Your Spiritual Path

for
Demi Moore

by Stephanie Clement, Ph.D.

Your Chart Data

      Name:      Demi Moore
      Date:        Nov 11, 1962
      Time:        02:16:00 PM MST  +07:00
      Place:       Roswell, NM        

Each of us has the potential to develop along psychic, intuitive and spiritual lines into the person who best suits our natural gifts.  There are essentially three possibilities for how that development may occur:

1. Along the lines dictated by our family, peers and social milieu:  Most of us are taught a set of rules as children.  Some of those rules prove to be very useful, and some lessons prove to be detrimental to our development, or at least not helpful.

2. Along the lines suggested by your own conscious mind:  Each of us is born with the capacity to learn. The person inside us is the life and light of the mind.

3. The inevitable path is a combination of these two possibilities.  No one can develop precisely the way someone else dictates.  And no one can develop to suit individual desires with no connection to the outer world.

When individuals develop along the lines reflected by their astrological chart, the fullest expression of natural potential is possible. The birth chart places you at the center of your world, and shows your personal relationship to the Sun, Moon and planets. This is the astrological approach to spiritual understanding.  It is not limited to one religious sect or emotional expression.  The birth chart presents the possibilities that vibrate within your soul, and indicates which will be easier or more difficult to manage.

Your goal or mission is indicated by your natal chart, but you fully understand it only if you are open to the inner spiritual voice that is always present, and is truly your devoted life companion.

The best spiritual path is one that allows you to use your natural talents and skills. Sometimes your latent abilities will require training and practice to develop into spiritual tools. In this report we will consider a number of possibilities to help you get a sense of your talents, and how to develop and use them.

The Sun is the source of all physical life as we know it. As children develop, Sun sign characteristics are colored by family circumstances, cultural values, and other environmental influences. Yet we develop according to our own individual character IN SPITE of everything. The voice within us will not be denied. It cannot be eradicated and it never gives up.  When we are on an appropriate path to our true spiritual destiny our inner voice is a gentle guide. When we stray into less productive territory, the voice becomes more forceful. When we attempt to stifle this inner voice of character, it waits patiently for the proper moment and speaks again. The Sun sign reveals your conscious attitude toward the external world. The following description of the Sun explores your natural tendencies of mental style and action.

With the Sun in Scorpio, you are primarily the Feeling type. If the sensation types say, "Just the facts, ma'am," the feeling types say, "and how does it feel when that happens?" Feeling types evaluate situations on the basis of sentiment and may disregard logical processes as ineffective with others and unsatisfying to themselves. They can think logically, but may choose not to unless pressed by circumstances. You are not an emotional disaster area. Rather you are prone to making judgments about things, as in "I feel that is the best way to go." In order to maintain the capacity for fair judgment, it is important to remove or reduce any psychological pollution in the work place caused by unkind, unsympathetic gossip, threatening behavior on the part of co-workers, or idle complaining that is not backed by constructive suggestions. Feeling types can do well in careers that call for sensitivity in relating to other people. You have the ability to bridge the gap between people, and therefore make good counselors, sales people, heads of families, members of the clergy - any job where interpersonal relationships are at the core of productive work. You have a psychic connection to the people and things around you. Often you can "get the point" before other people even state it. You can over-react, but generally return to an acceptable level quickly.

How You Express Your Will

The Sun indicates your will power and its direction.  One of the reasons we can identify Sun signs in other people is that they are often willful in their actions.  Especially in childhood they are determined, demanding and rebellious against anything that does not conform to their will.  The Children of each Sun show us the power of will.  The information about your Sun sign focuses on the potential expression (and the associated undercurrents).

I will rebel (when stating my position is enough). I will be suspicious (when cautious is enough). I will be cruel (when compassion is required). I will be violent (when that is not necessary). I will be stubborn (when tenacity is plenty). I will distrust (when definition is needed). I will go to excess (when moderation is desired).

Your Sun is in the 8th house. You appear fearless as you travel through a life filled with change. You face transitions frequently enough that no one would think you are unfamiliar with death and transformation. Sometimes you over-extend yourself, and seem to challenge the Fates by acting recklessly. For you to understand the shaman's message, you must become the shaman. But you don't have to die to gather the necessary wisdom. Rather, you need to die to the desire to use your power only for yourself, and learn to share it with others. If you cannot share, then you must at least use your power wisely so that you hurt no one in your personal quest. Sexual energy is a profound source of pain and pleasure for you. Physical contact with a partner is often necessary for your well-being and health. When you deepen a connection with another person, you transcend your normal perceptions and enter a space where life is illuminated by more than physical senses. Ecstatic experience may first be found in sexual union, but that is only the beginning. You may find that any experience can evoke the memories, the feelings, even the peak of sexual ecstasy.

Aspects of the Sun

You are aware of the apparent differences between spirit and soul as they are expressed in your daily life. You often struggle to decide what activities are the best for you personally, and you may even try to make this decision for other people from time to time. A companion on the spiritual path can be very helpful. Common sense guides your daily activities, and this is just as true of your spiritual path. You study and evaluate what you are taught, and you apply your spiritual values in your daily work and play activities, not separating one from the other. Feelings of love pervade your spiritual life. Strong relationships with your partner, friends and family provide a spark of spiritual activity deep within you. This spark can be expressed artistically or through social interactions. You have tremendous physical energy that can be applied to the pursuit of spiritual goals. Put your best effort into each of your life activities, all the while keeping the spiritual component in mind. By engaging your heart completely in each act, you come to understand spiritual unity more fully. Your spiritual sensitivity can create problems, as you are open to both creative and destructive psychic influences. Being open is not the problem. What you must develop is discrimination between helpful and harmful energies. You gain recognition through others, and self-confidence through spiritual endeavors as well as public events.

Much of the pain and limitation we experience is the result of being taught so-called "truths" that are incompatible with our core beliefs.  Family and society train us, and sometimes little is done to nurture our individual realities.  It is up to you to identify and nurture the values that are meaningful to you.  When the filtering process is undertaken, you uncover a "truth" that is unique to you.

