Gustav Holst, Op. 32 - "Mercury, the Messenger"

Gustav Holst's "Mercury." from The Planets. 

Astrological Fear of Success leads to Self-Undoing

Do you know someone who is afraid of accomplishment?  How about someone whose astrological patterns show "a fear of success" or "a rejection of Life Challenges": someone who subconsciously attracts or manifests conditions which sabotages his/her life (or that of someone in collaboration) so that plans go astray in spite of the best intentions or desires. Or they express desire for happiness, but the fear of "the unknown" and its potential for growing past and through life challenges makes them reject opportunities that would otherwise bring them wisdom.

It's as if they generate a force field of Mercury/Mars retrograde in their lives. These actions are externalized through others, especially key family members, in the form of illness, accident, and other forms of controlled chaos.  Each time a plan is set or about to be implemented, someone close to the subject has an event upon which the subject then postpones, cancels, or delays whatever he/she was going to activate, again, with a second party's involvement.  (Hence, the Mars/Mercury retrograde parallel.)  I've known Crabs who do this with controlled helplessness, but this is slightly different: the subject DOES want to move forward or activate a project or goal, but is too emotionally caught up in the lives of others.

I believe there are patterns which may be clues: the moon in a water sign (especially Cancer) with Mars in tight or inharmonious aspect (conjunction, square, opposition--or even quincunx); Capricorn ascendant (I've seen this twice--they were content to be "tethered goats), and a cardinal sign Sun (or the cusp of Cancer-Leo: the Lion for dramatic effort).  The Aries sun type WANTS to initiate or activate, but keeps being sidetracked; the Libra type is too caught up in relationship issues, including co-dependency. And the Capricorn ambition to achieve is legendary; in this case, the objective (or mountain top) that is never reached.

I've also seen this with personal planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars) in the 12th house--especially in water signs. (The individual gets so emotionally caught up in decision-making that they can't get going. Try telling a Mars in Pisces 12th house to take action! "On your mark, get set...{sink to the bottom!}"

A Jupiter/Saturn opposition or--believe it or not--the conjunction--can also indicate this: the person has great large-scale ideas (Jupiter), but is frustrated (or worried) about achieving them (Saturn). I call that aspect "driving with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake pedal." On the other hand, this could also indicate someone who DOES achieve in spite of obstacles or delays.

Again, psychological astrology looks at the individual and offers options: there is not a "you will do this" condition, but rather a set of choices.  Success or frustration is one example of how and why psychological astrology shows us the way we open or close the doors in our lives.

Astrological-Social Archetypes: Role Models of society

Like the Caped Crusader, there are a variety of archetypes (social role models) found within literature--and psychological astrology. Carl Jung used the concept of archetypes to identify these role models through mythology as examples of the life patterns that the zodiac signs personify.  Note that there are male and female archetypes.  To me, Batman is a Scorpio type of role model: fighting the Underworld figures by using the dark of night and a cave as his hide-out/power.

FEMALE ARCHETYPES

* Seductive Muse (Aphrodite): Scarlett O'Hara and Emma Bovary

* Femme Fatale (villainous Aphrodite): Cleopatra

Amazon (Artemis): Jo March (and Rose Dawson - Kate Winslet, Titanic)

* Gorgon (villainous Artemis): Nikita

* Father's Daughter (Athena): Queen Elizabeth I
* Backstabber (villainous Athena): Lady Macbeth

* Nurturer (Demeter): Mary Poppins, Meg March (Little Women)
* Over-controlling Mother (villainous Demeter): Nurse in Romeo & Juliet

* Matriarch (Hera): Monica from Friends

 * Scorned Woman/Wife (villainous Hera; Lilith): Mrs. Bennett (of Pride & Prejudice)

* Mystic (Hestia): Phoebe from Friends

* Betrayer (villainous Hestia): Blanche DuBois ("A Streetcar named Desire")

* Female Messiah (Isis): Monica from Touched by an Angel, Lady of the Lake in Arthurian Legends

* Destroyer (villainous Isis): Erin Brockovich (movie), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansen

