Hi everyone,
It’s been about five years since I’ve had a blog, and it feels so good to finally be back on the internet. Every time I have an insight, I want to write it out for the whole world to see (3rd house lord conjunct the North Node in the 10th house). Writing plus thinking equals clarity for me, and it gets me closer to putting a book together.
A few things that have been on my mind this year:
- planets in the 12th house
- Saturn being an irredeemable bully that western astrologers accord too much wisdom to.
- My type four’s derision for basic-ness, and how maybe by embracing my basic-ness, I will find the road home to myself (which is such a basic thing to say, but I’ve been humbled to learn I’m not immune to the trap that image types fall into. I thought discovering “the pale ground beneath one’s feet” in midlife only happened to type Threes.)
- The prison-like natures of t-squares
So astrology nerds don’t tend to know much about the Enneagram, if at all, but Enneagram nerds can vary quite a bit in their knowledge of astrology. I know some Enneagramers whose intelligence feels insulted when I talk about astrology, and some Enneagrammers who are fairly fluent in it, so although my intent will not be to confuse the reader, I’m sure I’ll sound cryptic to one or the other camp at least once in each post. My apologies for that, I’m trying to speak to both of you.
Another quick mini-note: In astrology, there are 12 houses, and in the Enneagram, there are 9 personality types. They do not correspond. For example, an Enneagram type three doesn’t necessarily have a busy third house, or more activity around their third house lord. One of the greatest mysteries for an astrologer to contemplate is how each expression of a birth chart can incarnate one of only nine universal personality types. If you haven’t discovered your Enneagram type, it may sound repugnant and offensive for someone to say there are only nine personality types. I understand that, but I do believe that one of the strikingly beautiful things about the Enneagram is how much complexity it contains in such surface simplicity: it offers multiple mind-blowing paradoxes, but I offer that as the “umbrella” paradox, if you will.
I truly am in love with both the Enneagram and astrology. Truly truly. Sigh.
2023 has been all about my third house, I guess because Pluto is wrapping up his tour through Capricorn, and it has been a bumpy ride. I’m sure there are a lot of astrology lovers out there who are excited for Pluto to finally leave Capricorn. My third house is my messiest house.
Here’s something I learned this year: you can have two lords of one house. In whichever house system you use, there is always a lord that rules the cusp of that house. But in Placidus, sometimes that house has a lord “within” in. For example, what we have here below. See how the ruler of the third house cusp is Capricorn, but the house of Aquarius fits neatly within the third house? That makes BOTH Saturn and Aquarius the lords of my third house. If the whole sign house system is a metaphor for heterosexual monogamous marriage, this Placidus phenomenon feels like having two dads! I consider both Saturn and Uranus to be my third house lord. I’ve never heard anyone else articulate that- does anyone else understand Placidus to work that way? It really explains my experience with third house matters.
In case that last statement didn’t make it obvious, I’m pro-Placidus for the psychological profile of the native, but I’m using Whole sign for transits, which seems to work better than Placidus.
I guess I should say a little about me- I’m an Enneagram type four, and I’m a Scorpio rising, but I have so many planets in Leo that I don’t know what to do with them all. Nice to meet all of you… I hope you’ll stay and take at least a portion of your journey with me.
