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THE REFINEMENT OF CHARACTER
The effective mobilization by man of his personal characteristics, or what becomes the functional manipulation of his potentialities, is a matter of utilizing the various resources in character and capacity, or of holding them in check. He can sing, or he can drop off into philosophical reflection. He can stir himself in a high physical sensitiveness to danger, or relax in a complete melting of the self through some esthetic enjoyment. He cultivates or strengthens the potentials of function whenever he has recourse to them, just as he contributes to their disintegration and ineffectiveness by his failure to put them to work. His choices in the one way or the other, taken all together, determine the refinement of his characteristics, whether for the better or the worse.
Astrology reveals the pattern by which this refining process may have its most gratifying results. Exactly as any individual must know what clothes to wear for this or that occasion, what words or attitudes to use in social intercourse of a given sort, so must he have a better basis than mere chance, or primitive instinct, in calling upon one as against another characteristic facet of selfhood. The ten planets, by their place in the signs of his horoscope, show the particular ways in which his personality can operate in its exercise of its own nature, thus offering effective guidance for the very best cultivation of character, and for a genuine capitalization upon its worth.
THE SUN IN THE ECLIPTIC
Let not the suit look down and sun, Inglorious here he lies.
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard
The Sun in Aries identifies an individual in whom the cardinal and fire characteristics have their sharpest convergence. Life for him must be exciting, and he must be self-reliant. This means he is essentially fearless, and that he likes to move quickly and positively, taking the full consequences of whatever he does. He does not care much for abstract considerations, and gives little thought to other people.
THE SUN IN TAURUS identifies an individual in whom the fixed and earth characteristics have their sharpest convergence. Life for him must be purposeful, and he must be easily influenced. This means he is eager for experience, but highly sensitive, and often made inarticulate rather than moved to the energy of which he is capable. He can be patient, steadfast and proud, or else touchy, possessive and a martyr.
THE SUN IN GEMINI identifies an individual in whom the common and air characteristics had their sharpest convergence. Life for him must be personal, and he must be readily stimulated. This means he is alive and keen, practical and impatient, the best of friends in an emergency and a rather shallow acquaintance in any long pull of accomplishment. He is intimate, inquisitive, enthusiastic and restless.
THE SUN IN CANCER identifies an individual in whom the cardinal and water characteristics have their sharpest convergence. Life for him must be exciting, and he must be self-consummating. This means he is willful, possessive, unhurried, and gifted with insight into the possibility of things. He is unpredictable, stubborn in whatever course he adopts, ever opportunistic or calculating, and self-centered.
THE SUN IN LEO identifies an individual in whom the fixed and fire characteristics have their sharpest convergence. Life for him must be purposeful, and he must be self-reliant. This means that he is the magistrate at heart, inclined to dramatize values for all the world, and able to give special importance to everything he does. He is complacent, competent and highly imaginative. He thrives on adulation.
THE SUN IN VIRGO identifies an individual in whom the common and earth characteristics have their sharpest convergence. Life for him must be personal, and he must be easily influenced. This means he enjoys intimate relationships, and always finds a special niche for everything. He is capable of great self-sacrifice, and is a born commoner, but he may be very unreasonable and so lose all perspective.
THE SUN IN LIBRA identifies an individual in whom the cardinal and air characteristics have their sharpest convergence. Life for him must be exciting, and he must be readily stimulated. This means he is an unconditioned enthusiast, an extremist in all he does, and the moodiest of people. He rejoices in change and the chance to try things. He can be charming and exhilarating, or inconstant and ruthless.
THE SUN IN SCORPIO identifies an individual in whom the fixed and water characteristics have their sharpest convergence. Life for him must be purposeful, and he must be self-consummating. This means he is determined, clever and scheming, able to fathom the motives of others and so politically gifted. His ingrained impersonality makes him the most self-intent, creatively curious and single-minded of men.
THE SUN IN SAGITTARIUS identifies an individual in whom the common and fire characteristics have their sharpest convergence. Life for him must be personal, and he must be self-reliant. This means he is the promoter and administrator, delighting in companionship and inclined to be the good sport always. He has no great discrimination, and is no intellectual, but he is hearty and able to inspire others.
THE SUN IN CAPRICORN identifies an individual in whom the cardinal and earth characteristics have their sharpest convergence. Life for him must be exciting, and he must be easily influenced. This means he worries constantly, yet meets any emergency with a genuine ingenuity. He is a conformist, but often officious and prone to take an ell for an inch, characteristically insatiable in his interests and activities.
THE SUN IN AQUARIUS identifies an individual in whom the fixed and air characteristics have their sharpest convergence. Life for him must be purposeful, and he must be readily stimulated. This means he is high-visioned, optimistic, gregarious to a fault, and often gullible. He must be challenged to his best, or he becomes dogmatic and jealous. He is a realist in minor things, a do-or-die idealist otherwise.
THE SUN IN PISCES identifies an individual in whom the common and water characteristics have their sharpest convergence. Life for him must be personal, and he must be self-consummating. This means he is interested in himself and his own, but capable of broad emotional entanglements. He is mystically inclined, ever seeking poetic and hidden implications. He is universal in taste but intimate in manner.
