalities may be ironed out. A great individualist, you none the
less believe that society has duties to is members, that their
individuality may be able to thrive the better. You are ardent in
your loves, idealistic and impulsive and capable of deep loyalties
through which, however, you can see the faults of the beloved - and
say so in no uncertain terms. Tact is something you have to learn,
for your uncompromising truthfulness and honesty make tact seem
wasted time to you. You are sensitive of the feelings of others, and
once your high-spiritedness is reined you are the most sympathetic
and understanding of friends.
Moon Square Pluto Orb: 03°37'
The important
lessons in your life will be learned through your relationships.
Men, the mother-figure will shape your reactions to all women.
Women, you base your conception of your own femininity and nurturing
abilities on the feedback you received from your mother. You tend to
hold on to the past and act on your early conditioning until you
realize how your subconscious reactions and motivations hold you
back. You may feel you need freedom, thus avoiding close emotional
relationships, when what you really need is to take a direct and
personal responsibility for the direction of your life and the
satisfaction of your emotional needs. Compromise is one of the key
lessons of your life.
Mercury
Mercury is the
sense-impression antennae of your horoscope. His position by sign
indicates your reactions to sights, sounds, odors, tastes and touch
impressions, affording a key to the attitude you have toward the
physical world around you. Mercury is the messenger through which
your physical body and brain (the Sun) and your inner nature (the
Moon) are kept in contact with the outer world, which will appear to
you according to the index of Mercury's position by sign in the
horoscope.
Mercury in Leo
Your reaction to
sense impressions from the outer world is less important than the
way you react to the sound of your own voice, the figure you are
cutting in the world. You see yourself in everything you see. You're
hard to impress, for though you are detached enough in some ways,
you haven't got your antennae tuned outward and just don't take in a
lot that goes on. Your viewpoint is pretty fixed, and what comes to
the senses is related to it. For this reason you aren't a very good
observer. The outer world of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch
has to fight its way through a sort of steel plate before it reaches
the brain centers and causes a reaction. Your reactions are slow,
not because you are stupid, but because you aren't interested. You
must cultivate attention, become consciously aware of the world
around you, and develop your faculties, which are sound enough but
need more exercise than you give them.
Mercury Sextile Mars Orb: 09°45'
You have a
facile quick mind, capable of grasping scientific facts and
interested in them. But there's a good deal of a tendency to wasting
your mental energies through lack of purpose, direction, and
concentrative faculties. If other things show concentration, then
this adds to the facility; if not, you'll have to fight against a
tendency to skim the surface. A temptation to live by your wits is
always present. If you hold yourself to a purpose your road to
success is eased by quickness, perception, and ready grasp of
details.
Mercury Opposite Jupiter Orb: 01°28'
You love to spin
yarns - harmless yarns, to be sure, but highly exaggerated and
colored; nothing ever loses any fat in the telling when you tell it.
Though you worship educated and intellectual people, your own mind
is not highly trained. You are capable of error in judgment through
misconception of the facts, misinterpretation of the facts,
exaggerated notions, or just plain ignorance. You are likely to
barge ahead in a plan or an idea without any least notion of the
underlying necessities of the situation. You aren't easy to persuade
that you are wrong, for even when faced with evidence, you have a
way of sticking to your guns though your ammunition is gone. Fuzzy
thinking can get you into a lot of trouble. There is likely to be a
flaw in your judgment, especially your business judgment, that can
be costly. You need mental training, facts and figures, a respect
for authority, and a willingness to learn from books and from
individuals, as well as in the expensive school of experience.
Mercury Opposite Saturn Orb: 07°00'
You are liable
to fits of depression, for your deep and subtle mind feels the woes
of the world, and your own woes, very keenly. You are sensitive in a
peculiarly brooding sort of way, not striking back when hurt, but
nursing your grief and feeling sorry for yourself. You have a
profound mind. Shallowness, stupidity, and deceit throw you off
balance - though you yourself are capable of subtleties that others
may think deceit. But knowing your purposes you can justify yourself
with a sort of pragmatic philosophy - the ends justify the means.
You are selfish, and capable of what is known in the divorce courts
as "mental cruelty". You are a prober and a pryer and can get inside
people even when they try to keep you out - this is a detective-like
position. You are a subtle opponent in argument, having facts and
figures at your command, and there's nothing flimsy about the
logical structure you build. You thus make a good lawyer and a just,
if stern, judge. You have a tricky mind.
Mercury Square Neptune Orb: 06°16'
You are a
daydreamer. you think abstract and impractical thoughts which you
weave into a web of reality but can't put into practice. You love
beauty, music, and art and should try to master the creative
technique of one of these to put your inspirational faculties to
work. You have difficulty concentrating. You are easily distracted,
not so much by things or people around you as by the wandering
tendencies of your own mind. Even when you are shut up alone in a
quiet room, little is likely to be accomplished. Concentration is
helped periodically, but the old wanderlust of the intellect needs
attention in the interim. You have an expansive and active mind,
needful of being pinned down to details of accomplishment.
Venus
Venus is the
emotional antenna of your horoscope. Through Venus, impressions come
to you from the outer world because of which you feel and react
emotionally. The position of Venus by sign at the time of your birth
gives the key to your attitude toward these emotional experiences.
As Mercury is the messenger linking sense impressions (sight, smell,
etc.) to the basic nature of your Sun and Moon, so Venus is the
messenger linking emotional impressions.
