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by Brian Habit

While I'm not able to go into all the connections among the various parts of your chart, I would like to call your attention to a few of the most significant connections (or aspects).

In your natal chart, four planets form a T-shaped pattern (or T-square). Saturn in Pisces in your 12th house opposes Uranus and Pluto in your 6th house, and all of these planets square the Moon in Sagittarius in your 9th house. Let's look at the connections among these planets, starting with the opposition between Saturn and Uranus-Pluto.

SATURN OPPOSING URANUS-PLUTO

The opposition between Saturn and Uranus-Pluto makes for a push-me-pull-me tug-of-war, affecting your approach to developing your ambitions through work or other service, caring for your health or that of someone else, and dealing with circumstances that are beyond your control. It also affects how you explore and absorb intense gut-level feelings when events stir them up, how you develop skills and a sense of competence, and how you set personal goals and associate with others in the process of pursuing them. This is based on the houses that these houses and signs that these planets occupy, as well as the houses that they rule, in your chart. For example, Uranus rules Aquarius, and Saturn co-rules Aquarius. Aquarius is on the beginning of your house of goals and allies.

Saturn contrasts with Uranus and Pluto in a lot of ways. For starters, Saturn is stable, gradual, conservative energy. Uranus and Pluto are restless, harsh, disruptive energy. Saturn is attached to maintaining the status quo and sticking to the tried and true route. Uranus and Pluto are intent on revolutionary upheaval and profound change. When Saturn and Uranus-Pluto are in an opposition such as this, finding adequate outlets for one’s restless, even fitful or tempestuous sense of autonomy while fulfilling one’s responsibilities within existing social structures can be a significant issue. With Saturn and Pluto opposing each other, one party sometimes tries to nail the other to the wall in an overly forceful, punitive fashion for having violated some norm or law. At their worst, these two planets can both be cruel, merciless, and stone cold. You might be on the receiving end, the sending end, or on both ends in a dynamic between such forces at various times. At times, you may find yourself embroiled in some conflict, one that requires that you stand firm while others try to coerce you into taking on unwanted responsibilities that could land you in major trouble with the law or other elements. At other times, you may find yourself railing against someone else who might be inclined to give up trying, saying that the only way to have any sense of freedom or power in this world is to press on and “fight the good fight.” One way or another, the energies of this aspect will come out, challenging you to try to integrate them.

Whenever you have planets opposing each other like this, it makes for a lot of tension—tension within yourself, tension between you and other people/circumstances, usually a fair amount of both. You could see-saw between these two extremes, for example, first acting in impulsive, self-indulgent or self-sacrificing ways, looking at the “forest” or big picture but not the “trees”; and then doing the reverse, focusing to the nth degree on concrete details and practical considerations, but losing all sense of your spiritual values or the stirring of your imagination or intuition.

Maybe you take the ongoing dialogue in your head outside of yourself. In that case, you get into dances with others, where one of you plays a Saturnine role, and the other plays a Uranian-Plutonian role, and you go around and around with each other about good works versus grace, efficiency versus poetry, realities versus possibilities. Sometimes you might even flip-flop roles and trade scripts for a while. As long as both bases are covered, the two of you can work together hardening--or learning to integrate--these perspectives indefinitely.

Another possibility with an opposition is that you habitually cater to one extreme and leave the other one starved for attention. Maybe you always tow the line, acting dutifully and responsibly, relegating your ego to satisfaction to others’ needs, but you never let yourself act on your bursts of creativity or your profound insights. Maybe the reverse is true. In any event, if you do this, then the ignored planets don’t just dry up and blow away. They act out somehow in a destructive or unproductive fashion, like a teenager who figures it’s better to get negative attention than no attention at all. Ignore Uranus-Pluto, and maybe you find that your boss or someone else squashes your creative passion like a big insect. Ignore Saturn, and maybe you’re stricken with a sense of low morale or disillusionment or “bad luck.” These are just some possibilities. There’s an endless variety of ways these characters (all a part of you) could act out some high drama and conflict.

Now, if you’re starting to think that this opposition all bad news, let me assure you that it’s not. You have an opposition to help you maintain awareness of competing principles. It’s to help you keep from going to extremes. It’s to challenge you to pay adequate attention to all these parts of you: your Saturnian function and the Uranian and Plutonian voices in your head. There’s potential for what could otherwise become two polarized extremes to come together as complementary partners.

If you bring your Saturnian spirit (Snow White?) and your Uranian and Plutonian "elves" together, then everyone could gain in the bargain. Yes, someone needs to keep matters functioning in an orderly fashion, and dear Snow White is quite capable of doing that. And yes, those elves need to putter away on all their tasks, like the kindhearted, hardworking geniuses that they are. However, even a beautiful heroine needs to prove her own competence and creativity by facing an evil queen or wicked stepmother from time to time. Those elves can’t handle every task, no matter how much they whistle while they work. She needs to come out into the light so that her specialness as “the fairest of them all” can be recognized. And the elves? They need to call in sick sometime! Now imagine that both Snow White and the elves are all a part of you. In fact, in a sense, they are! The good news about an opposition is that its tension is the sort that can be reconciled and put to rest once and for all. It might take years of effort and experimentation to get there, but you can get there. It could be a marriage made in heaven.

THE MOON SQUARING THE OPPOSITION BETWEEN SATURN AND URANUS-PLUTO

Unlike with an opposition (like the one you have between Saturn and Uranus-Pluto), with a square aspect, the stress is not really reconcilable. The planets involved in a square don't present each other the possibility of a complementary relationship. Their energies get in each other’s way. They just plain get on each other’s nerves and drive each other up the wall.