* Maiden (Persephone): Rachel from Friends, Juliet from Romeo and Juliet

* Troubled Teen (Persephone): Ophelia from Hamlet 

MALE ARCHETYPES

# Businessman (Apollo): Mr. Darcy from Pride & Prejudice, Jerry Maguire

# Traitor (villainous Apollo): Loki

# Protector (Ares): Lancelot from Arthurian Legends, Romeo from Romeo & Juliet

# Gladiator (villainous Ares): Thor, Atretes from Francine River's Mark of the Lion series

# Recluse (Hades):  Quasimodo, Beast from Beauty & the Beast

# Warlock (villainous Hades):  Dr. Jekyll

# Fool (Hermes): Joey from Friends; Austin Powers; Howard, Raj, and Leonard from Big Bang Theory.

# Derelict (villainous Hermes): the Fool in King Lear

# The Woman's Man (Dionysus): Nick Marshall in What Women Want, Will Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love, Jack Dawson in Titanic

# Seducer (villainous Dionysus):  John Willoughby from Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

# Male Messiah (Osiris): Luke Skywalker, Martin Luther King, Gandhi

# Punisher (villainous Osiris): Malcolm X, Wolverine, Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise), The Equalizer (Denzel Washington)

# Artist (Poseidon):  Jack from Will & Grace, J.D. (Brad Pitt) in Thelma & Louise

# Abuser (villainous Poseidon): Dr. Zhivago

## King (Zeus): Ricky Ricardo (I Love Lucy), King Arthur, Julius Caesar, Tony Soprano Sr. from The Sopranos

# Dictator (villainous Zeus): Blackbeard the pirate, King Lear

Taking a Train Ride with the Planets

Here, the planets (and the Sun and Moon) serve as the staff and accessories of a train trip to...your destination in Life.

Sun: The type of train you’re riding on: passenger, working, or other. Obviously, you want to get somewhere by being someone, yes?

Moon: The reason you’re on the ride--where you’re going and what you want on the journey.  We supply what you need--including a full moon for your viewing at night.  An eclipse may or may not be available, depending on departure and destination.

Mercury: the conductor who gives and approves the passes; also, the communication and information about the train, including tickets and fees.

Venus:  the dining/sleeping cars.  Comfort is always part of the service--and don't forget to thank the porter!

We provide a cuisine to match your taste--and check out the dessert specials!

Mars: The locomotive.  Bullet train, if you wish. Faster, stronger, better.

Jupiter: the amenities onboard--as you can see, we strive for luxury for the best!

Saturn:  schedules, routines, and responsibilities of the staff. Promptness is a business, you know.

Uranus: the entertainment--and excitement of the unusual. Viva la difference. Why, Agatha Christie was onboard the other day with Monsieur Poirot...on film, that is.

Neptune:  travelers on pilgrimages--we do travel to India, of course, as well as the Holy Land...and Tibet as well.

Pluto: the fuel that runs the locomotive.  Coal is so...out of fashion--and, well...nuclear power just has such...energy.

Aspects Part II: Mixing & Matching Planetary Effort

Aspects Part II: Mixing & Matching Planetary Effort

   Arcs:  The Energy Interaction of Signs

• 6 +/- degrees of REAL separation!

• Cooperation & Adjustment

• Frustration & Resistance

• Resolution Management of Life Crises

 Aspects represent the dynamics of cooperation or resistance between planets; a kind of dance between two distributors of energy. With some aspect patterns, the relationship is fluid, vibrant, resourceful, and collaborative; in other cases, it's a duel between (and among) disgruntled participants.  (Aspects can work in pairs, trios, or even quads.)

Which planets are matched and how this is determined is done through the geometry of astrology, keeping in mind a specific range of contact called "arcs." An arc is like an individual's arm span: as far as he or she can reach, that's within their arc of contact. Some objects may be closer or just at fingertip range; this also is a condition of the arc and aspect formed.  It's an emotional-psychological-intellectual-physical bonding with another planet's energies.

 (A more involved but advanced option is to consider whether the mathematical aspects between two planets are approaching: like two magnets attracting each other--or separating: losing their attraction and drifting apart. If applying, the soul's experience is to LEARN this circumstance; if separating, the soul has already learned this dynamic and is getting a refresher class.)

