Updating “Your Mars and Venus Playbook”
When my wife and I published “The Mars/Venus Affair” as a book back in 2000 we didn’t know how long it was going to be around. So, we didn’t extend the directory that tells you what your Mars and Venus signs are past the year 2000. We didn't think that there would be many one-year-olds seeking information about their love lives.
The drama I was expecting from the New Moon chart for Aug. 27 didn’t arrive until very late in the lunation period. (Click here to see the article and the chart.) Even though Queen Elizabeth was not a figure of political authority for people in the United States, she was a figure of moral authority around the world and her death was the kind of Uranian surprise that the New Moon chart predicted.
The research project in which I am currently engaged has reminded me of the power of the Qualities or Modes in astrology. The Qualities are a way dividing up the twelve signs of the horoscope. There are three Qualities — Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable — and each of them is attributed to four signs. The Cardinal signs are Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. The Fixed signs are Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. The Mutable signs are Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces.
We tend to think of the Qualities in the same context as the Element (Fire, Earth, Air and Water) which are the other way we divide up the twelve signs. However, the Elements have more to do with personality traits. To put it in very simple term, Fire sign people are fiery, Earth sign people are earth, Air sign people tend to have their heads in the clouds and Water sign people are awash in their emotions. The Qualities, on the other hand, have to do with the way in which we conduct our lives. In order to pick out a person with an strong emphasis of one of the Qualities in their horoscope you typically have to look at their actions over a span of years.
The Full Moon chart for Aug. 11 revealed a great deal of tension but, with Neptune on the Ascendant and the Sun and Moon in the Sixth/Twelfth House axis, I felt that much of this tension would be hidden from the public. (Click here to see the article and the chart.)This was certainly the case with the documents taken from Mar-o-largo last month. The FBI was forced to release the search warrant for that raid, but after information deemed sensitive was redacted from the document, reading it is a bit like reading tea leaves.
|
|