In a square aspect, two planets form a roughly 90-degree angle, usually located three zodiac signs from each other. When planets do this in your natal chart, it indicates the sort of clash that, like an opposition, can motivate you toward growth and action. However, it also means that some of your energies naturally work at cross-purposes, and you’ll need to manage them in the long run. You’ll need to play traffic cop to keep them from smashing into each other. Like two people who just never see eye to eye because they have such different motivations, agendas and strategies, you’ll need to agree to disagree when it comes to what these planets represent.

Your Moon squares off with both ends of the opposition that we’ve already gotten to know. Your lunar function naturally clashes with Saturn, and it also clashes with Uranus and Pluto.

With the Moon squaring Saturn, it’s like an argument between your head (Saturn, demanding responsibility, maturity, and sensible behavior) and your heart (the Moon, beckoning for you to listen to your inner stirrings, your imagination and dreams). "Which do I listen to?" There can also be a clash between moralistic or ideologically driven passion and the desire for adventure (the Moon in Sagittarius) and cautious dutifulness or forbearance under confining circumstances (Saturn in Pisces). With Saturn squaring your Moon, there’s a clash between acting dutifully, living up to your own expectations or societal expectations, acting in selfless ways or surrendering control over your circumstances (Saturn in Pisces) and feeding your soul, acting on your zeal, feeding your craving for independence and new physical or intellectual or spiritual horizons (Moon in Sagittarius). It’s explorer-professor Indiana Jones, careening from one thrilling exploit to another (the Moon) versus Cinderella, cleaning the house while her stepsisters go to the ball (Saturn). It’s impossible to stay home and clean house, on one hand, and roam the world, swinging from vines, on the other, at the same time. So who calls the shots here?

With the Moon in Sagittarius squaring Uranus and Pluto in Virgo, visionary inspirations, exuberant spontaneity and a rough-and-tumble willingness to take risks (Sagittarius) clash with practicality, deliberateness, and exquisite attention to detail (Virgo). An acute awareness of one’s imperfections and an inclination toward analysis (Virgo) clash with ardent conviction and a leap of faith (Sagittarius). Open friendliness (the Moon in Sag) rubs up against the drive to protect one’s autonomy in the face of social pressure (Uranus). As with the Moon-Saturn square, the continual restless longing for newer, greener pastures (Moon in Sagittarius) conflicts with the drive to throw yourself deeply into your responsibilities and to follow through on your commitments (Pluto in Sagittarius in the sixth house). Uranus and Pluto are like special agent 007, James Bond. He exhibits his ingenuity and investigative abilities while functioning within Her Majesty’s Secret Service. The Moon is like Clint Eastwood, rolling into a western town, meting out justice as he sees fit, acting as an independent figure, and riding off into the sunset. Both Bond and Eastwood are restless and follow a code, but one carves out an independent role within some operational structure and the other refuses to be fenced in. 

HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR T-SQUARE

To manage all of this conflict effectively, you’ll need to strike lots of compromises among three elements: how you express your passion, individuality, and competence (Uranus-Pluto); how you express your sensitivity and adventurousness (Moon); and how you satisfy your ambitions or personal standards (Saturn).  For example, you might need to act less impulsively then you would like (Moon) in order to satisfy your own conscience or morality or cautiousness (Saturn). Maybe you’ll have to adjust the ideals that you pursue in through travel or education (Moon), in order to accommodate reality or some sort of ethical or moral considerations (Saturn). Maybe you’ll have to set a more daring or more realistic agenda for your future (Saturn), in order to satisfy your longing to bond deeply in a particular way with someone.  

A T-square indicates internal conflict and the drive to take productive action. Another way to manage the conflict and channel the drive is to develop the “empty arm” of the T-square. Imagine the T-square being an X. In order for the fourth arm to be occupied (and for the pattern to be an X rather than a T), there would need to be at least one planet in the sign and the house that sit opposite the body that squares the opposition. The Moo is that body here, and she’s in Sagittarius in your house of routine-busting experiences. Therefore, the empty arm falls in Gemini (the sign opposite Sagittarius) in your sector of information exchange (which is opposite the house of out-of-the-ordinary experiences). With so much of the tension from the opposition between Saturn and Uranus-Pluto getting channeled into your emotional self-expression and horizon-expanding activities, focus more on the empty arm. For balance, try to act in Geminian ways in learning, communicating, and interacting in your more immediate day-to-day surrounding. In other words, cultivate a communicative, varied approach to what’s “in your own back yard.”

Tap into your left-brained, logical, rational mind, and apply it in a multiplicity of activities. Become a master of multi-tasking, not of tasks that you have to do out of any sense of obligation or service to others, but out of a desire to satisfy your own curiosity. Write a poem or a novel. Draft a proposal and make a pitch to someone about your idea. Set up a community watch program to promote neighborhood safety. Start a book club, a local beautification project, a bicycling club, or a bartering system for those who are interested. Read a book of jokes. Learn how to juggle or play the harmonica or perform magic tricks. Go for a bicycle ride or a walk through local neighborhoods. Chat with the shopkeepers and people standing in line with you at the cash register. Research the genealogy of your family. Solve crossword puzzles or logic problems. Somehow, engage your mind and speak or write or move about in your local territory. Make time to learn things for the sheer pleasure of it, without worrying about what it all “means” or applying it. Such outlets can help provide an “escape valve” for some of the seriousness or intensity indicated by your T-square.