The Moon

The Moon reflects the soul. It governs fluids in your body and imagination in your mind.  It generally represents a less conscious part of your being, and reflects the quality and flexibility of your memory.  If the Sun indicates the most likely course of your spiritual path, the Moon indicates some of the qualities of the path itself.

With the Moon in Taurus, your secondary mental style is primarily the Sensation type. There is a practical side to your nature that comes from deep within. On the surface you are not focused on the material side of life, but your inner voice is always presenting some grounded argument that guides your actions. Thus, no matter what you are involved in, there is a considered quality to your actions that generally brings solid results. Your psychic senses run to the physical. You may be able to dowse for lost objects or water, for example. Or you may find that you sense oncoming illness in yourself and others. To develop this capacity further, you may want to record your psychic sensations and track them. Anytime you have communication with your less conscious side, it is important to acknowledge it in some way - to show respect for its power. You don't have to act in every instance, but you can acknowledge that you have received the information. If you don't the signal may become more distressing, or the voice may sink into silence.

Practical people have the ability to help you systematize your beliefs. They may push you to be more practical yourself, and you have to sort out which of their ideas are compatible with your own spiritual path.

Aspects of the Moon

You are aware of the apparent differences between spirit and soul as they are expressed in your daily life. You often struggle to decide what activities are the best for you personally, and you may even try to make this decision for other people from time to time. A companion on the spiritual path can be very helpful. You are very aware of the flow of information. You understand how you take in new ideas, and also how you express them to others. As you assimilate new ideas on the spiritual path, examine how they mesh with your earlier life experience, and build on that foundation. Emotional and sexual intensity can separate you from spirit or bring you closer, depending on your awareness of the richness of the interactions you experience. The creative dynamics of two people merging is a profound source of spiritual awareness if you get past the physical tension and emotional conflict. This deepening of experience takes time. Emotional friction in your activities can make you feel separated from your inner being. Use your physical energy to push through emotional barriers by finding ways to work out feelings without hurting others. Stick with each feeling until you understand how it motivates you. You are deeply sensitive to the energies around you, and often know how others feel before they show any sign. Your spiritual gift is to be subtle in your interactions. Be compassionate, but not gushy, and use your imagination to facilitate creative change in others, and within yourself. Power surges around you all the time, and you find you gradually become more attuned to its currents and nuances. Your spirit guides you towards power, not for its own sake, but so that you can learn how to use it well. Women inspire your spiritual life just as they influence you in other ways. Your soul and persona are well aligned. Thus other people are seldom surprised by your decisions and actions.

The Fourth House

The sign on the Fourth House cusp indicates the filter through which you view your core beliefs. It is the wellspring of all the best, most creative and most powerful ideas you will have throughout your lifetime.  It indicates the refrain that the inner voice sings to you when you are sad or filled with joy, when you are pessimistic or optimistic, when you are afraid or when you are experiencing the power of love in your life.

You have Gemini on the Fourth House cusp. Your core beliefs are gathered around the principle of Change - Change with a capital "C" because we are not talking about minor day-to-day ups and downs. We are considering the profound changes in mind and spirit that lead to human progress. These changes first appear in the beliefs of individuals and may take years or generations to spread throughout human culture, but they are the stuff of material and spiritual progress. You become the mediator between what has gone before and what is possible for the future.

First you must learn how your beliefs allow you to mediate within your own personality. You learn to argue logically and clearly by having internal conversations about questions or problems. You learn to distinguish between what is truly part of your own beliefs and what is not. You see the apparent separation between self and other clearly.

Second, you develop a similar awareness of the connection between mental and spiritual beliefs. Here you experience an adjustment of your personal desires vis-à-vis you spiritual aspirations. You see how the two relate to each other. At this level you may find that you perform the services of a mediator for others.

Third your core beliefs focus on your relationship to Spirit. At this level you refine your core beliefs concerning your mind, your will and spiritual love. You find that you lose the personal sense of things and contact the greater unity and harmony. You may find that you chafe at the restrictions, within yourself or others, that prevent the higher spiritual light from shining forth. You see the spiritual potential in everything, and wish others could see and manifest it more fully.

In the end you discover that you understand both the tendency to struggle or argue, and the tendency to resolution and harmony. As this understanding develops, you also find that you can cheerfully accept other people's foibles, just as you learn to more cheerfully accept your own. You reach a point where mind and heart are expressing as one.

Most of us were taught a set of "truths" in childhood and we were expected to accept them. To supplement what you have been taught by your parents, teachers, and the world at large, you need to develop a spiritual learning style that works for you.  If you then decide to teach others, you must develop communication skills that let you share these experiences clearly and meaningfully with your students.

Training Your Conscious Mind

Three factors contribute to your ability to train your conscious mind for spiritual development:

* the natural direction of your thinking

* training to take advantage of this direction

* training your nervous system, and learning to respond to it

Element of Mercury

The angel Raphael is associated with healing in the Bible. The capacity for both companionship and healing forms the essence of Mercury's expression.

With Mercury in Scorpio, your communication style is primarily the Feeling type. Your healing style is well suited to the emotional distress around you. You can get into the flow of emotional energy patterns, identifying their disparate components, and guiding others toward calmer, safer modes of expression. You work to illuminate whatever emotional condition you find, not surgically removing an emotional block, but helping to bring understanding so that the block relaxes on its own.

Training the conscious mind involves reasoning on the conscious level.  Spiritual Education teaches how to engage your intuitive function. Intuition can be trained.  Mercury reflects a specific way for you to learn about intuition.  See the section on Uranus for more information on your intuitive ability.

Your life is filled with transitions - even major transformations. You often feel them coming, and you can use your intuitive senses to make them at least a little easier. Contemplative practice will help to clear the mind so the messages are clearer. Then your courage can stand out in the moment of the crisis.

