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[06 Dec 2003|11:23pm] |
Aries: Sun
Gemini: Moon
Saggitarius: Rising
Moon in Gemini
Static
When you seek others to provide an emotional escape from the isolation of your mental gymnastics, you embark on a search for the perfect person. This may kead to the frustration of never finding a single relationship that can satisfy and provide release from idealistic mental visions.
If you lack confidence in your instincts, you may fear losing one option by choosing another. Such behavior does not bring stability in relationships. Constant disillusionment can result in an endless series of relationships, a scattering of energies, and loss of identity.
It can be difficult to see inspiring influences that you can trust and aim toward. This results in a loss of confidence in your ability to be spontaneous. You may hold back in communicating, due to fearing that others will judge you; thus, you lose the benefit of others' abilities to put your ideas in a practical perspective. You may deprive yourself of the very solutions you seek by withholding the truth.
The Moon in Gemini is indicative of one who is mentally alert, keen on self-expression - perhaps a literary buff, a reporter, one who can tell a good story, is adaptable, versatile, and has a tendency to scatter his forces. Seems to move about constantly - if not physically, then certainly mentally. He can see various points of view, but doesn't often go too deeply into any one subject.
He can be perceptive, can hit at the truth in a lighthearted manner; he would make a good satirist, for he is flexible, tends to doubt the seriousness of his own acts, intentions, statements, writings. He would make an excellent humorist, but when things are not going just right, he is inclined to nervousness, brooding, self-suspicion, doubt, envy, and perhaps even a 'persecution complex'.
He is articulate, seldom at a loss for words; but he might spread himself too thin, at times becoming involved in absurd causes, attracting 'tricky' friends, flirting with the underground or passing a bit of money under the table.
He possesses a great amount of curiosity, but once he finds the answer, or thinks he has, he tends to lose interest. He does not have the staying power of the Moon in Taurus, but he is a better self-starter - more active and more likely to do something about changing an unpleasant situation.
Self-control is essential. Greater self-discipline is also necessary if the native is to be more than merely an attractive but superficial individual.
Mental stimulation enlivens your life, although, with the combined Gemini restlessness and Moon changeability, interest will wax and wane in most subjects, only to be reawakened by the next exciting set of ideas. Indeed, words, ideas, and symbolic conceptual structures may be especially attractive; and in these you can almost become lost; the danger may lie in the trap of misrepresentation, where you focus on the pointing finger instead of that toward which it is pointing.
You may favor the Gemini dimension of this astrological relationship, and there are benefits from following this. Mental development through training and constant use can help your responses to a highly stimulating environment; and any knowledge acquired can always have a potentially practical application. Rational analysis can be used for decision-making; and a higher quality of interpersonal communication may also be achieved when involving the intellect.
Yet there are also the more negative aspects of a Gemini-placed planet. Since Gemini characteristics are favored, the Moon influence receives less expression and acknowledgement. The negative attributes of an unbalanced Gemini Moon can include a lack of mental consistency, unduly influenced by every temporary attraction. Ideas and projects may suddenly be dropped due to more exciting ones appearing. The inability to sustain interest and complete things may be a weakness, both intellectually and in relationships. You insist on the freedom to change, and tend to express this by seeking variety, even to the point of being fickle with lovers and friends. You may find difficulty remaining committed to any idea or person for long; and being easily bored and restless does not help to create stability.
The Moon's influence and needs are probably denied to some degree, and yet will still filter into your life despite attempts to block them. Your emotions are changeable, and represent an unintegrated realm of your nature, one with which you prefer not to have to deal too often. Their subtle influence often distorts your reasoning faculty - even without your conscious realization - and helps to form judgements, decisions, and personal values, even if you do disguise these in apparent rationality. Begin to examine your defensive arguments, and you'll observe a deep emotional bias to them; what you are really protecting are unacknowledged lunar tendencies.
You may also attempt to rationalize away feelings, reducing their impact or covering their inner messages - avoidance tactics. Ignoring instinctive feelings can lead to expressing more compulsive and negative Gemini-type behavior, such as excessive talking, continual information acquisition, engaging in a whirl of nonstop superficial social activity, or a general scattering and dissipation of personal energies.
If this happens, there may be an unconscious attempt to convey a message of confusion derived from previously ignored feelings and instincts. Often these are related to unease with the demands of your physical and emotional natures. Your mind has become overly dominating and out of harmony with other parts of your self. To redress this imbalance, you may need to reduce involvement in any wide diversity of activities and interests, and, at least temporarily, recenter yourself; stop displacing your identity into external interests and activities.