Venus in Cancer
Your emotional
responses are related to a simple and direct standard, your need for
security and a home. Since this is a basic life urge, your love is
loyal and devoted, and deep with the depth of self preservation,
which does not, however, make you selfish. Your whole nature hides
in a protective shell till you have taken the emotional step that
means your security; then it unfolds graciously, like a flower in
the warm sun, and beautifies your whole world. The fear of being
hurt by love - of being thus innerly insecure - is very strong. You
may seem sensitive and touchy, not to the superficial niceties but
to the bigger things that could shake your world. You can harness
your emotions to making your own security, and so can be successful
in business, to which you bring the primitive maternal or paternal
forces. This, however, is the only way in which you are
materialistic. You like sentimental gestures only if you think they
spring from sincerity. The forced kiss, the dutiful embrace, mean
nothing to you. Your emotional polarity is not primarily physical,
and though you can respond to ardor you can take it or leave it
alone.
Venus Square Mars Orb: 09°13'
This strengthens
your emotions and passions and will bring you some turbulent
experience through love and sex at some time during your life. It
adds a note of inharmony and strangeness to the love-life, making
you extremely self-willed and independent. You are temperamental,
and if the intellectual qualities are not markedly strong, you may
be led to serious involvements through the misdirection of the
passional and sensational nature. If the mental qualities are
strong, this increases romanticism and intrudes a sensual note into
the nature. It also inclines to financial extravagance in the
matters of pleasure, dress, personal and domestic finery. There is a
good deal of spice to your personality. You are magnetic, love
company and a good time, and there is very little prudery about you.
You'll swap yarns with the best of 'em, and maybe not always
Sunday-school stories either.
Venus Sextile Uranus Orb: 06°31'
You
are magnetic and charming, attractive to the opposite sex, and
mildly unconventional in regard to sex matters. You have a broad
emotional viewpoint tending to the generally humane rather than to
the strictly personal. Eccentric friends are helpful; you gather
strange birds around you. You love to help the underdog. An active
social nature brings you in contact with strong people and assists
your advancement. This adds to the luck in life and suggests a
marriage that is happy romantically and financially helpful at the
same time. It is a mild aspect in itself and produces little but
strengthens the good and mitigates the evil, as shown by the rest of
the chart.
Venus Trine Neptune Orb: 06°49'
You are
romantic, charming, alluring - and impressionable. You are
idealistic, always looking for perfection in your sweethearts and in
the world and blissfully certain that even though it may elude you,
it's there and will be found eventually. You are more trusting than
erring mankind deserves. You can be fooled by one person and, in the
twinkling of an eye, trust someone else who may be even less
trustworthy. You are attracted to out-of-the-way people - waifs and
strays, down-and-outers, and can get yourself into a lot of trouble
by believing in crooks, frauds, sensationalists, adventurers, and
out-right seducers. Unless you lead a pretty sheltered life you will
be taken in and shaken down at some time or other. Much deception
and treachery occurs with respect to love matters. This is one of
the supporting factors for material luck in life.
Venus Sextile Pluto Orb: 05°11'
This aspect
deepens your response to love, people and life in general. You have
the rare quality of seeing the best in everyone, thus helping to
bring it out. Beauty, symmetry and goodness are the things you look
for in life - and find! Your friends come from all social classes
and backgrounds. Your understanding and appreciation of love is
instinctive, and you are fully prepared to accept the
responsibilities of love as well as the joys.
Mars
Mars is the
energy principle in the horoscope. His position by sign indicates
the channels into which energy will naturally flow, and the uses to
which energy will most easily be directed. It is the planet through
which the activities of the Sun and the desires of the Moon express
in action - through which your body and your mind react to the sense
impressions of Mercury and the emotional impressions of Venus.
Mars in Virgo
Your energies
are directed to system, or, in the negative manifestation, to
no-system. "When it's good it's very very good, and when it's bad,
it's horrid." One way or another, your effort is related to the
order of your life. You will be the most systematic, logical,
orderly, precise person in the world. Or else you will live from
hand to mouth, your rooms in disorder, in constant rebellion against
putting things where they belong. To get anywhere with this position
of Mars you must learn how to accept the details of life, to take
them for granted, so as to release your excellent mental energies
into progressive channels. Until you have put your house in order,
there is no place for you in the outer world. Once you have achieved
order, you must progress to the point where you take it for granted;
because to spend all your time dusting and straightening up is as
wasteful as to spend all your time looking for things. Master
detail, forget it, and then let your cleverness - of which you have
plenty! - go to work on more essential things. The danger of this
position is narrowness of effort through inability to see the forest
for the trees; its great virtue can be mastery of detail, and the
ability to bring large ventures into being from small, sound
beginnings.
Mars Trine Jupiter Orb: 08°17'
One of the
indices of wealth, either inherited or made by your own efforts or
both. This aspect frequently accompanies a rich marriage. Large
ventures provide income and security. This is no scrimping and
accumulating aspect, for materially you do things in the grand
manner. You are something of a gambler, and willing to risk it all
in a game of pitch and toss. You're pretty lucky, which may account
for your willingness to try. Business hunches are sound. Your
financial structure is solid, and you're able continuously to add to
the superstructure. Congratulations!
