Beauty and the Beast

One of the most prevalent legends (I’d say “myths”, but that’s a bad use for a good word) among astrologers is that charts with certain planets, when dignified, make people have those planets’ qualities.

Or, stated in a less convoluted way (sorry, not enough coffee yet), I once again read someone saying people with Venus in Pisces are beautiful.

Yes, breathtakingly beautiful, like… Hugh Hefner. Or Serge Gainsbourg; or Michelle Obama; or Celine Dion.

I’m not saying these are ugly people, and I’m not saying they don’t have qualities, but they’re not usually described as beauties.

Yes, there are people with Venus in Pisces that are indeed described as such (Emma Watson, Heath Ledger, and Kristen Stewart are the first google returns for “famous people with Venus in Pisces”), but there are equally beautiful people with Venus anywhere else:

In VIrgo (Brigitte Bardot, Charlize Theron, Kate Winslet, Chris Hemsworth), in Aries (Audrey Hepburn, Emily Blunt, Elizabeth Taylor, George Clooney), in Scorpio (Emilia Clarke, Jennifer Connely)…

Of course, it does not mean Venus being in Pisces means nothing. I can totally see how it manifested in the lives of Hefner, the Playboy Mansion guy, or Serge Gainsbourg. But planets do not translate into qualities like that.

The same thing happens with Mars. Many warriors, military people, and accomplished fighters had Mars in Cancer, Taurus, or anywhere else. Astrology is more beautiful, and more complicated, than just copying and pasting things about the planets into a description of people.

I posted something on my Youtube Channel, click here.

As I don’t have enough followers yet, I couldn’t do a live video. So I went live on Facebook/Instagram, downloaded the video and posted it.

I like the live format because I hate editing stuff, and doing mis-en-scène. I plan to keep doing it regularly (I can promise daily, because life is hard, and I don’t always have things to say), and as soon as the channel gets enough followers, to do it directly on Youtube.

I hope you like it, I talked about the Elements, the Directions of Space, and the Wizard of Oz.

In fact, one of the things that I noticed (no, I don’t have a well-designed statistical analysis) is that fighers had Mars emphasized, in some way, but not usually in good ways. Whenever they are dignified, they’re usually either in the very beginning or at the very end of sign — and maybe Capricorn is a bit more common than Aries and Scorpio.

I also noticed that Capricorn and Aquarius rising tend to be common in supermodels, although Saturn is not the planet we usually think when we hear the word “beauty”. Your grandma would say “good bones”, and she might have been right.

Another few answers from Quora.

Is it common to have many planets in one house and none in others? What does it mean?

Yes, of course.

There are 12 houses and 7 planets, there is no way every house will have a planet.

Moreover, Mercury and Venus are never very far from the Sun, so they’re usually either in the same or in adjacent houses.

It means you’re human and born on Earth.

In astrology, why do planets represent what they do? How did ancient cultures come to associate Venus with love and Mars with war? Why not Mars with peace?

Look at them both, at night, and you’ll never ask it again.

Seriously, do it.

Venus shines very brightly, with a sweet, clear colour, is never too far from the Sun (it’s seen only shortly before the Sun rises or shortly after the Sun sets), and it’s very strong.

Mars is not that bright, shines with an aggressive reddish/orangish colour, and moves way faster than Jupiter or Saturn.

The foundation of the symbolic associations of the planets lie in their visible qualities in the sky and in their relation to each other. That is why widely different cultures gave them the same significations.

If you were to create an astrology school what would the syllabus be, books, notable people and order of learning?

There would be two years of logic, Latin, and mathematics (arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry).

Then, one year of symbolic cosmology, observational astronomy, compared religion, and history of astrology.

The last (fourth) year would be theory and guided practice in horary, natal, and medical astrology.

How can astrology basically divide the world into 12 groups and make accurate assessments?

It doesn’t. That’s not astrology, that’s “sun-sign columns”.

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