The Moon and Your Personality Part 2: Needs

The Moon and Your Personality Part 2: Needs

Just like a fuller understanding of personality should include persona, it is also helpful to take into account the human needs.

Noel Tyl defines needs as follows in chapter 3 of Astrology and Personality about Abraham Maslow’s need psychology:

Needs make things happen. The tensions of development reflect the meeting of needs and environmental demands within experience. The personality develops in relation to the measure of success and failure of need satisfaction.

Astrology and Personality by Noel Tyl, p. 56

According to Tyl, the Moon sign shows us a person’s needs:

For Astrology, the Moon and its Sign tells us the reigning needs of the individual. …The aspects made with the Moon further modify the need profile and the House position of the Moon determines the experiences within which the drama of need fulfillment is principally played.

Here is a list of needs for each sign from Demetra George’s Astrology and the Authentic Self book. Look for the sign that the Moon is in in your chart:

Aries—the need to be independent and develop self-awareness

Taurus—the need to be resourceful and get productive results

Gemini—the need to communicate and make mental contact with others

Cancer—the need to give and receive emotional warmth and security

Leo—the need for creative expression and appreciation by others

Virgo—the need to analyze, discriminate, and function efficiently

Libra—the need to relate to others and create harmony and balance

Scorpio—the need for deep involvements and intense transformations

Sagittarius—the need to explore and expand mental and actual horizons

Capricorn—the need for structure, organization, and discipline

Aquarius—the need to innovate, be original, and create social change

Pisces—the need to commit to a dream or ideal

Maslow’s need psychology also includes the concept of “press”, which is an environmental factor(s) that put pressure on the personality. This includes things like danger, rejection, sex, betrayal, inferiority, illness, lack of family support, and many more.

Tyl says that “aspects made by the Moon would show the press upon the personality and its work to fulfill individual needs.” (p. 60). Squares and oppositions to the Moon bring tension and difficulties. Sextiles and trines are supportive.

Tyl goes on to state that each planet in the chart represents a need of its own in service to the overarching need of the Moon:

Mercury will suggest the needs of the mind; Venus, the needs of the emotions and the aesthetic sense; Mars, the needs for energy expression; Jupiter, the religious, ethical, and opportunity needs; Saturn the needs of ambition…The synthesis of the horoscope relates the support needs to the reigning need symbolized by the Moon. [emphasis mine]

Astrology and Personality by Noel Tyl, p. 61-62

To tie this in with persona, one can think of the persona as the mask we wear when attempting to fulfill our core need when interacting with the environment.

I’d love to hear what you think about your Moon sign and if the need associated with it seems accurate to you. Feel free to message me on Instagram or email me via the contact page.

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Sources:

Astrology and Personality by Noel Tyl

Astrology and the Authentic Self by Demetra George

Also see this post of mine with more information about the history of needs in personality types.

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Mercury in Taurus in the Personality

Mercury in Taurus in the Personality

A natal chart in astrology is about far more than one’s personality type, but looking at it can help give us insight about our type and show us more specifically how we are one-sided.

The location of Mercury in the chart is an important placement when considering personality. Mercury is the fastest planet in the solar system and goes into nooks and crannies that the other planets aren’t able to. The Mercury archetype is a messenger and correlates to that which helps us connect the dots and gives us those aha moments.

According to Jungian analyst and astrologer Liz Greene in Relating, Mercury “is a symbol of the way in which we not only perceive, but order our perceptions so that they can be comprehended and communicated.” He is primarily the symbol of the urge to understand, to integrate unconscious motive with conscious recognition.”

Greene also writes: “Mercury’s sign position at birth suggests the way in which the individual learns, how he perceives and categorises or digests what he learns…”

Currently Mercury is in Taurus, so my friend Joni McMillan and I made a video on our Typestrology channel about Mercury in Taurus in the personality. We use Bono, the singer in the band U2, as a celebrity example. Joni has Mercury in Taurus and talks about her personal experience with this placement. (We are newbies at making videos and have been shy about publicizing them, so bear with us as we continue to get better at this. Writing has always been my thing but I figure it’s time to try and get a feel for making videos. Feel free to subscribe to the channel if you’d like).

