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26-Nov-2000
Introduction to astrOtext Love
This report presents an overview of your personal expression of love
and sexuality according to the positions of the planets by sign, house
and aspect for the date, time and place of your birth. The astrOtext
Love is divided into eleven sections: one for each planet, including
the Sun and Moon, and one for the Rising Sign or Ascendant. Each section
begins with an introductory paragraph on the basic meaning of that planet.
The expression of love is of considerable importance to everyone. Few
persons are completely consistent or predictable in their feelings toward
their own or others' sexuality. You may find that you have contradictory
feeling about a sexual situation, either all at once or in rapid succession.
This is normal, for one's sexuality and personality are often an amalgam
of seemingly incongruous characteristics.
As an astrological outline on this subject, your astrOtext Love also
may contain some contradictory statements about your personal sexual awareness.
Such statements do not cancel each other out; instead, both statements
apply to you, either simultaneously or at different times. Reading your
astrOtext Love from this point of view can lead to useful personal
insight about areas to which you can direct your energies for enhanced
sexual fulfillment and awareness.
Much of the material in this analysis deals with your potential for sexual
expression, not necessarily with experiences that you have already had.
Discussion in your astrOtext Love is intentionally restricted to
different personality styles in the expression of love and does not touch
heavily upon specific sexual techniques or methods, as these vary tremendously
with experience and conditioning. We hope that by learning more about
this vital area of your life, your experiences will be more rewarding.
Rising Sign
The Ascendant represents how your physical body appears to others, so
it is quite important in the discussion of sexuality. The sign on the
Ascendant at your birth colors your style of presentation to a lover and
the image you project to others, especially at first meeting.
Your image may or may not be consistent with your inner personality.
It is important to understand the relationship between these two areas
of yourself so that you will be able to tell when others are misinterpreting
you because they are judging only by superficial appearances. At times
you may want to consciously alter your image to suit your inner intentions
or, on the other hand, you may just wish to be aware of the impression
that you make so that you can work within it.
Aspects to the Ascendant have a significant effect on your physical energy
and timing in sexual and social situations. If there are difficult aspects
to the Ascendant, you may have to modify your approach to others in order
to become more in tune with them. Reinforcing aspects can provide valuable
clues to why you are as successful as you are and what reputation you
may have to live up to.
Ascendant in Gemini
With your Ascendant in Gemini you have a talent for variety in personal
relationships, and you can enjoy many different kinds of lovers. Above
all else, you want variety in your love life; a stick-in-the-mud partner
who liked the same thing every time would be very boring.
You prefer the more delicate and intricate styles of loving, involving
a good deal of foreplay. Indeed, in some instances your enjoyment of that
aspect of sex outweighs everything else. Since you are an inventive lover,
you need a very sensitive partner who can respond to your delicate touch
and lively imagination. In fact, imagination is the keyword to your style.
To that extent, physical love is almost a mental exercise for you, and
you seek a lover with whom you can intertwine in mind as well as body.
You have the capacity to invent and enjoy all kinds of unusual love games,
but their success lies in the communication you achieve with your partner
thereby.
You are able to achieve great physical satisfaction from techniques that
would leave others only half-fulfilled, while more ordinary styles may
leave you bored and wanting more. In the end, you will achieve lasting
fulfillment through exercising your sexual imagination and through communion
with your partner.
Sun
The Sun represents your basic inner ego energies, and its position in
the chart denotes your overall inner direction. Its influence is quite
general, referring to your orientation and style of life than to particular
physical or mental attributes in love.
Any difficult aspects to the Sun mean that you are under a certain compulsive
pressure, the effects of which depend on the nature of the planet aspected.
Easy aspects, on the other hand, lend self-assurance, confidence and a
feeling that you know where you are going.
Where the emphasis of the Sun by sign and house is different from that
of other planets in the chart, there may be a dichotomy of inner direction
and mental or social influences. For the most pleasure and reward from
sexual expression, you must take into account all these factors, but in
the long run the position of the Sun is likely to have a stronger effect.
Thus your eventual path of development will be fundamentally shaped by
the position and aspects of the Sun, especially concerning your inner
feelings about sex. However, at first your sexual habits and attitudes
will probably be determined by the accepted social norms.
Sun in Scorpio
Of all the Sun signs, yours is the one most closely identified with sexuality.
This is because you feel life intensely and need to express your passions
in all that you do. In a love relationship you want all or nothing, and
you are quick to let a partner know that there is no middle ground.
Your basic drive for power is most clearly seen through your ability
to manipulate others in less than obvious ways. You will be very tempted
to use your sexual magnetism to gain material or psychological advantage
over your lover. For this reason you may attract less sophisticated partners
whose naivete allows you to be in command. But you will soon tire of that
game and look for something more meaningful on a long-term basis.
You usually are very clear about what you desire, and you know it is
worth waiting a long time to get what will satisfy you. This can make
you seem quite cold to those who want to get to know you but don't understand
your secretive nature. You might explain to those people that you simply
need to be alone. This small courtesy will win you much support from others.
As you mature, your interest will become more fervent in any area that
you focus on. You tend to immerse yourself in an activity or an affair,
then you are changed by it and finally become completely detached from
it. Once an affair is over, it is finished for you forever. However, neither
you nor your partner will be the same as when you met.
Sun in the Fifth House
This position indicates that you have a healthy, open attitude toward
sex, that you are able to integrate the sexual experience in a creative
fashion. For you, lovemaking is a positive and enjoyable form of recreation.
You should feel quite free to engage in almost any kind of sexual exploration
or experimentation, as your naturally joyful attitude will turn each encounter
into fun and surprises, even where others have to be more wary.
You do not sharply separate your love life from the rest of your pursuits,
and much of the same pleasure you derive from sex you also get from other
forms of recreation and social contact. Any creative activity in which
you have developed talent, such as music, dancing, painting or photography,
can provide the same kind of happy satisfaction that sex does. Because
of this attitude, you are generally free of the sexual hangups and fixations
that others are often afflicted with.
Because of your sunny nature, you should choose an outgoing partner who
will accompany you without hesitation wherever the urge leads you. Your
lover should be as much a free spirit as you, if you are to make the best
use of your personal and sexual creativity. As long as you give yourself
plenty of room, sex will always be a source of happiness and joy.
Sun Trine Uranus
Inventiveness and originality in love come naturally to you without great
effort. You tend to move easily from one step to another in the growth
of a relationship, accepting changes effortlessly and comfortably.
Take care to remember, however, that your lover may not be able to do
this. Some physical or emotional changes in a relationship may be much
easier for you than for your partner, so at those times you must be particularly
supportive and understanding.
In general, you may have a better sense of timing than your lover, but
try not to emphasize that, for your partner may resent it. It is better
to help your lover improve by demonstrating rather than by talking about
it, which may have the opposite effect of what was intended.
