The best way to describe the sixth house is that it is the place of needed interdependence. It opposes the twelfth house, which is the place of isolation.
There is no self correction in the fifth house but there is control. Pleasure is an automatic process but it eludes you when you have no control over your environment or decisions.
There is loss in the fourth house but there is a sense of return as well.
For those of us who are burdened with the task of translation (and, with it, treason), for those of us who must translate our own bodies, the third house is not about conducting measured rituals with store bought products. It’s about the terror of the body and becoming familiar with that terror until it is no longer normalized.
When I talk to people about their second houses, we talk about addiction, about recovery, about power struggles, about feeling owned by the ways in which you seek to break free from someone, and about the fear of loss.
The first house is where Saturn aspires towards Mercury. It’s where incarnation aspires towards change.
Planets in fall are sarcastic. They’re satirical. They can be funny but they don’t have to be. They understand tragedy.
When working with the midheaven, when a client requests that we talk about the midheaven, it is always more helpful to start with the family than with the aspiration.
North nodal benders are things that you are continually in the process of building. South nodal benders are things that you are always in the process of releasing. All nodal benders are about change.
The hidden houses are about accountability and abolition. They are about self transformation. They surround the horizon points because accountability and abolition change you and the roles you play.
While the angular houses are about the actual events of change themselves, the supportive houses or houses that sextile the horizon are about the places where we see change become more than what was promised.
The reason why the angular houses signify change is because we were not born to live in a static and unchanging world but to live in a perpetually changing world.
We live in a representational republic where visibility is power, whether that visibility is achieved through political or commercial representation. In other words, exaltations and falls have to do with visibility.
Mutable squares are the only types of squares where it is possible that both planets in a square share a ruler. This would be like two tenants who share a landlord.
When we apply Fanon to astrology, we change astrology from a tool of self reflection into a technology for action.
Debilitation is a state of existence in which you are always viewed to be an outsider, where you must constantly prove your own existence, in places that were made to exclude you.
Just like the yin and yang within the I Ching, the dynamics between an uke and a seme are about power. (tw: fictional descriptions of non-con)
However, what did Alexandrinus mean when he wrote that contra-antiscia aspects can “hear” each other while antiscia aspects can “see” each other?
Signs that oppose one another across the solstice line are called antiscia, which means opposite shadows.
Too often, modern astrologers tell clients that going towards north node automatically means more success. I’ve been guilty of doing this too. The association between north node and positivity and south node with negativity is particularly weird when you consider the realities of global north hegemony.
The Aries Point is the fame point. According to Noel Tyl and Robert Hand, it shows how someone can become famous. Let’s take a deeper look and see what it’s really made of.