Your Mercury is in the 8th House. You have two weapons (or tools) for your spiritual journey - the capacity to develop practical skills, and the capacity to speak. If you use your tools to tear apart the work of others and to engage in sarcastic tongue-lashings, then you are operating from a material basis. If you are able to pursue difficult solutions through careful examination of the elements of a problem, and if you speak the truth, wrapping its potent blade with the silk of compassion, then you are well along the spiritual path. You will have extraordinary endurance, whichever way you use your tools. You function very well in formal settings. Among them are banks and other financial institutions; any location where funeral arrangements and services are held; insurance offices, and hospitals or offices where surgery is performed. Your best classroom is an arena where your students are practicing what they are learning, and not merely being taught theory. Another appropriate setting is a place where psychic activity occurs or where psychics work with their clients.

Mercury Aspects

You are very aware of the flow of information. You understand how you take in new ideas, and also how you express them to others. As you assimilate new ideas on the spiritual path, examine how they mesh with your earlier life experience, and build on that foundation. Common sense guides your daily activities, and this is just as true of your spiritual path. You study and evaluate what you are taught, and you apply your spiritual values in your daily work and play activities, not separating one from the other. An argumentative style pervades your inner dialogue, and may invade your interactions with others. Yet these people are able to help you develop your spiritual determination. Through them you will gain a broader range of judgment, making you a formidable voice for expressing spiritual values. You allow your thoughts to expand into spiritual realms without restriction, and you use this process to cleanse your mind and your words so that spirit can express ever more cleanly and clearly. You seek people with whom you can engage in serious spiritual work. Your capacity to concentrate on ideas can develop into deep philosophical understanding. You may become a teacher for others, as you recognize the effort required and can inspire it in your students. Your imagination takes you into wondrous realms of the subconscious, and this can cause a lack of clarity at key transitional points in your life. You have sympathy for others, as you feel their distress directly. Powerful will stands behind your words, whether they focus on spiritual matters or mundane circumstances. You find that your spiritual life moves forward in social and business settings. Thus it is imperative that you find a career and work associates who share your values, and support your life path.

The power of mind is unlimited, except by our own thinking.  As you proceed along the spiritual path, self-esteem grows.  Relationship with another person is a powerful force for the development of self-esteem and for spiritual growth.

Venus has been called the alter ego of the Earth.  Very close to the same size as the earth, Venus has an atmosphere inhospitable to human life.  The inner reaches of the unconscious mind were long thought to be inhospitable as well.  Modern psychology has delved into the mechanism of mind, and religious mystics have long studied the rocky terrain to be found within each of us.  The consensus is that to evolve spiritually, we must first look at ourselves.  One way to do this is through relationship with others.

Romantic, business and other relationships all offer us the opportunity to project our thoughts onto other people.  The evolutionary nature of a relationship allows us to explore our desires.  Then we can achieve spiritual connections that transcend sexual expression.

Right relationships between people provides inner awareness that helps us to mediate between personality and soul, between physical life and higher consciousness. Only through fusion of these apparently separate facets of your being can you approach true knowledge.

The Planet Venus provides indications about your best approach to spiritual partnerships.

With Venus in Scorpio, your best approach to healthy partnering is through the Feeling function. You gather concrete knowledge by talking about the subjects that interest you, and then listening. You like to know the name of everything, and often just the name tells you far more than most people learn though more serious study. You use the power of your mind to direct your feeling energy to help others.

Your physical and sexual intensity can overpower other people who are not ready for the surge of raw power you can generate. You also suffer when you allow your full energy to be released. As you develop the ability to modulate your physical energy, you find that spiritual ecstasy is better than physical lust.

Your Venus is in the 8th House. In the end, when everything is done, when you have achieved your goals, you will find them most satisfying if you have behaved well along the way. You attract other people to your point of view easily, and you must remember that they trust you just as much, or more, than you trust them. The key to working with others is to follow a middle path. You need not follow every extreme idea a companion suggests, nor do you need to shy away from all such ideas. Jealousy - the need to keep something just for yourself - is the dark emotion that can be balanced by judicious use of those resources you are willing to share. Concrete knowledge comes through transitions. Death is an important spiritual teacher for you, as it teaches you how to manage the feelings associated with profound changes in your life. Spiritual transformation shares some of the same feelings.

Venus Aspects

 Emotional and sexual intensity can separate you from spirit or bring you closer, depending on your awareness of the richness of the interactions you experience. The creative dynamics of two people merging is a profound source of spiritual awareness if you get past the physical tension and emotional conflict. This deepening of experience takes time. Feelings of love pervade your spiritual life. Strong relationships with your partner, friends and family provide a spark of spiritual activity deep within you. This spark can be expressed artistically or through social interactions. Sexual passion can be refined into spiritual ecstasy, but only if you are willing to put in the time and effort to cultivate the deepest personal relationship with another person. You achieve spiritual growth in a relationship that has a sexual spark, but that also has the promise of a long-standing spiritual intertwining of minds and hearts. You tend to fool yourself where change is concerned. Thus, you are able to drift into and out of spiritual grace without even knowing it. Don't mistake erotic dreams for the energy of tantra, and distinguish your personal desires from the teaching itself. Your generally affectionate nature attracts both good and bad influences. You have to sort them out for yourself.

The spiritual path has a number of potential pitfalls. Some of the most treacherous of these lie within our own minds. Our innermost thoughts become a prison, trapping us within walls of our own making. These may be the karmic result of the past, or they may be the result of recent actions. There are several ways we cause our own difficulties:

1) Secrets - Privacy and secrets are part of the picture. Children love the feeling of independence and power that comes with a secret. Problems only arise when the secrets we keep are detrimental to ourselves or to others.

2) Doubts - When a situation causes you to doubt, it is largely because it is incongruent with what you have learned in the past. You want something new, but your unconscious is in turmoil. You feel naughty, anxious, reluctant, or undeserving. Because of what you have learned from people you trust or from what you have read, you doubt your own decision-making ability.

3) Resistance - Resistance is not all bad. If change were too easy, we would have no stability. We could be talked into all sorts of things. What we need is a way to identify resistance for what it is, and then find ways to work with it.

