Birch Dragon
Well-known member
Dear Everybody,
I've just bought the Liz Greene book on Neptune but as I read through it I'm hoping to connect it with whatever the AW community has to say on the subject.
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are slow moving, generational planets, and so - I often hear - their effects in our charts are usually less personal, more to do with the sweep of our lives and the generational ideas and shifts we're born to. When I go about looking for a deeper sense of how an outer planet (in this case, Neptune) is colored by the sign it's in I wind up reading things that de-emphasize the personal effects. Even the Liz Greene book doesn't really discuss signs.
But then of course we're also constantly talking about "my Pluto," "my Uranus," etc. affecting our particular personalities and lives.
Here's my question: I'm wondering what folks think about the outer planets in a personal chart particularly when they appear to be in a position that seems deeply personal, or having a deeply personal affect?
My personal reason for asking is this: A few months ago I started a deeper exploration of my own chart and, by extension, astrology in general. In the past I tended to focus on a few aspects in the chart, but astrologers on this site have been opening my eyes to wider possibilities. One of the planets I tended to neglect in my chart but I'm beginning to think is very important for me is Neptune - in my case just a degree off the I.C (on the 3rd house side). The I.C. itself is a point of the chart I've neglected. But I've seen it suggested here that the I.C. is very important, our root, "who we are." What do you do when a very personal chart point like the I.C. - no less personal than our "root," than "who we are" - is conjunct an outer, generational planet?
I've just bought the Liz Greene book on Neptune but as I read through it I'm hoping to connect it with whatever the AW community has to say on the subject.
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are slow moving, generational planets, and so - I often hear - their effects in our charts are usually less personal, more to do with the sweep of our lives and the generational ideas and shifts we're born to. When I go about looking for a deeper sense of how an outer planet (in this case, Neptune) is colored by the sign it's in I wind up reading things that de-emphasize the personal effects. Even the Liz Greene book doesn't really discuss signs.
But then of course we're also constantly talking about "my Pluto," "my Uranus," etc. affecting our particular personalities and lives.
Here's my question: I'm wondering what folks think about the outer planets in a personal chart particularly when they appear to be in a position that seems deeply personal, or having a deeply personal affect?
My personal reason for asking is this: A few months ago I started a deeper exploration of my own chart and, by extension, astrology in general. In the past I tended to focus on a few aspects in the chart, but astrologers on this site have been opening my eyes to wider possibilities. One of the planets I tended to neglect in my chart but I'm beginning to think is very important for me is Neptune - in my case just a degree off the I.C (on the 3rd house side). The I.C. itself is a point of the chart I've neglected. But I've seen it suggested here that the I.C. is very important, our root, "who we are." What do you do when a very personal chart point like the I.C. - no less personal than our "root," than "who we are" - is conjunct an outer, generational planet?