Relationships need transforming so that you become free to experience and express whatever you really feel, perhaps by concentrating on the quality of interpersonal communication with a more select and intimate group of friends and family. Essentially, you may need to re-evoke the Moon qualities in yourself, integrate denied feelings, and allow them release and acceptance. Intellectual activity should not be used as an escape from or substitute for personal feelings. You may need to reconnect to any repressed instinctual feelings, satisfy emotional needs, and integrate your personality, rather than believe that fulfillment can be still found by repeatedly ignoring inner promptings. These needs are also an integral part of you, and require acknowledgement.
(Skye Alexander)
Your physical home isn't terribly important to you, and you may never choose to own property; you don't want to be tied down or be responsible for maintaining it. Probably you change residences more often than most people. Other than books, you don't tend to acquire many possessions, and our home may seem rather stark and uncomfortable to those whose nesting instincts are stronger.
Because the Moon is an embodiment of female energy, women usually respond to it more easily than men do. Women with this Moon placement are likely to demonstrate their Gemini characteristics readily; men sometimes project this part of themselves onto the women in their lives and are attracted to women who are friendly, communicative, intelligent, high-strung and somewhat superficial.
You are reserved in personal matters, and at times others find you cold; you are more interested in the here and now than in the past. Torn apart by changing feelings, you can spread yourself too thinly and scatter your forces; this can manifest in nervous tension. You know how to play up to others, and at times you may be too shrewd for your own good. Your restless nature is always in search of something new.
The Moon is not really comfortable in this sign, and this may lead to some conflict within the personality. The instability of Gemini plus the fluctuating nature of the Moon could make your emotions a little too changeable and your nerves jumpy. If you have something steady such as Leo or Taurus on your Sun or Ascendant, then the Gemini nervousness would just be confined to bouts of irritability. You are impatient with demanding people and cannot cope with those who are chronically ill. Your own health is not all that good but you try to ignore bouts of illness and hardly ever take time off work to recover or recuperate.
The mutability of this sign gives you a fascination for new and interesting people and places, and this leads you into the kind of job where you continually come across new people and get around from place to place. You like to be in the swing of things, and hate to miss anything that is going on. Your private life is probably less changeable, but you certainly have many friends and can usually be found on the end of a 'phone somewhere.
There is a kind of Peter Pan aspect to this Moon position which I think may also apply to the other air signs of Libra and Aquarius. Somehow you never see yourself as quite grown up, and can continue to display quite babyish behaviour when away from the outside world. The reverse side of the coin is that you do seem to keep your youthful looks and a young outlook to life far longer than most. You have creative and artistic ability, and may paint, or make ornaments or interesting clothes. You may be interested in model-making or computer techniques. You have strong dress sense and a good eye for matching up an outfit.
If given the opportunity, you learn to drive a car while you are in your teens, explore your own neighbourhood, and then travel the world as soon as you are able. Cities appeal to you more than the countryside, and you particularly enjoy visiting foreign cities. You are resourceful and can usually find a way to solve practical problems. You are probably quite good with your hands.
Oddly enough, you can suffer from depression at times, and can become so down-hearted that you feel life to be a total waste of time. One case of those feelings might be when you are suffering from exhaustion, because you have few reserves of energy to call on and you have the habut of going beyond your limit if there us work to be done.
If you are a male with this placement, your requirements in a mate would be similar. What you do not want is a partner who grunts a one-syllable reply or hides behind the newspaper or drifts off somewhere to contemplate her navel. You require a happy exchange of words, ideas and thoughts, a razzle-dazzle relationship with you as the host of your own talk show. It would be fortunate if your communicative abilities were used in your career as well, instead of being shuttled off into less productive endeavors.
People with this restless combination are often on the move both physically and mentally. They make capable salesmen, reporters, agents, and general handymen. Most of them have a variety of avocations; but if discipline is lacking, their inability to concentrate causes them to dissipate time and energy in gossip. Sometimes they display the cheerfulness and vivacity which comes from refusing to worry about problems. At other times, they exhibit these same carefree traits simply because they are unwilling to admit that real problems exist. They would rather tell a funny story and make people laugh than be drawn into weighty discussions.
The lunar Geminian has a wonderful talent for making life interesting for himself and his companions. He needs to cultivate fixity of purpose in order to focus his diverse abilities on some worthwhile goal, for he can respond as sensitively to the profundities as he does to the trivia of life.
Second Decanate (Sagittarius-Aries): It gives the tendency to be overly enthusiastic, to start with a big burst of energy and then perhaps lose interest. It gives a tremendous sense of humor. When the self-projection of energy is used for mental pioneering of trends and ideas, it is invaluable; also when used for creative endeavors of an artistic nature.
