Beginner- Help on Chart?

[Caeti723]

Hi there astro-community,
I am fairly new to astrology and am looking to receive insight into my chart. I'm not so sure I have a complex/complicated chart, but I feel like a complex/complicated person.

What may be the indicators here? Also, what would be the most stressful aspects in my chart? What can I learn from them?

Does my chart suggest a sensitive person? A romantic person? A violent person?

If you could list a few things that first come to mind when you see my chart I would greatly appreciate it.


Lots of questions, I apologize.


-Caeti

[R4VEN]

Hi Caeti, and welcome.

You have a couple of things which jump out on first viewing your chart:

1. The first is your 3 personal planets in the 8th house - Sun, Mars and Venus. This may be part of the reason you feel `complicated', since the 8th house itself is quite complicated. Your Leo planets, in particular, may be somewhat dampened by them being in the 8th. The 8th house is about a lot of things - I'd suggest you read up about this house - but it is really about the requirement we all have to transcend the ego, and get in touch with deeper parts of ourselves. I would say that in part you have been born to transform yourself, which is one of the requirements of the Pluto in Scorpio generation, to which you belong. With personal planets in this house you are no doubt very sensitive .
2. Mercury-Moon conjunction in Cancer - very sensitive - opposes Neptune You may feel like you have a very thin skin when out and about amongst people. You can also be very easily led, and easily duped/deceived by others. The best way to avoid being walked over and hurt by people is to develop your intuitive sensitivity, which I imagine is very powerful, but may require some fine-tuning.
3. Mars in Leo squares Pluto in Scorpio..........this probably accounts for an ambitious nature. You have to be aware of how you come across to others, as you may tend to overwhelm others with your will.

Violent? No...... (although, with Mars in the 8th, you may have some violent fantasies which you will most likely not act out.)
Sensitive? Definitely.
Romantic? Well, you probably have a hugely complex inner life (Moon opposite Neptune) and may be prone to romanticising people and relationships......... but you may have difficulty in seeing people as they really are.

[Caeti723]

Hi Raven,
Thank you for looking over my natal chart and selecting certain points of importance for me!

I'll reply to each.

The first is your 3 personal planets in the 8th house - Sun, Mars and Venus. This may be part of the reason you feel `complicated', since the 8th house itself is quite complicated. Your Leo planets, in particular, may be somewhat dampened by them being in the 8th. The 8th house is about a lot of things - I'd suggest you read up about this house - but it is really about the requirement we all have to transcend the ego, and get in touch with deeper parts of ourselves. I would say that in part you have been born to transform yourself, which is one of the requirements of the Pluto in Scorpio generation, to which you belong. With personal planets in this house you are no doubt very sensitive .

Yeah, my 3 planets there. O_O. One astrologer has interpreted my Mercury as also being in the 8th because it's at the tail end of the 7th, but I wasn't sure if I should go with that. It's all a little confusing. I've heard the 8th is one of the most complicated houses to understand. My Leo is definitely dampened (watered down). I have no interest in most social gatherings, I have a very intense social anxiety attached to me and I do not function so hot around a lot of people. I have been a loner sort as long as I can remember, just enjoying people-watching for the good or bad. I do a lot of comparing and trying to understand how someone can live a superficial life .... I am someone who cannot fake a smile, so I am not the most smiley person. I only bring them out when my entire body can smile.

Mercury-Moon conjunction in Cancer - very sensitive - opposes Neptune You may feel like you have a very thin skin when out and about amongst people. You can also be very easily led, and easily duped/deceived by others. The best way to avoid being walked over and hurt by people is to develop your intuitive sensitivity, which I imagine is very powerful, but may require some fine-tuning.

I'd like to transform myself, meaning I'd like to work on my sensitivity but I don't think much can stick for me because I am so fixed in nature. I've tried a lot, from lousy therapists to books to testing myself. etc. I still react with sensitivity. I feel hurt daily - I have an inner critic whom is more stinging than any Scorpio could ever be. You'd think I'd be able to handle any insult or critical comment that comes my way because of this , but I can't. If I could have skin any thinner I'd be a ghost, or just plain bones.

Yep yep!

Mars in Leo squares Pluto in Scorpio..........this probably accounts for an ambitious nature. You have to be aware of how you come across to others, as you may tend to overwhelm others with your will.

I also have Sun sq. Pluto, not sure if that adds onto the strength of will, because so many people born within the Scorpio Pluto generation also experience that so, maybe it isn't too important of an aspect. I am constantly aware of my being ... I pick on myself a lot and say, "Here's Caeti, bringin' tension into a room since 1987!". Hehe. A lot of people have commented on my energy-- "Please don't sit by me, you're like lightning", "Take a few deep breaths, it feels a little tense". ETC.

So I've learned to shut myself up ... act like a mute in a room. I am still noticed though, but then I can be thought of as stupid because I choose to not speak up when i want to. It all goes both ways.

Violent? No...... (although, with Mars in the 8th, you may have some violent fantasies which you will most likely not act out.)

That's true. And I probably won't. But anyway, this reminded me of how I feel like I live a dual-life. Could you see that with my chart at all?

Dual life manifesting as...
What I put out is not what I come home to at the end of the day. Going out anywhere is a rough thing for me because I feel I have to adjust myself far too much which pulls me out of comfort.

Thanks for taking a look at my chart.

Caeti