Birth Chart Interpretation for
Princess Diana of Wales
July 1, 1961
7:45 PM
Sandringham, England
Shambhala Chart Service
Hank Friedman
7622 Leviston Avenue
El Cerrito, CA 94530
(510) 525-3399
From an esoteric point of view your birth chart is a
portrait of your soul's intention for this lifetime, the lessons
to be learned, qualities to develop, problems to be resolved,
service to be rendered. From that perspective, the choices one
makes in one's daily life have reverberations that may last
beyond even this lifetime.
This report is written to help you clarify your lessons and
goals, illuminate your struggles, and encourage you to move in
the direction of your true purposes.
The best to you on your journey...
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Sun 9 Can 40 Pluto 6 Vir 03
Moon 25 Aqu 02 N. Node 29 Leo 43
Mercury 3 Can 12 Asc. 18 Sag 25
Venus 24 Tau 24 MC 23 Lib 03
Mars 1 Vir 39 2nd cusp 18 Cap 25
Jupiter 5 Aqu 06 3rd cusp 18 Aqu 25
Saturn 27 Cap 49 5th cusp 18 Ari 25
Uranus 23 Leo 20 6th cusp 18 Tau 25
Neptune 8 Sco 38
Tropical Equal Daylight Savings Time observed
GMT: 18:45:00 Time Zone: 0 hours West
Lat. and Long. of birth: 52 N 50 0 E 30
Aspects and orbs:
Conjunction : 5 Deg 00 Min Trine : 4 Deg 00 Min
Opposition : 5 Deg 00 Min Sextile : 3 Deg 00 Min
Square : 4 Deg 00 Min Quincunx : 3 Deg 00 Min
Conjunct Asc : 3 Deg 00 Min Above, 5 Deg 00 Min Below
Chapter 1: The Moon
The placement of the Moon in your birth chart is very
significant from a karmic perspective, as it indicates the
accumulated karmic tendencies, both positive and negative, that
you carry from your past incarnated experiences on earth.
While the Sun reveals your intended purposes and lessons
for this present life cycle, the MOON represents what you have
already done and developed, hence, what is instinctive and
natural to you, and what you tend to do over and over again.
Your childhood is also reflected in the Moon's placement, as it
is through those childhood circumstances that any unresolved
past-life issues are re-stimulated. Your subconscious
predisposition is indicated by the Moon's position. It is the
psychic imprint of the past. The nodes of the Moon describe
behavior patterns from the past, as well as delineating a
direction out of outworn or overdone behaviors and habits.
Moon in Aquarius:
You have a deep-seeded streak of unconventionality and an
unwillingness to be bound by traditional stereotypes, rules, or
authority imposed from outside yourself, so much so that you may
feel conspicuously different or "from another planet" when in
the company of people who do not question or think for
themselves. This is a carry over from past life experiences in
which you were very much outside the mainstream of society - a
rebel, renegade, or heretic challenging the standards of the day
and the orthodox ways of doing things. Stubbornly independent
and recalcitrant, you refused to bow down to the powers that be
and you still refuse to do so, at least internally. You may
find that you threaten your superiors, because subconsciously
you send the message that you will not defer or submit to
anyone. Deep within you feel that all people are spiritual
equals; you despise being dominated or having you freedom
impinged upon. You can cooperate quite comfortably on a team or
in a circle of equals; it is hierarchy and paternalistic
authority you have trouble with.
You may find yourself discontented and emotionally
unfulfilled in a conventional existence, and thus need to
experiment with alternatives and create your own patterns in the
realm of sexual partnerships, family relationships, work, or
general lifestyle. Traditional gender roles do not work for you
(especially if you are female). You need to feel that whatever
you do or give is done freely, and you balk when expectations
and demands are placed upon you, or other people's should's and
shouldn'ts.
You may also have an inordinate need for personal space and
freedom, so that you shy away from making binding commitments,
or trading away your independence for security. (You are also
apt to have peculiar tastes or quirky idiosyncrasies involving
your diet, or sleeping patterns, or other domestic habits. In
some basic way you "dance to the beat of a different drummer".
This is fine, but it may require flexibility and understanding
on the part of the people you live with).
