North Node Sextiles Sun

Sun harmonizing with Lunar Nodes

Whatever your Dragon's Head and Dragon's Tail indicate, as shown above, you are well able to realize the destiny of the former while getting the best and weeding the worst out of the latter.

In the first case, you find it fairly easy to implement whatever is necessary to carry you forward in this life.

In the second case, you have the resolve and inclination to get out from under the hangovers and bad habits from previous existences.

Possible Past Lives:

• One or more lives where you gave substance to the saying 'To die conscious is to be born wise', meaning that the effect of such an event gave you a rare insight into the workings of life, death and karma; of what matters and what does not.


• Someone quite elevated in life, who knew more than most, like a wise person or elder.

North Node Sesquiquadrate Moon

Moon conflicting with Lunar Nodes

It was as if something really blew you off course in your last life, or maybe it was always off course with you being in a position that was out of sync with your state of mind.

Perhaps you were in a role that disagreed with your deeper feelings, like a peaceable person having to fight, or someone who had privileges or comforts that prevented you from finding out what you really wanted or who you really were.

Consequently in this life you initially find your interests scattered and your true direction - as described by your Dragon's Head - hard to establish.

Such lack of focus could persist until you discover some end that endures, something that galvanizes you and pulls you away from things of lesser importance - again, as indicated by your Dragon's Head.

All this will especially apply and be down to the nature and karma of your last life as described in the next Chapter 2/Your Last Life, for such - especially your Moon's House position - will inform you of what can still distract you from your best course through life, creating friction and distress as a kind of repeat performance.

Possible Past Lives:

• A square peg in a round hole.


• A servant with two masters.


• A misfit.


• Someone who was denied how they felt.


• Someone caught up in a collective situation, like a war, plague or economic crisis, where they were forced to go against the tide of their own true feelings.


• A lifetime where one's direction became very unclear.

North Node Semisquare Uranus

Uranus conflicting with Lunar Nodes

You come from some time and place where you were wild and free, where magic and the extraordinary ruled. You very possibly were quite special or unique in some way.

Your origins and the unusual talents and qualities that accompany them can be said to be down to your Uranian Lineage, the meaning of which is described in Chapter 5/Your Far-Distant Lives, under 'Alien, Sky People and Prehistoric Karma'.

You most definitely have something extraordinary about you, but whether or not that has set you apart in this life as someone special or just plain odd, as someone gifted or arrogant, is the critical question.

One way or the other though, you stood apart from the common herd, or paradoxically you demanded freedom and rights for that very section of society, particularly the more neglected part of it.

In fact, paradox could describe a great deal about your heritage in that the best of what you have gleaned and gathered in previous lives in the form of what singled you out as someone special, can in the present life turn out to be what marks you out in a negative, alienating, social misfit, sort of way.

Your challenge is to somehow incorporate what is unusual about you into some role that appeals to the unusual in others, or to the need for freedom to be who they uniquely are too.

Possible Past Lives:

• Magician.
• Revolutionary.
• Outcast.
• Inventor.
• Freak.
• Esotericist.
• Reactionary.
• Renegade.
• Outlaw.
• Untouchable.
• Alien.

North Node Squares Pluto

Pluto conflicting with Lunar Nodes

Your path towards your true destiny must necessarily go through some rather dark and tortuous places for the reason that you lost yourself in such shady vales and subterranean haunts in previous lifetimes.

This life is effectively 'A Return to the Crime Scene'.

The past horrors of abuse of power, given and received, are what you have to revisit, or be revisited by, in order that you purge yourself of whatever it is that dwells in your soul that drew it towards such dark deeds or experiences.

Essentially then, the 'crime scene' holds evidence of that abuse of power - whether sexual, financial, political, artistic, physical or anything else.

In sifting through this evidence you uncover what your role was, be it victim or victimizer.

And it would most likely be both, considering we're talking about what has gone down over many lifetimes.

So your Karmic Trend, as here described by your Lunar Nodes, has and will continue to take you through differing scenarios where you are the one who is dominator or dominated, where you are fearful of, or preoccupied with, chaos or death, so that you might recognize what 'power' actually is.

It is something as real as the blood coursing through your veins; like the emotions surging through your frame; as hormones flooding your system; as your genes unfolding your destiny, biological and otherwise.

Your destiny is to re-experience what true power is by remembering and being reminded how it was abused, misused or not used previously - by going through the consequences of such in this lifetime.

But this is not just for the hell of it, even though that is precisely what it can at times feel like.

It is so that your soul may be purged, and then you are once more aligned with pure power and are thereby able to express it in a healing, creative and positively transformative way.

Possible Past Lives:

• Any scenario that involved horror and death:- War, particular very cruel civil ones, like the Spanish Civil War.
• Plague.
• Famine.
• Black magician.
• Sexual perversion or manipulation.
• Vice.
• Secret agent or covert activities.
• Totalitarian regimes.
• Murder and mayhem.
• Ancient events such as being attacked and eaten by wild animals or monsters, leaving deeply buried in your psyche a fear of being 'consumed' by anything that is more powerful than you.
• A victim of cataclysms, like earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes that were rife upon this Earth in the earliest times of its formation.
• 'Paradise Lost' scenarios, like for example, the corruption of innocent and beautiful cultures such as once existed, for example, in the South Sea Islands.

Moon Opposes Mercury

Moon conflicting with Mercury

In your last life you were very sure of what you did mentally or manually, like a social or work skill, but out of touch with how you felt about your life and the people in it.

Or conversely, you couldn't help but let your emotional interests such as mother, family and close ties deflect you from your intellectual and career pursuits.

In your present life this imbalance still plays itself out as the reverse of what it was then - which could mean an alternation between the two expressions of it - with a lack of satisfaction being the result.

This could mean that you use talking or mental analysis as a kind of verbal overflow of things you do not want to feel or remember that happened before, dispersing those emotions and memories rather than focusing upon them long enough to make them meaningful, creative or both.

