Venus squares the nodes of the Olson twins.
"Venus is creating tension both in the swamp and at the top of the hill - it’s balancing the two nodes, creating a kind of harmony between old habits (swamp) and future goals (hill). Which would make this a very nice aspect.
Since Venus is at the apex of this T-square, the twins talents, values, and beauty will allow them to experience both the highs of the hill and the lows of the swamp. Both the future and the past seem beautiful for the twins. Since we’re talking Venus, however, this could merely be beauty on the surface."
I'm dealing with Calling issues right now. It is crazy. I seem to have two, one that has been around forever and I thought I'd grow out of it (didn't) and the other that is...so crazy wacko embarrassing, but #1 is a requirement for #2. It's wigging me out. As the book I linked to pointed out, avoidance...isn't good, so I am trying to cope. I can kinda deal with #1, but dear lord, I have been trying to talk myself out of #2 and it ain't happening. Both are related to this bit about node squares. Either way, I don't know how to "get moving" on #1 and #2 is even harder and a long shot even if I get #1 up and running. So at this point I'm in the "trying to accept this" phase of life, but am unable to just "go for it" unless "go for it" involves "stumbling around in the dark and tripping." My shrink is all "It's not going away, JUST GO DO IT ALREADY AND PICK SOMETHING." Sigh.
So, the one time I went to a psychic she used these angel cards at the end of the reading when I had an extra question. Now at the time I was eye-rolling at this because I really hate angel crap*, but after looking at the deck I figured out why she used them: they are very blunt. They say yes or no beneath the syrup. They get fairly specific as to what you should be working on. Which is refreshing and actually helpful. I have been doing tarot for yonks and yonks, but god knows there is always room for interpretation and debate in a reading and you can argue that for-ev-er.. And since I am way more biased doing my own readings on certain subjects and you can't bug your friends for a neutral reading all the time, I got an angel deck. Then eventually found that two of them are online, saving me the trouble of actually finding where the deck has disappeared to in my room. So when I have some important question that I am biased about, I go check one of those.
And my readings of late...have been SUPER optimistic. And when I say this, I'm talking what flat-out sounds like wish fulfillment. Like, take your wildest daydreams of being rich and famous and married to your favorite celebrity hottie, the cards would say YES to this. I asked about what to do about money (yeah, guess how my job's going) and every time I did I got the Abundance card and other cards indicating that I should be doing the happy money dance soon (how, pray tell?). The most incredibly unlikely reading of all had the "miracle" card in it. Well, yes, indeed, that WOULD be a requirement to get that one happening. These are so crazy I'm reluctant to even say what they are exactly to anyone not my shrink (who is probably really questioning my sanity right now). I am going to go bug my craft mentor about this stuff, but man, I don't even want to admit to her the sheer wacky of #2.
I'm like this girl that I posted the link about here. I am School Of Hard Knocks Girl. Probably not as bad as the example in that one because I've got...well, I went through astro.com's personal profile clicker doodah and leaving out asteroids and such, I've got something like nine trines and eight squares, three oppositions, two sextiles. I am pretty balanced on the "shit magnet" vs. "luck magnet"-ness, I guess, but I don't count on luck carrying me through. Sometimes I'm well taken care of (Taurus), but I also try to cover my own ass because you never know.
I don't really expect to get such...sunshiny readings with the kind of luck I have.
Once upon a time I had an ex who warned me that tarot cards didn't work on him. He was right, they didn't. He'd get all kinds of sunshiny happy cards and then his life would be nothing but shit. (That pretty much describes him in a nutshell: overly optimistic and almost nothing good ever happens to him. I do wonder at the level of self-delusion going on there.) I didn't ask why this was at the time, I figured he was somehow fucked the way he tended to be in life anyway. Now I'm wondering if he just was SO optimistic during a reading that he somehow warped the cards to show a happy outcome when it wasn't going to happen for him.