On an emotional level, it is very hard for you to admit
that you have needs, or that you need other people. Early in
this life (and quite possibly stemming from past incarnations as
well) you discovered it felt safer for you to detach yourself
emotionally and to be self-sufficient. Your early nurturing may
have been inconsistent, unreliable, or abruptly interrupted in
some way, and an undertone of disruption, of being uprooted, of
not knowing what to expect, may have permeated your earliest
years. As a result, it may be difficult for you to stay
emotionally connected to other people when you are feeling
threatened. You may abruptly cut off contact and become rather
distant, aloof and unaccessible when conflict or other
uncomfortable emotions arise. You have learned to play it cool
-often at the expense of your real emotions and needs. Also,
you are essentially idealistic, forever trying to be fair,
reasonable, and unselfish, and you will not allow yourself to
express or even acknowledge that you feel possessive, or
hateful, or any number of other very real, human emotions. If
you succeed in burying those feelings, you will begin to act
them out erratically and explosively when the internal pressure
becomes too much.
In your deep subconscious memory, you may have little
experience of stability or family in the traditional sense. You
may become addicted to change and stimulation, having had to
adapt rapidly fluctuating circumstances and many different types
of people and settings. Now, you may find that your closest
emotional bonds are not based on blood, but on spiritual blood
relatives. At times you may even be curiously indifferent to
them. However, you do need a society brotherhood or community
to share your life journey with, for you are really a "people
person" and get a lot of nourishment from group support.
Moon Opposition Uranus:
In your incarnational past there was a great deal of
upheaval and sudden change, possibly precipitated by political
or social shifts. You were forced to choose between your home
and all that was familiar, versus freedom or your ideals. You
became very adaptable, living moment to moment, and there was
very little of a solid, enduring home-base. You lived a
somewhat unorthodox and unpredictable life which, while insecure
and uncertain in many respects, did afford you a lot of freedom
and wild adventures. (The pattern of frequent change, movement
and upsets in the home may or may not have been repeated early
in your current life).
The carry over from that time into the present is a
peculiar, emotional excitability and a highly, restless
emotional state which at times can lead to extreme nervous
strain and exhaustion. Along with this is a craving for
stimulation and a taste for the new, bizarre, even perverse.
You may feel that you were not meant for a "straight",
conventional, tranquil existence, even if you long at times for
the comforts such a lifestyle seems to provide. A desire for
total emotional freedom and release from past conditioning and
inhibitions may compel you to make a nearly-total break from
your family or heritage, to the point of adopting a new name,
religion, or lifestyle than the one you were raised with. All
of this may serve you well, to a point. Beware, however, of
becoming an extremist and trying to rid yourself of everything
in your past, "throwing the baby out with the bath water" so to
speak, as this will cut you off from important aspects of
yourself.
This urge for emotional freedom and excitement can also
interfere with your establishment of deep, ongoing
relationships. You fear being trapped in monotony and boredom,
if you commit yourself to a permanent relationship. Any
long-term relationship you form must have a lot of personal
space and room to change and to be spontaneous.
When out of balance you can become very ungrounded and are
prone to emotional swings. Positively, you can be very
inspired, musically or artistically or in other ways. When
balanced, you have a great sense of rhythm, and your spontaneous
intuitive insights and impulses are apt to be right on the
mark.
Moon Square Venus:
You have a great capacity for and one might even say
craving for tenderness, devoted love, family belonging, and the
sweetness of shared domesticity. Your marriage and your
children may well be the focus in your life, but this arena is
not apt to be completely harmonious. You have conflicting urges
when it comes to satisfying your erotic love feelings. What you
want and what gives you pleasure in love may be at odds with
what makes you comfortable or secure. Your ability to give and
receive love freely may be inhibited by messages you received or
experiences you had in childhood, or you may feel conflicting
loyalties between your parents and family of origin verses your
mate or lover. Or, perhaps, your identification with your role
as parent interferes with your lover-relationship with your
spouse. Along with this is a tendency to become overly "close"
and dependent on family. On another level, you are apt to have
a lazy, pleasure-loving side that enjoys being pampered and is
disinclined to real effort and self-discipline.
A habit of doing things the easy way, and a certain passive
desire to be taken care of, may develop. Also, quite possible
is an addiction to sweets, and thus an ongoing weight problem.