Where your spiritual path is concerned, Neptune reveals how you handle secrets, how doubt arises for you, and also how to resolve resistance. One strategy involves your psychic ability.

Developing Your Psychic Ability

We use our psychic senses to understand the world of the present. You can train yourself to be more aware of the nuances of psychic awareness, and Neptune indicates how you can develop this ability.  You will then connect with the earth and other people in new ways, and also confirm the significance of your spiritual values.

With Neptune in Scorpio, your private, psychic style is primarily the Feeling type.

There is always activity in the deepest recesses of your mind. You feel movement well before it emerges from the subconscious so you can examine it in the light of day. Your instincts have always been good, and you may occasionally want to kick yourself for ignoring them.

Your interest in the psychic realm can be fostered through study of different kinds of psychic work. When you find methods that resonate with you, they are easily learned and even easier to apply. Experiment with dowsing, psycho-kinesis, and telepathy. Look into astrology, Tarot, numerology or other methods of forecasting. Try several styles of meditation to see what works best for you.

The best path is to find a combination of approaches that work for you. No one teacher will be able to give you everything you need. As you develop a package of psychic skills, you find that any self-doubt recedes into the background. You will still probably question yourself from time to time, but your ability to extend your awareness into your present surroundings, as well as into the future, will serve to strengthen your self-confidence.

Neptune is in the 8th House. You may have spiritual gifts that you never really had to develop - you just have them. For example, you may be able to see auras around people and objects, and you may be able to read the person's health or emotional state. Whatever your extrasensory gifts, you can use them to help others, and to understand your own spiritual direction more clearly. For example, you can decide not to associate with individuals whose auras seem ugly to you, and you can find ways to cleanse your own aura so that your perceptions are sharper. You are connected to the world of shamanism and magic through a deep personal understanding of death, birth and other important life transitions. You may be able to feel big changes well ahead of time, and use this sense to plan ahead. You also feel the texture of other people's emotional and material resources, and thus learn just how much you can ask of them.

Neptune Aspects

You are deeply sensitive to the energies around you, and often know how others feel before they show any sign. Your spiritual gift is to be subtle in your interactions. Be compassionate, but not gushy, and use your imagination to facilitate creative change in others, and within yourself. Your spiritual sensitivity can create problems, as you are open to both creative and destructive psychic influences. Being open is not the problem. What you must develop is discrimination between helpful and harmful energies. Your imagination takes you into wondrous realms of the subconscious, and this can cause a lack of clarity at key transitional points in your life. You have sympathy for others, as you feel their distress directly. You tend to fool yourself where change is concerned. Thus, you are able to drift into and out of spiritual grace without even knowing it. Don't mistake erotic dreams for the energy of tantra, and distinguish your personal desires from the teaching itself. You are all too aware of your own weaknesses and need to develop a sure sense of your own spiritual motivation. Then relationships with others form on established ground of inspiration and compassion. As you overcome the urge to indulge in momentary physical pleasures, you build the capacity for spiritual ecstasy. You are often fully aware of the suffering of others, and tend to take it into yourself. This can make you rather moody, or it can serve to strengthen your spiritual resolve. It is important for you to sort out your own neurotic behavior before you take on the problems of others. You are sensitive to the urgings of your inner voice, and you may even hear the voice within other people. You will experience visions and other forms of psychic awareness.

The Twelfth House

The sign on the Twelfth House indicates how you color issues of doubt and resistance. It also reflects your most direct approach to your psychic insights.

You have Aquarius on the Twelfth House cusp. You find that you attract people like a magnet, and it may be difficult to sort out the positive connections from destructive relationships. Your dreams provide a way to measure the sincerity of others toward you.  Your inner voice will tell you when there is something not quite right about a situation or person.  Meditation that focuses your mind on an object supports clarity in your dreams, and together the two help you to loosen the bonds of the physical body, as well as to find the best soul companions.

Planets in the Twelfth House

Planets in the Twelfth House have just risen over the horizon. They have a quality similar to the Sun in that they are casting their influence on you in a fresh, genuine expression of their energy. You accept this energy and consider it, but you may not choose to reveal your thoughts to anyone else.

Both doubts and psychic strengths are a reflection of planets in the Twelfth House that serve as guideposts along the path of self-discovery. Your private thoughts may center on the qualities these planets represent. Your teachers may exemplify the qualities of these planets to the extent that they reach your inner psychic core and help you understand your potential. In the end these planets indicate qualities that you can bring into the world to help others, as well as the feelings of compassion surrounding all your activities.

Jupiter in 12th House:

Traditionally you would have taken contemplative vows and sought the seclusion of monastic life. In that setting you would have had daily tasks to perform, but you would also have had many hours to focus on spirit. In the modern world you may not have the luxury of time, so you need to address your spiritual needs carefully and create a suitable space for your meditation or other spiritual pursuits. Because you are open and receptive, you may want to structure your private space so that it attracts the highest spiritual energy possible. Traditional religious or ethnic objects may help you to maintain an environment conducive to contemplation.

Twelfth House Aspects

You allow your thoughts to expand into spiritual realms without restriction, and you use this process to cleanse your mind and your words so that spirit can express ever more cleanly and clearly. Your best and strongest relationships emerge from chance meetings, and you tend to depend on luck to carry you through difficult times. Your strong intuition provides insight into the almost organic rhythm of your life. Your independent spirit thrives on a less restrictive spiritual practice.

Pluto, Scorpio and the Eighth House in the birth chart deal with issues of death and transformation. On the spiritual path a shaman must undergo a death-like initiation in order to come into his or her shamanic powers. In our own lives we continually experience the death of old ways of being and the birth of new possibilities. Transformative events can teach lessons concerning your spiritual growth:

* They are signposts to indicate progress.

* They allow you to modify your behavior in positive ways.

* They remind you to be gentle and kind with yourself.

* They remind you to accept yourself as you are, and to move forward.

* They remind you to support and encourage the child within yourself, just as you would encourage another person.

