A House of Karma

Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn's 10th House, conjuncts my Taurus/Gemini Midheaven stellium from the 9th House (publishing, higher education, et al) with a hard-working, long-range career. Capricorn, itself, rules my 5th House, the natural House of Leo -- creative art, sexual pleasure and children.

From 1988 to 1991, Saturn's transit through Capricorn structured my creative dreams with a home office, computer, live-in editor and magazine writing. It's "not very amusing," Robert Hand says (Planets in Transit), but "you will learn more about yourself and how to express yourself in the best possible way...in a careful, organized manner.... You will have a much more disciplined approach to creative activity than you have had in the past."

By contrast, Hand says Uranus in the 5th House (1989-1997) is an "exciting period...[of] unusual relationships with the opposite sex.... You will be attracted to new experiences which will expand your consciousness and make you more willing to experiment with life.... If you are involved in a creative enterprise...you will be better than usual at innovating and taking new approaches to your work."

Until the 1990s, I was an unmarried recluse, preoccupied with a career. But Uranus and Neptune in the 5th House inundated me with yin (female, creative, sexual, intuitive, right brain) energy. In addition to a live-in relationship, most of my colleagues (massage therapists, New Age bookstore employers, workshop leaders, sweat lodge friends), travel companions and those who came for counseling were women.

At first, it was a wonderful playground. Gemini, an intellectual air sign, is usually bored with long-range relationships. However, the Taurus grand stellium, Virgo Ascendant and Capricorn Earth triplicity (trined by Neptune) was solemnly concerned with the practical communication of spiritual ideas.

Holistic counseling and leisure activities became a research laboratory for studying the release of creative power through psychosomatic blocks related to dharma (Self fulfillment). In the Pacific Northwest, I had studied clairvoyance and the movement of energy through the body's chakras (energy centers).

Now, I was exploring yin-yang balancing through acupuncture, massage, structural integration, naprapathy, paganism and astrology. For example, how the body's chakras are related to astrology signs (Aries, the head; Taurus, the throat; Gemini, the lungs, etc.).

In Tantric and Karma yogas, we create persons and events to re-balance our energy for Self fulfillment. An esoteric reason for a relationship with an artist is birthing creative (yin) energy; with an abusive spouse (or a Pluto transit), Inner-directed power (yang).

"Sex...refers mainly to the possibility for two persons to find in each other what they need -- that is, what they individually lack -- for personal fulfillment and creative happiness.... The sexual act [is] a process of attunement, and perhaps identification with the great polarities of cosmic existence -- the Yin and Yang of Chinese philosophy, the Shiva and Shakti of the Hindu Tantras" (The Astrological Houses by Dane Rudhyar).

Suffering-servant illusions block Self fulfillment in the first (career) and second (sex, relationship) chakras. A 5th (creative) or 7th (relationship) House astrology transit releases that energy. Natural foods, bodywork, astrology and other holistic resources are body, mind and spirit catalysts for the emerging Self.

When Neptune was in Capricorn (1984-1999), persons "in order to survive will be forced to incorporate spirituality into their practical lives. Through these experiences of the karmic summing-up of the Piscean age, many of those who survive will reach new heights of spiritual attainment" (The Astrologer's Handbook by Frances Sakoian & Louis S. Acker).

During those years, Eastern religions, acupuncture, etc. were mainstreaming through the media via such medical doctors as Bernie Siegal and Deepak Chopra. Barbara Brennan (Hands of Light), Rosalyn L. Bruyere (Wheels of Karma) and other practitioners were illuminating yin/yang energy healing.

As one medical doctor said, "Health is a state of maintained equilibrium. If energy flows are disproportional, the body will respond with disease. Disease is the body's way of telling you to wake up, focus on your physical, mental and emotional well-being and take time to seek healing....

Astrology "provides a map that can be used to interpret the belief systems and energy patterns present in the reincarnating soul at the time of birth and the interacting environment into which the soul is born" ("The Mind/Body Link to Good Health" by Dr. Michelle Levan, Dell Horoscope, September, 1996).

My Moon in Cancer facilitated a clergy career, counseling workshops and healing experiences with women. But, the new wine from Uranus and Neptune in the 5th House, trining my 10th House stellium, was bursting old wineskins with a new lifestyle, re-structuring my career and relationships.

As Dr. Levan said, "When we have belief structures that are not allowing us to grow, the energy gets stuck at one or more of these chakras and a disease ensues." A Gemini newspaper reporter discovered in a counseling session how transits to her Moon, Venus and Fourth House (the Progressed Sun was moving from her Third to Fourth House) created a marriage and writing fiction.

A Leo or Fifth House transit nurtures "creativity," "enjoyment of life" and "childlike spontaneity" (Skymates by Steven and Jodie Forrest). Yin energy stretched the creative boundaries of the newspaper reporter, French Impressionists, a 1960s generation -- and my writing.

Neptune in the 5th House (1985-1999) "will not want any relationship that does not meet your highest expectations.... [It] stimulates artistic creativity. If you have artistic ability, your imagination will be very much improved, and you will be able to come up with new ideas for your art work in any field or medium" (Planets in Transit by Robert Hand).

My Leo housemate's Neptune conjoined my Virgo Ascendant; her Aquarius Ascendant synchronized with my Uranus Midheaven; her Sagittarius Moon opposed my Sun. In her global Devon Avenue neighborhood, my Sag 4th House living quarters was a computer, books and sleeping bag "knapsack."

My Progressed Sun was also moving from my 11th House Cancer (opposite the 5th House) and years as a clergyperson to Leo -- as a full-time creative artist. The books, computer, manuscripts and teaching notes expanding throughout her living room, bedroom and kitchen reflected Pluto in the 9th House -- and her Gemini Fourth House.

The Zodiac, as a portrait of the soul, is related to the body and its energy system. Each planet yin/yangs around the zodiac (or soul), moving cosmic energy (prana) through the chakras. Male (yang) and female (yin) relationships are healing resources for balancing yin/yang energy, i.e., creating our reality and becoming Whole.

Brock Elk Horn does clairvoyant readings, astrology and holistic counseling that facilitates healing of mind, body and spirit. Telephone: (773) 338-3329. For more information, see the Chicago Pulse - Practitioners in this issue of TMA.

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