Thus you may have to delay some innovations in lovemaking until your
lover is really ready for them, so that you don't rush into things that
aren't yet appropriate. You respond best by using your inner vision to
temper and refine the relationship and to regulate your partner's energies.
Sun Trine Ascendant.
Generally you have a good, easy flow of energy, and you don't have difficulty
transmitting your emotions physically. Your expressive brand of body language
will enable you to achieve instant communication with a potential partner
and allow you to judge immediately, simply by the way a person moves,
whether he or she is really interested in you.
You can transmit desire and interest to a potential lover without words,
simply with movements and expressions. Needless to say, this gives you
a natural advantage in love, particularly when first choosing a lover,
for you will be spared much of the time-consuming rituals of courting.
But you should not take your easy ability in such matters for granted
or assume that love will always arrive unbidden on your doorstep, even
though it has happened before. Instead, use your native talent to meet
the challenge of a lover who is not at ease, who needs extra attention
and even training in the arts of love.
This kind of affair will keep your talents well-honed and in good repair
so that as you get older you will retain the advantages of your youth;
also you will experience a sense of achievement in helping a lover gain
the abilities that you were given at birth.
Moon
The Moon represents, in part, how you react to situations, sexual or
otherwise. If this reactive style is consistent with other planetary indications,
your behavior will be quite reliable and predictable. If this is not the
case, your behavior will be characterized by more variety and sometimes
inconsistency.
The Moon has to do with your response to love, which depends on your
situation. When you are the one who is initiating activity, this factor
is operating less than when you are responding to circumstances. How you
feel about a certain sexual experience may depend on whether you or your
partner suggested it. Being aware of this can help you to structure your
relationships to take advantage of each partner's type of response to
suggestions.
Some people consider that the influence of the Moon is more important
than the Sun in the charts of women, but that is true only if you consider
that a woman should always take the passive or receptive role, which is
a somewhat dated notion now. It is better for both men and women to use
both the initiative (Sun) and reactive (Moon) centers of their personalities
in patterns that will provide the most enjoyment and the best communication.
Moon in Pisces
Your emotions are very intense and finely tuned, and you can usually
see into the heart of an affair more quickly than your partner. But your
flashes of insight are not steady. You are likely to have considerable
mood swings and changes of heart within a relationship until it has settled
for a long period. Only time can give your affairs more concrete definition.
for that reason, you should find a lover who is more stable than you.
Such a partner will see through to the real you underneath and won't be
thrown off by your seeming inconsistencies.
Because you are more concerned with a lover's internal values than with
their external expression, others may think that your friends and lovers
don't match your style. But you are hardly aware of any inconsistency,
because you see directly to a person's heart, ignoring their external
trappings, which few others can do.
Concerning physical matters, you are likely to be rather impractical.
It would be good to have a partner who can handle the bothersome petty
details of existence, so that you can then attend to the more meaningful
issues in life without being distracted. Under such circumstances, you
can transform love into a clear, pure vehicle for personal understanding
and revelation, both for you and for your lover.
Moon in the Tenth House
Maintaining status in your social affairs is central to your lifestyle,
and your reputation as a lover is important to you. At times this may
keep you away from a relationship that would be very rewarding, but you
fear that it would interfere with your social or professional progress.
On the other hand, you are often able to turn a love relationship to
your advantage in other areas, so that you enjoy and profit from the connection.
Just make sure that love is always the primary goal of the relationship;
if that goes down the drain, so does everything else. A union of convenience
seldom lasts and is usually emotionally damaging to both partners.
External events may play a large role in shaping your love life, in the
form of unavoidable separations from a desired partner or a new relationship
springing up suddenly and unexpectedly. There is little you can do to
prevent this, so just relax and enjoy what fate provides.
In general you prefer a dynamic and future-oriented partner whose energies
kindle your own. Such a partner will spark you to greater efforts, both
in your personal relationship and in your professional life. You need
plenty of action and achievement for full satisfaction in a relationship.
Moon Trine Mercury
You should be able to express your feelings to your lover quite clearly
and to let your emotions have free and easy play. While your partner may
have to struggle to tell you about his or her underlying motives, you
can air yours with ease.
This is a decided advantage in a relationship, for in most cases it spares
you and your partner the pain of bottled-up feelings or misconstrued emotions,
at least through internal misunderstanding. This gives you room to explore
your partner's feelings and look for any problem areas that your lover
is unaware of or can't uncover.
You should be particularly aware of your partner's problems, not only
for the sake of helpfulness, but also for your own protection. Since you
do not have trouble expressing yourself, you may assume that your lover
is the same as you. Here you may be quite in error, and your partner may
resent you or simply feel distant, thinking that you lack understanding.
The best way to show you care is to get in there and help, even though
that may be more trouble for you; a worthwhile relationship is worth all
the effort.
Moon Trine Jupiter
Your style is marked by an easygoing warmth that is neither extravagant
nor retiring, which indicates that you have ample love and affection to
give to the world. Naturally, that makes you attractive to others, and
it will be quite easy for you to become involved both wisely and enjoyably
with partners of your choice.
Do not let the easy flow of your emotions lead you to become lazy in
love or to take your positive situation for granted, however. Building
a meaningful love relationship always requires active effort and some
stress and difficulty. Even though you can avoid problems more easily
than most, you should be willing to work on developing an important affair.
In general, you are favored in love, and you can transfer this ability
to your partner if he or she is less fortunate in this respect. You should
not neglect this talent, for it will keep your creative energies in tune
and enable you to be a helpful and creative force in your lover's life.
If you are careful not to make your lover feel indebted to you, you will
have a sparkling relationship and a partner who will be steadfast in times
of need.
Moon Square Uranus
Your attitudes toward love and your partner may be rather erratic and
subject to frequent changes over time. Make very sure that there are real
reasons for making any major turnaround in an affair, for unnecessary
changes are likely to wreck it.
You should outline your needs and desires quite carefully to your lover,
perhaps even in writing at times. That will give you a better intellectual
grip on your changing tastes, so that you will be less likely to confuse
or disorient your partner. Your lover should be a person who expects the
unexpected and can tolerate your sometimes arbitrary shifts in attitude.
You can use this aspect of your personality most creatively by being
the initiator in sexual situations, rather than altering your partner's
directions. In that way your innovative spirit will be free to create,
and your lover can suggest refinements as necessary.
Pay attention to what you are doing so that you can avoid going to extremes.
If you take control of your emotional self, your emotions will not take
control of you, at least not without your knowledge and intention.
Moon Square Ascendant
At times you may overreact to emotional situations and expend too much
psychic energy in coping with a relationship. This approach is not necessarily
bad or counterproductive, but your partner may be a bit puzzled when you
get so wrought up about a situation that doesn't warrant it.
The basic detriment of this attitude is the drain on your energy, leaving
you unable to deal with a really demanding situation. Since your emotional
overreactions tend to run in set patterns, you can get around this difficulty
by relying on your partner to let you know when you are going too far.
