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Excerpt from Donna's e-book:
An Astrological Guide to Self-Awareness: 2005 Edition
© Moon Maven Publications
Miscellaneous Observations
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If you’ve gone no further than Sun signs so far, you may be surprised to find out that you are carrying around in your birth chart the signs you love to hate. Following the natural connections between signs, planets, and houses, you may find them in unsuspected places. If you have your Sun conjunct Jupiter but can't bear Sagittarians, you are practically a Sag yourself! If you hate Aries with a passion but have Mars on the Ascendant, perhaps you hate an aggressive, competitive facet of yourself. Can't stand Gemini? Could that be where you have your South Node? Do Virgos set your teeth on edge? Strange…if you have several planets in the sixth house, you have such a lot in common! Look for the signs you hate in your own chart—you may find out you are projecting an important, disowned piece of yourself onto other people.
The Moon in your chart shows the conditions under which you would feel most emotionally secure—different for each of us. The house position of the Moon reveals more detail about conditions that lend a sense of security. A person with the Moon in the eleventh house would feel most secure when surrounded by friends or in some meaningful group. Someone with the Moon in the seventh usually only feels secure when involved in a long-term, inti?mate relationship. The sign and house position can conflict—to have it in Aquarius means there is security in freedom and change. The Moon in Aquarius in the fourth had better invest in a mobile home, because Aquarius can feel stifled by putting down roots. Many people judge themselves harshly about the things that make them feel secure. For example, the Moon in Aquarius in the fourth person may say, "It's bad for me to be so restless." Astrology can help you recognize those needs as valid and important and can help you set out to meet them.
Many people place negative judgements on competitiveness, one of Mars’ urges. And yet, we ignore how much of human progress is rooted in this hard-wired facet of the human psyche. Without healthy economic competition, many of the advances and comforts we take so much for granted would never have been invented or become commonplace. I see the sheer beauty of Mars so often while watching the Olympics or other athletic championships. Athletes challenge themselves in part because of a wish for self-mastery, but also because of the stimulus toward excellence supplied by rivalry with other gifted athletes.
These contests push the windows of human physical potential further and further all the time, showing us how much more is possible than we once dreamed. For instance, in figure skating, where it was once considered amazing to achieve a double jump, a quadruple jump is now practically a requirement for winning. Certainly it is possible to overdo competition, like the parents who make their children’s success in the Little League or soccer a requisite for love and approval. However, children whose natural competitive urges are entirely squelched may wind up with little motivation for achievement and self-mastery in adult life.
People going through major Saturn transits can chafe at seemingly endless delays in realizing their goals, can suffer crashes of structures in their lives that are not solidly built, and can be haunted by depression or the feeling that they are growing old. Saturn represents the Reality Principle—that is, the piercing of denial and the ensuing confrontation with truth. Though most of us prefer to cherish our illusions, we have to face reality during Saturn transits—another reason it is called a malefic. But reality was always there, and it is our fault, not Saturn's, if we've avoided facing it. Myself, I consider Saturn one of the most benefic astrological influences, for we gain so much when we use its transits as windows for growth.
The positive side of a Venus-Saturn aspect is that you don't get older--you get better. A late bloomer, you may have been a plain, awkward teenager but suddenly become a beauty in your thirties or forties. Nor do you age as harshly as other folks—you may look years younger than your peers. Your popularity improves with age, too—seriousness is problematic for an adolescent but is expected of the middle-aged and older. You build a support group of significant others over time, and these connections tend to be long lasting. Through your serious approach to life, you can also achieve a great deal in the way of accomplishments that earn you respect. As you accomplish some of your important goals, you would tend to relax and feel worthy of pleasure-—you've paid your dues. A search of AstroDataBank reveals that those with the conjunction include Donald Trump, Denzel Washington, Ashley Judd, Vanessa Williams, and John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Many astrology books and magazines define the houses according to external circumstances. For instance, they might say that the second house shows how you will fare in money matters, the fifth your children, the seventh your marriage partner, and so on. These descriptions sound as though everything in your life is deter?mined by something outside your control—Fate, people in authority, the economy, or heredity. If you have Jupiter in the second, they might assure you that luck will just keep coming your way in money matters, leaving the impression that you need only sit back and wait for it.
