A home and a stage

Home versus the stage

Confidence : strong

In public your composure impresses, and what you feel at home often stays hidden.

• ☉︎Sun
• ☿︎Mercury
• ♄︎Saturn
• ♋︎Cancer
• ♌︎Leo

At a family dinner you look after everyone, then you step onto a platform and your voice changes. Your planets form two groups, with the Sun, Jupiter, and Pluto in Cancer, the sign of home, and Mercury, Saturn, and Neptune in Leo, the sign of the stage. see Personalitysee Inner lifesee Work

Nuance These two neighboring signs don't see each other in astrology, and the Sun, ruler of Leo, has no line of sight to Mercury and Saturn. So your public self can drift away from what you feel in private. Plenty of people will admire one without ever meeting the other. see Personalitysee Work

Try this Take charge of the next family birthday and, in front of everyone, say one thing you really feel, even something small.

Your Sun, at the heart of the Cancer group, shows what you protect first. see Personality

A place you build yourself

Confidence : strong

Your place isn't waiting for you, and you build it by looking after your own.

• ☉︎Sun
• ♃︎Jupiter
• ☽︎Moon
• ♋︎Cancer

At a neighborhood meeting, you spot who doesn't have a chair and you go find them one. Your Sun, what your life organizes itself around, is at 24° Cancer, so your energy goes first to your own people, whether family, group, or nation. It's peregrine, with no support in this sign, and your place has to be built.

Nuance Still, this unsupported Sun has two allies. Jupiter, the best-placed planet in your chart, shares its sign, and you were born on Jupiter's day. The Moon, ruler of Cancer, trines it within 6°, so what you want follows what you feel. see Inner lifesee Moneysee Emotions

Try this At your next building meeting, raise your hand to chair it and say what you want for your neighbors.

The Moon that backs your Sun also dominates your chart, and she says very little. see Emotionssee Signature

Deep, silent feelings

Confidence : medium

Your feelings run long and deep, but those closest to you rarely see what's going on inside.

• ☽︎Moon
• ♂︎Mars
• ♏︎Scorpio

A friend hurts you with a joke, you smile, and three years later you can still repeat it word for word. The Moon, your emotional life, dominates your chart and sits in Scorpio, the sign of her fall, where she loses her easy tenderness. That makes your feelings deep, tenacious, and not very talkative. see Signature

Nuance Squares to Mercury, within 3°, and to Saturn, within 4°, route your emotions through reason and restraint. Mars, ruler of Scorpio, doesn't see your Moon, so what you feel and what you do stay unconnected. The people close to you run into this silence. see Worksee Love

Try this Tonight, while you're cooking for someone close to you, name out loud an emotion that's still small, without hunting for the right words.

Mars, which doesn't see your Moon, shows up elsewhere, in the way you love. see Love

Loving through words, weighing desire

Confidence : medium

You seduce with words and humor, and your held-back anger comes out late, sometimes all at once.

• ♀︎Venus
• ♂︎Mars
• ⚵︎Juno
• ☿︎Mercury
• ♄︎Saturn
• ♊︎Gemini
• ♎︎Libra

In a café, someone tosses off a funny, unexpected remark, and your whole evening changes. Venus, the way you love, is at 22° Gemini, so wit and conversation win you over. Her trine to Uranus, within 4.5°, gives you a taste for unconventional people and for relationships where each person keeps their own space. see Inner life

Nuance Distance and interruptions are likely to keep coming back. Mars, how you act and desire, is in detriment at 12° Libra, so you weigh things, you stall, and your anger comes out as argument. Its square to Pluto, within 7°, keeps some force in reserve, and what you hold back can burst out all at once. see Inner life

Try this Take the person who shares a cause with you to a concert, since Juno, the asteroid of commitment, trines your Mars within one degree.

Mercury, ruler of your Venus, also carries your work, alongside Saturn. see Work

Slow words that bind

Confidence : strong

You weigh every word and stand by what you've said, even if recognition takes a while.

