Joe Smith

Jan 1, 1950, 7:24:10 Sunrise Chart

Bellerose, NY (40N43, 73W43)

Interpretation text by Henry Seltzer

 

Today's Astrological Influences
Moon in strong trine with natal Mercury (exact at 11:15 am)
From about three hours before the above time to about two hours after.

Today any form of communication, including your thought process, is especially important to you. You are may be moved during these few hours to express your feelings in words. You have better access to your emotions than usual, making it a good time for communication between yourself and an intimate partner. You will be able to express what you truly feel and that is important for achieving rapport. Since you have such immediate access to your mental process, you will also be better equipped to deal with friends and associates, and especially the public. You will be adept at all forms of thinking and handiwork during this brief period.

Moon in strong conjunction with natal Mars (exact at 15:39 )
From about three hours before the above time to about two hours after.

Your ego assertion and outward-directed activity are more emotionally charged for you today. You will have no trouble expressing your feelings, and you may in fact need to reflect before flying off the handle with anger that you may regret later. It is also important not to bottle up your emotions, so that it is best to steer a middle course, by saying what is on your mind, but not so offensively that you burn your relationship bridges for later on. There is a way to be diplomatic and to make requests instead of demands. Definite action is a more comfortable mode of operation than sitting back and awaiting events right now. Your initiative is at an all-time high during this period, and it is a great time to charge ahead with projects. During the few hours of this transit, your attitude will be very damn the torpedoes, and full speed ahead.

Moon in strong square with natal Uranus (exact at 16:07 )
From about three hours before the above time to about two hours after.

Feelings of restlessness could come up for you today. Your emotions might be subject to some abrupt changes during the few hours that this transit is in effect. You could find that something about your residence has altered during the day today, or there may be issues with your family or a significant female figure in your life that change suddenly. You are likely to have new spiritual insights as well, or perhaps may notice that your will to be different is more powerful than usual right now.

Mars in strong square with natal Mercury

Strongest from 5/28/09 to 6/3/09.

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time.

This week-long transit will have the effect of increasing your verbal punch, or the energy with which you express your ideas. You may find yourself becoming sharp tongued with people at this time. Your mind and intellect are affected, as well as your communication generally, such as written messages or conversations, also talking with friends and associates. These areas of your life will be energized and ego issues brought to bear on them during the relatively brief period of time this transit is in effect. You have an unusually forceful and strong-willed stance in your communication with others right now. It is good for trying to get your ideas across or a plan in motion when other people need to be convinced. However, you need to beware of being overly critical with friends and associates during this time. There may be difficulties that arise in your communication with other people, and conflict is a distinct possibility. Greater energy is also available for friends or perhaps for thinking about the direction of your life force.

Moon in Libra, in the Ninth House

During this period of time, lasting just two days, you may feel the urge to travel, and to engage the freedomloving side of your personality. The world around you seems fresh and exciting and you will learn much from your experiences. You may also choose to explore your world mentally, through study, never leaving the security of your armchair. Or you may feel restless. You are engaging your higher mind in service to your emotional nature. There is a new point of view available to you right now, and you benefit from exploring it.

 

Long-term Influences

The following paragraphs appear in your InfiniteQuest personal daily horoscope for a period that is indicated by the dates shown. These are your long-term transits, planetary cycles that are profoundly affecting your life. You can consider these important influences as background settings for the unfolding of major themes in your personal development. Look upon the shorter-term, daily transits of the quicker moving planets and the Moon as actors who appear more briefly on the stage of your life.

Saturn in strong square with natal Chiron

Strongest from 9/19/08 to 10/23/08; from 3/15/09 to 7/16/09.

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time.

Your psyche is subject to a stressful and potentially vitalizing time, as the very structure of your life is subject to painful realizations, leading to great changes in your self-concept. At this time also, difficulties with authority figures may emerge, or your relationship with your father may challenging, or the way you live your life in relation to the structure of society itself may be coming to a point where changes that have been in the works for some time are ready to burst forth into your conscious awareness. There may be old wounds with your father, or with the parental care and discipline you received in early childhood, that re-emerge at this time, hopefully for purposes of healing these issues and the potentially debilitating effects that they may have on your life. At this time also, the self-concept that you have had up to now may be changing, leading to a renewed sense of your own healing potential. Through a slow concentrated effort you may begin to connect with a higher purpose in the work that you do at this time, especially if this work involves helping people to heal in some way, and to grow in their own understanding of who they really are.