The content of what it is that you do not want to remember would be revealed in the rest of this report, and in this chapter in particular, especially regarding your Moon Sign.

The clue is in the word 'imbalance', for you now need to create and maintain a balance between how you think and speak, and how you feel - which would mean stopping that 'verbal overflow' long enough to be able to do just that.

In other words, you have something important, appealing and interesting to say, but you are afraid of feeling it owing to that previous life experience or experiences.

Possible Past Lives:

• The confused individual; the gossip or victim of gossip; one of a great number of people who were not following, or able to follow, their heart or their head to the point of knowing or satisfying either.
• Someone who lost or avoided the emotional plot, probably because of something that was said and then caused pain, or of something that was painful for not being talked about - at all or in the right way.
• The hen-pecked or cuckolded man, or the heavily criticized or even condemned woman.

Moon Quincunx Venus

Moon conflicting with Venus

Your last life was quite dominated by the female element of life in the sense that home, family, childrearing, tribe, feelings, comfort, and a peaceful rather than warlike element were to the fore.

Although this is can technically be called a 'conflicting' Aspect, it is not really because the 'Dominant Femininity' makes for an emphasis on passivity, adaptability and empathy, all of which tend and point toward an harmonious and peaceful previous existence.

Its problem is that it now has to deal with a 'dominant masculine' environment of the present day world. It is quite likely that, if you are male in this current life, you were actually female in your last.

In this case then, you are probably a 'soft male', with kindness and all feeling based values being more prevalent in you that it is in most men.

In some cases this strong female element from 'before' can give rise to gender questions or homosexuality.

Whatever your gender now, the pronounced feminine quality can make for an expectation or expression of softness and sympathy which may or may not be always warranted, which can lead to your being taken advantage of or keeping the peace at too high a price.

Possible Past Lives:

• Member of a matriarchal society.
• A peaceful, close to nature type of existence.
• A herbalist or apothecary.
• A lot of time spent in female company, like in an all-female production line in a mill or factory, or in a nunnery.
• Or as a nurse.
• Farmer's wife.
• Gardens and fields.

Moon Conjuncts Jupiter

Moon uniting with Jupiter

Karmic Springboard:-

The manner in which the combining of these two Planets' energies has progressed and been expressed through your previous lives, and so far in this one, has now got to a new and powerful point of departure.

The karma of this union is dual in the sense that there are challenging and constructive Aspects to it - as the title and text testify - which are present because of both the negative and the positive being experienced during different periods.

Effectively these two Aspects should be seen to respectively serve and stimulate one another, one 'demand' the other 'supply', rather than the one being regarded as 'wrong' and the other as 'right'.

It is now up to you as to how it proceeds from here:

Nature Versus Doctrine - Your last life was very much taken up with being involved in or committed to some philosophy, belief, paradigm or ideology. The trouble with this was that some such doctrine overtook or supplanted your own natural sense of who you were as an individual soul - and possibly who you are now in this lifetime.

A strong investment in the 'group' - be it a political party, religious flock, nationalistic movement, mystical cult or even some kind of gang - took you over, making you confuse your own feelings with whatever you were taught you were supposed to feel.

Continuing to fall prey to this confusion between what you are as your natural self and what you are led to believe you are as a political, religious or social 'animal' could in this life find you strongly opposed or avoided as a result of unconscious self-righteousness 'leaking through' from that previous existence.

The difficulty is that this 'karma of dogma' is quite hard to shake off because the previous indoctrination was intrinsically self-justifying, as well as initially giving you a pronounced sense of confidence.

But such confidence is not actually in yourself but in the doctrine with which you were previously programmed. Furthermore, because of the dogmatic and persistent nature of such programming, you may have attracted, or been attracted to, something similar in this lifetime.

The challenge of all this is to now realize or remember what you truly believe in by making that distinction between a feeling of your very own and a set of ideas that were planted inside of you.

Take note of any mention of the influence of Jupiter in this report - particularly in 3/Your Recent and Distant Lives under 'Karmic Opportunities' - or any placements in Sagittarius, for such will give further information concerning this, your 'Nature Versus Doctrine' lifetime.

Possible Past Lives:

• A fully paid-up member of some movement or party, religion or teaching.
• A staunch 'believer', one of the 'party faithful'.
• Someone whose own identity was lost in the identity of their tribe or nation - or just their family.
• A preacher or proselytizer. Member of a matriarchal society, but with a dogmatic bent.

Fundamental Faith in Life -

Very fortunately there occurred something in your last life - and very likely before that too because we are talking lineage here and not just an event - which has conferred upon you an innate faith that there is something good about life and those that live it.

This could have taken the form of a very positive encounter with some teacher, guide or simply a good human being, or some kind of rewarding adventure or journey, possibly for religious reasons. You yourself would have been involved in 'good works' of some kind.

Notwithstanding any negative karma, particularly with respect to your Moon, you have a natural trust in the way of the world.

Whether this got compromised or confused could be an issue, but it is remembering your better nature, and your faith in the same in others, that will carry you far in this life.

This will also take you on through difficulties, as good feelings attract good events and opportunities.

Take note of any mention of the influence of Jupiter in this report - particularly in Chapter 3/Your Recent and Distant Lives under 'Karmic Opportunities' - or any placements in Sagittarius, for such will give further information concerning this lifetime or lifetimes where you enjoyed that 'Fundamental Faith in Life'.

Possible Past Lives:

• The joyful pilgrim.
• The merry traveler.
• A charmed life, or at least a charmed episode in one.
• A happy home and family life.
• A philanthropist.
• A good friend or mother.
• Someone who showed kindness and generosity to those in need.
• A trustworthy guide. The good woman.
• Healthy and wholesome blood, family line or racial background.


• Good 'stock'.

