Download The Seventh House: The Wheel of Life

The Seventh House: The Wheel of Life
© Pat Collins 2013
Become Wedded
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Ruling Sign: Libra
Ruling Planet: Venus
Polarity: Active
Element: Air
Mode: Cardinal
House Quality: Angular
Quadrant: 3rd, Outer/other
Body: Kidneys
Rules: Marriage, contracts, counselors
and advisors
The Work
Take an inventory
Look at your own chart to find out what sign you have on the seventh house cusp. Then use this
list to see how much you can figure out about the astrological influences there.
Sign on the cusp of
the 7th House
Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius
Capricorn Aquarius Pisces
Polarity
Active
Receptive
Mode
Cardinal
Fixed
Air
Earth
Element
th
Fire
Mutable
Water
Planets in the 7
House
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
Chiron
Aspects
Stressful
Ruling Planet
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
What House is the
Ruling Planet in?
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What sign is the ruling
planet in?
Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius
Capricorn Aquarius Pisces
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3
Easy Combination
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5 6
7
8 9
10
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What Astrologers Look At
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What sign is on the house cusp?
Is it early or late in the sign?
What’s the ruling planet?
Where is that planet?
What house and what sign?
How is it aspected?
Are there any other signs in that house?
Is there an intercepted sign?
What are the rulers of those signs and where are their ruling planets?
What Astrology Tells Us
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Polarity – are we introverted (receptive) or extroverted (active)
Mode – do we initiate, consolidate, or transform
Element – are you mental (air), spirited (fire), practical (earth) emotional (water) in
that area of your life
Sign – what’s our style, our manner
Planets – what drives us
Aspects – stressful or flowing
How to Approach It
The goal of these exercises is to help you understand your chart better. Don’t feel you need to
do all of them. Do only what makes sense for you now, or what you called to work on.
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Limit what you look at
Experienced astrologers might pick something esoteric
New astrologers, pick something basic
o Polarity, Mode, Element, Sign, Planet
Experienced astrologers, push yourself to take it deeper
Keep your focus narrow
Go deep
Go internal
Trust your experience
Questions
Pick a single question. Or if your exploration of this house has led you to another question, feel
free to pursue that.
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What is your relationship to relationship?
o Do you enter them easily?
o How do they end? Is there a pattern?
Explore your relationship history
o Personal, business, doctors, therapists
If you have birth data for past relationships, can you find any repeated patterns in
them? For example, do you find that there is always an aspect to one of your planets
that repeats? It might be that Saturn is always in aspect to your Moon, or Uranus is in
aspect to your Venus. Look for repetition.
Besides personal relationships, is there something in your life that you are wedded to?
What connects you to it? What does it bring you, and what do you bring it?
What throws you off balance?
o What do you do to rebalance?
Project Ideas
Pick a single project. Or if your exploration of this house has led you to another idea, feel free to
pursue that.
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Do a collage about your relationships
Test your physical balance – yoga tree pose, walking on something that requires
balance. How is your balance these days?
If you could give your 14-year old self advice about relationships, what would it be?
What is the single more important thing you want or need or love in partnership?
What’s the most important thing you have to offer another?
Good Resources
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Charts with accurate data to work with
o http://astrodatabank.com
o Ranking system
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Place to calculate charts
o http://astro.com
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Online reference, descriptions of planets, signs, aspects, etc.
o http://wiki.astro.com/astrowiki/en/