With Gemini-Libra on the Descendant, they want a lot of sentiment from partners but are not always able to give it back, as there is probably too much concentration on what they want. They can be verbally expressive when they want to be, but somehow their heart is not always in it. Even so, they are very faithful. These people believe in fidelity, and the need is great to have congenial mates (twin souls). They are much more the diplomat in their business associations than at home with their mates.
Second Decanate: This decan confers much romance and strong imaginative faculty, love of travelling and life in foreign lands. Not infrequently it conduces to high renown, and gives wealth and good fortune. Death in a foreign land is to be feared, and in some way the native is responsible for his own demise. Inheritance or legacy falls to the native. The patronage of ladies in high life may assist in forwarding the fortunes. A certain restless activity of mind, together with a rich creative power, characterises the subject of this decan.
Mental Qualities: Generous, good-tempered, just, frank, a firm friend; inclined to philosophy and religion; eclectic; not much inclined to exact science; fond of travelling. This position gives fine moral qualities. The native is frank and loyal, and his word is as good as his bond. He is affectionate, devoted and generous, and knows how to win the love of those around him; he will be ready to risk his fortune and even his life, if he judges that those in whom he takes an interest are worth it. He is extremely logical, and his benevolence is self-conscious. This position gives a taste for travelling, a love of philosophy, and the ability to succeed as a Government official, or a director. His mind is essentially materialistic, but this does not prevent him from being interested in religion or philosophy in its practical aspect.
On the physical level, Sagittarius rising may exhibit a high degree of restlessness. Sometimes there is the characteristic broad mouth or 'horsey' grin, as if it must be that large to allow room for all they have to say. Because of the expansive nature of this sign, there can be weight problems when it is placed on the Ascendant.
Since the ascendant indicates the easiest personality trait to express and can be a façade or cover-up, this easygoing optimist may hide his troubles behind a mask of breezy humor. He will never let you know if something is sa problem or that he has worries, as the last things he needs is someone else expressing concern for his welfare. His survival has to do with the assumption that good things are just around the corner. He can't stand to worry about himself, so he can't stand to have worry expressed by others. If he lets down enough to reveal his troubles, he will do so with a chuckle and humorous twist to his tale. He sees everything in a funny light, which enables him to handle difficulty. Laughter is his balm for burdens.
Nothing gets him down for long, although disappointment is very difficult to handle. He naturally encounters a lot of that due to his penchant for seeing the bright side. He may not appear to deal with what others call 'reality', as that implies a negative view. He hates being around someone who is pessimistic or overly emotional, as that pulls him down to a level of inactivity, and paralysis can set in when he is disappointed or let down. Survival ahs to do with activity and enthusiasm. Any grim view spells doom and disaster. He simply cannot deal with a negative outlook at all. A philosophical outlook enables him to survive.
He may tend to promise more than he can deliver and sometimes appear superficially glib and uncaring. He tends to overschedule his time and energy, be unrealistically hopeful and expectant where he should be wary. He may elicit 'implied' promises from others and become overly enthusiastic over matters destined to be disappointing. He is deeply sincere, always means well, and tends to assume that others adopt the same attitude. He may expect otehrs to behave according to his standards and expectations without seeing the real intentions. He may exaggerate unintentionally. He eventually must learn to set high goals and continue his optimistic course of action while incorporating realism and facts into the overall consideration of a matter.
But if Jupiter is badly aspected, or retrograde at birth, he is let down all the time. He may be afriad to set goals for fear of disappointment. He will continue to be disenchanted until he learns the lesson of applied practicality. He tends to put all his eggs in one basket. If his project is bypassed or rejected, the disappointment can paralyze him. He may ahve to learn how to set many projects in motion, knowing that some of them will work out and some will not. He then has many challenges and goals and can diversify his enthusiasm. With a practical approach to his projects and high goals, he learns that challenge is his primary motivation in life.
The Sagittarius rising is born with a sense of awe at the workings of the universe. He may be religious in the traditional sense or 'tuned in' on a philosophical level. He is a lover of nature and the natural order of things. He may tune in to his basic spiritual nature by taking long walks in the woods instead of sitting in a church; but his feelings about a beautiful sunset over the water or falling stars over a beach can make his heart swell to the bursting point. His sense of the spiritual side of life is connected to the life force in a leaf or flower as well as the breathing life force of people and animals. He can encourage others to see things in the light of the spirit through his eternal optimism. His ability to superimpose his ideals onto practical everyday matters enables him to be truly free, noble, and unfettered.
