Liquid Green said:
in response to lillys comments, i would like to know if i would be seen as a liar/deceptive to anyone on the forum......
LG,
If I saw your chart and knew nothing about you, I would make some guesses. Please bear in mind that these would be guesses only.
I never tell people "who they are" by using their charts as "proof" that my guesses are correct. In the forum itself, where I am especially careful, I ask questions. Then if the person I'm talking to confirms my hunches, great. If not, I'm going to keep an open mind. It's possible I that I've missed the boat, so to speak.
People have attempted to read my chart and have given me "advice" that has been so far off the mark, I just laughed.
So here are my astrological assumptions. You can confirm or set me straight. When two planets such as Mercury and Venus are in very close conjunction, I think of their energies as "fused together". By this I mean that it is very hard to separate them. In my case, with Sun/Neptune/Moon all in Libra, it's really hard for me to separate the energies represented by those three planets, all in the same house and sign, all conjunct.
This represents two opposite things, both true: I have a potentally HUGE capacity for self-deception, and I've had to live through several hard wake-up calls to get beyond that. I believe that happened before or by my first saturn return. (My second is just ending now, with Saturn Rx moving backwards to with a few minutes of another conjunction to my natal Saturn by transit.)
So I can lie to myself, or deceive myself by not seeing what I do not wish to see. Call that one giant pair of rose-colored glasses.
The flip side of this is incredible idealism. I was a wide-eyed kid who believe the best of everyone and was horrified by any kind of cruelty, violence, etc.
Am I liar? I definitely don't think so. Have I deceived myself in the past? Most definitely.
In my opinion, Neptune aspects, even supposedly easy ones, tend to make us more idealistic, and that can easily lead to escape of all kinds. Thus the link between Neptune and drugs. The idea is that people who are tremendously sensitized to the harshness of the world often try to use chemicals/alcohol to make it go away, to forget, to ease the hurt.
Does this mean that all people with Neptune prominent have substance abuse problems? Obviously not.
So, you have Mercury/Venus right on the AC. I see all those things as fused together, into one thing. To a great extent, I read that to mean that you are very much as you appear. Is that good or bad? Again, only you can judge.
But I would be shocked to find out that with those planets on the AC, sextile Neptune/NN, that you are not a rather idealistic person who is (or has been) hurt by the world as it is, rather than very comfortable with the world as it is.
This is certainly true for me. Neptune is a double-edged sword for just that reason. There is always compassion/escape, idealism/self-deception, illumination/delusion. It cuts both ways.
I would start there. For me, seeing the world as it is (the hard facts, the disappointing, cruel side of life) is very difficult, but it has been necessary to accept. I really don't do a very good job of it, but I cope.
I'll let you decide if there is any truth in this for you too.
Gaer