Polarities In A Personal Chart

There are two major polarities for consideration in the personal horoscope - one being the Sun and Moon relationship and the other being the Sun (or Birth) Sign and the Rising Sign representing influences that must be reconciled.

POLARITIES - SUN AND MOON

The Sun sign is an indication of strong spiritual or inner goals, talents and application towards worldly as well as spiritual advancement in evolution of the soul. In the personality it represents all the positive virtues and outward expressions of magnanimity, generosity, happiness and other positive character traits related to the inner self and inner powers and enduring life motivations and attitudes.

The Moon's work regarding the spiritual aspect, is to reflect all these virtues through the brain and personality and it is through the zodiacal placement of the Moon at birth that it functions. But as the Sun represents the constant or inner spiritual self, the Moon is the emotional self that changes and responds to all situations and influences within the practical climate of daily living environment.

This creates an inner tension or energy pattern in need of polarization and harmonizing by the personal discipline and self culture of each individual. To give an example -

Sun in Aries - has strong leadership qualities being dominant, assertive, confident, adventurous, self centred, courageous.

Moon in Pisces - a sensitive, self sacrificing and often poetic nature with vague moods and variable emotions of different responses and colour like an opal gemstone. For an Aries to reflect the Sun qualities in a personality with gentle and diffused emotions is obviously a challenge that requires a degree of self understanding.

Such a 'recipe' of a common basic polarity or duality is explicitly interpreted by the great astrologer Alan Leo.." This combination is not altogether a harmonious one, the action of the sun being too strong for the lunar position, producing a discontented, restless, and often worrying nature But it tones down considerably the impulsiveness of Aries, and when the two are working harmoniously, it increases the kindliness of the nature, and gives a love of the occult, the profound and mysterious.".....

When the Birth Sign and the Moon happen to fall in the same sign (in conjunction) the exercise in Polarity is not applicable and the factors must be interpreted differently.

POLARITIES - SUN SIGN AND RISING SIGN

The Sun sign and the Rising Signs are not always as diametrically opposed as the above example but to identify the major known characteristics of each Sign and you have a clear understanding of the differences in your nature that must become integrated.

For example, if your Sun Sign is Taurus, stable, firm, slow and accumulative regarding material things as well as being engaged in constructive enterprises, you may have to use a deal of self control of your more aggressive emotions and attitudes that could cause errors made in haste under the influence of a Rising Sign of Aries.

It is a very constructive exercise to actually list the virtues and failings of each of the two Signs in your horoscope and it will be evident to you where and why your personal psychological conflicts exist.

Remembering that the Rising Sign represents the body, outer personality and what you outwardly show to the world on the stage of life that Shakespeare reminds us of, to quote, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players......." the Sun Sign indicates the true inner soul that is journeying through life with a spiritual purpose.