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Hi Everyone! Here is the recap of our monthly Align with the Stars call. There is a link to the recorded talk at GoodVibeAstrology.com
We are all on a hero’s journey. Do you know what yours is? Do you know what path you are ‘meant’ to be traveling?
Law of Attraction indicators of being on the ‘right-for-you’ path:
1) LIFE Feels good – life has contrasts, and we love it
2) We LISTEN to unconscious messages and adjust course as necessary
3) We CHECK in often to see if we feel FULFILLED
Astrological indicators of being on the ‘right-for-you’ path:
We are living out:
1) The Sun (as purpose and empowerment)
2) The Ascendant (as path)
3) Mars (as the engine that drives us along the path)
Think about the glyph for the Sun – It’s the circle of infinity with the (dot) individual in the middle, distinct AND part of the whole. The sun is what we are becoming. Individuation and cosmic consciousness. In everyday terms, it represents what makes us shine. Think: Empowerment.
And this can develop in different ways for different people. It doesn’t matter WHAT we do, it’s the way we do it, the reason and purpose we express through ‘it’.
The Sun rules Leo the fiery sign of creativity, the 5th house of ‘re-creation’ and linked to the physical heart.
One of the most important things you can do to know if you’re on the path, is ask:
IS MY HEART IN IT?
Ask before a first date, or 2nd or 3rd, when starting a new project or making, or breaking a commitment. The answer tells you if you are in alignment, or not.
Developing qualities of the Sign and HOUSE our sun is in, grows our distinction, sense of purpose, consciousness and well-being. The house position is WHERE we need to develop ourselves, and distinguish ourselves in some way. It is where we separate from ‘mother’ and recognize our individuality.
An activated sun is about provoking change and making choices!
This is the seat of deliberate creation. It’s causal, not reactive. We grow this energy. We develop it. This is the signature for our hero’s journey, complete with dragons, ‘obstacles’ and contrast that leads to a more solid sense of I am 
I am the universe!
Solar Power by Natal House Position
Sun in the first: Desire to make a significant impact. Develop courage, strength and vitality. Meets life with enthusiasm and gusto! Full heart energy in every action. Empowered by being seen.
Sun in the 2nd house: Desire for a sense of self-worth a tangible, Material worth - $$$ or $$ or support for a cause, talents as resources . . .Empowered by being seen for their resources, talents and practical abilities.
Sun in the 3rd house: Desire to talk, teach, share information, write, connect. Empowered by being seen for their mind and communications abilities.
Sun in the 4th house: Desire to develop emotional equilibrium and an internal locus of control. Psychic! Very sensitive and protective of home, family (tribe). Empowered by being seen for their ‘hidden nurturing and sustaining powers’ . Works in private to create huge impact.
Sun in the 5th house: Desire to develop creative self-expression. Empowered by being seen for creative fruits (visual art, literary works, performing arts, children, play therapy)
Sun in the 6th house: Desire to support, give service to and ‘heal’ others. Empowered by being seen as a ‘helper, healer, contributor.’ Helping professions!
Sun in the 7th house: Desire to cooperate and collaboration with others. Empowered by being in partnership.
Sun in the 8th house: Desire to relate intensely with others to create change. Empowered by participating in shared transformations.
Sun in the 9th: Desire to go beyond ‘information’ and find awareness and truth in abstract knowledge. The philosopher and guru. Empowered by being seen as a leaders toward new horizons.
Sun in the 10th house: Desire to be of value to the world, shine for the world. Empowered by being seen as publicly significant and useful.
Sun in the 11th house: Desire to be a leader of groups and support like minded, collective creations. Goals realized through friends and associations. Empowered by being a significant part of a collective.
Sun in the 12th house: Desire to give part of Self to serve others, bridge unconscious and conscious, personal and collective. Building an ego identity strong enough to submerge in the universal existence and infinite possibilities and still be distinct, free of resistance. Empowered by merging personal identity with something greater than one’s self.
What moves us along the path?
