I've got Merc in Pisces and Venus in Aries...
Also, I was thinking about this recently: since detriment Mars in Taurus has a reputation for being slow and plodding, do you think that having a lot of squares in one's chart can add a sort of cardinal quality to the person that might offset Mars' problem? I'm asking specifically because of Madonna's chart (whom I love as an entertainer, by the way). I was surprised to learn that she has Mars in Taurus because she's known for having a lot of get-up-and-go and has admitted that she's more of a let's-move-on-now kind of person. But I wonder if that's due to the preponderance of squares in her chart; she's got a lot! And she's got a lot of dynamic ones--for example, Sun square Mars and Mars square Uranus. Do you think her squares can act as a bolster to her 'slow' Mars in Taurus?
Keep in mind, I was talking about how the Major planets (Sun/Mars/Saturn/Jupiter) have power to modify all the Dependent planets (Moon/Mercury/Venus) and if the Major planets are in exile (or worst, fallen) there's very few redeeming possibilities. I mentioned briefly that if the Sun is detriment or fallen but if the other Major planets are able to assist, it can "lessen" the damages that the Sun causes. It's a general concept.
Pisces Mercury.... now that's a real problem. Mercury is the only planet out of all of the planets (and I'm NOT including the outer planets because they're modern and generational anyway) that is gender "neutral," meaning that it neither exists as masculine or feminine and can take on either gender depending upon the native's chart. With the exception of the luminaries, all the other planets rules 2 signs and Mercury rules Gemini (Air) and Virgo (Earth). Because Mercury rules those 2 signs, Gemini and Virgo are automatically Mercury's domiciles. However, I've maintained that originally, Mercury is the only planet that does not have an exaltation and therefore, cannot have a fall. At some point, probably Ptolemy, whom I think is wrong on many levels, assigned Virgo as Mercury's exaltation. The reason why I SO VERY STRONGLY OBJECT to that squirrelly assignment is because
1. Mercury in Virgo is already a domicile and NO other planet has a domicile serve as its exaltation either. Ridiculous.
2. The element of mutable Earth is still extremely slow...much slower than even Fixed Air (Aquarius) and Fixed Air, has no dignity in Mercury. So why would Mercury, a mutable planet, heralded as being the fastest planet, really "exalt" in a rather slow sign? Makes no sense whatsoever.
3. To accept that Virgo is both domicile and exaltation in Mercury is to say that it's an infallible Mercury and would therefore be stronger than Mercury's other domicile of Gemini. Gemini is the fastest sign as Mutable Air- you can't get any faster than that. Virgo is the fastest of the Earth signs, but elementally, Earth is the slowest element and Mutable Earth is the weakest of the Earth signs. Why would the weakest sign of the slowest element be exalted in the fastest planet?
If there is acceptance of Virgo as both domicile and exaltation in Mercury, that is also to say that Pisces Mercury is both in exile and depressed. I reject this notion, as there's no such Mercury that is not "repairable." I maintain that Pisces Mercury (and Sagittarius Mercury) to be only in exile and they must make do with their foreign landscape.
No one has ever been able to answer my questions which shows to me that there is very little reasoning to even support Virgo Mercury as exaltation, which therefore, cancels out Pisces Mercury's fallen status.
Your Pisces Mercury is in exile and as for Aries Venus, she's also exiled. You've also got Gemini Jupiter, he's in exile, too. The major planets in your chart that can "counter" the detriments is Sun, of which you have in exaltation, domiciled Saturn which can give structural support, and Mars which is squirrelly but is NOT of any debility. You have 2 minor planets in debility, which could be lessened if the major planets you have offer assistance and modify the exile status to be a bit less uncomfortable... As for Jupiter being in detriment, you have to fall back on domiciled Saturn. That may not be of comfort, but Saturn's rewards are longer lasting and stronger than Jupiter's... but Saturn's rewards requires a lot of time.
So the Material Girl has Taurus Mars... what's so shocking about it? She likes couture and fabulous luxurious things. Madonna's Mars is accidentally dignified in an angular house which means her Mars totally does initiate action and because it's in Taurus, it is concerned with artistry and $$$$. Her Saturn is the most elevated planet in her chart being close to the MC which only makes sense as she's worked very long and hard in the business and continues to stay on top of her (fun) profession (since Saturn is in Sagittarius). Her Mars is in Mercury's terms and her Mercury is domiciled in Virgo. Mars is in the face of the Moon and her Moon is in Virgo. Virgo Moon is friends to both domiciled Moon (Cancer) and exalted Moon (Taurus). Just from from all that, you can tell a person with her chart has a very clear and clever concept of how to achieve their desires.
The Queen of Pop should only fittingly have Taurus Mars as the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, also had Taurus Mars. As a matter of fact, they were born less than a month apart. Oh, and Belinda Carlisle (of the Go-Gos) was born a day after Madonna and they both have the same rising/chart set up but different Moon signs. They all have Taurus Mars and they were all go-go-go personalities. They did not have the same aspects to their Mars but all achieved extremely high levels of success in their profession.
As for what I think about Madonna's squares... not much, no more than what I think of squares in general. Square energy produces internal dissatisfaction with oneself and it's up to the native to either take action and do something about that dissatisfaction or let it hinder them. But there's no way to know exactly if a person will take it upon them to correct stuff about themselves that they wish to change or they let all that dissatisfaction overwhelm them.
By aspects, I have Taurus Mars opposite Scorpio Uranus, trine Libra Jupiter and Saturn, and sextile Moon. Although I don't have much internal dissatisfaction (possibly none) as far as Mars energy go, I'm still high energy. My Mars is in Mars' term, which means my Mars functions similarly to Mars in rulership. I do get into crazy antics and I do stuff just to do them... which is not "normal" for standard Taurus Mars. My Mars is in the face of Saturn, by which my Saturn is exalted and trines Mars. Mars in the face of Saturn actually modifies and fine tunes Mars energy into something a bit more "refined" so I'm actually quite good at doing what I do... for better or worse.
Taurus Mars is only "slow" in the sense of taking action just for the sake of taking action. To us, we think that's wasteful and we would rather just sit and wait for something else to come along before we get so worked up over what could very well be nothing- and that's precisely the reason why Taurus Mars "in exile" because it goes counters to Mars' natural choleric temperament of action just for action's sake (with no goal or thought in mind). The point is, there needs to be a REASON to act. All other levels of Taurus Mars can actually rival Scorpio Mars (Mars' other rulership). Taurus-Scorpio are the $$$ signs, remember? They're concerned with profit and getting ahead. Taurus Mars needs to know that their action will be part of a profitable investment (whereas Scorpio translates profit into power and control). Once decisions have been made, we operate on tunnel vision mode and go with it until we've blown it to smithereens.
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