In this blog entry I'll give an overview of how and why the 12th House often creates a difficult experience for those with personal planets there. I'll also give specific insights into how each of the personal planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars) operate in the 12th House. 

The twelfth house is certainly an interesting place for a planet, especially a personal planet, to fall in a natal birth chart. The 12th House is sort of like the doorway between the world of spirit (the Great Beyon...
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I was recently inspired by Michelle at Astrofix.com's blog post wherein she explored the meaning of her south and north node placements as well as their sign rulers. One of the greatest tools an astrologer has is their own chart, but oftentimes it is the hardest to decipher! It's like looking at a painting when you're an inch away from the canvas. It helps to step back a bit, depersonalize a little (hard to do when you're looking at your personal chart!) and all...

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Then you say go slow
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds   

     I urge you not to expect much from this entry, were you to expect anything at all. I really just want to ruminate on the fact that my progressed Venus will enter Capricorn next year. I look forward to this transit in the same way I looked forward to my Saturn Return, which I realize is not the usual way to feel about Saturn Returns, but I'm a pretty Saturnine lady and I was so ready to be responsible for myself and my life. My...
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    Some astrologers don't consider minor aspects, but the energy of Venus today is very much wrapped up with them. The planet is making a sesquiquadrate (or 135 degree) aspect to both Saturn and Pluto, which are meanwhile in square to each other. This forms an aspect pattern that looks pretty similar to a Yod or "Finger of God," in which two planets in sextile both form quincunx aspects to a third planet. In a Yod, astrologer Eric Meyers writes, "the two planets in sextile are in harmonious ...
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