The Ascendant as how we INITIATE and jump into life and MARS as how we take, or don’t take, action! Look at the rising sign and Mars sign element for some general hints. Find your Ascendant and Mars tutorial here.
Fire signs - Aries, Leo, Sagittarius. Intuitive /exerting/ play/ engaging – Act, play, stir things up!
Earth signs - Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn. Pragmatic / sensation/ building/ making it ‘real’ – Work with finances, physical building, the body and body work.
Air signs - Gemini, Libra, Aquarius. Intellectual / thinking/ communicating/ relating – talk, teach, write.
Water signs - Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces. Feelings / absorbing/ merging/ empathy - healing, nurturing, bringing unconscious to light, dream working to therapist to full time parent
Mars, and the Ascendant, describe the path and actions (the method) that gets us to the Sun (purpose or fulfillment).
Link to recording at Good Vibe Astrology, is live
Questions? Comments? How do you see your purpose in life, related to your sun placement? Does Mars and your rising sign help get you there? Sometimes, it’s complicated.
Thank you, everyone, who joined us on the call and in the chat!
Thanks so much for the recap… wish I could’ve been on the call, but look forward to the recording.
No worries, Kim! The full hour recording will be up shortly on the Good Vibe Astrology site. Anyone can listen in!
Wow Kim, due to unexpectedly being called away from home and not being able to listen in live, i have just downloaded and listened to the recording of your call today. It was soooo interesting, and i think, right at the end, you were going to comment on my chart (i emailed it to you, unless there was another Jenni
).
So, in trying to understand – my sun is in Virgo in the 9th house – is that healing/helping others by leading and helping others towards new knowledge.
I initiate this by (rising Sag) stirring things up and taking action.
And I take action by (Mars Scorpio) nurturing and bringing things up into the light…
I wonder about this last bit though, Scorpio is about the hidden and dark aspects, yes?? and so I struggle with a push me pull you effect here maybe??
Would love to hear your take on it and thank you so much again. I love your work
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the recording (*it’s up at GVU for members right now, and will be available here for everyone soon*)
And, Yes, Jenni, I had your chart up and was going to talk about it if you were there (we usually let the people dialed in have the first go, then those streaming in the chart. If there is time, we talk about the charts people have sent in, though we didn’t get that far before the hour was up!
Your interpretations are spot on:
1) sun in Virgo in the 9th house – healing/helping others by leading and helping others towards new knowledge.
2) initiate this by (rising Sag) stirring things up and taking action.
3) take action by (Mars Scorpio) nurturing and bringing things up into the light…
Scorpio, and Pluto, is like nature. She loves to hide, but the ultimate there is transformation, a snake shedding her skin. Change, of any kind, gets things moving. You could change the sheets on your bed and feel more aligned.
Also, your sun is conjunct the MC, the 10th house cusp, and that means career, mission and profession is vital as well. Being a leader of the public, shining in the public eye (shedding light on the dark places for other people) is part of your fulfillment and very empowering. Mars in the 11th house says you lead the group!
I get the image of a trailblazer!
Make sense?
Thank you Kim.. I can totally relate to what you say, although trailblazing?? not sure if i have missed that boat, but I am not dead yet!! lol
I have given a lot of thought to this information, especially in the helping others bit.. i find that I am indeed a ‘leader’ in my workplace, not by classification, but because i have more highly developed skills then the others so they come to me for help.. so that totally resonates.. however
What I have been remembering, and this is totally a reoccuring pattern in my life (work and home) – is that I try to help someone, who has almost always asked for help, which is a fundemental part of myself (all that virgo i guess), and it almost always gets thrown back in my face. I almost always take it as a personal rejection also, which is probably dysfunctional- but maybe a life lesson. I wonder if i have something contradicting my need to help or leading others towards new knowledge – it almost always gets rejected. I am not insensitive, indeed i am probably too sensitive, but I am not a bulldozer that runs over everyone, I try and be as kind and helpful as I can.
But with a North Node in Gemini, and in the 6th, maybe it really is about communication and the way I go about it.
