Anyways, if anyone can lend any insight on the bucket shaped chart and having the handle in the seventh house (in Mars/Gemini) I'd appreciate it. Please know also that I'm not really a relationship person as I'd rather focus my time on career and personal development. This is what is tripping me up having the "handle" in the house of partnerships. Isn't the handle where I should be focusing my energy? I'm confused.
I can see why you might feel confused about your 7th house. There are 3 placements in your 7th, and they are contradictory to each other in some ways.
Mars, Juno and the South Node are all together in late Gemini in your 7th, and part of the funnel to your Bucket chart. But each of them has their own specific energy and 7th house needs, and they don’t easily mesh with each other.
And they are greatly emphasised in the chart because of that funnel position.
We can start by looking at the Bucket pattern here. MOST of your chart is in the Eastern hemisphere And is nicely aspected with several trines and sextiles.
So you have the enviable ability to make things happen, even when under stress and pressure that would overwhelm most people. You have the ability to pave your own way. You’re highly independent, intelligent and perceptive—but you may also be impatient with people who can’t seem to call the shots the way you can.
In a bucket pattern, the handle or funnel, is extremely powerful. It becomes the focus of the chart. Because its needs are always paramount, Marc Edmund Jones compared that lone planet to a ‘toothache.’ It commands attention—and it hurts. By sign and by house, it acts as a counterweight to the rest of the chart.
Your toothache is in the Western Hemisphere.
Western funnel=you’re more dependent on circumstances than you want to be and/or appear to be.
It falls in your 7th:You may need to be more opportunistic and spontaneous, especially in terms of partnerships. When upset, you may feel that you must bend to the demands of others in order to succeed.And that makes you feel uncomfortable.
So your handle falls in the 7th and is made up of three components:Mars, So Node and Juno.
This is where the confusion comes in…Mars and Juno are very different animals.
Juno=
Bonding, partnership, royalty, queen, leadership, conception, union, pregnancy, birth, attentiveness, values,*loyalty*
Mars= Independent, Life force, Animal instincts, Masculinity,
Passion, Physical energy, Courage, Goal-oriented, Action, Aggression
Initiative, Survival instinct
So those two placements in Gemini have to try and merge even though they are almost polar opposites. And then we add in the South Node.
South Node=
The familiar, Our comfort Zone, Our instincts, Where we came from, What we already know….
Yikes, more COMPLEXITY in your 7th house. I find it so interesting because of the contra-indications.
Mars being in the 7th, and being the funnel planet, at first blush I would say you are ’supposed’ to be putting energy into personal relations and partnerships and learning to accept love and romance, but without having to make a formal commitment, since there is a strong need for independence.
And yet Juno there is a vote for love and union and a stable commitment which could give you a strong foundation.
But then the South Node checks in and seems to imply that you already checked those boxes in previous incarnations. And you are capable of having a relationship if you desire, but your north Node in Sag in the first is asking you to focus on your own SPIRITUAL quest and progress. North Node in Sag requires travel and research and learning about other cultures and religions in this lifetime.
So it seems that you already figured that out.
You are still very young. Perhaps there will be a pivot at some point and your perfect Juno partner will appear, and the focus will shift...