Taurus is a feminine, fixed, earth sign ruled by Venus. Mercury here is smooth, sturdy, productive, earthy, sensual, practical, and reliable. Because Taurus is a fixed sign, Mercury here tends to speak more slowly and deliberately. Taurus is methodical and measured and also stubborn, yet loyal and reliable. he Taurus symbol is the bull. The bull is slow to get started but once it does, it has great endurance. Taurus, because of its ruler Venus, has a focus on the arts, nature, the environment, food, tactile things, gardening, and/or singing. Mercurial activities are done in this context when someone has Mercury in Taurus in their chart.

For someone with Mercury in Taurus, I think it would be interesting to explore which of the four Beebe personality archetypes it matches up to: Hero, Parent, Child, and Anima/Animus. In Bono’s case, he is widely considered to have ENFJ tendencies. This makes introverted intuition (Ni) his parent function. It’s quite possible to see how Mercury in Taurus for him is used to “parent” others through his singing and philanthropic business activities (Mercury also represents business activities).

Do you have Mercury in Taurus? If so I’d love to hear what it has been like for you.

Sources:

Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet by Liz Greene

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Astrology and Personality Types

Astrology and Personality Types

As of this writing there are 56 posts on this blog focused on Jungian personality typology, with a heavy emphasis on John Beebe’s archetypal model. This is a topic I will continue to blog about.

Beginning next week I will start adding posts about astrology and personality types into the mix. This recent Instagram post of mine gives you an idea of what some of those posts will be like (please feel free to follow me on Instagram).

Part of what I want to explore is to see how the planet archetypes in one’s birth chart might match up with the archetypes in Beebe’s personality type model.

I recently completed the year two certification course in Advanced Hellenistic Astrology at Nightlight Astrology, so I feel inclined now to start writing a bit about astrology. In addition to giving readings for people, I want to use my astrological knowledge to enhance my Jungian studies. Insights from astrology can help us more specifically address and become more conscious of the one-sidedness that our personality types make us aware of. Jung used astrology with his clients, as Liz Greene writes about in Jung’s Studies on Astrology.

Speaking of Liz Greene I will draw heavily upon her writings in the astrology and personality posts. She is a Jungian analyst, astrologer, and an academic with a PhD. In time you will probably see her work referenced here as often as I have cited John Beebe’s.

As is always this case with my blog posts here, it is not about me having answers, but exploring and combining the ideas from Jung, Beebe, Greene, and others. I think we need their insights more than ever these days. Thanks for reading!

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Personality types and the rising sign in astrology

To help you narrow in on what your personality type is, or to start getting more specifics about your personality type and how to work with it, your natal chart in astrology can help give this kind of insight.

John Beebe’s personality type model, which I’ve written several posts about, works especially well with astrology because his model is archetypal.

Your personality type shows you where you are one-sided. The chart gives context and points to the areas of life where that one-sided tendency occurs. It can also help you understand why, for example, your third function seems stronger to you than it does for others you know with that same personality type.

Astrology is nuanced and the archetypes are multi-valent, so it isn’t as simple as saying, “You have four planets in Taurus! You must be an ESFP!” The alchemy between personality types and astrology goes deeper than that.

When looking at a chart from the perspective of personality, the first thing to look at is the rising sign, which is the first of the 12 houses on the zodiacal wheel of your chart. The rising sign is what was rising in the east at the moment of your birth.

The rising sign, and the planet that rules it, is the one part of the chart that is personal and all about you. The other 11 houses are areas of life and much of what is there is outside you.

Ancient astrologers called the rising sign the “helm.” The ruler (or host) of rising was described as like a helmsman. They viewed life as like a journey across the sea and the helmsman helps steer the ship.

There are 12 zodiac signs and therefore 12 rising signs. There are 12 different versions of each rising sign when you take into account the location of the example, Virgo rising with helmsman Mercury in the 1st house. Virgo rising with Mercury in the 2nd house. And so on. So only 1 out of every 144 people would have the same rising sign combination as you.

As an astrologer one of the first things I look at is the rising sign and location of the helmsman. Right away that tells you some of the characteristics of the person and the area of life that is a focus for them.

I’ll have some examples in upcoming posts. Stay tuned.

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The Sacred Language of Personality Types

The Sacred Language of Personality Types

A way that personality typology can be unhelpful, and maybe even harmful, is the temptation to have an excessive focus on the externals of traits and behaviors.

