Now keep in mind, I’ve never really taken astrology seriously. I feel like they say things about your putative personality that are so general and vague they could apply to anyone.
Plus the Left-Brain in me rejects most pseudo-mystical things as nothing more than fun or fancy. However, there are numbers involved, and that’s what led me to this:
You see, I was tooling around with an astrolabe and I saw my chart. My sun sign is Aries. So is my rising and my moon sign. Also, Venus and Mars are in Aires. It turns out Mercury is at the tail end of pisces moving towards Aries…
Aren’t crazy and amzing things supposed to be in store for people with all those planet-ey things lined up? Or does it just make me more likely to be crazy?
A majority of planets in Fire Signs (Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius) can make a person more self-centered. On the positive side, this is confidence, inspiration, self-assuredness. On the negative side, this can be a total lack of empathy.
Fire signs show strong will, ambition, determination, discrimination, perception, and a critical mind. People with fiery planets often seek power and a display of force and drama. Their focus is more on the self and character than upon the interchange with others. They like to be popular but usually to dominate, not to be on the same level with others, as is the case with Water signs. They show that our main field of activity in life is in the realm of the will. We need to be certain of our motivation and the nature of the self we are projecting. Fire signs give us the need to develop real independence, clarity, and understanding, and not just to shine over or rule over others. On the higher level, they give independence and insight, strong judgment and high values. Fire types (those with strong planets in Fire signs) are able to penetrate into things and understand the underlying energy, motivation, or force behind them. Fire signs give leadership, the capacity to make alliances, and the ability to project warmth, light and beneficence. On the lower level, they may make us destructive. Our will may clash with those of others and bring us into argument and conflict. They may cause us to be vain, proud, or self-promoting. Well-placed planets in Fire signs give illumination, freedom and enlightenment.
you say self-centered with a total lack of empathy like it’s a bad thing.
I was more concerned that all of the planets were together in Aries. aren’t conjunctions supposed to cause cool things? Or are they just the happenstance of predictable orbital patterns?
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