| pluto in capricorn & its retro |
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| 04:39pm 11/04/2008 |
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what's been going on for you with pluto in capricorn? it entered capricorn in january after 13 years in sagittarius.
the basic theme of the energy is turning over/inside out existing structures so new things can take root. it involves digging under the surface and the layers underneath being revealed. it's also about connecting with deeper layers of our desires (pluto), and growing up some to work to make things be the way we'd like them to be, ways they'll work better because they're more in line with our deepest sense of ourselves.
for me, one thing has been a lot of truth (pluto) about family members' histories (capricorn): their secrets get revealed after they pass away. these are folks i never trusted so i wasn't so surprised that they'd lie so much (or maybe i'm just jaded when it comes to family?), but other family members have been devastated by learning these truths. pretty intense. my mom, sister and cousin are reeling and trying to recover from the surprises.
what about you? what's going on?
and then the retro (april 2nd for 5 months) gives the chance to check our motivations and efforts. we can come to understand what's been happening the last seven months that pluto's been direct, as the focus of pluto energy gets turned inward and we can see and feel things a little differently.
i've got an article on http://thecosmicpath.com that discusses some of this stuff, too - look for the "pluto in capricorn" link on the front page. |
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| podcast interview on new archetype |
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| 03:50pm 10/10/2007 |
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Evolutionary astrologer Dena DeCastro's site now offers a podcast of Dena interviewing me about Arjunsuri, asteroid 20300. We talk about the archetype, my work as an intuitive and how it informs my readings, and my perspective on using asteroids and other small bodies and points in chart analysis.
It's the first word out there on this archetype about relating to one's inner knowing, that I've been using in my work for a few years. I hope you find it interesting!
The link to Dena's site's podcast area:
http://www.denadecastro.com/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html
Alternately, you can listen/subscribe through iTunes:
1) Click on http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=255092499
2) Press the subscribe button |
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| Upcoming astrology teleclasses |
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| 09:16am 17/07/2007 |
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1. Introducing my approach to holistic health using astrology, Saturday July 28th, 11 AM Pacific, $10. Health, or wholeness, depends on expression of all of our energies. I'll discuss each archetype, the kinds of expression it requires and how blocks in any area can affect the whole being, enabling you to understand how to shift things in your life to move more towards wholeness on the physical, emotional and psychological levels. The traditional mechanistic, Newtonian view of health (we are machines) doesn't work any longer. It's time to get real about what healing and health means.
2. Pluto & Chiron & Health Through the Archetypes, Saturday, August 4th, 11 AM Pacific, $10. Building on the introduction the previous week, I'll work with the two markers of wounding in the chart, Pluto and Chiron. We'll walk through the archetypes to understand the two kinds of wounding in each, as well as basic strategies for working with healing energies related to each in all twelve archetypes.
Full details for each can be found at http://www.tdjacobs.com.
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| event specifics vs evolutionary opportunity |
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| 09:45am 29/01/2007 |
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Adapted from an article in progress:
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As astrology is a symbolic language, the specifics of an event are less important than what's gained from the experience of living through the event.
For example, transiting Uranus squaring natal Moon will not necessarily manifest as any one of the following (typically expected events from this transit), though could:
Change of residence or sudden change to existing residence
Radical alteration of diet
Alienation of or from mother specifically or women in general
Shock to the emotions
Etc.
The point of this transit is to shake up (Uranus) in what one finds security (Moon), and that can be accomplished in a myriad of ways.
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Another side of this would be to look at what kind of work is on your soul's syllabus (the foundation of evolutionary astrology being that we're here to go through experience, with the life map readable in the chart) at any given time. I tend to use the example of something very unpleasant, because those are the events for which people seem to be looking for scientific correlation in their search to prove things about astrology.
One example is the death of a parent. We can go through the charts and find "reasons" this happened to that parent or to you, but the fact is that you'll find lots of different significators between many sets of charts (if you look at many). It's not always a Pluto opposition to Moon or Sun (or Saturn), and not always Jupiter hitting the MC or IC, etc. - not always any particular thing.
