—Points in the chart such as the descendant [the 7th House] and the IC [the nadir or bottom point] also have a great deal to do with what falls into Shadow in the personality.??
CANCER RISING - CAPRICORN/Saturn in the 7th - The FATHER
+ characteristics: patient, ambitious, responsible, efficient, seeks order, traditional, leadership, organizer, resourceful, long-range planning, integrity, ability to give confidence to others, wisdom from experience, self-disciplined, managerial talent, stoic, dependable, reliable, hardworking, determined, shrewd in business, endurance
- characteristics: insecure, fear of marriage, overly perfectionistic/cautious/ suspicious, cold/unresponsive, judgemental, heavy karma, intolerant, stubborn, uses people, opportunist, demanding, limiting/restricting, harsh, perfectionistic, critical, overexacting
NEPTUNE/higher feelings - The ROMANTIC DREAMER
+ characteristics: looking to transend the physical plane with unconditional love, seeking God in the partner, the —perfect?? partner (ethereal, magical, mystical, lyrical), which of course does not exist, connecting at a very deep level with the partner, romantic and compassionate, able to forgive, attunement
- characteristics: unable to accept human faults/discontent, denial about other??s behavior, sacrificing oneself for the partner, confusing sympathy for love, confusion/deception in relationships, absence/fantasy/escapism/addiction/feeling unworthy, platonic relationships with the one they love/sex with someone they cannot love, trying to save others at their own expense
POSITIVE MANIFESTATION TOGETHER - can enjoy creativity/music and spirituality with a partner, impersonal helping/healing and devotion to a higher power/spirituality together/soulmate unions
- The Negative characteristics of the DSC sign is also known as our 'shadow side'; traits we try to avoid, deny or feel very deep guilt, remorse when expressed. The mirror side of our ASC..
** NEPTUNE/higher feelings/idealism - The ROMANTIC DREAMER + characteristics: looking to transend the physical plane with unconditional love, seeking God in the partner, the —perfect?? partner (ethereal, magical, mystical, lyrical), which of course does not exist, connecting at a very deep level with the partner, romantic and compassionate, able to forgive, attunement
- characteristics: unable to accept human faults/discontent, denial about other??s behavior, sacrificing oneself for the partner, confusing sympathy for love, confusion/deception in relationships, absence/fantasy/escapism/addiction/feeling unworthy, platonic relationships with the one they love/sex with someone they cannot love, trying to save others at their own expense.
POSITIVE MANIFESTATION TOGETHER - can enjoy creativity/music and spirituality with a partner, impersonal helping/healing and devotion to a higher power/spirituality together/soulmate unions. An idealistic union with the partner is highly attainable and sought.
PISCES RISING - VIRGO/Mercury in the 7th - The HEALER/SERVANT + characteristics: helpful/service-oriented, health-conscious, industrious, hard worker, practical, earthy, reliable, considerate, analytical excellence/active mind/intelligent, craftsmanship, flair for organizing, detail-oriented, quiet, efficient, seeks new ways to accomplish/fix things/useful
- characteristics: critical/fault-finding, worrier, cranky, self-critical, perfectionistic, nervous, finicky, skeptical, self-centered, can become hypochondriac, picky, skeptical, discontented, carping, unable to accept error
URANUS/higher mind - The MAGICIAN + characteristics: looking for someone to illuminate them, liberate/awaken them to their own intuitive knowing, needing a tremendous amount of space in a relationship, offers friendship and freedom to partner, strong beliefs about equality, honors principles and exhibits real honesty in communicating
- characteristics: cannot bear possessiveness, willful and obstinate to rebel, complains about others?? selfishness/coldness, indifference and not acknowledging their own, refusing to acknowledge emotional pain in others, fear of abandonment, can behave in a self-centered way, addicted to excitement can havoc in relationships, erratic and restless, fixed-dogmatic thinking, unwilling to cooperate, anything too routine cages them in
PLUTO/higher power - The THERAPIST + characteristics: seeking tranformation through merging with significant other, needing to develop one's own power and ability to change not fix each other, healing ourselves from past pain and trauma through real vulnerability, deeply committed to supporting each other??s growth/experiencing deep feelings/sharing shadow work
- characteristics: crisis through relating, chronically insecure, seeking to control and manipulate by overgiving of oneself and material things, painful emotions such as possessiveness, jealousy, vindictiveness in relating, lack of trust, never getting enough from partner, suspicious, usually involved in triangles through emotional denial and underestimating their own vulnerability
POSITIVE MANIFESTATION TOGETHER - can enjoy merging/sharing power/deep emotional sexual union with a partner, plumb the depths (shadow work) together and eliminate/destroy the shameful pain/hurts in each others past, be a channel of power in the world for healing/transformation of the planet/the wounded healers
I also have the Uranus/Venus aspect (square, orb +3??35)
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URANUS/higher mind - The MAGICIAN + characteristics: looking for someone to illuminate them, liberate/awaken them to their own intuitive knowing, needing a tremendous amount of space in a relationship, offers friendship and freedom to partner, strong beliefs about equality, honors principles and exhibits real honesty in communicating
- characteristics: cannot bear possessiveness, willful and obstinate to rebel, complains about others?? selfishness/coldness, indifference and not acknowledging their own, refusing to acknowledge emotional pain in others, fear of abandonment strong so —I will abandon you before you abandon me— attitude, can behave in an extraordinarily self-centered way, addicted to excitement and this creates havoc in relationships, erratic and restless, fixed-dogmatic thinking, unwilling to cooperate, anything too routine cages them in
POSITIVE MANIFESTATION TOGETHER - can enjoy independence and real communication with their partner who will also be their best friend, change the world to make it a better place through philanthropic pursuits, travel and learning together to expand their minds and learn metaphysical/spiritual truths
This is the house that shows us who we are and what we can expect when we are in relationships. It also shows us what kind of people fascinate us when we meet them. The symbols in this house will clearly show us what we are required to integrate in ourselves if we want to be in a healthy, committed relationship. And here is where the trouble begins, because it is a very misunderstood house (area) within the psyches of all of us.
