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Dan sent me this fantastic chart he made for my birthday. Bless his heart.

Sun in the Tenth House

You are a person who wants to make great achievements in the world and to be in control of your own destiny. You find it difficult to follow someone else's orders unless you really respect that person. If you apply yourself to your work, you will accomplish a great deal.

However, while you are young, these traits will make it difficult for you to accept other people's authority.

Your relationship with your father is very important. You will be greatly influenced by his ways, although you will occasionally disagree with him and try to rebel.

You want to know what the world is about, what is important in the public eye and what is generally considered significant. Among people of your own age, you will try to be a leader, and your peers will look up to you.


Sun in Aquarius

You like new things and new ideas and are bored by old ways of thinking and acting. You are an individualist and a free spirit, but at the same time you need to work and share your life with other people.

However, even though you are attracted to new ideas, you don't readily change your thinking once you have made up your mind.

Because of your fondness for new ideas, you enjoy studying subjects that enable people to control the world in some way. As you get older, you may be attracted to more offbeat studies, such as astrology and the occult.

When you are with a group of friends, you think about the group as a whole rather than just about yourself. This can cause problems for you if your needs conflict with the needs of the rest of the group. You will stand up for anyone who is not being treated fairly.


Sun Opposition Moon

You will learn to understand yourself through opposition to the world and other people, perhaps in good-natured competition with friends, perhaps through fighting. The form of your opposition is up to you. You are likely to ask friends what they think of you or of something you have done, because you want to get outside your own personal point of view and see what others see. This does not mean, however, that you are always willing to make your ideas agree with other people's. On the contrary, you usually fight for what you believe to be right. But you want to know what others feel, because it gives you a necessary perspective.

You want to know the objective truth about the world, the truth that exists independently of yourself. For this reason you will read mostly nonfiction, especially writings on scientific subjects, because these teach you about what is really "out there" in the world. At the same time you are not likely to give your own emotional reactions the attention they deserve; since they are personal, you feel they are less important. And you treat people's personal feelings this way too.

As you get older, you will respect people who make solid worldly achievements that have concrete, observable results, such as successful businessmen or builders, people who complete large-scale projects that everyone can point to.


Sun Square Jupiter

This can be a very useful aspect if you learn to control its exuberance. Throughout your life the world will test you to see if you can overcome your tendency to overdo everything you get involved in. Learn to act more moderately and not take on more than you can handle. If you learn to understand your own limitations, you will discover that you have the ability to act at the right time. This is not because you are lucky, but because you know what you are doing and when to do it. An excellent sense of timing is one of the rewards of learning to live with reality. Even so, you enjoy taking a risk or making a definite move when more cautious people are standing still. If you know yourself well, you will be successful. If you do not, you will act before you should and go off half- cocked, under the foolish belief that nothing could go wrong.

Sometimes this aspect may make you overconfident in other ways, so that you pretend to be much more than you are and act arrogantly toward others. If you do this, others will dislike you and begin to work against you. Come down off your high horse and be a friend to those who want to slow you down. If you choose, you can be very friendly and charming and win people over with your honesty and generosity.

You like everything around you to be big and grand, which is fine if you know your limitations and what you can handle. If you do not, you will spend too much money and waste what you have.

Sun Trine Pluto

You are the kind of person who affects the people around you even if you make no special effort to do so. You may not even be aware of it. But you should learn to be aware of the impression you make and take responsibility for being an influence on others.

You do not like to have everything around you completely settled. You enjoy making changes, for it helps you understand a situation better. And you have a great need to understand everything you do and to experience everything fully. You may be inclined to carry your activities to such extremes that other people get scared. But you do not scare easily, and you don't want to miss a thing.

Your life may go through quite a few changes, but this will not bother you, because you want to grow. You want to understand yourself as much as possible. You look into yourself quite a bit, and as you get older, you will have a better knowledge of yourself and your potentials than most people have. You will also come to know other people deep inside, which you can use to control them, if you choose. But you should be very careful how you do this. Unless you work for their good, people will fight you and your influence.