Mars Trine Saturn Orb: 02°45'
You are a
builder, willing to start at the bottom of a career and work your
way deliberately to the top. There's nothing flimsy about the
structure you build. This may make you an actual architect, or it
may make you figuratively an architect of your own fate, laying your
plans far in advance, and working soundly for their accomplishment.
You have an excellent balance of boldness and reticence,
aggressiveness and tact. You know when to fight and when to run
away, when to push your affairs and when to let them bide their
time. Your great asset is a sense of balance and proportion. Your
judgment is excellent, and you always know where you are going and
how each brick, however small, is going to fit into the eventual
product. Material "luck" rises from carefully laid plans and great
power and wealth may easily accrue.
This is one of
the best of all aspects (except those to the Sun and Moon) for
self-reliance, progress, and sound success, the extent and nature of
which will depend on other indications. But as insurance that your
energies will find constructive and progressive outlet, you wouldn't
want anything better than this.
Jupiter
Jupiter is the
feeler you have out in the world for opportunity. Through it the
chances of a lifetime are passed along for consideration according
to the basic nature of Sun and Moon. Jupiter's sign position
indicates the places in which you will look for opportunity, the
uses to which you wish to put it, and the capacity you have to react
to and profit by it. Jupiter is ordinarily, and erroneously, called
the Planet of Luck. It is "luck" in so far as it is the index of
opportunity; but your luck depends less on what comes to you
(Jupiter) than on what you do with it (the total personality).
Opportunity appeals to you along lines laid down by your Jupiter.
Jupiter in Aquarius
This position
causes you to see opportunity in very broad social, artistic,
political matters. If your aim gets broader than your capacities -
and it may! - you can be a drifter with high principles and little
to show for them. If your abilities are up to your aims, you go far,
for then you will see opportunity in all manner of big public
things, and the free flow of your energies in these directions will
lead effortlessly to success. Nothing is too big for you to
envision, and even if it's too big for you to tackle or master, you
dare to think about it. Air castles can be your downfall; you have
to strive continuously to find the practical if rough methods by
which they may be constructed into houses of earth. You are capable
of passing up financial chances if they interfere with your larger
aims. You have to learn the value of security because this position
doesn't give it to you. Your tendency is to see life through the
wrong end of the opera glasses; realities recede in favor of other
things, and a liberal dose of the earth is necessary somewhere else
in the chart if this position is to contribute to success.
Jupiter Conjunct Saturn Orb: 05°32'
This aspect
occurs about every nineteen years, lasts for a considerable period,
and thus affects large numbers of people born during these times. In
general, it indicates a period of law and order, and people born
under it are pillars of society, quietly and nobly ambitious to
succeed, but willing to do so only in orthodox and utterly honorable
fashion. If you have this aspect you are conventional, orderly,
proud, aspiring, with a quiet dignity about you that impresses your
friends. In whatever sphere you may be you are supported and made
prosperous and secure to some extent. You will rise to considerable
honor, or even fame, though you will have a long apprenticeship to
serve before your value and worth are recognized. You are eager for
recognition but hate notoriety, so your recognition when it comes
will rest on secure foundations. There is a probability of wealth.
This position is somewhat late in bringing its benefits, generally
not being felt until after the thirtieth year, except in setting the
mold of your personality and your ambitions; but after this it works
steadily on your side, Positions of influence are most likely -
government, army, ministry, the law. You may be an author, leaving
your imprint on literature for generations.
Jupiter Square Neptune Orb: 07°45'
You are a good
deal of a visionary, idealistic in matters of philosophy and
religion, with a kind of nebulous and unsound approach to abstract
matters. You are capable of believing in things that never were on
land or sea. A strata of mysticism underlies your thinking, a mist
of unreality gets between your eyes and the outer world. Concrete
evidence should be your constant aim, and you should forget the
Pauline definition of faith as "the evidence of things unseen," for
you are all too prone to believe and must cultivate skepticism. In
material and personal matters this makes you pretty gullible, and,
unless other indications show a marked degree of suspicion and
shrewdness, this will get you into trouble and cause losses. Even
with the most practical of indications you will have periodic fits
of playing hunches or inspirations that will be costly. Stay away
from seances, spiritualism, abstract philosophy, and religion, and
pin your thinking, your emotions, and your business strictly down to
earth.
Saturn
Saturn indicates
the direction that will be taken in life by the self-preservative
principle which, in its highest manifestation, ceases to be purely
defensive and becomes ambitious and aspirational. Your defense, or
attack, against the world is shown by the sign position of Saturn in
the horoscope of birth.
Saturn in Capricorn
This position
requires success in the materialistic, financial or fame sense of
the word, and will not long be satisfied with unrecognized worth.
Some subtlety attaches to your mentality; you may work long and hard
for little pay and little acclaim, but your aim is to get more, and
you never forget it. In this way, you are hardheaded, if not
hardhearted, and can very well be both. Your deep ego urge is to
defend yourself against the world by conquering it and by forcing it
to recognize you; and since this urge is deeply ingrained in the
subconscious and demands recognition, you are never likely to lose
sight of it. This leads to heights of success or to embittered
failure if it operates in its simple form. Your aim should be to
become less materialistic, to discover wells of power within
yourself. You can have no control over the world till you have
control over yourself; and in gaining this essential to your
success, you should discover also that "your mind to you a kingdom
is" in which it is as gratifying to rule as in any temporal empire.