Moon Opposes Uranus

Moon conflicting with Uranus

Something occurred in the context of your last life as described here - or as a result of it - that was shocking, unexpected, or an act of rebellion maybe, especially with regard to women.

Then again it could have been some kind of sudden realization, innovation or invention that disrupted and changed things radically.

This could have taken the form of an accident, explosion or upheaval - again, particularly in the context of the meaning of your Moon Sign.

All this would originate from your Uranian Lineage as described below 'Alien, Sky People and Prehistoric Karma in Chapter 4/Far-Distant Lives. As a consequence of these kinds of event, in this lifetime there can be an expectation of emotional or domestic disruption that is not really warranted by the present circumstances.

In other words, you can be the one who creates the sudden change as a way of pre-empting an anticipated fate.

Possible Past Lives:

• Someone who never felt they belonged; a square peg in a round hole.
• An aviator lost in the clouds.
• An individual driven from their home or homeland by revolution - or invasion, and who fights to subvert the invader (like for example, a member of the French Resistance against the Nazis during World War Two).
• Or one of those who did the invading or raiding, disrupting and destroying homes, family life and security - possibly from the air.
• A suffragette in the early part of the 20th century.
• A runaway from family ties and commitments because they inhibited personal freedom, or conversely, someone who stayed at their post whilst it became more and more unbearable to the point of sudden disaster.
• Any occasion involving severe emotional shock, giving rise to a deeply unconscious feeling that everything could suddenly change, be upset or taken away - especially with regard to being wrenched from one's home, family, country or people.
• Persecuted for being 'different' or being regarded as an outsider or disruptive in some way.
• An outcast.

Moon Sesquiquadrate Pluto

Moon conflicting with Pluto

Your last life was marked or rather scarred by some event or ongoing situation that made you feel emotionally devastated. Equally or additionally, you may have been the one doing the emotional devastating to one or more others.

However, owing to Pluto's fathomlessness, the deep and original cause of such devastation would have involved a life and death scenario, probably quite grim, a very long time ago, many lifetimes ago. Objectively, as we are considering a primitive time or civilization, such an event could be regarded as par for the course.

Mortality rates and vulnerability to rape and murder were rife in earlier times. Or such a tragic event or lifetime could have been more personal in that, for instance, someone very close was taken from you.

Subjectively, imprinted upon your soul is the memory that you were forsaken by, or robbed of, someone or something dear to you - even though it may have been humanly unavoidable.

The problem is this crippling event and its attendant emotions have reverberated through lifetimes, leaving you with a primary need to continually keep yourself safe and at a distance from any such similar pain reoccurring.

But this is a long distance call from your soul, your deep unconscious, which is crying 'Heal me!' Putting it off, understandable though this is, only compounds the fear of again being abandoned or betrayed.

It unerringly attracts situations and relationships which implement repeat performances, but ones that are more purely emotionally wounding - or at the very least painfully compromising - rather than physically damaging or fatal.

Then again you might have 'killed off' any such feeling by burying it in your deep unconscious mind. But whatever the case, what persists is the association that emotional closeness has with extreme suffering and loss.

What you have to do is firstly remind yourself that the actual event that started it, and the ones that compounded it, have passed. You are only experiencing the fall-out, even though this too can be devastating - but it is still an effect rather than the cause

Secondly, you need to immerse yourself in the feelings associated with these effects, to honestly delve into the truth of how you feel, to the point where you break through into a purged and liberated state, having released the 'germ' that caused it all.

Exposing the darkness to the light - the light of conscious awareness - vanquishes that darkness. Then not only will the situations and people with whom you are closely involved transform also, but you will have earned an emotional profundity that is powerfully healing and creative.
You will have cleared the way for the pure and primal 'you' to surface.

Possible Past Lives:

• An annihilation of all that gave you security, which could not only have included your mother at the time - which may have been who your present mother is now - but that she was the one who did the annihilating; or at least, was perceived by you to have done so.
• Being part of a family that was cruelly slaughtered. Being a survivor of some event where many others were killed, giving rise to guilt or fear of being tracked down or killed later, along with an imprinted desire to somehow make recompense.
• Any life or lives where one was abandoned or felt to be abandoned by someone very close.
• A deeply intimate relationship that went desperately wrong, instilling in you a fear of intimacy, but still an urge to experience it.
• Someone who abused power, like emotional leverage, particularly in a way that robbed another or others of home, family, mother and security; being a victim of same.
• Political or genocidal pogroms, or natural disasters, could be scenarios in which any of the above could have taken place.

Moon Sesquiquadrate North Node

Moon conflicting with Lunar Nodes

This important Aspect has been described above under the same title in Chapter 1/Your Karmic Trend.

Jupiter Conjuncts Moon

Jupiter uniting with Moon

Karmic Springboard:

This powerful emotional Aspect has been described above in Chapter 2/Your Last Life under the same title, strongly suggesting that such Jupiterian Karma originated in the life immediately previous to this one.

Jupiter Opposes Mercury

Jupiter conflicting with Mercury

Through lifetimes you have oscillated between, on the one hand, staying near to where you were born, your parish, local district or neighborhood, and on the other hand, venturing over the horizon to seek your fortune.

The reason for the swinging back and forth is because in the first place you became so bored or frustrated with your limited scope that you made an ill-prepared sortie into the unknown, possibly with titanic aspirations, only to be disappointed or worse, and finally coming back with your tail between your legs.

Nevertheless, you probably told a good tale of where you had been and what you'd be doing, and who with - with a liberal dash of exaggeration and dramatization in order to foster the idea that your adventure was well worth it.

All this is fairly harmless karma except that it can leave you as bored and frustrated as ever, and possibly causing a raised eyebrow or two amongst those you are with.

The lesson is therefore simply one of getting a plan, thinking it through, but not too much, and seeking your fortune until you truly and honestly find it!

Take note of any other mention of the influence of Mercury in this report for such will give further information concerning your 'Traveler's Tales'.