And I am wondering if I am doing that. This is TOO good to be right, isn't it? Isn't it far more likely that I am crazy than for that much good stuff to happen to me? Am I subconsciously forcing the cards (over the Internet :P) to show me what I want to see and I'm really just deluding myself? Or is it a divine mystery a la this horoscope?
* honestly, people act like angels are their happy shiny twinkly fairies who watch over them while they drive to the mall. This is not how angels work, or for that matter, fairies. Also, anyone's use of that word tends to be so precious and syrupy that I about throw up.
Venus square Saturn and Jupiter. Not to mention her 4th/10th house nodes. I tend to think the 4th/10th/Cancer/Capricorn nodal connection is the worst of the bunch, actually (yes, even worse than mine and I'm biased :P). Home vs. family and being forced to switch from one orientation to the other to me seems like a real bitch.
I am also smirking at the swamp remark for the South Node. That's...a bit much.
Soulmate signs (if you're into that sort of thing), and then a few couples for analysis:
"I have found, in my experience as an Astrologer, the two most important factors that indicate a significant relationship are contacts, from one person to the other, that hit one or more of the four angles of a chart: the Ascendant-Descendant axis (1st-7th house cusps, and the horizon line), and the Midheaven-Nadir axis (4th-10th house cusps), as well as the Lunar Nodes, which are considered strong indicators of our soul purpose and karma. I have noticed, in most of my significant relationships, a planet or planets, angles, or nodes will fall on one of my angles, nodes, or planets and sometimes vice versa. And this is totally the case in Lindsey and Stevie's relationship chart.
Lindsey's North Node (16 Aries) is conjunct Stevie's Ascendant (18 Aries). Stevie's North Node (13 Taurus) is conjunct Lindsey's Midheaven (10 Taurus). Stevie's Saturn (planet of karma) falls exactly on Lindsey's Ascendant/Mars/Pluto conjunction (17 Leo).
The way I read it is, they were married in a past life/lives (denoted through the Descendant, IC, and South Node connections), and in this life, they agreed to work it out in front of the world (as the Ascendant, Midheaven and North Nodes indicate). A Taurus Midheaven suggests that this time around Lindsey is gaining self worth by learning to rely on his own resources rather than other people's. An Aries Ascendant suggests that Stevie needed to become her own individual person outside of a relationship, and become a star on her own.
I think they tried to get back together as a couple because of the South Node familiarity, but the universe was prodding them toward their North Nodes and evolutionary growth. I think they separated and lived their own lives and became their own individual people, and now that they accomplished this, they are free to make music together again."
Desi and Lucy:
"Steven Forrest describes a soulmate as somebody who "messes with your soul." I like that. It implies that all of us are going to meet these special people along the way who our going to have a tremendous transformative impact on our foundation (our soul). We grow and evolve because of their presence in our lives. Everybody wants to find their one true soulmate, but even if you are lucky enough to find "the one," I suspect there will still be other people outside that relationship that will have a major soul shaping influence on you as well. Why limit ourselves to just one?
Also I have to add regardless of how beautiful and powerful the astrological connection is it doesn't mean that you are destined to live happily ever after or that your relationship will ever get off the ground in the first place. There is something that is much bigger than astrology that decides that and I think mostly it depends on how dedicated the two people are to making it work. It's only after the universe decides to bring you together and you both consciously decide that you want to be together that the astrology really comes into play. This applies to all kind of relationships not just romantic ones.
The fiery redhead Lucille Ball had an outgoing, expressive Leo Sun with a hard-as-nails Capricorn Moon in the Ascendant. Desi Arnaz was a sensitive Pisces with an equally sensitive and feeling Cancer Moon magnified to the extreme by it's conjunction with Pluto in the Ascendant. Just from those basic astrology observations we can see that these two people had very different natures but luckily opposites attract.
This is clearly shown astrologically by their Ascendants being almost directly opposite to each other. The Descendant and the 7th house in our own horoscope describe what we look for in another person and what we need in a relationship. Lucy has Cancer on the Descendant (conjunct Pluto) and Neptune in the 7th house so she needs emotional warmth, caring and domesticity (Cancer) in her partner and in her relationships with others. We can also expect with Neptune in the 7th that she would be asked to make great sacrifices in her marriage, she may over idealize her partner and look at her partner as a savior or become too much of a help mate to her partner. It's documented that Desi had problems with drugs and alcohol during their marriage and that's a classic Neptune in the 7th house situation.
