Jupiter in Capricorn and its impact for 2020

Jupiter in Capricorn and its impact for 2020

On December 2nd one of the “big guys” of our solar system changes its sign. It enters into Capricorn. As a position, Jupiter in Capricorn is not traditionally in its best. Unlike the position in Sagittarius in which it acts freely and without obstacles, Jupiter in Capricorn is required to comply with a series of procedures and the letter of the law.

Supposing, Jupiter is a symbol for investors for example, investors, usually, feel limited by such bureaucracies. If we consider it a symbol for management, it also makes managers put too much emphasis on succession order and the compliance with the rules of hierarchy, rather than to whether what the employees are actually saying.

The result is the short circulation of free expression and gains for those who do well with maintaining formalities.

The ingress of Jupiter into Capricorn for the coordinates of New York (New York picked as an important global center), places in the 9th house but near the cusp of the 10th house. In trine to Uranus in the 1st house, this position may foretell fortune for a more conservative way of thinking, under the condition of adopting a mild radicalization. In Greece for example our new conservative prime minister, appears to be quite a lover of pets and is willing to bring quite progressive laws for animal protection (protection of nature and veganism is a thing for Uranus in Taurus).

Reform in legislation (9th house) regarding Uranus in Taurus issues could also be anticipated, although this reform will be mild, as Jupiter also is, in the position of its fall. Judges taking initiatives in the direction of supporting Uranus in Taurus issues could also be foretold and some of them gaining also public exposure (Jupiter near the 10th house cusp).

Apart from this trine, however, Jupiter does not form any other important aspects in the ingress chart, so there is a question how important its influence will finally be.

Generally, as Capricorn also symbolizes administration and upper class, benefits might come to those who have transactions with the public sector, who undertake public projects, who seek public employment or cooperation with it. Similarly, benefits will come to those who are related to people of higher financial condition who have a position in the state or in a public office.

For those who are self employed, a reorientation of their customer base towards wealthier buyers is maybe necessary. Maybe their clients need to be fewer but with more money (Jupiter in Aquarius however will reverse this trend). Socializing in the upper class and direct marketing methods instead of addressing to a lot of people is perhaps necessary.

The signs that benefit this year from Jupiter are mostly the Earth signs. The slogan of Jupiter in this position is work with no questions asked and these signs seem more suitable to implement it.

Emotions and creativity are not Jupiter’s forte in this position, so this is not a very good year for original creators (again this will be a thing for Jupiter in Aquarius). On the contrary, it is a year that you can associate with factors of the establishment at your work and try to gain their support.

Important dates in the period of Jupiter in Capricorn:

 December 11 until December 20 a trine to Uranus in Taurus in 1 – 3 degrees of Capricorn (1 degree orb assumed)
 December 27 a conjunction of Sun to Jupiter in 5 degrees of Capricorn
 January 2nd a conjunction of Mercury to Jupiter in the 7th degree of Capricorn
 January 15 Jupiter enters the 2nd decan of Capricorn
 March 3 Jupiter enters the 3rd decan of Capricorn
 February 11 until March 4 a sextile to Neptune in 17 -20 degrees of Capricorn (1 degree orb assumed)
 March 19 a conjunction of Mars to Jupiter in 22  degrees of Capricorn
 March 24 to April 16 a conjunction of Jupiter to Pluto in 23 – 25 degrees of Capricorn (1 degree orb assumed)
 May 13 to May 15 Jupiter retrogrades in 27 degrees of Capricorn, very close but not exactly on the exact exaltation of Mars
 March 24 to May 24 Jupiter remains within 0:30 degree orbit of Saturn/Pluto midpoint (those who gain from general poverty or coordinate tough economic measures)
 June 17 to July 10 the conjunction of Jupiter and Pluto repeats itself from 25 to 22 degrees of Capricorn, in retrograde motion (1 degree orb assumed).
 July 18 to August 13 Jupiter forms a sextile again, to Neptune, between 21 and 19 degrees of Capricorn (1 degree orb assumed)
 August 2, Jupiter returns retrograde to the 2nd decan of Capricorn
 August 1 to 30/8, Pluto remains within 0:30 degree orbit of Jupiter/Saturn midpoint (investments postponed until expectations of important players are fulfilled, enormous financial investments, banks playing a role as reconstruction players)
 September 12 to September 14 Jupiter turns direct in 17 degrees of Capricorn
 October 2 to October 25 Jupiter repeats its sextile to Neptune between 17 and 18 degrees of Capricorn (1 degree orb assumed)
 At the same time the aspect of Pluto to Jupiter/Saturn midpoint is repeated
 November 1 to November 20 the conjunction of Jupiter and Pluto between 22 and 24 degrees of Capricorn is repeated
 November 27 to December 6 the aspect of Jupiter to Saturn/Pluto midpoint is repeated
 December 13 to December 25, a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn takes place between 27 degrees of Capricorn and 1 degree of Aquarius ( the exact conjunction is at 00:29 of Aquarius)