North Node in Leo:
In your past, the needs of the group or collective took
precedence over your individual wants and needs, and while you
perhaps enjoyed the sense of belonging and comradery, your
individuality was submerged. Your growth direction now is to
become a strong individual in your own right, developing your
own creative talents and abilities.
North Node in 9th house:
Your past tendency influences your thinking and way of
interacting with others on a daily basis, perhaps more than you
realize. Apply your new attitude or growth direction in the
arena of your religious and philosophical beliefs and
affiliations, and in developing and new and broader world view.
Moon conjunct Venus
Regardless of any traumas you may have experienced in the
past, you were also surrounded with a lot of love and affection
which has engendered in you a very kind, devoted, loving nature
and a sweet disposition. Your relationships with the women in
your life are apt to be a source of much happiness and
blessings, also, because at a deep level you understand and
appreciate them, having (most likely) been female often in your
incarnational past.
You have a rather peace-loving, comfort-seeking nature
which may resist strenuous effort or discipline. You like to be
pampered and may look for a "sugar daddy" or "sugar mama" to
ease your way. Self-indulgence in sweets, or pleasures is apt
to be a habit, too.
Chapter 2: The Sun
The Sun in your birth chart represents the primary creative
thrust for this lifetime, those qualities you are to develop (or
further develop) and express, and your current life focus. This
may be in harmony with your instincts and your emotional habits,
or along completely different lines. The Sun represents your
conscious identity in this lifetime.
Sun in Cancer:
In terms of soul development, your capacity for deep
emotional attachment and emotional union, for merging on a
feeling level, and for sympathetic understanding and
compassionate feeling, are among your primary concerns in this
lifetime.
Your ability to discover and express who you are revolves
around the themes of nurturing and of creating a home and deep
roots, which will nourish you and give you confidence.
In the simplest possible form, this could be expressed as
having a family and centering your life around caring for your
mate and children, basking in the warmth and closeness and
security of home. There are other ways for the same basic
impulse to be expressed, however. Regardless of your gender and
whether or not you have flesh-and-blood children or consider
yourself very domestic, you do need to "mother" (nurture,
support, take care of, protect, cherish) and to have a sense of
belonging, a sense of family, and a sense of continuing with the
past. The family however, can be a spiritual family or group of
close friends; the home, an inner home or base of security you
create deep within; and the mothering you do may be through your
work instead of with your own kin. This is very likely to be
the case, in fact, if your childhood and family of origin was
not especially nurturing or close. Your work may directly
involve children, or providing emotional support, or literally
feeding people, but it may be more subtle than that. For
instance, if you are a business person, you may feel that your
employees and customers (especially the loyal, long time ones)
are your family and try to take care of them as such. You care
about their personal lives and feel for their troubles, and can
like a good mother you see them through tough times. Or, to give
another example, as an artist you may regard your "babies" with
such affection and attachment that it is hard for you to sell
them. You want to make sure they go to "a good home"! Whatever
form it takes, this emotional attachment and sympathetic feeling
are the care of your life. There are pitfalls and potential
difficulties on this path, such as, becoming overly dependent on
being needed and thus unable to graciously let go when the
"child" outgrows you, living in or holding on to the past
(including old hurts and grudges), and feeling deeply threatened
by ("out-siders", non-family members, foreigners). You also
tend to be powerfully conditioned by your early home life and
your experience of being mothered. If your own nurturing as a
child was unsatisfying, you may wander through life "on empty",
desperately seeking the love and security you missed as a child.
Or, instead, to rigidly deny that you need anybody, building
protective walls around yourself to keep out the fearful world.
Afraid of having your tender insides exposed, as well as of your
own emotional neediness, you may over eat or over drink to
pacify your longing. Becoming obsessively interested in the
past or with money as a form of security are also ways you
express yourself when you are out of balance. An overly close,
smothering relationship to mother, or to "the way things are
done in our family" can also prevent you from becoming a
full-fledged individual in your own right, the proverbial
cutting of the apron strings being rather difficult for you.
Sometimes, to fill your need for roots and belonging and a
meaningful connection to the past, you may choose to align
yourself with a period in history that you feel a deep resonance
with, a particular culture or subculture, or a spiritual lineage
of teachers. This conscious choosing of "family" or "home" may
be one of the most positive acts you can do for yourself.
Another aspect of your ability to feel sympathetically and
to emotionally merge with others is that you are very "psychic",
and learning to listen to your deeper intuition and to use this
type of psychic sensitivity may well be a significant aspect of
your life path.