• ☿︎Mercury
• ♄︎Saturn
• ♂︎Mars
• ♌︎Leo

In a meeting, everyone has spoken, and you wait. You say three sentences, and no one argues with them after that. Mercury, your thinking and speech, sits within a degree of Saturn, your rigor, at 15° Leo. You speak slowly, you weigh every word, and Leo adds poise.

Nuance Saturn is in detriment in Leo and takes the form of pride, with trouble delegating and a fear of losing face. Six days after your birth it goes under the Sun's beams, so your best work gets recognized late, but after that few people challenge it. see Personality

Try this Write a letter to someone on your team handing over a project you care about, and explain why you trust them with it.

A link from Mars to this pair turns that way of speaking into a gift for negotiation. see Lovesee Talents

Listen, put it into words, then hold firm

Confidence : strong

You sense what a group doesn't dare say, you put it into words, then you stay the course.

• ☽︎Moon
• ♂︎Mars
• ☿︎Mercury
• ♄︎Saturn
• ♎︎Libra
• ♉︎Taurus
• ♍︎Virgo
• ♑︎Capricorn

Around a tense table, you sense what the group is afraid to say. The Moon, which dominates your chart, and your Cancer give you this gift for listening. Mars then connects your words to action through a sextile to Mercury, within 3.5°, and you win a lot without humiliating anyone. see Emotionssee Signaturesee Conflictsee Lovesee Work

Nuance Its other sextile, to Saturn, within 2.5°, disciplines your action and gives it patience. But this Mars in detriment would sooner persuade than strike, and your patience can turn into waiting when a real conflict calls for a clear decision. see Worksee Love

Try this Invite over two people close to you who've fallen out, do the cooking, and let them talk until you hear what they're leaving unsaid. see Emotions

This listening won't help much with the numbers, since your chart has no earth. see Signature

1. Listening that calms a group

   You quickly sense what people don't dare say, and they confide in you because you don't repeat anything.

   • lead a support group
   • support families going through hard times
   • welcome newcomers to an organization
   • listen on a helpline

2. Words that last

   You say little, you choose your words, and people remember what you said for a long time.

   • give speeches
   • teach adults
   • write reference works
   • tell a group's story

3. Negotiating without humiliation

   You aim for a fair deal, you wait for the right moment, and the other side leaves without losing face.

   • arbitrate a conflict
   • lead a neighborhood mediation
   • represent a team before management
   • broker an agreement between organizations

4. Patient building

   You stick with the same project for years, and what you set up keeps going after the trends have changed.

   • found an organization
   • build a school
   • shape a team over ten years
   • keep a group's archives

5. Championing a far-reaching cause

   Your trust in your own circle eventually extends to people you don't know, and they follow you.

   • launch a citizens' movement
   • speak on behalf of a community
   • organize a campaign
   • defend people's rights

Your circle comes before the budget

Confidence : medium

Your causes come before your accounts, and the people close to you often bail you out.

• ♀︎Venus
• ♃︎Jupiter
• ♄︎Saturn
• ♊︎Gemini
• ♋︎Cancer

A bill has been sitting on the table for a week because a friend needs you. Venus, with no support in Gemini, is peregrine, and your resources come through several channels and through your relationships. Your chart has no earth, so budgets and day-to-day material life come after your causes. see Lovesee Signature

Nuance Jupiter, exalted in Cancer, protects you through the people around you, and those you've helped help you in turn. But Venus's trine to Uranus makes your income irregular, and Saturn in Leo makes asking for anything sting your dignity. You could end up depending on others without having planned it. see Inner lifesee Lovesee Work

Try this Take the most methodical person you know to lunch and ask them to look with you at how your income flows. see Love

Jupiter, which watches over your resources, also holds what you believe. see Inner life

A faith that isn't up for negotiation

Confidence : strong

You believe your people will survive anything, and that confidence shifts a lot around you.

• ♃︎Jupiter
• ♅︎Uranus
• ♆︎Neptune
• ♀︎Venus
• ☋︎South Node
• ♋︎Cancer

On the day everyone gives up, you're still gathering your people and saying it'll hold. Jupiter, your confidence, at 1° Cancer, meets Pluto, what can't be negotiated, at 5°, a gap of 4.5°. Your faith takes on a rare intensity, and it shifts a great deal around you.