The sextile of Jupiter to Neptune in the above aspects might mean a significant contribution and participation of the public services (Jupiter in Capricorn) in refugee management issues (Neptune in Pisces).

The conjunction of Jupiter and Pluto might mean an inflow of large funds; in combination to the midpoints that we mentioned, however, it refers us to an emergence of a powerful control factor in economics, maybe a powerful minister of finance, a new World Bank like institution or a super fund. Super investments, can also be within this frame.

Traditionally old cultures like Egypt, China, India, Greece, etc, are favored by Capricorn, thus we could see an increase of role for such cultures in the global events.

Thank you for your attention

Retrograde Mercury and the inner vision of the astral field

Retrograde Mercury and the inner vision of the astral field

In their teachings about the texture of the astral field, many esoteric teachers say that the astral world is a different world from the physical one because, among others, our vision turns inward. In a way that a person is unable to see anything in the outer physical world but can observe only things that are inside him. An impermeable ring surrounds man, says for example Rudolf Steiner, especially the man that hasn’t worked with detachment in his time on earth and the result is that this man is unable to see anything in the astral field that is not already inside him. So the astral world gives the sense of isolation, especially, if someone hasn’t experienced love in his physical life and hasn’t any memories of it. Steiner says that we take to that world whatever we have inside us when we leave physical life and we recycle it again and again without stopping it. We live again and again what we have already lived, see our mistakes, feel guilty for the shortcomings, try to correct our duties. Every effort to move forward, unfortunately fails and the conditions in the astral field turn us back to the issues of our past.

The above description could easily describe what happens to us internally while Mercury is retrograde. Not that this happens all the time, but there are retrograde Mercury’s periods where indeed, every effort to solve problems by looking forward fails. Always something arises which forces us to go back, while many issues that we thought we left behind us, reappear in front of us. The more we try to move forward, the more past issues arise. At the end, our time is occupied so much from our past duties, so that we are forced to cancel decisions we had taken before retrograde Mercury, because we can no more keep promises we have made. Also, when trying to get closer to information we need, it seems to escape us; therefore a problem which normally would have an easy solution makes us deal with it again and again and every time something escapes us, so that we have to take another look again and again.

In conclusion, retrograde Mercury could be a period during which we have to act more with our – as Steiner puts it - astral vision than our physical one. The difference between astral vision and physical one is, according to Steiner, that with physical vision, when we want to learn something about an object, we just stand up from the chair, approach it and study it. We exercise an act of will, in order to come closer to the object. But with astral vision, these acts of will go down the drain. There, to learn something about an object we don’t have to get closer to it, we have to attract it; to bring that one to us, not to get us the object. But in order to do so, to attract an object, we have to approach it otherwise, not through the will. We have to relax, to let go and to ask for it, to beg for it somehow to come to us. To exercise no direct force, no matter how much this tortures us. If the object wants, it will come itself to us, if not, it will not come at all.

This astral vision is the way our minds are working in the state of meditation. Meaning that, in this state, we are completely empty of any urge and are left to “the will of God” or in general to the will of things, if they want to come to us. We act magnetically, not willingly and we work with anything that has the will to approach us, not with what we ourselves want to approach.

That seems to be the way that our thinking must work at retrograde Mercury’s period. Sit back and relax is the basic instruction, let your personal goals aside, what you wanted to do, your pursuits etc, and let go completely. Let go and observe what has the goodwill to come to your way. Take advantage of what is approaching to you, and if there is nothing, just wait. Otherwise, no matter how you try to submit the object to your will, the astral field, or your senses in this world, will betray you.