Possible Past Lives:

• Someone who was enticed away from the world they knew because of the promise of a greater life - like for example, going to sea or war, following some religious leader or prophet, the proverbial 'going off with the circus that came to town' - and then was disillusioned, possibly because of relying too much on someone or something else to provide what they were after.
• A person who whiled away their life talking or promising but never doing.
• Someone who seriously mistook opinions for facts.
• A purveyor of goods or services that did not live up to their advertisement.
• The typical ad-person or hidden persuader, promising great satisfaction and the realization of one's dreams.
• At a lower level, a liar and a thief.

Jupiter Opposes Saturn

Jupiter conflicting with Saturn

Here is a firm indication of powerfully influential lifetimes being a member of some established religious denomination or of some longstanding tradition where subscribing to its customs and rules was a strongly enforced obligation.

Alternatively, you could equally have been opposed to such catholic bodies or beliefs - but this would sort of have amounted to the same thing.

And needless to say, this 'Dogma Karma' is and has been rife in human society since the dawn of time, so its carries a lot of collective weight.

In this lifetime though, such 'Dogma Karma' can find you being or feeling either restricted or guilt-ridden for no obvious reason - or for the wrong reason - or find you straining against limitations to the point of finding it hard to commit to anything or anyone for long.

Significantly, none of this may be obvious to you, at least not at first, for the simple reason that this 'we are right and they are wrong' belief has been so long and so deeply installed.

It is possibly only going to dawn on you that this is the case when something or someone does the same to you.

That is, they strongly think you are wrong and oppose or block you, or they fail to commit to you.

Or you even go so far as running afoul of authority or the law as you try make a stand against what appears externally to be holding you back.

And another very common expression of 'Dogma Karma' is to now not believe in anything at all, but as it has been said, this is a stubborn belief in itself.

The big challenge in this lifetime is to find a balance between fact and faith, between expansiveness and limitation, and thereby create a healthy philosophy and attitude which submits neither to dark doubt or blind conviction.

Possible Past Lives:

• A life battling against non-believers or those who opposed your beliefs, like for example, a crusader in the Holy Land in the 11th or 16th century; or being on the opposing side, that is, one of the 'non-believers'.
• Someone who was in a position of authority but did not believe that they had any authority; or conversely, someone who had strong beliefs but no authority.
• Someone who was downtrodden by the 'state' and or the 'church', or was biased toward one or the other, or who was dangerously caught between the two.
• A victim of the Law of Man or the Law of God, or someone who victimized others in the name of one or both.
• A person who was simply caught up and confined by whatever prevailing system was in power at the time, and felt powerless to do anything about it - or never even thought to do anything about it, just complained.

Jupiter Opposes Uranus

Jupiter conflicting with Uranus

You have a strong line of lifetimes that goes back to some ancient time where you were in possession of powerful knowledge relating to what could be called 'God's Truth' - or at least, you were closely involved with someone who was.

Because this knowledge challenged and flew in the face of whatever was the conventional religion of the day, it was therefore dangerous. And so you could have been punished or persecuted, or had to go into hiding.

How such knowledge sits with you today, or whether you are even conscious of it, is the big question. But that esoteric awareness, that sense of 'God's Truth', is still inside of you somewhere!

So in this lifetime it could manifest as anything from a definite sense of there being something special about yourself and life, to just a vague question like 'Is this all there is?' The former can give you a sense of superiority that can eventually alienate you - again.

The latter can just leave you feeling perennially dissatisfied as you fail to recognize what actually is special about you and life.

In any event, start out with the idea that you do have that sense of some ultimate truth, and like a germinating seed gently and consistently nurture it so that it grows into something magical and wise.

Looked at in another way, or during another life, you at some point experienced something that upset your faith in life, God, yourself or whatever hitherto you believed in strongly, probably of the nature described here.

Equally, this may have been a very unexpected and sudden awakening that demolished your previous philosophy or idea of what life was about.

In any event, it has, on the negative side, made it hard for you to persevere with projects or believe in something that cannot be proven or whose reliability cannot be guaranteed.

This has inclined you to go into ventures without any preparation at all, or to over-prepare or deliberate to the point of stalling.

On the positive side, you are not given to being dogmatic because your philosophy is ever changing and evolving.

At your best you will trust chance by not thinking too much (or even at all).

Take note of any other mention of the influence of Uranus in this report, namely in Chapter 7/Your Distant Lives under 'Alien, Sky People and Prehistoric Karma', for such will give further information concerning 'Faith, Shock & God's Truth'.


Possible Past Lives:

• The magician. The religious defector.
• A member of some esoteric sect, like for example the Druids, or the Essenes (in Judea from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD).
• Member of any group that defied the prevailing beliefs and opinions of the day. An iconic figure in some field of human endeavor - or in close relationship with one.
• Someone who was punished, possibly severely, for their unusual or rebellious beliefs.
• A disillusioned devotee.
• Victim or beneficiary of a shocking revelation concerning someone or something that was heartily believed in.
• Victim of some technical failure or human error, like in an air accident.
• Involvement in some hare-brained project.
• Caught up in a revolution, with disastrous consequences.
• A sudden revelation of the 'truth' that has left you too expectant of such occurring just when you want it to in this life, whereas it will come of its own bidding, not your own.

Jupiter Opposes Neptune

Jupiter conflicting with Neptune

Previous incarnations have, in one instance, led you to believe that anything is possible as long as you have some vision of whatever that might be; yet in another instance you have been strongly disenchanted by such an idea, even to point of not believing that anything is trustworthy or achievable at all.

However, such are the 'High Hopes' that have been factored into your being since literally 'God knows when' you are likely to have come back into the fray to again attempt making your vision of a better world a reality, or to find something that lives up to it, or someone who embodies it.

You are a testament to Alexander Pope's line "Hope springs eternal in the human breast".

This can be a good, even great, thing - as long as you learn the lesson implicit in it: that your vision must be practical, must hold water, must have its 'fine print' read and re-read.