In his book Compass of the Soul, John Giannini, who was a Jungian analyst, mentions the Celtic poet John O’Donohue, who wrote that “if we become addicted to the external, our interiority will haunt us…To be wholesome, we must remain truthful to our vulnerable complexity.”

Giannini reflects on O’Donohue’s insights by saying:

Since typology is so easily useful as a practical system, we can “become addicted to the external,” to a stereotypical language of traits. So most typologists treat the types as purely outer behaviors and cognitive traits. However, typology is also a sacred language that describes “our vulnerable complexity,” and encompasses a far-reaching theory with its multiplicities of human understanding and complex behaviors.

Compass of the Soul by John L. Giannini, p. 3

The sacred language of type, and acknowledgement of the vulnerable complexity of the psyche, tends to be glaringly absent from much of the online discussion about type, particularly the infotainment variety. The infotainment is fun, and I get a good laugh out of it sometimes. But type has something more to offer as well.

It’s reductionist to try to quickly fit a person into a type label. A typologist should interact with the person, ideally over a period of time. It’s a process and the language is sacred. A typologist should never forget the vulnerable complexity of the person before them.

Even when there is clarity between the two people that, say, ENTP is the best fit type, the ENTP-ness will be unique to that person and manifest a bit differently from others who have that same type.

Each type has imbalances between the dominant function and the inferior function. One way to address that imbalance in a way customized to that person is to use the sacred language of astrology and take a look at the person’s birth chart. I now have an offering on my Services page for a 30 minute consultation about your personality type using the language of your astrology chart.

I have been formally studying astrology the past two years and have a certification (all described on my Services page). In the weeks to come you’ll see more posts on this blog that combine type with astrology. The two can work together in meaningful ways.

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Sources:

Compass of the Soul by John L. Giannini

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From Eastern Orthodox Christianity to Jungian psychology and Hellenistic Astrology: my debut as a podcast guest

From Eastern Orthodox Christianity to Jungian psychology and Hellenistic Astrology: my debut as a podcast guest

My friend Sam Torode, who is an author and an artist, interviewed me for his Living From the Soul podcast. My podcast debut!

Per his description: “First, they talk about their shared history joining the Eastern Orthodox Church in early adulthood, and their reasons for leaving. They discuss the paradigm shift from a literal reading of religious language to a metaphorical, symbolic understanding. Anita then delves into Jungian psychology, the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator, and Hellenistic astrology. This quote from Jason E. Smith summarizes her theme: “Religious institutions should not be seen as repositories of truth, but instead as opportunities for the individual’s own experiments in truth.”

You can find the podcast on your favorite podcast platform, such as Spotify or Apple podcast. Or you can listen to the YouTube version.

The show notes are below, which have links to the books, resources, and people I discussed.

Show notes:

Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas

Religious But Not Religious by Jason E. Smith

Nate Craddock (see especially his interview on the Astrology Podcast about Christianity and astrology)

James Hillman and the Peaks and Vales essay is from Senex and Puer

James Hollis

CG Jung

Nightlight Astrology classes and YouTube channel by Acyuta-bhava Das (Adam Elenbaas)

As for the personality typology, you can find many posts about that here on this blog, of course.

We didn’t get around to mentioning it on the podcast, but there is a Facebook group called Exodoxy for people who are former Eastern Orthodox Christians, or current members with one foot firmly out the door. It’s a private place to discuss our past struggles with the church and our current spiritual and philosophical interests. If you meet the criteria (there are a series of questions you have to answer to gain admittance to the group) you are welcome to join.

And, finally, please check out Sam’s books. I especially like Everyday Emerson, Living From the Soul, his translation and paraphrase of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and his translation and paraphrase of Tao Te Ching.

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On astrology, therapy, animals, and the blessings of the broken parts

You know, people come to therapy really for blessing. Not so much to fix what’s broken, as to get what’s broken blessed. – James Hillman

Dream Animals, page 2

There is so much emphasis on “fixing” in our culture.

We think we are broken and need fixing. Or we put pressure on ourselves to help others solve their problems or give them “actionable takeaways” (ugh, I hate that phrase).

It’s easy to forget that feeling seen by another person is sometimes the greatest gift they can give us.