If you take note of when and where that happens, in future situations
you can consciously hold back a bit and save a good deal of stress.
Part of the reason for this overexpenditure of energy may be that you
feel you can't communicate effectively, that nobody understands your message
unless you really assault them with it. This may be true in part, but
you can solve that problem by being very verbally precise and not relying
on subtler clues of expression or body language to get the message across.
In your case such tactics may actually confuse or belie your words.
Mercury
The position of Mercury in your chart describes your mental style and
inclinations. Since the stimulation for sexual expression is related to
your attitudes and fantasies, Mercury is quite important in the discussion
of sexuality. Depending on how you use imagination in the service of love,
you may create a rich set of experiences or, on the other hand, you may
inhibit your expression of love.
It is important to remember that the body cannot always go where the
mind suggests. Some forms of sexual expression that seem exciting or enjoyable
beforehand may be less interesting or even impossible in actual practice.
But it is quite possible to enjoy those experiences in imagination, leaving
the more practical forms of expression for real life. Your ability to
do this successfully depends on how consistent the position of Mercury
is with that of the other planets in your chart.
Mercury is basically an asexual planet and thus it is not a major indicator
of your actual sexual expression or desires. Instead, it describes what
you think about and the embellishments you dream up to add subtlety and
variety to your sexual experience. To that extent, Mercury can have a
powerful enriching effect, even though it is not a strong internal motivating
factor, except through curiosity.
Mercury in Scorpio
You are probably very intrigued with the physical basis of sexual expression
- the relation of the different parts of the body to each other in lovemaking,
the advantages and disadvantages of various sizes and shapes in any sexual
situation. There is much artistry in this, which you should develop. This
area is often ignored, but it can be a great help in getting the most
out of sex.
The dark and powerful aspects of sexuality have great appeal for you,
and you really enjoy sex most when it is rather secret and mysterious.
Too much bright light on the workings of a relationship tends to take
away the excitement, making it too mundane. Thus, a clandestine affair
has a special appeal for you, and you may act secretive about an affair
even when there is no reason to do so, except for the excitement it provides.
Don't let dated social taboos prevent you from trying every kind of physical
sexual expression that appeals to you, even if it's labelled perverse
or bizarre by the sexually fearful. Repressing such desires will only
frustrate you, and expressing them with a willing partner will greatly
enhance your sexual experience and understanding.
But you should avoid using sex or sexual attraction as a tool to gain
power or influence over others. Sexuality can flourish only when it is
free of other motivations.
Mercury in the Sixth House
Depending on how flexible you are, your carefully considered approach
to sex can be either a help or a hindrance to you and your lover. In terms
of sexual technique, you cannot become too skilled - every new idea that
might enhance lovemaking is worth learning for future enjoyment. On the
other hand, do not become too technical about lovemaking and lose sight
of the open communication that is at the heart of every successful love
affair.
You find it quite natural to analyze your feelings and emotions about
a relationship, which is necessary up to a point; it can help you understand
what you are doing and thus avoid many pitfalls. But do not let your analysis
get in the way of spontaneity or keep you from expressing your natural
feelings for fear of upsetting the situation. Better to follow your true
emotions and let the relationship restructure itself accordingly.
This is important, because you have a natural inclination to go out of
your way to please your partner, even bending over backward to make everything
come out right. This is very laudable and gives you a real sense of accomplishment,
but don't neglect your own pleasures and desires. Repressing your own
needs will only backfire later, but if you express them to your lover,
it will warm and further develop your intimacy.
Mercury Conjunct Venus
You are very good at letting your partner know about your needs and desires,
so you seldom suffer frustration because of inability to communicate what
you want.
You also have a good eye for aesthetic proportions, both in your surroundings
and in your lover. You may express yourself artistically, most likely
in the visual arts, and will gravitate toward other artistic people. You
are not attracted to those who lack grace and finesse, even though they
are sincere.
You may be a gifted speaker, or at least you express yourself in a gracious
and charming manner. Because of this talent, you may find much satisfaction
in conversation with a lover who appreciates or shares your ability.
You are quite open about discussing sex, and you use all your learning
and conceptual abilities to improve your sexual expression. Similarly,
conversational lovemaking may be a special pleasure. You should ignore
any outmoded social convention about being strong and silent during lovemaking,
for verbal expression can greatly enhance your physical enjoyment.
Mercury Square Saturn
You may have some difficulty in communicating your needs in love to your
lover. This may be because you lack verbal talents, but more likely it
is because you feel inhibited, not quite approving of your own desires
or feeling that your lover may react unfavorably to them.
Usually, if you say what you mean in spite of your doubts, you will be
rewarded rather than scorned, and the more often you do this, the fewer
communication problems you will have. Your ideas may sometimes be rather
heavy, but love has room for a wide range of emotions and needs, not just
hearts and flowers.
However, you should resist the temptation to criticize your partner repeatedly
in love matters. If your lover won't deal with a problem after you have
mentioned it several times, it may go deeper than you realized. To keep
on attacking it from the same point of view will be counterproductive
and seem like nagging.
When you do have an important criticism, say it and be done with it,
but let the details iron themselves out without harping on them.
Venus
The position and aspects of Venus have a direct effect on your physical
and emotional desires in a receptive or passive sense. If the position
of Venus is not consistent with other planets in the chart, your physical
or emotional desires may be quite unrelated to your long-term inner goals
or direction. For example, close friendship with a lover may be important
to you as a goal, but it may not figure at all in your concern with immediate
physical gratification, and vice versa.
Venus represents the basic nature of your love desires, and it is quite
important to satisfy them if you are to gain consistent reward from sexual
expression. You should make a place for these desires even if they do
not fit neatly into the pattern of an established relationship or your
inherited code of moral ethics. A relationship that does not fulfill the
partners' basic physical needs will almost certainly flounder, no matter
how much effort is spent on keeping it going. And while it does last,
such a situation will cause only frustration and resentment, perhaps unspoken.
Venus in Scorpio
You have a very deep, gut-level style in love, and when you set your
sights on someone, you don't give up until you get what you want. When
you finally do achieve your goals, your pleasure extends to the very foundations
of your personality.
Indeed, it is extremity of enjoyment rather than moderation that is the
key to your pleasure. You are not too demanding of a lover in terms of
skill or technique as long as the experience is sufficiently intense.
You are more interested in the end than the means, and for your personality,
that is just right.
Do not let this view of lovemaking cause you to overlook the many methods
of heightening sexual intensity, particularly when a relationship is becoming
too low-key. Bedroom games in which one or both partners are sexually
restrained for a time helps build the requisite intensity for an all-consuming
experience.
Whatever your method, your enjoyment will be greatest if sexuality takes
on the aspect of tremendous power, an uncontrollable flood in which both
of you are caught up. This is ideal for the actual sexual experience,
but in everyday life you should take great care to let control return
to both of you individually, so that the basic equality between you is
not lost.