Sun Sesquiquadrate Moon:
In this lifetime, to fulfill yourself as an individual, you
need to develop and express yourself along very different lines
than you have in the past. Thus, in many instances, your
conscious purposes and inclinations are rather at odds with the
deeper subconscious belief, patterns and the familiar ways of
being which are carry-overs from your incarnational past.
Comparing the interpretation of your Moon sign and aspects in
Chapter One and the interpretation of your Sun sign and aspects
in Chapter 2, you will notice definite opposing or conflicting
tendencies or inconsistencies. You will need to say yes to both
of these sides of yourself, even though they may seem to pull
you in different directions, for denying either side will keep
you locked in conflict with yourself, or see-sawing between
extremes. However, it is also important for you to bring to
light those emotionally-based habits, prejudices and "needs"
which you hold on to and which may be interfering with your
current needs and requirements for growth.
Sun SemiSquare Venus:
How to be true to yourself while also enjoying close
personal relationships is a pointed issue for you in this
lifetime. When you compromise or give up too much of yourself
for the sake of making other people happy or keeping a
relationship intact, a lot of internal friction is created and
you feel increasingly empty or uncertain of your identity. At
other times you may see-saw to the other extreme and expect
others to totally support your creative efforts or to revolve
their lives around your needs. Finding a balance between
blending intimately and being authentically yourself is your
challenge.
Chapter 3: Rising Sign
The point that was on the eastern horizon at the moment of
your birth is called the ASCENDANT, or rising sign. While the
Sun describes your conscious direction and current life focus,
and the moon your subconscious predisposition and past, the
Ascendant indicates a way of being that transcends and embraces
past, present, and future. It describes the way you engage and
merge with the outer world and how you bring through into life
the energies depicted by the sun, the moon, and the rest of your
birth chart. Everything is filtered through the ascendant from
an esoteric point of view. It indicates your soul's function
and thus a key part of your destiny.
Sagittarius Rising:
Faith, belief and the ability to foresee and envision the
future or "what could be" are essential elements of your soul
function. You may well be ahead of your time or at the fore
front of coming trends and movements in the collective. You are
a seeker, one who searches for the overview, the larger pattern,
or a broad, over-arching philosophy of life - an also a teacher
who conveys that vision or broadcasts it in some way. Your
ruling planet is Jupiter.
Sagittarius Rising and Jupiter in Aquarius:
Your Jupiter is in humanitarian, idealistic Aquarius,
suggesting that global issues, understanding whole patterns and
systems, and spreading a message across the world is an
important part of your fate and function. The uniting of
humanity or of spiritual brethren for an evolutionary purpose is
a part of this.
Chapter 4: Saturn, Your Achilles Heel
Karmically considered, the placement of Saturn in your
birth chart indicates where your energetic blockages, weaknesses
and fears lie, and the areas of your life where the most
concentrated effort and discipline will be required to master
and overcome them. Yet it also points to the aspects of life
which can become your greatest strength if you are willing to
face your fears and difficulties honestly, and work with them
patiently.
Saturn in Capricorn
The quality which is most likely to undermine you is your
propensity to be very judgmental and hard on yourself (and on
others as well). It is as if there was within you a very stern,
exacting Father, always critically assessing your actions and
condemning your weaknesses or mistakes, urging you to grow up
and take responsibility for yourself and reminding you that life
is serious business, not a playground. While this is not
entirely without merit, it is hard to live up to these internal
standards all of the time, and a sense of inadequacy, of never
quite making the mark, can plague you. You can become overly
responsible, overly conscientious and depressed by this burden
some state of mind. Coldness, cynicism and a callous wordliness
are negative potentials. And if you project these attitudes
outwardly, you will find other people can never meet your
expectations.
A karmic link to your father with whom you are apt to have
a rather difficult or distant relationship is also indicated.
The test or lesson for you is to learn to embody all of the
positive attributes of a father (regardless of your own gender),
while also having compassion, humor and forgiveness towards
yourself.
