Interpreting Interceptions - Transit

[EternallyWrite]

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[Fluffmeister]

So how do I interpet interceptions when they are in transit?

Currently coming up is Neptune opposite Venus. Taurus is on the 3rd cusp and Libra on the 8th cusp. All ok so far, but looking at my chart, Pisces is intercepted in the 1st.

How do I read that Pisces interception? Do I just take Neptune as a ruler of the 1st house (along with Uranus/Aquarius)?

Can anyone inform me please? I may have to return to Equal otherwise!!!!

Good question - if you see Neptune as ruling Pisces (and that's a whole other argument), I'd say Neptune has an affinity with the 1st, even if it doesn't rule it.

However, do you need to know what house Neptune rules? If it's clear-cut it's helpful, but I'd say the key thing about your Neptune is that it's right on your MC and part of that Grand Trine, but with the warning that it's also square your Jupiter natally. So you have tremendous talent in Neptunian fields (astrology, art, mystical stuff) but beware of blowing it out of proportion and deceiving yourself (square to Jupiter). For you, Neptune brings great opportunities, especially on the career front provided you go for something that will nurture that Neptune, but with a dash of self-deception too. So Neptune/Venus means a Neptune kick in those Venusian areas - and Venus rules your 3rd and 8th. This could have a number of manifestions, from getting a career in teaching and research (3rd/8th), through to being cheated out of an inheritance by your brothers!

[Fluffmeister]

I like to look at the transits by house ruler as well as planet.


Yes, so do I - but if the house is intercepted I'm not sure what it means. I tend to stick the house number in brackets and think there's some influence but not as strong as if the house isn't intercepted. However, I'm just using that as a working hypothesis at the moment.




So, breaking it down, I would use Neptune transits as an indicator of neptune issues, which also slightly relates to first house issues. But of course, not in the way that a Uranus transit would?

Yes, that's how I'd do it - even ignoring the fact that the 1st is intercepted, I'd delineate a Neptune transit very differently from a Uranus transit. Uranus tends to be sudden stuff, where you break out of a rut (even if it's a nice rut); Neptune dissolves, Uranus breaks. Where will these issues play out? 1st house - so that could your vitality or physical body as one possible manifestation.

So, looking at it initially without the houses, Neptune opposite Venus can mean Neptune is going to spray its magic pink rose-coloured dust on your Venus issues. This could mean Neptune dissolves your primary relationship, or that you see your relationships in a more intuitive light, or that you take to the bottle (Neptune being addictions, Venus being fine wines). However, Venus isn't just about food and love - she rules your 3rd and 8th and she's in your 6th. Neptune isn't just about fogginess, he doesn't rule any house but he "kinda has an affinity with the 1st" (that's a pretty Neptunian statement!) and is in your 10th.

So the natal planets are in the 6th and 10th - smells like work to me, though some traditionalists would froth at the mouth over the idea that 6th is work (it's your servants, small animals and the house of illness!), unless you happen to be a vet or medic. They rule the 3rd, 8th with a touch of 1st - communication, travel, work peers, siblings, death, inheritances, other people's money. Sex if you like to associate the 8th with sex. Transformation and deep stuff. And the transit's taking place in the 12th - hidden enemies, institutions, large animals.

So the delineation could be:

1. You have paranoid delusions that someone at work is talking about you behind your back and your job will dissolve as a result of it, and following this you will go on a journey to your doom.

2. You will have a career move that will involve you in working with people with drug or alcohol problems; you will do well in this, having an intuitive understanding of people's issues and an ability to help them transform.

3. A health crisis will cause you re-evaluate what you want out of work; excessive work may have contributed to this crisis in the first place. Fortunately, an inheritance or grant that you share with your brothers enables you to take a break.

4. Everyone else thinks it's a completely madcap scheme, but your love of animals leads you to run away and join the circus, where you get to work with elephants, the real love of your life.

These don't all have to come true, incidentally.

Bear in mind that the tenor is likely to be good rather than bad, because you have Neptune trine Venus natally - so they work pretty well together rather than fighting.