It is possible for you to learn that there are all kinds of power
over the world, and that wealth and fame are not the only ways of
achieving it. There is the sense of power you get from giving, from
serving, from helping. To transmute the power urge from its
primitive, materialistic, strong arm form to its more esoteric and
refined uses is to insure that your powerful subconscious drive to
success shall be vindicated along the most civilized lines, which
are in the end most gratifying.
Uranus
Uranus in a
general way relates to the neuro-mentality, creative originality or
individuality, and his position by sign in the horoscope tells the
direction along which you will seek to express your most
characteristic self in creative and original effort. With Uranus in
the same sign as Mercury, Uranus indicates acute awareness, quick
reaction to sense impressions and experience; a hair-trigger mind.
With Uranus in the same sign with the Sun there is great nervous
activity, high-strung nature, original, creative or eccentric
behavior.
Uranus in Leo
This position
represents an extraordinary confidence in the dramatization of the
total personality. Because of Uranus' position in the self-conscious
and dramatic Leo, you are impressionable to the prowess of great
people. A kind of hero worship is natural to you; and the
individualistic creative expression which will suit you best is the
sort which will allow you to stand in the limelight and hear
applause for your originality, your daring, your cleverness, your
genius. The aim of your mental, creative originality is recognition,
acclaim, applause, and you exert your deepest originality in its
most characteristic form and to its best advantage when this goal is
in sight.
Neptune
Neptune relates
to the deepest wells of the subconscious, inherited mentality and
spirituality, indicating what you take deeply for granted in life.
Neptune in Scorpio
The people and
nations of the world are aware of the awesome, death-dealing
possibilities of nuclear war. Atomic-powered submarines in the
depths of the seas play their role in the struggle for power. Those
born under this influence want to plumb the secrets of the Universe.
The mystery of life and death is theirs to fathom. They are
enthralled by occult studies, chemistry, invention. Neptune in this
position intensifies the emotional nature. There is a tendency to be
secretive and mystical. Gain through inheritance is possible, as
well as financial ties with others; partnership, and marriage. There
is a great possibility of possessing marked extra-sensory
perception. Caution must be exercised regarding drugs and strong
beverages, and dabbling in spiritualism. The sex instincts must be
channeled in the right direction since the craving for sensation is
very strong. You have recuperative powers and a desire for reforms.
Neptune Sextile Pluto Orb: 01°38'
The ideas that
were instilled in you by your parents, church and society will
undergo changes throughout your life until your religious and
philosophical views are distinctly your own. This type of creative
adaptability makes you able to forgo selfish concerns and direct
your efforts toward the betterment of all. Artistic and/or psychic
talents are possible.
Pluto
Pluto relates to
the ability to let go of things, to get rid of irrelevant prejudices
and outdated habit patterns. It relates to subconscious feelings,
inner urges and repressed emotions. A strong Pluto gives the ability
to see the hidden side of life, and thus bestows power on the native
- power which can be used for good or ill. In the same sign as Mars,
Pluto increases the independence and ego strength, and gives power
over others. Courage and cruelty can both be present.
Pluto in Virgo
Your ability to
bring order out of chaos is your strongest talent, and it allows you
to find ultimate meaning in conditions and ideas which others
consider hopeless. Your approach is initially intellectual - your
curiosity spurs you on to gain as much knowledge as possible - but
your main concern is the application of this knowledge. Ideas have
value only insofar as they can be used to improve the quality of
life. Your forte is the development of a concept, its practical
application and its assimilation into everyday affairs.
The current transits are calculated exactly for the date shown. Lewi
wrote text only for the aspects that he considered to be the most
significant and only those are shown in this report. The dates shown
only represent the times when the aspect is exact; its influence is
felt for weeks, months, and sometimes even years around this time. A
planet will often make the same aspect several times in one year
before it leaves that area of the zodiac and moves on. This is due
to the planet appearing to go backward or retrograde for a period of
time and crossing and recrossing the aspect point. When this happens
the effect of the aspect can be spread out over a considerable time
and in this report the aspect and text will be printed for each time
it becomes exact, although this series of aspects represents only
one pass through this phase of its cycle. Remember that each
transiting aspect is part of its over-all cycle and indicates a
change of direction as well as an event. The cycle for a planet is
the time it takes that planet to travel the entire 360° of the
zodiac, beginning at the point where the planet is found at birth
(the conjunction point), moving to the 90° point which Lewi calls
the "lower square", then moving to the opposition or 180° point.
Then it begins to move back towards the starting point, at the 270°
point, or 90° away from the starting point, the planet is at its
"upper square", and then it returns to the conjunction point where a
new cycle is begun. Lewi will occasionally refer to these points in
his text by name. In general all transits, whether of a planet to
its own place or of one planet to another, mark cycles of growth
beginning at the conjunction point, growing through the first
square, fully grown at the opposition point, beginning to recede at
the second or upper square, and finally starting a new cycle as it
reaches the conjunction point again.
How long any
aspect will be in effect is determined by the speed of the planet
making the aspect (the first planet , i.e. Mars in Mars Opposite
Sun). One Mars cycle is about two or two and one-half years and so a
Mars aspect will last about 20 to 30 days. Jupiter takes about 12
years for its cycle and so its aspects could last around 4 months,
while Saturn with a 29 year cycle will last 9 months or even more if
it turns retrograde. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are all long range
aspects and usually represent a time of 2 or more years. While
Saturn and the outer planets indicate long range influences in your
life, Mars aspects will identify important months and Jupiter will
identify important years. Not every occurrence of these will be of
striking importance. But within a larger Saturn cycle or Uranus
period of great importance, these briefer influences will be found
to act as the second or minute hand of the clock of destiny, as
Saturn, or Uranus, or both, act as the hour hand.
