Natal Chart Interp Please

[Dratchell]

My data is:
February 18 1965
Los Angeles, CA
9:06 PM

Is there some aspect going on this month that is causing me to want to go postal?

Thank you in advance!

[business voodoo]

in general ... mercury's retro at the moment ... and there's 5 planets in scorpio ... including sun conjunct mars & venus with mercury comin' back to smack them around too ... so yeah, there's a lot going on in general ... i'll post your chart and look see how its affecting you directly though ...

that scorpio stellium in your second house (bad enough!) is transiting over top neptune (that's being stirred up by itself as it is transiting opposite saturn and square its natal position), and its squaring the stellium of planets in the 5th house ... and, of course, you are in the midst of your uranus opposition ... as well as uranus is about to retro over your natal saturn again (having one more go at that planet before it moves on for good!), and saturn is getting ready to oppose itself ...

so, yeah, you've got a bit of high energy going on and being in your skin could be very uncomfortable if you are not able to just simply outlet all that energy in productive ways ... however, if you are so inclined, there is a great deal of energy that you can absolutely pour into higher vibrational activities if you are so inclined ... a good time to develop or activate some mental and spiritual centers that needed an extra "ooomph" to break down the blockages or doldrums ... you have plenty of energy available right now ... it can either drive you crazy, get you arrested, or send you on a very awesome astral trip.

i would just suggest not taking any medications right now and use the raw energy (and it is raw!) as productively as possible ... if you ever wanted to bend spoons with your mind, now is a good time to learn how.

[KEishin]

Ah, the wonderfully fun Uranus opposition is affecting you. This is why so many in their 40's go through the whole "mid-life crisis" bit. It actually has an astrological trigger. People get to that age and realize they've never done as much for themselves as they wanted to and feel the urge to rebel (Uranus). this is a great time to use that energy to break through negative habits and circumstances in your life.

I'd take a further look, but the chart that was posted is coming up corrupted. (Yo, BV . . .)

[business voodoo]

ok ... so i didn't check it first ... this one worked for me ...

[Dratchell]

Thank you both so very much for taking the time to help me. My life has been PURE HELL for the last month solid. Actually the last year has been difficult, but the last month the knob was turned up to INTENSE!

SUGGESTIONS?

[business voodoo]

well, i would suggest you reflect on the past couple of days because they will give you some clues as to what direction you are to take as the moon transversed your North Node and MC over the past week. that scorpionic stellium is currently transiting your natal neptune in the 2nd house ... i don't know what your reality is, so it is nearly impossible to make a solid concrete suggestion without a private session, but in general, if i were you looking at the transits at play, i would isolate myself as much as possible from all emotional relationships ... really become a hermit for a while and do some deep work in whatever mode works best for you: trance, meditation, ritual, a vision quest or the like. you have an incredible amount of energy and allowing others close to you will likely cause a short circuit or they will drain your energy like a vampire. even if you have to be around people for your job, i would be very withdrawn and protective ... put on blinders and a plug in your ipod, do the work and get out of there with minimal contact and conversation ... any personal relationships, outside of perhaps a spouse and children, they don't exist for at least a couple of weeks. and in your personal relationship, to the extent you can, take many solitary walks ... children are likely the only positive interpersonal relationships you can have right now, so if you have children, play with them as much as possible.

[Dratchell]

i noticed that you also are able to do a Sidereal interp. I am trying to learn sidereal astrology, and would love to know how my natal chart changes when interpreted under a sidereal lense. is this possible?

[business voodoo]

i'll be happy to take a look ... with some fresh eyes in the morning ... just one point to clarify ... i use sidereal charts, but i do not do 'vedic' astrology ... while i have studied vedic astrology, how i use sidereal charts is not quite the same as traditional vedic astrology any more than how i use tropical charts are quite the same as traditional western astrology. just so that no one is expecting a vedic chart when i indicate i am using the sidereal chart.

[Dratchell]

I understand! Thank you! I am so excited!!!

[business voodoo]

ok ...

without knowing your present reality, if you relate to the world, your generation and fit in well with everything, then what i'm going to say will make no sense; if you don't, then the following observations may help give you some perspective in your present world. substantially all of your planets are different in the shift from the tropical to the sidereal zodiac, to do a real reading outside personal consultation is awkward at best, so these are just some initial observations your charts presented to me. i've attached the 3 main charts i looked at ...

one main area you should recognize is that tropically, you have an absence of planets in fire and sidereally, an absence of planets in water. those two elements play a key role in understanding yourself, as in your progressed chart, you have pluto in leo inconjunct with the sun in pisces ... it is as if pluto is yet to be discovered -- you have no consciousness of how to transform in your present life -- you have a grip on everything up to that point, but the actual ability to transform needs to be introduced and consciously integrated with your self (and as this is a progression, this is a phase you are going through). in your natal chart, pluto is inconjunct with venus (albeit fire and earth, so not as difficult as the fire/water inconjunct)... so bringing consciousness to these energetic relationships will be helpful, especially as pluto is moving toward the galactic center conjunction in late december.