Sun Trine Saturn

A rather quiet person, you may act quite a bit older than you are. You are serious and very much concerned with doing what is right rather than doing just what you want to do. Adults will notice this and will give you more responsibility than most people your age have, which you will probably enjoy. You are patient and willing to work a long time to reach a goal. The promise of future reward, even in the distant future, is enough to keep you going.

In everything you do, your standards are very high, and you haven't much patience with people who do things the quick, sloppy way. You insist on a very strict code of behavior, both for yourself and for others.

You are likely to be quite tough physically, which you may not be aware of while you are young, but it will become apparent as you get older. Many people with this aspect have a small but wiry build, although other factors in your chart may signify otherwise. You are not likely to be the muscle-man type, but you are probably more physically resistant than most.

You like to learn, but only in a very structured setting, and you are interested only in practical and useful subjects. If you cannot see the usefulness of something, you are not likely to see much value in it. You will have to learn that knowledge that does not have any immediate use may be helpful later in unexpected situations. So don't let narrow ideas about usefulness keep you from studying abstract subjects.

Sun Trine Mars

You are quite vigorous and self-assertive, with an abundance of physical energy, which you should express through physical activity. Otherwise you will feel cooped up and restless. You also have a strong need to be yourself and to do things in your own way. You will listen to someone else's advice and if it seems correct, you will follow it, but you make it clear that this is your own decision. Even while you are young you must be given as much responsibility as possible for your own life. It is essential that you develop a strong sense of who and what you are.

Athletic activities are good for you, because you enjoy competing with others. However, some people with this aspect do not enjoy sports but like to compete in games of mental skill.

You can work very hard, if necessary, but you prefer to approach any activity like a game. Thus you are very good at what you like to do, but not so good at what you do not like. You need to have more self-discipline, because it is not possible to do only what you enjoy.

In group activities, you are at your best either as a leader or working independently. You do not particularly want power over others, but you need to have power over yourself. You may act rashly at first and use responsibility unwisely, but you will quickly learn to handle it better.

In general you admire strength, courage and self-confidence, and you will try to develop these qualities as you grow older.


Moon in the Fourth House

To be at your best, you need to have a peaceful home life, for this means emotional security to you. When you feel strong and secure, you are very kind and sensitive to other people's feelings. But if you feel depressed or insecure, you tend to withdraw into your own private world.

Your mother is very important to you, and you need to be close to her.

You are interested in the past, and you may become an eager student of history, especially the history of your own family origins and background.

Moon in Leo

You consider yourself important and want to do things that will make other people proud of you. But most of all you must be proud of yourself.

In a group, you try to be the outstanding person one way or another. You take your feelings very seriously and are inclined to emphasize or exaggerate them when talking to others.

Above all, you feel the need to be yourself, and you do not easily act as other people want you to.

You are emotionally very warm, and if you like someone you let him or her know it. But you need love and affection too, and above all, reassurance. The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.


Moon Opposition Midheaven

You are strongly attached to your home and your childhood. You want to feel that you belong to a place and to someone, because belonging gives you a sense of security

If your life is confused and uncertain now, you will find it very difficult to overcome the effects of this problem when you are older. You would never feel 'good' enough, and your inner self would always be in an uproar, with your emotions working against you.

But if your home life is good and secure you will grow into a warm, loving and generous person. You wil be able to express your feelings more powerfully than most people can and you will have an inner security that can be shared by others wherever you go.


Moon Opposition Mercury

You have some difficulty in getting your emotions and your mind to work together. You often feel that they are opposed, that what your reason says is right feels wrong emotionally and vice versa. The challenge is to reach some kind of balance between them. If either your mind or your emotions take control, the results will be disastrous. If you let your feelings guide you all the time, you will act without thinking carefully and without regard for the truth. You will be unable to see beyond your own point of view, which can lead to terrible mistakes. Also you will be isolated from friends who try to understand you.

But if you disregard your feelings and let your reason rule your life, you will feel more and more that nothing in your life has any meaning. The world will seem gray and colorless, as if it doesn't care whether or not you exist. Also the emotions you don't express may begin to work against you, causing strange moods and compulsive feelings. You may have sudden urges to do things that make no sense, or you may feel extremely nervous and irritable.