Nuance A trine to Uranus, at 26° Aquarius, its home sign, within 4°, widens this circle, and the clan becomes humanity. But Neptune at 6° Leo, which your generation shares, makes a tight 1° contact with Venus, and you can lock yourself inside your image and no longer dare to be ordinary. see Love

Try this Throw a party on your street for people who don't know each other yet, and raise an ordinary toast, with no big speech.

Your Venus, touched here by Neptune, also sits on the path you started from. see Lovesee Path

From light charm to conviction

Confidence : medium

Your charm protects you, but you grow when you say what you believe.

• ☋︎South Node
• ☊︎North Node
• ♀︎Venus
• ☉︎Sun
• ☽︎Moon
• ♂︎Mars
• ♊︎Gemini
• ♐︎Sagittarius

At a party, a serious question comes up, and you answer with a quip that makes everyone laugh. The South Node, at 20° Gemini, shows what you already know how to do, and Venus sits within 2° of it. Light charm is a reflex for you, almost a form of protection. see Love

Nuance The North Node, at 20° Sagittarius, pulls the opposite way, toward what makes you grow. It asks you to talk about what you believe and commit to a long horizon, while Gemini would prefer to keep several doors open.

Try this Pick a painting in a museum that moves you, bring a friend to stand in front of it, and tell them in one sentence what you really believe. see Love

This direction runs through several parts of you, which your chart links in a loop. see Worth noting

Leading with several voices

Confidence : medium

No part of you gives orders alone, and that's often how you lead others.

• ☉︎Sun
• ☽︎Moon
• ☿︎Mercury
• ♂︎Mars
• ♏︎Scorpio
• ♌︎Leo
• ♒︎Aquarius

At the head of an organization, you hear out every side before deciding, and you go back over it twice. Your five personal planets form a loop, since the Moon depends on Mars, Mars on Venus, Venus on Mercury, Mercury on the Sun, and the Sun on the Moon. None of them is in charge on its own. see Emotionssee Lovesee Worksee Personality

Nuance This flexibility among the parts of you contrasts with your firmness. Your chart has 12% mutable signs, the signs of adaptation, so you feel strongly, you hold firm, and you don't bend easily, and you sometimes defend an entire position over a detail. see Signature

Try this At home, change a household habit someone close to you has long been asking you to change, and see whether it was really a principle. see Emotions

This firmness has already come through some big years, and the dates that follow tell their story. see Signature

What your chart says about your past

Since 1933 · read them in the light of what you have lived

1. 1934Your childhood identity cracks strong

   What you believe you are changes for good, around sixteen. Transits, the actual movement of the planets over your birth points, bring Uranus square the Sun on March 5 and Pluto onto it on August 12.

   Saturn opposite itself (natal) · Uranus square Sun · Progressed Moon: balsamic phase · Pluto conjunct Sun

2. 1939–1941Leaving what made you feel safe medium

   You break away from what reassured you in order to claim a path of your own. Saturn squares your Sun on December 4, 1939, Uranus opposes your Moon ten days later, then Chiron crosses the Sun on March 28, 1941.

   Venus directed square Mars · Saturn square Sun · Uranus opposite Moon · Chiron conjunct Sun · Saturn opposite Moon

3. 1953–1955The spotlight and its price strong

   What you've built since 1938 comes into full view, along with its responsibilities. The progressed full Moon, the peak of a thirty-year cycle, falls in Aquarius, Saturn's sign, on May 15, 1953, then Uranus crosses your Sun on February 3, 1955.

   Progressed Moon: full phase · Saturn conjunct Moon · Uranus conjunct Sun

4. 1977Your strength put to the test strong

   Your long-restrained power to act comes apart or rebuilds itself. A lunar eclipse hits Mars on April 4, the solar arc, a symbolic advance of about one degree a year, brings Mercury there on May 9, and Pluto crosses it on August 26.