THE MOON IN THE ECLIPTIC
Does the moon care for the barking of a dog?
Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy
The Moon in Aries describes a temperament which is characteristically responsive to life as adventure, and which reacts to experience as an essentially thrilling means of self-realization. The native is emotionally independent of the people around him, his feelings sharp and often a conscious and very convenient instrument of his purpose. He is warm when interested, otherwise detached and inwardly unstirred.
THE MOON IN TAURUS describes a temperament which is characteristically responsive to the revaluation it gains at the hands of others, and which reacts always to the actuality of life. The native is emotionally keyed to the ideals which are most familiar or useful, and he is incapable of any real feeling except in their terms. He is blindly faithful, sentimental and affectionate, often unoriginal and timid.
THE MOON IN GEMINI describes a temperament which is characteristically responsive to the interesting and intimate contacts of the moment, and which reacts to the challenge of accustomed experience. The native is emotionally sympathetic with every effort of his fellows, hurrying to encourage them on the slightest provocation, but he is generally incapable of sustained feeling or undivided loyalty.
THE MOON IN CANCER describes a temperament which is characteristically responsive to self-existence as an adventure, and which reacts to experience with a possessive and confident expectation. The native is emotionally maternal, hence often patronizing, and always sympathetic in his own individual fashion. He is naively trusting in his affections, but devastatingly exacting of anything he cannot encompass.
THE MOON IN LEO describes a temperament which is characteristically responsive to life as an individual responsibility, and which reacts to every eventuality as a necessity for decision, dictation or firm stand along some predefined line. The native is emotionally self-sufficient, inclined to let things alone unless they concern him, but bitterly resentful of criticism or interference when he decides to act.
THE MOON IN VIRGO describes a temperament which is characteristically responsive to direct encouragement or appreciation, and which reacts to others with a deep hunger for common experience or shared self-realizations. The native is emotionally overeager, and inclined to anticipate or dictate the course of development in all relationships. He is insistent, often petulant, but ever generous in service.
THE MOON IN LIBRA describes a temperament which is characteristically responsive to the trial or discovery of self as a continuing adventure, and which reacts with high opportunism to every opening for shared experience. The native is emotionally supercharged with an easy, gracious and impersonal fellow-feeling for mankind. He lives hard, although for the moment, and is up and down with every shift about him.
THE MOON IN SCORPIO describes a temperament which is characteristically responsive to life in its organic wholeness, and which reacts directly to inner motives, and to political rather than practical exigencies. The native is emotionally insatiable when it comes to enjoying and completing whatever activity or interest he initiates or adopts as his own, and he is almost devoid of ordinary sympathy or surface feeling.
THE MOON IN SAGITTARIUS describes a temperament which is characteristically responsive to experience in its greatest social naivete, and which reacts to other people as so much a part of self that the personalities almost melt into each other. The native yearns to do things with everybody. He has the open friendliness of a young animal, and is blissfully unaware of real human differences.
THE MOON IN CAPRICORN describes a temperament which is characteristically responsive to life as a constant adventure in the justification of self, and which reacts with high opportunism to every chance for becoming necessary in some given situation. The native is emotionally supersensitive, often hypercritical of his fellows, but untiring and most considerate when interested.
THE MOON IN AQUARIUS describes a temperament which is characteristically responsive to experience as the proving-ground of self, and which reacts to everything on an idealistic or utilitarian pattern. The native is emotionally overloaded with potentials of self-release which may be spilled out as sheer desire, used to buttress some pet cause, or stored up in high frustration. He is prodigal, but careful.
THE MOON IN PISCES describes a temperament which is characteristically responsive to the depths of human experience, and which reacts in an underlying affection for all people everywhere. The native is emotionally naive, continually excusing or overlooking personal deficiencies, and struggling against any subjection of living values to cold reason. Unselfishness is his god, and he often pauperizes others.
MARS IN THE ECLIPTIC
We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands
Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands:
We travel sea and wit; we pry, and prowl,
We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.
Frances Quarles, Divine Emblems
Mars in Aries reveals a characteristic inclination to act with simple assurance, meeting the need of the moment and disregarding any consequences other than the immediate results in the practical situation at hand. The native asserts himself in the petty details of life by brushing aside unnecessary preparations, or any consideration of remote contingencies, and either does what he wants to do or else forgets it.
MARS IN TAURUS reveals a characteristic inclination to act with a calculated self-realization, able to put up an impenetrable screen to protect an extreme sensitivity, or else to mold and refine the ideals and hopes of others by an intensity of participation in events. The native asserts himself in the petty details of life by a practical and quiet attention, but he can rise to a white passion in emergencies.
MARS IN GEMINI reveals a characteristic inclination to act with an enthusiastic acquiescence in anything projected by others, or with a momentary throwing of the self into every phase of familiar routine. The native asserts himself in the petty details of life by taking more than his expected part in immediate affairs, destructively if he cannot do so otherwise, and by trying to be everywhere at once.
MARS IN CANCER reveals a characteristic inclination to act with naive self-interest, paying as little attention as possible to the exigencies of the moment, and moving at whatever tangent promises to center any major developments upon the self. The native asserts himself in the petty details of life by a dynamic inertia, or by a consistent overruling, diverting or reshaping of every activity around him.