PS: All the above, as mentioned, do not apply so strongly in every retrograde Mercury period. In periods when Mercury transits personal points in our chart, or if our chart has generally a significant odor of Mercury, that feeling though, is particularly intense.

PS1: It goes without saying, that those who have retrograde Mercury in their natal chart, recognize the above pattern more, namely to “attract” things, by waiting patiently for fortune to bring things close to them, instead of trying to get to them on their own.

The 12th house, the dreams and the astral field

In many esoteric teachings we are taught that the person in the astral field loses contact with the natural environment. The whole world that we observe in astral field, is a world that the person carries inside him. Whatever the person sees existing around him, people, objects, nature, are memories and information that he carries inside him from the time of incarnation.
In essence, he tells us that the astral field is a world of dream if we compare it to the physical world. All senses are inward oriented instead of outward and the person observes himself with his senses instead of observing the outside world.
Is there any astrological correspondence in this approach? I believe that this approach is related to some degree to the approach of karmic astrology of the reverse houses. Indeed, karmic astrology claims that our karmic ascendant is not the one we know, but it is the 12th house. In a sense, the house system can be seen in reverse, placing 11th house as 2nd house, 10th house as 3rd house and so on. Of course, there are other approaches at this topic, but we are going to analyze now this specific approach and its usefulness.
So, this specific approach tells us that the karmic ascendant is the 12th house. But, this should not be interpreted as usual, that this ascendant is from a previous incarnation. It has to be interpreted that it is our ascendant when we are going out to the astral field. And indeed, the characteristics of that house look alike to the approach of esoteric teachings. When we are in the 12th house we live in a dreamy world, we το have to do with ourselves and we are isolated from the rest of the outside world. The 12th house world is made out of imagination and dreams that are the material of this house. In there, our senses work and give us information for our inner world as if it were the real world. Everything we live in our dreams, that we consider them as real, is in fact information that we carry within us.
Proceeding with our interpretation, we could actually continue with the sequence of reverse houses in order to explain the meaning of the rest of the houses during our stay in the astral field. So, according to one approach the 11th house could be the house of Principles, the 10th house could be the house of Lords of Karma, the 9th house could be the house of  Soul Guides, the 8th house could be the house of the new conception, the 7th house could be the house of the acquaintance with our new parents, the 6th house could be the house of incarnation, the 5th house could be the house of birth, the 4th house could be the house of the new born age, the 3rd house could be the house of the beginning of learning and the 2nd house could be the house of developing awareness of ego, where subsequently the reverse of the wheel happens and the person begins to live in the outside world and takes the sequence of the houses in the right order.
Of course, this is only one approach, always as an experiment, as it always happens when we connect the esoteric philosophy with astrology. However, it is something worth trying as an analogy and to see, if it explains our experiences and the behavior that we display in the inner world of astral field.

The symbolism of Lilith and numbers 3 and 9

The symbolism of Lilith and numbers 3 and 9
A lot has been said by many, about Lilith, with a particular emphasis on the familiar subjects of “the evil woman”, “the marriage wrecker”, “the devil's bride” and so on.
Yet, the symbol of Lilith hasn’t been sufficiently studied on a scientific level by the astrological community. Instead, we are being influenced by all the metaphysical associations that the specific name brings to us and we are laying out all the medieval prejudices about Lilith.
For instance, who has ever examined and determined that Lilith is related via its rotation in the zodiac to number 9? Indeed, Lilith changes sign every 9 months while it makes a full rotation around the zodiac in 9 years.
Its behaviour alone to have a rotation period that cannot be divided by 2, shows a tendency to be freed from the male archetype of solar number 12. A similar attempt is only observed with Saturn, which rotates the zodiac in a period multiple of number 7 and with progressed Moon, which has a similar rotation period. On the contrary "prince" Jupiter, as an obedient successor of the Sun, also has a rotation period multiple of 12, even though 12 in this case refers to years rather than months.
As far as number 9 is concerned though, there doesn’t seem to be another planet whose rotation period is based on this number. Regarding numbers 5 and 8 we have the rotation period of Venus that is completing a combined orbit with Earth in a pentagram shape in 8 years, while for Mercury we have numbers 3 and 6 related to the Star of David, that his orbit forms if we include retrograde motion.
9 is however not an indifferent number. It's the number if months of a pregnancy. Why haven't we ever made the connection that pregnancy lasts so long as Lilith remains in an astrological sign?
Furthermore, a full rotation of Lilith around the zodiac takes 9 years. Therefore, if we break the rule of 10 for a decade and we introduce a rule that decades would last 9 years, then a decade would correspond to a zodiacal rotation of Lilith.
Unlikely? Maybe not, as numerology already uses a circle of 9 years. Therefore, we don’t suggest something original.
The information above shows us that Lilith is an astrological archetype which hasn’t been sufficiently investigated yet, and its astronomical correlations haven’t been detected. Therefore, it should be better studied and more facts should be gathered about it in order to have a more realistic and scientifically documented analysis of it.