(Author's note): I prefer the five major "hard" ones most commonly used--the conjunction, square, opposition, trine. No, I think the sextile is too mushy. I do use one minor: the quincunx. It's a minor aspect but it's not easily managed in behavior because it's too irritating to ignore and quite obvious.) 

Each arc/aspect has its own range of mathematical reach for contact with another planet's potential dynamics; if either is beyond the specific range of encounter specified for an aspect, then neither are engaged. That "extended reach forward-&-backward for contact to other planets" gives valuable clues about behavior and choices made. 

Aspects: the patterns of Cooperation or Challenge in the psyche

Aspects are the patterns of Cooperation or Resistance & Challenge. They make up the game of Six Degrees of Separation: who's working (or not) with whom (signs and planets). It is close, but it’s a plus-or-minus range from zero to 30 in astrology.  Twelve ways x 30 = 360 degrees, or a perfect circle: the continuation of the chart as a Mandala of Life.

Here we find cooperation and adjustment to Life Challenges as well as frustration and resistance to growth patterns and lessons that will not go away.  This is Resolution Management of Life Crises and Opportunities, and the aspects are symbolic indicators of the energy exchanges between different parts of the psyche.  Cooperation and teamwork are the basic structure; adjustment and flexibility are the goal.

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•Conjunction  - A Union of two ideals; a tag-team partnership of energies who work as a "co-joined twin"
•Opposition - I stand off against (until I compromise); stalemate that needs balance
• Square - I reluctantly acknowledge (but build with...); the "square peg in a round hole"; the square wheel that takes friction to make smooth
•Sextile - I cooperate with; flexibility
•Trine - I willingly yield to; this is too easy! (may indicate laziness)
 •Quincunx -  I cannot achieve resolution; that itch is driving me crazy and can’t be answered!!

The conjunction can be tricky because two forces are at work--and there may be a "Stop! Go!" interaction between planets (for example, Saturn-Jupiter) at work, or other types of "How did I get teamed with YOU?!"

Squares represent a personal issue; this is something that the individual must resolve from within for character development.

Oppositions represent someone else: this is both an external factor (much like projection, where another person represents the energy and is a factor in the individual's life), or it indicates a tug-of-war that needs negotiation.
Trines are almost always welcomed, although some astrologers and counselors think they can be TOO much of a good thing and not supportive of effort that could be helpful in character development.

Sextiles work like trines, but they're much more casual.

Quincunxes are not always considered by astrologers because they're a "minor" aspect, but I've seen them irritate and annoy individuals with their dynamics of aggravation. (Strangely enough, the Magi aspects consider the quincunx--with the exception of a Saturn pattern to Chiron)--to be quite supportive as an attraction factor.

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As noted elsewhere on this site, I have found the work and research of the Magi Society and their historical perspective of aspects to be one of the reasons why people have trouble understanding the variations within astrology.  The Magi Society was originated in China in 1625 and their technique of using aspects as guide markers instead of house systems and cusps made their work that much more significant.  In effect, they have been doing the calculations and chronicles of astrological research for almost 400 years—and the volume of knowledge they have to validate their work is quite substantial.  It could be said that they were doing the work of the Gauquelin’s from Switzerland, but hundreds of years earlier.

In the years of evaluations on the lives of the subjects whose charts were cast by the Magi Society, they became more convinced than ever that aspects are truly what characterizes the individual; that these dynamics of tension and cooperation are the keys to the psyche’s growth.  They see that the house systems can change depending on what type is used to delineate the chart, and so placements of planets can vary up or down within a cusp (doorway) if that planet is close enough by degrees to “move over.”

With the aspect system ONLY, the psycho-dynamics are revealed in a more open way as “either resolved or learning to be resolved” nature:  the subject has either shown soul achievement and growth through a challenge, or they have not—and all the “avoidance and excuses” that we use as denial methods will not hold validity because the aspects define the life challenges and opportunities, for better or worse.  There’s not much room for rebuttal with an aspect.