Possible Past Lives:

• Devoted follower of some guru or religious leader who ultimately let you down, but at the same time left a scintilla of hope and faith that you clung to regardless.
• Or you could have been that charismatic preacher.
• Someone who went on an arduous holy pilgrimage and had to convince themselves that it was all worthwhile - but probably wasn't - or maybe it was, if only.
• A voyager or adventurer on the high seas, exploring or buccaneering.
• A seeker after fabled treasure.
• Called to any great event or cause that proved to be disillusioning; the greater the event - World War One for example - the greater the disillusionment, but the illusion dies hard - meaning that the seed of it can be still dangerously present.

Saturn Conjuncts Mercury

Saturn uniting with Mercury

Karmic Springboard:

The manner in which the combining of these two Planets' energies has progressed and been expressed through your previous lives, and so far in this one, has now got to a new and powerful point of departure.

The karma of this union is dual in the sense that there are challenging and constructive Aspects to it - as the title and text testify - which are present because of both the negative and the positive being experienced during different periods.

Effectively these two Aspects should be seen to respectively serve and stimulate one another, one 'demand' the other 'supply', rather than the one being regarded as 'wrong' and the other as 'right'.

It is now up to you as to how it proceeds from here:

Use or Misuse of Intellect -

Like many, here is a personal karma that is very possibly all too embedded in collective karma.

This is because it has to do with how the use of intellectual powers, logical thinking and material science have held sway as being the only proper arbiters and expressions of truth and fact over the last few hundred years.

So this is saying that you have either been a beneficiary of this 'rule' or a victim of it.

If you are the former you would possibly have been in a position where you drew great security and prestige from being someone of intellectual note.

You now still benefit from this intellectual pedigree, but with the added circumstance of having to deal with someone or something that defies the intellect - that may even be mad, or at least appear so to your rational or linear way of thinking

Or you lock horns with someone who regards themselves as your intellectual superior, or at least, equal.

If, on the other hand, you were a victim of this way of thinking - then in this lifetime you could be one with 'learning difficulties' as your predominant right-brain still struggles with a predominantly left-brain world.

So either you have to 'bone up' and strengthen your intellectual muscle, or make a virtue out of being a lateral or more intuitive perceiver and thinker.

Take note of any other mention of the influence of Mercury in this report for such will give further information concerning 'The Use or Misuse of Intellect'.

Possible Past Lives:

• Member of some intellectual order.
• A teacher or dunce, depending.
• A scholar.
• Someone high up or low down on the employment ladder.
• A measurer of things.
• Someone crafty as opposed to educated, or vice versa; this could mean being someone who lived outside the law or someone who actually devised the letter of it.
• A cleric or scribe.
• An accountant or any keeper of records, or an advisor; possibly punished for making a serious error concerning same, giving rise in this current lifetime to a fear of repeating any such technical error.
• Someone who always subscribed to whatever was the conventional idea of reality and of what had intellectual authority.

Mental Discipline -

Your mind has developed over lifetimes - and during certain lifetimes in particular - in a structured and practical way.

Yours is a karma of having had to apply your mind to work, for whatever reason, the main ones being that you just had to work, enjoyed it, or both.

This has conferred upon you a no-nonsense approach to life; you do not suffer fools gladly.

Because numerous times you have had to develop a methodology and acquire and learn information, it is now something that comes quite naturally.

You have come to understand that life demands mental effort, and that paradoxically this in itself makes it less arduous.

If this is not the case with you now, then this would indicate that the karmic effects of other, less down-to-earth lifetimes, with more erratic and distracting events, have been allowed to overwhelm you, or just find you mentally lazy or resigned.

This last point can be down to having things worked out for you, or menial tasks done for you, in previous lives, with the idle expectation that they still will be.

But it is more common for you to have 'Mental Discipline' of your own, rather than leaving someone else to use theirs. But it may still be a case of being forced to get your mind into gear.

Possible Past Lives:

• Someone in a responsible position or job.
• Being in possession of some distinct mental skill like flying a plane, working a machine, communicating technical information.
• Constructing or mending physical items - the engineer, draughts person, mechanic.
• A learned individual.
• Someone who liked applying themselves to any problem, with success breeding an even more disciplined mind.
• Someone who brought order to a situation that needed it.
• Or conversely, someone for whom this was always done for them.

Saturn Semisquare Mars

Saturn conflicting with Mars

Here is a personal karma that is very possibly all too embedded in collective karma.

This is because it has to do with how the use of force to coerce or defeat others, or be coerced or defeated by them, has been one of the major themes of life on Earth.

In short, we live on a planet where the main system is a predatory one.

Dog eat dog; survival of the fittest; going to war, etc. Consequently such is, or certainly has been, seen as a convention, and so the 'Misuse of Force' goes on and on, and has only in recent history begun to be seriously questioned.

The point here is that you as a soul are particularly affected by all this, with aggression and assertion being very real issues for you.

So you have either been the aggressor or one who used superior strength to assert yourself over others, or, you were on the receiving end of same - probably both alternating through lifetimes.

Ideally, this current life should be 'A Farewell to Arms' rather than a call to them. However, the memory, habit or tradition of fighting and defending is such that the inclination to fight or over-assert persists.

Or there exists in you a fear of these very things, as a kind of inhibition against recommitting or attracting the same 'crime'.

A third alternative, and a common one, is to swing back and forth between being aggressive or very assertive at one extreme and being afraid of aggression or of asserting yourself at the other; running hot and cold.

All this would also apply to sexuality and masculinity, with one or both being a problem area for reasons of there being too much force or not enough strength. In learning this Saturnian lesson, to 'lay down one's sword and shield' but not to the point of becoming a victim or target oneself, is the undeniably difficult challenge of this karma.

