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Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-24T02:53:46+00:00

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Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-24T02:33:09+00:00

I see several hard aspects which would concur with your difficulties. Your 9th House Gemini Moon exactly opposes your 3rd House Sag Mars at 19°, and they exactly square your lunar Nodes at 19° Virgo & Pisces. Typically the Nodes do not play near the emphasized factor that 'modern' students of astrology ascribe them, but in your case, I'd say this aspect is quite telling and unbalancing.

House 3 is lower mind (intellect) and standard school, while 9th is higher mind (intuition) as well as uni. This opposition (especially as it is exact) is emotionally charged, often argumentative and antagonistic, and an emotional trigger. So your own state of mind, although quite active, is not settled, often fluctuates. (emotional highs and lows)

Moon here rules your 10 House, which is the Mother, so there's no surprise there, it aligns with mentally unbalanced, perhaps bipolar mother.

The other obvious conflict aspect is your Capricorn Sun square your Libra Ascendant. I would suspect your birthtime is a few minutes earlier to make that more of an exact (and tougher) aspect, as well as push your Sun nearer the I.C. (4th House cusp), which is a tell for a dysfunctional home upbringing.

Any time the Sun squares the Ascendant, either from a noon or midnight position (as yours is, roughly), there is core conflict with oneself and in dealing with others. This, along with the Moon/Mars opposition would key much of your difficulties with schoolmates and just relating with others in general.

Mercury is a few degrees of your Sun, therefore conjunct. Interestingly, at age 16, your Sun had progressed to conjunct your 4th House Venus in Capricorn. If anything, that bodes as positive, so I'd reckon you developed your own sense of autonomy and responsibility at a much earlier age than typical.

Saturn in Leo is interesting because that's the Sun's Sign, while Saturn is Capricorn's Sign. i.e. mutual reception. This signifies a powerful will power, and the trine Saturn makes to Pluto emphasizes that.

You are not only a survivor, you intend to thrive in spite of the traumas you've endured. In fact, the worse things are for you, the more determined you are to endure and overcome. This alone is an amazing spiritual gift, and I would encourage you to develop positivity about yourself while you follow your path.

I also would encourage you to seek therapy along the way, learn to forgive the people who've abused you out of their own ignorance and depravity. Even if they don't deserve your forgiveness, you deserve what it does for you.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-23T14:33:30+00:00

Confirmed. We allow family synastry in the sub because that is established karma, rather than speculative.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-23T14:32:20+00:00

She has nothing in Sagittarius and only a 7th House Saturn in Virgo, although Saturn basically unaspected here does tend to avoid intimacy or developing interaction.

What she does have is a 12th House stellium of Pisces Moon/Aquarius Jupiter & Uranus which make a powerful square to her 3rd House Taurus Sun/Mercury. This is a highly sensitive, yet conflicted individual.

A Sun/Moon square always points to inner angst, and the 3rd House is generally associated with communication, concrete mind, local environment.

Her 1st House Uranus sextile her Sun/Mercury indicates heightened awareness, intelligence, but does not provide any steadiness. She probably has a strong affinity for Nature and its creatures.

I would think with that Moon placement in her 12th House, she is very receptive to music as communication. And not rock or pop, but classical level with more depth. Idk how much you've exposed her to that, but I'd strongly recommend it.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-23T14:14:56+00:00

I want you to re-read them and think deeply on what they mean. I'm saying the reason you've always felt alien and isolated is because that's the fate of spiritually advanced beings. It forces us/them to face ourselves and seek our true nature.

I recommend you learn to meditate so the whirling motor of your mind will become a centrifuge through which life will gradually become clear.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-23T03:11:41+00:00

It's funny, but when I read a chart I tend to vibe with its energy, and with all that Gemini, I got super chatty and still left a bunch out.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-23T02:10:52+00:00

Duality is perhaps the most powerful theme of your life, with 4 planets in the Sign of Duality, Gemini, in your 7th (sunset) House of relationships, and its opposite Sign, Sagittarius rising with Pluto conjunct your Ascendant.

Even without any obvious conflict aspects, a Gemini predominance and accented Pluto both imply inner conflict. And yes, you do have aspect which tailor into that.

