Astrology: The First Meeting Chart

 

 

One year ago today… or so I made the chart.  Meeting someone online does make for a difficult call on when the chart is cast for.  Whose location and time zone do you use?  When is the meet moment?  Many times there is public interaction but not really a meet.  Is it when first contact is made privately?  I went with private contact  of acknowledgement… when he answered back after I sent first PM.   The other consideration is is it when they first start typing or when they hit send or what I used, when the acknowledgement was seen by me, my location and my time zone… and being an Astrologer, it was recorded.

Today also happens to be my Venus Return and Mercury tags along in conjunction.  It coincides with the Transit Sun conjunct my Natal Mercury and Mars.  Transit Moon is conjunct my Natal Pluto (and his Natal Ascendant) Even the asteroids are having a romantic tryst.  It is no wonder that my focus is on this chart today.

 

The first glance of the chart did not look so busy as I did not include the outers in viewing it.  I was not familiar with his chart yet so did not see the correlations to his life.  My own chart’ like the back of my hand and did note first the synastry between the first meet and my own Natals.  The Axis are with in a few degrees of my own.(Later to see his progressed Axis are the same at this time) The first Meet chart the Sun is conjunct my Natal Mercury and Mars (later to see his Mercury/Mars Midpoint and 5th house cusp) Meeting Chart Venus is on my Ascendant (his Juno and progressed IC, Progressed Sun, Venus, and Mercury).  Pluto in Meet chart is conjunct my South Node (and his solar arc Venus) Saturn in the Meet chart is conjunct  + 2 Neptune and MC on one side, Juno on the other (+4 conjunct his Venus) Later I did find that the chart’s Uranus opposes his own… midlife crises.

^ Just in what is going on there, is the cause of much of my unease.  More unease to come as it is time to read the chart.

The Sun and Venus are prominent in this chart, the synodic cycle with these planets are often used to characterize a relationship between a male and female; the dance if you will.  They are both attracted to each other traveling through the same sign… a shared depositor Saturn.  Usually we shudder with Saturn, but with relationships the limiting factor is usually a positive point.  Like a slow burning ember of cozy, practical, predictable. steady relation.  This the steadfast quality we usually are looking for after the earlier the flash fire of hormones burns out.  Venus and the Sun ( Both in dignity being on the ascendant) are mutually aiming for a sextile to Saturn.  Progressing the chart for a few days we see Venus retrograde… this was something I did not want to go through… I had given up any type of love… and Venus under the beams of the sun promised pain (and there was some as I am learning to deal with myself and past mistakes)  The path is through the 12th house, and there has been confronting (Sun shining a light on) of behavior… mostly on my part.  Who gets to Saturn first?  Cazimi conjunction to Saturn… Venus (me) is in the Heart of the Sun (him)  Venus is encouraged to act as herself with the warmth and protection of the Sun… they are one unit of mutual love and respect as they hit that steady place promised by Saturn (Saturnalia  The harvest after hard work and overcoming difficulties/ lessons learned and a graduation.)  Additionally, I should point out Eros conjunct Saturn *wink*.   I could not have imagined this is what I would find, yet did know I would.

The Moon in the 3rd house is lacking aspects except conjunct the Part of Fortune.  Not mentioned above, the Moon is conjunct my Natal Moon.  The South Node is a – 2 conjunction.  Being this is a relationship type chart, I am apt to take the interpretation of that which is known and comfortable/ possible past life connection.  If nothing else, with the PoF it is a strong destiny connection.  Travel may be an additional factor other than the strong placement of communication and nurturing as the strong characteristics. Note the Moon placement is close to the IC cusp.  There is a feeling of being at home with each other whether literally or figuratively.  The Moon makes a supportive sextile to Neptune conjunct Juno (A strong Spiritual connection and an immediate belief we belong together.)

Saturn being the planet being applied to and in the 10th house, we should expect that career and possibly working in partnership is a real possibility.  Natally, we both have 12th house placements which keeps us out of the spot light, but together there is an expectation the relation has public eyes on it… and that has happened, even if only here for the whole wide WWW to read this blog.

There is some friction in the chart, but not very strong when including personal, composite charts to overlay on this one.