The Eighth House in your chart defines the mechanisms for change and self-acceptance that are most appropriate for you. By understanding them you develop a sense of self and a set of behaviors that lead more directly to your goal. You discard behaviors that no longer serve you in your journey on the spiritual path.

Scorpio is the natural sign on the Eighth House, and the associated planet is Pluto.  How appropriate that Pluto, mythological ruler of the underworld, should be the planetary ruler of the Eighth House of death and transformation.

Yet Pluto attracts the living, though it cannot hold on to them for long. So it is with life. We are attracted to one way of doing things, but we know that change is the only certainty in life. As we travel the spiritual path, we find that each ending is the source of a new beginning, and that we often benefit from even the most traumatic events. By descending into the world of darkness and pain, we borrow a bit of Pluto's power, so that on the next step along the path we are stronger and more courageous.

With Pluto in Virgo, your approach to death and transformation is primarily through the Sensation function. Potentially more mater-of-fact about issues concerning death and change, you take transitions In stride for the most part. In the occasional instance when a death or change catches you off guard, you may feel that you are unable to move out of one feeling into another. When you feel stuck, you may need to gather your will to take some action. By focusing on simple practical details, you take steps, one at a time, to lift the weight of feelings that have mired you temporarily. Generally you are able to handle the details of planning that are required when death or change occurs. You grasp the practical need for one thing to die before another may be born, for example. You also may be profoundly aware of past life events or the potential of a future lifetime, and you find practical ways to bridge the apparent gaps between.

You and many of your peers have the inquiring minds that have led to advances in medicine, the computer industry, and many other fields. You manage to get great results with relatively little. Spiritual issues demand the same level of attention, and yield the same high quality results.

Pluto Aspects

Power surges around you all the time, and you find you gradually become more attuned to its currents and nuances. Your spirit guides you towards power, not for its own sake, but so that you can learn how to use it well. Powerful will stands behind your words, whether they focus on spiritual matters or mundane circumstances. Transformation suits you very well, and the changes that come your way are easily absorbed, as long as the other people involved are not emotionally upset. Plan your entrances and exits with other people in mind. You are sensitive to the urgings of your inner voice, and you may even hear the voice within other people. You will experience visions and other forms of psychic awareness.

The Eighth House

The sign on the Eighth House cusp indicates the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual approach you take when dealing with birth, death and transformation.

You have Scorpio on the Eighth House cusp. The direct path to change is always a good choice. Your strong awareness of the rhythm of change matches your will in such situations. Death is seen as a natural adjustment or companion for life. When major transitions occur, you tend to face them and enter into them with all your faculties alert. Open to the experience, you feel the joy or sadness, anger or fear of the moment in the moment.

Planets in the Eighth House

Sun in 8th House:

You appear fearless as you travel through a life filled with change. You face transitions frequently enough that no one would think you are unfamiliar with death and transformation. Sometimes you over-extend yourself, and seem to challenge the Fates by acting recklessly. For you to understand the shaman's message, you must become the shaman. But you don't have to die to gather the necessary wisdom. Rather, you need to die to the desire to use your power only for yourself, and learn to share it with others. If you cannot share, then you must at least use your power wisely so that you hurt no one in your personal quest. Sexual energy is a profound source of pain and pleasure for you. Physical contact with a partner is often necessary for your well-being and health. When you deepen a connection with another person, you transcend your normal perceptions and enter a space where life is illuminated by more than physical senses. Ecstatic experience may first be found in sexual union, but that is only the beginning. You may find that any experience can evoke the memories, the feelings, even the peak of sexual ecstasy.

Mercury in 8th House:

You have two weapons (or tools) for your spiritual journey - the capacity to develop practical skills, and the capacity to speak. If you use your tools to tear apart the work of others and to engage in sarcastic tongue-lashings, then you are operating from a material basis. If you are able to pursue difficult solutions through careful examination of the elements of a problem, and if you speak the truth, wrapping its potent blade with the silk of compassion, then you are well along the spiritual path. You will have extraordinary endurance, whichever way you use your tools. You function very well in formal settings. Among them are banks and other financial institutions; any location where funeral arrangements and services are held; insurance offices, and hospitals or offices where surgery is performed. Your best classroom is an arena where your students are practicing what they are learning, and not merely being taught theory. Another appropriate setting is a place where psychic activity occurs or where psychics work with their clients.

Venus in 8th House:

In the end, when everything is done, when you have achieved your goals, you will find them most satisfying if you have behaved well along the way. You attract other people to your point of view easily, and you must remember that they trust you just as much, or more, than you trust them. The key to working with others is to follow a middle path. You need not follow every extreme idea a companion suggests, nor do you need to shy away from all such ideas. Jealousy - the need to keep something just for yourself - is the dark emotion that can be balanced by judicious use of those resources you are willing to share. Concrete knowledge comes through transitions. Death is an important spiritual teacher for you, as it teaches you how to manage the feelings associated with profound changes in your life. Spiritual transformation shares some of the same feelings.

Neptune in 8th House:

You may have spiritual gifts that you never really had to develop - you just have them. For example, you may be able to see auras around people and objects, and you may be able to read the person's health or emotional state. Whatever your extrasensory gifts, you can use them to help others, and to understand your own spiritual direction more clearly. For example, you can decide not to associate with individuals whose auras seem ugly to you, and you can find ways to cleanse your own aura so that your perceptions are sharper. You are connected to the world of shamanism and magic through a deep personal understanding of death, birth and other important life transitions. You may be able to feel big changes well ahead of time, and use this sense to plan ahead. You also feel the texture of other people's emotional and material resources, and thus learn just how much you can ask of them.