But it is possible to strike the proper balance and make your feelings work with your mind rather than against it. When you learn to do this, you will be able to get what you want out of life and still respect the truth and other people's needs.


Moon Square Jupiter

This is a very positive aspect, but it can have some drawbacks. You are a very positive and cheerful person who likes others and is generally well liked. Your high energy level makes people feel good in your presence and even cheers up those who are depressed. You feel good about yourself as well.

But you must learn to control yourself somewhat, for you tend to overdo whatever you get involved in, even to the point of physical exhaustion. This may affect your digestion, causing discomfort and irritation. Even when you are totally worn out by some activity, you may feel that you have to go on, so learn to relax.

Also you will have to learn to be less extravagant about spending money. You are likely to buy things on the spur of the moment, then not care about them very much afterward. You may have to control your eating and later your drinking habits, because this aspect indicates a tendency to gain weight.

You really enjoy good times, but again you must learn self-control. You can have too much, even of a good time, but you may not recognize that when you should.

In everything you do, you get involved totally or not at all. You see no reason to do anything halfway. But you are impulsive and change your mind easily, so after getting involved in a project, you often drop it before it is finished.

But you will get along easily with other people, for they will enjoy your energies even when they are somewhat out of control.


Moon Trine Uranus

You need a great deal of freedom, and you insist on your right to do things in your own way. It is very important to you to be emotionally independent of others and to be free to form friendships or other relationships with anyone who appeals to you. Probably you will be attracted most strongly to people who are quite unusual. You are not actively rebellious yourself, and others may even think you are quite conventional, but inside you are very much an individual.

You will be attracted to anything that seems different or offers a chance for a new experience. But be careful not to get involved in a situation simply because it is different - it should be worthwhile as well.

Even though you may move often in your life, you will soon feel at home wherever you are. But no one place will seem more like 'home' than any other. This is because you don't want to be tied down to anything.

This aspect gives you the ability to tolerate and respect offbeat people and unusual situations, even when you aren't personally attracted to them. You will work hard to achieve the sense that you are a unique person, so you are willing to respect other people's uniqueness. You are not likely to dislike someone because of what you hear about him; in fact, when you hear rumors about someone you tend to believe the opposite.


Mercury in the Tenth House

Learning and education will be very important to you when you select a career later in life. Even now, you think a great deal about careers, and you may be making plans about what you want to do. With Mercury in this house, your life work will certainly involve using your mind, so you will have to get as much training as possible. You will have to go on to college or at least have some specific vocational training beyond high school.

This placement favors careers in mathematics, science or a technical field, because they take the most advantage of your logical mind. Even now you are more logical than most people your age. Such careers also involve learning new techniques, which you enjoy. Any profession that requires you to learn elaborate techniques that demand much skill will interest you. It may even be something that you do with your hands, as long as it is complicated enough. You may also be attracted to a career in traveling, communications or transportation or to a job that involves much public speaking. You are quite good at expressing opinions that you share with others.

Your father will be especially important in forming your ideas and ways of thinking.

Mercury in Aquarius

You think the way you want, and it is very difficult for anyone to change your mind. Once an idea or opinion is fixed in your mind, you hold on to it stubbornly. However, you look at the world with few already set beliefs, so you can see aspects of it that others overlook. This makes your mind highly original. Also you are attracted to unusual, even fantastic, points of view about the world. You enjoy being unconventional and shocking people with your offbeat opinions. No ordinary standards of what is proper will prevent you from thinking a certain way. You demand lots of mental excitement, so old or traditional ideas are not interesting to you.

Many people with Mercury in Aquarius are very good at science and mathematics, because these subjects require thinking that is quick and original as well as accurate. Your mind is objective and clear, and you do not let your emotions influence you to do something that isn't logical. In fact, you may find it very unpleasant to be around people who get carried away by their feelings. But don't let yourself believe that you have all the correct opinions. You may cling stubbornly to your own viewpoints, but try to see the merit in other people's beliefs as well.


Mercury Conjunct Midheaven

This aspect means that you have a very sharp mind, which you will use to get ahead. Very early in your life you will learn to look at the world clearly and objectively, and you will learn to communicate in ways that are very advanced for your age.