May 11, 2008 - Mars Opposite Jupiter
This will
generally not amount to much, but periods of loss through risks or
gambles or through over-enthusiasm or bad business judgment are
frequently marked by it. The outlook is too enthusiastic to let
sober reason dominate; but this generally brings nothing but minor
extravagance. This transit might mark some major material setback
due to a combination of bad judgment and bad luck.
May 14, 2008 - Mars Conjunct Mercury
Sharp wits help
if you use them right, hinder if you get smart-alecky with them.
Snap judgments, quick speech, sharp retorts and anger make trouble.
On the other hand, keen perceptions give you the edge on others; you
express yourself readily and to good effect if you keep emotions and
personalities out. Sensory perceptions and powers of observation are
increased. Creative powers mount; rapidity of mental processes
enables you to do more than usual. Mental fatigue can result; budget
time for relaxation and sleep. Any tendency to insomnia is
emphasized; also to temperament, temper and self-will. This is a
good time to sell, bad time to buy. Business is active, judgment
shrewd. Sign no papers, don't commit yourself permanently; the
picture changes too rapidly. Avoid strife, especially over trifles.
Distrust intuitions; put deep trust in hard work and pure reason.
Jun 1, 2008 - Mars Conjunct Sun
The new starts
of your Mars conjunct Mars are helped greatly with this aspect; your
energies work smoothly, starting with this aspect and gaining
momentum as Mars conjuct Mars on Aug 7, 2008 is reached.
Your danger at
this time is temperament, temper, a tendency to feel your own
importance too strongly and to get into trouble because of it. Also,
unless you have the endurance of an ox, you will tire yourself as
Mars transits your Sun, and fatigue is likely to lead to strife,
breaks and separations. Translate your energies to work, activity,
detached application to a job or task; and don't get touchy or allow
personal reactions to interfere with efficiency. This can be a
romantic period; your magnetism is high, and you are likely to get
what you want if you moderate your demands and use more persuasion
and less insistence than you want to. Intuitions can go wrong, and
you need the balance of strict mental discipline to bring out the
best of your energies. However, it is an excellent time to go after
what you want, and marks periods of important decisions and moves.
Jun 12, 2008 - Uranus Opposite Mars
Erroneous
methods in contacting the world lead to loss of self confidence. You
stand in your own light. Fear supplants assurance, and when you try
to assert yourself, you tend to arrogance. You know what you mean,
but you can't say it and when you try, you are misunderstood.
Quarrels, setbacks, stoppage of progress and a sense of frustration
result; you emerge shaken and in need of rest. Few go through this
period without being put in their place. It is unfortunate to have
this aspect coincide with one indicating opportunity, for this will
probably cause you to muff it. Lie as low as possible and make
self-effacement your credo. You win by retreating. This is a time of
passive resistance to circumstances, not for pitched battle with
them. You may experience accidents - both literal and figurative.
Trace out carefully the part you have played in your own failure in
this period; to learn this is to understand yourself better.
Jun 16, 2008 - Saturn Square Moon
This is a period
of some emotional stress, perhaps a physical or material setback.
Your personality begins to work toward objectifying itself, and you
are now finding that you may lose something in the process. Not to
feel sorry for yourself is the chief prescription for this period.
What you will lose is mainly sentimentality - an attitude toward
yourself better forgotten. What you gain is re-evaluation of your
personal qualities, an ability to stand outside yourself, and to
marshal your mental and emotional energies so that you will
continuously master them in the future. You gain a certain hardness,
which need not destroy your human qualities, but which will enable
you to use mental, emotional and creative powers more effectively in
the future. The beneficial result of this period is self-mastery
through objectivity and detachment. In lovematters you may have a
difficult period. In material matters you are likely to mark a low
point. The ego is too much occupied with itself to be materially
effective in the world, but learns the need of effectiveness as a
result of this experience. This square paves the way for the Moon
opposite Saturn which will come in about 7 years; the more you learn
here, the less stress will be found in the opposition when it comes.
During this period you are able to learn by the experience of others
or to help others with what you have learned by your own experience.
What happens to you here or to those around you should be taken to
heart and applied to yourself. The aim should be self-discovery
through emotional experience: taking your whims less seriously, that
you may take your true virtues more seriously.
Jun 23, 2008 - Mars Conjunct Uranus
Expect
temperament, haste and anxiety. Your nerves require watching. These
problems can lead to illness from fatigue and nervous exhaustion.
You risk accidents (literal and figurative!) from excess speed and
lack of care over details. Watch temperament. Accidents in the realm
of human relations result from overemphasizing the ego and
minimizing the other fellow's viewpoint. Inventiveness abounds;
originality is in the saddle; but you can't get your best and truest
ideas over to any good advantage, and simply make trouble if you
"try too hard." Store them up for a later time when you express them
better and when other people listen to you more readily. Look out
for machinery, travel, electricity; avoid danger, be careful getting
on and off trains and crossing streets.