Astrological Aspects and Mental Conflicts

It is probably known to many that the study of specific planetary aspects is possible to give hints for the existence of unresolved internal conflicts which lead to mental illnesses. This has been especially noticed for the Moon aspects and secondly for the aspects of the other personal planets. Some hints of that type that are very far from being characterized as certainties could be these:

The Moon aspects, especially with the outer planets, can, if the rest of the horoscope allows it, possibly give:

- A tendency towards hysteria (lack of sexual satisfaction according to Freud) when there are hard aspects and are aspects to Uranus. That is expressed in a somehow distant emotional behavior inside relationships and an unwillingness to come close. In attempts of others to come close emotional outbreaks might take place and the person leaving.

- A tendency towards over idealization or paranoia when the aspects are hard and are aspects to Neptune. Furthermore a tendency for the person to allow itself to become a victim in relationships, to tolerate what should not be tolerated and to be fooled.

- A tendency towards depression when the aspects are hard and are in aspects to Saturn. The person might work too hard, which is one form of depression, or quit his goals due to believing he will never succeed. An overachieving mother might have put the stakes too high, or neglecting parents who were too busy with their success. The person feels he can only get loved if his a winner but sometimes the effort is too hard for him and he gives up trying.

- A tendency towards hurting oneself or being attracted by death or abuse when the aspects are hard and are aspects to Pluto. The person then might confuse violence and molestation for love and stay with an abusive partner mistaking his mistreating for love. He also might become abusive himself treating or even committing suicide or hurting himself to manipulate others' feelings.

- Simultaneous aspects to Jupiter and Saturn (i.e. T-square) are possible to give a behavior similar to a bipolar disorder (manic depression). Namely, the person is sometimes extremely optimistic and some other times extremely pessimistic. T-Squares are more serious than single aspects and the astrologer should be able to indicate to the client that he might need professional psychological help when he has one in his chart. The life of those persons is a constant series of ups and downs, successes and failures both in professional and emotional life and many times the native believes this is just how life is not realizing this is a life pattern caused by his natal chart. If however the Moon forms a trine with another planet - along with the T-Square - the trine might work as a more creative way out for the person and stabilize him emotionally to a certain degree. This trine could indicate a therapeutic hobby, a friend or even a doctor who puts the person's emotions to some kind of perspective.

- The orb between the degrees of the planets could also indicate the repeated circle of manifestation of such a disorder. One such example, we will examine below, on Marilyn Monroe’s natal chart. If for example, Jupiter and Saturn have a 3 degree orb, then a timing factor for example a transiting planet or a progressive Moon can stimulate the angles of the T-Square sequentially. In the case of the progressive Moon it can form an exact aspect with the first planet and after three months an exact aspect with the second planet. If this sequence in stimulation is repeated we could assume the creation of a pattern where manic and depressive behavior follow one another in specific and predictable time intervals. This could help forecast the next episode in the manic depressive behavior of the client with some considerable accuracy.

- All these, of course, are indications and by no means certainties. It's far from correct to assume a person’s behavior by singling out an isolated aspect or aspect pattern no matter how important it is. Furthermore behavior could be modified according to Egos defense mechanisms expressed astrologically as we have seen in another section. And last but not least a positive aspect of the Moon can always give a way out to handle the situation and ease up the steam of an internal emotional conflict.