Frustrating aspect patterns can be both blessings and frustration: they can inspire someone to great endeavors or they can act as hindrances that an individual may not want to develop. Astrologers and those who use charts for psychological analysis have their own views on which ones are helpful and obstruction. (Some astrologers would disagree, but I have dropped the sextile from my work because I find it too mild. There are also secondary aspects that some astrologers favor--and I don't--but it's all useful depending on who is interpreting the chart.)

And in a comical view of the potential of astrology and education, I have found that aspects are simple geometry and that I quite enjoy finding the patterns--which is remarkable because I failed geometry twice in high school. So much for "when will we ever use this knowledge?" from the student's chair!

(c) MDLOP8 2014                        

"Outer Planet People" (OPPs) are "late bloomers in life"

OPPs (Outer Planet People): 
Living on the Edge - or 
"Oops, I'm an 'Opps' "

(Potential) Strong Personality; charismatic appearance or energy

* Significant Focus on key life area(s)

–Self Identity - Home -  Partnerships - Career

* Unusual views, upheavals in life - chaos

* Escapism, fantasy lifestyle, attracted to mystical ways and views

* Domineering, transformation-bringing experiences and ideas

Key placement of Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto

1st, 4th, 7th, or 10th house location

Conjunction (alignment) within 6 degrees of North-South-East-West grid:

Career, Home, Relationships, Personality

“Late Bloomers” in life: often find Mission and Purpose after age 30

OPPs (Outer Planet People) represent qualities and dynamics of Psychological Astrology (PA) that bring out the “differences” in an individual which are not readily understood either by the subject him/herself or the society in which they live.  These souls are influenced by stronger "outside" influences than the mainstream, yet they are vital to the progressive forces that sculpt and mold our societies.

The concept of “Outer Planet People” should be addressed.  These individuals (born with a strong placement of Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto) are often “out of synch” with society; they are truly walking on pathways that may not follow tradition, norms, or even be anything less than revolutionary and incendiary in their nature.  They may be prophets of behaviors, values, attitudes, or intuitive knowledge about behaviors that society may presently find beyond acceptability or be struggling with (gay marriage) or lifestyles that openly oppose current traditions and standards (responsible stewardship of land via recycling and “green” sources of energy, or home schooling), or even involvement with ideas from other cultures and their incorporation into today’s social patterns (using foreign doctors or medical services instead of U.S.-based facilities). 

OPPs can be seen as those individuals with one of these planets in a tight connection by degree and angle to one of the Four Direction Markers of Identity (“the angles” that form a cross shape):  the ascendant/1st house cusp (personality/appearance), the Imum Coeli (IC; “lower heavens” in Latin), or bottom of the chart (home/roots of being), the descendant (7th house cusp opposite the ascendant, and the 10th house cusp, or midheaven (MC; the “medium coeli”). How would we see such a person?  Each planet takes its own properties as an ambassador of energy, and so there is no hard-and-fast rule. 

Consider instead “The Terms of Individuality” as a facet of the psyche.  These are potential factors which may help identify for personal or professional reasons the subtle, unseen qualities of the psyche which may be very prominent in the presentation and display of major life areas:  the personality/outlet of self toward the World-at-Large; the home environment (and therefore a place of safety and retreat when an individual needs to heal or regroup); relationships in business and professional endeavors (thus showing how the subject handles cooperation strategies); and finally, the career sector, which drives so many people and yet leaves others unfazed by lives of simple labor.  

As seen through the outer planetary influences of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, these offer stronger representation of those subtle cues that the chart’s blueprint offers for personal and professional analyses.  Some of these factors which contribute to the “alien” awareness of an individual are those which emphasize a need for uniqueness and “standing apart from the crowd.”  For instance, consider the awareness of “being born in the wrong place and time,” a factor explored in past-life consciousness and memory recall through approved regressive hypnosis consultation.  This is not necessarily any kind of dominant need for distance from people in general nor a sign of reclusiveness.  Rather, reincarnation is not overlooked in astrology; it is another matter for a separate discussion.

Again, because PA deals with the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious levels of the mind, we need more flexibility in preserving the humanistic view of behavior and cause & effect as well as honoring the spiritual principles of our existence, no matter what the individual’s preferences are toward his/her selection of identifying with the Creator.