Sorry to spill my story here, but i just had a fresh episode with my adult daughter who came in and asked for my help and when i gave it, she rejected my help then got angry with me for asking why …
sigh
I do think trailblazer
The contrast around being asked for help, giving it and then having it rejected is a frustrating pattern. This is definitely complicated. Usually when we experience something counter to what we consciously desire, there is a ‘counter intention’ at the core of it all. Two or more desires flowing at the same time that contrast each other.
Part of you wants to help and the helping becomes a way to connect ( I have Moon in the 6th house and know this one very well!) but another part of you wants to treat it as knowledge ‘ for knowledge’s sake’ and not have any attachment to how it is received. Not care if or how or when they respond, or use it or understand it.
If you connect, the unattached side rebels; if you don’t; the part of you that wants to bond in the quest feels like something’s missing. Can you see how something like this could be flowing along, unconsciously?
If so, the idea would be to put awareness on it and when you’re leaning toward connection through delivering knowledge, you can practice not ‘giving a rip’ what others thing and set the free to do whatever they want, and when you’re leaning toward detachment, you can check back in, and connect with a ‘how did that go?’ Getting light and carefree with it in any case is supportive. The idea is to be flexible, able to be helpful, connected and not hang out for any particular outcome, all at once. Big call. It think it goes with the Virgo stellium square the nodes. What do you think?
Thanks so much for posting this summary Kim. Such a relevant topic for me at this time.
Gemini Sun in a toro ruled 10th wants to be recognised for achieving something tangible, for communicating something tangible.
And Mars in Leo, on my Leo Asc through play and engagement and making things happen (NOW!).
I can’t ignore Saturn there putting the breaks on though.
Although unfortunately found out today that my last bit of stability will not remain. Bye bye beautiful house. Not really tied to anything now, except the cat.
Neptune running about unpicking everything.
Shell, because we both have a Gemini sun in a Taurus ruled 10th, I pay close attention to your insights! The desire to be of tangible value is very strong. The earthy side says, ‘make it real!’
So when the tangible dissolves, it’s not a great feeling, at least at first. Sorry to hear about the home. I know that’s been hanging over you, but at least now you know, and you can move on, literally. Trusting in the unknown future is what Neptune requires.
Recently I had a similar unpicking and thought, this is NOT what I want to create, then a bit further down the track, I saw the gift in it. HUGE revelation. In hindsight, there couldn’t have been a better manifestation (though this was career related, not home).
What is unpicked can be a fresh canvas for your next manifestation!
Thanks Kim,
And yes, after spending last year trying to plan and believe the good i was putting effort into would happen, and having it all just not, I do now feel very much like ‘oh well, nothing for me to do here’. The house was essentially the end of the disolution (well I bloody well hope so), so no there is nothing clear on the horizon. I don’t know where I will be or what I will be doing. Unfortunately it’s not as freeing as it felt in younger days. Maybe because I don’t feel like running away this time.
It seems the challenge now is what I accept/allow back in. What concerns me is having to decide to do things I’ve previously decided not to do for valid ethical reasons, or because I know I what standards/trade offs I’m willing to make. Do I have to go throw all these things out the window too, just for money? I have Pluto in the 2nd (Under the Pluto sq transit), plus Venus in Toro, (with the SN on it now) I’ve always traded off money for other value, I’d kind of hope I’d learned those lessons by now and at least get to take these things through with me.
I feel a bit to old to have to lose even that.
Anyway. One foot in front if the other still. Onward.
Funny rereading my original post because ‘play’ makes me feel a bit weird. Though I do love to play, I’ve just lost a bit of it. But ‘engagement’ makes me want to roll up my sleeves and get out there and engage.
Although its 11am and I’m only just getting out of bed
Thank You for the above info. Most intriguing indeed!
Life DOES feel good to me – although this has been a very steep learning curve for big stubborn little me, but it appears I have finally found myself and my purpose in life!