Jul 7, 2008 - Mars Square Moon
Fatigue leads to
strife, so relax. There may be illness and you may lose your grip on
things. Refuse to take yourself too seriously. Go to bed and rest
instead of brooding; you'll avoid strife and trouble thereby. Force
no issues. Energy may find its expression in some glamorous romance
which may or may not be important, depending on other long-range
transits in force at the same time with this.
Jul 11, 2008 - Uranus Opposite Mars
Erroneous
methods in contacting the world lead to loss of self confidence. You
stand in your own light. Fear supplants assurance, and when you try
to assert yourself, you tend to arrogance. You know what you mean,
but you can't say it and when you try, you are misunderstood.
Quarrels, setbacks, stoppage of progress and a sense of frustration
result; you emerge shaken and in need of rest. Few go through this
period without being put in their place. It is unfortunate to have
this aspect coincide with one indicating opportunity, for this will
probably cause you to muff it. Lie as low as possible and make
self-effacement your credo. You win by retreating. This is a time of
passive resistance to circumstances, not for pitched battle with
them. You may experience accidents - both literal and figurative.
Trace out carefully the part you have played in your own failure in
this period; to learn this is to understand yourself better.
Jul 13, 2008 - Mars Conjunct Pluto
This transit
represents a strong alliance of similar energies. A sense of mystery
pervades otherwise mundane events. Aggressiveness peaks. Care should
be taken to secure your holding, protect your possessions and
yourself, for this transit includes some vulnerability to the
principle of redistribution. You might be knocked off your throne
for no apparent reason. You could emerge from this period thinking
the universe is a quixotic, capricious place, or you could take
events as keynotes of respect for structure and self-care.
Sexual energy
will be high. You could find yourself surrounded by irresistible
people, and the tendency is to think that the veil between you and
them is much thinner than it really is. Take time to treat people
respectfully. Take this opportunity to de-objectify your world view
and adopt a more service-oriented demeanor. Depending on how
successfully you have mastered life's trials, this could be a time
of "icing on the cake". Just make sure the recipients of your "death
blows" are the nasty loitering ghosts in your own psyche, not the
people on the street whom these ghosts resemble.
Aug 7, 2008 - Mars Conjunct Mars
This is a period
when new starts should be made, new plans put into execution, new
ideas promoted. Energies work along their most characteristic line
and can be utilized to excellent advantage. Control natural impulses
if you have any that get you into trouble, because now is the time
when you are "being yourself" and it is your business to be your
best self, not your worst. You are starting a two year cycle and
should establish the line you want to continue on for the next
twenty four months. Seek new contacts, new avenues of
self-expression, new channels into which to direct talents and
energies. Beware lest anger and temper - letting go because you're
feeling your oats - interfere with your best development. In your
life check-up you will find that these recurrent two year periods
marked with great consistency periods of important decisions,
developments, activity and changes.
Aug 22, 2008 - Mars Square Venus
Social and
romantic glamour leads to excesses, sometimes to strife, quarrels,
separations. Minor loves and friendships break up, but important
relations are merely strained; and indeed this frequently adds
glamour to a deep love, intensifying its beauty. A break here,
unless contributed to by some more important transit, is a sure
index that the feeling wasn't very deep or important anyway. Avoid
excess spending and stay away from temptation if you're interested
in sticking to the conventions.
Oct 5, 2008 - Mars Square Jupiter
This will
generally not amount to much, but periods of loss through risks or
gambles or through over-enthusiasm or bad business judgment are
frequently marked by it. The outlook is too enthusiastic to let
sober reason dominate; but this generally brings nothing but minor
extravagance. This transit might mark some major material setback
due to a combination of bad judgment and bad luck.
Oct 7, 2008 - Mars Square Mercury
Quick speech,
thought and actions make strife and trouble. Be silent, cagey,
noncommittal. The quick retort makes trouble. Wrong decisions often
come in one of these periods, which recur about every six months and
need careful watching. Sometimes the most casual remark results in a
lasting grudge. Mountains (of trouble) grow out of molehills (of
speech). It is best to be silent.
Oct 16, 2008 - Mars Conjunct Neptune
Super intuition
gives you uncanny insight into motives and methods of other people,
but not always into your own. Practice self-analysis. You swiftly
feel your creative power, of which you can make good use. Beware
sensationalism, sentimentality, self-indulgence; fight subconscious
urges, suppressed desires, and make your inner ego work for you
along constructive lines. This is an excellent period for creative
work, for impersonal use of magnetism for business ends and aims and
for social popularity. You have glamour that attracts others: be
sure it attracts the right kind of people and for the right reasons.
The Old Adam rears his head and may require discipline.
Oct 22, 2008 - Mars Square Sun
Domestic matters
are important. This transit frequently times a move from one house
(or town or locality) to another, or some important decision in the
private life. New starts work out if well considered and unmotivated
by temperament. Social activity is increased; you have lots of
friends around you. This is a good time to begin new ventures for
quick completion, ventures which have a bearing on your longer-range
plans. This is a good time to clean house, redecorate, etc. The home
is likely to be upset, and it's wise to make the upsetting literal
and to some good purpose, instead of figurative and quarrelsome.
