Today's chart refers to my Nov 2 post. I put a blue smudge over Venus and Mars in the 5th House and a green one over the Moon in the 11th house.
5th House - children, creative self expression, falling in love
11th House - peers, reputation, community respect
Aries - first sign in zodiac, first step in unit cycle of becoming. Coming into being. Birth. Explosion of seed. This first step in the unit life cycle is ruled by the planet Mars. Mars spends a smaller portion of its cycle in a balanced position with the Sun than any other planet.
Libra - seventh sign of zodiac, seventh step in unit cycle of becoming. Cusp of maturity. Reaching balance between individuality and universality. Bearing ripe fruit. This seventh step in the unit life cycle is ruled by Venus. The cycle of Venus is associated with the period of human gestation (conception to birth).
The clumsy red arrow shows the direction we see the planets take as earth revolves on its axis. At 7pm as I entered the camp of the enemy (Roman Catholic turned atheist astrologer) the nearly full Moon was rising in the eastern sky. If you have good eyes you can see a little 11 in the house occupied by the Moon at 7pm. That 11 simply means the Moon rose recently and was near the end of the lineup to rise again.
The Moon was in the sign ruled by Mars, but Mars, right across from it was in the sign ruled by Venus. And Venus was home. The planet of kindness was in the step of the unit cycle associated with generosity. Venus was in Libra.
Generosity. Generate. Genesis.
I was shocked when I found the entry for gamma eta nu. I was surfing a few Greek sentences in a side by side translation of Plato's Republic <--ugh! But discovering the connection between the Gaia we so often read about in encyclopedic listings of classical myths and the actual Greek word for Earth was worth all the time I spent lost, wandering through the old dialogue.
Gaia: gamma eta, Earth
Gen: gamma eta nu, of the Earth (eta is pronounced like an English long a)
As in - kata gen kai thalassos, 'by land and sea.'
Genesis is what springs from the Earth by virtue of the Sun's 'arrows.'