He naturally loves people and animals. The magnanimous, generous part of him has a hard time saying 'no'. He may not know any limitations. Holidays are wonderful times of celebrations, as he loves to share his good fortune with anyone who responds to his invitation. He is thrilled by inviting people who may have no place to go to his holiday feast. He collects 'strays' whether those strays are people or animals. He can always make room for one more; he can't stand the thought of anyone going hungry. He reacts strongly to people in need, but can sometimes devote himself to losing causes. His generosity may not have a discriminating quality, but he expresses great nobility of heart.
Honesty is something that is an inborn trait. He would never steal anything, and is therefor extremely trusting of others. He is wiling to give the shirt off his back if it is needed. Next to Cancer rising, he can be the biggest rescuer in the zodiac. In terms of Transactional Analysis, the rescue triangle describes the eternal triangle lived by one with this rising sign. The rescuer rescues the victim, who turns persecutor and persecutes the rescuer. After one with Sagittarius rising has been through this process over and over again, he finally learns to help people to help themselves by teaching them rather than rescuing them.
It is difficult for one with this rising sign to understand man's inhumanity to man. He assumes that everyone will love each other. He can be exceptionally disappointed when his friends dislike each other. It can sadden him to see intolerance of any kind. He may become quite vehement in expressing his feelings about how people should feel. He cannot stand any mistreatment of children or animals. He is quite convincing when he expects someone to take care as much as he does. It is hard to show disinterest in the face of his enthusiasm. He may not be able to tolerate apathy on the part of others. He loses sight of ugliness in his search for a better and truer way of life. He simply overlooks any sordid part of existence.
The exceptional need for a challenge can cause difficulty in personal relationships until he learns what to look for in another person. He is often attrated to the very worst kind of person for him, simply because he can't resist someone who is out of reach. If a person is about to get away, the lure may be too much to resist. He is only interested in someone who intrigues him. Although he looks for quick intelligence in another person, he can mistake a quick wit and a fast talker for the true intellectual companion he wants. Once he conquers that possibly flighty, insincere person, he can become quickly disenchanted. It takes a most stimulating, unusual person to hold his interest for a long period of time. It is particularly important for one with this ascendant to know what he needs in relationships before he is committed. He can be terribly unhappy with the wrong person, because he cannot tolerate a situation that is limiting. He'll give you the shirt off his back, but he'll never get over the hurt of being used. Naturally, he can be taken advantage of by many unethical people because of his trusting, open personality. He loves to be generous and doesn't need many thanks - but he needs to find worthy recipients.
The only way to 'capture' the person with this cheerful personality is to constantly tell him he's free to do anything he wants to do. If he thinks someone has plans that don't include him, his curiosity may get the best of him. He won't be able to resist checking out the situation to be sure he isn't missing anything terrific. He's intrigued by what makes people tick. He enjoys the study of human nature almost as much as nature itself. He is a natural explorer, loving to go into uncharted territory.
Truth-telling is such a part of his nature that he may overstep the bounds and be brutally frank. He can sometimes have 'foot-in-mouth' disease. He may never realize he's wounded someone with the bluntness of his comments, so he may not try to rectify the mistake when he's said or done something less than tactful. He can infuriate others by never explaining his actions; he just expects that they should undestand his motivation. He feels friendship means overlooking any action to understand that his good heart lies behind it. He expects philosophical behavior on the part of others as well. Without so much as a backward glance, he'll leave even a long-time friend or loved one if any limitations or restrictions are put on a relationship. But as long as he's given free rein, his loyalty to a friend is forever. He rarely loses anyone from his life. Somehow he is forgiven even unforgivable behavior at times. He loves to dance, yet sometimes stumbles over his own two feet. He does everything with wild abandon and can outlast almost everyone around.
Since the ascendant describes the early decisions about survival, the person with Sagittarius rising needs new horizons to motivate him. He must find his own ways to be excited about the daily, humdrum tasks of living. He has a hard time focusing on tasks at hand unless he can create some kind of unusual excitement in the process, which is the fuel he eneds for energy. He can appear scattered, undirected, and impractical, yet he accomplishes more than most in his own philosophical kind of way. He may want to go around in circles, staying in a bit of a rut for fear that if he does everything too soon, he will run out of exciting things to do. He wants to save many experiences for later; he wants to come up with new 'firsts' all through his life
You are a teacher or preacher. Jupiter is your ruling planet. Your Shadow is inferiority. Other is an enquirer or dabbler. Mercury is Other's ruling planet.