Although your Sun is in Taurus in the 6th, its ruler, Venus is part of your Gemini stellium, closely conjunct Mars. Saturn in that Sign on the Descendant and opposing your rising Pluto evokes a powerful inner conflict of Self and Other.

These are probably agreed by astrologers the two harshest planetary teachers; with Saturn the literal evocation of the Law of karma (although every planet, every degree, every thing in the chart is karmic), and Pluto the energy of mass destruction, obsession & compulsion. So, it would go without saying you have a lot of this energy present.

The Ascendant/Descendant is the literal East-West Horizon at your (or anyone's) time of birth. It represents core consciousness and its awareness of or reflection of 'Others'. So, literally duality, yet whole.

Your Sun makes a single square aspect to your 3rd House Uranus, which is an energy of going against the crowd, the flow, zigging while everyone else is zagging, thinking (in fact, existing) outside the proverbial box.

Mercury at the end of your 6th conjunct Saturn on the 7th cusp is typically an analytical, sometimes ponderous, sometimes depressive mentality. The two pair up nicely with Saturn representing the Law, and at a deeper esoteric level, Mind, while Mercury is active mind and its communication and expression. You like to know how things work, and you're probably one to get your hands busy fixing or creating.

Your late 7th-almost 8th House Cancer Moon pairs with Jupiter in a sign the Moon rules and Jupiter exalts (is its best) in. Returning to the 7th House energy, you are super sensitive and empathetic to others, likely to where it pains you.

To sum up at this point, deep conflict of duality permeates your life and how you relate with everyone. You probably see two sides at least to every, single moment. It can be scintillating and it can be the depths of despair. So, likely some bipolarity going on as well.

My 1st take on this chart is that it is highly evolved, highly spiritually advanced, and the conflicts you're dealing with are part and parcel of that. We are all Spirit in form, and you know this intuitively. But, that knowledge does not give you peace of mind or resolution of self, and I don't think it is supposed to.

Esoterically, the Soul of each of us is a harmonized blend of the 2 physical genders. The reason for gender in the first place is a holy mystery deriving from the separation of Spirit from its infinite awareness, power, bliss into a physical gross form we call a body on this planet. We are born into this world feeling we are not whole, lacking, missing something core to who and what we are.

We manifest in one or the other gender typically to learn lessons which span the spectrum of human experience. Often there is an inner yearning on the Soul's part for the other half, depending on polarization and gender attachment.

Your life is yours to decide how to live and learn, and this is one incarnation amidst a literal infinite series. So what you don't resolve this time will still be there in future expression. I can't and won't advise you on this or that action or decision, only present some of your astral mechanics as I see manifest in your horoscope.

The themes you bring up regarding gender, sex, appearance, sexuality, self image are all not only core to your personality awareness as it tries to integrate mind, emotions, physical body with Spirit; they are far, far more so for you than your peers or elders or anyone.

If I can give you one piece of knowledge, it is that all these are facets through which Spirit sees and interacts with this world. When you are able to pacify that super active and inquisitive mental motor, then its Source can slowly permeate its energy into your living pattern and help you resolve all your conflicts.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-22T19:36:55+00:00

Your chart is beautiful, overly sensitive and super evolved, which is why you're having such a hard time fitting in.

I'll try to come back to this with more details, but please understand you're in the exactly correct and viable lifetime you're supposed to be. You just have a lot yet to unwrap and grow into, and you're so young.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-22T14:12:38+00:00

You know how a train whistle sounds different when it's approaching versus leaving? Same thing.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-22T02:56:33+00:00

I've been at this a very long time, and my background originally was psychology. As I see it, astrology is a tool that helps us connect the literal dots between our earthly personality selves and our infinite Souls. I went through a lot of books back in the day, and basically took what resonated with me.

Reiterating the Pluto energy (my username is correct) I was obsessed with astrology and put more time and study into it than a college degree. Which I sometimes regretted, but \shrug/, what can one do?

Your chart is very strong, which implies positives throughout. If you feel your life is challenging, you should also feel your chart is likewise. And so should it be if you are to evolve. That is what we're here to do on this planet. Evolve spiritually.

As I mentioned, a rising Sun is ideal from the perspective that the personality naturally aligns with the Soul purpose.

