This little contretemps has had a significant effect on me which has been quite surprising. The whole thing has had a strange feel to it from the beginning and has defied any type of logical explanation. I have never had something like this happen to me before and my casting multiple charts has been in an effort to understand what is taking place.

And just when I thought I was at the peak of frustration, I came across this article. Liz Greene pretty much hits the nail on the head when she talks about this:

…There are also triangles in the pursuit of the unobtainable. These can overlap with family triangles as well as with defensive and power triangles. But there is a special ingredient to the pursuit of the unobtainable, and often the deeper motivation is artistic or spiritual. Sometimes when we seek unobtainable love, it actually has little to do with human beings. But we may translate our creative or mystical longings into the pursuit of those we cannot have. In this way we open up a dimension of the psyche which has more to do with creative fantasy than with relationship. The artist’s ’muse’ is rarely his or her wife or husband. This kind of triangle can involve elements of early family dynamics, and it may also incorporate defensive motives; but it needs to be understood from a different perspective.

…The last group - triangles which reflect unlived psychic life - subsumes all the others…But in the main, when a triangle enters our lives, regardless of the point we are on, there is some message in it about dimensions of ourselves which we have not recognized or lived. If a pattern of triangles keeps repeating, then it is a very strong message, and we need to listen to what it is trying to tell us.

…We now come to the issue of what might really lie beneath the dynamics of triangles - beneath the parental patterns and defences and power-plays and all the other apparently ’causal’ reasons why triangles enter our lives. I believe there is always an element of unlived life in every triangle, and for various reasons it seems we are sometimes unable to discover that unlived life except through the extreme emotional stress which triangles generate.

…There is no formula to cope with the pain of betrayal. But an archetypal perspective can help us to look at things differently, although the pain cannot be explained or imagined away. There is no remedy for this kind of pain. But there is a difference between blind pain and pain that is accompanied by understanding. The latter has a transformative effect. When there is no consciousness, triangles do tend to repeat themselves - different characters, same script. Some triangles are truly transformative. They do break apart an old pattern, and the new relationship is genuinely much happier and more rewarding. Or the triangle serves the purpose of freeing energy, freeing inner potentials, and even if the old relationship is re-established, or one winds up with neither party, everything has changed.

…We might even say that the triangle forms because there is resistance to change, so whatever is seeking expression from within is experienced through projection. When such a triangle breaks up, the projections come back home again. Psychic energy is released, whether it is through death or the voluntary relinquishing of someone. The timing of this is not accidental. In one or two or even all three parties, unconscious issues have finally reached a point where they can be integrated, even if this is expressed by simply letting it go.

(Emphasis mine)

http://www.skyscript.co.uk/lgreene.html

This is exactly what’s been happening. I started writing creatively three years ago as a way to fill some time due to unemployment and other factors in my life. Since this person, whose name I don’t even know, entered my life, he has inspired one poem, which is directly about him, and one short story, one short screenplay and one feature length screenplay, which are less about him than inspired by him. In addition, this whole thing has prompted a re-examination of some issues from the past, issues that I had dealt with to a large degree before but as everyone may be aware, these things are sometimes like onions with many layers that need re-examining again and again.

I think this idea of triangles has some useful implications for us as horary astrologers particularly when we come in contact with people who want to keep casting charts about the same person. If there’s some way that we can guide them to explore what the deeper meaning of their fixation might be, what the unlived or possibly unexamined or unhealed parts of their lives are, then maybe we are closer to helping them enlarge their creative experience, or heal some wounds, or both.

I’d be interested to hear how other astrologers approach this issue in their practice.

Thanks very much to Deborah Houlding for posting the article.

Hi:

Here's something else that might be helpful to astrologers (and their clients).

I recently finished reading a book called "Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession" by Lisa Phillips which I found very interesting and useful. The author outlines historical examples of romantic obsession and also uses her own and other present day examples to show how romantic obsession can drive other behaviours (creative, etc.) and create significant turning points in women's lives. She also outlines some of the theories behind romantic obsession and some ways that the "spell can be broken" using modern therapeutic techniques.

Very interesting and informative.

Hello Moonbright:

Thank you for your interest in Horary Astrology.

I am a modern horary astrologer and, as such, I bring a different type of spin to the ballgame of horaryland.

Unfortunately, the answer to your question is 'no,' your relationship is not going to get serious, either as a romance or friendship.

Regarding the validity of this chart, you made it clear that the chart was to clarify an earlier question, so no harm in asking, as long as your mental intent was still in effect ?

You, as querent, are ruled by the Sun, as the ascendant is Leo. He is ruled by Saturn, as the ruler of the 7th house.

The radix Sun in Aquarius is debilitated, chilled, being placed in the 6th house of Virgo, a cadent house to boot. Virgo is not a sign of romance; rather, it is the sign related to work and health. Hence, your initial reaction to him when he started flirting was coolness, aloofness, typical of Virgo and the 6th house. Also, Sun in Aquarius is further debilitated, (opposite of Leo) and notoriously detached and who gives a 's,' typical of Uranus ruled people ! LOL

There is a red flag in this chart, actually several, which others have already observed.

The radix Moon, (r. 12) which rules things 'behind the scenes' and things unbeknownst to yourself, is found "angular" on the cusp of the 7th house, albeit on the HIDDEN side of the 7th house. While the Sun and Moon were once conjunct, the Moon (co-ruler of the matter?) is moving into HIS domain ?

In horary work, an angular planet, especially if a significator of the question asked, often steals the thunder of all the other players in the chart. It often brings to the foreground, a very important CLUE or point.

The 7th house is simply put, YOUR competition, your rival(s) ? What this means is that there is another woman involved with this man, but because the Moon is on the hidden side of the cusp, he is not disclosing this to you for different reasons ! Probably, because he doesn't want to hurt your feelings?

There are other factors that show the situation is hopeless:

1. Sun is unaspected to Saturn (his ruler) and makes no other positive aspects. That is not an aspect of relationship, but isolationism.

2. Sun is opposite the Part of Fortune, located in the 12th house of undoing, indicating unfortunate and or limited circumstances and or plain misfortune.

3. South node conjunct Neptune in the 7th house. Not auspicious. The other party is not all that they seem. However, you are looking at the relationship with some degree of "pie in the sky," yourself, and it forebodes not a good ending.

4. Regarding Saturn in Sagittarius (his ruler) we must remember that Sagittarius is the sign of the bachelor. So, he may not be married, but is still seriously committed to someone else, as suggested by radix Moon in applying aspect to Saturn.

As the Moon rules his house of work and co-workers, it is possible that the other woman works with him, as well.

Good luck in your affairs !


S.