Saturn in 2nd house:
The arena of money, material assets and financial security
is where many of your challenges or blockages arise. It is not
so much that you are likely to be impoverished as that you fear
you will be. Acting from this contracted state, you may make
poor financial decisions, fail to take opportunities presented
to you, or even act against your own best interests and higher
impulses, wherever money comes in to the picture. And the
Universe
will not be very forgiving if this is so. You are apt to pay
heavily for mistakes you make (whether practical or moral) in
this area of your life. Any tendency toward greed, stinginess,
or unwillingness to share what you have will exact a toll either
on your body or your own financial success.
One of the essential lessons for you is to learn to
appreciate the true value of things. Having to work hard to
earn your way, or enduring periods knowing, then, that your
worth is not dependent upon "having" but on being, and that you
can be happy in simplicity, you will be free of the hold money
or "security" has upon you.
Saturn is Retrograde:
All of the above is complicated by the fact that you carry
a rather heavy burden of self-doubt, mistrust or guilt over
having let yourself and others down in your past, when you
struggled (and failed) with these same issues. You now have the
opportunity to correct your course, make amends and resolve a
difficult karmic tangle, or a difficult state of mind.
Chapter 5: The Hard Aspects
The following is a description of your MAJOR LIFE
CHALLENGES, both in terms of energies you are to learn to
develop and express in a positive way, and those which are the
result of struggles and unresolved karmic issues that you have
come into this life with.
Mercury is Retrograde:
A prior lifetime in which you were discouraged to think,
learn or express your ideas is indicated. This may have carried
over in this lifetime as a mild learning problem in childhood,
or inner (somewhat unconscious) doubts about your ability to
learn or to communicate. Thus, you have a habit of rechecking,
reconsidering, reviewing and rethinking everything before you
put it out. You may even have a desire to learn about subjects
that seem archaic, to learn about those things which were denied
to you in the past.
Mercury Quincunx Jupiter:
Forging a link between your conscious intellect and your
super-conscious or higher mind is a major focus for you in this
lifetime.
This may be felt initially in a number of ways; an urge to
expand mental horizons and absorb as much knowledge as possible
through broad study or world travel, an attraction to spiritual
philosophy, or simply as mental restlessness and dissatisfaction
with the mundane details of life. What you are seeking is to
see the larger pattern, an overview which gives both an
integrated understanding and meaning to one's experiences. This
cannot be apprehended solely through the conscious intellect,
but comes through the capacity to intuit and make connections
and see patterns. This desire to see the big picture sometimes
translates as a certain sloppiness or imprecision in your
thinking. The broad brush strokes are often enough for you.
Also, you quickly grasp the overall idea or concept and do not
want to get bogged down with the particulars.
You tend to focus on what is possible (the limitlessness of
potential) rather than what already is. Optimistic and
open-minded, you see reasons why things could happen rather than
why they cannot. The development of this kind of faith and the
belief in things not yet realized is also and aspect of your
linking your conscious mind to your higher mind.
The ability, and the calling, to communicate truth is a
part of this energy pattern as well. When out of balance, you
can be preachy, exaggerate what you know, or think you know it
all. Channeled positively and productively, you could evolve
into a teacher, and/or parts of the world together. Long
distance communication and journeys (both in the physical, outer
world and in the inner realms) are part of this. At your
finest, with this particular pattern, you will act as a mediator
or bridge between these places or realms.
Venus Square Uranus:
Both in your personal relationships and in your personal
tastes, you will feel an attraction to wildness, rebelliousness,
newness and erratic rhythms. "Alternative" life styles or love
styles, with an emphasis on a strong need to be free, to
experiment and to be spontaneous, appeal to you. Even if, at a
conscious level, you believe you want stable and "normal"
relationships, you will be drawn to people who are inconstant,
creatively unwilling to make a commitment. You, on the other
hand, may be the adventurous, noncommittal one, or find yourself
sabotaging a relationship once it becomes steady and reliable.
In some part of your life you must feel free to experiment
emotionally and creatively. Dancing or music or some other
free-flowing art form could be an outlet for this. Keeping love
alive, fresh and surprising is an ongoing life challenge for
you.
There may well be a number of unions and separations,
unexpected disruptions in intimate relationships, and/or periods
of relatively little deep intimacy in your life; the karmic
purpose of which is for you to be able to develop independence,
autonomy and detachment from an overdependence upon
relationships. However, you must beware of behaving selfishly,
insensitively, impersonally and coldly in your pursuit of
personal freedom.