So, it could have many signficators, but the point from the evolutionary perspective will be about what opportunity related to your own journey opens to you because of that death. If you have Moon (including Cancer/4th house) work on your syllabus (either natally or by transit/progression/arc), the death of a parent could be about learning more about what makes you feel secure. If you have Mars (including Aries/1st house) work to do, it could be about learning to be more assertive, either in dealing with the death or being out from under the parental shadow. If you have Mercury work, it could be about learning to speak your feelings (Gemini), or perhaps about taking more responsibility for yourself, your family, or your own health (Virgo). |
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| chiron |
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| 08:46am 13/10/2006 |
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I did a lot of reading about the Chiron myth yesterday. Mostly so I could sort of form my own opinion about what I think Chiron's about. I need to also do some reading up on current events around 77/78 to complete the story, and I need more info on the last part of the story when he gives up his immmortality to go down to hell in place of Prometheus. I wrote down many things that I thought were pertinent symbols about Chiron. They're not in front of me at the moment, but I'll have to put them all down here soon. Here's some that come to mind:
"wounded healer," blah blah blah. sure, but I think there's more than that. For instance, I'm particularly interested about how he gave up his immortality, because one could see that as a selfless sacrifice, but it wasn't, in my mind. I mean, his immortality became a problem for him, it became the reason he couldn't heal or die - the reason he was 'stuck', and I think his sacrifice was less a kind gesture and more relief. Interesting. I also think it's interesting how it was mentioned that he was abandoned by his mother, born with a sense of shame and disgust upon him when his mother looked at him - and born out of rape, although some stories say they were 'in love'. Many people refer to this as his 'first wound', and I'm of two minds about that. That kind of thing leaves a mark upon anyone, even if they were immediately adopted and loved (like he was by Apollo, if I remember correctly). At the same time, it's not like he loved a miserable life alone and abandoned. What else do I remember ... My impression was that he became a healer sort of by accident - he was a good teacher, very cultured and intelligent and skilled, but the literal healer part came from his own search for something to heal him. I think this is fine, though, it seems that this often happens - your 'great work' sort of just 'happens' to you in a sense. But he was obsessed with healing himself, it's not like he started out on a quest to serve all those that were sick. He was obsessed with the pain of his wound so that all he did was search for a cure, and it was through his seeking that he gained all this knowledge to help others, which he did, and that's important. Then there's the duality idea - man and beast, logic and instinct that I also think is pertinent. Interesting, but potentially not pertinent enough to figure into the astrological story with so much already crowding it: his friend hurt him and his friend (Heracles/Hercules) brought about the solution for the end to his pain. Now, the hurt was accidental, which I DO think is pertinent - like the 'wound' you may exeprience represented by Chiron may be accompanied by a sense of helplessness, like it just happened to you. Interestingly though, in some versions, Chiron did it to himself. Either way though, it was an accident. So I haven't put all this together yet, my research isn't finished, but I'm starting to be re-confused about the difference between Chiron and Pluto in Steven's evolutionary astrology perspective. I once heard him talk about it being like Pluto is a deep psychologically oriented soul wound and chiron is like a flesh wound - gotta just get over it or you can't give your gift to the world. I can see that, but at the same time, I don't know. The Chiron myth is sometimes leading me down the road that I go with Pluto, and so I'm all confoozled about that right now. Like I say though, research not finished. thoughts, astrologer friends? |
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| 07:42am 30/09/2006 |
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So, lots of things, lots of things and I'm calming my brain down by thinking about astrology rather than everything else that's going on.
A while back when thinking about Pluto's future entry into Capricorn and the squares this would make to Z's Aries Moon-Chiron conjunction in the 12th house (as well as squaring its own natal place and opposing Saturn) one of the things I considered was whether this would be connected to some kind of illness with his mother. Then when we found out at the beginning of September that she had lung cancer (initially thought to be an early stage tumour) I began thinking again that in some way the future transits of Pluto would perhaps be a reflection of her illness. Therefore I was just as shocked as everyone else when she died just a week later. (The most active transits I can spot in his mom's chart at the time are transiting Jupiter's exact conjunction with natal Mars, and trines from progressed Moon and Mars to natal Chiron - both of which relate to the fact that her death was very peaceful - she simply fell asleep). The most active transits going through Z's chart at the time were as far as I can see Progressed Moon conjunct natal South Node, transiting Pluto trine natal Mars and transiting Chiron crossing the MC.
Chiron in particular I can see as being very significant (I don't have enough experience yet to really comment on the transit to the nodes but I welcome the evolutionary astro perspective on this) since the transit has been related to Z getting his British citizenship and passport (changing very much his standing in the world) and allowing him to go back to his home to be at his mother's funarel and visit his father's grave (he had died ten years before).