Apart from Moon aspects, some other aspects of other planets - mainly personal planets forming aspects to outer planets - are possible to give some, if not mental illnesses, at least traumatic experiences. So for example:

- Hard aspects of the Sun or Mars to Saturn and Pluto can suggest a sense of lower self esteem or some kind of emotional emasculation or a forced integration of violence and domination as a form of survival.

- Hard aspects of Venus to outer planets could indicate some kind of perversion of libido or the instinct of pleasure.

Traumatic experiences though could also be caused by Moon aspects in the progressive chart, the first years of life of a person. An aspect of the Moon to Saturn in the progressive chart could indicate that the child felt restricted. An aspect of the Moon to Uranus could mean that the child felt exposed or that the child’s parents left it alone. An aspect of the Moon to Pluto could mean that it had fears possibly from the dark. These feelings might seem temporary to us as we would normally consider most progressive Moon aspects. However, because they happen in the first years of the life of the child, they could create important mental recordings that might require a lot of effort for the person to overcome in the future.

Therefore, it is of great value to study such aspects and mainly those of the Moon in the natal as well as in the progressive chart. Let us take a look at two examples to elaborate on that a bit further.
As a first example, let’s see the aspects of the Moon on Marilyn Monroe’s natal chart.

Marilyn Monroe 

Birth: 1 June 1926, 9:30, Los Angeles, California, USA

Source of birth data: AstrologyWeekly

Let's examine the square of the Moon to Saturn; we realize that it is a difficult aspect that indicates a repeating issue. A repeating issue is a relationship between two planets which appears repeatedly in a natal chart directly or indirectly. In our case the Moon and Saturn are not only linked via their mutual aspect, but because Saturn is also located in the 4th house, an indirect reference to the Moon or whatever it is symbolizing. The Moon-Saturn issue was very difficult for Marilyn, as it was related to the fact that she was abandoned by her mother when she was younger, - a mother who was unable to take care of her - and was going to family after family living with foster parents ever since.

Marilyn, herself having her Moon in Aquarius, had every intention of being a simple person, amiable and easy to get along with but also helpful towards others and mainly towards her partners. The rejection she experienced, though, from her family environment or the lack of good intention from it (Saturn in Scorpio), made her not to begin her relationships with good intentions, but from a position of suspicion. So, we could assume she overcompensated her hurt Moon by moving it to the opposing house, in which case she very likely expressed this Moon as a Moon in Leo. She became a diva, a star, a bossy woman who didn’t give a damn about others and wanted only her needs to be taken care of. This was an attribute she could easily display because of her ascendant sign in Leo as well as Neptune in Leo in her first house which was Hollywood’s glamour impersonated influencing her personality as well.

The Moon, though, does not only form a square to Saturn, but also a conjunction to Jupiter. In case we have strong aspects of the Moon to Jupiter as well as to Saturn, then, as we mentioned above, we might also have a manifestation of a manic depression. A theorem that can be easily confirmed by Marilyn Monroe’s life.

Of course, the chart has more indications which suggest difficulties. The concentration of malefic planets inside or near houses of the subconscious for example (Saturn in the 4th, Mars and Uranus in the 8th and Pluto near the cusp of the 12th) could indicate recordings of painful emotional experiences, while Mars with Uranus in the 8th could be an indication of a tendency to suicide. The lack of difficult aspects to these two planets could mean that there was no counter force to stop this tendency. And not only that, but the trines of  Pluto and Saturn to these two, could mean that with their help this tendency was prolonged, took strength and became something permanent in her, in a way that it was hiding and waiting for a long time until the right moment to manifest.

A more general statement we could make  here is that sometimes, it is preferable to have a square to Saturn because this way, tendencies that could be self destructive, like the presence of Mars and Uranus in the 8th house, can be avoided. Otherwise, there is a tendency that nothing stops it in the environment but is reinforced or tolerated by everything surrounding it. Realizations like “everyone around me comes from destroyed families”, parents who emphasize on how worthless I am, friends who introduce me to the life of artists, who also have suicide tendencies… So, if i am worthless and nobody loves me and my friends find it ok to commit suicide using drugs, why not me?

Another example of deciphering Moon’s aspects is the chart of Princess Diana. In that chart we also have a Moon in Aquarius, this time though, it forms a square to Uranus and Venus. Here we have a different defense mechanism, the mechanism of projection which when combining the Moon and Uranus could indicate a hysteric behavior towards an indifferent and arrogant person.