The past five years of Jungian analysis has helped me discover ways to listen to and feel seen by my soul, because a Jungian analysis isn’t about fixing. You aren’t “in treatment.” As Hillman wrote about in The Soul’s Code, one’s “symptoms” can sometimes point you in the direction of your calling; if you listen to the symptoms carefully, they can show you what it is your soul would rather attend to.

Since starting to study ancient astrology a year ago, I’ve discovered that an astrologer can bless someone simply by showing them the breathtakingly intricate ways that they are seen by the cosmos in their birth chart. It helps flip one’s inner narrative from marinating in regrets about certain past events to compassion towards self and others. As Hillman said at an astrology conference in 1997, ” The astrologer reverts events to their sources in the heavens, thereby taking the person out of circumstances and into heaven. Hence the revelatory feelings when a striking interpretation is made. Heaven’s gates open and a connection made between the two spheres.”

And let’s not forget the blessings of animals! The Hillman quote at the beginning of the post was from the book Dream Animals, in which Hillman says blessing by the animal occurs when they wake up our imagination when see them in nature. And when they enter our dreams. He also said that pets were the first psychoanalysts and make us aware of ourselves. I also can’t help but add that astrology reminds us of the blessings of animals, too, as several of the zodiac signs are animal symbols. “The planets are largely stabled among beasts,” as Hillman said.

Yesterday, while getting ready to write the draft of this post, the Lutheran benediction that I heard hundreds of times during childhood and early adulthood came to mind. I was able to recite it without difficulty and it goes something like this:

May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you… and give you peace.

I put ellipses in there because I seem to remember the pastor pausing before saying those final four words. Then afterwards the pastor made the sign of the cross, not by touching his or her forehead and chest with their fingers, but with their arm extended from their body, Blessings aren’t meant to be kept clutched to ourselves.

Of course it’s not just a pet, priest, therapist, astrologer, or God that dispenses blessings. All of us can lift up our countenances upon each other and give each other peace.

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What sermons and horoscopes have in common

What sermons and horoscopes have in common

The best of sermons afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. The same can be said of horoscopes. Even when they don’t meet this high ideal, they can remind us of heaven.

There a line that I can still recall from a sermon I heard over 30 years ago, back when I was in college.

The Lutheran pastor began the sermon in a voice as loud as thunder: “Unfulfilled desires prove the existence of heaven.” He was paraphrasing C.S. Lewis and went on to explain that if a desire exists, the fulfillment of that desire must also exist.

My imagination thrilled at this and it fed my soul. Out of the many hundreds of sermons I would go on to hear in the years to come, this is the only line I remember out of all those sermons.

Zoom ahead 30+ years to today, and it is astrology and horoscopes that I partake of regularly. I recently listened to an audio of James Hillman, who was an archetypal Jungian psychologist. It is a one hour talk he gave at an astrology conference and he quoted Paracelsus:

Hillman kept repeating the words “Heaven retains.” He said he takes those two words quite literally. When I heard that I had the same thrill as I did 30+ years ago when listening to that sermon,

You only get a half truth or partial understanding of others or yourself if you neglect heaven. The ultimate meaning of heaven is unknown. It is defined simply as the place beyond the sky, the unknown. It connotes the divine.

Hillman says: “Paracelsus is insisting on the invisible path of our lives. This half is not directly graspable by any natural methods of science, any kind of naturalistic or mundane thinking or understanding. […] We humans, aware that we only live in half truths, and see only through a glass darkly, turn to astrology to find a way back to heaven, to the invisible source of our bodies and maladies.”

Horoscopes and sermons can point us to heaven because it is heaven that makes them possible. It is the arrangement of the planets in the sky during a particular day or period of time that serves up the topics an astrologer must address when writing a horoscope.

For many pastors and priests, it is a lectionary, based on the church calendar, that provides the scripture reading the sermon must address.

Of course there is always the danger that a sermon or horoscope can become too prescriptive, too mired in literalism and fundamentalism. One must choose one’s purveyors of sermons and horoscopes wisely.

In my years of listening to sermons, I noticed that, even when following a lectionary, a pastor or priest would still tend to repeat the same themes over and over again, as if it was the lesson they needed to hear. This can happen to astrologers too. Jung said that teachers, ultimately, don’t teach their subject. They teach themselves (i.e. the teacher is the subject).