MARS IN LEO reveals a characteristic inclination to act with simple fidelity to the ideals or principles which the self has built into its own particular personality, ignoring exterior compulsions on the one hand and avoiding mere opportunism on the other. The native asserts himself in the petty details of life by dramatizing his own conceptions in everything he does, or by making a game of everyday living.
MARS IN VIRGO reveals a characteristic inclination to act with a calculated and selfish desire for comfort, willing to pay any reasonable or fair price for the co-operation of others, but draining everyone psychologically, if not actually manipulating their personal affairs. The native asserts himself in the petty details of life by making many demands while also proffering unlimited services or favors.
MARS IN LIBRA reveals a characteristic inclination to act with an enthusiastic letting-go of every available energy, and a constant if unwitting extension of the scope in experience through an insatiable experimentation in all possible relationships. The native asserts himself in the petty details of life by his willingness to face any situation, and to quarrel with all those who do not welcome his co-operation.
MARS IN SCORPIO reveals a characteristic inclination to act with a naive confidence in every personal idea or notion, thus creating an exceptional efficiency in self- mobilization and leading to a long-headed preparation for contingencies. The native asserts himself in the petty details of life by consistently disregarding the immediate situation as it stands, and doing what he wants to do at his own convenience.
MARS IN SAGITTARIUS reveals a characteristic inclination to act with simple faith in the good fellowship and fairness of all men, playing no favorites but making no specific connections and so accepting no particular obligation to definite people or occasions. The native asserts himself in the petty details of life by conforming rather easily to current procedures, and by following some convenient example.
MARS IN CAPRICORN reveals a characteristic inclination to act with a calculated self-interest, moving to make any issue a personal opportunity, and possessing a very competent instinct for meeting sudden emergencies in a way that turns out to be an advantage. The native asserts himself in the petty details of life by a simple practicality, ignoring what does not interest him and riding over all who get in his way.
MARS IN AQUARIUS reveals a characteristic inclination to act with an enthusiasm of vision, self-mobilization and unleashed passion which will usually carry through to the goal, irrespective of its wisdom or even its desirability. The native asserts himself in the petty details of life by the intensity of his interest in everything around him, and his willingness to expend himself whole-heartedly at any hour of the day or night.
MARS IN PISCES reveals a characteristic inclination to act with a naive presumption of the sympathy and support of everyone concerned in any given situation, together with a confidence in the ability of the self to win others to whatever is undertaken. The native asserts himself in the petty details of life by an emotional resort to the imaginative, poetic and spiritual implications in every phase of experience.
VENUS IN THE ECLIPTIC
He who has put a good finish to his undertaking
is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.
Eustathius, Commentary on the Iliad
VENUS IN ARIES discloses a characteristic fondness for life in its direct or immediate and fundamentally thrilling phases, and a tendency to bring things to completion by a ruthless elimination of all side interests. The native makes himself comfortable, under the everyday demands upon him, by letting most events take their course, and by mobilizing his charms or abilities where they will mean the most.
VENUS IN TAURUS discloses a characteristic fondness for life in its practical idealism or individual courageousness, and a tendency to round out experience in terms of tangible realizations. The native makes himself comfortable, under the everyday demands upon him, by his complete release of self in every situation he understands, and by his unerring sensitiveness to any inadequate or incomplete consummation.
VENUS IN GEMINI discloses a characteristic fondness for life in its essentially personal enthusiasms, and a tendency to bring things to completion speedily in order to make way for some new interest. The native makes himself comfortable, under the everyday demands upon him, by his cheerfulness in superficial favors as occasion offers, and by his skill in directing the vivifying impulses of everyone around him.
VENUS IN CANCER discloses a characteristic fondness for life in its simple or unconditioned universality, and a tendency to round out experience rather unpredictably in a ruthless self-interest. The native makes himself comfortable, under the everyday demands upon him, by insulating himself from any disturbing elements in his experience, and by maintaining an unswerving fidelity to his own desires.
VENUS IN LEO discloses a characteristic fondness for life in its common or spontaneous dramatizations of human values, and a tendency to bring things to completion arbitrarily or in response to an inner and private consideration. The native makes himself comfortable, under the everyday demands upon him, by ignoring his fellows except as they show an effective respect for his accomplishments and his notions.
VENUS IN VIRGO discloses a characteristic fondness for life in its transient human relations, and a tendency to round out experience in its own more personal terms. The native makes himself comfortable, under the everyday demands upon him, by his conscientious attention to routine or avoidance of all procrastination, and by his persistent focusing of all immediate interest in the most vital end results.
VENUS IN LIBRA discloses a characteristic fondness for life in its simple excitement, and a tendency to bring things to completion the moment fresh interests are ready to replace the old ones. The native makes himself comfortable, under the everyday demands upon him, by the grace with which he meets any new development, and by his gift for engineering consummations as pleasing to his fellows as to himself.
VENUS IN SCORPIO discloses a characteristic fondness for life in its ideal illimitability, and a tendency to round out experience through an entirely self-centered rationalization. The native makes himself comfortable, under the everyday demands upon him, by putting his own private meaning in everything that happens, and by extricating himself continually from any uninteresting participation in passing events.