      

This generates the obvious "Suppose someone has Outer Planets hitting more than one of the Direction Markers?”  That is why the art of astro-psychology has that humanistic level and the spiritual as well:  we are dealing with the dynamics of the psyche, and each person is unique in his or her own way.  

However, key phrases associated with the planet may be easier with interpretation.  Regardless, the Life Areas of Experience (the houses) that govern Personality, Appearance, Early Childhood, Home and the need for environment/safety, Partnerships and Bonding Needs and Expressions, and Career and Status Needs are all powerfully interlocked with the life of an OPP soul.  If an OPP planet is located by angle or proximity of degree to an approved 0-90-180 degree coordinate to the 1st, 4th, 7th, or 10th house, this soul has key issues with one of these dynamics.  Also, if a 90-degree challenge comes by angle or aspect to the degree markers on the 4th/10th house cusp doorways, the possibility of stressful responses and reactions to the mother-figure (4th house) and father-figure/authority figure (10th house) are likely to be submerged in the subject’s subconscious and a dynamic part of the personality.

(c) MDLOP8 2010

Astrological Teams of Like-Dislike, and Energy Patterns (Aspects) Pt. 3

Astrological Teams of Like-Dislike, 

and Energy Patterns (Aspects) Pt. 3

Which signs have compatibility with each other? Do some signs have more affinity with others and not the rest? As a song once asked, “Why can’t we be friends?” It’s possible for ALL signs to match with each other—but some have more capability of doing it with less challenge.

Some signs DO have more bonding with others because they’re in the same elements: the fire-earth-air-water matches. These by nature of their quality of energy will find a connection:

 Fire signs: Aries-Leo-Sagittarius

Earth signs: Taurus-Virgo-Capricorn

Air signs: Gemini-Libra-Aquarius

Water signs: Cancer-Scorpio-Pisces

(This also reflects the aspect pattern of a trine, or 120 degrees)

Fire and Air signs do well together. So do Earth and Water signs. They also match well with their complimentary element signs that are NOT opposites:

Aries-Gemini-Aquarius (fire-air-air)

Taurus-Cancer-Pisces (earth-water-water)

Gemini-Leo-Sagittarius (air-fire-fire)

Cancer-Virgo-Capricorn (water-earth-earth)

This also reflects the aspect pattern of a sextile, or 60 degrees)

In a similar way, we can line up the zodiac’s 12 signs into two teams:

 Aries=Libra

Taurus=Scorpio

Gemini=Sagittarius

Cancer=Capricorn

Leo=Aquarius

Virgo=Pisces

 Here, each sign has an alternate match. These are “opposite” signs—or an alternative view of that sign. Each sign’s opposite carries qualities that the matching partner displays—like bookends. In this way, “opposites attract.” (This also reflects the aspect pattern of opposition or 180 degrees.)

 Signs can also find their compatible matches and challenges by grouping them by modalities of Cardinal, Fixed, or Mutable. Within each group, there will be an opposite attraction. The remaining two signs left over are NOT in accord with their nature. Another way of looking at this is to put the respective signs on a North-South-East-West 4-way stop sign. The opposite signs will attract; the discordant signs will be at the cross-points:

Cancer

Aries + Libra

Capricorn

 

Aquarius

Taurus + Scorpio

Leo

Pisces

     Gemini + Sagittarius

Virgo

 The signs at 90 degrees form the square pattern of challenge. 

Again, there are signs which don’t find it easy to get along by elemental nature or quality. As noted above, Fire and Air & Earth and Water signs do well with each other. I think the squaring signs DO have a chance with each other—they create a different kind of cooperation once they’ve resolved their differences.

Fire and Water signs tend by their nature to have some difficulties: the Water sign tends to “put out the enthusiastic fire” while the Fire sign can’t understand why the emotional Water sign won’t take action on something if they intuitively understand it. An Air sign tends to express ideas that “can’t find solid footing on the ground” to an Earth sign, while the Earth sign often considers the Air sign to be “aloft like a kite without someone holding it down.”