But to succeed here would indeed make some contribution toward realizing the ultimate goal of an end to war and aggression, and the correct use of force or strength to help others, to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Until then, this 'Misuse of Force' karma will persist, even if only it manifests as an inclination to collide with inanimate objects or attract apparently unsolicited aggression from some quarter, or possibly as some physical complaint where movement is painful, inhibited or impaired.

As a general guideline for diminishing this bad karma, it is desirable to discharge tension and release aggressive feelings in a harmless or disciplined way, and ideally in a way that has a positive or healing effect on others.

Take note of any other mention of the influence of Mars in this report for such will give further information concerning 'Misuse of Force'.

Possible Past Lives:

• The fighter or warring individual; the victim of war or aggression.
• The underdog or oppressor.
• A life of physical hardship or of riding roughshod over others.

Saturn Opposes Jupiter

Saturn conflicting with Jupiter

This challenging Aspect has been described above in your Karmic Opportunities/Jupiter under the same title.

Saturn Conjuncts Uranus

Saturn uniting with Uranus

Karmic Springboard:

The manner in which the combining of these two Planets' energies has progressed and been expressed through your previous lives, and so far in this one, has now got to a new and powerful point of departure.

The karma of this union is dual in the sense that there are challenging and constructive Aspects to it - as the title and text testify - which are present because of both the negative and the positive being experienced during different periods.

Effectively these two Aspects should be seen to respectively serve and stimulate one another, one 'demand' the other 'supply', rather than the one being regarded as 'wrong' and the other as 'right'.

It is now up to you as to how it proceeds from here:

Which Side Are You On? -

You are caught up in the age-old collective karma of the New battling it out with Old, with you alternating over lifetimes between siding with those agents of conservatism that are the latter, and with those agents of change which are the former.

But 'Which Side Are You On?' is really a trick question because the paradox or irony that has to be grasped this time round is that the New has to pass the test of the Old, as any inventor trying to get their invention approved of and put into production will tell you.

Conversely, the edifice of conservatism must ultimately bend to the force of change if it is not to be broken.

So what side of the barricade you find yourself on in whichever lifetime is a provocative question.

For example, is your (unconscious) memory that of you as an aristocrat being guillotined by French revolutionaries in the late 18th century, or of being one of those revolutionaries? Were you a rebel in control, or a member of the Establishment that used to be in control?

As has been pointed out, this is collective karma because it mostly involves one mass vying with another.

But the degree to which this is personal may be seen in whatever Aspects Saturn or Uranus are making to your personal planets: Sun, Moon (Chapter 2), Mercury, Venus or Mars - and to your Lunar Nodes (Chapter 1).

If such is the case then a previous existence may have witnessed you as someone who kept switching sides as your individual point of view wrestled with the consensus point of view.

Or as an individual caught in a kind of karmic Mexican stand-off where one force is equal to the one that opposes it, with neither making a decisive move.

Ultimately, in this lifetime you are looking to find a balance between these two extremes, which demands that you be honest and decisive. "Today's radicals are tomorrow's conservatives."

Possible Past Lives:

• An indecisive person, or one who made rash decisions - with proportionate fall-out in either case.
• An extremist of either the radical or conservative persuasion, and who suffered or was punished for it.
• A turncoat, that is, someone who changed sides when the odds were no longer in favor of their original allegiance.
• Someone who was caught between a rock and hard place.
• A lifetime that took place during a revolution of some kind, which could have been a one-off riot in a small town, to being part of one of the world-changing kind like the French or American Revolution.
• A rebel or non-conformist of some kind, or one who suppressed same.
• Being a member of an invaded country involved in sabotaging or resisting the invaders (like in the French Resistance against the Nazis in the World War Two) - or as ever, vice versa.
• Someone whose lifestyle and standards were forever against the Establishment - like a magician, maverick or renegade Robin Hood type - or conversely someone who opposed or even condemned that kind of individual.
• A person who had something significant to say, possibly shocking or revolutionary, and who was ignored or scorned by those they were trying to tell - or who simply did not try hard enough to speak out because they let their fears and inhibitions take over.
• Or someone who was punished by the authorities for whistle-blowing.

The Pragmatic Activist -

Here your Saturnian karma is beneficially affected by any and all positive deeds and qualities described below in your 'Uranian Lineage' as described in Chapter 5/Your Far-Distant Lives/ Alien, Sky People and Prehistoric Karma.

This good karma positively affects, alleviates or nullifies some or all negative Saturnian karma.

This is because you have a Uranian background influence, born of your Uranian Lineage, which keeps reminding you that there is something other than the known and conventional, that for every fact there is an anomaly.

This strongly offsets the dangers of becoming entrenched in your ways of thinking, feeling or acting.

You are naturally aware that although new ideas and values are at first resisted by the status quo or your own cautiousness, eventually the new will prevail - providing it is sound and useful. This positive blending of Saturnian karma and Uranian Lineage makes for you being in this lifetime the classic 'practical idealist' or 'pragmatic activist'.

Possible Past Lives:

• Someone with a degree of authority as well as an openness to the new and to people who did not necessarily belong to 'acceptable society'.
• A successful inventor or innovator, especially in the field described below by your Saturn House position.
• Someone who bridged the gap and resolved difficulties between opposing factions, like Pocahontas did between English colonists and Native Americans during the early part of the 17th Century.

Saturn Conjuncts Neptune

Saturn uniting with Neptune

Karmic Springboard:

The manner in which the combining of these two Planets' energies has progressed and been expressed through your previous lives, and so far in this one, has now got to a new and powerful point of departure.

The karma of this union is dual in the sense that there are challenging and constructive Aspects to it - as the title and text testify - which are present because of both the negative and the positive being experienced during different periods.

Effectively these two Aspects should be seen to respectively serve and stimulate one another, one 'demand' the other 'supply', rather than the one being regarded as 'wrong' and the other as 'right'.