Venus in the Fifth House
Sex can be a source of limitless entertainment for you, if you have a
lover who is active and energetic enough to provide the variety and delight
you desire. For you, love is a happy, joyful experience, and your partner
should share your open and optimistic approach.
You also prefer to get right down to business, so you would be impatient
with a lover who insists on elaborate social courting rituals and the
like. Whatever you want, you want it then and there. You will be happiest
with someone who doesn't beat around the bush.
Although you value close personal communication with a partner, you feel
that it is better achieved on a mental plane rather than through sex.
Lovemaking is pure joy and recreation and need not be burdened with extraneous
meanings or motives other than the simple pleasure of physical contact.
You enjoy an artful lover, but one who retains a sense of youthful innocence,
for whom experience and technique are not ends in themselves. Love must
always retain the purity and beauty of a flower. Therefore many of the
more compulsive and unusual forms of loving in which others find pleasure
are of little interest to you. Anything that taints the sunny radiance
of love is to be avoided, and anything that furthers it will be a joy.
Venus Square Mars
You may find it difficult, particularly while you are young, to be in
the right place at the right time sexually. Opportunities for sexual encounters
may arise when you aren't in the mood, or circumstances may hinder you
when you're ready to go ahead.
The result of this difficulty can be a tendency to associate sex with
anger or frustration. If properly channeled, this association can make
sexuality very intense when you do find expression. It can also lead to
arguments or recrimination within a relationship, which you would do well
to avoid.
You should spend a good deal of time exploring your desires and understanding
them in order to have a really fulfilling sex life. The more subconscious
work you do in this area, the more control you can exercise over your
needs, regulating them to coincide with opportunities for fulfilling them.
Essentially, this could be called the art of sexual self-discipline,
which in the long run will make you a steady and accomplished lover. Mistakes
are part of any learning process, so instead of mourning your errors in
love, analyze and learn from them. The information you derive will improve
you sexually and emotionally. Such opportunities for learning should never
be wasted.
Venus Square Saturn
You must do everything possible to avoid being pulled into destructive
relationships of your own making. However, it is sometimes difficult for
you, both physically and emotionally, to avoid them. You tend to identify
love with pain, and thus you may pull a relationship into an unpleasant
downward spiral, which nevertheless has certain erotic overtones.
This difficulty can be avoided in part by approaching a relationship
more realistically. Your expectations of an affair tend to be so high
that you can't possibly live up to them, and therefore you automatically
experience failure and disappointment. Then you decide that you can never
get what you want from an affair, which usually turns out to be a self-
fulfilling prediction.
Instead, take love as it comes and enjoy it for what it is at the moment,
without making any judgments, if possible. By taking this approach, you
may be happily surprised to find that the affair turns out better than
you expected.
Not expecting anything from an affair is not the same as expecting nothing
from it, however. Expecting nothing means that you probably will get nothing,
while not expecting anything means that your hopes are nonspecific. By
taking this view, you can gain fulfillment from a variety of results,
not limiting your enjoyment to a single expected desire.
Venus Square Pluto
You probably have rather strong desires, but you may sometimes have trouble
getting them properly satisfied. However, you should be especially careful
in the psychological methods you use to obtain gratification.
This is particularly true if satisfying your needs might upset the quality
of your relationship. You have a certain ability to manipulate others
with your desires, thus gaining dominance over them. You should use this
ability carefully and only at the right time and place. A certain insecurity
or fear of not getting what you want can motivate you to force your partner,
in ways that may be too subtle for you to notice, into fulfilling your
desires. But this use of power within a love relationship is usually quite
destructive in the long run, and you should do your best to avoid it.
If you make your needs known, either your lover will take care of them
or you can move on to a new relationship.
Another way to channel these tendencies is to act out your power fantasies,
of dominance and the like, in the bedroom. This can release much built-up
tension in a mutually enjoyable way and prevent it from spilling over
into your daily life and interfering with equality in the relationship.
Just be sure to keep the two worlds separate and agree on everything with
your partner before acting out your fantasies.
Mars
The position and aspects of Mars have to do with the style of your sexual
drives in an assertive, active sense. It is important to take these drives
into account, especially if they are not always consistent with your intellectual
estimate of them. If Mars is in easy aspect and well positioned, your
energies may be quite consistent and even overabundant. But if its position
is more difficult, you may have to readjust your expectations to be more
in line with the type and rhythm of your sexual energy.
Almost everyone has plenty of sexual energy for a full and rewarding
sex life, but this energy should not be used casually or wasted. Like
any other source of energy, it should be conserved and used intelligently
to avoid unnecessary shortages and to produce the most pleasure.
If you can learn to be aware of the style and timing of your internal
sexual energy, you can more easily attune yourself to your partner's style
and assert yourself effectively when you choose to.
Mars in Leo
Your approach to lovemaking is rather direct and friendly, and you may
be somewhat frustrated by a lover who requires extensive courting or who
insists on innumerable verbal games before approaching the physical side
of love.
However, once lovemaking is assured, you make elaborate preparations,
particularly in lavish surroundings and sumptuous fittings. But remember
to consider your partner's ideas, because some people respond to such
elaborateness by becoming self-conscious and unable to fully let go.
You are the warmest and most open of lovers, but you may tend to go through
one or two basic scenarios over and over without being entirely aware
of it. This may become wearing, but if you consult your partner for suggestions
and new directions, this needn't become a problem.
You are generous to a fault with your lover, particularly in supplying
aids for lovemaking and tokens of affection. This can be most meaningful
to you, but don't be surprised if your lover requires less or does not
fully appreciate all your efforts. Where the hand fails in such matters,
the heart will provide.
Mars in the Third House
You are likely to be a rather conversational lover, and your gracious
or stimulating phrases add a great deal to lovemaking. From sweet nothings
whispered in courting to more graphic phrases motivated by the passion
of the moment, words can serve as an erotic embellishment that pleases
the mind, stimulates the body and fires the imagination.
You may express this talent by writing high love poetry or just by knowing
how to talk a lover into bed, which can be a valuable gift in itself.
Also you are a rather inventive lover who continually devises new delights
for your partner, making boredom unlikely.
On the contrary, if there is any problem here, it may be that you concentrate
too much on variety and neglect to develop deeper personal communion within
a relationship. This can be a particular problem if your lover is not
verbally expressive.
You are a very congenial person, and you aren't likely to be overly emotional
or pompous about an affair, although you may be voluble about it. Your
style in lovemaking is gentle and delicate, and you are happiest with
someone who appreciates tenderness in love rather than violently intense
sexual expression.
Mars Sextile Neptune
You usually approach a lover in a fairly forthright yet not too obvious
way. Your ability to size up a situation intuitively enables you to move
in tune with your partner's rhythms and needs.
Because of this ability, people think of you as an actively warm, empathetic
person. Instead of reacting just to your lover's stated needs, you act
without being asked, knowing quite accurately what will please your partner.
