reflections – Coconut Doesn't Exist

Hi again 🙂

I was somewhat inspired by today’s daily prompt – yep, it happens sometimes. So, I decided to write a post regarding love and attraction through the lens of Western Astrology theoretically and using the natal chart attached below as an example. Which elements in our charts are responsible for that?

We typically look at these points:

Planets: Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars:
☀️The Sun represents either the husband (long-term male partner) or our lifestyle/character, which is crucial for compatibility.
🌙The Moon indicates the wife (long-term female partner), emotional connections, and what we need for comfort and security (family and home life in general).
♀️ Venus signifies the ideal female lover or how we experience and express our love.
♂️ Mars represents the ideal male lover or sexual attraction in general.

Some astrologers also suggest that the planet indicating husband/wife depends on the time of birth (Sun/Moon for daytime, Mars/Venus for nighttime), but it’s a matter of interpretation. For me, Sun/Moon suffice for marriage/long-term partner analysis. Nonetheless, we should analyze all four planets in this context.

Houses and their components (planets inside the House and House Ruler):
The 5th House and its components show us general attraction, being in love, sex, and even children.
The 7th House signifies partnership/marriage, serious bonds.
The 4th House represents our home (which we share with our partners) and everything connected to family and roots (including traumas from our parental home carried into adult life).

Aspects are also crucial in determining our love life. For instance, we look for conjunctions, trines and sextiles between the mentioned planets to confirm that the person has no issues entering and sustaining love relationships, and accepting their roles, desires, urges, femininity/masculinity, while squares and oppositions could negatively influence these dynamics.

Let’s look at the example (with the full consent of the chart’s owner):

At first glance, we see that this person is very passionate, falls in love quickly and ardently (5th House Aries Venus + Leo Mars). There are no problems with entering relationships, as she has a perfect balance of feminine and masculine energy (Sun trines Moon, Venus trines Mars) and a good understanding of the opposite sex’s needs and ways of behaving.

She can’t really live without a relationship; love and being with somebody are crucial for her (7th House Sun, 5th House Venus). Even though you may think that she has numerous “strong signs” placements, she is a very dependable person in the relationship. The Moon in Capricorn is not the same as the Sun in Capricorn; it is a weak placement for a woman – restrictive, “in chains”. You may compare that with her Pisces Lilith if you know some astrology basics.

In the past, people chose the marriage date specifically so that the Moon was in Capricorn, meaning that the woman would be controlled and have no power or decisive presence in her new home, whereas a Cancer or Taurus Moon often shows a strong, resourceful hostess type of woman. But keep in mind there are always several variants in which the planetary archetype may express itself. For example, a Capricorn Moon may represent a dependable woman in one person’s chart and an anxious careerist in another’s; it all lies hidden in the details.

The same applies to Aries Venus; it is not the same as Aries Mars, as Venus is weak by sign in this case. Additionally, 7th House Sun is weak by House; here, the woman gives away her inner strength to her partner.

Having Sun and Dsc in Taurus, she values stability in her relationships, and despite all this smoldering, sizzling fire burning in her, she aims consciously to build something lasting. She is prone to keeping what she has and working on relationships. Tauruses are very stable partners, quite traditional in their approach to love and femininity. She looks for a partner whom she can trust, be supported by, and rely upon (Taurus), and to be guided and led – a leader (Sun in 7th House + Leo Mars).

Speaking of which, she is often attracted to the charismatic leader type (Leo Mars, Aries Venus, Sun in 7th House). However, it is not only the strength of character, inner shine, and valor that appeal to her, but also the intellectual part that is crucial and sets her heart and imagination ablaze (7th House Mercury, 9th House Mars). She yearns for interesting discussions with a worthy opponent (and it augments the passion in her). Intelligence attracts her in general; even an intellectual job could be a point of fascination. Additionally, intellectual connections make her feel safe and emotionally close with someone (3rd House Moon); her partner should be her friend (7th House Mercury as 11th House Ruler).

Her 7th House ruler is in the 5th House, so there is no marriage (long-term partnership) without love. Interestingly, when we observe the 5th House elements, we see that her crushes are kind of karmic, illusionary traps. She is prone to over-reaction, experiencing intense and whimsical feelings, and often attracting “interesting” people in a negative sense.

She tends to sacrifice herself and become addicted to people she loves (5th House in Pisces, Pisces Lilith, Aries Venus, and plenty of Neptune aspects, giving her imagination and empathy, but also a tendency to drown in delusions). Overall, it is better for her to be married in a stable relationship than to be only in love; it is a healthier version for sure.

As a woman, she is torn apart between her female roles, full of extreme contrasts (and so are her emotions, as the Moon and Venus also represent this part of our lives). Both Venus and Moon are weak, so these are not positive types of inner conflicts. She may be afraid of maturing.