Also, now that he's got his passport we're getting legally hitched (which we didn't do when we had our wedding back in May since the right paperwork didn't come through on time). Nothing spectacular - just signing the right pieces of paper with our witnesses and heading out for a nice lunch somewhere, but it's really making me think about the astrology of it all.
FOr instance - which is the more accurate wedding chart- the one for 20th of May when we had our party and ceremony, or the one we will do in the next few months in which the emotional agreement we made back then becomes legally binding? Does the second wedding chart replace the first, the way a nation's natal chart changes through its incarnations with different borders/consitutions and so on?
Also, on that note - what are your thoughts on the upcoming stellium in Scorpio?
In the UK one has to make an appointment for 'giving notice of marriage' in which you and your intended show up with documents demonstrating your proof of identity and address and so on, and the marriage license takes 15 days to come through so you can get married from the 16th day onwards.
We haven't set a date or anything but one of the possibilities is November the 4th when the stellium in Scorpio will still be going strong.
( My chart, Z's Chart, Composite Chart )
The transiting Scorpio Stellium for that day will be landing in my 3rd house and Z's 6th; transiting Saturn at 24 Leo will be square my Moon Uranus conjunction and Z's natal Mercury; it will also be square the transiting Jupiter-Mercury conjunction in Scorpio.
The transits read as follows Sun 11 Scorpio, Moon 19 Aries, Mercury 22 Scorpio, Venus 13 Scorpio, Mars 7 Scorpio, Jupiter 25 Scorpio, Saturn 24 Leo, Uranus 10 Pisces, Neptune 17 Aquarius, Pluto 25 Sagittarius.
Finally, what do you think are auspicious marriage aspects? Aspects to be avoided? Is there a point in planning an 'astrologically auspicious'date or just setting a date randomly and letting the astrology be a serendipitous reflection?
I'm very curious as I don't know much about this, and interested in your thoughts.
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| 03:20pm 01/08/2006 |
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Do you think astrologers who are parents have an advantage in understanding and raising their children? Or do you think we run a greater risk of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy?
(I suppose you could ask the same about psychologists, etc, but I pose the question all the same.) |
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| 07:28am 10/07/2006 |
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Who here has had a reading by an evolutionary astrologer and if you have, was it different or better than any other readings you'd had or better than you had expected...? |
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| objectivity |
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| 01:05pm 29/06/2006 |
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there's a list of recurring questions asked in astrology circles populated by people learning the subject, mostly on the level of what planet x means in sign y or house z. while the internet is a great tool, etc., there often bubbles up all over it a stereotype free-for-all where there's no or little leadership or guidance to raise the level of dialogue to astrology-as-healing-art/science, which is where my interests lie. so, here we are.
each of those questions reflects the misguided assumption that astrology is about delivering objective information, and i'd like to tease this out for a bit.
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| the transiting lunar nodes enter virgo-pisces |
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| 11:10am 21/06/2006 |
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i wrote this this morning and thought it might be useful to share.
xposted to my journal
i'm pretty excited about the summer solstice, but i'm even more excited about the transiting lunar nodes' position. i'm not wound up because the transiting north node is on the aries point (0 degrees of aries), like i suppose some other nerd astrologers might be. what i'm wound up about with the nodes is that after the aries point, the transiting north node enters pisces.
but first, some notes on the transiting nodes:
premise: the transiting south node pushes buttons while the transiting north node can show a way to move energy/resolve stuff that's been stirred up.
1) we collectively experience the sign the south node transits and then have our individual experience based on the natal house it's transiting and any natal placements that are triggered.
2) but wait! it turns out that the house and sign the south node is transiting is only an apparent issue. the real issue is to be found in the natal placement & configuration of the ruler of the transiting south node.
3) the natal placement/configuration of the ruler of the transiting north node can offer info on how to move ahead with (= integrate) what's been stirred up.
(see http://www.ulrichbold.com/transiting_nodes.htm for a lengthier explanation.)
for a year and a half, the transiting south node has been in libra and the transiting north node in aries. generally speaking, what we've been learning about centers on boundaries and definition of self. as one of the six sign axes, the aries-libra pole is at root about acting vs reacting, initiating vs responding - and at the most basic level, self vs other.
