Thanks Mia and AM for your responses,
Mia,
It is interesting that you would consider that my Vx conjunct my Sun would make my life more 'fated' in a general sense. I'm not sure what I make of this. I suppose it depends upon what a person's definition of fate is.
If is does mean that my life is more fated, I would find this quite worrying, as surely this would mean that I have less capacity for free-will in my existence.
The way I see it, fate is that which we cannot change and have no choice about in life. Examples of this would be, the sex we are born, our parents and family, our class, physicality, intelligence and genetic inheritance and so on.
Therefore, we all have fate - there is no more or less about it.
At the other end of the scale we have destiny, which I would interpret to be defined as the best we can possibly make of our lives given our unalterable fate. We can achieve our destiny with varying degrees of success, depending upon how we have used free-will to play the best game we can with the hand of cards we have been dealt, which is our fate.
The fate we find ourselve's with in this life is purely dependent upon what we made of our destiny in the prior existence - whatever or wherever that was.
The greater destiny we attain in this existence according to the fate which we prescribed ourselves due to the way we utilised free-will last time, will determine the quality of the fate we have to work with next time round.
Basically, I am on about karma I suppose.
This is an easy concept to imagine, but a little difficult to describe. I hope I 'm making sense. :?
I find it difficult to just slap the basic meaning of 'fate' upon the Vx, as the way I see it, I consider the South and North nodes to be the 'axis of fate and destiny'.
That is to say, the South node is the place of fate, it is where we have already been, what we already have to work with, and that which is unalterable, our raw materials with which to fashion our lives for better or worse. So for me, the Vx can't just usurp this position, although I'm prepared to accept it may compliment it.
The North node is the place of destiny, telling us where to direct our free-will in order to capitalise upon and make the best of our given fate. This would be why the North node is always given greater attention than the South, after all, where we are going is surely more important than what we already have and where we have already been.
Perhaps you are right to say that the Vx conjunct my Sun has something to do with my fate, but why and in what way in particular? Why would the Vx not be 'destiny' instead of 'fate'? After all, it is the positive polarity to the anti-vertex, and therefore more forward going. As such would Vx not compliment the NN in some respect, and the anti Vx the SN?
AM,
Thankyou for the link. There is a lot to read there and I haven't got through it all yet, but it is good food for thought and interesting to see what others are thinking about this intriguing aspect of a chart.
The post to Mia is to you as well, and I wonder what you or any other reader thinks about this.
In the mean time, does anyone have any alternative ideas as to what the Vx conjunct the Sun may mean?
Cheers,
Draco