Hi –
No matter what system of reading is used, your success is totally up to you. If you look at the famous athletes or musicians, they have a gift that they recognize, hopefully at an early age, and then devote their lives to developing that gift, practicing for hours every day at the tennis court, the piano, the ice rink, or in a library -- whatever. And the skill they develop brings them much more than status, recognition and money: they achieve the satisfaction of knowing they are doing work they are specially equipped to perform.
You have certain gifts which you will not fully understand until you are older, begining (probably) with age 28. So now is the time for study, for practice, and for honing your skills. And, with patience, you will surely see your particular path in life with great clarity.
Your chart shows special gifts in working with people (Sun in Cancer) and a drive to succeed (Sun and Mars in Cancer, in 10th house). Further, you instinctively know how to make an optimum use of your own and others resources -- (Moon in Scorpio, in second house). The Moon gives a practical expression to the Sun’s purpose, and also connects you to others and to the outside world. Your Consciousness thus gets focused on the material foundations that support us.
Moon in Scorpio intensifies your need to participate with others in sex, in relationships and in business. Further, with Uranus in the second house, you are very inventive is seeing how resources can be applied during any situation. And, as co-ruler, with Saturn of the Water Sign, this suggests you can always find ways around some (Saturnian) limitation that arises. I mention this because both Pluto (ruler of your Moon’s sign) and Saturn (exalted in your Rising Sign, Libra) are both found in your first house of Self.
Your rising sign (Libra) thus adds power to your Moon and Uranus in the second house. So, your natural gifts are of great advantage in the business world. And you are very creative, (Venus in Virgo, in 11th house), but in a practical way; you will also do well working in a large organization, with other people.
Your rising sign is Libra, so we know you will project yourself into your environment as if it were your special task to find ways to balance and harmonize whatever work is presented to you. This sign specifically represents how you succeed in expanding your self into a greater whole. Saturn in Libra and in the first house of self suggests excellent powers of focus and concentration – and which powers (as we have already mentioned) are inspired by the presence of Uranus in the second house). Pluto in Libra marks an entire generation finding new rules and codes that give greater meaning to Life. Pluto in the first house of self suggests an ability to keep re-inventing yourself; some call this spiritual rebirth, but it is the same thing.
Finally, there is an ancient Chaldean technique which relates your Rising sign to your Sun sign, and this procedure says that Pisces is your Karmic challenge for this lifetime, while Gemini is your solution.
You have no planets in Pisces, but the cusp of Pisces is on the sixth house of Work (Empty). So, your work in Life is your Karmic challenge for you to solve. So we look to the rulers of Pisces (Jupiter and Neptune) and find them both in Sagittarius. There are different ways to interpret this; what comes to me (and may be wrong) is that you have, perhaps, a tendency to interpret Idealism as a rigid adherence to old rules and beliefs. If so, then Life will definitely change you.
The scooping planet on your Bowl is Mars, so each cycle of the Sun will find you energetically scooping up the challenges of Life. The trailing planet is Neptune, so you end this six-months later with reflection on how your deeper spiritual insights might still make this particular year and more creative year.
Your solution sign is Gemini, and there are no planets there, but this sign is on the cusp of the ninth house of religion, higher learning, and how we codify our moral leanings. So – this fits rather neatly with much we said earlier.
Gemini is ruled by Mercury, but that is such a hard planet to understand, I will leave it to life to teach you the necessary lessons. BUT – since Mercury is in Leo, and in the tenth house of success, you will definitely learn the subtleties of your own mind in time.
So, patience too is required, whether or not this is easy for you.
Morton
