"I find joy when I indulge in material possessions" - you don't say where you Venus is, what aspects it makes....
and....don't forget the 2nd house of possessions is naturally ruled by Venus.
LIN
Gray, you said,
"I don't know how to be happy, really. I know what it is to not be happy but being happy is a difficult proposal."
I would really like to see your chart.
BTW, for anyone with prominent Virgo, part of happiness is knowing that life is in some ways, predictable and not chaotic.
Virgo is the "fixer" and Virgo is almost always happy when "fixing" something broken.
But anyway, I'd like to see your chart.
LIN
I guess it depends on how you define "happiness"
EXACTLY.....we define "happiness" according to the position and aspects to and from Venus. It's VERY personal.
LIN
But here's the thing. If one can conveniently change over to the other zodiac if the placements don't align with "personality", what is the basis of using any of them at all? There are also differences between the tropical and sidereal versions of the sign, that seem to do the job of explaining the same traits with different language. Saying that, I actually see myself quite clearly in my current tropical chart. The nakshatras are also very enlightening.
To answer your question, in sidereal I have a Scorpio Sun, Mercury and Jupiter (and pluto). I still have a Sagittarius asc with Mars and Venus conjunct. 12th house planets are Sun, Merc, and Pluto. (the rest are conjunct the asc)
I honestly don't understand how Jupiter is happiness; like others have posited, I find Jupiter to simply be expansion. Even though my natal Jupiter is combust, I've felt the expansive energies of Jupiter in transit and a lot of times it's not been pretty. Jupiter conjunct and opposite my natal Venus in transit led to me getting involved in horrific relationships, like what even..
And Jupiter is in Libra again this year (back to the sign of my natal Venus) and so far, it's been expectedly annoying. Whatever Venus issues I have just seem to get amplified by this transit.
Rex E Bills is considered, by many, to be the authority upon 'rulerships. He says that 'happiness' is Jupiter, Venus, and 5th house.
I totally understand why Jupiter would indicate happiness. Here are some of the things ruled by Jupiter:
auspiciousness, benefactors, betterment, cheerfulness, charitable actions, compensation, contributions, devotion, donations, higher education, endowments, enhancements, enthusiasm, esteem, etiquette, excellence, extravagance, faith, fairness, good fortune, fruitfulness, generosity, genuineness, glory, goodness, good will, gratitude, growth, happiness, harmony in life, harvests, honesty, honor, hope, hospitality, humor, idealism, integrity, joviality, jubilation, judiciousness, lavishness, legitimacy, loyalty, luck, luxury, mercy, mirth, optimism, philanthropy, plenty, politeness, praise, prestige, principles, profit, prosperity, protection, purity, quality, redemption, religion, restitution, reverence, riches ,serenity, sincerity, sociability, spirituality, successes, temperance, trust, truthfulness, values, virtue, vindication, verifications, vows, wealth, wisdom, worthiness
If someone has just some of the above qualities/circumstances/virtues, then they would probably be considered HAPPY....
Personally, a 12th house Sun doesn't sound very happy to me, no matter what sign it's in. The 12th house isn't a very happy place to me.
In another thread, I forget which one, you made a post about how each sign functions differently in the different houses. You gave the example that a 9th house Pisces would cause the spiritual side of Pisces to come out while a 5th house Pisces would cause the fun-loving side of Pisces and an 8th house Pisces would cause the more self-sacrificing side to Pisces. I agree with this view. I would imagine a 12th house Sagittarius would be the spiritual, more exploratory (particularly in relation to all that is hidden including magic, astrology, etc.) side to Sag, a 5th house Sagittarius may be the more "happy" fun loving type.
I remember saying it but I forgot which thread too. it's what I notice in my chart reads. Another one that I see is Cancer in 3rd (with planets therein) seem to indicate someone with writing interests.
I kind of expect Cancer in 3rd is more of a moody lunarian artist, while 5 dotes on children and 10 is the fiercely protective one. I don't know.
And Jupiter is in Libra again this year (back to the sign of my natal Venus) and so far, it's been expectedly annoying. Whatever Venus issues I have just seem to get amplified by this transit.
Hi Graay,
Looking at your chart I can see very EASILY the thing about post success letdown!
The grand cross (esp. incl. Merc) is SO difficult. And in fixed signs.....it's hard to laugh at oneself. Which is really important for fixed signs.
You have some very nice aspects....but they are offset (psychologically) by the squares which also are involved. For instance: Pluto trine Sun, Mars trine Uranus -Neptune.
Pluto is in the grand cross....Mars is in the grand cross....
But...you DO have Uranus, Neptune and Moon trine Jupiter....which just goes to show that Jupiter does not automatically make you happy.
Venus in your chart is at the last degree of Cancer...in Neptune's decanate. So Venus is sort of disconnected. You have to wait until there's a good transit to Venus to activate that.
But...I think you probably began to experience that let down - let's call it - in childhood. Perhaps you didn't get the validation and positive reinforcement you needed from the adults in your life. Maybe the opposite. Whatever you did was not quite good enough for praise?
Are you male or female?
LIN
Is English your native language?