It is now up to you as to how it proceeds from here:

A Battle between Spirit and Matter -

For lifetimes you have been swinging back and forth between, on the one hand, your desires to enjoy and succeed in the material world along with its pleasures, rewards and sense of achievement; and on the other, a calling to a spiritual life, a life where you very definitely live according to a higher set of rules and values.

Possibly this swinging back and forth has been characterized by getting what you wanted physically and materially but then finding it meaningless or dissatisfying.

You then began to seek some higher purpose in life that denied you the pleasures of the flesh and the gratification of the ego, but then this would have been experienced as too demanding and self-denying.

And so the more attainable goals of a conventional material existence would have tempted you back again, only for the pattern to repeat with you again trying the spiritual path when the material life started to pall again.

Seeing as this is a repeating pattern it would still persisting in this life - possibly as a frustrating experience of start-stop-start-stop with everything you attempt or do; nothing getting into a higher gear as you keep changing your priorities and objectives.

Although in some respects it could be said that this is par for the course while you are aiming to attain a balance between material and spiritual values and involvements, ultimately it is the spiritual path that has to become your way onwards and upwards.

Quite simply, this life is one where some kind of spiritual obligation or karmic imbalance (debt) has to be recognized and acted upon.

When, and only when it is, will you then begin to ascend quite steadily.

Take note of any other mention of the influence of Neptune in this report, namely in Chapter 7/Your Distant Lives under 'Oceanic Bliss and Golden Age Karma' for such will give further information concerning 'A Battle between Spirit and Matter'.

Possible Past Lives:

• A seemingly religious person with double standards; running with the hare and with the hounds; falling between two stools as you tried to serve two masters.
• Life circumstances where it was imperative that you listened to your conscience, but didn't - or did but with dire consequences.
• World War One would be a likely lifetime scenario for this; also giving rise to profound distrust of the State or those in authority - and possibly feelings of futility or of being sucked into something for no good reason.
• Giving up out of acute frustration, like for example, having something you built swept away, like a house by a flood.
• In some way your position was undermined, and/or you undermined someone else's position, particularly with respect to your Saturn Sign as described above.

Practical Visionary -

Overall, in past lives you have done your best to plot a fair course between spirituality and practicality, between and inspiring vision and a means of putting it into action or giving it form, between compassion and knowing when enough is enough. Such serves you well now in a variety of capacities, like for example, a film-maker or healer.

Possible Past Lives:

• Stonemason working on the building of a cathedral.
• Someone involved in grounding spiritual or mystical teachings.
• An individual who managed to keep materially stable yet at the same time never let money and status come before higher principles.
• Someone who always gave to the poor - but only if they did something useful with what was given.
• A person who was able to maintain peace and order between two opposing factions.

Saturn Sextiles Pluto

Saturn harmonizing with Pluto

This is a positive but mostly collective karma in that you have had lifetimes where great changes have occurred which have been for the good, broadly speaking.

So this has given you a 'background wash' that causes you to feel confident about any shifts or alterations in your lifestyle, career and intimate relationships.

Possible Past Lives:

• One of many settlers who emigrated to make a new life for themselves in, say, the New Worlds of America or Australia.
• Someone who was part of a great collective organized power that was victorious, such as the Desert Rats of the British Army beating the German Afrika Korps at El Alamein in 1942, or with Wellington at Waterloo in 1815 - or any other such successful major campaign, be it military or otherwise. Being on the winning side.

Uranus Opposes Moon

Uranus conflicting with Moon

Something about your Uranian Lineage had a deleterious effect on your previous life time as described above under the same title in Chapter 2/Your Last Life.

Uranus Conjuncts Mercury

Uranus uniting with Mercury

Karmic Springboard :

The manner in which the combining of these two Planets' energies has progressed and been expressed through your previous lives, and so far in this one, has now got to a new and powerful point of departure.

The karma of this union is dual in the sense that there are challenging and constructive Aspects to it - as the title and text testify - which are present because of both the negative and the positive being experienced during different periods.

Effectively these two Aspects should be seen to respectively serve and stimulate one another, one 'demand' the other 'supply', rather than the one being regarded as 'wrong' and the other as 'right'.

It is now up to you as to how it proceeds from here:

Information Wealth or Overload -

You have a very strong Uranian Lineage in that you certainly do not think in a 'normal' way. Along the trajectory of lifetimes originating from your Uranian sojourn there has been an ongoing battle between how you have been conditioned to think and that original and intuitive mind that is logged on to some kind of super-computer, the universal mainframe, the ultimate source of truthful information.

As a consequence your brain can feel like it is plugged into the mains and you can't turn it off, and so there is a danger of mental burn-out, or problems like insomnia, talking too fast, mental tics or stammering, verbal outbursts (Tourette's) as your conditioned and limited intellect and nervous system wrestle with incoming random and revolutionary data.

Communication problems such as these possibly originate from lifetimes where telepathy was the norm, and so shocking truth-speaking and/or garbled speech can be a 'problem'. Freedom of speech is a big issue deriving from times when thought and speech were one and the same.

If you can free or discipline your intellect enough then you become the inventive mind that is way out in front, showing the way upwards and onwards like a rocket - but there would even then be the chance of burn-out or just being the victim of crazy ideas.

Take note of any other mention of the influence of Mercury in this report for such will give further information concerning 'Information Wealth or Overload'.

Possible Past Lives :

• The ill-starred inventor or engineer.
• Someone who was ridiculed, condemned or punished for speaking out against, or even just thinking outside, the 'box' of consensus reality.
• The 'revolting peasant'.
• Being in a position where you fell asleep on the job, resulting in dire consequences, giving rise in your present life to complaints like attention deficit disorder, insomnia or nervous problems.

The Truth Sayer -

You have a Uranian Lineage that has blessed you with the ability to intuitively grasp the truth of the matter, especially through the written or spoken word.

With Mercury, the lower mind, harmonizing with Uranus, the universal mind, you have managed through the ages to preserve a mental link with the clear thinking and truth-perceiving of your Uranian origins.