Eighth House Aspects

You are aware of the apparent differences between spirit and soul as they are expressed in your daily life. You often struggle to decide what activities are the best for you personally, and you may even try to make this decision for other people from time to time. A companion on the spiritual path can be very helpful. Common sense guides your daily activities, and this is just as true of your spiritual path. You study and evaluate what you are taught, and you apply your spiritual values in your daily work and play activities, not separating one from the other. Feelings of love pervade your spiritual life. Strong relationships with your partner, friends and family provide a spark of spiritual activity deep within you. This spark can be expressed artistically or through social interactions. You have tremendous physical energy that can be applied to the pursuit of spiritual goals. Put your best effort into each of your life activities, all the while keeping the spiritual component in mind. By engaging your heart completely in each act, you come to understand spiritual unity more fully. Your spiritual sensitivity can create problems, as you are open to both creative and destructive psychic influences. Being open is not the problem. What you must develop is discrimination between helpful and harmful energies. You gain recognition through others, and self-confidence through spiritual endeavors as well as public events. You are very aware of the flow of information. You understand how you take in new ideas, and also how you express them to others. As you assimilate new ideas on the spiritual path, examine how they mesh with your earlier life experience, and build on that foundation. Common sense guides your daily activities, and this is just as true of your spiritual path. You study and evaluate what you are taught, and you apply your spiritual values in your daily work and play activities, not separating one from the other. An argumentative style pervades your inner dialogue, and may invade your interactions with others. Yet these people are able to help you develop your spiritual determination. Through them you will gain a broader range of judgment, making you a formidable voice for expressing spiritual values. You allow your thoughts to expand into spiritual realms without restriction, and you use this process to cleanse your mind and your words so that spirit can express ever more cleanly and clearly. You seek people with whom you can engage in serious spiritual work. Your capacity to concentrate on ideas can develop into deep philosophical understanding. You may become a teacher for others, as you recognize the effort required and can inspire it in your students. Your imagination takes you into wondrous realms of the subconscious, and this can cause a lack of clarity at key transitional points in your life. You have sympathy for others, as you feel their distress directly. Powerful will stands behind your words, whether they focus on spiritual matters or mundane circumstances. Emotional and sexual intensity can separate you from spirit or bring you closer, depending on your awareness of the richness of the interactions you experience. The creative dynamics of two people merging is a profound source of spiritual awareness if you get past the physical tension and emotional conflict. This deepening of experience takes time. Feelings of love pervade your spiritual life. Strong relationships with your partner, friends and family provide a spark of spiritual activity deep within you. This spark can be expressed artistically or through social interactions. Sexual passion can be refined into spiritual ecstasy, but only if you are willing to put in the time and effort to cultivate the deepest personal relationship with another person. You achieve spiritual growth in a relationship that has a sexual spark, but that also has the promise of a long-standing spiritual intertwining of minds and hearts. You tend to fool yourself where change is concerned. Thus, you are able to drift into and out of spiritual grace without even knowing it. Don't mistake erotic dreams for the energy of tantra, and distinguish your personal desires from the teaching itself. Your generally affectionate nature attracts both good and bad influences. You have to sort them out for yourself. You are deeply sensitive to the energies around you, and often know how others feel before they show any sign. Your spiritual gift is to be subtle in your interactions. Be compassionate, but not gushy, and use your imagination to facilitate creative change in others, and within yourself. Your spiritual sensitivity can create problems, as you are open to both creative and destructive psychic influences. Being open is not the problem. What you must develop is discrimination between helpful and harmful energies. Your imagination takes you into wondrous realms of the subconscious, and this can cause a lack of clarity at key transitional points in your life. You have sympathy for others, as you feel their distress directly. You tend to fool yourself where change is concerned. Thus, you are able to drift into and out of spiritual grace without even knowing it. Don't mistake erotic dreams for the energy of tantra, and distinguish your personal desires from the teaching itself. You are all too aware of your own weaknesses and need to develop a sure sense of your own spiritual motivation. Then relationships with others form on established ground of inspiration and compassion. As you overcome the urge to indulge in momentary physical pleasures, you build the capacity for spiritual ecstasy. You are often fully aware of the suffering of others, and tend to take it into yourself. This can make you rather moody, or it can serve to strengthen your spiritual resolve. It is important for you to sort out your own neurotic behavior before you take on the problems of others. You are sensitive to the urgings of your inner voice, and you may even hear the voice within other people. You will experience visions and other forms of psychic awareness.

Intuition is an ability beyond logical thinking.  Through it you can consider future outcomes. In the Buddhist tradition, intuition is a mental ability, equal to intellect that can provide direct insight. In mathematics intuition is the capacity to "guess" the answer to a problem, skipping the regular logical processes.

Intuition is more than your inner voice.  Intuition is one of the methods by which you understand the world.  It is a skill you can develop and use consciously. Intuition often surfaces during meditation. When the mind is quiet, then intuition can be heard.  Once trained, you can access intuition by stopping your normal waking process and entering the calm that you have cultivated.

The planet associated with intuition is Uranus.  With Uranus in Virgo, your intuition works best through the Sensation function. Your intuition comes to you in very concrete images. For example, you can see a piece of land and clearly envision a house, a road, or a bridge being built there. You actually see the finished product in your mind's eye, and then take the practical steps to achieve the result you see. You also can find multiple uses of tools, and can usually handle an emergency with whatever materials and tools you have available.

You need to apply intuition to your work in a methodical way. Given the future solution you perceive, you have to find the tools you need, even when they are designed for other tasks.

Your Uranus is in the 6th House. Your intuition works a lot better for other people than it does for you. As you solve problems for others, you will at least reap the benefit of knowing you are doing good work for them. Find another person to be your intuitive beacon.

Uranus Aspects

Your best and strongest relationships emerge from chance meetings, and you tend to depend on luck to carry you through difficult times. Your strong intuition provides insight into the almost organic rhythm of your life. Your independent spirit thrives on a less restrictive spiritual practice. Transformation suits you very well, and the changes that come your way are easily absorbed, as long as the other people involved are not emotionally upset. Plan your entrances and exits with other people in mind.

How can you use your self-awareness to access intuition, a presumably involuntary, less conscious capacity?  To take the direct, conscious path is challenging at best.  This method only works if you can consciously enter unconscious territory, and by definition, that territory is unconscious because you cannot access it directly.  You can rarely dive in intentionally.

