Lesson #1: If you’ve got Saturn in Leo, keep your ego in check. Saturn in Leo can mean all kinds of things, but one of the things it can mean is you gotta keep that ego in check. Because Saturn in the sign that rules the egomaniac in all of us indicates that the ego can become a burden, a hindrance, an obstacle and a general source of bad moodness all around if it’s not turned into discipline and self-control.That’s partly because West having Saturn in this sign indicates it’s not exactly ego in the positive sense of self-confidence, but an ego born out of Saturn’s specialties: fear, insecurity, and a driving sense of need. And that just doesn’t work all that well, as things so frequently don’t when Saturn’s got the reins.
Lesson #2: If your Jupiter and sun in Gemini are opposite your Neptune in Sagittarius, somehow you gotta teach yourself how to keep your lips zipped sometimes. It’s great to have Jupiter conjunct sun usually, although it does have a tendency to inflate the sense of self. But when you’ve got a blabbermouth sun and a blabbermouth Jupiter opposing a blabbermouth Neptune, things can occasionally get out of control. Sagittarius is known for its blunt willingness to speak its mind, even when other people wish it wouldn’t. It’s an impulsive sign as well. This honesty can be all well and good, or at least useful on occasion. But Neptune is also the planet that will get itself all tangled up in delusions, and Neptune in Sagittarius will happily spout those delusions given an eighth of a chance.

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Topic of discussion: Ryan "I Just Trolled On My Kid At My Girlfriend's Funeral" O'Neal.

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Perez Hilton and I have one, apparently. Yeah, wouldn't have figured I have anything in common with him, but...

Here's where I see his snarky attitude - Saturn and Neptune hooked up to Mercury and Venus. Neptune isn't mean, but it's imaginative, foggy, deceptive. Saturn can be mean and/or sarcastic when linked to Mercury as here - this is the circuit which feeds his writing style.

Yeah...people would agree with this about me too. I am one snarky biyotch. But without a gossip site.

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"Neptune and Jupiter together are about big dreams, but often we are blocked by something inside us. It could be a wound that we are not aware of, and most of the time, there’s an element of fear involved. Before we can move into the dream, we must overcome that fear."

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In depth read here.

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A hi-larious conversation with Venus retrograde in Aries, while drunk. Oh, and also, an interview with Neptune in Scorpio in the fifth, while stoned.

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Part 1 of a series.

I have my planets of identity (Sun) and relationship (Venus) in my Seventh House -- plus my chart ruler is conjunct my Descendant -- so partnership to me feels like an essential nutrient. But many people prefer being alone. Is it by choice ... or inability to maintain a satisfying relationship?

Some people find that their commitment to work or a creative pursuit leaves little room in their lives for the demands of relationship. An occasional fling or one-night stand, yes -- but not the hard work that goes into maintenance.

If you work full time and then come home to churn out your novel or practice guitar, how can you also have the time and energy for another person? The more hours you spend with a partner, the less you have for your art or career. And what if you're a single parent who's hesitant to potentially destabilize your children's lives?

Some things may be more important to you than carrying on a romance. But maybe you just suck at relationships! It's important to know the difference, because permanent retreat from intimacy due to a disastrous love life should not be confused with "having greater priorities."

You can't blame the planets for your relationship life, but a look at their placements in your natal chart can indicate what's behind the difficulty with being partnered.

Neptune, Pisces and the Twelfth House all share the theme of sacrifice. If you have this archetype prominent in your chart, you may have a tendency to give up nearly everything for your partner. You idealize them or take care of them, setting aside your own needs to put them first. You might derive pleasure from giving of yourself, but at what cost? What about your dreams, your aspirations? The danger of this pattern is that you neglect your own growth by putting all your attention on someone else.

Yes, sometimes the role of the person behind the scenes -- who props up the superstar -- is essential in its own right, and you are well suited for it. But other people are simply codependent or attached to the role of the martyr. If this is you, it does not necessarily mean you are better off single. However, this is a core pattern that you may not be able to overcome by yourself. There are 12-step groups for codependents, and psychotherapy can be helpful. But you are better off being alone for a while if you cannot help but fall into the same pattern again and again. If you keep attracting losers, it could be a sign that you're sending out the wrong signals.

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The Quindecile: The Astrology & Psychology of Obsession

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This is interesting.