I can say this chart frightened me, as have all the other ones… composite, Davison, personas, progressed, Arc Directions, profections… even Astrocartography… they all say the same thing.    And after fighting the fears I can say I never been more content.

 

When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.~ Arrigo Boito

 

Transit Uranus and Pluto tightening the Square

John Carlos and Tommie Smith 1968 Olympics

There are some ugly skies out there.  Uranus that demands freedom, revolts, progression, brotherhood and Pluto that methodically wears away outdated structure, insists on transformation, a rebirth after destruction.  They both insist on change of the status quo.  Though Uranus favors a more understanding approach of goodwill coming together for a cause, expect the unexpected flash of movement that can be the catalyst of violence.  Pluto is more interested in having us face exposure… nothing has been buried deep enough for Pluto not to dig up.  When the two are in hard aspect…  Think of a fault line.  All of the consistent, relentless over a period of time pressure building up (like Pluto energy) and the Uranian explosive moment when the threshold has been reached.  And we are then forced to clean up and rebuild, better than before… or in some cases, walk away, nothing to salvage.

 

The last hard aspect these two had been involved in was the 60’s conjunction in Virgo.  As it was a conjunction, it sets off a cycle until the two conjunct again (not in this lifetime)  The sixties set the tone of social revolution.    We visit and revise with hard aspects between these two planets.  I chose the photo of John Carlos for this blog as the I was reminded when seeing the Saint Louis Ram’s players peacefully protest/give support of the “hands up, don’t shoot” solidarity.  For the hard won Civil Liberties of the 60’s , we see the Supreme Court dissolved Voter protections this round of hard aspects.  There is a frustration that is at critical mass.

 

The Uranus Leo, Pluto Taurus Square in the 1870’s gave us a time in the United States coincided with the regulating of Native Americans to reservations.  It ushered in the Battle of Little Big Horn.  Native Americans were moved off the land of the Black Hills when gold was discovered (seeing the greed reminiscent of our economic break down when this current square formed a few years ago?)  Racial rioting took place in South Carolina that year had the president send in Federal troops.  And Uranus, being Uranus we also saw Bell’s telephone patented and the first usage, female pilots emerged, Edward Bouchet, the first black to receive a PhD from an American University, Edison’s mimeograph unveiled, and new records of time with the Transcontinental railway.

 

How are these planets going to effect us personally?  Take a look at your own chart.  Any planet or point at the 12 degree (take 3 plus minus orbs)in a cardinal sign;  You will feel this internal angst.  But, the Solar system did not stop there.  We just had a Full Moon of Gemini.  All mutable placements at any degree will have a rough weekend surrounding emotions.  And add on top, not only the Sun, Mercury, and Venus get an opposition in Transit.  Saturn is slowly forming a square to Neptune out there.  Stay on guard for deceptions especially own delusions if you have hard aspects to either.  Did I mention how beat up Chiron is getting in Transit.  I am thinking hiding under a blanket eating cake may be the solution…. but not that either because Jupiter (expansion) and Saturn (restriction) are square…. and you can see how that plays out for you against your own chart.

 

I thought I was going to breeze through this weekend…. but no, hot mess here.  I do feel the pressure build up of this square, and am ready for a shake up in my own life and then pick up the pieces.  What pushed it was the full Moon…. I thought I was relatively immune to the movement through Gemini…. I only have two planets in mutable signs….. and OMG, it is the Uranus Pluto conjunction I have!  I have that conjunct a close friend’s Ascendant, so he gets that energy volatility (sorry).  My son has his Sun in Gemini and rising in Sagittarius and went on an unexpected travel adventure…. and scarey as it was, he navigated the circumstances beautifully.  The Saturn square with Neptune was the same old same old.  My Neptune and Saturn dealings have been and always will be as life long adversaries… but was a little more disillusion than normal when the Transit Sun and full Moon squared it…. or was I?  Maybe it was clarity from the fog at that moment and am lost again.  Now I am writing this as Mercury is frying up conjunct the Sun…Why would I do that?  Neptune whispers it is okay (delusional bastard)  I am hoping Cazimi when I hit “post”.