You can wait for intuition to arise naturally without doing anything.  Or you can practice meditation. It is fairly easy to learn and requires no particular physical or mental skills, except the ability to focus the mind.

In addition, you have specific avenues, or points of focus, to aid you in the practice.  The sign on the Midheaven indicates an area of the subconscious that you can access through meditation, thereby identifying spiritual keys to your development.  By going within, you find the higher values most suited to your own path.

With the Midheaven in Sagittarius, your self-awareness and your path to self-realization are primarily through the Intuitive function.

Beneath the subconscious desire to be the arbitrator of conflicts in your life, you find the capacity to achieve resolution, both within yourself and among others, through more conciliatory means. You examine situations from an early age with an eye to how they are resolved, who is a skilled mediator, how they find the middle ground and convince others to be flexible. You may study history and politics, or you may focus on sociology or psychology, depending on the direction of your interests.

Your understanding that all difficulties are largely a result of misunderstanding or lack of information can grow into an ability to serve others through diplomacy and tact, and through detailed examination of the factors involved in a problem. You have the makings of a researcher into profound subjects, as you believe in examining the source of a situation, and not merely the apparent symptoms.

Midheaven Aspects

Perhaps no single principle of Asian religions has fascinated us more than karma and its link to reincarnation. Karma refers to the cause and effect relationship between what we do and the results we get. Our actions bring reactions, constructive and not so constructive. However, everyday feedback often comes from individuals who are no more clear about their spiritual values than we are. So, what should you take seriously?

How does karma work in your life? Will it be played out in your next incarnation, or will you experience it in the here-and-now?

Certainly you do not have to believe in karma or reincarnation to make progress along your spiritual path. However, if you do astrology can offer insight into what factors in the past may be influencing you today. The following are suggestions concerning past influences. Think of them as relating to family and childhood experience, or you can relate them to your past lives, or both.

With Saturn in Aquarius, you experience karma and dharma primarily through the Thinking function. You exemplify the best of the thinking process when you are positioning yourself for effective action. You are well prepared to logically pursue intelligent activity in any area of life where thinking logically will prevail. You are willing to entertain the concept of past lives, but you will seldom get caught up in the emotions associated with the past. You will examine past events logically and consider how they impact on your present decisions, and you learn not to dwell on things that cannot be changed. You make decisions that are generally considered to be wise by your peers. They may approach you with passionate arguments, strange futuristic plans, or even hard-edged "facts," but you apply your logic equally to each of these, and make decisions that everyone can live with. In preparing for the future, you are able to formulate a plan and project it into the future mentally, observing how the turnings of each part of the plan affect other systems. Your plans become more effective when you seek the counsel of individuals who use each of the four strategies in their planning, as you can make use of their thinking style within your logical approach.

Social situations bring out the best in you. You are effective in groups and are able to encourage harmonious relationships among others. Your mental approach to planning needs the solid foundation these other people can provide through their diverse viewpoints.

Your Saturn is in the 11th House. Your ideals and creativity align to bring solid results. You are a reliable partner or group member, always striving to keep your end of every agreement. A good practice is to set generous, not excessive goals, and to use your spiritual values as part of the skill set you bring to each project.

Saturn Aspects

You seek people with whom you can engage in serious spiritual work. Your capacity to concentrate on ideas can develop into deep philosophical understanding. You may become a teacher for others, as you recognize the effort required and can inspire it in your students. You are often fully aware of the suffering of others, and tend to take it into yourself. This can make you rather moody, or it can serve to strengthen your spiritual resolve. It is important for you to sort out your own neurotic behavior before you take on the problems of others. Associations with individuals much older than yourself are the stuff of your spiritual education. Examine your inhibitions (you have some), and seek to break out of your natural desire to isolate yourself.

Behind what you know about yourself - behind all other considerations of spirituality, lie the transcendent values that are most important to you.  These are the values you have worked to discover from among all the rules you have been taught.  They are the reason you have read books, studied with teachers, privately pondered and examined the events of your life.  They are the fundamental principles that you believe will help you find fulfillment as a human being.  As such they are the source of energy behind your self-awareness, the motivation of your spiritual search, and the principles that you apply to your dharma, or life path.

With Jupiter in Pisces, your approach to and understanding of transcendant values is primarily through the Feeling function. You find it easy to expand your emotional range to encompass other people, large projects, and even global thinking. You naturally want to engage with others because this is one of the principal ways you learn. While you may use intellect skillfully in your daily activities, it is at the emotional heart level that you connect to the planet, to humanity, and to spirit. It may seem that fusion of heart and mind is easier when Jupiter is in a water sign because we ordinarily experience the values of the heart in an emotional way. However, such fusion is not limited to water signs, nor do water signs limit the possible expression of transcendent values in any way. One advantage to this placement is that a constant flow of spiritual energy is possible. You may benefit from a meditation practice that focuses on the flows of energy through your body, whether it be breath or energy on a higher plane.

If you have no contemplative guidance system, you can fall prey to moods induced by alcohol and drugs. What works better is a relatively quiet life, or at least finding a quiet space in which you can rest from the emotional impressions swirling around you. Then the spiritual path can make itself known to you.

Aspects of the Jupiter

You allow your thoughts to expand into spiritual realms without restriction, and you use this process to cleanse your mind and your words so that spirit can express ever more cleanly and clearly. Your best and strongest relationships emerge from chance meetings, and you tend to depend on luck to carry you through difficult times. Your strong intuition provides insight into the almost organic rhythm of your life. Your independent spirit thrives on a less restrictive spiritual practice.

The Ninth House

You have Sagittarius on the Ninth House cusp. While human emotions may not seem transcendent, understanding them is one of your highest values. This is important for you as an individual, and it is also significant in the way you interact with others. A second value is focused consciousness. Learning to focus is key to the proper orientation of your work, whether in the material or spiritual realm. Without focus, your work wanders all over the map, never reaching its destination. A third transcendent principle lies in the perceived duality of physical existence. You find many ways to understand the illusion of duality, and to help others understand it as well. As you become aware of these specific values, you find that your efforts follow as sure a path as an arrow shot from a bow, and the power of your path lies in your personality, just as the power of the arrow is inherent in both arrow and bow.