VENUS IN SAGITTARIUS discloses a characteristic fondness for life in its kaleidoscopic surface phases, and a tendency to bring things to completion rather abruptly, either because of thinning interest or exhausted potentials. The native makes himself comfortable, under the everyday demands upon him, by moving from one relationship to another, and by feeling free to make demands upon anyone.
VENUS IN CAPRICORN discloses a characteristic fondness for life in its commonplace functioning, and a tendency to round out experience quite selfishly, the moment it serves its purpose. The native makes himself comfortable, under the everyday demands upon him, by working to eliminate whatever proves to be annoying in one fashion or another, and by his continual exercise and improvement of his own skills for his own advantage.
VENUS IN AQUARIUS discloses a characteristic fondness for life in its intellectual or ideal enthusiasms, and a tendency to bring things to completion in response to a very deliberate notion. The native makes himself comfortable, under the everyday demands upon him, by refusing to be involved in trivial matters, and by making everything around him significant in the light of his own personal ideas.
VENUS IN PISCES discloses a characteristic fondness for life in its personal illimitability or endless ramifications of human expression, and a tendency to round out experience by putting it into some frame of larger reality. The native makes himself comfortable, under the everyday demands upon him, by sharing his feelings with his intimates, and by exalting everything in a deep mystical fashion.
MERCURY IN THE ECLIPTIC
To flee from folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Horace, Epistles
MERCURY IN ARIES delineates a type of mind which characteristically anchors itself in the immediate reality of life, and which relies more upon its initial than its final insights. This means a mentality which is alert rather than reflective, accepting events with a naive impartiality. The frame of reference in all its thinking is the direct experience of the self in an actual context of everyday living.
MERCURY IN TAURUS delineates a type of mind which characteristically anchors itself in the idealized struggle of life, and which relies more upon its final than its initial insights. This means a mentality which is tentative, cautious and highly expectant rather than experimentative, unrestricted and indiscriminate. The frame of reference in all its thinking is the pattern of reality established in general experience.
MERCURY IN GEMINI delineates a type of mind which characteristically anchors itself in the socialized promise of life, and which relies more upon its initial than its final insights. This means a mentality which is impressionable, changeable and exhilarating rather than self-sufficient or inspire in any way. The frame of reference in all its thinking is the conventional expectation in human conduct.
MERCURY IN CANCER delineates a type of mind which characteristically anchors itself in the immediate satisfactions of life, and which relies more upon its final than its initial insights. This means a mentality which is culminative, dogmatic and circumscribed rather than original, adjustable and inquiring. The frame of reference in all its thinking is the self-completeness to which it necessarily challenges itself.
MERCURY IN LEO delineates a type of mind which characteristically anchors itself in the idealized reality of life, and which relies more upon its initial than its final insights. This means a mentality which is fundamentally stirred within itself, rather than influenced by exterior relationships. The frame of reference in all its thinking is the significance of the self in the experience of the moment.
MERCURY IN VIRGO delineates a type of mind which characteristically anchors itself in the socialized struggle of life, and which relies more upon its final than its initial insights. This means a mentality which is exacting rather than sure of itself, and which in consequence requires continual reaffirmation and repetition. The frame of reference in all its thinking is the practical problems of everyday living.
MERCURY IN LIBRA delineates a type of mind which characteristically anchors itself in the immediate promise of life, and which relies more upon its initial than its final insights. This means a mentality which is responsive to things rather than self-activated, and so definitely partial to each passing interest. The frame of reference in all its thinking is the world of special relations in which it functions.
MERCURY IN SCORPIO delineates a type of mind which characteristically anchors itself in the idealized satisfactions of life, and which relies more upon its final than its initial insights. This means a mentality which is given breadth and certainty rather than shaped or even remotely influenced by various climates of opinion. The frame of reference in all its thinking is the native's private pattern of reality.
MERCURY IN SAGITTARIUS delineates a type of mind which characteristically anchors itself in the socialized reality of life, and which relies more upon its initial than its final insights. This means a mentality which is opportunistic rather than thorough, and so inclined to seek quantity and surface value in knowledge. The frame of reference in all its thinking is the arena of human relationships in action.
MERCURY IN CAPRICORN delineates a type of mind which characteristically anchors itself in the immediate struggle of life, and which relies more upon its final than its initial insights. This means a mentality which is critical and realistic rather than comprehensive or consistent in any generalized fashion. The frame of reference in all its thinking is the momentary situation and its challenge to individual competency.
MERCURY IN AQUARIUS delineates a type of mind which characteristically anchors itself in the idealized promise of life, and which relies more upon its initial than its final insights. This means a mentality which is inspired rather than refined by experience, and so apt to overreach itself. The frame of reference in all its thinking is the pattern of values in which human vision is nurtured.
MERCURY IN PISCES delineates a type of mind which characteristically anchors itself in the socialized satisfactions of life, and which relies more upon its final than its initial insights. This means a mentality which is assured or encouraged rather than captivated or stimulated by experience. The frame of reference in all its thinking is the symbolical and wholly emotional background of the personality.