Your most important task is to be more disciplined, so that you can stick to a task long enough to get some real benefit from it.

Another possible problem is that you prefer to deal with the world through your mind rather than your feelings. This will keep you from really being in touch with some experiences in life - such as love and sensitivity to beauty - for which your mind alone is not enough.


Mercury Square Pluto

You have to be careful about how you talk to people, because they may feel that you are trying to push them into an opinion or point of view that they don't agree with. You may do this without realizing it until people react to what you say with great hostility, even though your words are innocent. You may feel that others fight you just for the sake of fighting, which may make you quite bitter. You must try very hard to speak in such a way that the other person knows that you respect his or her point of view. Don't dictate or be overly forceful in expressing your opinions. If you can learn to be gentler in your expression, you can sway people to your point of view.

You may attract other people who seem to force their beliefs upon you. They challenge you to get your thinking straight, so that you can stand up to your opponents. If others disagree with you, it does not mean that you are either wrong or right. It only means that you have to look at your own beliefs very carefully.

You are attracted to hidden matters, which may lead to an interest in the occult when you are older. But be very careful about studying such ideas, especially while you are young, because you tend to latch onto some rather wild ideas and try to make them work in your life at any cost.


Mercury Square Jupiter

This aspect usually means that you have a sharp mind and great ability to understand ideas that aren't obvious to others, but you will need a lot of discipline to make the most of it. Otherwise, your thinking is likely to be rash and sloppy, and you will jump to conclusions without knowing all the facts. Your personal habits - such as handwriting or taking care of your body and your room - may be rather sloppy. Also, in games or studies that require you to concentrate, you may not be able to keep track of what's happening, so you get tripped up by details that you overlook. You need to train yourself to work carefully with some kind of system. When you start a project, make a checklist of the steps that you might overlook and then make sure that you take care of each one. If you overlook something, don't get angry at yourself, just add it to the list.

On the plus side, you are able to put together ideas and understandings that to others seem unrelated. This will be very useful in your studies, but only if you learn to be disciplined. You are generous and optimistic, which will make people like you. But you may be a pushover for anyone who wants sympathy.

Learn to stick to every project you start and to work carefully, slowly and with much thought. Then you will get a great deal out of life.


Mercury Trine Ascendant

You like to play games that involve thinking and planning your moves, for you enjoy using your mind for fun as well as for useful work. Also you enjoy handcrafts, for you work well with your hands and with tools, and you can master difficult techniques.

You have a curious mind and want to know the answer to every question that comes up. You ask questions of grown-ups, but you also enjoy finding the answers in books. As you get older, writing may become a favorite pastime. You enjoy putting your thoughts on paper and preserving them for the future. You can express yourself clearly, and you will be even better at this later on in life.

You enjoy being with interesting people who can teach you about their wide experience of life. When you are older and more educated, you may have younger friends whom you can teach. You also prefer lively and active people to those who are quiet and more retiring. The reason for this is that you are easily bored and want to be around people who stimulate your mind, especially if they share your interests.

Hobbies may be very important to you, not just for fun but as a way to learn many useful skills. For this reason your parents should not think of your hobbies as silly. Your mind may well grow more through games and playing than through work alone.


Mercury Sextile Uranus

You have a very quick mind and love to discover new angles and ways of thinking. Discovery gives you pleasure. Some people find new ideas frightening, but you enjoy them; in fact, you are quickly bored if the same ideas are repeated over and over. This can be a problem in school subjects that require a lot of drill. However, if along with the drill come many new insights, you will remain interested. People with this aspect are often quite good at mathematics, science, and technical and mechanical fields.

You will form your own opinions very early in life, although you will probably change them as you grow older. But you always have to be free to draw your own conclusions. If someone tries to limit your thinking or keep you from thinking about certain ideas, you will be even more attracted by those forbidden ideas. The more that people try to hold you back, the more radical and unconventional you will be. You may enjoy startling people with your statements and even playing jokes, but you don't do it to be mean, as most people will understand.

Try not to be a shallow thinker. Your mind can cover a number of subjects very quickly, but you may tend to move on to something new before you have really understood the first subject. Persons who seem to learn slowly may learn more completely and thus have an advantage over you in later life. But if you can learn to discipline yourself and go slowly, you will be able to think extremely well.