Most of us are used to finding our partners out there somewhere instead of looking inside ourselves.
A couple came to me for a reading recently, and they wanted to know —Is this the person for me? What is our compatibility— These two people were in their mid- to late 30s, and had both been married before, and I asked them each this question: —Are you the person for you— Yes, I know it sounded strange, but this is the real question at the bottom of our relationship struggle that we need to ask ourselves.
The people we are extremely attracted to are the parts of ourselves that we are missing.
And the curious thing is we can be repulsed and attracted to the very same person. When we have a feeling that we are —in love,?? when we have that kind of fascination or compulsion toward an individual (and this applies whether we are gay, straight or whatever), it's a real clue that it is a projection of our own unconscious contents.
There will be an almost erotic, magnetic feeling within us when we meet someone who can carry the projection of our shadow, our anima or animus as described in the analytical psychology of Dr. Carl G. Jung.
ARIES RISING - LIBRA/or Venus in the 7th - The PEACEMAKER
+ characteristics: seeks equality/balance, diplomatic/tactful, considerate/fair to others, sociable, easygoing, able to negotiate, seeks intimacy/relatedness and partnership, cooperative, artistic talent, intellectual, refined, harmony-seeking, loving/romantic, willingly shares what one has with a partner, gracious, mediator, objective, pleasing appearance
- characteristics: lazy, devious, uses flattery to get one's way, unwilling to confront/make waves/passive-aggressive, sometimes overaggressive, sometimes uses nonaction to control, indecisive, unable to discriminate, extravagant, superficial, trying too hard to please, critical, shallow, wishy-washy, equivocating, placating, acquiescent, compliant + PLUTO/higher power - The THERAPIST
+ characteristics: seeking tranformation through merging with significant other, needing to develop one's own power and ability to change not fix each other, healing ourselves from past pain and trauma through real vulnerability, deeply committed to supporting each other??s growth/experiencing deep feelings/sharing shadow work
- characteristics: crisis through relating, chronically insecure, seeking to control and manipulate by overgiving of oneself and material things no matter what it costs, painful emotions such as possessiveness, jealousy, vindictiveness in relating, lack of trust, never getting enough from partner, suspicious, usually involved in triangles through emotional denial and underestimating their own vulnerability
POSITIVE MANIFESTATION TOGETHER - can enjoy merging/sharing power/deep emotional sexual union with a partner, plumb the depths (shadow work) together and eliminate/destroy the shameful pain/hurts in each others past, be a channel of power in the world for healing/transformation of the planet/the wounded healers
When we are projecting the 7th house onto the beloved, he or she will bring up emotion and feeling, great highs and lows, physical sensation and intense passion. It can be very magnetic, and, as Dr. Liz Greene says in the book, Relating, Living with Others on a Small Planet, we will act as if we are possessed. All logic, values, rational behavior, etc. can go out the door as we feel compelled to follow a person who has triggered this unconscious, archetypal possession. Recently my teacher at the Jung Center, Rev. J. Pittman McGehee, said in class, —If you want the projections to fall
LEO RISING - AQUARIUS/Uranus in the 7th - The HUMANITARIAN
+ characteristics: objective/detached, independent, truth seeker, genius, inventive thinker, beats his/her own drum, group, goal, friendship, freedom oriented, innovative, avant garde, open-minded, revolutionary for a cause or to impart wisdom or understanding, loyalty to truth, intelligent, needs space and allows it to others, idealist, seeks to change and reform anything stagnating progress, awakener, seeks enlightenment, progressive;
- characteristics: unpredictable, unreliable, rebellious, stubborn, aloof, cold/icelike/unfeeling, impersonal, eccentric to alienate/likes to shock people, can't commit/difficulty with intimacy, radical, controversial, disorganized, absentminded;
URANUS/higher mind - The MAGICIAN
+ characteristics: looking for someone to illuminate them, liberate/awaken them to their own intuitive knowing, needing a tremendous amount of space in a relationship, offers friendship and freedom to partner, strong beliefs about equality, honors principles and exhibits real honesty in communicating;
- characteristics: cannot bear possessiveness, willful and obstinate to rebel, complains about others?? selfishness/coldness, indifference and not acknowledging their own, refusing to acknowledge emotional pain in others, fear of abandonment strong so —I will abandon you before you abandon me— attitude, can behave in an extraordinarily self-centered way, addicted to excitement and this creates havoc in relationships, erratic and restless, fixed-dogmatic thinking, unwilling to cooperate, anything too routine cages them in;
POSITIVE MANIFESTATION TOGETHER - can enjoy independence and real communication with their partner who will also be their best friend, change the world to make it a better place through philanthropic pursuits, travel and learning together to expand their minds and learn metaphysical/spiritual truths
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