JUPITER IN THE ECLIPTIC
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and
awe — the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
JUPITER IN ARIES indicates the development of a consciousness which is characteristically self-sufficient, and quick in its response to new situations. Its fundamental motivation arises from its own unimpeachable sincerity in every issue of life, The native as a real personage is interested in adequate fields for his talents, and his welfare demands a continual and insistent personal challenge.
JUPITER IN TAURUS indicates the development of a consciousness which is characteristically self-exploiting, and sure in its response to ideas. Its fundamental motivation arises from its own inexhaustible capacity for experience with an inner implication. The native as a real personage is interested in making an effective contribution to the values of life, and his welfare requires a genuine role in human progress.
JUPITER IN GEMINI indicates the development of a consciousness which is characteristically self-projective, and generous in its response to human relations. Its fundamental motivation arises from the full appreciation for its efforts which it is able to gain from others. The native as a real personage is interested in every chance to stimulate people, and his welfare demands a multiplicity of personal contacts.
JUPITER IN CANCER indicates the development of a consciousness which is characteristically self-satisfied, and quick in its response to new situations. Its fundamental motivation arises from its own complete tolerance for experience in any given phase. The native as a real personage is interested in the perfection of living, and his welfare demands a continual reinforcement of his own cloistered reality.
JUPITER IN LEO indicates the development of a consciousness which is characteristically self-sufficient, and sure in its response to ideas. Its fundamental motivation arises from its own unimpeachable sincerity in holding to values. The native as a real personage is interested in the meaning of life, and his welfare demands a chance to build up and dramatize some ideal in his own character.
JUPITER IN VIRGO indicates the development of a consciousness which is characteristically self-exploiting, and generous in its response to human relations. Its fundamental motivation arises from its own inexhaustible capacity for everyday associations. The native as a real personage is interested in making his world a more comfortable place, and his welfare demands the fullest chance for working with others.
JUPITER IN LIBRA indicates the development of a consciousness which is characteristically self-projecting, and quick in its response to new situations. Its fundamental motivation arises from the full appreciation for its efforts which it is able to gain in every issue of life. The native as a real personage is interested in an effective self-discovery, and his welfare demands a continually unfolding opportunity for himself and others.
JUPITER IN SCORPIO indicates the development of a consciousness which is characteristically self-satisfied, and sure in its response to ideas. Its fundamental motivation arises from its own complete tolerance for experience with any given implication. The native as a real personage is interested in the perfection of human ideals, and his welfare demands a definite chance to test all the values of life for himself.
JUPITER IN SAGITTARIUS indicates the development of a consciousness which is characteristically self-sufficient, and generous in its response to human relations. Its fundamental motivation arises from its own unimpeachable sincerity in dealing with other people. The native as a real personage is interested in the simple activities of every day, and his welfare demands a consistently free living.
JUPITER IN CAPRICORN indicates the development of a consciousness which is characteristically self-exploiting, and quick in its response to new situations. Its fundamental motivation arises from its own inexhaustible capacity in meeting any issue of life. The native as a real personage is interested in dominating the milieu in which he finds himself, and his welfare requires a continual proving of his talents.
JUPITER IN AQUARIUS indicates the development of a consciousness which is characteristically self-projecting, and sure in its response to ideas. Its fundamental motivation arises from the full approval for its efforts which it is able to gain from the established standards of life. The native as a real personage is interested in a genuine self-quickening, and his welfare demands a constantly broadening experience.
JUPITER IN PISCES indicates the development of a consciousness which is characteristically self-satisfied, and generous in its response to human relations. Its fundamental motivation arises from its own complete tolerance for experience with any given person. The native as a real personage is interested in the perfection of the ties among men, and his welfare demands a continual chance for sympathy with the people around him.
SATURN IN THE ECLIPTIC
And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence earnest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Job, 1:7
SATURN IN ARIES shows a characteristic sensitiveness which may lead the native to attempt too hurried a perfecting of his special potentialities. An inner dignity of self requires him to demand a more than normal recognition or encouragement from life at large. His basic personality is refined by the necessity that he reconstitute and re-establish himself with every new development in his general situation.
SATURN IN TAURUS shows a characteristic sensitiveness which may lead the native to an unnecessary agonizing over his deeper ideals. An inner dignity of self requires him to sustain a realization of some worthy destiny for himself. His basic personality is refined by the necessity that he translate his ideals into definite action, or in some way strengthen the esprit de corps of his own milieu.
SATURN IN GEMINI shows a characteristic sensitiveness which may lead the native to irritate the people who might contribute most to his experience. An inner dignity of self requires him to accept every normal channel of social intercourse. His basic personality is refined by the necessity that he clarify or deepen his everyday contacts with others by stimulating an inner potentiality in each case.
SATURN IN CANCER shows a characteristic sensitiveness which may lead the native to overreach himself in his effort to control the factors of a given situation. An inner dignity of self requires him to deal with every critical issue in an honest and complete self-interest. His basic personality is refined by the necessity that he perfect his hold on lesser things as a way for reaching out to the greater ones.
SATURN IN LEO shows a characteristic sensitiveness which may lead the native to jump to conclusions, or to act before he has thought things through. An inner dignity of self requires him to cultivate permanent insights from every passing detail of experience. His basic personality is refined by the necessity that he demonstrate or exemplify every virtue or capacity he chooses to applaud or make his own.
