Chart Readings #87
Hi friends,
Welcome to another installment of our Chart Readings! As always, please send your charts and questions to astropoets@gmail.com.
Love,
The Astro Poets
Question 1
Dear Astropoets,
To me, your book is how I imagine people feel about the Bible . I appreciate the light you’ve put into my life!
I am a Virgo Sun, Gemini Moon, Virgo Rising. I would say I have stereotypical Virgo qualities and socially come off as a Gemini. I was recently in a two year relationship that drained me. They were also a Virgo, but they were the Virgo In Control and the expectations started to consume me. Nothing I did was enough, which for a person like me was earth shattering. I somewhat lost myself and I’ve been trying to put everything back together. There were things I was going to do with my own life but I didn’t because I believed in this person and I felt like I could be enough.
My Question for you is…
I want to lack control and let life guide me. I want to do what I wanted to do, I want it to all happen tomorrow since I already wasted so much time. I want to move to a different city, sit in different restaurants, feel free. How can I do that? Am I capable of doing that? I have a fire in me and I’m ready to jump to a higher level but I need to know how to keep the fire going.
Virgo Sun
Virgo Rising
Gemini Moon
Virgo Mercury
Virgo Venus
Leo Mars
Dear Virgo,
Thank you for your sweet words about our book! We love you!
We are sorry to hear that this Virgo ex-lover tried to control your life and made you feel bad about yourself. We are so glad you are away from them and moving into what you want to do next!
With your chart, it is so important not to let others control you. Being so influenced by mutable energy (Gemini moon and so much Virgo), others may try to manipulate you but you should always remain the author of your own destiny.
You definitely can get started and do all of these things you want to do! Virgos have a way of making things happen. You have so much Virgo in your chart, with your sun, your Mercury, your rising, and your Venus. Let all of this immense Virgo energy handle everything practical and get these changes made. Let your own Virgo self be the one in control now.
But in the process, don’t count out your Gemini moon, which can always help make things happen, too. Gemini is the great synthesizer. With its boundless creativity, Gemini finds amazing ways to manifest its goals and dreams by knowing how to bring disparate ideas together.
Your Leo Mars gives you extra force to make things happen. When you are tired and feeling discouraged, your Leo Mars likely comes in to save the day with glamour and intensity. It also leads you to things you most want to do on a very basic level. Your Leo Mars will help you keep your fire going!
So as you move into the next phase of your life, use these beautiful parts of your chart to try and move on and do all of the things you want to do. Know that you have everything you need in your own self to make it happen. Use the brightness of these charismatic zodiac influences to light the way!
Virgo energy loves to reminisce. Our greatest advice: Don’t look back!
Love,
The Astro Poets
Question 2
Hi Alex and Dorothea!
Y'all really give me life with this content and especially your film lists and poetry divinations <3 Ok here it is:
My girlfriend and I have been together for four years and I love her SO much. When we started dating we dated on and off for a year (she'd break up with me because it was too much too fast, I'd break up with her because I didn't like our wishy washy vibes and I was like, there are other people out there I don't need this drama). The day I was moving to New York (a place she was probably moving to within the year) as we said goodbye for what I thought would be forever we told each other we loved each other -- no one remembers who said it first, and no one thinks it's them. To this day we really do not know! But she spent the summer in NYC and after a beautiful few months falling even further in love, we decided to date and were in a long-distance, open relationship. She didn't want to know when I hooked up with someone and I wanted her to talk me through her hookups. In the end, after a year I had hooked up with a bunch of people and she hadn't because every time we talked through it she got spooked she'd hurt me. (IDK if she would have, maybe, but I'd get over it!) When she moved to the city, we closed the relationship and I had always had in the back of my mind that maybe I'd like to revisit being open or even poly, but I was too scared to bring it up. Then earlier this year, she told me she kind of had feelings for a friend who confessed she had a crush on her -- a friend who I asked like, FIVE times if my gf had feelings for. (The friend lived away from NYC and they had met up a few times, and when she moved here she confessed her feelings.) That felt a little like betrayal because I was like, how did you not know your feelings but I did? I got over that specific bump and now we're talking about being polyamorous. And even though I've been curious about it without anyone specific in mind, and even though in theory I'm excited about it and like, know it's going to be good for me, I've been super stressed about the logistics and reality of it. Like, actually letting go of our bubble and the future we had imagined... letting other people in and not knowing how they will affect my life! Truly giving up what I thought was a safe relationship albeit I was kind of daydreaming about this thing we're about to do. We live together as well so there's going to be a hugely visible shift in how much time we spend together. I'm just really grieving the loss of the bubble, and I'm scared! Do you have any advice for me/us thinking about our charts? It's tough because we both tell each other we are the best people we know, we're each other's favorite, funniest, etc. etc. and she's the person I want to come home to at the end of the day when everyone else bores or annoys me. But I do think we can gain a lot from dating other people who can provide us with different modes of love. My thing is: I don't want to be jealous OR blow our relationship/life up just because I don't want to do the work of managing my jealousy, anxiety, or because this isn't what I had pictured our relationship to be. (I mean I do want to blow it up cuz it would feel good and vindictive for a second but like, I don't want to cuz I know it wouldn't make me happy in the end). I am also scared this won't work, that I'm not cut out for being poly or cut out for it with her, or that it will be too much work and I won't think it's worth it and I'll give up too early. I think we have to and will try being poly no matter what at this point (or break up I guess? if I don't feel like we're ready to do it but she really wants to? She says she wants me to be comfortable and I'm definitely getting there, but I don't know fast I can feel ready to say “fuck yes!”) but I'd love some words of wisdom about the situation if you have them.
Me:
Sun: Sagittarius
Moon: Aries
Rising: Sagittarius
Mercury: Sagittarius
Venus: Capricorn
Mars: Capricorn
Her:
Sun: Leo
Moon: Capricorn
Rising: Capricorn
Mercury: Virgo
Venus: Virgo
Mars: Scorpio
Thanks for any guidance!!
Dear Sagittarius,
Thank you so much for reading our work and especially our film lists and poetry divinations! That means the world to us and we love you!
Thank you also for your beautiful question and all of its intricacies! What really struck us at first was how much you love your girlfriend and began your letter this inarguable fact. Your love is so clear and given your charts, it makes a lot of sense.