Pluto in strong square with natal Mars

Strongest from 2/9/08 to 5/28/08; from 12/8/08 to 2/2/10; from 6/13/10 to 12/6/10.

The planetary energies conflict; internal and creative tensions bring rich rewards through effort over time.

Your sense of assertion and your goal-directed activity will be subject to drastic changes at this time, for the purpose of bringing to light the inner workings of repressed impulses you may have in these areas. The life factors of outward-directed activity, assertiveness and also animal passion are now subject to transformation. The changes forced upon you at this time can be difficult and painful. This is a stressful time which is ultimately productive of far-reaching reorganization, as you feel yourself directly challenged by inner processes that seem about to overwhelm your fragile ego. Compulsive or control-oriented behavior that normally lies beneath the surface of your conscious awareness may come up for you right now. This may be a sign that you are ready to outgrow these behaviors, which may be carry-overs from the distant past, and no longer appropriate to your present level of maturity. Assumptions you have lived by up until this time may crumble now, and you desperately seek a firm place to stand and from which to re-build your life concepts. You benefit from allowing yourself to have faith in your own process, to guide you through these shattering events to emerge on the other side of them, calm once more, and even more wholly yourself than before you went through them.

Pluto in strong opposition with natal Uranus

Strongest from 2/19/08 to 5/16/08; from 12/15/08 to 9/4/09; from 9/18/09 to 2/11/10; from 6/2/10 to 12/13/10.

The planetary energies are polarized; outer events stimulate their interaction; integration is the challenge.

You may experience a discontinuity in your life at this time, as something that arises out of your deep unconscious suddenly comes into view, and a big piece of yourself changes. You will undoubtedly have profound spiritual insights as a result of the revelations of this period. This transit represents a dramatic transformation to the expression in your life of your personal freedom, your will to be different or your ability just to be uniquely yourself. You are discovering new facets of your urge for freedom and spontaneity during the course of this transit. Attitudes of restlessness may come up for you right now, perhaps even the feeling of spinning out of control. You are likely to experience a crisis of some sort at this time, which will have the effect of forever altering these areas of your life.

 

Glossary
Ascendant
The point in the sky of the Eastern horizon. In the chart, the Ascendant is represented by the horizontal line at the left hand side of the chart which crosses between the Twelfth and First Houses. The sign on the Ascendant is also referred to as the Rising Sign.
Aspects
When the relative positions of two planets in the horoscope form a significant angle with each other, they are said to be in aspect with one another. The type and quality of the aspect is determined by the number of degrees between the two planets and is only considered significant if it is within a narrow range of degrees, or orb. A list of the aspects used in this report is given below.
  • Conjunction — 0° ± 8 degrees
  • Opposition — 180° ± 8 degrees
  • Trine — 120° ± 8 degrees
  • Square — 90° ± 8 degrees
  • Sextile — 60° ± 6 degrees
  • Inconjunct — 150° ± 4 degrees
Chart Comparison
An astrological technique in which the planets of two individuals are shown in a bi-wheel chart, one within the other. This allows the inter-aspects between the two charts to be examined.
Composite Chart
An astrological technique in which the midpoints of two individuals' planetary positions are used to create a third chart, the composite chart, which is then interpreted as the chart of the relationship itself as an independent entity.
Horoscope
Originally horoscope referred to the astrological chart itself, but is now popularly used to refer to the description of how current planetary positions are affecting you personally, as in "your monthly horoscope."
Midheaven
The point in the sky directly overhead relative to the position on Earth. In the chart, the Midheaven is represented by the vertical line at the top of the chart between the Ninth and Tenth Houses.
Natal
From Latin, meaning of or pertaining to birth; therefore your birth chart, or planetary positions at birth.
Nodes
The Lunar Nodes are the two points where the Moon's orbital path crosses the plane of the ecliptic (the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun). Symbolically they represent talents and life path, or destiny.
Planets
In astrology, the word planets is used to describe astrologically significant points in the sky which includes the Sun and Moon, as well as many objects that are not currently astronomically defined as planets such as Chiron and Pluto.
Transits
Aspects formed between the current positions of the planets and the positions of your natal planets at the time and place you were born.