Think, launch, start over

Building and leaving at once

Confidence : strong

You want to build and leave at once, and the tug keeps sending you back to square one.

• ♀︎Venus
• ♅︎Uranus
• ♂︎Mars
• ♆︎Neptune

You sign a lease on Monday, and by Thursday you're already looking at listings in another city. The grand cross in your chart drives this back-and-forth. Venus wants to build, Uranus wants room to breathe, Mars charges ahead and Neptune blurs the goal, and each one sets off another. see Lovesee Worksee Moneysee Inner life

Nuance Mars squares Uranus within 5°, and you cut things off fast and clean. But Saturn holds Venus in a sextile within a degree, so what you've built is sturdier than you think. see Moneysee Worksee Love

Try this The next time you want to walk away from it all, buy something beautiful for the place you want to flee, and wait a season before you decide. see Love

Mars, at the heart of this cross, aspects Mercury by sign, and Mercury rules the way you come across. see Moneysee Personality

A mind quicker than it looks

Confidence : strong

Your mind moves faster than you let show, and people misread it.

• ☿︎Mercury
• ☉︎Sun
• Ascendant
• ♃︎Jupiter
• IVHouse IV

A friend is telling you about their week over coffee, and you're still turning over an idea from an hour ago. Mercury, your thinking, ruler and almuten of your Ascendant at 22° Virgo, sits at 14° Aquarius. The two don't see each other, so people read coldness where you're simply elsewhere.

Nuance Mercury turns direct eight hours after your birth, and that standstill locks your thinking onto one idea. Saturn's square, within 7°, puts it under a microscope. But your Sun at 5° Pisces, without dignity in a night chart, keeps a porous layer underneath, carried by Jupiter. see Worksee Inner life

Try this Write a letter to the friend who knows you best, and walk them through the middle step of your reasoning, the one you usually keep to yourself.

Your Pisces Sun answers to Jupiter, and that same Jupiter rules your home. see Inner lifesee Emotions

A home hanging on your reputation

Confidence : medium

Your sense of home shakes when your work wobbles, and your anger hides a need.

• ☽︎Moon
• ⚳︎Ceres
• IVHouse IV
• ♃︎Jupiter
• VIIHouse VII
• XHouse X

A rejection lands in your inbox, and that night your apartment suddenly feels less safe. Jupiter, ruler of your 4th house, exalted at 20° Cancer, sits in the 10th house. So your inner security rides on your reputation, and when your work wobbles, the whole house shakes. see Inner lifesee Work

Nuance Your Moon, your emotional reflexes, at 7° Aries, in the 7th house and without dignity, flares up quickly when someone's across from you. Ceres, in the 4th house, squares it within a degree. So a sudden burst of anger is often about not getting enough attention. see Love

Try this One evening, throw a party at home with people from outside your field, and notice what reassures you when no title is in play. see Inner life

That 7th-house Moon is already looking for the other person, and Jupiter also rules your relationships. see Lovesee Inner life

Plenty of support, a cross to bear

Confidence : strong

You love in order to build, but idealizing, then cutting it off, can become a recurring scene.

• ♀︎Venus
• Ε︎Lot of Eros
• VHouse V
• VIIHouse VII
• ☿︎Mercury
• XHouse X

One Sunday, you're painting a hallway with someone and already thinking about the next ten years. Venus, the way you love, chief ally of your night chart, at 21° Capricorn in the 4th house, wants to build a place for two. Saturn backs it with a sextile within a degree, and time is on your side. see Personalitysee Worksee Emotions

Nuance Your desire starts fast with Mars in Aries, and it loves a brilliant mind, your Lot of Eros in the 10th house. Jupiter, ruler of your 7th house, brings partners in through your public life. But Uranus, opposing Venus within 3°, demands room to breathe, and Neptune, by square, has you falling for an image. see Moneysee Inner lifesee Work

Try this Before a breakup, have dinner once with this person at a table you love, and ask yourself whether it's them letting you down or the movie you wrote in your head.