Nov 9, 2008 - Mars Square Uranus
This transit is
not usually important except as a marker of temperament and minor
strife. But at one of these periods some major break due to
temperament - some sudden shift in the pace and direction of the
life - is likely to occur. The individuality is suddenly awakened to
broader horizons, greater worlds to conquer, and determined to shake
off the shackles of restraint. In undisciplined persons this will
mark periodic temperament, rages, rebellion and strife; also
accidents and setbacks due to lack of nervous coordination. In
normally disciplined individuals all but one or two of these periods
should be comparatively inconspicuous. But the one or two may be
memorable and probably nothing to be proud of.
Nov 20, 2008 - Mars Opposite Moon
Fatigue leads to
strife, so relax. There may be illness and you may lose your grip on
things. Refuse to take yourself too seriously. Go to bed and rest
instead of brooding; you'll avoid strife and trouble thereby. Force
no issues. Energy may find its expression in some glamorous romance
which may or may not be important, depending on other long-range
transits in force at the same time with this.
Nov 25, 2008 - Mars Square Pluto
This transit
represents a strong alliance of similar energies. A sense of mystery
pervades otherwise mundane events. Aggressiveness peaks. Care should
be taken to secure your holding, protect your possessions and
yourself, for this transit includes some vulnerability to the
principle of redistribution. You might be knocked off your throne
for no apparent reason. You could emerge from this period thinking
the universe is a quixotic, capricious place, or you could take
events as keynotes of respect for structure and self-care.
Sexual energy
will be high. You could find yourself surrounded by irresistible
people, and the tendency is to think that the veil between you and
them is much thinner than it really is. Take time to treat people
respectfully. Take this opportunity to de-objectify your world view
and adopt a more service-oriented demeanor. Depending on how
successfully you have mastered life's trials, this could be a time
of "icing on the cake". Just make sure the recipients of your "death
blows" are the nasty loitering ghosts in your own psyche, not the
people on the street whom these ghosts resemble.
Dec 15, 2008 - Jupiter Conjunct Saturn
This aspect
brings a sobering influence which enables you to dig into your
trenches of security and raise your standard of living according to
the terms of your life and job as you find them. It will bring
opportunity only if you are able to see it in routine channels. This
is not a good time for change. Under normal conditions, this will
pass more or less unnoticed, except that you slowly and
unobtrusively accumulate power and authority in whatever work you
are doing. Coming in a period of unemployment or depression, it
breaks the deadlock, providing you an opportunity to make a new
start which should not be rejected because it is slow or "beneath"
you.
Dec 17, 2008 - Mars Square Mars
This transit
indicates a period of hard work and abundant energies, which causes
no trouble unless major disruptive influences are in force. There is
a slight tendency to talk too much, boast and be arrogant, but the
swiftness of the pace generally carries you through without major
trouble. You should not let distractions interfere with plans you
started when Mars was conjunct Mars on Aug 7, 2008. Protect health
and nerves from excess; be objective and detached; and let reason
rule the emotions.
Dec 29, 2008 - Mars Opposite Venus
Heightened
emotions make romance, which is favored if you keep it within the
bounds of reason and convention. Impulsive acts, with or without a
future, are frequently found in these recurrent periods. Glamour
surrounds your approach to life; you are susceptible to the opposite
sex and they to you. This transit frequently indicates the time of
marriage within the period of a longer transit that favors it. If
the era of romance is past, this indicates an active and on the
whole satisfactory social period; business progress; extravagance
with money; a sudden urge to go places and do things - and perhaps a
chafing at the marital bit which should not be taken too seriously.
Energies work through emotions and passions, which in turn work
overtime and should be gently disciplined though not entirely
submerged. Often, for obvious reasons, this transit indicates the
conception of children, especially if it occurs while Mars is
conjunct your sun or conjunct your Mars.
Jan 9, 2009 - Jupiter Conjunct Jupiter
This transit
marks a twelve-year cycle and a period in which important plans and
ideas are revised. It may indicate big new steps, like marriage,
business partnership, independent or cooperative ventures that have
long-term implications. Note especially the occurrences at the
twenty-fourth and thirty-sixth years, which frequently indicate the
conclusion of one sort of life and the beginning of another.
Opportunity accumulates, and your response to it is at its most
characteristic; thus the development here suits you down to the
ground. The present time calls for self-control since the existence
of welcome opportunity is no guarantee that you will handle it
right. The knock of opportunity is at the door - but you have to
open the door and concentrate on entering the guest, for the
benefits that come without effort go just as effortlessly if you
don't hold onto them. Note the nearby Saturn transit and make it
your guide to action in order to develop the opportunity of Jupiter.
Jan 16, 2009 - Pluto Opposite Venus
Your desire for
love and its physical expression is strong, but you may not fad it
easy to express this need. A more compulsive or obsessive quality
marks your relationships and, instead of looking for someone whose
values are similar to or compatible with your own, you may attract
someone whose values clash with yours. There is the possibility of
attracting a member of the underworld set, someone who is already
attached or someone who is looking only for sex, rather than a
person capable of making both the sacrifices and the commitment you
deem necessary. Keep your standards high now, so you can come upon a
love which fulfills alt your needs. If you aren't already in love,
you may be tempted to start a relationship with anyone just so you
won't be alone. Avoid this; aim for an attachment based on love,
trust, and a genuine relationship which will deepen, not
disintegrate, with time.