 Then there are the patterns or interactions of signs which are just stressful by nature: they clash with two elements that are not in harmony. For this reason, I call this union--or the effort to make it work "an itch that can't be scratched; a difficulty of resolution." One way to do this involves the help of the opposition pattern: find the “opposite” sign AND THEN NOTICE WHICH SIGN “ESCORTS” IT ON EITHER SIDE. This forms the quincunx or inconjunct pattern, or 150 degrees. If you're matched with a partner whose sign is inconjunct with yours...good luck! You can make it if you try! (sometimes). In a similar way, if you have planets in signs that make this connection, expect a LOT of annoyance within your own psyche as they both try to get their way!

 Aries / Virgo-Scorpio

Taurus / Libra-Sagittarius

Gemini / Scorpio-Capricorn

Cancer /Sagittarius-Aquarius

Leo / Capricorn-Pisces

Virgo / Aries-Aquarius

Libra / Taurus-Pisces

Scorpio / Aries-Gemini

Sagittarius / Taurus-Cancer

Capricorn / Gemini-Leo

Aquarius / Cancer-Virgo

Pisces / Leo-Libra

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Fire/Air don't like Water & Earth 

Earth/Water don't like Fire & Air

Astrological Patterns of Energy: Cooperation or Resistance

I use the conjunction (0 degrees), square (90), opposition (180), Trine (120), and quincunx/inconjuct (150). I don't use sextiles (60) because I think they're too weak to feel. The rest are minor aspects, and some astrologers DO use them. I neither agree nor disagree.

Zodiac symbols are the key to charts

Just a point: learn the glyphs. That's a must, but it's a language of symbols and personalities, see? The zodiac signs go in order--and their qualities are found in the same pattern of the houses and their meanings. Learn a sign and you know that house quality. Again, this is an educational statement for anyone who wants to learn to read charts: just learn the symbols first. 

The Ram's Horns, the Bull's Horns, the Twin Brothers, the Crab's Claws, the Lion's Mane, the Woman sitting, the Scales of Balance, the Scorpion's Stinger, the Centaur-Archer's Arrow and Bow, the Goat-Fish with a tail, the Electric Awareness of the Universe, and Two Fish.

The planets are unique too: the Cup of Jupiter's Fortune, Saturn's Scythe that cuts back on our energy; Mars's erection and Venus's Hand Mirror. Uranus is both the electric antenna of Universal Knowledge and the 'H' for its founder, Herschel. Neptune's trident, the Sun is the Center of your world, and Mercury has a winged hat. (Pluto is the Circle of Eternity in the Material World.) The key asteroids are featured here too, and Chiron, the Key to Personal Healing. The planet Earth, although not used, is the Cross of Matter inside the Circle of Life.

Jupiter in Cancer (meets the Sun in Cancer native): Home is for Happiness

It's time for growth with Jupiter in Cancer by transit. As the planet of Opportunity, Gains, Expansion, and Optimism, the focus in the sign of the Crab will bring bigger and better energies to family matters (many people who did not think they would be parents may possibly well find themselves as new mothers and fathers); interest in food (Cancer the Crab rules the kitchen and providing for others nutritional needs); and a raised awareness of the home environment and its abilities to "do more" for those it protects and offers comfort.

Personally, Cancer-Crabs will see new and invigorating views of Self as Jupiter joins their Sun: Traditionally, this is considered one of the most marvelous transits, and indeed it is quite good.  However, its influence may be masked by other transits that are longer-lasting and more powerful.  If your chart has indications of many difficult behavioral challenges and attitudes that are occurring by other conditions and transits at this time, this one will serve largely to give you a break.

At the very least, you will feel good at this time.  Your health is better, and you feel very optimistic.  For a while it may seem that everything is working out perfectly, and if you make an effort, it will.  But if you simply sit back and enjoy this transit, its beneficent influence will pass away with little to show for it afterward.

This is the beginning of a new 12-year cycle of growth in your life.  It is a time to initiate new projects and expand your activities so that you can experience life from a broader perspective.  You may find that you can escape from some narrowing and inhibiting circumstances that have prevented you from realizing your full potential as a human being.  Sometimes people travel under this configuration, but usually the traveling is more in the mind.

This is a good time to study a subject that raises your consciousness or expands your view of the world, and it is an excellent transit for going back to school.  You may also meet new people who expose you to aspects of life that you have never known before.  Your freedom will certainly increase.