   Lunar eclipse on Mars · Mercury directed conjunct Mars · Pluto conjunct Mars

5. 1981–1982A structure comes apart strong

   A structure in your life dissolves and your story widens. Saturn crosses Mars on October 4, 1981, a solar eclipse hits your Sun on July 20, 1982, and the progressed full Moon arrives in Pisces, Jupiter's sign, on September 10.

   Uranus square itself (natal) · Saturn conjunct Mars · Solar eclipse on Sun · Pluto square Sun · Progressed Moon: full phase

Your strength leaves its old methods behind

Confidence : medium

Reference: 1990-02-11 · age 71

Your old ways of acting stop working, and what you've held in for so long resurfaces.

• ☽︎Moon
• ☉︎Sun
• ♂︎Mars
• ♋︎Cancer
• ♎︎Libra

At 71, you empty a kitchen cupboard and keep only what's still useful. The progressed Moon, which measures the climate of the current years at the rate of a day for a year, is in Cancer, and its last-quarter phase, under way since May 1989, has you sorting. see Emotions

Nuance Your progressed Sun in Libra pushes you toward agreement, but Neptune and Chiron square your Mars within 1° and scramble your sense of how to act. Pluto comes within 1° of your Moon, and that degree depends on your birth time, so the date could shift by several years. see Personalitysee Lovesee Emotions

Try this Invite someone close to you into your kitchen, make the dish from your childhood, and tell them what these months are stirring up in you.

Until 2011

1. 1990-11

   Your sense of how to act blurs strong career

   Energy you knew how to direct would lose its usual shape. Neptune squares Mars on November 16, 1990, and Uranus does the same on December 11, 1991.

   Neptune square Mars · Uranus square Mars

2. 1990-12

   Your emotions rise to the surface medium inner life

   Your emotional life would resurface after long years of control. Pluto crosses your Moon around December 6, 1990, Saturn opposes your Sun on the 26th, and Chiron crosses it on January 5, 1991.

   Pluto conjunct Moon · Saturn opposite Sun · Saturn directed square Sun · Chiron conjunct Sun

3. 1994-12

   Huge expectations all around you strong career

   Everything around you would change pace, and you'd need to keep your life at a human scale. Uranus opposes your Sun on December 25, 1994, and Neptune on October 5, 1996.

   Uranus opposite Sun · Neptune opposite Sun

4. 1997-04

   A cycle that turns toward relationships medium inner life

   A new cycle would begin, turned toward agreements and attachment, with room for love. The progressed new Moon falls in Libra, Venus's sign, on April 24, 1997, the day after Saturn's opposition to Mars.

   Progressed Moon: new phase · Saturn opposite Mars

5. 1998-09

   Your identity meets your strength medium career

   Your identity and your strength, long apart, would come together. The solar arc brings your Sun onto Mars on September 16, 1998, after Saturn's square to your Sun in April.

   Sun directed conjunct Mars · Saturn square Sun

6. 2000-04

   Your attachments reorganize medium inner life

   Your attachments and habits would rearrange themselves. Saturn opposes your Moon on April 27, 2000, and Uranus squares it on January 2, 2001.

   Saturn opposite Moon · Uranus square Moon

7. 2002-08

   A late freedom strong inner life

   You could let go of the roles you no longer need. On August 15, 2002, Uranus returns to its birth position, which happens only once, around age 84.

   Uranus conjunct itself (natal)

8. 2005-01

   Taking stock of what you built strong career

   It would be time to take stock. Saturn crosses your Sun on January 1, 2005, the progressed first quarter falls in Capricorn, Saturn's sign, on May 12, and a solar eclipse hits Mars on October 3.

   Saturn conjunct Sun · Progressed Moon: first quarter phase · Solar eclipse on Mars

9. 2006-08

   Handing it over strong career

   What you've built ought to stand without you, and your work would be to pass it on. Saturn comes back to its birth position on August 4, 2006, right on your pairing of speech and rigor.

   Saturn conjunct itself (natal)

10. 2007-01

    Choosing few battles medium inner life

    You'd pick few battles, and your private life would come first. Neptune squares your Moon on January 21, 2007, Saturn on March 22, and Saturn crosses Mars on November 11, 2010.

    Neptune square Moon · Saturn square Moon · Saturn conjunct Mars