the absence of the elements do this ... in the tropical world, you lack fire, therefore your 'feeling' like you need to bring more fire to your existence and world reflects in an over building or over use of fire energy -- you attract it, you seek it -- its like the more you assert yourself, the less effective you are. well, that's because as you do that, that fire element is overcharging the fire element planets on your sidereal chart and completely scorching the land as there is no water. the goal to effectively using this, is to make steam. you have no planets in water sidereally, so water is an element that you must consciously bring in that is attached to none of your main planetary energies. there is a need to build a dam, so to speak. AND during your uranus opposition, there's a good deal of 'push' in the fire energy ... even though uranus is considered an 'air' planet, your natal uranus is in leo, you have a wind storm fanning the natal fires of uranus.

back to pluto ... working with others and having relationships are likely where most of your multi-level challenges present themselves. people play on your good graces, emotional sensitivities and feeling of "i can never do enough to please myself, let alone anyone else". with the current progression of pluto's inconjunction with the sun, this is only emphasized more than ever, only now its not just affecting a part of your psyche, its hitting the core of your self. which causes great stress and since you have the natal inconjunction, you've been dealing with these patterns for a long time, only now they are striking where you must strike back to protect your self -- you have come into a time of fighting for the survival of your deepest self.

how to counter it is to take all of your emotional energy and keep it to yourself ... no one gets it. everything gets a very 'intellectual' response based on your parameters ... use your sun in aquarius. saturn, a co-ruler of aquarius has just entered leo, so the fire energy is helpful. but, unless you dam up the water energy in your life, there's going to be a fire in the desert and we in So. Cal. know how destructive those an be. let saturn give you some 'hard' rules to live by ... e.g., the rules you know protect you and just don't break them regardless of how much someone *needs* you to break them. if the hoover dam springs a leak, we have a problem ... so too do you.

your creative energies are currently being scorched the minute they are birthed within the mind ... expression of them are wood on the fire ... so, just make sure you have a pot of water on the fire so that you can make something out of them. right now the water is gone, there's nothing to cook but the pot and its likely burning whatever is left on the bottom ... time to go to the river with a bucket and let the fire die down for a minute. but relief is in sight as uranus will go direct on the 19th/20th, and a lot of this energy will release and begin to move forward again ... but, what a great time (this weekend) for a retreat (let me know if you want some things to think about or meditate on)!

so, if you have any questions let me know ...

[Dratchell]

You said "without knowing your present reality, if you relate to the world, your generation and fit in well with everything, then what i'm going to say will make no sense; if you don't, then the following observations may help give you some perspective in your present world."

I do NOT relate to the world, generation or anything for that matter. Your Sidereal interp and suggestion is RIGHT ON THE MONEY. I do lack water, and ALWAYS HAVE.

If you have some things to meditate, think about, or physical actions that you suggest, I would be most grateful.

THANK YOU AGAIN!!!

[business voodoo]

I do NOT relate to the world, generation or anything for that matter. Your Sidereal interp and suggestion is RIGHT ON THE MONEY. I do lack water, and ALWAYS HAVE.


You are welcome. And, I figured as much.

Prescription (I think you said you still live in Los Angeles): visit the ocean once a week ... make that trip once a week until you regain your power.

Exercises:

Who or what emotionally drains me? Log things that upset you, that you find yourself thinking about at night or preoccupy your thoughts.

Where do I exert a lot of energy that produces little positive effect?

Start paying attention to the following feelings ... be sure to discern these feelings from anger and frustration as they often feel similar:
• resentment
• guilt

When you are able to feel these feelings, log them -- with whom or what you were doing when they arose. AND, log what you did after you felt the feeling and why you did it.

If you can do this for 2-3 weeks, you will be able to find where your water energy is going, and then begin to build your dam (e.g., setting up your boundaries) ...

IMPORTANT: Bare in mind that the inconjuncts are dealing with unconscious habits, so do not judge or be critical of what you are doing, just observe them along with your feelings. If you start saying "why did I do that?" "damn, I did it again ..." self-criticism can lead to a conscious habit that tries to cover up the unconscious one that you are trying to free yourself from, so just accept yourself, and after a block of time you can step back and look at it objectively and source the habit and start living your life, and not the patterns that never belonged to you (at least from this lifetime, anyway).

For a weekend or even daily meditation, envision you standing on a dam, and on one side is a HUGE body of water. On the other side, is a river flowing out of three water tunnels ... the first water tunnel is the energy you want to use to create ______, the second is for balanced relationships, the third is for your growth. As you stand on the dam, you feel turbines turning and making and storing the energy for everything you can think about that needs your energy and power. But as you stand and look at the body of water, remind yourself, that is mine to receive and use.

keep me posted and let me know if you have any other questions.