Here the Moon does not have the room to overcompensate in the opposing house, because Uranus is already there. However the thing that could be done is the consciousness of the person to be shifted to the other side of the opposition, adopt that type of behavior and become what I hates. Indeed, Diana from a gracious person and amiable Princess gradually became a distant Queen with scandalous romantic relationships, moving towards Uranus rather than the Moon. At the same time, the square to Venus gave an even more unstable dimension to her emotions and a difficulty to understand herself and know her preferences. It is my opinion that hard aspects between the Moon and Venus generally create a situation where a person wants to do one thing but actually does the other, giving an impression of a person who doesn't know what she wants.

Princess Diana

Birth: 1 July 1961, 7:45 pm, Sadrigam, England.

Source: Astroweekly

Indeed Diana constantly changed her attitude towards things and she did generally give the impression of a person who does not know what she wants in order to feel better and feel safe.

This behavior, obviously lead her to a state of constant stress and a way of life she constantly felt as if she was being chased. She risked daringly (she was walking as an ambassador of goodwill on narc fields) and was being provocative to danger in ways that maybe are not known by many, until today.  

Her mental state under constant stress, at the edge of hysteria was a very important dimension of her character, which lead her to the separation but also to the occasional relationships and fickle state her life resulted to after the divorce. When taking to account that the Moon is also the ruler of the 8th house and that Uranus is positioned inside of it, it might ever relate to the fact of her death. Sudden as well, manifesting Uranian energy, coming from an accident.

