Learning from your Venus’ Mirror House

Sometimes people forget that Venus, like all placements in astrology, is trying to teach you a lesson. A lesson about love: selfless love, selfish love, self love, all love. In this thinking, I think each house really shows where Venus is aiming to highlight to you that you need to work on. I know Venus in 1st who don’t understand why people aren’t falling head over heels for them – well, because Venus in 1st is trying to teach you to love yourself and not crave that love from another to validate your ego. I’m a Venus in 7th and for ages growing up I wanted nothing but to be liked and loved, but all Venus was trying to teach me is, no, don’t change for love from others, just wait for love which doesn’t ask you to change.

In short, we have to reconsider the kind of obnoxious things we say about love, others, ourselves. They’re usually glaring signs of what Venus has wanted you to learn all along.

House Meanings and House Conclusions

It’s important to recognise when a meaning of a house is the meaning, or the side conclusion.

In this article is only one common example for each house, but hopefully this helps you guys see that there is the house’s meaning, and then there is the house’s examples.

Sister House Axis

Sister houses in astrology have corresponding ideas that work in balance to each other.

• The first house is who I am, the seventh house is who I enjoy.
• The second house is all my things, the eighth house is all my thoughts.
• The third house is my study notes and texts, the ninth house is my essay and my scrapbook.
• The fourth house is what I bring to the family, the tenth house is what I bring to the world.
• The fifth house is what I bring to myself, the eleventh house is what I bring to my communities.
• The sixth house is my health and how I serve society, the twelfth house is my worries and how I withdraw from it.

Retrogrades: How To

I’ve seen a lot of people talk about them and also received a lot of asks, so I believe it’s time I made my own post on them. This goes for anything which enters retrograde.

Mercury in the Modal Houses

Mercury is a personal fast-moving planet, never drifting more than a sign away from your Sun, which represents a vast array of mental processes and stimulants in our lives.

It can show us our thought process and methodical patterns we take when problem solving or working, as well as our relationships with our friends and siblings. Mercury as a planet is analytical and charismatic.

Cheat Sheet: Easy Placements

When you first learn about a placement, the obvious thing to do is look for descriptions, however these can be extremely unhelpful. Why? No description will ever fully encapsulate a placement. It will focus on one idea of it, or go straight to possible conclusions without explaining why those could be true.

Instead, I prefer to take the ‘anti-description’ route. When I start learning, I look to each part of the placement for its ingredients and build them together myself. In this way, you can see all the possible conclusions a placement may take.

With this in mind, I’ve compiled a cheat sheet of possible ingredients of each aggregate: signs, modalities, elements, planets, houses, and aspects!

Eros in the Houses: Sexual Passion and Unmatchable Desire (NSFW)

The asteroid Eros relates to the god of sex and desire in Greek mythology, and thus in astrology comes to show us our own sexuality (habits and desires, not orientation). However, Eros isn’t just sexual (though this is one of it’s main representations), it is also desire and passion as a whole: Eros can show us what we’d do when consumed with love!

Whilst there is a lot of information out there about Eros in the signs, little is written about Eros in the houses, which is why this article is going to address exactly that. If you wish to learn about Eros in the signs, use the links above! Here is a calculator for your Eros sign, and to insert it into a natal chart, use Astro.com (guide here), simply type ‘433’ into the asteroid selection bar.

Manifestations: Developed and Undeveloped

Whilst the line between developed and undeveloped placements is sometimes blurred, it is undeniable that there are positive and negative manifestations of everything you can see within a chart. This post is a quick discussion of this concept and how it’s factors are not as clear cut as some may perceive.

How To Find Your Placements

Go here: (x).This is the most accurate site I have found to use. You’ll get a chart that looks like mine (x). Don’t be scared off by the technicality, I know it seems like a lot, but just start with the little steps until you get into it!

If you want to work out your dominant planet/sign/element mathematically, go here: (x). Then, hover over Free Horoscopes in the bar, and click the option Extended Chart Selection under Drawings And Calculations. Click guest user and input your information. After this you will see a box saying Method, and various types of chart. Click the last one – Pullen/Astrolog. In the drop down, click the last option of Simple Chart Delineation By Walter Pullen. Then, click the show chart button. It is very long and goes through a lot of your placements. If you scroll to the bottom, you will find details on what conjuncts in your chart and what it means, as well as sextiles, squares, etc. About two thirds of the way down you will find your signs, and the percentage of dominance.

You can find a really helpful video by Lara @astrology-addict here on how to use the site mentioned above!

Another way to find your dominants mathematically is to use laratesting.us – designed by @geministereo and coded by @astrology-addict – this method was created to put more emphasis on personal placements as the site above tends to give equal wait to generational planets, meaning a whole generation could have the same dominants by their system, but not in this one.

Pluto in the Houses: Transformation

We all know that Pluto is a generational planet and one of destructive, but that isn’t to say it doesn’t or couldn’t have positive personal meanings. It has deeper, growth-related meanings than just generational destruction. It stands for rebirth and renewal, at its utmost core! It’s what is ever-changing, if a little out of touch, for us. What I’m focusing on today is Pluto’s link to a transforming energy within us.

Scorpio is the sign of which it rules, and so naturally it’s a subconscious force, changing up and rebuilding us beneath what we can immediately relate to. Naturally sitting in the eighth house, it also has links to suffering and trauma, as we may already be aware. That can seem scary, but transformation of the deepest kind will almost inevitably be linked to some form of suffering on our own parts.

When Pluto is in retrograde, the effects are internalised, making outward effects less likely. For example, where someone with Pluto in the 5th may create transformative art and express themselves differently from month to month, someone with this same placement in retrograde can feel unable to do this. They may have the thoughts and want to create themselves over and over again, but outwardly expressing this becomes difficult. It’s likely that transformation of their self is not something they feel they can accomplish on the outside, but on the inside they are expanding into a new, revived version of themselves.

However, Pluto’s positive transformation relies on personal growth. What about when it hasn’t grown? Underdeveloped Pluto or planets under Plutonian aspect will be destructive outwardly. This can mean hurting those around them or things around them. A good example would be underdeveloped Pluto to Mars contacts being harsh, aggressive, or violent.

It stays in any sign from about 14 – 30 years, so obviously the sign it is in has less personal effect, but that doesn’t mean Pluto won’t be felt personally. The house and aspects to other placements is entirely based on the individual chart, and this post will be discussing Pluto within each house!

You can also check the house which your Pluto is currently transiting through, as this will show which area of life you’re undergoing transformation in.