Mars Conjunct Pluto:
In this lifetime you must confront the nature of power, and
you have the opportunity to transform your relationship to
power, clear away deep-seeded anger and resentment, and release
karmic patterns of perpetrator/victim.
If, in your past, you have been the victim of aggression,
ruthless force, or misdirected male energy. You may
subconsciously fear or even hate men, have great mistrust of
people in power or experience problems in sexual relationships
(the arena where power/fear dynamics are often most apparent).
In addition, you are prone to self-repression, either of anger
or of your own strength. If you have very little energy,
consider yourself a weak person, or become extremely
uncomfortable when others express any anger. You may be holding
down a great deal of hostility. Or, you may be angry all of the
time "for no reason". The question of appropriate expression of
these intense energies is a delicate one. While withholding, it
can wreak havoc on your health and sense of well-being. You do
not want to unload the deep rage of centuries on innocent
people. You may hold your anger or aggression back not only
because you fear repercussions (you may have been bludgeoned to
a pulp in the past), but also because you sense that whatever is
triggering your emotions in the present is not the real problem.
In a word, you overreact. (Wanting to kill someone because they
forgot to walk the dog is an over reaction).
On the other hand, you may carry an immense burden of guilt
because you have been the one who misused your power, strength
and/or sexual energies in the past.
Another way you may be expressing this is that you may be
intensely and compulsively competitive, acting as if each and
every event is a mighty struggle for supremacy, a contest with
life or death consequences that you MUST WIN at all costs. You
may become compulsively active and productive and driven to
"succeed" at all costs. This type of thinking and being creates
great stress on your physical, emotional and spiritual bodies.
Very likely it will also have a negative impact on all of your
relationships. You will make a lot of enemies and actually
force people to turn against you and bring you to your knees.
Ruthlessness attracts ruthlessness.
Coming into balance with all of this is a major challenge.
Finding a safe place to explore your war-like, destructive,
sadistic can help. Also, becoming sufficiently detached so that
you can feel and acknowledge all of these energies, and choose
when and how to express them, without being "taken over" by them
is also a key. If you are willing to become conscious, you can
actually become a great force for good, and can heal and release
some very deep wounds you have carried for a long time.
Jupiter is Retrograde:
Moral concerns (including lingering unresolved issues
stemming from a prior lifetime or lifetimes in which you
exercised poor judgment in moral, ethical or religious matters)
come into play here. Thus, it is especially important for you
to maintain high standards while pursuing your aspirations.
Jupiter Square Neptune:
You are a visionary, a philanthropist, an idealist whose
imagination knows no bounds. You believe in miracles, in the
reality of the intangible realms, and you KNOW that nothing is
impossible. Because your higher centers of intuition, spiritual
vision and openness to the divine are very active, you accept
and experience things many people would think quite impossible.
When out of balance with this energy (if, for instance, you
are operating out of greed or neediness), your imagination and
expectations can bet grandiose, impractical, naive, and
overblown. You may have difficulty accepting and working within
the limits of mundane reality, and with setting boundaries in
many areas of your life. Escapist fantasies, jumbling on highly
speculative ventures that promise great gain with little effort
expended, or wandering far and wide without grounding yourself
anywhere are also tendencies when you are less emotionally and
spiritually mature. You will evolve as you choose to discipline
yourself and FOCUS your intent on real, concrete, practical
ways. You can bring your vision to earth.
Jupiter Quincunx Pluto:
Part of your life mission involves learning how to generate
and direct a great leap of power, material, political, social or
spiritual power. You have a gift for spiritual or intellectual
leadership. As an agent of transformation in your world, you
are intended to help regenerate social or religious institutions
and to effect profound change and growth in the people around
you. There are karmic pitfalls involved in all of this, however.
First, is the tendency to become infatuated with power and/or
inflated with a sense of your own greatness. Secondly,
conflicts with those in power and resulting loss in social
standing or reputation. Putting yourself against the big guys
and losing, is always a risk you will have to take if you are to
fulfill your natural role and function. Past incarnations in
which this did in fact take place, may leave you now with a fear
or disregard of government, the church or other great
authorities. Thus, you may have a struggle accepting you role as
a leader or teacher, and/or integrating with society as it
currently exists.