Jan 29, 2009 - Mars Conjunct Saturn
This is a good
time to slow down and if you don't do so voluntarily, you may be
forced to do so by a cold or some other type of illness. Do your
duties quietly and solidify the existing position in which you find
yourself. Superiors need kid-glove handling; you may feel hampered
and restrained in your work; your energies may be forced into a yoke
that chafes. Be philosophical about taking what comes; passivity and
acceptance rather than activity and aggression serve you best. You
build good, substantial foundations, despite limitations; or else
you kick over the traces and probably regret it later. You may
experience colds, low vitality, fatigue, nerves, or your system may
become run down. Take a rest cure if you can. If you stay well,
those around you may be ill, increasing your responsibilities.
Feb 5, 2009 - Mars Conjunct Jupiter
Opportunities
abound, and your energies are up to them. Optimism runs high, and
you can be made to color, and perhaps prophesy, the life for a long
time. Work is abundant and gratifying; you are popular and lucky. Be
careful not to waste opportunities through trying to do too much at
once; don't spend too much money, either, but make a point of
saving. This ought to be a period of good income, which tends to
make you openhanded and generous, perhaps to a fault. Keep your eyes
and ears open; some of the best forward pushes of your life will
come in these periods when circumstances combine to give you the
rewards of work done in the past and to open up new doors for the
future.
Feb 7, 2009 - Mars Opposite Mercury
Quick speech,
thought and actions make strife and trouble. Be silent, cagey,
noncommittal. The quick retort makes trouble. Wrong decisions often
come in one of these periods, which recur about every six months and
need careful watching. Sometimes the most casual remark results in a
lasting grudge. Mountains (of trouble) grow out of molehills (of
speech). It is best to be silent.
Feb 20, 2009 - Mars Opposite Sun
This transit is
likely to mark periods of quarrels, strife, disagreements,
difficulty in getting along with people. It is therefore a good time
to lie low and be silent; to observe and do your duty without
argument or fuss. Conserve strength: there is a tendency to go to
extremes. Adventuresomeness and romance run riot and kick up a lot
of trouble. New contacts are exciting but not necessarily of any
permanent worth. If other transits indicate a generally good period,
increased energy here can bring good results; under negative
transits you should lie as low as possible and avoid getting into
trouble. There may be accidents or illness.
Feb 28, 2009 - Jupiter Opposite Sun
New contacts,
new modes of expression, new work, new energies and ambitions tax
mind and health. But you overflow with vitality and optimism and can
carry quite a load if you take care of your health and refuse to
indulge your weaknesses. Partners or associates provide excitement,
and also luck. Money may come in without much effort on your part
and can go out the same way. Avoid a spending spree, which you can
slip into almost before you realize it. Apparently innocent
indulgences mount till they are far from innocent. Human relations
are glamorous; be sure they are also sound and not built on the
quick sands of temperament and sensationalism. Be ready to grasp
opportunity and keep your head clear so that you won't waste the
chances that crowd around you.
Mar 8, 2009 - Mars Opposite Uranus
This transit is
not usually important except as a marker of temperament and minor
strife. But at one of these periods some major break due to
temperament - some sudden shift in the pace and direction of the
life - is likely to occur. The individuality is suddenly awakened to
broader horizons, greater worlds to conquer, and determined to shake
off the shackles of restraint. In undisciplined persons this will
mark periodic temperament, rages, rebellion and strife; also
accidents and setbacks due to lack of nervous coordination. In
normally disciplined individuals all but one or two of these periods
should be comparatively inconspicuous. But the one or two may be
memorable and probably nothing to be proud of.
Mar 12, 2009 - Uranus Opposite Mars
Erroneous
methods in contacting the world lead to loss of self confidence. You
stand in your own light. Fear supplants assurance, and when you try
to assert yourself, you tend to arrogance. You know what you mean,
but you can't say it and when you try, you are misunderstood.
Quarrels, setbacks, stoppage of progress and a sense of frustration
result; you emerge shaken and in need of rest. Few go through this
period without being put in their place. It is unfortunate to have
this aspect coincide with one indicating opportunity, for this will
probably cause you to muff it. Lie as low as possible and make
self-effacement your credo. You win by retreating. This is a time of
passive resistance to circumstances, not for pitched battle with
them. You may experience accidents - both literal and figurative.
Trace out carefully the part you have played in your own failure in
this period; to learn this is to understand yourself better.
Mar 19, 2009 - Mars Square Moon
Fatigue leads to
strife, so relax. There may be illness and you may lose your grip on
things. Refuse to take yourself too seriously. Go to bed and rest
instead of brooding; you'll avoid strife and trouble thereby. Force
no issues. Energy may find its expression in some glamorous romance
which may or may not be important, depending on other long-range
transits in force at the same time with this.
Mar 23, 2009 - Mars Opposite Pluto
This transit
represents a strong alliance of similar energies. A sense of mystery
pervades otherwise mundane events. Aggressiveness peaks. Care should
be taken to secure your holding, protect your possessions and
yourself, for this transit includes some vulnerability to the
principle of redistribution. You might be knocked off your throne
for no apparent reason. You could emerge from this period thinking
the universe is a quixotic, capricious place, or you could take
events as keynotes of respect for structure and self-care.
Sexual energy
will be high. You could find yourself surrounded by irresistible
people, and the tendency is to think that the veil between you and
them is much thinner than it really is. Take time to treat people
respectfully. Take this opportunity to de-objectify your world view
and adopt a more service-oriented demeanor. Depend |