Horoscope and Defense Mechanisms of Ego

Horoscope and Defense Mechanisms of Ego
The theory of defense mechanisms of ego is a theory of psychology that comes from psycho analysis and is often used as a key for interpreting human behavior. Applied in astrology it could explain why some people, often don’t showcase the expected behavior that their natal chart shows, but behave as if they have transmuted the original tendency of the chart in a different outer expression.
The basic defense mechanisms according to psychoanalysis are the following:
Repression of a painful experience or an experience that causes discomfort
Denial of a painful event.
Rationalization, namely the effort of a person to justify rationally, attitudes and behaviors, so he can protect himself from emotional pain.
Projection, namely the attribution of characteristics and thoughts regarding a traumatic event to others when in fact one was having these thoughts and his feelings himself.
Introjection, namely the incorporation of other peoples' rules by a person in purpose of his own survival or to avoid the punishment.
Identification, which compiles an unconscious process in which the person pursues to mimic another familiar person who is in position to face situations better.
Overcompensation. It is the unconscious effort of a person to replace forbidden behaviors with their opposites.
Displacement of forbidden emotions to another person.
Somatization that is the conversion of non acceptable emotions to body symptoms, i.e stress to nervous movement of your knee.
Idealization or idolization of a person or a situation. That way we pretend not to look at other people’s character flaws and we don't feel obliged to do something about them.
Intellectualization which concerns the usage of mental functions instead of the non acceptable or unbearable emotions. For example someone's love is too much to accept if we feel unworthy. So we are trying to understand it instead of feeling it.
Regression, which refers to the return of a person to an earlier developmental stage where he feels more comfortable, i.e. can't bear responsibilities and behaves like a child.
Sublimation or the conversion of a non acceptable emotion to an accepted one. For example a sexual attraction to a married man which becomes a friendship.
By studying astrological symbols one realizes that some of the above defense mechanisms could correspond to symbols of the astrological language that are used with amplitude.
For example the opposition aspect could easily be related to the mechanism of projection. It is very rare for a person who has an opposition aspect in his chart to not have in his environment people who relate to one of the two signs of the opposition. The mechanism of projection here shows that the person cannot balance the two counterbalancing forces inside of him, so he projects one of them to a familiar person, usually his partner.
In the same way, the square aspect could easily operate as a mechanism of overcompensation. Especially when the square is compiled of a personal planet and an outer planet or Saturn, the difficulty of the personal planet’s expression leads firstly to denial or repression, especially if it doesn’t have dignities or supporting aspects. But then it is also possible to give it the drive to express itself in the opposing sign, as a means of overcompensation. This way we have Cancers who become business men, Leos who function collectively, Pisces who are obsessed with cleaning and Capricorns who become spouses and look after children at home.
Overcompensation is an essential mechanism of explaining why people do not always showcase the behavior that a natal planet indicates for them; furthermore the process of overcompensation can be expanded to the interpretation of the planet’s house. So, someone with a Sun in the 2nd house, when he cannot be economically autonomous, because of a square (view) aspect i.e. with Saturn of Pluto, can function as a Sun in the 8th house, namely trying to manage or claim money from someone else. A person with the Sun in the 4th house, when he cannot have his own place, can transform his office to a home, displaying a Sun in the 10th house. And a person with the Sun in the 10th house, who would like success, when his Sun receives bad aspects and doesn’t have dignities or supporting aspects, he may quit his job and become a housecat displaying a Sun in the 4th house.
Having said that, these defence mechanisms can also be manifested through other aspects, which can function as outlets for emotions, in cases of internal conflicts. This way when a planet, mainly a personal one, is burdened with difficult aspects on the chart, has i.e. a square with Saturn or an opposition with Pluto and at the same time has a helpful trine with Jupiter or Neptune it is quite possible that the trine will function as an outlet mechanism for emotional tension and as a defence mechanism to work around internal conflict.
We could actually say that many of the defense mechanisms mentioned above could correspond to such trines. Rationalization for example could be indicated by a trine with Saturn, Intellectualization by a trine with Uranus, Idealization by a trine with Neptune and Sublimation by a trine with Pluto. These trines, of course, could also exist as independent aspects. In this case though, they do not function as defense mechanisms. They function as defense mechanisms only when they exist at the same time with other, more difficult aspects, which build up tension which demands an outlet.
Some defense mechanisms though can correspond to other astrological mechanisms besides aspects. Denial or Repression for example could easily be correlated with things we accumulate in the Water Houses in our Natal Chart, while Displacement could be linked with the relationship of a planet with the house it rules.
More specifically, it is possible that when the planet doesn’t have enough dignities or support to express itself in the house it is in, displacement could lead it to express itself easier in the house it rules. This could suggest a displacement process, that is keeping the same emotions but expressing them to a different target, but it could also indicate Sublimation since it changes the expression sign of the planet and that way it could change the nature of the emotion itself. In both cases the interest of libido is turning to another direction, since it cannot be expressed in its initial placement in the natal chart.
Of course the aspects could also be explained in the simplest way, according to the symbolic glossary down below.
Astrological dictionary of aspects:
Conjunction, the need to share the same space
Opposition, need to compromise our disagreements
Square, dilemma, which makes my life bounce between two different directions
Trine, good fortune, possibility of expansion or in a different context a scandalous situation, no one can put a stop to.
Quincunx or inconjunction, situation of intensity, which we all are aware of but we don't display it, it functions from within.
Sextile, a situation where we realize we are different but maybe we could share the work. You can clean the windows and I can do the mopping. We need time to coordinate but we will get there.
Semi Sextile, misfiring we choose to neglect but will come to face its consequences later on.
Semi Square, incompatible intentions.
Sesquiquadrate, incompatible intentions already displayed through conflicting actions.

The progressive moon in the natal houses

The progressive moon in the natal houses

Progressive moon position related to natal chart houses is a significant indication of change in the course of our life, abandonment of old activities and beginning of new ones. Especially in the transition time from one house to another, we are in a period of change which can cause insecurity, especially if it is combined with eclipses or transits on the progressed moon.

The sign of progressive moon plays a significant role in trends and habits we are going to develop for the next two or three years. In relationships it is important to know the course of partner’s progressive moon, in order to predict possible changes that he will want to make, so that we can be prepared for them.

Indicatively, the position of progressive moon in a house can bring tendencies as above:

In 1^st house: A period that indicates a new chapter in the life of a person. After the grief of 12^th house, the person seems to leave behind the pessimism and become more active again. Although the energy, for the time being, is without purpose, it has a testing nature. The person acts for the sake of acting, just to feel alive, to get away from previous period’s failures. The person discovers, also, talents and abilities that he didn’t know he had. Period of exploration of sexuality also.