Neptune is Retrograde:
The above is complicated by the fact that you had a prior
lifetime or lifetimes in which you dissipated your energy, fell
away from your disciplines, or were to passive or irresolute to
go after the spiritual opportunities open to you at that time.
This carries over as a vague yet persistent inner nagging that
you should be further on than you are, or a fear of spiritual
failure. You may also have been involved in mystical or magical
practices that created distortions in your life. It is
important for you to take a balanced, patient, well-grounded
attitude toward life - nothing too otherworldly, ethereal, or
glamourous. Indulging in any mood-altering substances is
particularly deleterious for you.
Mars Conjunct North Node:
Becoming more bold, assertive, active and self-assertive is
part of your growth direction, and you will have to push
yourself ahead and be a leader or a pioneer in some way.
Chapter 6: Soft Aspects
The following is a description of your GIFTS and STRENGTHS
which can help you as you work with your major life challenges.
These are abilities and qualities of heart, mind and soul which
are quite natural to you. You probably take them for granted.
Because these represent the lines of least resistance for you,
you may rely too much upon them at times; hence, there are some
cautions suggested. Still, these are the areas where good flows
into your life and/or where you have considerable inner
resources.
Sun Trine Neptune:
Your attunement to the spiritual or intangible spheres is
both highly developed and something that you tend to take for
granted. Due to previous development in this area, your urge to
experience the transcendent is apt to take positive expression,
such as an active involvement in meditation or prayer, service
of a charitable, unselfish nature, or highly imaginative work,
rather than more negative, escapist ways of seeking spiritual
union such as addictions of various kinds.
It is natural and instinctive for you to want to minister
to others, to enlighten, or to help, and yet you are not prone
to do so at the expense of your own well-being, thus such
endeavors are apt to be rewarding and successful.
It would also be relatively easy for you to develop and use
your psychic and intuitive sensitivity to channel truth or
healing to others in the context of spiritual advisor, physician
or healer.
Mercury Sextile Mars:
As a result of prior development, you have extraordinarily
sharp perceptions, quick reflexes and excellent hand-eye
coordination. Thus, you can rather easily develop a high degree
of skill in any activity that involves the use of your hands and
fingers, or physical finesse.
You also grasp ideas and new information readily and are
able to respond immediately to any problems as they arise. You
"think on your feet".
Debating and presenting ideas forcefully and convincingly
are talents you bring with you in this lifetime. You enjoy
intellectual competition. However, because you have developed
these abilities through intellectual contests and duels, you may
be in the habit of turning any and all encounters into a verbal
sparring match (good-humored, for the most part). Listening and
truly hearing what the other person is trying to convey may not
be your top priority.
At your best, though, you have confidence in your
intellect, are clear in thought and speech and carry through on
your ideas with energetic action.
Mercury Sextile Pluto:
You have a gift for intellectual strategy and solving
mysteries and puzzles. Intense mental focus and concentration,
combined with your acute perceptions, enables you to do "magic"
when you set your mind to it, and your wizardry in some
specialized field may be well known.
You are deeply interested in what lies below the surface in
any situation or person, and have an instinctive grasp of these
subtleties. You may, for instance, use your hands to perceive
the auric field, discover imbalances and transmit healing
energies to the one in need. The deep study of esoteric
subjects, as well as, the development of your mental powers, is
natural to you, as you have pursued these areas in your
incarnational past. This knowledge can be reawakened in you
rather easily, and you are likely to be a teacher and/or
transmitted of the understandings you have gained.
Venus Trine Saturn:
Deeply-felt loyalty, faithfulness and commitment in love
and in friendship are soul-qualities you are gifted with. You
value that which lasts and endures, and are not prone to be
consumed with frivolous or superficial values. You can also be
quite happy in solitude or in relatively simple, uncluttered
surroundings, content with a few genuine friends and those few
things which are truly necessary. An appreciation for elegant
simplicity, and the wisdom to recognize what is truly valuable,
give your life such richness and depth. You will be blessed
with a mature and lasting love.
Neptune Sextile Pluto:
Collectively, this is a time in history that enables you
and those of your generation to advance spiritually through a
heightened awareness of the invisible and intangible realms. A
rebirth of spirituality through direct contact with higher
forces is occurring in this generation. This contact takes
many, many forms, including a compelling interest in life beyond
death. You may or may not have a personal involvement with
this, as it is a group karma rather than a primarily personal
one.
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