My Aquarius Sun is in the Second House with firy Ascendant in Sage and airy Mars in Gemini … both only two degrees away from the following sign. However, since they make PERFECT sense to me, I guess, I can discount Cap and Cancer in this case.
Hi Doris, it’s a great feeling, being in that sweet spot of ‘purpose clear and on the path!’ Glad you’re ‘there’ and thanks for dropping by to inspire us all!
This is a lovely post Kim, really helpful to think about the symbolism of the Sun and I really like your house descriptions. I heard one of your talkshoe broadcasts a few weeks ago and found it more interesting and much more relevant to me than Radio National! (hehe). Will try to remember to listen to the next one. ‘Live’ is such fun.
Thank you, Link. That’s lovely
And yes, live is great. I try to answer all questions from caller and those streaming live . . . and those here on the blog!
This post is so helpful! I’ve struggled with understanding how to read my own sun in the first house, and what you have written is so spot on! I do finally feeling like I am on my path and feeling true to myself, as I am absolutely developing that courage and strength! And, yes, I really want to make an impact and feel a need to be seen. Yet, I still am not sure how to read the sign… Pisces. I feel like the Pisces sign is so not first house (which is probably why Pisces is intercepted there!! hah!). Aquarius ascendant – Initiative through communication (talk, teach, write). Yes! Mars in Leo – Act through exertion, intuition, and engagement. Yes!
Hi Julie, I can’t remember if I’ve seen your chart, but having your sun intercepted in the 1st house adds a lot of diverse energy. It’s a bit like having sun in the 12th house really. The sun wants to shine, be distinct and individuate; Pisces wants to dissolve the sense of separate self and merge. The interception makes it a little harder to ‘find’ (you can read about Intercepted Signs here on the blog). I think you launch out into the world to be seen, to shine and as you do, you suddenly find yourself ‘out to sea’ in Pisces’ realm.
It’s all a matter of learning house to swim those waters that you didn’t know about, at first. Pisces is the part of us that wants to connect with the greater whole, to engage love and compassion, to heal and to serve beyond the boundaries of the Ego. Sun is lie, what the heck? After all I’ve done for you, you’re going to give it away?
Again it’s a matter of finding room for both your separate identity and distinction and your sense of oneness with all life. Pisces says you can’t only be for yourself, but for others as well . . .
Here’s more on the interceptions if you haven’t seen these posts yet.
Thanks Kim! That all completely makes sense! Perhaps it’s the first house sun that gives people the impression I’m an extrovert, while I am actually very much an introvert (perhaps that’s Pisces intercepted in the first house?). I definitely feel the pull both ways – the desire for recognition and impacting others; but too much interaction and recognition depletes me, and I need to retreat to “revive,.”
I think I have sent you my chart before and you’ve used it, but I can’t seem to remember which post it was. Your interceptions post is very helpful, and I feel like I can get a basic read on it; but, I still struggle because my 1st and 7th incepted houses are the “packed” houses in my chart (1st house: mercury rx, pallas, sun conjunct pholus intercepted in pisces; psyche conjunct moon in aries. 7th house: mars rx conjunct both DC & north node in leo (slow to boil, but quick to burst… frustrating!); jupiter rx, saturn rx conjunct lilith in virgo; karma in libra). I’ve been looking at your reading offerings, and have wondered if you can help me better understand these houses, the many retrograde planets, etc. Wrapping up – I’m getting off topic! (mercury rx in pisces?) Lol!
Ah – it was the parallels and contra-parallels post that you used my chart for!
With 19 Leo rising and 17 Mars and Sun in Gemini in 10th I always wanted to be ‘famous’ or ‘seen’ in my youth but so much Neptune (inconjunct Sun and grand water trine) and an 8th house Pisces Moon seem to ‘water down’ the results. Also I was reading about dispositors and I have Venus in Taurus (on MC) which supposedly when a planet is in it’s ruling sign it is a “sole dispositor”, according to an article I read. Apart from that my Mercury in Cancer would be the final dispositor in my chart, not the most talkative, outgoing aspect, so my Sun (and Mars) struggle a bit in public.