Like the superior being that you are inclined to present yourself as, you express yourself with a larger than life sense of confidence and apparent self-assurance. This attracts Other who, as the eternal gatherer of pieces of information, is impressed by your seemingly broad and effortless grasp of all manner of things. Other sees your persona as a role model for how to give off a cosmopolitan air that makes him / her look as knowledgeable as he / she potentially or actually is. However, should Other become aware that behind any particular facet of your self-advertisement there is no product to live up to it, then a kind of intellectual scorn towards what is seen as smugness or pretentiousness on your part can colour his / her idea of you. Conversely, Other's array of endless but unrelated bytes of information, which is simply diversity, is helpful to you just as long as it doesn't annoy you
When you are alone, it is most likely to be because you have simply found it so hard to commit yourself to a relationship that you either have been given up as a hopeless cause, or have never dared take any sort of plunge even into the shallows of a relationship. When it comes down to it, you hate being alone, for then you have to confront what is at the root of relationship problems: your own inconsistencies as opposed to those you see as belonging to Other. Sooner of later, this is the one plunge you will have to take - into your depths.
You may have a knack for making tactless remarks. This is not done in order to hurt; it simply represents the kind of absolute honesty with which you view the world around you. Some Sagittarians tell me that they 'throw out the wrong image'; this may result from the fact that Sagittarius rising sends out signals of confidence and optimism, which may not be backed up by the nature of the rest of the chart. One Sagittarius rising friend says that she appears tough, but is in reality very soft. Another says he is gregarious at work and in social situations but switches off when at home. Yet another sends out signals which are so confusing that he attracts people with whom he really doesn't want to be bothered. One particularly Sagittarian aspect of your personality is your sense of humour. Whether dry and droll, broad and deliciously vulgar, witty and sophisticated, or innocently childlike, it is your most wonderful attribute. You can be forgiven anything because you brighten up a dreary world and make all kinds of people laugh!
Two attributes which you are almost guaranteed to have are idealism and honesty. You can be devious at times, but rarely crooked, and it would be hard for you to take advantage of anyone. Your idealism can lead you to keep your head a bit too far up into the clouds. It can be hard for you to come down and get on with the nitty-gritty of daily life. You also have to guard against tactlessness or sheer rudeness in the guise of 'honesty'. Either way, your reluctance to compromise can be your greatest vice or your greatest virtue. You are genuinely broad-minded and free from prejudice on grounds of race, religion or colour. You like people who are different because you find them interesting. Your interest in foreigners may lead you to marry someone from a different culture. Even if you don't manage to travel far during your life, you still feel the need to escape, especially if you live in a city. You enjoy the sea, mountains and wide open spaces; and if there is nothing better on offer, you enjoy a walk in the country. If you actually live in the country, you may choose to work or spend your spare time with animals.
You need freedom in any relationship, and are also prepared to allow your partner to have the opportunity to be a person in his or her own right. You can be cold-hearted at times, even to the point of cutting off completely from other people and disappearing inside yourself. As long as you have a measure of friendship in any relationship, you can usually make a success of it. At the very least, you are a relater; and you are able to keep your lines of communication open. However, most of all, you need to be taken care of, treated like a child on occasion, cuddled and soothed by a very caring partner. You can't live with a possessive or demanding partner, and you need to be able to come in and go out whenever you like; you cannot be chained to the house. For some reason, many of you seem to marry Pisceans!
Sexually, you like to experiment. You are well-known for wanting to see how far you can go, and this may apply to your sexual nature as well. Curiosity could be the main reason for your numerous sexual partners. You could, in the days before AIDS, have been a great one-night-stand merchant. Later in life, when some of your curiosity has been satisfied, you settle down more easily to family life. You are one of those people who can actually live quite happily without sex, as long as your creative urges are being satisfied, although you do need attention and affection. You were not cuddled as a child, and you really do enjoy the sensation of being held and cared for by another. You can also off-set any missing sex by pouring out your energies into sports, hobbies and even the Church. To be honest, sex isn't your problem: your worst energy is boredom.
A healthy level of friendship and intellectual rapport is needed in relationships. There is sexual exuberance, but a partner who only satisfies their sexual needs will very soon bore them. Intellectual challenge is also essential; a claustrophobic lifestyle will have disastrous psychological effects. The individual may go on eating or drinking binges, for instance, or develop psychosomatic liver-related illnesses.
When life offers no challenge, the usual optimistic outlook will be clouded, and uncharacteristic depression will set in. A change of lifestyle and perhaps of scene is probably best, but escapism must be avoided and physically running away is not a long-term solution. A full assessment of the problem should be made, however tedious this might seem
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