As mentioned above, she is not a resourceful hostess, nor does she have warm connections with her family; she subconsciously tries to detach from them. This may also be caused by negative conditions and lack of warmth in the beginning of her life (IC in Aquarius, 4th House Saturn squared by Pluto, Capricorn Moon; Scorpio Rising also gives difficult beginnings of one’s life).

She may learn something of this kind during her life though, as the Moon has a lot of aspects in her horoscope (Queen of aspects), so it may provide some possibilities for growth.

An interesting fact: she is married, and even though her husband has Sun in an air sign, his Rising is in Taurus sign in conjunction with her Descendant, and his Moon and Mars are in a fire element, so it fits.

Thank you for reading this 🙂

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Hi, everyone, Philosophy Thursday is here, so I wrote something 😀

Being among people – both in real life and virtually – I’ve noticed long ago that the topic that leads to the most vehement arguments is… modernity vs tradition. And it doesn’t really matter what the discussion is about; it could be mythology, spirituality, beliefs and religion, sci-fi lovers, book readers, language learners, psychologists, medicine workers… Whatever it is, it is about the conflict between modernity and tradition.

It seems that these different groups of people can’t even communicate or understand each other at all, being torn between two different extremes, never trying to build a bridge where they can meet. Although, in my opinion, living our own life or walking our own path equals this very kind of a bridge.

To be honest, I imagine this tradition vs modernity extreme as a tree. No tree can exist without the roots, and no human can exist without history. History and traditions hold us stable, providing us with safe and proven systems. If we know history, we won’t make the same mistakes again – that is true for many fields. We can build connections to many things thanks to tradition. It’s true for linguistics, history, religion. For instance, knowing the roots of what you believe in, you can connect with your gods better. Being aware of history, you can see how societies and cultures were shaped, blossomed, and died, so you can see the causes and effects that lay at the base of our future development; you pick up on tendencies and you know how they will shape the future (more or less).

When you study linguistics, you usually study an ancient language at some point, connected with your field. It may be Gothic, Latin, Old Slavic—these languages are usually considered “dead.” Students tend to hate it. But later, it turns out that by becoming acquainted with this language, we learn new languages easier or understand them intuitively to a certain extent.

If we practice some traditional form of magic, if we are pagan, or astrologers, it is always better to know the roots because that enriches our practice immensely, and because then we know actually which new tendencies have no worth at all or were created quite recently and were not tested properly. But we can’t reject modernity at all after that. We should thoughtfully combine.

Some people, nonetheless, tend to confine themselves to the traditional path only, but this approach doesn’t allow you to become natural, feeling, creative in these practices. You’ll also deprive it of becoming easier, of integrating it into life. When I decided to become a pagan, I also emphasized tradition at the beginning, but later it became too prison-like for me. My religion is about experiments and embracing new knowledge, anyway, so I decided to follow my heart instead of reason. We can’t value the form over the essence. So I do it my way, not super traditionally, but more spiritually, as I feel. I always preferred and honored the mystics more than the ones that comply with every rule, anyway.

There is no sense in worshiping history, rejecting progress, because then we don’t grow. Tradition doesn’t make things truer, or better, or greater. It makes us wiser though, and shows why we are here. It doesn’t matter if your grandfather was great if you don’t live up to his standards. What matters is who you are now.

There is no sense in making a sacred thing out of modernity either. The tree won’t have leaves or fruits if it has no roots. It will wither and die. What modernity offers us is a manifold of unchecked and unverified approaches, techniques, and ideas, some of which may be useful, but most of which are epatage and waste. Some of them manipulate you if you don’t have enough knowledge to not be easily swayed. Some are made up and fake, or just generally weak and are forgotten and thrown away with years, because they won’t stand the test of time. You can experiment with them a lot, but without history, it will take you much longer to understand what is rubbish and what is not. Every tradition itself is built upon this part of the once modern ideas that didn’t prove to be a pile of total garbage after time.

But, as I said, progress offers us a lot of new ways and possibilities. Today, it facilitates things and lives for us; technology is wonderful, until we treat it as a helper and not as our lord. For instance, now we can exchange our ideas from a distance, meet friends and loved ones, create in different ways, work via the internet, order things, medicine is better, magic is quicker, we can use technology to benefit our self-development. We have more time for ourselves and our passions. We have more freedom—we still have freedom.

Still, you’ll need to land somewhere with time, and you can constantly live up to changes and fulfill people’s expectations. Age will take its toll on you, and you’ll be nostalgic, and less and less progressive with each year. If you didn’t build the bridge, and if you didn’t find your own way, you’ll be like the withered tree branches, broken and carried away.

So let our trees have both roots and branches, and let each of us be a unique kind of tree, and pick and combine from the present and past what suits ourselves on our path. And be true to what we are, never swayed by changing opinions.

Thank you for reading that 🙂

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