SATURN IN VIRGO shows a characteristic sensitiveness which may lead the native to reduce all personal experience to cheapness and inadequacy. An inner dignity of self requires him to approach life with a true humbleness, rather than self-depreciation. His basic personality is refined by the necessity that he exalt personal relations, bringing a special adventure in self-fulfillment to every human fellowship.
SATURN IN LIBRA shows a characteristic sensitiveness which may lead the native to antagonize others through his own impatience or willingness to compromise. An inner dignity of self requires him to make an unceasing impact of his best efforts upon all experience. His basic personality is refined by the necessity that he work with people generally in a mutual respect for capacities and motives.
SATURN IN SCORPIO shows a characteristic sensitiveness which may lead the native to lean altogether too readily upon his own unsupported notions. An inner dignity of self requires him to re-establish his personal perspective with every new turn in experience. His basic personality is refined by the necessity that he actually earn, in an everyday world, whatever moral support he needs.
SATURN IN SAGITTARIUS shows a characteristic sensitiveness which may lead the native to depend entirety too much on other people. An inner dignity of self requires him to plumb every possibility of relationship with those to whom he is linked by circumstances. His basic personality is refined by the necessity that he put his best foot forward in everything he does, even when not disposed to do so.
SATURN IN CAPRICORN shows a characteristic sensitiveness which may lead the native to hurry through all his experience, and so miss its real significance. An inner dignity of self requires him to give an intelligent ordering to everything in which he is concerned. His basic personality is refined by the necessity that he achieve any recognition for himself through the fundamental excellence of whatever he does.
Saturn in Aquarius shows a characteristic sensitiveness which may lead the native to destroy his effective vision by compromising with lesser and transient considerations. An inner dignity of self requires him to develop a quickened understanding of all human idealizations. His basic personality is refined by the necessity that he take some interest in every significant movement or enterprise of his own day.
Saturn in Pisces shows a characteristic sensitiveness which may lead the native to dissipate his underlying and vital rapport with others. An inner dignity of self requires him to make his principal ties with those who can hold him to his own highest promise. His basic personality is refined by the necessity that he cultivate an experience which challenges his poetic appreciation and puts his sympathies to work.
URANUS IN THE ECLIPTIC
That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Uranus in Aries encourages a characteristic emphasis of individuality through the native's gift for persistent self-assertion, or for seeking experience in which he can respond with the direct and simple naturalness of his own being. He is able to re-grasp or master his destiny at any time by reverting to eccentricity, or permitting some unconditioned impulse to establish a new focus in reality.*
*The three planets of social significance move so slowly that their indications apply of necessity to very large blocks of people, i.e., those who are born, raised and carried through experience together in more or less common patterns of general orientation. To have cases of Uranus in all twelve signs, the spread of nearly a century in births is necessary. The years needed for Neptune are double. It is practically impossible, in the instance of Pluto, to find living examples for more than four of the ecliptical mansions. This means that the characteristics now to be listed, particularly for Neptune and Pluto, will apply to whole generations of people. This fact must be kept in mind with all three newer planets, and it has a special importance in Neptune's case because that body seems to give a particular distribution of subdivisions in the theoretical great ages of man, that is, the sign-intervals in the precession of the equinoxes.
URANUS IN TAURUS encourages a characteristic emphasis of individuality through the native's gift for integrating all possible social acts and judgments, growing in personality through this depth of his interest in organized progress. He is able to re-grasp or master his destiny at any time by re-ordering the pertinent considerations of his own affairs, and adopting a more promising frame of reference for them.
URANUS IN GEMINI encourages a characteristic emphasis of individuality through the native's gift for encouraging others to assert themselves in experience, and for developing new ways to do things. He is able to re-grasp or master his destiny at any time by dropping threadbare interests and turning his attention afresh to the life about him, cultivating new contacts where he can help and be helped.
URANUS IN CANCER encourages a characteristic emphasis of individuality through the native's gift for sustaining a definite personal uniqueness, either uninfluenced by events around him or else bringing everything to pivot upon himself. He is able to re-grasp or master his destiny at any time by giving his exceptional self-interest a social significance, as in becoming a prophet of some sort.
URANUS IN LEO encourages a characteristic emphasis of individuality through the native's gift for dramatizing his own potentialities, thus giving his special assets an added social value. He is able to re-grasp or master his destiny at any time by building upon some unusual development or situation in everyday experience, or by reshaping his own inner realization and developing a new personal intensity.
URANUS IN VIRGO encourages a characteristic emphasis of individuality through the native's gift for enhancing his own original usefulness in the commonplace functions he performs, and for bringing people into exceptionally practical relationship with each other. He is able to re-grasp or master his destiny at any time by encouraging, organizing and utilizing various untried potentialities of the given milieu.
URANUS IN LIBRA encourages a characteristic emphasis of individuality through the native's gift for personal distinctiveness, or for a deliberate eccentricity which he employs to bring out the immediate potentials of a situation. He is able to re-grasp or master his destiny at any time by his originality of approach to the given issue, or by demanding a completely new and different response from life as a whole.
