thank you very much, masterbuilder. you really hit a lot of homers in my book!!!!
i don't think astrology can give much window as far as people being "gay" "straight" or something "in-between." i don't think astrology can even show if a person is going to have a sex change or if they'll get their eyebrows perfectly waxed, or have a food allergy. astrology show the kind of energy and propensities you're born with so certain things could be easier for you, whereas, there's certain danger zones. nonetheless, a lot, if not most falls under free will and personal choices.
masculinity and feminism fall under social conditioning which changes over time depending on what the society deems "appropriate." society hasn't been sure about anything in the past 30 years or even longer. pretty much all my life i've been hearing about deconstructing everything and picking everything apart 1 by 1 and zeroing in that 1 particularity to be the problem or answer to the whole conundrum. life isn't simplified like that and neither are people. i don't quite understand why society has gotten to the point of obsessive nitpicking and wanting to label each and every single thing under the sun rather than just live and let live. the overwhelming necessity that people act out on is to compare and contrast themselves with what everyone else is doing and falling in line has become the utmost of priorities now.
but then again, it goes back to ambiguity and the uncertainty of what tomorrow brings and no one really wants to get left behind. as a society now, the way we live now, we've gotten comfortable about everything providing for us that we don't have to work hard to get anything anymore. there's a huge sense of self-entitlement to everything- being love, getting acceptance, having accolades, etc. without any actual hard work to earn any of it. it's like, why wait for someone to throw a party for me when i can throw one in my honor- that type of mentality is rampant. it's really sickening. because we're not busy working on anything of actual substance and have everything provided for, we have more time to ponder on useless topics that doesn't improve our lives in the very least- like who's gay and who's not. frankly, i don't care who's gay, who's having sex with who, who's in the closet, who's not doing what; all of that is completely irrelevant to me living my life.
this goes back to what was previous posted. my dad has libra mars and is taurus rising. my dad has 4 scorpio planet stellium in the 7th house which includes his venus. my dad's chart is mostly "feminine." he was born in the 50s and was part of the leo pluto generation. my dad has never as so much look, act, or sound "effeminate" in the entire time i've known him. granted, my dad is a well-groomed man, but like i said, he grew up in a generation that actually CARED about one presents oneself to the public. my dad isn't even "soft" in behavior either. sometimes my dad say mean things to me and my mom and he doesn't even mean it. when i say rude things to him (by accident or on purpose) he usually shrugs it off. it's just how my dad was raised in his family during the 50s and 60s generation where there were clear and definite definitions as what it's like to be a man or a woman. my dad took a lot of cr@p from me and my mom because he was raised that a man doesn't get bothered by petty things and the man should be generous and make more allowances to the woman.
on the other side of the pond,
i have a masculine chart of masculine rising with 3 masculine planets in the 1st house and 2 masculine planets conjuncting my rising. there are a total 6 air planets and 1 fire. all my masculine planets fall into the masculine houses and my 3 feminine planets fall into feminine houses. my venus is masculine but my mars is feminine. i don't look, act, nor sound masculine in the least. as a matter of fact, men who like women who are traditionally feminine will approach me first. now, i don't go around prancing in sun dresses and singing doris day, but my moves and mannerisms are soft and feminine. however, since i have mostly masculine energy in my chart, i think very masculine and despite my feminine pisces moon, i can easily cut people out of my life without thinking twice (masculine trait). again, if people were to check out my chart, they would think that i'd be a guy. i grew up with parents who are both part of the leo pluto generation and gave me very clearly defined definitions of what a man is and does and what a woman is and does. although i'm not a conformist, i do pay homage and quite thankful my parents at least gave me some sense of definition. that's probably why i don't tend to waver and oscillate so much like how other people born in the 80s (and afterwards) with being so uncertain about everything.