Desi fit Lucy's 7th house bill perfectly with his Cancer Moon-Ascendant and his Pisces Sun and Mars (deposited by Neptune). Desi has Capricorn on his Descendant suggesting he needs structure and organization in his relationships and he's looking for an authority figure and somebody who will help further his career and social ambitions. Lucy fits his bill with her ambitious and authoritative Capricorn Moon and Ascendant. Their Moons overlay each other's seventh house of marriage, filling their partnership with strong emotions, both negative and positive, as they also provide one another with a great feeling of comfort and familiarity."
]]>"The next soulmate connection we see is that Howard's Nodal axis squares Robin's MC/IC axis. Her deepest roots (IC) and public destiny (MC) are intertwined with Howard's evolutionary journey (Nodal axis). Howard's Moon overlays her 10th house of Career, his emotional needs are in line with her career goals and this is another indication of deep comfort and success in their professional relationship. We see that his Sun and Capricorn planets overlay his 6th house of the work place proper, I noticed that when somebody's Sun falls in my 6th house they want to do things for me (it's a real Virgo feel), so Howard probably likes to serve and take care of Robin and Robin sees Howard as very useful.
In this case Howard and Robin are not lovers, they do not live together, and they don't even socialize that much outside of work. They have, however, spent almost every weekday morning together for over 25 years, and so they are forever linked together in the minds of their fans. That's a really powerful thing and their astrology together shows it."
This is all pretty overwhelming to read. But cool.
Posted late, I just want to bookmark this for the birthday stuff.
]]>I off-and-on read this guy's website. I am not into everything he discusses (the diet stuff, eh, no thank you), but sometimes he has some very interesting thoughts. And he is certainly right on the sleep cycle thing, 'cause I've done it.
Anyhoo, he's decided to go polyamorous for the New Year. The Internets are all in an uproar about this, as god knows everyone is whenever someone mentions non-monogamy. Someone commented on his forum that this might be due to a Uranus transit to his Venus. Steve helpfully provided his birth time. I was curious- he always seems to operate in some kind of Uranian experimental phase- I wanted to see what he had.
So: he's Aries with Sag rising/moon. Hm, somewhat of a surprise, but not really. Sag loves the brainy stuff. And Uranus in Libra would explain the relationship experimentation somewhat.
His north node is in Aquarius, so I guess that really fits him to experiment (especially with money, since he posts about that a lot)- it's his life mission to figure that stuff out for humanity.
I do wonder how it will work out for him a bit- the guy has Saturn in the fifth, which might hamper the Sag/Gemini-ness/free lovin' in his chart- but I guess we will see.
So, I got to meet a local celebrity from my hometown the other day. It was great fun- he's known for having the blingiest house at Christmas you have ever seen, and I got to tour the house. Huzzah!
So as I'm reading his website later, he happened to mention his birthday (the day before mine! Wow, I know a lot of April 23rd birthdays), AND the place of birth and time!
Yeah, I had to look.
He's a double Taurus (shopping, shopping), with a Sag moon (like me, hah), and URANUS RISING! That just cracked me up big time. He's in a very hierarchical profession/religion, but has the big ol' Sign of the Weirdo right front and center. With a north node in Leo (flashy!) in the fourth house...yes, he has a flashy house. (Interestingly enough, Chiron is conjunct the NN. I wonder what that means to him to do a flashy house with that aspect.) He's also a Venus Saturn person...a Catholic deacon sworn to celibacy.
Amusingly enough, my mother told him the next day that I'd seen we had nearby birthdays and he was all, "Taurus! Stubborn, likes to shop..." Believe me, if you've seen his house, you KNOW that. He must be really fun to go shopping with. Huh, I should meet the man more often. :)