Is Venus conjunct Ascendant here?

Hi you guys!

So I have mars conjunct my AC, even though my AC is in gemini and my mars is in cancer. What I was wondering about is this:
how does it affect my ascendant that mars is conjunct it, but in another sign?

Also, as you can see, I have venus conjunct mars as well, but venus is so late in its house that I've heard it should be considered to be in the 2nd house and not 1st house?

Does this also mean that Venus is not conjunct my AC? Even though its conjunct mars also?

humblingstar said:

Hi you guys!

So I have mars conjunct my AC
even though my AC is in gemini
and my mars is in cancer.
What I was wondering about is this:
how does it affect my ascendant
that mars is conjunct it, but in another sign?

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Many beginners are confused by exactly your kind of situation
however
there is an easy answer
and that is to be aware that
House location of a natal planet can change
dependent on the house system chosen
easily verify that fact at astro.com's Extended Chart Selection Page
there, fourteen of the more popular house systems currently in use
are options

Placidus is simply the default

to view how that works in practice
create your natal chart using WHOLE SIGN HOUSES option
on the EXTENDED CHART SELECTION PAGE
then
compare same natal chart using Placidus option
notice now that MARS is now in 2nd HOUSE
because
Whole Sign House ascendant sign
becomes
the whole first house
and the other houses follow.
ASCENDANT POINT ITSELF can then fall anywhere in the first house
and
MIDHEAVEN POINT anywhere in the upper half of the chart

There are at least twenty or thirty different house systems
or means of dividing the so-called "birthchart"
into twelve segments of life activity.
In astrology, houses, mansions, or domains
represent general areas of life activity
and are the grounding areas or arenas of expression for planets.

Originally, the words "houses" and "signs" were interchangeable.
A planet in the SIGN of Aries
was also a planet in the HOUSE of Aries
so that in effect houses as we know them today did not exist
Artificial divisions now known as houses
were attempts by early Greeks and Hindus
to measure strength "points" in the horoscope
which during 7th and 8th centuries AD were construed
or confused
as means of dividing the birth chart.
The ascendant and midheaven degrees and their opposites
were definite power points or areas of intense focus
but not necessarily the beginnings of a house or quadrant

WHOLE SIGN HOUSE system was used by the ancient Greeks
and the Hindus (who still use it today).
It is the oldest and simplest house system in existence
and immediately eliminates the awful mess astrologers have made
on the issue over the last 1300 years or so

humblingstar said:

Also, as you can see, I have venus conjunct mars as well
but venus is so late in its house
that I've heard it should be considered to be in the 2nd house
and not 1st house?

Does this also mean that Venus is not conjunct my AC?
Even though its conjunct mars also?

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If you view your natal chart using WHOLE SIGN HOUSES
you now are able to clearly notice
that VENUS, MARS AND MOON are all in 2nd natal HOUSE
fact is
you have a late GEMINI ascendant
however you have no planets in Gemini
UNLESS you are a SIDEREAL astrologer