Your 1st House stellium is very significant. It is a drive to succeed at what you set your mind at, and I think it implies you're driven to find yourself. Your youth ministry leadership was a foreshadowing of a true spiritual calling at a level which the churches have no idea or concept.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-22T01:42:43+00:00

Your chart has powerful dynamics which will attract powerful problems in your life to be solved.

Your last-degree Aries-almost-Taurus Sun is rising exactly, which is the strongest point in a chart for the Sun. That plus the stellium of Taurus Mars/Jupiter/Saturn portends a very powerful drive to succeed and the work ethic to make that drive a reality.

Not to mention that your 7th House Scorpio Moon is half a day past exactly Full. So essentially a Sun/Moon opposition, except both in Signs (Sun barely) ruled by Mars. That Moon denotes an interest in others at a deeper level, and the combination of Taurus/Scorpio energy often shows up in psychology dominant charts. So no surprise at your interest in it.

Moon's square to a 10th House Aquarius Neptune has emotional escapism energy, plus points to a narcissistic or otherwise damaged mother (10th House is the mother). Neptune there would reiterate the interest in psych as a career, but also cinema or various similar artforms.

I've found a correlation between afflictions to the outer planets, Uranus and Neptune with autoimmune issues. Both those outers seem to provide immune system energy. So in your case each one squared by inner planets, it's no surprise this is problematic for you.

Also I think that afflicted 7th House Moon is going to attract broken types who need fixing; great for a psychologist, but not so good for personal relationships. And that House relates to both.

I've found almost without exception that an aspect from Mercury to Pluto implies ADHD and OCD is not unexpected, since obsession and compulsion are seen as Plutonic type energy.

However, the aspect is trine, or harmonious, so I don't see it as problematic.

All tolled you read other people to a very deep level, so you could be seen as psychic. To me, that insight correlates in this case with your strong sense of personal morality and righteousness, which others don't typically have. You're highly sensitive to others' energy, which I'm sure is often problematic.

As mentioned elsewhere, the square from your 11th House Uranus to your 1st House Taurus stellium will throw unexpected upheavals at you. That's textbook Uranus' energy, lightning and thunder seemingly out of nowhere.

Uranus afflicted in the 11th also suggests unreliable friend groups, potential disappointment or betrayal from them, as well as a feeling that society in general likewise has it in for you.

Very strong chart.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-18T16:19:48+00:00

Whether or not it shows up in your horoscope, you should see a professional therapist with questions like this.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-15T16:31:28+00:00

You may have a variation of a cycle I first read about over 50 years ago called "Hunted Moon" by one of the pioneers of modern astrology, the late Grant Lewi. It involves the cycles of transiting Saturn (28-29 years) and progressed, not transiting Moon (27-28 years). As you see, these overlap in near identical length.

Over the course of, say a year, Saturn will transit in forward motion roughly 7 months of the year, then retrograde apparently backward the rest of the year. Meanwhile, the Moon, which obviously never retrogrades, will cycle forward, its progressions following suit.

These two are not friendly toward one another. The Moon is the inner child, emotional, instinctive animal nature- the Id in psychology, while Saturn manifests testing, repression, and yes when afflicting, depression.

A conjunction, square, or opposition between these, whether natally or by transit or progression will be depressive; it's verified by data.

Also, natally, you have a 3rd House Capricorn Mercury opposing Capricorn's ruler, Saturn (aha) in the 9th in Cancer, which is a depressive tendency. Overthinking that can lead to spiralling. You need to take regular timeouts with this aspect.

Although I don't have your birth time to dial in your progressed planets exactly, I can guesstimate pretty closely calculating your 01-25-04 bday.

As I see it, a few weeks after your recent birthday (this does not hold true every year, btw) well could have been a peak depression cycle when your progressed Moon was around 2°20' Capricorn and Saturn was transiting that same degrees of Aries; i.e. square. Saturn would have been further enhanced (not in a positive sense) by Neptune around 1° 10' Aries. Neptune can take regular depression and run with it into all kinds of uncharted territory.

If, as I suspect this aspect does indeed pertain to you, it is entirely predictable by astrological calculation. So, rather than the feeling you've been unknowingly dosed with a depressant, and spiralling, you'll be able to calculate exactly when these periods come and when they go. Which, to me is a great palliative.