The modern astrological position based on psychology, and metaphysics is that definitions like these are over-simplified. The prevailing viewpoint is that external conditions alone do not determine your experiences; instead, your inner attitudes, beliefs, emotions, and needs act as magnets to determine the outer, tangible circumstances of your life. People with Jupiter in the second house, for example, aren't lucky due to Fate, but rather due to attitudes of openness, enthusiasm, and optimism that lead them to act on opportunities others might let pass by. For the most part, we make our own luck, good or bad. No doubt the truth lies somewhere between these two positions—the fluctuations of the economy cannot be ignored, and yet our relative position within the economic circumstances of our times is greatly affected by our attitudes and beliefs.
Folks who follow astrology are fond of moaning, "I went through a terrible time when Pluto crossed my Sun, but I’VE REALLY LEARNED MY LESSON!" These avowals of spiritual progress used to impress me, until I began to notice that many of the people who made such claims hadn't changed at all. They might avoid the original situation that caused them so much misery, but then they would plunge into a similar one that was just as self-destructive. I finally concluded that "I've really learned my lesson," was all too often just a bit of karmic chic or a New Age way of saying, "How I've suffered!"
We make real progress in a long-standing and recurring pattern only when we carefully evaluate our part in the situation—why we got into it, what needs it met, where we made mistakes, and how such difficulties can be avoided in the future. Our potential for the future only truly changes when we learn from past mistakes. Blaming others rather than seeing our own role is a sign that we haven't really learned anything. Blaming the planets for our problems is another way of not taking responsibility for ourselves and the ways we contribute to our difficulties. We will transcend the past when we learn from it. Start examining your thoughts, actions, and emotions in the more difficult areas of your life to see how you provoke the "mistreatment" you get from the planets.
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Donna Cunningham,
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Donna Cunningham is an internationally respected astrologer and the author of 13 books on metaphysical topics.
Donna Cunningham has a dual background in astrology and psychotherapy, with a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University and over 30 years experience as a professional astrologer. She considers doing the astrology charts of children to be a sacred trust. It is a way of knowing who these Indigo children are on their own terms rather than as their families, teachers, and society expect them to be.
In these sessions, she focuses on typical childhood concerns such as family and peer relationships, the best educational approaches, and the child's special gifts and abilities. She can be reached for consultations at (503)291-7891, by email, or at her web page. Ask about her special rate for children's charts.
Donna is also co-editor of Vibration and a frequent contributor. She has written fourteen books on astrology and other metaphysical topics, including her Flower Remedies Handbook. Astrologers who want to know the special considerations involved in doing children's charts can read the chapter on this topic in Donna's text, The Consulting Astrologer's Guidebook.
Listed in several Who’s Who volumes, she has given seminars on astrology around the world and won the prestigious Regulus Award at the 1998 UAC.
She teaches astrology classes online at: astrocollege.com
You may reach her for long-distance astrology consultations at her web site:
DonnaCunningham
MSW.com
by email:
moonmaven @spiritone.com
or by calling:
(503)291-7891.
For the past 20 years, she has worked with the flower remedies, and she is co-editor of Vibration Magazine, a free online educational quarterly at:
essences.com/
vibration/
For information on Donna's online classes about flower essences, visit her website:
DonnaCunningham
MSW.com
"Donna's first astrology ebook will be available in March.
For more
information go to her web page:
http://www.donna
cunninghammsw.com
This series is reprinted with gracious permission from Donna Cunningham.
©2002 Vibration Magazine/The World Wide Essence Society
PO Box 285
Concord, MA 01742
978 369-8454
If you are interested in ordering a copy of Donna's new ebook:
"Flower Remedies--How Plant's Energies Can Heal Us,"
It is $15, available at Moon Maven Publications:
www.moonmaven
publications.com
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