But what I mean specifically is whether you can predict for yourself.
Sometimes I can and sometimes I can’t. Not bad odds, I guess. And sometimes I don’t even try. And sometimes I get a feeling and then look for it in the chart and I am getting a feeling that my life this year is going to be like a Chekhov play which is better than my life being like a Beckett play. Vanya not Godot.
With Tarot though… I’m a loss at reading for myself. I can see the basics, maybe, but I can’t interpret. Too much wishful thinking.
But with the chart? Yeah. Sometimes it’s clear to me. And when in doubt? Binge eat. You always get the answers then — especially if it involves popcorn or chocolate or peanut butter. Joking.
Tonight I decided to use the time-honored technique of distraction (from intense emotions) and decided to take a break from my Netflix watching and catch up with some popcorn in the kitchen and that was when I felt it: Uncle Vanya NOT Endgame and not knowing how exactly it will play out but that it will be an interesting year when Pluto enters my 5th House. And Uranus goes direct and heads to my 8th. And Neptune conjuncts my 7th House cusp. See, I have very little action in these houses in my natal but now? They are alive. And Jupiter? Will be in my 10th when it’s Gemini-time.
These are the Other People houses.
So that’s two questions for ya: where are your transits? And can you predict what they will mean?
And thanks everyone for your beautiful comments.
6 thoughts on “Can You Read Your Own Chart?”
i’m pretty good at stringing together keywords for planets/houses/transits
and a lot of times things jump out at me, in real life, that i can reference back to my chart and what’s goin’ on
but as far as being what i would call ‘good’ at it
no, i am not
Can’t read mine at all. That’s why I’ve got YOU!
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I’m not even sure what to think about mine. I just did the 12th house sleeping thing, but I need to be up. Jupiter is in my 7th house, and it hasn’t done anything good for me so far. Pluto in my 3rd, I’m more depressed, argumentative/defensive, and vocal about it.
Saturn in the 12th = the same. I’ve lost something good about myself – or that part of me is in hiding and coming back out when I feel better (like boundaries, better manners, stability – but hey, let the kicks from others continue, so that they can just say I was a mess, and be done with it – rather than even bothering to listen and understand).
When it moves into Gemini, Jupiter will conjoin my Moon, Venus and South Node in the 8th (end of the 7th in equal). Venus is moving into my 3rd, so maybe she’ll lighten things up a bit. Mars in Virgo = 10th and 11th houses. Hopefully, less fighting, more action in a good way. Sun is in my 2nd.
I have the opposite problem, I guess! I fear that someone else would miss the intricacies of my natal – I have 2 t-squares and a yod. If that yod is ignored, interpretation falls apart. I can’t predict well though, I have actually gone back and looked at the worst day of my life, and there are SO many transiting aspects that went exact that day involving Chiron and Neptune and my yod, that I should have known SOMETHING would happen. In hindsight, the chart for that day blows my mind.
I now look at my transits and just go, “Oh, that shall be interesting!” With only very vague ideas. But I think Uranus plays a strong hand in my chart anyway, I’ve had SO many weird surprises, so many changes in my path that I never saw coming! For example, I never would have imagined the job I have now. Sure, Merc-Saturn in 6th does indicate working in communications, but never would I have imagined I’d be transcribing!
I can stare at my chart for ages and not get a thing, but in a similar vein, it’s when I’m doing something else that flashes of inspiration come and it all goes click click click and becomes clear. Merc/Uranus 🙂
Next six months will probably be a bit like Happy Days – not Fonzie, but me up to my neck in sand. Mars in the 12th, currently applying to Pluto which will kick off just about everything in my chart. Saturn is also squaring my Sun Mercury and Nodes.
Think I’ll just go 12th housey and sleep through it all 🙂