 Mars indicates an area of life that is vitally important to your spiritual growth. Whatever path you choose, this factor will come up again and again. Others will see how it affects you, but they are unlikely to understand the depth of its significance. You yourself may not understand the power of this influence on your life.

The Element of Mars

Mars is naturally associated with Aries, a fire sign. Traditionally Mars was also associated with Scorpio, a water sign. Thus the expression of Mars shares the nature of these two elements to some extent. The movement between water and fire involves the capacity for discriminating awareness. Mars governs the five senses-touch, taste, sight, hearing and smell. The position of Mars directly reflects your capacity to relate to the world through your senses.

With Mars in Leo, your spiritual persona is expressed most fluently through the Intuitive function. You naturally consider the future while taking action in the present. You relate to the physical world via intuition, and you do the same in spiritual considerations. When you encounter a dilemma or paradox in your life, you tend to project the problem into the future to hypothesize how it will be resolved, and then you take action in the present to move toward that outcome. Your actions, while focused on the future, are always a reflection of a purification process that is usually associated with water.

The sign placement of Mars is significant to developing your spiritual persona. The sign colors the message you receive concerning the direction your spiritual path will take. Here are three personality traits associated with Mars in your chart: Fairness, Sacrifice, Humility. If you consider each trait and consciously evoke it in your daily activities, you will find that the path becomes more fulfilling, more insightful, and easier. By actively devoting energy to the development of the traits of your Mars, you spontaneously develop several traits associated with other signs.

House Placement of Mars

Your Mars is in the 5th House. The focus of your spiritual persona is on issues of creativity. Creativity has three parts:  creation, recreation and procreation. Your spiritual path is uniquely tied to these three expressions of your being. Therefore, it is important for you to at least consider all three. You may not choose to have children of your own, but you are drawn to activities with young people. You probably will find that all your activities have a creative angle.

Mars Aspects

Emotional friction in your activities can make you feel separated from your inner being. Use your physical energy to push through emotional barriers by finding ways to work out feelings without hurting others. Stick with each feeling until you understand how it motivates you. You have tremendous physical energy that can be applied to the pursuit of spiritual goals. Put your best effort into each of your life activities, all the while keeping the spiritual component in mind. By engaging your heart completely in each act, you come to understand spiritual unity more fully. An argumentative style pervades your inner dialogue, and may invade your interactions with others. Yet these people are able to help you develop your spiritual determination. Through them you will gain a broader range of judgment, making you a formidable voice for expressing spiritual values. Sexual passion can be refined into spiritual ecstasy, but only if you are willing to put in the time and effort to cultivate the deepest personal relationship with another person. You achieve spiritual growth in a relationship that has a sexual spark, but that also has the promise of a long-standing spiritual intertwining of minds and hearts. You are all too aware of your own weaknesses and need to develop a sure sense of your own spiritual motivation. Then relationships with others form on established ground of inspiration and compassion. As you overcome the urge to indulge in momentary physical pleasures, you build the capacity for spiritual ecstasy.

The Ascendant provides a personal anchor for understanding spiritual potential and process in the birth chart.  It shows how you express yourself in the world.  This is because the rising sign represents choice - you choose what you want to show to the world.  Ultimately, however, you come back to the Sun sign on the spiritual level.

Each person learns about the Sun sign's higher spiritual values and cultivates those values by developing the positive traits of the Ascendant.  Each sign as it rises brings to light different personality traits, different physical appearance, and a different sense of spiritual direction.  The rising sign offers a container for your experimentation with constructive, creative personal choices about how to act in the world.  Later you can take this practice back to the Sun sign and master its lessons.

Remember that the Midheaven and Ascendant depend on an accurate birth time.  If you have no idea of your birth time, the material included here may help you to focus on a spiritual persona for yourself.

Your Rising Sign (Ascendant)

The symbol for your rising sign is two fishes, bound together but moving in opposite directions. These fish represent your soul nature and your form nature. You have a form nature in order to experience the growth of your soul, yet the two can seem to struggle against each other. You find that pursuing your own personal material desires does not resolve this struggle, but only deepens it. You need to find a spiritual path that allows you both to satisfy your personal needs and desires, and to satisfy your spiritual yearning for significance.

How to accomplish this balance?  You can focus first on your instinctual nature. You find that you usually have a feeling about what to do in any situation, but you sometimes listen to other people instead of paying attention to your inner daimon. One way to allow this inner voice its say is to take time each day to isolate yourself and listen. Listening to the sound of water can focus your mind and let your inner voice be heard.

On the physical plane you are drawn to mediumship - your psychic senses perceive a lot that other people overlook. As you begin to listen more deeply, you find that your role is that of mediator between the seen and unseen worlds. You can sympathize with the difficulties of others, and you can synthesize the feelings and motivations that can help them. As you develop this skill, you will find that you are no longer operating from the instinctual level, but now use your intellect to discern on both planes and to synthesize the information you gather.

Probably your major problem is your psychic sensitivity. You need to work with this ability on the intellectual level so that you can use it effectively, instead of being its victim. Your sign is associated with the feet. Forward progress involves learning how to walk, both physically and psychically, through the obstacles before you.

Ascendant Aspects

Women inspire your spiritual life just as they influence you in other ways. Your soul and persona are well aligned. Thus other people are seldom surprised by your decisions and actions. You gain recognition through others, and self-confidence through spiritual endeavors as well as public events. Your generally affectionate nature attracts both good and bad influences. You have to sort them out for yourself.

This interpretation of your life path has provided a systematic look at astrological factors that together add up to a spiritually oriented map.  As you come to understand your unique map, you can move forward through life joyously and courageously, knowing that the path is appropriate to your personal beliefs, desires and needs.

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