Reading for Sapienza
sapienza said:
Interesting reading above. It's great to see the process you follow with these.
Ok, so I've finally worked out my question....
We have lived in our current (tiny) house now for 8 years but now that we have children it isn't really big enough. We need to either stay here and renovate, or move somewhere else. Which one will/should be do? It might still be a year or so off but we need to start planning/preparing fairly soon.
Thanks so much.
The rational approach would be to decide on whether the house has the potential for improvement and if not, then decide to move. However that assumes that you can easily buy/rent a suitable property in the area you want. So we might end up with a situation in which, whilst the current house is not the best bet, circumstances require you to stay and make the best of it.
So let's see what the chart has to say. You are first house - and therefore are signified by the Sun, as the Ascendant is in late Leo. Indeed the lateness indicates that, if anything, time is running out for the planning.
This is perhaps reinforced by the Sun in Gemini, conjunct the eleventh cusp, it is about to move from the strong position in the tenth to a weaker position in the eleventh. The Sun has very weak essential dignity, being in it's own Face (which Lilly describes as being slightly better than being out on the street). The Sun does sextile the Ascendant, indicating not only radicality but also your ability to act.
The House is signified by Lord 4, which is Mars, and, if you are to move, the vendor of the new property is signified by Lord 7, Saturn. As the Sun is in the Triplcity and Terms of Saturn, it seems that your preferred option would be to buy somewhere else.
Mars is in Virgo where it is Peregrine, so the condition of the house is not good (for your purposes), which of course prompted the question. However Mars is in the first House, your House and suggests that you are likely to stay.
Saturn, Lord 7, is also Peregrine in the second (your money) and applying to your Part of Fortune (your money, amongst other things) by conjunction. To have Saturn as Lord 7 is not particularly good (and indeed the same could be said of Mars as Lord 4) as it is an 'infortune' - it doesn't bring luck. Saturn is in opposition with Jupiter who is Lord 8. Whilst Jupiter is usually benefic, as Lord 8 he is not in this case. The aspect is separating and Jupiter has now changed signs, so that might indicate things will improve for the seller in the future. As the eighth is also the money and resources of the seller (second from the seventh) an alternative view might be that any potential seller needed your money (or that of any potential buyers) because of their own cashflow problems, but these are now easing (recovery from the credit crunch) and they are not so desperate to make a sale - generalised, it was a buyers market but house prices will soon begin to rise. Incidentally Saturn is in none of the dignities of the Sun, which perhaps indicates that they need you less than you think you need them.
The Sun in Gemini is applying to square Saturn. This is not what you want to see in a potential purchase. Whilst it does not rule out the purchase of a new property (as an opposition almost certainly would), it suggests that the purchase will be difficult, have problems and at the end you might not be satisfied with the result, even if it goes through.
Lastly, the Angles are in fixed signs and that suggests no change in your circumstances - you will stay, whether you like it or not.
The Moon is your co-significator but is Peregrine in Leo conjunct to the benefic Venus, who is also Peregrine and therefore can offer little help - both are badly placed in the twelfth House. The Moon is not only separating from Venus it is also separating from a trine with Jupiter (Lord 8) and will go on and sextile your Part of Fortune (your money) and then will sextile your second house ruler, Mercury. I'd take this as an indicator of you spending some money and devoting resources to something, in the context of the question, and given Mars' placement in the first, I'd say that was on the renovation of your current house.
Overall, it looks like you will stay and renovate - not ideal but the cost of buying/renting a suitable new property may well not be worth the exercise. and even though you might be in a better position than any potential seller, you are not strong enough to force through an advantageous sale - it's more likely to collapse, with some acrimony on both sides.