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The following is a condensed segment of a two-hour
conversation between Jungian astrologer, Nancy Webster, and
"Subject" during his Birth Chart session. The Subject
taped his session and transcribed it. His after-the-fact
comments regarding the interpretations have been placed in
parentheses.
The Birth Chart is a photograph of planetary positions at the
time of the individual's birth. This photograph depicts the
planetary energy pattern that becomes a template in the
subject's brain. This pattern remains throughout life even though
the planets pictured move away from their original birth positions
and will never be there again.
The planets continue their
orbit around the chart -- the outer planets, possessing
transformational energies, impact the birth chart template providing
opportunities for growth & change; they generate energy that
creates our events. The outer planets exert a powerful influence on
Earth and affect us, psychologically.
Nancy spoke of a
current planetary transit influencing Subject: "Pluto was
first making contact with Venus around the end of Nov. 'XX. That
energy recurs this year from June-Sept. Pluto signifies
death & rebirth; Venus signifies values -- how Subject shares in
relationship, stirs up Subject's issues around his feminine, his
relationship w/ mother, women & his feminine self -- for the
purpose of transformation -- dying to old patterns and allowing a
new birth into something unknown."
("Surprisingly apt correspondence:
I'm in the 6th month of an amicable separation from my
wife, made specifically for the purpose of breaking old patterns
& reestablishing connection on fresh ground. Receiving
counseling in this period I'm working on issues that brought me into
contact w/ early child patterns of abandonment. The night before, my
wife & I had a lengthy talk about our way of relating to each
other through veils of our childhood conditioning. Holy
Accuracy!")
We
talked about the inner struggle involving the polarity w/ Gemini.
Gemini focuses on immediate environment, day-to-day ideas &
sharing information for its own sake. Sagittarius is not
interested in the small details & chatting -- it wants the
broader view, deeper. This polarity depicts our 'other
side'. We know ourselves on one side -- often our partner or
some outer circumstance plays our 'other side'. Nancy gave an
example: "Subject may know himself as the deep person who
wants to exchange lofty ideals -- and attracts an individual more
concerned w/ day-to-day exchanges or who doesn't listen very
well." "Hey, my wife is a Gemini!" Nancy replied, "Yes, it's
the polarity between how she manifests her Gemini & how you
manifest your Sagittarius. The way she manifests her Gemini
reflects the your non-acceptance of your own shadow. As a
child you denied that in your life for various reasons. But
sometimes it's what you admire in
somebody. The shadow doesn't necessarily mean the 'bad' side;
it shows the hidden, unrevealed self. It's not about judgment
but about the unconscious. I asked Nancy, "So the shadow can
be an attraction? I might be attracted to a Gemini lover
because she represents the thing in myself I'm not seeing or
understanding -- yet there is obvious interest. I'm
externalizing it, so to speak?" Nancy:
"Absolutely. The shadow self is either something we admire
about another person that's unclaimed in ourselves & draws us
because of a latent recognition, or something we've condemned, a
trait we decided early on was not OK and thus was repressed."
We discussed the tensions & means for integration. We
also identified my 'typology' in terms of my skills, strengths, ways
of communicating, attraction patterns & how they interact with
those of my partner as well as how they reflected my parents'.
The reading continued for another hour entering deep, complex issues
with depth of insight & remarkableaccuracy. It revealed matters in a direct,
concise fashion, rare in our cultural & interpersonal discourse
and inestimably valuable to "Subject".
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