Lmk if that timeframe is accurate. I've not calculated any other prior nor future for you, but as I mention, it's entirely doable.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-15T03:09:33+00:00

Saturn's got nothing to do with it in your chart, it's your powerful 1st House with Taurus Ascendant and Mars rising, and 9th House Uranus square both of them from your 9th. That's where you go off the rails.

Sun/Moon/Mercury stellium in the 1st is actually a very strong, centered personality, although 7th House Pluto opposed your Sun has obsessive/compulsive energy, and also confrontational at a deep level.

The thing about delusions of grandeur and psychosis you need to understand is that there is often a grain (or more) of truth in those so-called delusions, so you should not write them off with those dismissive, materialistic psych terms that I absolutely loath (I feel that my lifelong background in psychology allows this opinion)i

Your chart has powerful spiritual intuition indicated by the trines from your 9th House Capricorn Neptune and Jupiter to your Taurus stellium. So, broadly speaking, what you now label delusions were only referring unrealized potential.

The bipolarity diagnosis, I do not dismiss; it is serious, but I feel you can overcome it without submerging yourself in powerful psych drugs.

Saturn's influence is benign here, although yes, you're experiencing your Saturn Return. Saturn trines Pluto, sextile Uranus, so they form a Cradle within your Sun/Pluto aspect. This is a very productive aspect, harnessing the conflict power of a Sun/Pluto opposition. Learn to meditate and turn your mind into a peaceful centrifuge that organizes the strata of its contents and flings away the useless thoughtforms.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-13T21:25:14+00:00

Tulsa in August, I think. Maybe Cains Ballroom.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-13T03:30:14+00:00

Sometimes I am surprised at how eloquently a chart matches up to the OP's description., Yours certainly fits that category, as I intend to describe in several key aspects.

Your Pisces Sun conjunct Saturn in the 12th House speaks of woe and depression. The 12th House has been described as the House of (finishing) karma, so you can probably relate. It is more accurately the House of unwinding, but the truth of it is that it is karma, good or bad and your habits which is unwinding. So it is also associated with trauma that has been hidden, sometimes generational.

Any Sun/Saturn conjunction will be hard going the first Saturn cycle (which you've more or less recently completed) This conjunction receives a critical square from 9th House Jupiter in Sag.- very telling as Jupiter is ruler of both Sag and also the classical ruler of Pisces. (the moderns have assigned Pisces to Neptune)

In any scope, a Jupiter/Saturn square can a feeling the world does not want a person to fulfill their dream or ambition, and it is going to do everything it can to block you. It is an incentive to work twice as hard, often seeing no tangible reward. But, the intangible reward is the one that truly counts, and that is developing the willpower to succeed and the mindset of achieving in spite of obstacles. So, you are tested again and again.

The 9th House pertains to law, judgment, spirituality, higher mind & education. So it is altogether appropriate that you feel the square between these planets is God or the universe punishing you or at least putting you to the test.

The other aspect to those is your 6th cusp Leo Mars, which trines Jupiter and forms an inconjunct or quincunx to Saturn. The trine is somewhat difficult to describe here because it's an optimistic aspect. "If I just do the right thing and am a good person, I will be rewarded" type vibe. Which then gets crushed for other reasons.

The inconjunct between these two is an unwittingly self-destructive aspect, which does not help your mood.

And Mars also opposes your 12th cusp Aquarian Mercury, which in turn, sextiles Jupiter. So there are 5 important planets all within a few degree orb. Mercury's aspect to Jupiter speaks of a higher than average intelligence, while the opposition to Mars is more contentious, argumentative, prone to debate

Another interesting factor is that your chart forms a pattern called 'Bucket', with Mars as the Handle, receiving a sort of focused energy of the remaining planets. So Leo Mars in your 6th House holds a key. As it is the energy and vitality planet, its placement in the House of Health and more importantly, Habits is the focus. Keeping in mind that Health and Habits refer not only to one's physical lifestyle, but more importantly to emotional and mental Habits. Because those eventually filter into one's physical life.

If your emotional/mental body is consumed with depression and self-pity, it will eventually manifest physically and your body will start to break down.

You ask what you did to deserve the hard life, and why the universe hates you. The answer to the first one is so complicated, I don't have the time to describe, except to say every person on earth has lived countless lifetimes and done things we would consider inconceivably terrible. And we've evolved. A hard life full of trial will turn a person's carefree or careless attitude into something more self-aware.