In 2^nd house: At this time, the person goes through financial turmoil. Maybe he will need to do a second job to respond to liabilities or perhaps he has to learn how to control his expenses. Maybe he is at a stage when he gets his first salary and so is able to consume “big” for the first time (like to get a television or computer on his own money). Given that besides psychic energy, the Moon also creates vacillation and fluidity, the point here is to create a stable balance between income and expenses.

In 3^rd house: The person makes his first steps in a new society. If he is a child, maybe he goes to school for the first time, if he is older maybe he moves out to a new neighborhood or to another city.  A period of exploration, allows him to get to know better his new region. Also, maybe, he gets a means of transport or a driver license for the first time.

In 4^th house: The person examines the issue of his residence. It may be the first time a young person leaves his family’s home in order to live in his own house, or maybe someone leaves a small apartment to find something better. Personal space becomes important; the person spends plenty of time at home alone or spends money on home or for his quality of life generally. If his partner, for example, has a progressive moon like this, she will probably want relocation or a redecoration during this time.

In 5^th house: Time of erotic experimentation. An individual makes a lot of acquaintanceships, occasionally in parallel, mostly of short duration. The person maybe considers the issue of a descendant for the first time, while coming generally closer to his sexuality which he becomes familiar with or is confronted with.

In 6^th house: The person emphasizes a lot on his job matters. The job becomes very important and he is very much involved in it. He draws self-confidence and acceptance from work. At this period he probably is connected more closely to colleagues from work. Perhaps, the person indentifies more with what happens there and takes it more personally.

In 7^th house: A good position for smoothness in relationships. We are going through a period during which we pay attention to our partner and our relationship and we support it. We pass a lot of time with our partner and maybe we get married or move in with him. The progressed Moon sign, is an indication of how we pass our mutual time together (for example with Sagittarius, we travel a lot with him).

In 8^th house: The person goes through emotional difficulties. Separations happen, changing relationships from one to another, financial and emotional closures which usually cost a lot. At this particular period we cannot hide problems under the carpet, so if our partner has his progressive moon in 8^th house, we ought to put all issues on the table.

In 9^th house: The person begins to become more active mentally. He might write his first books, take his first courses and start to teach for the first time. Also he begins to become active ideological (for example to join a political party) and come out of his shell making professional travels or travels for studies or training. If the partner has his progressive moon in a house like this for instance, he might wish to travel.

In 10^th house: The person shows a mood to take on many responsibilities. A lot of work and many new jobs at this time. If this is your partner, you have to be prepared for many hours of absence from home. It’s a period of particular exposure with relevant ease on behalf of the person to undertake this role.

In 11^th house: The person appears willing to offer in a more altruistic way. He becomes humbler and more democratic, while creating groups around him or participating in them. Compared to the previous position of the progressive moon, the person now avoids positions of authority and avoids being the one exposed the most. He can develop healthy friendships.

In 12^th house: A mood for the person to withdraw from the spotlight, to rest and decrease socializing with a lot of people. If the person was social before at 11^th house, it may seem to his own people that something is happening to him, because now he drives friends away and reduces going out as he did before. A melancholic attitude may arise. Perhaps, he has to deal with his health. Karmic issues may come to an end in his life. Childhood dreams, a job of many years, a parent may depart with this position.

It is worth noticing that from our personal research we have seen that the progressive moon position in a house, displays several times supplementary results in the house system of equal houses. While external changes for instance may begin to manifest when the progressive moon reaches the cusp of a house in the Placidus house system, the recognition of this change is coming to the person when the progressive moon reaches the cusp of the same house in the equal houses system.

For example, a person with a 12^th house cusp on the 28^th degree of Aries in the Placidus house system and a 12^th house cusp on the 4^th degree of Taurus in the equal house system, may begin to have health problems by the time the progressive moon reaches the 28^th degree of Aries but he realizes and embraces the change or refocuses his attention to health, only when the progressive moon reaches the 4^th degree of Taurus. Likewise, a person with a 9^th house cusp on the 24^th degree of Capricorn in the Placidus house system and a 9^th house cusp on the 4^th degree of Aquarius in the equal house system, may begin to teach when the progressive moon reaches the 24^th degree of Capricorn, but may begin to realize that he is becoming a teacher and embrace it, when the progressive moon reaches the 4^th degree of Aquarius.