Even with this transit, there are some pitfalls.  First, your exuberant optimism can cause you to overdo or overreach yourself, so that when this transit is over, you find yourself out on the proverbial limb.  Exercise a certain amount of restraint and build upon what you have rather than trying to increase your holdings beyond your ability to handle them.  Be careful of extravagance, and if you invest money, remember that today’s luck is not permanent.

Otherwise, you can have a good time under this transit.  Remember, the feeling of well-being that you experience now is really closer to the truth of who you are than the gloomier or more depressed feelings that you have at other times.

But just one small--no, make that a whopper because it's Jupiter--point to make: one's home life and family matters may become bigger than expected. After all, just ask the Little Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe.

She had so many children she didn't know what to do.

Pluto 4th House transit: Rebuild your Life & Home

A word from Pluto the Transforming Agent of Changes and Rebuilding: "When I visit a house (Area of Life Activity), you will meet MY demands and expectations that are designed for your personal Growth & Character Development--and My method is to destroy what you have created and expect will continue. Your ability to regenerate and reconstruct yourself into NEW Awareness of Self is my gift--whether or not you like it or agree with the immediate results."

Don't care for Saturn's Lessons and "Go back and repeat it again" ways? Pluto doesn't ask us to repeat a lesson: it completely wipes out the rules and guidelines and makes us develop a whole new sense of ideas, purpose, commitment, or objectives. To my experience (and also from clients), this is more observable when Pluto transits the angles (1st, 4th, 7th, & 10th houses). 

This is a lesson of Pluto in the Fourth House of Home Environment, Family Settings, and the End Times of our lives: whatever structures, foundations, plans, goals, objectives, and intentions are in place will be swept aside, either figuratively or literally. (Author's note: In my own experience, I have watched Pluto in my 4th house since 2005--and I have moved almost 3000 miles six times since then. That's over 4600 km each time. In facing Pluto each time, I have made friends and seen them depart from my life and given up loved ones, pets, belongings, property, and jobs. It has been brutally painful each time--but Pluto in the 4th house says "Where you are and what you are at this time will not be the same when I have finished with your life.")

I don't want to use the analogy of a disaster as a means of defining Pluto in the 4th house, but it has a firm message that I saw as the embodiment of this transit. In 2005, when I saw New Orleans, Louisiana, be pummeled by Hurricane Katrina, that was a strong motivation for me to immediately decide that I needed to change how I lived, WHERE I lived, and how much I needed to learn about my priorities and values about "home sweet home." My very first home that I bought seven months earlier was put on the market for sale--and I said to friends that I intended to relocate to California so that I could meet someone who would help me learn about self-reliance and self-sufficiency and share a home. I found that person--and found ourselves a farm and land--not long after. It was an eye-opening experience to raise food--including chickens--and to be responsible for the egg-to-dinner table results. This City Boy learned a whole new way of living from Pluto's presence in the 4th house. 

It happened again in 2009, when I had to move yet again (and yes, over 3000 miles) in order to deal with 4th house issues. (The 4th house involves one parent; this involved my mother's health and care.) After I finished the tenure set by Pluto for this transformational understanding, I was then free to move yet AGAIN 3000+ miles in order to start new--and so I did. 

And now...Pluto has energized me and the importance of starting over one more time--and I have--you guessed it--moved a great distance to work overseas. (My 5th house cusp is 23 Capricorn--looks like "the road is my middle name" may well be my future for a LONG time). 

So, PLEASE heed my counsel when I say to you that "Pluto in transit through your 4th house {and also in other houses} will change you in ways that you do not expect, that you do not want to let go of, and in ways that are absolutely profound to your expectations. Learn to embrace the potential of Renewal, Rebuilding, and Opportunity from Pluto, even if it means you have to pack everything in a suitcase and go. Pluto makes no promises except that change is inevitable, and that your willingness to face it can make all the difference for success or frustration. As much as you may love your home and all that belongs under your roof, Pluto transiting your 4th house may uproot you physically, emotionally, and most certainly, completely, so that you find the path to a new reality that is vital for your psyche.

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