You are able to handle a lover who finds it difficult to make his or
her wants known; with you, they will be fulfilled anyway. Indeed, spelling
out what should be done too explicitly could spoil the loving spontaneity
that you are capable of. The warm, mellow, friendly love that is your
style is best left unspoken except by mutually understood glances or gestures.
Words are often either insufficient or destructive to the flow of communication.
All that needs to be said can be said with much greater impact with a
single movement.
Make sure, however, that your gestures convey what you mean them to and
do not simply assume that your lover will always understand. Now and again
a few well-placed words will do much to reinforce communication.
Mars Conjunct Pluto
You are likely to be quite willful in pursuing your pleasure, and when
you have decided to do something, nothing can stop you. Such forcefulness
may be quite stimulating to a lover who enjoys being overwhelmed or swept
away, but you should choose your partners carefully, because that is not
everyone's cup of tea.
Whether you play an active or a passive role, you throw yourself into
loving with a will. Sex is not usually a playful matter for you, but quite
all-encompassing and total. In fact, it may be a transforming experience.
As an outgrowth of the pleasure you find in going to extremes, you may
enjoy lovemaking that is fairly forceful or even violent. Certainly that
kind of lovemaking presents great opportunities for uplifting, ego-shattering
experiences, but you must be sure that it does not get out of hand. You
and your lover must be in complete agreement as to the direction and the
extent to which it can be pursued and still fall within the confines of
pleasure.
You should be particularly careful not to inadvertently hold too much
power, either physical or emotional, over your partner, which can happen
quite easily. In a way, you don't know your own strength. In order to
keep the relationship on an equal basis, you should get regular feedback
from your partner.
Jupiter
Jupiter represents your positive and actively creative attitudes toward
sexuality as well as life in general. Its position and aspects reflect
the ease or difficulty of your expression of these attitudes.
Easy aspects of Jupiter indicate an even flow of creativity; you can
be active without going past the limits of enjoyment. With more difficult
aspects, you may go to extremes or overdo some aspect of sexuality. If
this is the case, you should be aware of it so that you can have some
external control over this tendency. That will help you see more realistically
the difference between true enjoyment and too much of a good thing.
No matter what its position, Jupiter encourages activity and creative
change in the areas governed by the aspected planets and the affairs governed
by its sign and house. It is helpful to know exactly what these areas
are, because you may not have had the opportunity to explore them and
you may wish to direct your energies accordingly. This is especially likely
when Jupiter falls in quite a different category than the rest of the
planets in the chart, indicating much unexplored territory that can provide
considerable pleasure if given some extra attention.
Jupiter in Sagittarius
You are at your best when sexuality is relaxed and open, not beset by
restrictions or confining demands. You find that a detailed scenario drains
your sexual energies by drawing your attention to performance rather than
enjoyment.
A new affair usually starts out robustly without artful technique or
subtlety. You require plenty of good spirit and the assurance of warmth
and friendship between you and your lover. Later you can develop different
approaches to physical love, which you both may enjoy, but first you want
to commit yourself to comradeship.
You are happiest with a partner who appreciates honesty, as your direct
attitude may unintentionally hurt someone who is more inhibited and sensitive.
In that case, you should be more restrained or seek another partner who
is willing to communicate with you more directly.
Once involved in a relationship, you should make an extra effort to become
aware of your lover's specific needs and faithfully fulfill them, even
if they seem puzzling or superfluous at times. Although some of your lover's
pleasures may not particularly excite you, mutual consideration is essential
in building a stable and loving relationship.
Jupiter in the Sixth House
In lovemaking you probably think fairly far ahead of what you are doing,
so that you lead your lover in previously conceived patterns of expression
rather than simply accepting whatever turns up.
For you, a carefully designed sexual exercise lends increasing excitement,
like a well- written play, whereas too much offhand spontaneity may diffuse
your energies or leave you at loose ends.
This can be a particularly satisfying style of loving as long as you
let your lover in on what you are doing, so that he or she knows where
you both are going and can enjoy the same gratifying fulfillment of expectations.
Otherwise you might appear to be exercising too much control in the relationship
or seem too distant and uncommunicative.
You get special pleasure from doing favors for your lover and demonstrating
your affections with thoughtful gestures, making your partner's life easier.
Take care to let your lover return your favors in kind so that there is
a true two-way flow. If you give too much, your lover may feel unable
to match the extent of your love and attentions. You should learn to enjoy
receiving as much as giving.
Jupiter Inconjunct Ascendant
You may tend to push yourself too hard physically in lovemaking in an
attempt to make it just as good and exciting as possible. In the process
you may try things that you simply can't sustain comfortably or that are
a bit too much for your lover.
If you have any doubts about where to set your limits, be guided by your
partner's judgment and needs and don't feel obligated to do more than
that. In fact, do not feel obligated to do anything, because that approach
will only hamper your enjoyment of sexuality. Physical achievement means
little if you have to sacrifice physical enjoyment.
You may tend to view sex almost as a gymnastic exercise, which can take
away from its emotional meaning and almost destroy it as a source of real
communication. It is better to relax and do just enough to keep the physical
communication flowing without going past the point at which emotional
communication falters.
The lesson you must learn is to relax and take love as it comes, remembering
that there are many tomorrows in which to enjoy the thousands of potential
pleasures that come to mind in a single evening. Let those ideas wait
until another day, when they can give you and your lover continuing, developing
pleasure.
Saturn
Saturn represents sexual conservatism and, in general, inhibition. Its
effects can range from healthy common sense that keeps you out of difficulties
to severe repression or prudery.
Difficult aspects of Saturn usually lend a negative or self-repressive
attitude toward sex in the area governed by the aspected planet or by
the sign and house that Saturn is in. This effect is most likely to occur
early in life before you make a real attempt to overcome these tendencies.
In easy aspect, Saturn makes for great perseverance and consistency in
love, as well as a sense of honesty and honor in the friendship that is
part of a long-range love affair. Easy aspects of Saturn mean sexual security,
successful habits and the courage to try new directions. Difficult aspects
have the opposite effect, making you feel insecure about your current
mode of expression but afraid to replace it with something new.
In the long run, Saturn builds courage and character, either through
the confirmation of success or through the struggle to overcome emotional
difficulties, which are at last conquered. Saturn casts a rather serious
light on whatever it touches, but it also lends considerable intensity.
Saturn in Leo
You look at sexual enjoyment more systematically than most. You like
to plan a love affair carefully, for you feel more at ease when you are
seeking pleasure within a well-defined environment. You may find that
you have a special talent for planning festive occasions or special evenings
of enjoyment for your lover, for which you take the full responsibility
and credit.
You probably have a fairly clear idea of exactly what sexual pleasures
you prefer and the techniques to achieve them. But don't let that outlook
prevent you from using your lover's imaginative suggestions and new directions.