Venus in the Ninth House

You enjoy any activity that allows you to enlarge your experience. You enjoy traveling to new and different places and learning about ways of thinking that are different from what you know.

You like to relate ideas and concepts to each other through a sense of harmony, because they seem to belong together rather than because they are connected logically. You are attracted only to those ways of thinking that involve human feelings. For you, beauty is a basic part of the world as it should be.


Venus in Capricorn

You keep your feelings under control, and at times you may find it difficult to make friends. This is because you express your feelings more seriously than most people your age. However, make sure that your relationships are not based solely on what others can do for you.

You are not self-indulgent and you can control your desires quite well. You will plan very carefully how to be rather thrifty. You are at your best doing everything in moderation.


Venus Square Pluto

You have very strong feelings about people, and your friendships are emotionally intense, a characteristic that will become stronger as you get older. It is very important that you find out as much as possible about yourself, your needs, what you seek from other people and why you form relationships. And it is very important to have a good opinion of yourself. This aspect signifies that you will work out many of your most important psychological problems through your relationships with others. When something goes wrong between you and a loved one, it is because of changes that are occurring within you or mental impulses that you do not yet understand. You tend to act somewhat compulsively and to follow the voice of your unconscious mind rather than your reason. Some of the attachments you form may make little sense to you or anyone else. You may even choose friends who act destructively toward you. If this happens, it is only because you have a destructive attitude toward yourself. Your inner psychological drives may also push you into unpleasant situations that you want to get out of but seem unable to. That is why it is so important to understand yourself and not lose your perspective. You always have the choice of walking away from a situation; you aren't forced to be with anyone.

Some people who master the energies of this aspect turn around and act destructively toward others, just as they were treated badly. You should avoid that course because it will isolate you from others, and eventually you will be alone.


Venus Square Saturn

This aspect is often difficult to handle in that the demands of the world always seem to get in the way of having fun and receiving love and affection from others. You often feel that persons or circumstances are forcing you to do things that you do not want to do. If this happens too often while you are young, you may become cold and indifferent toward the world. This is because it is easier to be detached from people than to have your needs constantly denied. However, you are less likely to be such a cold person if your parents give you plenty of emotional support, recognizing that you are young and that they can't demand too much of you.

Sometimes this aspect means that you feel lonely, usually because you believe you are not worthy of love. That is not true, but once this idea is fixed in your mind, it is difficult for anyone to talk you out of it. When you are older, you should be aware that your problems in relationships with the opposite sex occur because you feel unlovable, not because you really are.

You may suffer from extreme shyness, because you are afraid of being rejected. You may have difficulty expressing your feelings to the people you like, so they may pass through your life without ever knowing how you feel about them. You must learn not to worry so much about being rejected. Some people will not like you no matter how nice you are, and it does not mean that there is anything wrong with you. That is just the way it is. More than anything else, you need to have confidence in yourself.


Venus Square Mars

This aspect indicates that your feelings are very intense, particularly in relationships. It is difficult for you to like someone only a little bit. Either you like a person completely, or you are indifferent or unfriendly to them. And in all your relationships, your feelings are a mixture of love and hate, which can come out as intense anger toward those you love the most, if you have any differences of opinion. However, if you release your anger in an out- and-out fight, you quickly get over it and go back to really liking the other person.

It is very important for you to have a warm and secure relationship with your parent of the opposite sex, especially if you are a girl, although this is true of boys as well. A difficult relationship with that parent will lead to stormy relationships with persons of the opposite sex later on. The problem is that you cannot imagine love without hate and conflict, so you will try to bring those two extremes together in your later love life. There is nothing especially wrong in that, except that it becomes difficult to have long and deep relationships. Either you or your partner will get tired of the emotional and physical bruises and will leave. At worst, your later relationships may involve physical violence, but only if that is a problem in your present relationship with your father, if you are a girl, or with your mother, if you are a boy.

But if that relationship is secure, this simply indicates that you have an intense and passionate nature, and you will become involved with the opposite sex at an early age.