Note: this chart reading has been altered to ensure anonymisation, per the request of the querent. The verdict and results remain accurate to real life, but small details have been altered to avoid identification.
Context
The querent, a woman in her 40s, had a close platonic relationship with a man for whom she had fallen deeply in love, and with whom she had cut contact due to the upset of seeing him with other women. She wanted to know if he harboured similar feelings, and loved her back.
Interpretation
Who is who?
Querent:
- Lord 1 Mercury at 18 degrees of Sagittarius
- The Moon at 10 degrees of Capricorn
- Venus at 26 degrees of Aquarius
Quesited:
- Lord 7 Jupiter retrograde at 13 degrees of Gemini
- The Sun at 9 degrees of Capricorn
Arabic Parts
The Part of Marriage sits at 27 degrees of Libra, meaning the general significator of the relationship is Venus.
Receptions show feelings
It is immediately clear that the querent feels strongly towards the man she expresses interest in – her primary significator sits in Sagittarius, Jupiter’s domicile, where it also has its own detriment, so this attraction is doing her harm. She feels awful and wants him quite a bit. As the Moon – her emotional state – she remains furious with him, being in Jupiter’s fall, and feels even more terrible about this, as Capricorn is the Moon’s detriment! Being strongly combust by the Sun, she is simultaneously angry and hugely dazzled by him. Venus – her as woman – is in Aquarius, the detriment of the Sun – him as man – which describes her anger and disappointment at seeing him with other women. These planetary placements describe jealousy and obsession rather well.
He shares some of her attraction, as Lord 7 Jupiter is in Gemini, Mercury’s domicile. Gemini is also Jupiter’s detriment, meaning this attraction is doing him no good either. Aside from this, he has no significant attraction to her – Jupiter is not in dignities of the Moon – her heart – or Venus – her as a woman, and the Sun – him as a man – is in the detriment of the Moon, meaning he is put off by her romantic side. Notably, the Sun is in Saturn’s domicile, and Saturn sits in Jupiter’s domicile, which may indicate the other person or people he is interested in.
Neither party has any majort interest in Venus, so as the significator of the Part of Marriage (a general indicator of a relationship), their motivations are not towards being together in that sense.
Aspects show events
With Saturn as the ‘other woman’, a sequence of separating aspects tells the story of their falling out over the other woman quite clearly:
- The Sun moved relatively recently to Capricorn, where interest in Saturn grew.
- Jupiter squared Saturn, suggesting contact between the quesited and the other woman.
- Mercury opposed Jupiter and squared Saturn at almost the same time, when the querent found out about the other woman.
- Traditionally an opposition by two planets in detriment cannot be overcome, even if they sit in mutual reception. Attraction cannot beat an argument from a bad place.
- The Moon entered Capricorn, where it is disappointed in Jupiter and feels bad about itself, leaving Jupiter’s domicile in the process.
- The Moon entered combustion, becoming ‘dazzled’ by the Sun enough to ignore her feelings of disappointment.
Applying aspects suggest there is little in the way of good news, in the context:
- The Moon applies to the antiscion of Mercury, and the querent will have to have a think about what she wants, and clear her head.
- The Moon applies to sextile Saturn, with the other woman blocking the querent from the man she wants, leading to
- The Moon applying to the contrantiscion of Mercury. With the characteristics of an opposition, this is likely to leave things split apart.
Verdict
The querent wants the quesited, but in large part she wants him this obsessively because she can’t have him. Her feelings are so mixed that she needed to be dazzled by the Sun – a good descriptor of her seeing him desired by someone else making him more desireable – to get over her distrust and disappointment. She will continue to be attracted to him, but this will tend to make her feel worse. While he likes her, he doesn’t want what she professes to want. This chart gives advice far beyond a simple answer to the question – it tells the querent to slow down, take some time, and let the scales fall from her eyes. How will she feel when she’s not dazzled by him? The stresses and difficulties of wanting him are about to become much more apparent. What she chooses to do then is up to her.
