Stelliums
May 6, 2005 (with chart and picture)
http://cainer.com/ericfrancis/may6.html
Hi Eric,
Fascinating to connect with you via the
net via Jonathan Cainer's site. My question for you is: I have five planets in
the 5th house in Aquarius. A stellium in Aquarius... what do you make of it? Am
I a future leader in the Aquarian age? Am I here to do incredible work in the
area of love and communication? I've been told the 5th house represents kids
and creativity. So far I don't have any kids, and I've been around the sun 42
times and my creativity isn't at all what I would like it to be. What do you
see that might help me be more connected to my soul? Most of my work this last
15 years has been spiritual and inner focused. Do you see me coming out and
shining my light? I'd love to hear from you. Your responses are profound and
joyful. Thank you. All the best,
LeeAnn
Dear LeeAnn:
Rummaging around the back room of
astrology a few years ago, I found the prototypes for your chart. That is,
searching through the years around your birth, I noticed the most stunning
Aquarius alignment in recent history, and you were born during that moment. I
happened to be in that neighborhood because I have a fetish for 1960s
astrology, and this seemed to be one of the obvious root charts of that era, a
chart that contained the keys or secret codes for what was to come. We could
probably still use it with excellent effectiveness as an historical bellwether.
That's an interesting metaphor because the bellwether is the sheep who wears a
bell and leads the whole flock, and you're asking if this (loosely speaking) is
your role.
Before we go into what your natal chart
signifies -- which should be fairly obvious from the course of your life,
except for one factor that might obscure things a bit -- let's go over the
basic features. At the time of your birth, six of the seven of the seven traditional
planets of antiquity are located in one sign, Aquarius; all that's missing is
the Moon, and when it arrived one week after your birth, each of the other six
will still be in Aquarius. Hence we had a truly rare condition of all seven
planets of antiquity being in one sign. That, however, is the missing factor,
and with the Moon conjunct
The Aquarius alignment tells me that you
were born into a rare, exemplary and outstanding moment of history: in the
middle of the brief presidency of John F. Kennedy, when an exactly divided
nation (election of 1960 was nearly tied between Nixon and Kennedy) gathered
with all its heart behind one leader during truly momentous times. Martin
Luther King was very much alive; the Civil Rights movement was happening; but
this was the Sixties Part One -- before the Beatles came to the
When the Moon showed up in Aquarius seven
days after your birth, there was be a total solar eclipse. It was an extremely
rare eclipse -- one of the great eclipses of the 20th century.
Let me explain to everyone how I can see
this -- it's extremely obvious if you know what to look for. Notice that the
Sun (orange circle with dot, with the number 8 next to it) is near the South
Node of the Moon (dark upside-down horse shoe with the number 18 next to it).
When the Sun and either of the Moon's nodes are together, there is an eclipse
in the neighborhood. Either it just happened or it's about to happen. You can
make a good guess by the position of the Moon relative to the Sun; in this
case, a New Moon is approaching and the Sun will still be very close to the
node at the lunation. That is an eclipse. To be sure, check an ephemeris, or
use the eclipse finder feature in an astrology program.
That eclipse was the first major
checkpoint of your life. We are not conversing now (astrology is best done as a
conversation), but if we were, I would have begun this whole discussion with an
inquiry about the condition of your family at the time of your birth. There
was, I imagine, something highly unusual. Nobody is born into average-normal
situation with all that Aquarius gathering like a bolt of Thor's home-made
lightening.
I would make a second inquiry about the
condition of your life and family at the age of seven: all factors, including
siblings, parents, health, pets, location, school, everything. Why seven years?
You are born with the Moon square the Sun. It took the Moon seven days to get
from Scorpio (your natal placement) to Aquarius, where that eclipse happened.
This is a clear case for checking your progressions. Progressions go on a
day-per-year formula; seven days translates to that eclipse having its real
manifestation in your life seven years later, i.e., at the age of seven.
That was around 1969. Everything was
different. Kennedy was dead. So was his brother, Robert. So was Dr. King. In fact,
1968, as your progressed solar eclipse was approaching, society was in complete
turmoil. By 1968, Richard Nixon was president. The Vietnam War, barely spoken
of at the time of your birth, was the biggest issue on the national radar, it
was going horribly, and the protests were raging. The idealism of the early
1960s was basically shattered, but something else had emerged: social movements
where young people began to have faith in their own ability to hold an agenda
and shape society. Now, you may ask what this had to do with you; you were
seven, after all. I assure you, because you are who you are, it had everything
to do with you.
I would say this were there far fewer
indicators of a link between you and the collective in your chart; but because
of your birth in the days before this eclipse, and the powerful emphasis on
Aquarius in your chart, you are drawn in to the consciousness and the
experience of society -- which was truly unparalleled in the first seven years
of your life. The world had seen nothing like it and would never see it again.
There was so much change people could not keep track of it. And as an
impressionable young child, you lived through this. And the events of the
"larger world" influenced your family. Your parents were somehow deeply
touched by what occurred (Sun conjunct Moon).
Whatever the specifics, the age of seven
was a profoundly important and formative time. And if you ware asking if you're
supposed to be a leader of the Aquarian movement, that suggests on its face
that you have a connection to society. Instead of looking for ways to hook into
that mission, I am with this discussion taking you through a process where
might see, in a clear way, what that mission is at its most organic and
functional.
Do you experience yourself as part of the
world, in tangible fact? Aquarius is a pretty no-bullshit sign. Its first
ruling planet is Saturn, as tangible as astrology gets.
There were several other crucial
checkpoints, which I would like to go through before we attempt to make any
judgments of what this chart says your purpose is. Besides having a good
understanding of your Saturn return at 29 (very important because Saturn came
back to Aquarius and transited each of your planets there), your Uranian
opposition at 40 (also vital because Uranus is associated with Aquarius), and
your major Chiron transits, I would want to have a good sense of the early part
of 1997, when, once again, there was a great alignment in Aquarius -- at the
time of Comet Hale Bopp. That was the enormous, double-tailed comet that
appeared around your birthday that year: here is a visual cue:
Next turning point, or point of
unfoldment, was May of 2000. This was the time of a grouping in Taurus very similar
to what occurred in your sign at the time of your birth, and it squared all of
your natal Aquarius planets. This was the first collection of all seven planets
of antiquity in Taurus (that is, the traditional, visible planets, before the
discovery of new planets began in 1781 with Uranus). Searching back some 7,000
years, no such alignments were found in Taurus.
Natal charts are not static. Planets are
particles, but they are also wave patterns. So charts unfold. They unfold at
important points where progressions and transits aspect the chart. Age seven
(progressed solar eclipse in Aqurius), Saturn return in 1992, plus the events
of 1997, plus the events of 2000, plus the Uranian opposition in 2002: what are
they about individually, and what is the story they tell? What is the direction
this whole plot known as your life is moving?
Please go over these dates thoughtfully.
Take a few weeks. See if you can summarize them in a form I can publish here
easily, linking back to your question and this introductory essay. Write the
long version, then get it down to 100 words per event, so our readers can get
snapshots of your life at these important times and see how the process of a
chart unfolding works.
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