Just a narrow view on part of the chart
This is an interesting chart. My eye was immediately taken to the Ascending Sun-Neptune-Mercury conjunction in Sag., with the Ascendant in Scorpio. I was writing elsewhere today that there is a big difference between a planet (or in this case, planets) in the first house and a planet(s) on the Ascendant.
What is on the Ascendant is who we are, what we think, our attitudes, actions, decisions. What is in the first house, on the other hand, is what we experience, our environment, the nature of what we find about us.
In this chart we find three planets in the first house and the Ascendant is quite removed and in another sign. This seems, for me, to enhance the concept of what's on the Ascendant versus what's in the first house. I think, that if I were to look at the whole chart, that this distinction would be quite important.
Neptune in the middle of the Sun and Mercury suggests a possible dichotomy: We might have great immagination here, an ability to enjoy and create fantasy, to be self-inspiring --- all of this being more in the style of life that we revel in rather than being quite so direct in driving these attributes through our personality and efforts. Perhaps we might say this statement reflects more of a participatory environment rather than an initiative nature.
On the other hand, this person may gravitate to those circumstance where writers and creative people work, where deception and likely-to-fail dreams are building up and falling down, where decision (overt, unintentional, or entertaining) occurs.
Perhaps a bit of both side of these meanings. Yet, we can look at this as separate from the Ascendant in Scorpio. The environment is active and imaginative, but the person views life from a more personal and private place, trying to assess (perhaps) the circumstances that surrounds them from a private place where one seeks to understand the motivations of others.
The Ascendant is "empty" of planets but does form a nice semi-square to Jupiter in Capricorn/2nd house. If we use the "phase angle" system of looking at planets/points, we see that Jupiter is in the 2nd of 8 phases, also known as the phase of struggling to find one's own sense of expression that is different from the family's or cultural expression that one grew up within. So, we might say that Jupiter is one's sense of social enlargement, of the ability to see and solicit opportunity. Here, the inner, hesitant and private Scorpio personality is struggling to adapt and participate within the style of imagination and creation that surrounds them.
We have here a butterfly seeking to emerge from one world into another. if only the rules of life were a little clearer instead of being so freewheeling and spontaneous.
Since the natal chart is "potential", this theme will need to play out over time and its "time of emergence" will be determined by others, by circumstances and by other cycles that come together. That is another area to explore.
Now, all of this needs to be incorporated within the whole chart, and these few words will not tell the whole story. I'll leave it to others to explore this chart and its other aspects as well as to comment on my views. But, it was hard to resist taking a look at this first house grouping and the small, critical disquiet of that Scorpio Ascendant.
So, now I've shared a bit of the process that someone who has spent too much of their life in astrology finds themselves in sometimes. We tend to dwell on little things that catch our eye. We think, we have trained ourselves to think, differently. We see life though a glass slightly tinted. I hope this has helped those who find themselves earlier in their journey. Dave