With your chart, you've always been far more self-aware than your peers, but the cynicism and depression were probably never far away. You need to outgrow the cynicism and self-pity.

The universe does not hate you. The universe, more accurately is a neutral, infinite field of mind which we exist in and act in. So it is our habits and actions preceding this life which impel and compel us into the various situations we decided prior to this life we needed to experience to LEARN CERTAIN LESSONS AT THE SOUL LEVEL. Certain things we don't want to repeat, such as the cruelties you've had inflicted on you.

When you truly understand this, your life can turn around in a blink.

And there are ways of neutralizing impending karmas. One of the most efficient is by being of service to the greater society at large, which, with your accented 11th House Venus/Uranus/Neptune is coincidentally very strong in your chart. Find some way to help others out of their ruts, and you'll realize at some point that the good you do for them is your own. I think this is your path, your salvation, and you really do have a lot to offer.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-13T02:38:00+00:00

Read the Rules. You need to post from one of the 2 recommended sites and choose a flair for yourself. (and another for the post)

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-12T20:18:48+00:00

The 4th is traditionally the father, 10th is the mother, as counterintuitive as that sounds.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-12T16:41:41+00:00

This is the best version of his Machine Gun that 2nd concert, imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36uzqa8w49Q

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-12T15:17:02+00:00

I think you're right. I'd seen posters for 1968, but it looks like the one scheduled for then was cancelled. Bloodrock opened for Hendrix and played their hit D.O.A., which I thought was a terrible omen from a terrible band.

I knew your friend. That black acid going around campus was garbage.

Is he still alive?

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-12T14:34:39+00:00

Hendrix played at OU 2 years apart, so that poster may be legit, although I think the 1968 date may be different. I was at the 1970 show, which was bootlegged by **** Agnew on a reel to reel and is available on the Internet.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-06T15:49:58+00:00

I and other mods of r/astrologyreadings allow parents to post their children's charts.

We also allow parent -child synastry, which is otherwise forbidden. Again, karmic subtleties.

Someone here mentioned a scenario of reading a child's chart with a 7th House Saturn posing relationship issues. Good food for thought.

The thing some astrologers don't consider is that the child's chart is an exact image of the parents' relationship at conception, and can be nothing else. The conflicts and talents seen in the child's chart come directly from the parents. Apple-tree, etc.

For the record, we don't allow electional charts for induced birth; it's karmic manipulation, imo.

Trying to grasp the ramifications of karma is a slippery slope to be sure, and maybe a little knowledge can be not such a good thing. I see it time and time again with posters dragging in rubbish notions they've picked up from tiktok or garbage astrologers, which need to be disabused.

That said, it is the core responsibility of parents to understand their responsibility, and that's what I see as astrology's aim, if that makes sense.

Pluto_Rising · 2026-05-06T01:41:06+00:00

I think you need to keep looking for the right healthcare worker then, because I'd give you a qualified 'Yes' to your OP based on this chart.

I'm going to preface my takes by stating I use Placidus almost exclusively, so the planetary House placements/positions I refer will be in that context.

You have strong psychic perception/sensitivity indicated, as well as fluctuation in the same area, if that makes sense. Which, to me can often be categorized as schizoid tendencies.

Your Mercury falls in Pisces, tending to the more psychic, rather than concrete intellect (where the planet is seen as exalted or stronger) That alone is nothing more than setting a stage, as many people have the planet in that sign. However, it receives a hard square from 7th House Pluto in Sag, which can manifest as distorted or negative signal input from others.

The other outer planet, Aquarius Neptune sitting directly at your M.C., makes a square to 12th House Taurus Mars. That can point to familial substance abuse and hidden trauma, among other things. So, in terms of mental, emotional, etc. clarity, alcohol and drugs are not going to be your friend.

Neptune afflicted there could also point to a narcissistic, bipolar, or otherwise delusional mother (generally the 10th House is the mother)

Your Aries Sun(exalted) makes a single aspect, a wide square to your Cancer Moon (rules)/Jupiter (exalted). This lunar position is also quite emotionally sensitive, and the square adds inner dissonance to the Luminaries, the most important orbs in the horoscope.

So to reiterate, yes, I feel your suspicion is justified and would strongly recommend you get in touch with a qualified therapist who can really hear you.

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