Horoscope request

[Annorah]

Hi

I would love someone to do my chart for me - I have had a go with some very dodgy software and a particularly general book - but something more calculated would be great.

Details as follows:

Date of birth: 26 January 1964

Time of birth: 1.40 pm

Place of birth: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK

Many, many thanks in advance

[Fluffmeister]

Couldn't resist this one, since I go to Aquarius Severn, Cheltenham's astrology group, every couple of weeks. They've been going for 25 years now, and are one of the biggest local astrology groups in the UK!

OK, well let's start with the "Big Three" - your Sun, Moon and Ascendant. Everyone knows their Sun sign - you're Aquarius. The Sun is the "real you", but the Ascendant is how you may come across to people, and the Moon the way you feel (and how you react when someone pisses you off).

Aquarians are renowned for being quirky and independent, but you have a Cancer Ascendant (also known as your rising sign, so you have "Cancer rising"), *and* a Cancer Moon sitting right on that Ascendant. You probably come across to people as much more Cancer than Aquarius. So what's Cancer about? Cancer is the crab - a soft centre in a hard shell. Cancerians are home loving and nurturing, but yes - they can be "crabby" too! Cancer can be moody and take offence quite easily.

The main thing that we look for in a chart are "configurations" - which planets are working as "teams". So, your Moon is pretty important - she's important in *any* chart, but particularly in yours as the Moon rules Cancer - and that's your rising sign. So is the Moon tied into any other planets? You bet!

First, take a look at the red lines in the chart. The Moon is pretty much opposite Mercury in Capricorn. This is called an "opposition"; the Moon is emotions, Mercury is your head rather than your heart. Mercury in Capricorn is pretty level headed, and there can be a conflict between how you feel emotionally (all that homebuilding Cancer stuff) and how you communicate and think (knuckle down, work hard etc). Actually, finding a balance between these two isn't too difficult; Capricorn and Cancer are both concerned with security - Cancer with the security of hearth and home, and Capricorn with financial security. In fact, that sensible Capricorn is in your seventh house - so a strong stable relationship will work pretty well for you.

Now, the problem on the relationship front is to do with Venus. That Venus (looks like the female symbol, a circle with a cross under it) is next to Chiron, the "wounded healer". Venus/Chiron combinations can be tricky, as there may be a sense of feeling undervalued, and fearing rejection. Now look at what's opposite Venus - two planets, Uranus and Pluto. It's not unusual for you to have a Uranus/Pluto conjunction - everyone born between 1962 and 1968 has it, and it's the hallmark of the revolutionary and swinging sixties. Uranus is the revolutionary, and rules Aquarius; Pluto is like guy from Men In Black, and is associated with the underworld, death, power, obsession and some pretty dark stuff. Think of what happened in the sixties - an almost literal revolution in France, a sexual revolution, a revolution in opening up to new religious beliefs (eastern religions became popular in the West), and a string of assassinations - JFK, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X. Now, this revolution combination is personal for you, because that powerful combination of Uranus/Pluto is opposite your Venus. And here's the fundamental contradiction. Your relationships, as shown by Venus, can be exciting, unpredictable, perhaps obsessive but not necessarily leaving you feeling secure. And what your chart says you need (or are really looking for) is something stable and secure and a good foundation.

Ultimately, that contradiction can be (and perhaps has been) resolved. Venus makes a lovely angle to Neptune - a planet of mixed blessings. Neptune is about dreams, intuition and mysticism, but is also the planet of fogginess, deceit and disillusion. Venus/Neptune combinations like yours can work wonderfully in creative pursuits, especially with Venus in your tenth house of career. You need a highly creative outlet, ideally something you can make a living from, rather than a day job that merely pays the bills. If you can find that outlet, then that's a brilliant use of that Neptunian energy. If you haven't, then the Neptunian stuff is more likely to come out in always chasing rainbows in relationships that keep vanishing - chasing that bad 'uns, the ones who seem exciting, rather than what you really crave in a relationship - security.

[Annorah]

Thank you, Fluffmeister.

A lot of things are starting to make sense now ...