More like a cancer?

[gemily]

I've been trying to study and figure out why I feel more like a sun sign cancer than a gemini. I have become so much more withdrawn than I used to be and so insecure in love. Does Venus in Cancer in Retrograde have anything to do with this? I'm also still trying to learn more about the planets and signs in houses.

[astrologer50]

I've been trying to study and figure out why I feel more like a sun sign cancer than a gemini. I have become so much more withdrawn than I used to be and so insecure in love. Does Venus in Cancer in Retrograde have anything to do with this? I'm also still trying to learn more about the planets and signs in houses.

Your progressed sun is 17' degrees in Cancer so for first 21years gemini (only 30' in sign and 30' in house Equal house :kissing:) plus venus and mars in cancer

I notice you put 6pm as a time of birth? is this correct? really no one is born (or very rarely) on the o'clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past.

You need to understand there is far far more to astrology than just ‘sun signs’ firstly there are 10planets in the sky and 12houses and any one of these 10planets can be in any one of these 12 houses – so there’s 144 possible combinations there –

Basic astrology
Now basically your sun sign is your 'core beliefs, values, ego' and Asc is your physical body, mode of expression and mask and persona that we all wear and hide behind, but definitely not what's going on underneath. What's going on underneath is your Sun sign. Moon sign, house placements and aspects describe your emotional and intuitive responses, also describes your view of your mother, as saturn describes your father by sign and house position.

So, think of a glass milk bottle the bottle is your Asc and your sun the milk, but the milk still has to 'come out' through the glass neck of the milk bottle....

Now aspects within a natal chart represent 'facets' of our personality, because we are all multifaceted beings. What these do is 'break down and compartmentalise' these facets into smaller bite size chunks. This does take quite a lot of self analysis and objectivity to 'see yourself' and why you do certain things and behave in certain ways. Actually it can be quite good therapy...

Remember back to your school days an opposition is 180', square 90', trine 120', and sextile 60' Now challenged aspects are conj (depending on the planets, cos some like each other and some really don't) squares and oppositions. Easy aspects are conj (if the planets get along) eg: Jupiter conj Moon, sextile and trine. Quincunx is inbetween (depending on the planets) causes health strains and unresolved or hard to balance planets/energies.

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house meanings
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http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h1.html (http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h1.html)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(astrology) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(astrology))
http://www.astro.com/astrology/in_house2_e.htm (http://www.astro.com/astrology/in_house2_e.htm)
http://www.skyviewzone.com/astrology/houses.htm (http://www.skyviewzone.com/astrology/houses.htm)

Natal chart aspects
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/sunaspects.html (http://www.skyscript.co.uk/sunaspects.html)
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/aspects2.html (http://www.skyscript.co.uk/aspects2.html)
http://www.cafeastrology.com/natal/planetsaspectsastrology.html (http://www.cafeastrology.com/natal/planetsaspectsastrology.html)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_aspect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_aspect)
http://www.astro.com/astrology/in_aspect_e.htm (http://www.astro.com/astrology/in_aspect_e.htm)
http://www.skyviewzone.com/astrology/aspectsreference.htm (http://www.skyviewzone.com/astrology/aspectsreference.htm)
http://www.skyviewzone.com/astrology/aspectssun.htm (http://www.skyviewzone.com/astrology/aspectssun.htm)
http://astrologynotes.org/wiki/Sun_aspects

planets in houses
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[astrologer50]

I wouldn't describe you as a typical gemini either as your sun is conj Saturn, making you an honorary Saturn/Capricorn, then placed in 8th house naturally ruled by scorpio, a deeply private analytical sign/house

Also, you neptune is a singleton ie: only planet in fire, which the chart lacks this element
Singleton planets
“If a planet happens to be the only one in an element, quality, or house type, that planet is a Singleton and it can funnel all of the “energy” of the horoscope. This planet is often the most important one in the horoscope. In other words, if you just interpret the position of this one planet by sign, house, and aspect, you will get to the “heart of the horoscope”. The effect is the same as if that planet were the only one on one side of the chart.”
http://www.bobmarksastrologer.com/13.0Singletons.htm (http://www.bobmarksastrologer.com/13.0Singletons.htm)
http://www.astrologyclub.org (http://www.astrologyclub.org/)
http://en.mimi.hu/astrology/singleton.html (http://en.mimi.hu/astrology/singleton.html)
http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-2334.html (http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-2334.html)
(There is a book out by Shirley Lyons Meier, "Elemental Voids, More than Meets the Eye", which gives a good discussion of missing elements.) The Inferior Function can be a source of great motivation and creative expression.
http://www.astrologyclub.org/articles/singletons/intro/singleton_intro.htm (http://www.astrologyclub.org/articles/singletons/intro/singleton_intro.htm)

Lack of elements http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18077 (http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18077)
http://www.astrology-numerology.com/elements.html (http://www.astrology-numerology.com/elements.html)
http://www.astrology.aryabhatt.com/Astrology_Elements.asp (http://www.astrology.aryabhatt.com/Astrology_Elements.asp)
http://www.bobmarksastrologer.com/EmptyElement12.1.htm (http://www.bobmarksastrologer.com/EmptyElement12.1.htm)
http://www.astrologyclub.org/article.../inferior2.htm (http://www.astrologyclub.org/article.../inferior2.htm)

Sun opp Neptune also modifies your gemini energy. Remember planet is modified by sign, where is house and how are the 'aspects'

[gemily]

I checked with my mom on my birth time, and she said that I was actually born at 5:58pm, but the doctor recorded 6:00pm. Funny, I never knew this or even thought to ask!

[astrologer50]

You have quite a few planets conj house cusps in particular, venus, mercury and jupiter are all within 5' of house cusp going anti clockwise and this suggests those planets energies are more effective in the next house along...

Planets conjunct a house cusp
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Planets conj House cusp
“Ascendant at 15’ Libra and Jupiter 13’ Libra. That would place Jupiter in the 12th house, right? But many thoughtful astrologers would read this as Jupiter being conjunction with Ascendant, and end up reading it as bringing its action to bear in the first house, rather than in the 12th.
This same idea would apply for each and every house cusp. If the planet is IN THE SAME SIGN as the sign on the next house cusp, and close enough to be CONJUNCT WITH that next house cusp, the action of the planet will be directed into oncoming house”
http://www.astrology-numerology.com/inhouses.html (http://www.astrology-numerology.com/inhouses.html)

http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14887 (http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14887)

http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showpost.php?p=125412&postcount=4 (http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showpost.php?p=125412&postcount=4)

Ptolemy says the influence of the house begins to be felt 5° before the actual cusp.
http://www.astrologycom.com/houses.html (http://www.astrologycom.com/houses.html)