You may not want these ideas sprung on you unawares, but if you have some
warning, you may find enjoyment in a good many activities that had never
occurred to you.
In general, you pace your pleasures and do not bite off more than you
can chew. Although you don't rush to try all the latest techniques, your
enjoyments seldom backfire through overindulgence. Also you can spread
your pleasures out over a long period so that you never run out of potential
good times. Occasionally you may be a slow starter, but you are almost
certainly a strong finisher.
Saturn in the Third House
For you, a verbal commitment in a relationship is a serious matter, and
it is very important that you and your lover say exactly what you mean.
You should not back out of a previously made commitment or change your
mind in midstream. This will result in more carefully thought-out verbal
communication between you, talk being the crystallization of your intuitive
inner feelings rather than empty banter. Indeed, you should avoid a really
loquacious partner, for too much talk confuses you and leads you in contradictory
directions. A word to the wise is sufficient; a flood of words is simply
foolishness.
Your partner can rely on you to diagnose precisely any problems that
arise, and if you can't come up with immediate answers, at least you will
have a clear idea of the trouble you are facing.
Your partner should be a very honest person, for you are easily deceived.
In your naivete, you may not recognize a bald-faced lie or intentional
misstatement that others would catch immediately. Truth and clarity should
be essential elements in any relationship; a muddy, false affair would
be quite unfulfilling. It is to your advantage to know where you stand
in relation to your partner at all times. Since you take verbal commitments
seriously, you should mean them in the first place.
Saturn Sextile Uranus
You can uncover a wealth of satisfying methods of sexual expression without
having to venture into highly unusual or experimental territory. You are
more likely to pursue a particular style or technique for some time until
it unfolds special pleasures than to hop from one idea to another without
exploring each one very deeply.
Since in-depth pleasure is more your style, you need a lover who has
the patience to pursue this goal as well, who is not impatient to move
on to something else before you have really exhausted the present possibilities.
Oddly enough, a sexual adventurer would be a less enjoyable partner for
you than a quiet lover who will go with you hand in hand for the extra
mile that will produce really satisfying sexual expression.
At the same time, however, you need a lover who from time to time can
bring new material into the relationship for you both to explore, someone
who will continually refresh the affair with stimulating innovations.
These will not be major changes of direction but interesting garnishes
that make your loving seem new again, even though the basic style or technique
has been altered significantly. In that way, each approach to love lasts
longer and is more enjoyable.
Uranus
Uranus represents the principles of discovery that lie within us all,
and in sexual expression it represents the quest for new and different
styles of sexuality.
Uranus is rather sudden and forceful in nature, and the discoveries it
brings tend to strike like lightning, particularly when it is in difficult
aspect. The areas it touches will be characterized by upheaval and change.
If the aspect is difficult, the changes will be upsetting; with easy aspects,
the changes will bring freshness and stimulation.
The sign that Uranus is in has much to do with the attitude of everyone
in your age group toward sexual exploration, since Uranus remains in each
sign for a period of seven years. Depending on the aspects of Uranus in
your chart, you may either accept or reject these generational attitudes.
If your attitude toward sexuality differs in some way from the accepted
norm, you should consider it not as a problem but as an opportunity to
explore and enjoy realms of sexual expression that aren't available to
your peers.
The motive behind the Uranus effects is to discover the absolute truth
about sexuality, which may be found right in your own backyard, or after
an endless search or never found at all.
Uranus in Gemini
This position marks those who were born between 1941 and 1949, who approach
sexual experimentation in a deliberate and intellectual way. This group
introduced "swinging" as a lifestyle, which emphasized planned sexual
experiences rather than those that happen spontaneously. The head leads
the heart and body, rather than the other way round.
Not everyone in this generation is a soulless swinger, by any means,
but this generation does tend to overintellectualize new sexual experiences,
which sometimes stifles the benefits.
On the other hand, this attitude enables many who might otherwise be
restricted by oppressive and archaic sexual mores to relate to new partners
and techniques. Being able to reduce sexual hangups and inhibitions and
accept or reject them rationally is the touchstone of sexual liberation.
This generation has been able to let the sexual taboos and repression
of generations out of the closet and into the light of day.
Because of the intellectual interest in sexual discovery, people with
this placement enjoy all kinds of lighthearted fetishism. Unfortunately,
individuals from other age groups simply cannot relate to these head trips.
Uranus in the Twelfth House
You have a strong talent and inclination for making sudden leaps into
the unknown, and you may try out something new on the spur of the moment
without investigating it beforehand.
Although this habit will lead you into many interesting and rewarding
paths of sexual exploration, it can also get you into situations that
are not as pleasant as you had anticipated. Before committing yourself,
you should gather as much information as you can, so that you won't run
into unanticipated difficulties.
You enjoy ferreting out little-known or hidden motivations and drives
in sexuality, which you should feel free to uncover, explore and enjoy.
You will be most comfortable with a lover who is similarly inclined, someone
who takes pleasure in confronting long-repressed and perhaps disapproved
feelings. There is nothing like the light of understanding to chase away
the demons of sexual disapprobation.
It may be that these discoveries will remain hidden from the world, that
they will be known and enjoyed only by your lover and yourself, retaining
a certain secrecy and mystery. At times this may be for the best, because
your discoveries are usually sudden rather than systematic. It is just
as well not to tie down your revelations with too many external ties or
commitments. Having to verbalize them may detract from their spontaneity.
Uranus Conjunct Ascendant
Although you may not see yourself this way, you are a very unusual person
from other people's point of view. Your approach to a potential partner
is out of the ordinary, which you can use to great advantage if you are
aware of it.
In order to use this talent effectively, you should definitely avoid
staid establishment types who may be put off by your originality. If you
can find a crowd that appreciates a fresh approach, you will always be
in the vanguard.
Some people may feel that you have a rather curt or brusque approach,
so you might consciously soften that effect so that you appear refreshingly
new but not harsh. You simply want to get right to the heart of the matter,
but in social situations that is not always the best strategy.
Once involved with a lover, you prove equally original in your style
and approach to loving. Probably you are willing to try anything that
promises mutual pleasure, even when others would be inhibited by something
so unusual. You are more concerned with the end, which is pleasure, than
the means, so there is a much broader range of enjoyment open to you.
Ideally, your lover should be someone who does not curtail your flights
of fancy but who can offer some extra stability if you go to extremes.
Neptune
The position of Neptune reflects your inner ideals and expectations of
sexuality. These can be either confining or fulfilling, depending on the
aspects involved and your willingness to deal with these matters.
The greatest problem that Neptune brings, especially when it is in difficult
aspect, is that of expectations that are so high and unrealistic that
they cannot be fulfilled, thus leading to disappointment. In easy aspect,
however, Neptune brings strong personal reinforcement and security through
continuing success and achievement, which can lend much to a happy love
relationship.
You share the sign that Neptune is in with everyone in your age group,
since Neptune remains in a sign for almost fourteen years. The sign represents
the ideals and romantic ideas about love that are held by your generation.
