2:05am May 13, 2014

childhoodreclaimed-lichgem-i-like-to-think

childhoodreclaimed:

childhoodreclaimed:

lichgem:

I like to think about Zodiac signs

My sun sign is Virgo, and my moon sign is Sagittarius

That means my elements are earth and fire

Like… a volcano?

Also it’s good to not have to live up to Virgo’s reputation of fastidiousness because I can just be like…

:D Oh, all of those Taurus things fit me very well. That’s funny. Is it silly that when you said that we were under the same element, I felt excited about that? Like, yay, my lich friend and I are earth buddies!

It’s not silly, it’s sweet xD

Let me see if I can find a thing to calculate moon sign for you! Er, if you want me to, that is.

I did my entire chart once, and the interconnections between everything fit me rather well. Neptune (highly watery) was ridiculously prominent (I have a ridiculously watery personality), I had a lot of fire, with air densely packed together with it, in one spot, and earth and water disconnected from it elsewhere, which is bizarre considering for most of my life I’d felt like I had fire and air in one place, then earth and water in another place, and the two weren’t connecting. (But now they’re beginning to connect and it’s wonderful and beautiful to see who I am with all four mixed together in proper proportions.) Horoscopes can be really interesting if you don’t try to use them to tell the future, and if you just learn all the different meanings and how they fit together. It’s like a language for talking about the world, even if you don’t believe you can tell anything from reading them. It’s still a language, very artistic and mathematical and intellectually satisfying.

Weirdly enough, I took the natal chart of me and Anne once, and they seriously looked so similar that even people with no chart-reading experience could tell. And people who did have experience, said it looked like someone had taken the same exact ingredients and put them together in a slightly different order so that they resonated with each other in a powerful way.

I don’t know how true any of that is, but it was certainly food for thought, and a lot of fun as a puzzle-game type thing. I also strongly believe that even if it has no other value for understanding the world, learning the language of astrology allows you to describe things about the world that you can’t otherwise describe. And that’s my main interest in it, is being able to say something like “Saturn” and have a large clump of meanings come to mind that other people can understand.

(I’m Leo Sun, Libra Moon, Sagittarius rising, FWIW.)

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