Astrologer Adam Elenbaas also steers us away from a literal view:

“I find that thinking too much about when to do stuff with astrology generally gets in the way. If you meditate on something in your heart, and  […] have a good intention that’s not going to harm anyone … then you [should] just go with what feels right.

Part of astrology is trying to get us off the training wheels of astrology. That’s a big part of astrology, actually. We all have the inherent sense of divine timing built into us.”

Ultimately, true healing and comes from within, and not from horoscopes and sermons. But the astrologer and the pastor/priest can help transport us out of our circumstances by providing insights that remind us of what is above. Then we can find a way back to heaven, where the fulfillment of our desires, and comfort for our afflictions, awaits.

Sources:

Adam Elenbaas 9/15/19 video.

RIP Rev. Jerry Knoche

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If Gary Vee was an astrologer: his defense of sun sign horoscopes (plus his August 2019 horoscopes)

If Gary Vee was an astrologer: his defense of sun sign horoscopes (plus his August 2019 horoscopes)

If Gary Vaynerchuk was an astrologer, here is what his August horoscopes might say, and how he might defend sun sign horoscopes:

Astrology is a gateway drug to self-awareness.

People kept saying to me, “Gary, you talk all the time about self-awareness. But how do I get more self-awareness? You never talk about that.”

Self-awareness is wired into my DNA, and I was perfectly parented, so it’s hard for me to reverse engineer and explain it to you. I have tremendous empathy for people that need outside help with gaining more self-awareness.

That’s why I hired a team of astrologers here at VaynerMedia, to help me create astrology content for you, because it’s a great practical tool to help you get more self-awareness. One of those astrologers is also studying my transits that will happen years and decades from now to help me figure out when I can buy the New York Jets. I’m super pumped.

Before I share my August horoscopes with you, I want to address complaints I get in my DMs that say I say the same things all the time in horoscopes.

People want fancy when they aren’t even following the basic advice in my sun sign horoscopes.

Astrology begins and ends with the sun. The end.

I’m all about process. So is the sun.

The sun is like the heart and the planets are like the blood. They circulate to and from the sun. They willingly return to the sun whey they need to refuel. They even move faster when they are near the sun because they are energized by the sun and experience a rebirth. The sun also takes on the qualities of those planets that are under its beams.

At VaynerMedia we have a Chief Heart Officer, so I love how the sun symbolizes the heart. I always want our company culture to reflect this: employees willingly seeking out the heart/sun, without fear, when they need to refuel. And the two-way street effect of the heart/sun taking on the qualities of the employees and their ideas.

Here are my August horoscopes:

My fellow Scorpios, you can crush it at work or your life purpose this month, because of the new moon in your tenth house. Make this the month that finding happiness in what you do every day becomes imperative.

Libras, the new moon is in your 11th house, the place of friends and allies, so you might meet new people. I’m pumped for you. Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.

Virgos, the new moon is in 12th house of Leo and connects to Uranus in the 9th house. If you’re not careful you could face some dark places. But remember you only get to play this game one time … one life. Gratitude will bring sunshine to your heart even on dark days.

Leos, you have a square to Uranus going on, landing in the first house. Something new is beginning in your life. But have perspective about change. A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.

My Cancer friends, the new moon is in your second house of income and expenses. Don’t get distracted with worry about what goes on with money this month, because you are in control of the one asset that we all care the most about and that is time.

Geminis, you’re starting something new in your immediate environment this month because of the square to Uranus in the third house. All your ideas may be solid or even good, but you have to actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.

Taurus, there’s a new moon in your fourth house, lots of focus on home and family. There’s a square to Uranus in your first house there to remind you that there’s no reason to do s**t you hate. NONE.

Aries, the emphasis in on your fifth house of good fortune, romance, beauty, sports, children. There’s a square to Uranus in your second house of finances. Have fun this month, but stop whining, and start hustling.

Pisces, Venus and the new moon are in a square with Uranus between the sixth and third houses. The sixth house is the in between world that isn’t always fun. This house is about hard work, suffering, sickness. I love the sixth house. That’s because I weirdly love losing more than winning. If you feel stuck in this in between place, when it all comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.

