hat if quintiles and biquintiles show personality quirks in the best sense – traits and behaviors that you can “get away with” and that other people cannot? While other people […]
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Sun trine Ceres
Sun trine natal Ceres has a similar feel to the sextile, but where the sextile has the excitement of blossoming flowers, the trine is more about lying back and gorging on their sweet, ripe fruit. The problem then is the slide of the trine into complacency and decadence, then the bigger problem is natures cruel way of having to balance the books. So Ceres in trine aspect can be a little too much of a good thing. If also aspected dynamically Sun trine Ceres bestows great artistic creativity and sometimes musical genius. When you experience a particularly hot and halcyon summer, a normal winter will seem devastating in it’s bitterness by comparison. More evolved souls with Sun trine Ceres somehow know that their good fortune or gifts need balancing, so they impose onto themselves a “bleak winter” every now and then. These subjects will not shy away from trying to understand and help those in poverty, pain or suffering. A more materialistic Sun trine Ceres will define himself by accumulating wealth and being rather ostentatious, that is until a Pluto transit comes along and strips them of everything. Another manifestation of this aspect could be over identification with the mother […]
The Progressed Moon/Transiting Saturn Cycle in Synastry (Part One)
One of the things that is often trickiest to get a hold of when you study progressions is the inter-relationship between the progressed chart and the natal. For example, if a progressed planet is making an aspect to another progressed planet, how do you interpret that progression in relation to the natal chart? On the […]
The Moon and Momzilla
While I have my virtues, I’m simply not the person I could have been had she been in my life awhile longer, to help me smooth off a few more of the rough bits. I suppose we’re all our mothers’ little magna opera – ambitious symphonies that they nurture, refine, and eventually must leave behind, unfinished.
Secondary Progressions One Beginning in Two Weeks
Secondary Progressions are absolutely crucial to any natal chart interpretation. They’re the ‘why’ behind the ‘who’ of the natal chart and the ‘what’ of the transits. Without a correct interpretation of secondaries, we have no focus, no perspective on personal development nor on our spiritual evolution. For those of you new to the field, more […]
Out of Sign Aspects
An out of sign aspect involves two planets in aspect yet in signs that do not match the aspect. The energy of the planets is in sync for the aspect but the expression of the planets conflicts with the aspect. When using the major aspects (conjunction, opposition, square, trine, sextile and quincunx), out of sign
Today’s Aspect-palooza: Four Seasons in One Day
Astrologically, things have been relatively quiet since the New Moon. That ends today, with a veritable bonanza of astro-activity. To wit: While you slept, the Sun squared Neptune. Jupiter and Venus both turn direct. Jupiter has been retrograde since J…
Synastry Studies: Conjunctions–Sacred Marriage or Train Wreck?
I think, of all the aspects in synastry, the most misinterpreted is the conjunction. It’s easy to understand why. There’s something romantic about a conjunction, something seductive. Two (or more, sometimes) become one. How lovely. There is a basic archetype at work here, the reconciliation of differing energies, the merging of two separate forces. On […]
First Steps: Tribal Trines and the Nations of Earth, Air, Fire and Water
An interesting thing came up in a lesson the other day. We were looking at a chart with a heavy second house–and I mean heavy, with the Sun, and the chart ruler, Venus (ruler of the Ascendant) conjunct there. Now, Venus is often conjunct the Sun and I don’t usually give it much weight, but […]
First Steps: Phasal Relationships
First Steps is a new series where I will be covering and re-discovering basic techniques and formative principles. It’s not quite Astrology 101, but will cover the foundations of chart synthesis. If any of you have questions about astrology fundamentals, please email me (alcuin9@gmail.com) or go over to the Facebook page for The Inner Wheel […]