URANUS IN SCORPIO encourages a characteristic emphasis of individuality through the native's gift for giving some unique twist or special pertinency to the ideas of his fellows, there-upon shaping their thinking or their prejudices to his own advantage. He is able to re-grasp or master his destiny at any time by the basic originality of his own judgments, and the unconditioned self-sufficiency of his philosophy.
URANUS IN SAGITTARIUS encourages a characteristic emphasis of individuality through the native's gift for spontaneous and transient but fully rewarding relations with other people in the normal course of everyday living. He is able to re-grasp or master his destiny at any time by making new and convenient social connections, profiting from his capacity for avoiding every hindering tie or trailing obligation.
URANUS IN CAPRICORN encourages a characteristic emphasis of individuality through the native's gift for capitalizing upon the unexpected eventualities of experience, and so opening new avenues of self-expression to himself. He is able to re-grasp or master his destiny at any time by gathering the scattered threads of any special milieu, weaving them together with a unique and fascinating effectiveness.
URANUS IN AQUARIUS encourages a characteristic emphasis of individuality through the native's gift for quickening the vision of others and thereby putting human efforts into an intelligible pattern. He is able to re-grasp or master his own destiny at any time by a simple intensification of his own personality, or by offering some unique and challenging way for a self-expending which makes life more worth living.
URANUS IN PISCES encourages a characteristic emphasis of individuality through the native's gift for an enduring sympathy or fellowship with men of all types and potentiality. He is able to re-grasp or master his destiny at any time by developing these uniquely subjective ties with others, or by opening up some special capacity for sharing himself with his fellows in this emotional or spiritual fashion.
NEPTUNE IN THE ECLIPTIC
I think there is a fatality in it — I seldom go to the place I set out for.
Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
Neptune in Aries requires a characteristic conformity by the native to his astrological generation with its over-all culture of personality per se. He is able to achieve his own desires fully when he demonstrates the genius of this individualistic type. A contribution of this group in America was the establishment of Spiritualism, Christian Science and Theosophy as a recrudescence of creative personality.*
*It is impossible to specify — in terms of a definite number of years with sharply defined boundaries — the domination of social events by individuals whose horoscopes place Neptune in the given sign. A very broad approximation is gained, in the delineations here given, by taking these periods as beginning, in each case, some twenty-five years after the planet's ingress. This does not mean that the pioneers or leaders of the astrological generation were born with Neptune in the particular zodiacal mansion, but rather that the great impetus which they articulated has stemmed from the mass of those who were so defined. Developments in the United States are used for illustration, but the phenomenon is world-wide, and can be traced out in similar fashion everywhere. The thirteen or fourteen-year transitions are subtle, although important and not difficult to recognize. They are suggested here with only the briefest of pen strokes.
NEPTUNE IN TAURUS requires a characteristic conformity by the native to his astrological generation with its over-all culture of a new secular philosophy. He is able to achieve his own desires fully when he shapes his actions to general standards or idealized values. A contribution of this group in America was the new conception of a democratic imperialism, i.e., the rule of the world by self-made men.
NEPTUNE IN GEMINI requires a characteristic conformity by the native to his astrological generation with its over-all culture of intellectualism as the hope of man. He is able to achieve his own desires fully when he makes use of his social resourcefulness or inventive faculties. A contribution of this group in America was the recent wave of business efficiency, practical science and industrial development.
NEPTUNE IN CANCER requires a characteristic conformity by the native to his astrological generation with its over-all culture of an organic society. He is able to achieve his own desires fully when he co-operates in the struggle for a reconciliation of social conflicts. A contribution of this group in America was the socio-economic awakening, or individual perfectionism, interrupted by World War II.
NEPTUNE IN LEO requires a characteristic conformity by the native to his astrological generation with its over-all culture of an exalted personal leadership. He is able to achieve his own desires fully when he capitalizes upon his personal merits. A contribution of this group in America should in some way parallel the achievement of American independence by the previous Neptune-in-Leo generation.
NEPTUNE IN VIRGO requires a characteristic conformity by the native to his astrological generation with its over-all culture of a utilitarian society. He is able to achieve his own desires fully when he works his personal activities into the functional whole. A contribution of this group in the prior American cycle was the constitutional formulation of a middle-class democracy in its New World setting.
NEPTUNE IN LIBRA requires a characteristic conformity by the native to his astrological generation with its over-all culture of a rampant individualism. He is able to achieve his own desires fully when he centers his personal interests in enterprises which are challenging to his fellows. A contribution of this group in the prior American cycle was the great initial attack upon the open frontiers.
NEPTUNE IN SCORPIO requires a characteristic conformity by the native to his astrological generation with its over-all culture of an organized exploitation. He is able to achieve his own desires fully when he shapes his life to logical or scientific standards. A contribution of this group in America was the era of personal politics with the spoils system and a development of the periodic financial crisis.
NEPTUNE IN SAGITTARIUS requires a characteristic conformity by the native to his astrological generation with its over-all culture of national coalescences and compromises. He is able to achieve his own desires fully when he makes the fruits of his accomplishment available to others. A contribution of this group in America was in the exaggeration of free enterprise, and the intellectual awakening.