He began with a take on Uranus that I had never heard — transits of Uranus to itself can result in a person specializing. Principally they will specialize in being themselves, but he added that such transits (Uranus opposite Uranus at age 40 or so, for example) will be the time a butcher decides to specialize in lamb and the green grocer specializes in grapes. Finally, we get to hang up a big sign that says, “I am me.”

He made a point that I found truly worth repeating — at these moments, this process of being oneself must resonate in some way with the collective; that is, it’s not Being Me in a self-serving way but rather in a way that works for the community as well. You must maintain your objectivity, or in losing (or failing to gain) it, you run the risk of becoming evil. This is not an overstatement: that objectivity, which I would describe as the ability to see oneself and the other fairly, is what makes it safe to have creative power. I don’t think there is true objectivity but what I think he means is the ability to be witness to yourself; and through that, gradually learn a kind of impartiality.

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• House 1 placements:

A person with the Moon in House I has known considerable personal recognition in previous lives, the memory of which can come through into the current incarnation as a strong desire for renown. Only the overall pattern of the chart will show whether this yearning can be fulfilled. The position of the Sun indicates the area of life in which the person will need to excel in this lifetime.

In the absence of the real thing, people with the Moon in House I tend to settle into a Walter Mitty kind of existence in which they become the centre of a universe of their own creation. Those who do become accomplished some area or another, however, are usually able to use the past life memory to present themselves with great effect.

Hah. Yeah, I do the Walter Mitty thing...mainly because with my Saturn in tenth, I have no idea how to do it for real.

• House 2 placements:

When the dissolving effect of Neptune is experienced in H2, this materially focused house, the result can be heightened sensitivity to psychic energies. People with Neptune in H2 frequently have clairvoyant abilities, especially if the Moon is also present in this house. 

That explains a lot... (My moon is right on the cusp of house 1-2) I always wondered where that came from.

• House 10 placements:

Saturn in the 10th House is the planet of Karma in its Own House. Unsurprisingly its effect on a person’s life is very pronounced. The sign and position of the Moon will shed light on why there should be such a need to have to struggle against an undertow which threatens to pull down all-a-person builds in his life, and which is resisted only by constant effort, self-discipline and sound judgment. Saturn in the 10th House, as the lives of Hitler and Napoleon demonstrate, does not rule out eminence and acclaim but it means that a person will face the consequences of all he has put into motion during his lifetime.

A person with Saturn in H10 frequently starts life with obstacles blocking his way, including a father with a negative and critical attitude to the child or the marked absence of a father figure during the formative years. Either way the child’s self-confidence is seriously undermined. If the father is absent the child frequently feels a sense of shame and un­worthiness for which he may attempt to compensate by achievement. Alterna­tively there may be insufficient self-confidence for him to make anything other than the most hesitant of progress in a career. Amongst those who do strive to succeed, it is notable that they commonly become disillusioned with their choice of career at the point when they are in sight of the glittering prizes, or suffer professional disgrace. Either way they are perceived by others as having ‘blown it’.

• House 12 placements:

With Pluto in the 12th House consciousness is opening up to a power which can 'will into being'. Pluto in H12 has access to the Creator’s power and the purposes to which he will use it will reflect his level of development: he can manifest what he lusts after or he can will into being what he knows to be of benefit to mankind. For whatever he brings into being he will be held directly responsible.

I keep getting stuff about manifestation in my card readings in the last few months. I don't know what to make of it. I'm very nervous about trying it... (see below)

A person with this placement of Pluto frequently knows much cruelty and abuse in childhood, be it of a physical, emotional or mental kind, and the perpetrators are usually the parents or guardians who have power over the child by virtue of their custodial role. From them the child has little opportunity to escape at the physical level and in order to get away he forces open a shutter in the mind which gives him access to enormous psychic power.

Okay, I dunno about that "forces a shutter open in the mind" and "enormous" thing, but... the rest of it, yeah.

It is the law of the 12th House that for what is denied at the physical level is compensated at the immaterial.

The power of a person with Pluto in H12 is most readily evidenced by their often unconscious use of what has become known in New Age circles as Creative Visualisation: if he can hold an image or picture an outcome and give it his emotional energy he can bring it into being.

Too bad I suck at mental pictures. I am attempting collage in order to get around this.

When used consciously, Pluto in H12 gives a person great charisma and the ability to make others into the agents of the outworking of his will. The responsibilities of this are enormous and the karma incurred through the use of the power conferred by Pluto in H12 is unlikely to be burned off in the course of a single lifetime. A person with this placement, if he is to work consciously with his powers, needs to be able to recognise and resist the voice of his desire nature.

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