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| 10:28am 03/03/2006 |
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i'm thinking about why the evolutionary approach is so hard sometimes for a lot of people to take, and why it often isn't but is just not grasped.
it brings me to the conditioning of the cultures.
i'm watching the entirely gigantic saturnian machine gummed over the faces and hearts of people everywhere, and am in deep desire to shake each person by the lapels and do whatever i can to help them wake up.
it's hard to take because it's so foreign to how we're trained and encouraged to think. i'm reminded of all the folks i know with saturn-chiron in pisces opposing pluto-uranus in virgo. a lot of those i know with this are doing what they can to bring ancient teachings out of the fog of forgetfulness. they inspire me to focus on the goal...whatever goal, whatever it is. seeing people compelled to change things...i guess i should note that i know a lot of them with these bodies in the 3rd-9th axis.
i've been rereading jeff green's first pluto book, which includes material on the evolutionary states of souls. my opinion is that this is extremely valuable when dealing with clients, so that you know "where that person is" in their journey, but never should be discussed with clients. i can't tell if the people using it in their practices are keeping a veil on it or not, but it definitely can confuse things.
i've been working slowly on a few astrological topics:
-dynamics stirred & opportunities offered by the transiting lunar nodes through houses
-the relationship between fear and desire
-the desire to believe (we hoodwink ourselves when we reaaaaallly want something to be true that isn't)
this looks like a personal LJ post, but i thought i'd see if any conversation wanted to get started on anything, anything at all in EA. |
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| Transits of Pluto - *Knock, knock!* *Who's there?* *Lord of the Dead* |
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| 12:09pm 28/11/2005 |
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Hello All,
I went to an astrology seminar yesterday all about the upcoming (Jan 26 2008) entry of Pluto into Capricorn. It wasn't a gloom and doom thing at all, mostly just looking at some of the things it might mean (e.g. moving on from the fiery ideas and beliefs crisis of Pluto's transit through Sag) into embodying in form the ideas we are left with, for better or for worse (and that in preparation for that we should exercise awareness of our thoughts and feelings and be aware of what is coming up in us so that we can own it individually as opposed to experience it as a sudden eruption of something from the collective).
We looked at the historical events associated with Pluto's transit through Capricorn (the rise and fall of British, Chinese and Ottoman Empires), although as Liz Greene says it's not about the wars, it's about the particular reasons for those wars.
There was some discussion about the mentality of empire, how those that are making the empire believe they are doing so out of some good purpose (e.g. the Capricornian British bringing law to those chaotic Indians) or some divine right (religion, or the divine right of kings), in order to make the world a more orderly place (which is Capricorn's way after all).
We looked at some national charts (UK and America) who will both experience major Pluto transits (it will oppose America's Sun, and conjunct the Sun of the British) and looked at some of the ways that it might kick awake national identity and feeling.
And then we started looking at individual charts and upcoming Pluto transits. I realised that Pluto in Capricorn will square my Mars in Libra and then square my natal Pluto and saw how already I am seeing some shifts in my attitudes and feelings, particularly around my work. For instance my Libran ideals of fairness and equality and leaning towards liberal policies and generous welfare provision are having a serious clash with my growing cynicism and realisation that some of those things just aren't working and that some of my ideals might need to be compromised in the creation of the most workable reality.
As I thought about all that I realised that Pluto in Capricorn will square Z's Moon, Mars and Chiron in Aries (it will also oppose his natal Saturn and square his natal Pluto, but the square to the natal planets jumped out at me).
I was pondering this, thinking of what it might mean for him and ways Pluto might hit. Since the squares describe a clash of inimicable energies and that Moon & Mars are both associated with the physical body and that I am a freak with anxieties, I started to put pieces together and see a possible scenario where Plutonian transits might coincide with a period of physical illness & incapacity. I was talking to Z about this, advising him about stopping smoking now please thank you, and discussing in general terms what transits of Pluto might mean. Mostly I was thinking along the lines of feelings of entrapment and challenges to feelings of emotional/physical strength and potency (since a way of getting to Aries Moon and Mars is to compromise their energy and drive).
I don't think you can predict these things accurately or somehow *outwit Pluto* and I know that a heavy transit doesn't have to be heavy all the time and that it can manifest in a lot more ways than physical illness (I could have an affair for instance, I'm sure that would kick his Moon in the gut just as much).
Can anyone here give me more ideas of what Pluto square natal Mars and Moon-Chiron conjunction in Aries might mean, or ways it might show its nose? What is the experience there to teach?
