Natal Midheaven in Scorpio

Posted by Luminakisharblaze on April 18, 2011 at 2:09pm in Astrology

(Bernice Grebner)

First Decanate (Scorpio-Scorpio): These people need vocations where there are secrets to be uncovered, such as chemistry, investigative work, psychology, and even astrology. They will not quit a job until it is finished and they have the final answer. They have very practical business talents and can attend to the most minute details if necessary. If they use their probing minds, they will have great success.

With Taurus-Taurus on the IC, they cannot be changed by their family but can be led through love to co-operate. This influence gices them a very stubbron attitude concerning domestic affairs. Once something in the house is in a certain position, it remains there forever.

Second Decanate (Scorpio-Pisces): They are substantially expert at bringing about financial growth in business. They are best when working with their creative and investigative mind. They organize their jobs behind the scenes, secretly, so it looks as if they did it without any effort at all. Their conservatism isn't apparent to the public, for they appear to be more loose and free than they actually are.

With Taurus-Virgo on the IC, they can be stubborn and critical with their families. They are too much the perfectionists within the domestic scene or slave drivers with members of the family in pushing work, work, work, for money, money, money. Somehow behind these drives are sexual problems. However, if they are fulfilled sexually it eases their drive for work and money.

Third Decanate (Scorpio-Cancer): If you want results on the job, you will get it with this position. There is nothing they can't get to the bottom of; and they will labor physically and mentally to do an excellent job. They will observe the results; and, if they are not to their liking, they will do the job over. The people they work with are like second families to them. They will know all about their fellow employees and cater to them, but others they work with may not get to know very much about Scorpio-Cancer here. This is the person to whom everyone unburdens their problems.

With Taurus-Capricorn on the IC, they are very conservative and tight, moneywise, within the domestic circle. There is an extremely economical condition with the family. There is a tendency to acquire money and things just for the sake of acquisition alone. Family ties are important, and nothing can be done to rock the boat. Eventually this may cause extensive illness requiring hospitalization, for everything has a price. However, the home is sturdy and solid.

(Frances Sakoian and Louis Acker)

Historically, many with Scorpio on the MC have been revolutionaries, since they are at odds with the established régime or those who have authority over them. They do not wish to dominate or be dominated. Their opportunities for self-renewal come through their professions; and often renown follows.

With Taurus on the nadir, they admire elegant homes, and much of their financial resources is channeled into creating a beautiful personal environment. Within this environment they like to be surrounded by music and art. The home is where these people's maternal or paternal instinct expresses itself in providing for their families.

(Dane Rudhyar)

The fixity of purpose and natural organic productivity of the sign Taurus when related to the fourth house stresses the importance to the individual of deep roots in a particular land and tradition, and of a solid home foundation. But, as in every other case, the character of this foundation depends a great deal on what zodiacal sign is on the Ascendant, for the Ascendant is at the source of all that characterizes the essential function of the individual as an individual - that is, his identity as a unique person. In temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, if Taurus is at the Nadir point of the chart one can expect Capricorn, Aquarius, or even Sagittarius at the Ascendant. The 'Earth' character of Taurus would be strengthened by a Capricorn Ascendant; and the Cancer Descendant would add to the concentration on productivity within the radius of the home or of a well-defined field of activity.

Taurus symbolizes in the cycle of the year the evolutionary ascent of life toward the Sun, the ascent of the sap which nourishes the plant and culminates in the blossom. The Scorpio Midheaven, which polarizes this ascent if Taurus is at the cusp of the fourth house, represents the flowering of the life energy in the at least relatively full-grown organism of personality - thus the glamor of youthful bodies enamored with one another and, through sexual embraces, seeking to reach the experience of power which expresses itself through the union of life polarities. A cycle of experience later, around age fifty, this fulfillment of vital energies may be replaced by the exaltation of social-professional achievements. These also imply a union with a superpersonal reality -a group, a nation, mankind - which releases social power.

Here again we see polarity at work in the opposed ends of the natal meridian, Nadir and Zenith. In the fourth house, the product of Taurean fertility is oneself as a person; in the tenth house, the product of Scorpio's urge to commune in depth with other persons should result in a significant and productive 'office'. The office-holder and the office depend upon each other. Results are generated by their interaction.

(Jeanne Avery)

Pluto, the ruler of Scorpio, indicates tremendous power, charisma, intensity, forcefulness, and effectiveness, depending on its position in the chart and the apsects to other planets. If Pluto is well aspected, the individual with this inventive rising sign can attain powerful positions in the public arena or with his career, if he so chooses. Much of the preconditioning of his career potential depends on the photographs he took of the parent of the same sex.

Pluto is the planet perhaps least understood, possibly because its power is so intense. The Scorpio energy may not appear to be what is usually considered powerful, yet when this dynamic force is channeled to its highest level, effectiveness seems incredibly easy. In terms of Transactional Analysis, Pluto relates to the child ego state. The child can be totally innocent and therefore very magnetic, or manipulative and 'powerful' in a more overt way. The innocent child will always be more effective than the manipulative one.

