Synastry Studies: The Fixed Cross and the Urge to Merge (part two)

Submitted by ciuboda on 1 September, 2010 - 08:19.
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'The one thing that is guaranteed to surprise students is when you tell them that there is more than one Venus/Mars polarity in the chart. Sometimes I tell them what it is, and sometimes I’m Virgo-cruel enough to ask them to go find it. After they sweat for a bit my Neptune wins out and I give in. We forget that Scorpio is also ruled by Mars. The legitimacy of old rulerships is something that makes itself known strongly when you study progressions and the progressed chart. The outer planets don’t move very much by progression, but it’s very clear that the old rulers are representative of those outer planet positions, especially when it comes to house rulerships. It’s as if the outer planet has a more intimate, knowable, personal face in the guise of the old ruler. When Neptune is prominent in a progressed chart, it’s often transits or progressions to and from Jupiter that reflect it. With Uranus, it’s Saturn. And with Pluto, it’s Mars'

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Dawn Bodrogi
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Synastry Studies: The Fixed Cross and the Urge to Merge (part two)
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