Those ideals may not be totally realistic, however, and they apply differently
to each individual. Each person must come to an understanding of how much
of the generational sexual mythology is acceptable and workable and how
much is unrealistic or overdemanding. In the long run these tendencies
are regulated by experiences more than by conscious effort.
Neptune in Libra
This position marks the generation of men and women born between 1944
and 1957, who founded the current struggle for sexual equality. For the
first time woman's enjoyment of sex has become as important as a man's
to both partners. This change in attitude has resulted in a host of joys
and complications.
This generation is primarily concerned that both partners understand
each other's feelings. Sex should be more than just a chore and obligation
for the woman and more than an insular act of self-pleasuring for the
man. This means that sex cannot be truly pleasing or successful for either
partner unless it is satisfying for both, which is the triumph of liberated
sexuality.
However, when the desire for equality and mutuality is carried too far,
it can present problems. This is exemplified by pursuit of the myth of
mandatory simultaneous orgasm. Equality does not come from each partner
giving the other an exactly matched dose of pleasure, but from each one
reaching sexual fulfillment in the manner that he or she finds most enjoyable
according to personality and physical preferences. This is a much harder
bill to fill, for it requires each partner to be intimately aware of just
what pleases the other and to do the utmost to achieve it without neglecting
self-pleasure in the process.
But this goal is worth every minute of learning and caring, for with
Neptune in this position, it is the only path to real satisfaction.
Neptune in the Fifth House
You may have high expectations of love, and your sexual encounters may
not always give you as much as you want. For this reason, you would be
happiest with a physically expressive lover who can turn lovemaking into
a true art form. At the same time your lovemaking should retain an innocent,
childlike quality, for the jaded world of the swinger is definitely not
for you. Although you want your lover to have a good deal of experience
and technique, these are not ends in themselves but rather tools to express
physical love in a more refined form.
You should learn to look at sex with some humor as well, for the details
of physical love sometimes get fouled up. When that happens, you might
as well enjoy it and not worry about your romanticized ideals. Taking
sex too seriously is a problem if your plans go slightly awry, and being
able to laugh at yourself can defuse a situation that would otherwise
be frustrating or disappointing. Then you can turn it to your advantage
and mutual pleasure.
You will develop a romantic style of loving that transcends the physical
and allows you to express sexuality at a highly developed emotional and
spiritual level, which will elevate your partner and yourself.
Pluto
The position and aspects of Pluto have to do with the deep underlying
motives and fears that propel you toward inner transformation and force
you to come to terms with the basic issues of life and death.
On a more mundane level, Pluto governs the power motive in sexuality,
the impetus for one partner, perhaps because of personal insecurity, to
dominate the other. Difficult aspects of Pluto can cause serious problems
in a relationship by preventing real intimacy through an irrational fear
of personal invasion. Easy aspects, on the other hand, create a fundamental
inner faith and security that will stand up in the face of repeated difficulties
or even defeat. It can give sexuality an almost religious quality that
is elevating and transforming.
You share the sign that Pluto is in with an entire generation, for it
is in the same sign for at least twenty years. The sign reflects the sexual
issues that each generation works to transform in order to make sexuality
relevant on an individual basis.
The house position of Pluto indicates the areas in which you seek power
and have a positive reforming effect on others, including your lover.
Pluto in Leo
This position marks the generation born between 1939 and 1956 that brought
sex out into the open. They are the enfants terribles of sexuality. This
whole generation suddenly decided that sex was something to have fun with,
a wealthy storehouse of pleasure at everyone's beck and call.
When the first members of this generation came of age in the 1960's,
they flaunted sex everywhere, as if it were a brand-new discovery. The
discoverers rolled and reveled in it, which changed the whole world's
attitude toward sex. This is still going on, but somewhat less flamboyantly.
The precocious sexual innocence of the 1960's is gone, but those in this
generation still look upon sex as something joyous and sportive, something
to be enjoyed for its own sake and not for any ulterior motive. Without
doubt, this is the best position for Pluto next to Scorpio, its own sign.
If there is any disadvantage to this position, it may be that you sometimes
put too high a value on sex, neglecting the myriad pleasures of the mind
and other faculties.
Pluto in the Third House
You probably have a talent with words, an ability to speak effectively
as an extension of yourself. This enables you to make your ideas clear
to others and also to gain influence or control over them.
In a love relationship you should use this talent with care. It will
certainly help you to state more forcefully your view of any problems
that arise, but if your lover is not as skillful at argument, his or her
views may be suppressed by your force. Therefore, you should take care
to listen well to everything that your partner says, to keep the affair
from becoming unbalanced.
You should try to spell out the details of your relationship and to delineate
all its details. You want to have an intricate and profound understanding
of what makes you and your lover tick so that you know what qualities
are expressed as a result of the relationship.
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In the early 1970s, the American company Para Research was a pioneer in
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The physicist Alois Treindl, Ph.D., the founder of Astrodienst, had a
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languages under the brand ASTRO*INTELLIGENCE. Liz Greene continues to
be our most important author. We also offer reports by Robert Hand, whose
transit interpretations are a classic, as well as reports by the German
astrologer Mona Riegger. Around forty license partners in many countries
of the world use Astrodienst's software to produce and sell ASTRO*INTELLIGENCE
reports independently.
The ASTRO*INTELLIGENCE reports are:
Psychological Horoscope Analysis, by Liz Greene
The Child's Horoscope, by Liz Greene
Horoscope 2000 - A personal outlook for the years 1999 to 2004, by Liz
Greene
Yearly Horoscope Analysis - The meaning of the time, by Liz Greene
Relationship Horoscope, by Liz Greene
Transits of the Year, by Robert Hand
Personal Horoscope Calendar - A horoscope for every day, by Robert Hand
Horoscope for Two, by Mona Riegger
Calling and Career Horoscope, by Liz Greene (will appear in autumn 2000)
Psychological Horoscope Analysis, by Liz Greene
Learn more about your true personality with this combination of classical
astrology and Jungian psychology. You can tap Liz Greene's enormous knowledge
in the form of a personal horoscope analysis. The Psychological Horoscope
Analysis treats the following topics of your natal chart: your basic psychological
type - strengths and weaknesses * The main characters within your psyche
- conscious and unconscious aspects of your personality * The psychological
atmosphere during your childhood and within your family * Typical patterns
in your relationships * Your way towards integration and development.
The text by Liz Greene is lively and thought-provoking, without astrological
jargon and psychologically very penetrating.
The Child's Horoscope, by Liz Greene
Liz Greene uses her enormous experience and her deep insights into the
development of the human personality to treat a child's horoscope with
care and delicacy - towards parents as well as towards the child. Children
experience life in a fluid and playful way. They have still to try out
many things before their future path, with all its possibilities and challenges,
becomes visible or even imaginable. However, certain inclinations and
talents can be seen or inferred from the outset in the natal chart. The
main intention here is to point out innate character qualities, to hint
at potentials for development, and to highlight natural spheres of interest
- before experiences with the environment, social restrictions, and other
influences start to push or pull the child into other directions.
