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    Venusian Scorp
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    I agree that the rising sign seems to be much more than a mask. Aspects with it, and planets and/or luminaries in the 1st house can strengthen or weaken the influence, IMO, but it seems to be part of a person's character whether they consciously realize it or not.

    I'm Taurus rising, and I have Taurus Saturn too -- they are conjunct by 2 degrees, but my Saturn is in the 12th house. That's the only Taurus in my chart, and definitely I have Taurus traits. My 1st house is intercepted by Gemini, and my Gemini moon is in my 1st house. So, I have both Taurus and Gemini influences there.

    My mother read me some of her old diary entries describing me as a young child, and I can identify the Taurus and Gemini traits MUCH more than Scorpio (I'm a Scorpio sun, Venus and Jupiter, all conjunct)).


    We have a similar house configuration. Do you mind sharing what some of those traits were? I'm curious if they were similar to mine. My mom also wrote some things down.


    Interesting! Sure! I've noticed that I often agree with things that you post -- your perspective.

    The traits that first come to mind are patience, and I'm (usually) slow to anger. I don't think that could come from other things in my chart -- it seems distinctly Taurean. I'm more practical and down to earth than my chart otherwise would make me be as well, IMO, and there is a Venusian focus (I like things that are both attractive and useful at the same time). On the negative side of Taurean traits, I can worry too much about money. I went through a phase of being more frugal than I needed to be, but even then, I wanted whatever I bought to last a long time so I wasn't cheap. I was a stickler for quality just like I am now.

    One of my mom's observations of me when I was a young child that I see as Taurean is caution. The Saturn conjunction probably enhances that. I had an adventurous side, but I didn't take a lot of physical risk. She said that at the playground I would watch the jungle gym for a while if other kids were on it. I would only climb if there were no other kids, and when I would climb, I would do it slowly and carefully, then I'd look around briefly when I was at the top, then slowly and carefully climb down.

    The Gemini interception, with my moon in Gemini, I think makes me more verbally expressive and less secretive than Taurus and Scorpio usually are. It lightens up what is otherwise a heavily fixed sign chart. When nervous, if I'm with someone I trust, I can become TOO talkative, so that's the downside. My mom noticed me coping with anxiety that way when I was small.

    Does any of that fit you?


    Aw, you sound like you were such a little sweetheart. No, in fact, the things my mom recorded about me were almost opposite. lol! I climbed everything, including the refrigerator. I wasn't shy about trying new things. I'd often be first, but I was shy about meeting new people, including kids. One thing she wrote about me when I was two was that I was good at most things I tried, but if I wasn't, immediately, I'd get frustrated and throw a tantrum. So, pretty much the opposite of patient. Your sun is the in the 7th house or 6th? Mine is in the first. That must be the drastic difference.


    Thanks! :-) Oh wow, yes, that is different with risk taking, though sometimes when I read about very opposite behaviour, there can be something in common at the root. Saturn conjunct my rising probably makes me a LOT more cautious than what is said about Taurus, generally. Your sun in the 1st house I'm sure would influence things, and any aspects with your ascendant. I have sun in the 7th house.

    I was shy about meeting new people when I was young too. I can be that way now as well, even though I rarely have bad experiences with it.

    I would get frustrated if I wasn't good at something very quickly, too. I didn't tantrum, but I would see no point in continuing to pursue whatever it was, with only a few exceptions. lol


    That's interesting. I think I agree about opposites. You post a lot less than I do, and you maintain a calm that I envy, so we're clearly not alike in temperament, but I usually agree with your point of view too. I remember that I did develop an awareness of my mortality and fear about climbing. I'm not sure of my age, but there was a period of a few months when I'd climb too high in trees and be afraid to come back down, like a kitten. I can remember psyching myself up to climb back down.

    I was and am the same about new people. Our Mars might make the difference in responses to frustration. The rising does have a lot of aspects too: square Moon, opposite Neptune, trine Pluto, sextile Mars.


    When I first joined DXP (in 2015), I posted a lot more -- lonnnnnng posts sometimes. Then I realized that many people here don't want to read paragraphs, and the site is more about entertainment than anything else, so I cut back.

    Sometimes I have an aura of calm that isn't entirely a match for how I feel inside. Are you like that at all? It's something I've read about Taurus rising. For example, one time when I was having a tooth extracted, it turned out to be a complicated procedure compared to what I normally had experienced. It took close to an hour to remove the tooth, with lots of sensations and sounds that were VERY unnerving. The dentist's assistant admired me for being so calm. She said that looking at me was helping her to feel calm. That scared me even more -- why did she need help feeling calm? Was the complication even worse than I thought? Damn, lol

    Interesting about the fear you developed for a while with climbing. In my 20s, I sometimes climbed things. I climbed scaffolding on a building I lived in one night, for example. There was work being done on the building to replace some of the balconies, and I thought it would be fun to climb to my suite, lol. My apartment was only on the 3rd floor, so that isn't impressive, and I was very careful, but that's a lot more daring than I would attempt as a child! Now for some reason I've developed a bit of a fear of heights. lol

    Yes, Mars might be an influence on frustration, I can see what you mean. I have Libra Mars conjunct Libra Uranus in the 6th house. I can be a perfectionist. I have a lot of aspects with my rising, too, so we have that in common (lots of energy going to it).


    That scaffolding thing is interesting. I used to do the same and just off brick walls. I thought it was an aries thing. I like balconies and being high up, but ladders make me nervous.
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    Cool! I get nervous about ladders too! The scaffolding felt very secure to climb.

    I can see how it would be an Aries thing, based on Aries people I've known. I'd say it's a Sag thing too. Maybe my Sag placements have an influence with the interest.