Also have any of you experienced major transits of Pluto to natal planets (particularly squares to Sun/Mars/Moon)? And if so can you share what kind of events happened or what sort of feelings/experiences you had during this period?
I was looking at my own chart and at Pluto's transits to the Moon. It exactly conjuncted my natal Moon in 1991-1992 coinciding with my leaving Yugoslavia and the beginning of the war in the Balkans and it moved out of orb in 1995 coinciding with the end of the war. It was a very difficult, very dark time of my life when I was suffering with displacement, loss and serious depression (it wasn't my mother who died, but it was my motherland).
Since then I've had a Moon-Pluto conjunction by progression - which coincided with the start of my current relationship. And although it's been a very positive and rewarding event I remember at the beginning struggling with some deep trust issues (although trusting him enough to hang in there and tell him some of my deep secret stuff was as healing as it was scary.
So I know all about positive transformation, but having the Lord of the Dead over for coffee and cake is never going to be a pleasant experience. Heh.
Anyone have thoughts/expereinces about any of this they'd like to share? |
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| Evolutionary Astrology Reading Special |
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| 09:31am 10/11/2005 |
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Hi all,
Don't mean this to be in poor taste. Just wanted to let you all know as gently as I possible can that I'm having an end of the year special. |
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| Just in time for Halloween - a new article |
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| 03:10pm 30/10/2005 |
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I put up a new article on my website called Our Biggest Fears. It's about what every sign fears the most, and I'd recommend reading your sun sign, your moon sign, and even your pluto sign.
It's here if anyone is interested. |
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| evolutionarily speaking... |
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| 01:42pm 13/10/2005 |
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Do you think the combination of aspects in a chart, before looking at the chart elements themselves, gives a lot of information about that individual? For example, I am very heavy on squares (14) and conjunctions (11) with other apsects far, far less represented. Does this shed light on the personality of the chart or the flavor of life's journey (if you will) before the placements and signs are even taken into account? I usually look at each aspect individually, but I rather have the feeling that I'm missing out on information... |
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| 05:36pm 10/10/2005 |
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Assuming that the people in this community are passionate about astrology I have a question maybe, or maybe it's just an experience I have to share (learning to navigate my 11th house).
How do you avoid not driving people nuts! What I mean by that is, for me, when I'm looking at a chart, or configuration and understanding breaks through I want to share it with someone (Mercury and Uranus on the ASC & Sun conjunct Venus and Mars in the first house trine Jupiter in the 5th). It's just so exciting for me I have trouble containing it :)
I joined the astrology association here and so far there has only been one meeting, so unfortunately I haven't really built any relationships there yet. So I am driving my family crazy because there is so much energy behind my discoveries and they don't really care to get it. I'd love to be able to explain my 13 year old daughter's natal chart to her, but I'm not sure how to do that without really freaking her out haha. Today for example her 10th house Scorpio Pluto conjunct the MC jumped out at me when I realized that her reputation (quite an issue ATM) is quite Plutonian, and according to the school is not contained in her personal sphere, but actually becoming a 10th house MC community issue! Not real easy to be her mom right now BTW. From an evolutionary perspective I can see the potential she has, my god I hope she takes the high road. I'm rambling off topic a bit, I told you I was excited ;)
Really though, do you find it difficult to contain your passion when it comes to understanding astrology? Do you feel a need to share it or discuss it with someone? Also as a side note, I'd be very interested to discuss what someone else sees in my daughters chart, as her mom I'm sure I have some blind spots to objectivity. Sorry, couldn't help but throw that last one in... excited, remember? |
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| Sign polarities |
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| 08:16pm 26/09/2005 |
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Hi everyone,
Recently we had some posts about sign polarities - here's an entire article about it that I wrote for my October newsletter. Check it out here. |
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| 2nd house - 8th house |
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| 07:59am 22/09/2005 |
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can we talk about these houses from the evolutionary point of view?
the question would be about integration - looking at the two sides of the axis
if the 2nd is gathering skills and developing self worth, the 8th is ? - blanking here of it in terms of the 2nd.
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| Lunar Behavior |
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| 12:41pm 12/09/2005 |
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Hello Everyone,
The third poll from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) astrology_2 is now available. And as usual, the results of the poll will be available for everyone to dissect within a week. THE MORE THE REPLIES, THE BETTER THE RESULTS! :)
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