The Child's Horoscope is especially written for parents who want to enable
their child to find and follow his or her own way right from the start
of life. The main chapters are: Your child's psychological type * Important
personality traits * Emotional needs * The relationship with the parents
* Fears * Perspectives on development.
Horoscope 2000 - A personal outlook for the years 1999 to 2004, by
Liz Greene
Astrological cycles do not take account of human calendars, and the movements
of the planets have their own logic and timing. If we were to take any
period in history, we might find any number of possible planetary configurations
which give a particular flavor and meaning to that time. But from the
years around the Millennium we expect a great deal more, for either good
or ill. Because humanity places such importance on the Millennium, we
are particularly attuned to the currents of the time and able to respond
more acutely, with greater hopes and increased creativity.
What can astrology tell us as we move from the 20th century into the 21st?
First of all, this Millennium is different from the one which preceded
it a thousand years ago because it happens to coincide with the changing
of the astrological ages. For the first time in 250 years Pluto has entered
Sagittarius, and Neptune is back in Aquarius after 168 years, this time
together with Uranus. Each of us is touched in a different way by these
collective constellations, depending on the placements in the birth chart.
In Horoscope 2000, Liz Greene analyses these individual connections and
other important individual transits and progressions for the years 1999
through 2004. She also explains the influences of the current transits
on the generation group to which we belong, and also on the horoscope
of the country where we live.
Yearly Horoscope Analysis - The meaning of the time, by Liz Greene
In this report Liz Greene considers an individual birth chart with regard
to the next twelve months, using transits and progressions to natal planets.
She is concerned with the inner pattern of development, and with those
individual inner situations that are often mysteriously connected with
corresponding events in the outer world. Liz Greene shows us that every
outer event has a meaning and is connected with an inner issue that we
will have to deal with. In this sense, there are no lucky or unlucky events,
but only those which reflect what the Greeks called "kairos" - the right
moment.
Is our fate written in the stars? Do our lives follow a predestined course
which essentially we cannot change? From Liz Greene's perspective, any
individual is a complex psychological entity with various personality
aspects. These often conflict with each other, get suppressed, and then
remain unconscious for long periods of time. When their time is due, these
aspects of the individual's inner world will strive to be expressed in
reality. Then we create or are drawn into life situations that allow for
this expression and make us aware of what we have been unable to perceive
about our own natures and needs.
Relationship Horoscope, by Liz Greene
In this report Liz Greene outlines the basic patterns in your relationship.
Her analysis enables you to see the unavoidable ups and downs of any relationship
in a larger and deeper context. Our relationships provide us with some
of the deepest and most mysterious experiences of our lives. Why do we
feel attracted to some people, but not to others? Why does love fade away
in some cases and continue in others? Why does love mean happiness and
fulfillment for some, and for others, hate and destructiveness? The Relationship
Horoscope provides many answers to these questions.
The analysis focuses on the following topics: What brings you together
-the essential energies at work between you and your partner * What the
two of you create - Your relationship as an independent entity * Your
relationship and yourself * Your relationship and your partner * Deeper
issues activated within.
Transits of the Year, by Robert Hand
Robert Hand is one of the leading astrologers in the US. His books reveal
his interest in the philosophical dimension of astrology, and his Planets
in Transit is considered a milestone in the art of astrological interpretation.
What would be appropriate in your life just now? What will the next year
bring? Transits of the Year draws on the movements of the planets in the
heavens over the different points in your natal chart, describing how
these transits influence you personally and which themes and topics will
be most important for you during any given year. Knowing about your transits
can help you to cope better with crises and difficulties, and to make
the best of the opportunities coming your way. Transits of the Year doesn't
deal with all the transits occurring during one year. Only the most important
ones, depending on the individual's natal chart, are chosen and interpreted.
Personal Horoscope Calendar - A horoscope for every day, by Robert
Hand
This daily calendar, put together individually for you, is based on personal
transits. Here you can read about the astrological influences affecting
a few days or sometimes just a few hours of your life. You know this from
experience: there are days that seem to be just bad days when nothing
works out, and then there are days when everything seems to be coming
your way. There are also days when you feel sad and depressed, seemingly
without any reason; days when you are looking for contact; days when you
want to withdraw...
In the Personal Horoscope Calendar you can read in advance about the current
transits that influence you - or, with hindsight, you can learn more about
the times when you were asking yourself why on earth you felt or behaved
as you did. The underlying mood of any longer period of your life can
be inferred from the transits of the slow-moving planets, since their
effects are often noticeable for several months or even years. But just
as it would be unproductive to read the same important news in the paper
every day, it would also be unproductive to concentrate exclusively on
the long-lasting transits. Everyday matters are just as important to our
lives as are the long-ranging patterns that unfold over time.
Horoscope for Two, by Mona Riegger
Mona Riegger is the author of the German Handbook of Combine- and Composite
Interpretation. The chart technique described in this book is the basis
of the Horoscope for Two. Mona Riegger is co-founder of the Astrologie-Zentrum
Berlin, and has worked as a consulting and teaching astrologer since 1980.
Horoscope for Two gives valuable insights into all kinds of relationships
between two people, whether they are family members, work colleagues,
friends or competitors. Naturally, it can also reveal a great deal about
a love relationship. This horoscope reading is based on the Davison Relationship
Chart, called the Combine Horoscope in Europe. The interpretations are
dense, clean, and impressive. You will be surprised. Even for a pair of
twins, the report is sophisticated and illuminating.
The difference between astrOtext and ASTRO*INTELLIGENCE
The ASTRO*INTELLIGENCE reports, and especially the Psychological Horoscope
Analysis, the Child's Horoscope, and the other reports by Liz Greene,
rarely discuss single astrological placements such as a particular planets
in a sign, house or aspect. These analyses follow an approach similar
to that used by Liz Greene in an actual chart interpretation session with
a client. She looks for important patterns and psychological themes in
a horoscope - how various chart factors interact and play against each
other and form what one might call a person's individual inner journey.
This synthesis of astrological and psychological insight is presented
to the reader in a lively, often entertaining style, free of astrological
jargon and therefore comprehensible to those who have no familiarity with
astrology. This approach is unique in computer astrology; to create such
reports, mastery of both astrological and psychological insight and advanced
software technology is required. This pairing of excellence in both fields
by Liz Greene and Alois Treindl have ensured the success of ASTRO*INTELLIGENCE.
In comparison, the interpretation models used in the astrOtext reports
are much simpler. Planets and other chart placements are discussed factor
by factor, and little or no effort at synthesis is made. The value of
these reports lies in their simplicity, in their use as a teaching tool
for basic chart interpretation, and, of course, in their very attractive
price.
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