So you have the cerebral pedigree of the seer or prophet, or of the computer-like mind of the super-technician or scientist - depending whether you lean to the right (brain) or the left (brain).

To preserve or further this lineage of mental brilliance, you only have to keep seeking, speaking and maintaining the truth as you see it.

Take note of any other mention of the influence of Mercury in this report for such will give further information concerning 'The Truth Sayer'.

Yours is most definitely a case of "The truth shall make you free", especially if there are other karmic influences that are distorting reality.

Possible Past Lives :

• Any lifetime where a perception and communication of the truth was to the fore, was not swayed by anything other than the truth.
• The reliable witness or judge.
• A gifted communicator or inventor.
• Someone who saw through webs of intrigue, propaganda or religious dogma.

(This does not mean to say that the truth was not betrayed or neglected in some lifetimes - as revealed by any other Uranian Aspects - but this core sense of truth has persisted in spite of any such lapses.)

Uranus Opposes Jupiter

Uranus conflicting with Jupiter

Something about your Uranian Lineage had a deleterious effect on your recent and/or distant life times as described above under the same title in Chapter 3/Your Recent and Distant Lives/Your Karmic Opportunities.

Uranus Conjuncts Saturn

Uranus uniting with Saturn

Karmic Springboard :

This highly influential dimension of your karmic makeup has already been described under the same title in Chapter 3/Your Recent and Distant Lives/Your Karmic Score.

Uranus Semisquare North Node

Uranus conflicting with Lunar Nodes

This highly significant Aspect is described under the same title in Chapter 1/Your Karmic Trend - What's OUT and what's IN.

Neptune Conjuncts Mercury

Neptune uniting with Mercury

You have maintained a healthy link with your Neptunian origins of a mystical and universal reality - notwithstanding any Aspects you might have that have distorted or confused such a link.

This means that through lifetimes you have not allowed the more materialistic and logical side of thinking - which has prevailed since the 17th century in the Western World - to get in the way of your ability to psychically perceive what is going on around you.

All this would have evidenced by lifetimes spent in mentally refined company and following pursuits that elevated and inspired your own and others' minds.

Take note of any other mention of the influence of Mercury in this report for such will give further information concerning your 'Psychic Perception'.

Possible Past Lives :

• Poet or writer, especially romantic fiction.
• Photographer or film-maker. Diviner e.g. tarot card reader, medium, clairvoyant, spiritualist, etc.
• Someone in touch with nature spirits or other planes of existence.

Neptune Semisquare Mars

Neptune conflicting with Mars

Through lifetime after lifetime you have been trying, consciously or unconsciously, to physically reach the sublime or to merely escape from earthly reality. There is an enormous range of possible expressions of this endeavor.

Some healthy ones would involve: being a champion swimmer, avid surfer or paraglider, gifted musician or fantastic dancer; spiritual disciplines such yoga, meditation or fasting; sexual activity that is enhanced by some art such as tantra to the harmlessly orgiastic or kinky; astral projection or channeling psychic energy through the body for healing purposes, like hands-on or visualization.

Examples of some negative routes would be: using drugs or alcohol just to get high or out of it; sexual experimentation to the point of degradation or physical danger; pushing the body to get highs that ultimately result in a weakening of the body.

The list goes on, but behind whatever the expression of psychic energy might be, there was, and still is, the basic urge to blend or satisfy what could be seen as two very different entities: the psyche and the body.

Because this ultimately necessitates the refinement of the body in order to accommodate the higher spiritual energies, the way of the spirit can be quite ill-disposed towards trying to satisfy grosser physical urges, giving rise to impotence/frigidity or seeking artificial or dubious means of sexual arousal.

All this may be down to the possibility that your body in some way suffered greatly in a previous life as a consequence of attempting to reach the sublime through the physical; rather like a mobile phone (body) being plugged straight into the mains (spirit) without a transformer to reduce the current, and so 'frying' the phone.

Again, it may be doing so still. This is because your body is acutely sensitive - probably as result of a number of lives where you were made to feel that being in one (a body that is) was a precarious and vulnerable situation, possibly as a result of abusing it or having it abused earlier.

Again the list of possible manifestations of this is endless, but the lifetime after lifetime endeavor is still the same: for the physical body to be a proper, even remarkable, expression of the spirit that inhabits it.

Possible Past Lives :

• The 'sensitive warrior' or conscientious objector.
• Someone who used physical force to protect the weak.
• The dancer, musician or actor.
• he illusionist or escape-artist.
• The yogi or yogini.
• The addict.
• The seafarer or buccaneer;
• A naked warrior of ancient times;
• An active member of the Ancient Egyptians, Mayans or Aztecs or any other civilization whose culture strongly combined mysticism and sexuality.
• Someone who drowned, possibly trying to save another or others, or while just enjoying themselves.
• A victim or channeler of some superior force, like water.
• The psychic or energy healer.
• Someone who lost the plot, or bottled out.
• Victim of torture or human sacrifice.

Neptune Opposes Jupiter

Neptune conflicting with Jupiter

This enthralling influence is described under the same title in Chapter 3/Your Recent and Distant Lives/Your Karmic Opportunities.

Neptune Conjuncts Saturn

Neptune uniting with Saturn

This powerful and influential Aspect to your karmic makeup has already been described under the same title in Chapter 3/Your Recent and Distant Lives/Your Karmic Score.

Pluto Sesquiquadrate Moon

Pluto conflicting with Moon

This profoundly powerful Aspect has been described under the same title in Chapter 2/Your Last Life.

Pluto Sextiles Saturn

Pluto harmonizing with Saturn

This has been described above under the same title inChapter 3/Your Recent and Distant Lives/Your Karmic Score.

Pluto Squares North Node

Pluto conflicting with Lunar Nodes

This powerful emotional Aspect has been described under the same title .in Chapter1/Your Karmic Trend.