All Is One
The main chart shape is a bowl, this suggests that you find life a more or less continuous series of choices, often between your own self interest and having to sacrifice this for others..
You have a strong representation of fixed signs / succeedent houses – once you have started on a course of action it’s not easy to change direction, you can be quite stubborn.
Venus, shows how you relate to others and how you see beauty and harmony. Venus is in Libra, its own sign and has strong essential dignity plus good accidental dignity in the fifth House It is also conjunct your Ascendant ruler Mercury. You tend to communicate to others through your relationships (of all types) and see relationships as a means of expressing yourself. You have a love of language, a love of beauty, have a love of art and may well express yourself artistically. Venus is placed in the fifth house, where it traditionally ‘joys’. This is a good placement for Venus and it also trines the Ascendant. Venus and Mercury are the strongest planets in your chart. Although not in its own sign, Mercury rules the Air triplicity by night and is also in its own terms in Libra. Both planets have about the same essential dignity and gain accidental dignity from their fifth house placements. They are therefore likely to be the arbiters in‘settling’ the different pulls of Mars and Saturn. You probably get on well with children and from a Venus point of view are at your best in a romantic relationship. You also enjoy hobbies, pastimes and sports which strongly involve relating to others or which appeal to your sense of harmony. Again ‘artistic’ hobbies are more likely than athletic ones.
If Venus represents your desire to relate and to harmonise, Mars represents your desire to assert yourself. You have Mars placed in Scorpio, one of its traditional rulerships. Mars was given Scorpio to ‘cool it down’. Rather than Assert directly and possibly confrontationally, as Mars would do in Aries, Mars in Scorpio asserts in a more indirect way, based on feelings, intuition and emotions. This is a much more ‘sympathetic or empathic form of assertion and is therefore less likely to be resisted by others. However it can be a highly intense and single minded form of assertion, in which case it might well raise hackles. Mars has more essential dignity than Venus or Mercury as it is also the Triplicity ruler for Water – however it has some accidental debility when placed in the sixth. However traditionally Mars ‘joys’ in the sixth. It was considered better for Mars to be in a nocturnal sign (Earth or Water) and preferably placed in a nocturnal chart in a nocturnal house (below the Ascendant / Descendant line). Here it’s influence is moderated and its power to do harm is lessened. So your Mars placement appears quite positive. In the sixth though and as ruler of the sixth it suggests you may well be accident prone, possibly more at an emotional level than a physical one. Mars is also your Sun’s ruler. Your Sun is also conjunct Neptune – never an easy placement and whilst it may bring strong creative and artistic talents it can also make the choice between self and others even more difficult because it’s often not easy to separate self from others.
Mars is in sextile to Saturn, the last of the three planets in their own signs. In Saturn’s case it is in Capricorn, in the eighth House. Although it has strong essential dignity, it has accidental debility in the eighth. Of the three Saturn is the weakest. Whereas Venus and Mercury are placed where they can act well, Mars will have some trouble in focusing in the sixth (though this is perhaps a good thing) and Saturn will have more problems in the eighth. Saturn also only disposits Jupiter, the rest of the planets are disposited by Mars (four) and Venus (two). Nevertheless, the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter is one that I usually treat as being good. Saturn represents restriction, limit, control, fear as well as construction and system. Jupiter represents growth, enlargement, joy, expansion. Bring these two together and there is a real possibility that Jupiter’s growth can be harnessed and directed by a strong Saturn. Unfortunately, Jupiter is weakly placed in Capricorn (in Fall) and this suggests that the ‘marriage’ needs to be worked on almost continuously if the result is not to be the higly negative ‘large fears’ and ‘large worries’. Saturn’s sextile to Mars may well add an assertiveness here that enables Jupiter to be well directed. Saturn is the traditional ‘ruler’ of the eighth house. so this placement has some mitigation. Whilst the eighth has association with death, in an every day context it is interpreted more as the second from the seventh. The material resources of the marriage or partnership. You may therefore seek self protection through the material resources of a partnership (this should not be taken as saying you will marry for money – with your fifth house that would be very, very, unlikely). However a partnership either business or marriage which provides security will be well in tune with your needs.
Mars and Saturn may well get on with each other (given their sextile) however neither finds it so easy to get on with Venus / Mercury. This is not a confrontational situation but more one of a low level niggle. I wouldn’t rate it too highly but it probably requires a little effort to co-ordinate Mars / Saturn on the one hand and Mercury / Venus on the other. Indeed with Venus dispositing the Ascendant (through Mercury) and Mars dispositing the Sun the Venus / Mars relationship is taken to your Ascendant (how others see you) and Sun (Creative will) relationship – the theme is again the needs of self versus the needs of others.