NEPTUNE IN CAPRICORN requires a characteristic conformity by the native to his astrological generation with its over-all culture of political opportunism, sectional rivalry and personal ingenuity. He is able to achieve his own desires fully when he capitalizes upon the community interest. A contribution of this group in America was the expansion of boundaries and a rising impetus to invention.
NEPTUNE IN AQUARIUS requires a characteristic conformity by the native to his astrological generation with its over-all culture of a new national idealism. He is able to achieve his own desires fully when he works to further the objectives of everyone. A contribution of this group in America was the scientific and industrial accomplishment of the Civil War period, and the abolition of slavery.
NEPTUNE IN PISCES requires a characteristic conformity by the native to his astrological generation with its over-all culture of creature comforts. He is able to achieve his own desires fully when he gives them an esthetic cast or humanistic implication. A contribution of this group in America was a new dimension of business functioning, and an effective intellectual revolt against traditionalism.
PLUTO IN THE ECLIPTIC
At night astronomers agree.
Matthew Prior, Phillis's Age
Pluto in Aries creates a characteristic intellectual epoch marked by faith in the individual, or by an acceptance of his inviolability. The native is inclined to hail resourcefulness, welcome danger and employ violence as the most direct way to personal power. Here is laissez faire at its peak, represented by people born in the 1825-1853 period, and by the open-frontier spirit they intensified in America on through the Civil War and the 1873 panic.(5)
(5) This is description in historical perspective, yielding a significance which becomes pertinent only since 1930. These epochs of Pluto's influence, more a matter of intellectual orientation than social transition, are approximated on the same basis as the Neptune cycles in the preceding section. The positions of the third new planet .ire some what approximate, since astronomy as yet has no exact determination of its orbit, and cannot have for considerable time to come.
PLUTO IN TAURUS creates a characteristic intellectual epoch marked by an active interest in the practical integration of society. The native is inclined to look upon life in utilitarian fashion. Here is the extreme of psychological support for exploitation, represented by people born in the 1853-1884 period, and by the sensitiveness to world-wide potentialities they brought to experience upon their maturity.
PLUTO IN GEMINI creates a characteristic intellectual epoch marked by a high appreciation for human fellowship. The native is inclined to throw himself into any enterprise at hand, always seeking to speed life's course of action. Here is the psychological rejection of all traditionalism, represented by people born in the 1884-1914 period, and by the practical secularism developed with their rise to dominance.
PLUTO IN CANCER creates a characteristic intellectual epoch marked by an instinct for universal or absolute realization. The native is inclined to make the affairs of the world a very personal concern. Here is the psychological demand for authoritarian foundations, represented by people born in the 1914-1939 period, and by the struggle over global ideologies which they have begun to instrument in effective fashion.
PLUTO IN LEO creates a characteristic intellectual epoch marked by the individual's faith in his own ideas. The native is inclined to be very intense in his reaction to socio-economic and political problems. Here is the probable incentive, psychologically, for the coming conflicts over the spheres of influence which support any balance of power, to be represented by people born in the 1939-1958 period.
PLUTO IN VIRGO creates a characteristic intellectual epoch marked by and active interest in human refinement and the perfection of social ties. The native is inclined to approach all life in somewhat clinical fashion. Here is the psychological drift towards a respect for personality, represented under the previous cycle and in England by people born in the 1711-1724 period., or the end of Methodism.
PLUTO IN LIBRA creates a characteristic intellectual epoch marked by a high sense of personal adventure. The native is inclined to an exaggerated opportunism in his reaction to the major issues of life. Here is the psychological enthusiasm over new experience, represented in Europe by people born in the 1724-1737 period, and by the particular humanistic ferment of Frederick the Great and Voltaire.
PLUTO IN SCORPIO creates a characteristic intellectual epoch marked by an instinct to psychological imperialism. The native is inclined to come to his own conclusions, and to advocate his ideas forcibly. Here is the will to self-determination, represented in America by people born in the 1737-1750 period, and by the rising political sensitiveness of the colonies, well dramatized at the Boston Tea Party.
PLUTO IN SAGITTARIUS creates a characteristic intellectual epoch marked by a full faith in human nature. The native is inclined to drive himself in a prodigal self-expenditure, whenever his own pattern of life proves of definite value to the group at large. Here is the psychological encouragement to mass political action, represented by people born in the 1750-1763 period, and by the American Revolution.
PLUTO IN CAPRICORN creates a characteristic intellectual epoch marked by an active interest in the over-all ordering of society. The native is inclined to be very critical in everything he does, impersonal and altogether unsparing of others. Here is the psychological support for any subordination of the individual to the group, represented by people born in the 1763-1778 period, and by the American Constitution.
PLUTO IN AQUARIUS creates a characteristic intellectual epoch marked by a high sense of group potentialities. The native is inclined to see possibilities in everything around him, and to give them high publicity. Here is the psychological support for social sharing, represented by people born in the 1778-1800 period, and by a first great surge of immigration, and of urban and industrial development.
PLUTO IN PISCES creates a characteristic intellectual epoch marked by universal aspirations. The native is inclined to live easily, but always exercising himself over world-wide issues. Here is the psychological encouragement for man's conquest of nature, represented by people born in the 1880-1825 period, and by exploration or discovery such as reached a climax in the California gold rush.
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