Mercury, placed in your 5th house, also rules your 10th house and carries your career. see Personalitysee Work

Inventing in public, at the risk of a rupture

Confidence : strong

You shine by rewriting the rules, but that same streak often costs you your place.

• ♄︎Saturn
• ♅︎Uranus
• VIHouse VI
• XHouse X
• Midheaven
• ☿︎Mercury
• ♃︎Jupiter

In a meeting, someone shows you the procedure, and you're already proposing to replace it. Mercury, ruler of your Midheaven (MC) at 21° Gemini, routes your career through ideas. Jupiter and Uranus, your urge to break with things, 3.5° apart in the 10th house, draw attention by changing the rules. see Personalitysee Inner life

Nuance Saturn, your rigor, at 21° Scorpio, without dignity and ruler of your 6th house, makes your words cutting and your days heavy. But its trine to Jupiter, within a degree, can turn that into a method. Uranus, meanwhile, undoes jobs as fast as it wins them. see Talentssee Inner life

Try this Have the colleague who contradicts you most review your next proposal, then talk it through one-on-one before you send it. see Personality

That 10th-house Jupiter is also your strongest planet, and your gifts stem from it. see Inner lifesee Signature

Gifts that travel through relays

Confidence : medium

You speak, launch, and investigate, and these gifts reach the world through other people, without any flash.

• ♃︎Jupiter
• ♂︎Mars
• VIIIHouse VIII
• XHouse X

In front of a room of thirty people, your voice settles and you find words the page hadn't given you. Jupiter, your dominant planet, serves the public from the 10th house. No planet occupies the angles of the chart, so your gifts work through intermediaries and never show up as one loud trait. see Inner lifesee Signaturesee Work

Nuance Cardinal signs, 46% of your chart, have you starting a lot of things, and fixed signs, at 20%, make staying power expensive. Saturn's trine to Jupiter, within a degree, and Saturn's sextile to Venus supply the steadiness you're missing. see Signaturesee Worksee Inner lifesee Love

Try this Offer to teach what you know best, just once, in a room in your neighborhood, to ten people. see Inner life

Mars, nearly tied with Jupiter, also holds the shared resources of your 8th house. see Moneysee Inner lifesee Signature

1. Speaking in front of others

   Your clearest strength wants to serve an audience, and your voice grows as soon as a room is listening.

   • hosting a radio show
   • giving talks
   • presenting a project in public
   • teaching adults

2. Negotiating and launching

   You start fast, you like risk, and you know how to get people to bet on you and on a shared idea.

   • starting a business
   • negotiating contracts
   • defending a budget
   • bringing partners together around a project

3. Investigating and analyzing

   Your mind turns a question over until it sees it differently, and it accepts tough scrutiny before drawing a conclusion.

   • running an investigation
   • writing an in-depth report
   • testing a hypothesis
   • checking facts

4. Inventing through play

   Your best ideas come when you're playing, and they aim at what doesn't exist yet, leaving the familiar behind.

   • writing fiction
   • designing a game
   • sketching a prototype
   • creating a new show format

5. Organizing for the long haul

   It costs you more, but your chart gives you real support for staying the course and making what you launch last.

   • running a major project
   • giving a nonprofit its structure
   • keeping a project schedule

Strong for others, hazy for yourself

Confidence : strong

You know how to fight for a shared pot, but what's yours stays hazy.

• ♂︎Mars
• ⊗︎Lot of Fortune
• IIHouse II
• VIIIHouse VIII
• ♆︎Neptune
• ☉︎Sun

Around a table, you convince three partners to pool their money, and they sign. Mars, the way you act, at 29° Aries, in its own sign in the 8th house, has you defending shared resources. The whole chart leads back to it, your final dispositor, so this strength comes before everything else.

Nuance Neptune, in opposition within 1°, occupies your 2nd house, and what belongs to you stays hazy. Your Lot of Fortune in Leo brings luck through your allies. But Saturn squares it within a degree, and the Sun doesn't see it, so it comes late and in fits and starts. see Inner lifesee Worksee Personality

Try this Find someone your project doesn't dazzle, and ask them outright to go over your books once, pen in hand.

