The first house starts with the Ascendant which is the constellation rising at the moment of birth in a natal chart. Supposedly this is the house where how a person comes across is shown. I was so brainwashed to think it was beautiful for a female to be skinny with a boy like physique and face by the all pervasive media. It turns out that my Ascendant Taurus comes across as a sexy, voluptuous woman. I really am that way and I was taught by the media to hate some of my most wonderfully feminine qualities. Who would benefit from doing this to all of us ladies? Isn’t life difficult enough without media poisoning women’s minds against their own natural beauty? I wonder if it’s in my chart that I had that kind of malignant influence in my life? Let’s learn about the first house.
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The red dot is in my 1st house. Aries and Mars retrograde is close to the cusp of the 1st house so that should make me come across as fiery and martial. My art teacher in college was pretty flummoxed why I always showed up to class wearing something that looked like a Catholic school uniform. Like Napoleon, I just feel more comfortable wearing a made up uniform. I’m going to blame Mars for that. Taurus mostly spans my first house. How would that come across?
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Because my 1st house is in Taurus the ruler of my chart, the ruler of Taurus is Venus. That means Venus is a part of how I come across.
The red dot shows Venus. That planet is in the 9th house (foreign matters, education). Venus is in Capricorn (hard work). Venus is opposite Saturn retrograde (structure/oppression). Venus is square the moon (spirit/feeling) and Pluto (death/rebirth). Venus also plays a key role in a yod configuration.
To summarize, the ruler of my chart is in difficult aspects with Saturn retrograde, Pluto and the Moon. It also looks like it’s part of a team hammering that Saturn in the 3rd house. Saturn is conjunct (next to) the north node. What’s that?
The north node is a place in the moon’s orbit.
The north node next to Venus can mean the native is an artist. The difficult aspects Venus is making with the Moon, Saturn and Pluto can suggest that I’ve had great difficulty but intense connection with the energies represented by these planets. If I were to apply it to myself given my history, I’d say that I have been enormously restricted and held back by Saturn energy. My emotions have been more than I could endure and that I have lived through one trip to hell after another thanks to my tour guide Pluto. The work I am doing brings me to tears very often, mostly because I am touched by the help I am getting from the Spirit realm in doing this project.
Since Aries and Mars are so close to my 1st house cusp, it may be fair to consider Mars as a second chart ruler. The red dot shows the area we’ll attempt to decode.
Mars retrograde is a bit off to begin with and it is in an intercepted house which is ruled Aries. Mars is located in an isolated mystical place, the 12th house. It’s been repressed and a bit drowned in there. This could allude to my persistent sinusitis. Aries rules the head and sinusitis is an inFLAMation in a dark watery space - the nasal area. Another manifestation of this energy could’ve been my abusive childhood where I was only rewarded genuinely if I could make my narcissistic parents feel pumped up about themselves. My interests and my will and even my ability to say no were beat out of me. I was an only child.
Mars is also engaged (so to speak) in hard aspects from this dismal spot with Jupiter and Uranus.
Jupiter expands and brings luck. Jupiter is in my 10th house of career in Aquarius (visionary and sincere community service). Aquarius is ruled by Uranus. Uranus, which forms part of this aspect in my natal chart is in Libra (art) in the 6th house (daily work). After much delay, I think these planets with a cleaned up higher vibration of Mars could become interesting. These planets speak of fire, initiative, bountiful luck and quirky genius.
The configuration between Mars, Jupiter and Uranus is called a T square and it is supposed to create enormous inner turmoil. Supposedly the resolution to this can be found in the house opposite the squared planet Jupiter.
The 4th house is opposite Jupiter. That is the house associated with watery, emotional Cancer. A major focal point of my chart, natal Saturn is in Cancer.
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