Aquarius, there is a huge focus on your seventh house of marriage and relationships. Venus square to Uranus means relationship issues could pop up. One of the biggest things for you to remember this month is you should always be the bigger person in any situation. Don’t value money over family and happiness.

Capicorns,a big emphasis on your eighth house this month, you might face debts, karma, things you have to face that you’ve been in denial about. Turn it into positivity. Rise to the challenge. Accept that the climb might be the best part of the whole thing.

Sagittarius, Uranus is in your sixth house of Taurus, with a square to the 9th house of religion, spirituality, higher principles, knowledge, wisdom. Sixth is the house of hard work, sickness, strife, service. Like I said before, I love the sixth house. People will want to challenge you and question your ideas, and you should welcome that.

No matter what your sign is, remember: there no longer has to be a difference between who you are and what you do, in August and beyond. Stop complaining and start doing.

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If you have any interest in business and company culture, I recommend that you follow Gary Vee on YouTube and social media.

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How blending two planets can help describe your personality. Mine is Jupiter Moon. What’s yours?

How blending two planets can help describe your personality. Mine is Jupiter Moon. What’s yours?

Most people know their sun sign. Many even know their rising sign and moon. But can you quick name your rising sign’s planetary ruler? And then the sign that planet is in in your chart?

As homework for Adam Elenbaas’ Nightlight Astrology class last week, he asked us to do this and think about how those two planets blend together and influence your personality.

My rising sign is Sagittarius. Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter. In my birth chart, Jupiter is in the 8th house of Cancer. Cancer is ruled by the Moon.

Jupiter Moon is my combo. But what does that mean? I put together this graphic of the archetypes of each planet and a distillation of Richard Tarnas’ description of each planet from his wonderful book Cosmos and Psyche:

In terms of archetypes, Jupiter Moon would be a combination of Caretaker Sage.

Of course I couldn’t resist bringing the I Ching into this. By far my favorite part of Human Design is how it assigns an I Ching hexagram to each of the planets in your chart, one for both your conscious and unconscious sides.

The Wilhelm I Ching translation describes the image for each hexagram, so I’ll post a photo for each image, and only a very brief description of the hexagram:

Jupiter (conscious), Hexagram 52: Keeping Still.

“Your inner stillness and quietness allows you to gain perspective over all life’s circumstances.”

Line 2: “When attracted by outside influences it is important to remain true to your own way.”

The image per Wilhelm is of “mountains standing close together” to represent “keeping still.”

Jupiter (unconscious), Hexagram 45: Gathering Together

“Firm alignment with that which supports everyone best brings together a strong community.”

Line 5: “Being Virtuous: the virtues that attract the confidence of others. Assuming a grandiose approach to leading others, you must be practical to be effective.”

The image for “gathering together” is a lake. “If the lake gathers until it rises above the earth, there is danger of a break-through. Precautions must be taken to prevent this. […] Thus in the time of gathering together we must arm promptly to ward off the unexpected.”

Moon (conscious), Hexagram 44: Meeting Together

“In any meeting of likes or opposites, acceptance and mutual tolerance is essential.”

Line 5: “Integrating: upholding a presence that is exemplary. You align with the laws of nature and high integrity, or take advantage if you can.”

The image is of wind under the heaven, to symbolize “the influence exercised by the ruler through his commands.”

Moon (unconscious) Hexagram 53: Development (gradual progress)

“Gradual advance takes place as an organic process that brings increasing self-knowledge and experience.”

Line 3: “Scrutinizing: watching your step when engaging in all new endeavors. Finding growth potential in all situations, you draw for your inner strength.”

The image is of a tree on the mountain. “The tree on the mountain is visible from afar, and its development influences the landscape of the entire region. It does not shoot up like a swamp plant; its growth proceeds gradually. Thus also the work of influencing people can be only gradual. No sudden influence or awakening is of lasting effect.”

I’d love to hear what your two planet combo is if you care to share.

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Sources:


The I Ching by Richard Wilhelm (translator)

Adam Elenbaas’ Nightlight Astrology class.

Free Human Design for us All app. There are also free chart generators online if you want to look up what the hexagrams (called gates in Human Design) are for the planets in your chart.

Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas

Ancient Astrology by Demetra George

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