The same Neptune that muddies your accounts also opens your inner silence, through its trine to the Sun. see Inner lifesee Personality

A faith in belonging, a hidden need for control

Confidence : medium

You believe in what brings people together, but a need for control is at work behind your back.

• ♃︎Jupiter
• ♇︎Pluto
• ♆︎Neptune
• ⊕︎Lot of Spirit
• ☋︎South Node

After the block party, you stay behind to stack the chairs, and you feel like you belong. Jupiter, your confidence, exalted and retrograde in Cancer, makes you believe in what brings people together. The Lot of Spirit, a point from Hellenistic astrology, receives a square from Uranus within a degree, so your will changes all at once. see Work

Nuance Pluto, what you keep hidden, at 25° Leo in the 12th house, squares Saturn within 4° and feeds a need for control that other people sense better than you do. Neptune, your dream, linked to the Sun within 7.5°, opens the other path, the silence that sets you free. see Worksee Personality

Try this Take a day trip to a quiet place, an abbey or a stretch of coast, with no phone and nothing to decide.

Your Jupiter sits in the Cancer of your South Node, and that sign shows where you come from. see Path

From the stage to the foundation

Confidence : medium

You come from the stage, and you grow by building a real base at home.

• ☊︎North Node
• ☋︎South Node
• ♃︎Jupiter
• ♅︎Uranus
• ♀︎Venus
• ♄︎Saturn
• IVHouse IV
• XHouse X

A room applauds your speech, then you go home to an empty kitchen feeling like you've forgotten something. Your South Node, at 2° Cancer in the 10th house, is your familiar ground, the public square. Your North Node, at 2° Capricorn in the 4th house, pushes you to build at home. see Worksee Emotions

Nuance Jupiter and Uranus, in the sign of your South Node, keep pulling you back to the stage. But Venus, in the sign of your North Node and in the 4th house, makes that return home gentler than it looks. see Inner lifesee Worksee Lovesee Emotions

Try this Pick one room where you live, sort through all of it on a Saturday, and keep what will still be useful in ten years.

Saturn, ruler of your North Node's sign, also sets the rhythm of the big dates in your life. see Work

What your chart says about your past

Since 1970 · read them in the light of what you have lived

1. 1970–1971First big shake-up strong

   You reject what contained you and look for your place. By transit, meaning its actual position in the sky, Uranus opposes your Moon in March 1970, then an eclipse in Pisces, Jupiter's sign, hits your Sun in February 1971.

   Uranus opposite Moon · Saturn opposite itself (natal) · Solar eclipse on Sun

2. 1973–1975A direction before an identity medium

   A path asserts itself before you know who you are, then a long expansion opens up. Saturn crosses your MC in May 1973, and the firdaria, the great cycles of life, shift to Jupiter in February 1975.

   Saturn conjunct Midheaven · Neptune square Sun · Firdaria: period of Jupiter

3. 1980–1982More weight, a blurred goal medium

   You gain stature, but the goal goes out of focus. Neptune opposes your MC in June 1980, Saturn crosses your Ascendant in July, and a progressed New Moon, your sky moved forward one day per year, opens a cycle in Aries, Mars's sign, in 1982.

   Neptune opposite Midheaven · Saturn conjunct Ascendant · Progressed Moon: new phase

4. 1985–1987The peak that wobbles strong

   What you've built rises to its highest point, then comes apart or changes hands. Zodiacal releasing, which divides life into periods, marks a peak in 1985-1986. Uranus then strikes your Ascendant and MC, and Saturn opposes the MC in 1987.

   Releasing: peak in Taurus · Uranus square Ascendant · Uranus opposite Midheaven · Firdaria: period of Mars · Saturn opposite Midheaven · Solar eclipse on Moon

5. 1989–1996Hard work and midlife strong

   You enter a long stretch of labor and adjustment, with more toil than glory. A long period under Capricorn, Saturn's sign, opens in August 1989. Saturn crosses your Sun in November 1994, and Uranus opposes itself in December.