When Pluto describes the relationship with the parent of the same sex, the individual sees that parent as a 'child', enormously charismatic, playful, and getting results all the while. If Pluto is well aspected, the parent has a power that is natural, easy, not forced. But if Pluto is not well aspected in the individual chart, the parent may have been overly aggressive and manipulative, unaware of the intensity of his energy. The parent may have unwittingly used force to overrun the individual, and perhaps everyone else. His message may have been: 'Do what I say and don't ask any questions'.

In public life or in career matters, the native with Scorpio MC can be enormously effective. He acts like a 'producer', reaching people on a mass level. He may manufacture things, be involved with major organizations, or deal with the television industry, a Plutonian occupation. The negative side of Pluto smacks of the underworld, or of manipulation that eventually backfires. In a more subtle sense, it describes whether the ends justify the means. Scorpio is the sign of transcendency or transmutation. The image of the Phoenix rising from the ashes describes the process of burning out the negative Scorpio energy of revenge, manipulation, or childlike determination to want what is wanted whether the end results are good or not. A child and the Plutonian energy have a similar message: 'I want what I want, when I want it. I'll get it and no-one will stop me'. The child reaches maturity when he can let go of non-productive situations. The Scorpio evolves in the same way.

In a metaphysical sense, Pluto describes the will. A child's will is strong and effective, but his concern is for his own pleasure or needs. The evolved will is related to Universal will, or the desire to do only what is for the good of the whole. Then the 'innocence' of the child ego state emerges. When the individual with Scorpio MC is willing to use, as his motivation, the desire to transform energy to the highest level, working for the betterment of mankind, he taps the highest universal energy. He then becomes truly effective.

Many times a person with Scorpio MC feels caught by a desire to get even with the parent of the same sex. Rebellion against the standards advocated by that parent can result in a stymied career for the individual. He may be forced to transmute his thumb-nosed attitude in order to achieve his own goals. In most rebellion, the only person who is hurt may be the rebel. If he is truly able to rise to the highest motivation with career or public life, he may end up with all the overt symbols of success he may have wanted early in his life.

Venus, the planet that rules Taurus on the IC, indicates pleasure, beauty, harmony, art, serenity, and graciousness. It also describes affection, love, and sensuality. If Venus is well aspected in the natal chart, a beautiful exchange of love and affection between the individual and the parent of the opposite sex is indicated. The personality photographs that parent as sociable, charming, gracious, and handsome or beautiful. If Venus is not well aspected, the parent may have been lazy, self-indulgent, or inclined to take the easy way out in life.

In the positive sense, the personality enjoys greater peace and harmony in his later years. He needs a home that provides solace and beautiful surroundings. He may have a wonderful art collection. He will certainly be sensitive to the right color and décor in his home. Since Taurus is the sign most associated with gourmet food, land that provides food, or an 'estate' designed for entertainment and enjoyment, beomes a strong desire for this native.

If Venus is not well aspected, the individual with this IC may have felt a lack of support from the parent of the opposite sex. Affection may have been withheld or the parent may have backed away from conflict. The possibility of following in the footsteps of that parent in areas of assertion may be strong. The individual may tend to take the easy way out at home, wanting only a haven or refuge from the storms of the world. In the most extreme form, the individual may hide out at home in order to avoid outside conditions. Structuring time, especially with artistic projects, enables the person to find an antidote or missing ingredient in life. If he can sink his teeth into projects, he finds a way out of a morass. Venus, one of the 'benefics', is never all bad. Enjoyment of social life, friendship, affection, and pleasure are important for someone with this IC sign. At its worst, self-indulgence, laziness, or overinterest in pleasure to the exclusion of anything else is ascribed to Venus. The possibility of avoidance of anything remotely distasteful or ugly in connection with home or lifestyle is a Venusian trait. Gracious living seems to come naturally to one with Taurus IC.

Downward-Facing Dog-Adho Mukha Svanasana

Posted by Luminakisharblaze on April 18, 2011 at 2:07pm in Yoga

(AH-doh MOO-kah shvah-NAHS-anna)

adho = downward

mukha = face

svana = dog

Step by Step

Come onto the floor on your hands and knees. Set your knees directly below your hips and your hands slightly forward of your shoulders. Spread your palms, index fingers parallel or slightly turned out, and turn your toes under.

Exhale and lift your knees away from the floor. At first keep the knees slightly bent and the heels lifted away from the floor. Lengthen your tailbone away from the back of your pelvis and press it lightly toward the pubis. Against this resistance, lift the sitting bones toward the ceiling, and from your inner ankles draw the inner legs up into the groins.

Then with an exhalation, push your top thighs back and stretch your heels onto or down toward the floor. Straighten your knees but be sure not to lock them. Firm the outer thighs and roll the upper thighs inward slightly. Narrow the front of the pelvis.

Firm the outer arms and press the bases of the index fingers actively into the floor. From these two points lift along your inner arms from the wrists to the tops of the shoulders. Firm your shoulder blades against your back, then widen them and draw them toward the tailbone. Keep the head between the upper arms; don't let it hang.

Adho Mukha Svanasana is one of the poses in the traditional Sun Salutation sequence. It's also an excellent yoga asana all on its own. Stay in this pose anywhere from 1 to 3 minutes. Then bend your knees to the floor with an exhalation and rest in Child's Pose.

(Source http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/491)

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