   Releasing: Capricorn period · Saturn conjunct Sun · Uranus opposite itself (natal) · Saturn conjunct Moon

A rare harvest, and allies

Confidence : strong

Reference: 1997-01-01 · age 41

What you've sown is becoming visible, and your allies count for more than your strength alone.

• ☽︎Moon
• ♀︎Venus
• ♃︎Jupiter
• ☿︎Mercury
• ☉︎Sun
• VIIHouse VII

A project you planted fifteen years ago finally gets an answer in your mailbox. Your progressed Moon makes a full Moon in Libra, Venus's sign, in April 1996, the midpoint of the 1982 cycle. Zodiacal releasing adds a public peak until March 16, 1997, under Venus. see Emotionssee Love

Nuance Profection, which gives each year its ruler, moves to Jupiter in February 1997, on the 7th house counted by sign, and your partners carry more weight. The firdaria put your voice forward with Mercury from January 3. But Pluto is closing in on a square to your Sun, within 1.5°. see Inner lifesee Lovesee Personality

Try this Cook a meal at home for the two people you want to move forward with this year, and tell them what you no longer want to carry without help. see Emotionssee Love

Until 2011

1. 1998-09

   Your authority in question strong inner life

   Your authority would be challenged at its foundations, and you'd have to rebuild it. Pluto makes an exact square to your Sun in September 1998.

   Pluto square Sun · Solar eclipse on Sun

2. 1999-08

   A renewed mind strong inner life

   The way you think would change, even the ideas that made you successful. Uranus crosses Mercury in August, with an eclipse in Leo, the Sun's sign, on your Lot of Fortune.

   Uranus conjunct Mercury · Solar eclipse on Lot of Fortune

3. 2000-02

   Working without applause medium career

   You'd work more behind the scenes, far from the applause. Zodiacal releasing stays withdrawn until November, an eclipse in Aquarius, Saturn's sign, hits Mercury in February, and Saturn opposes itself in May.

   Solar eclipse on Mercury · Saturn opposite itself (natal)

4. 2002-06

   Time to settle accounts strong career

   You'd answer for what you promised publicly. Saturn and an eclipse in Gemini, Mercury's sign, touch your MC in June.

   Solar eclipse on Midheaven · Saturn conjunct Midheaven

5. 2004-02

   Priorities reshuffled strong career

   Your priorities would shift and your certainties would dissolve, and you'd have to sort ruthlessly. The firdaria move to Venus in February, Pluto opposes the MC in May, Neptune joins Mercury in July, and Uranus joins your Sun in August.

   Firdaria: period of Venus · Pluto opposite Midheaven · Neptune conjunct Mercury · Uranus conjunct Sun

6. 2006-12

   A change of course medium career

   Your road would change direction, and you'd have to accept sharing the stage. Zodiacal releasing signals this change until January 2009, in Cancer, the Moon's sign, where your Jupiter and Uranus sit.

   Releasing: loosing of the bond (Cancer)

7. 2007-10

   Actions in full view medium career

   Your actions would be highly visible, and anyone could judge them. Solar arc, which moves your whole chart forward at the Sun's pace, brings Mars to your MC in October.

   Mars directed conjunct Midheaven

8. 2008-05

   A demanding stretch strong inner life

   You'd have to conserve your strength and stop carrying everything. Pluto enters Capricorn, the sign of your Venus, in January, Uranus opposes your Ascendant in May, and Saturn opposes your Sun in July.

   ing-pluto-capricorn-2008 · Uranus opposite Ascendant · Saturn opposite Sun

9. 2009-08

   Your commitments on the scale strong career

   You'd weigh your commitments one by one, and some would fall away. Saturn returns to your Ascendant in August, and it squares your MC that same month.

   Saturn conjunct Ascendant · Saturn square Midheaven

10. 2011-04

    Passing on and letting go strong inner life

    You'd pass on your knowledge and let go of what has occupied you for so long. Pluto squares your Moon, Neptune enters Pisces, your Sun's sign, and a progressed New Moon in Taurus, Venus's sign, closes the cycle.

    Pluto square Moon · ing-neptune-pisces-2011 · Progressed Moon: new phase