Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

LIARS, FIBBERS, CHEATERS, and downright twisters of the truth, how can these traits be seen astrologically in the natal chart, I do believe some propensity to lie can be seen in all the Mercury aspects in astrology they all just do it in different ways, which I will explain later on. There are many reasons to lie and not all lying is for manipulative purposes, some people need to lie as a way to survive, others lie to make themselves appear more interesting. Many people get paid to LIE like journalists, politician’s, clothing assistant’s, and advertisers.

Deception can also be used to create a different sense of self, as some individuals are not happy with themselves as they are and want to be like someone else, to gain a desperate need for approval. We are all liars to some degree and we all have the ability to lie or we wouldn’t have Mercury or Gemini in our chart!

The Trickster in Myth and Modern day Movies:

 

Mercury (trickster) is the god of quick thinking, magic, illusion, communication, and also the divine manipulator. Mercury is considered the protector of thieves and businessmen, is skilled in story telling and games. On the negative side he can be crafty, calculating and false.

Modern Day Trickster’s 

Both of these are fictional characters and are very lovable and amusing. Which says a lot about the Mercurial character represented by Gemini and it’s ruler Mercury. The first ”trickster”  is Ace Venturer played by Jim Carey.

 Here is a description of Ace in the movie:

Ace Ventura is an eccentric and histrionic detective who specializes in cases involving pet animals. Ace possesses extreme vanity, extraordinary powers of observation, and equally great powers of deduction. He has a tendency to use foul language and to make vulgar jokes, as in the scene where he manually moves the halves of his rump to simulate a speaking mouth. He often draws complex, correct conclusions, but does not reveal them until a critical moment. He is sexually promiscuous, talkative, dedicated, and clever. It is implied in a scene in the first film that he was originally a member of the police force, but left because he resented his superiors pointing out all the mistakes he made.

The second Mercurial character is Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean:

Sparrow is the Pirate Lord of the Caribbean Sea and can be treacherous, surviving mostly by using wit and negotiation rather than weapons and force; although he will fight if necessary, he tries to flee most dangerous situations. Sparrow is introduced seeking to regain his ship the Black Pearl from his mutinous first mate Hector Barbs in the first film, and in the sequels, attempts to escape his blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones while battling the East India Trading Co.

Mercury in aspect

Mercury is the planet of communication, verbal expression. Mercury will tell us how we communicate and what we are interested in. I will look at Mercury in aspect to other planets and lets see how Mercury changes his communication depending on who he is paired with in the natal chart.

Mercury/Jupiter Promises TOO MUCH and therefore cannot practically carry it all out. The aspect can EXAGGERATE!!!! Individuals with this aspect can be very eager and enthusiastic but they tend to lose interest, and wander off making more BIG PLANS without even putting their last idea to any practical form. The aspect has often been called a liar and they themselves do not realize how they have exaggerated and distorted the facts because of their OVER ENTHUSIASM.

Mercury/Saturn This aspect does not come across as being a LIAR but I think Mercury being the trickster in Myth there is the potential for all to lie as we all have Mercury in our chart. Here is what Liz Greene has to say on the aspect between these two planets in her book “Saturn a New Look at an Old Devil”.

By Liz Greene: The curious expression of the chronic and uncontrollable liar is also one of the less attractive facets of Mercury-Saturn. But Saturn remains true to form here in that there must be present a reasonable degree of intelligence, sensitivity and complexity in order for such distortion or OVERCOMPENSATION to exist.

Mercury/Saturn often is afraid of appearing dull and less intelligent to others. A lot of these people can have significant intellectual abilities. They can bend the truth in order to have their way with people, sometimes at worst this only creates isolation for themselves because of their critical and scheming ways . (it is an excellent aspect for the politician/working or for the government).

Mercury/Uranus These are not prone to lying BUT can often say one idea/belief and rebelliously state that this is the truth and want this “truth” to be known to ALL. Then all of a SUDDEN these individuals can turn around and radically oppose the same statement they were championing. Which only tends to make them come across as contradictory. And if confronted with their own contradictory statements they will will deny they said such an idea or belief and be very offended. Individuals with Mercury in aspect to Uranus will often say they are MISUNDERSTOOD.

Mercury/Neptune Individuals with this aspect are confused as to what the truth is. They can be highly GULLIBLE themselves and may therefore understand how other people can be equally prone to deception and therefore play on this and cheat and deceive other people for they know their MENTAL VULNERABILITIES. The IMAGINATIVE quality is often over emphasized and problems of perception can be created . These individuals can make mistakes in judgments and misinterpret the facts. The aspect can also manifest as SELF DECEPTION and there is also the inability to distinguish between the real and unreal.

Mercury/Pluto This aspect has a natural investigative ability, their penetrating insights can sometimes lack sensitivity. Individuals with Mercury in aspect to Pluto may try to mentally dominate others, these individuals find it difficult to trust others, yet it can be a form of projection as they themselves can be guilty of plotting and keeping secrets. The criminal master mind or the fighter of crime this aspect understands the psychology of the criminal.

The Sun: The Hero’s Journey

 

The symbol of the Sun is a circle with a point in the centre, in the birth chart it reflects the individuals urge to become himself. Becoming oneself is not an easy task as it sounds, it can take a lifetime to know who you really are. As children we glean our identity from the people around us, from our parents, friendships, siblings, and society. When we grow into adults we may continue to let others define our identity for us.

Liz Greene in the book, The Luminaries states: “The more we are able to feel separate and individual, the less we are at the mercy of the unconscious conflicts and compulsions of the family psyche. This does not mean that living the Sun makes one reject the family. On the contrary, the more one is oneself, the more one has to give to others in a genuine, openhearted way. But it is the psychic skeletons in the cupboards which taints families, the power ploys to keep people close, the subtle undermining of talents and potentials, the envy and resentment and fear accruing over generations, and it is these that the light of the Sun has the power to dispel”.

The Sun is the most important factor in the Horoscope, it has been called the heart of the chart. The Sun represents an individuals true essence and conscious purpose. The placement of the Sun in the natal chart describes how the development of our life will unfold. The Sun represents our inner life force, vitality and purpose. It reflects a part in us that needs to shine and express who we essentially are. In order to feel complete and fulfilled, we need to be giving expression to our Sun Sign.

Vocational astrology often puts emphasis upon the Sun in the natal chart, and we should try to find constructive ways to personify, integrate and utilize any planet which is in aspect to the Sun as part of our destiny.

If this solar energy is blocked, then the sense of self will be diminished or weakened. When we are not in touch with our Sun, we lack faith and confidence in ourselves. We find it difficult to integrate our life around a central theme. We drift about, having neither direction or purpose. Our Sun sign portrays our strengths and weaknesses and our inner conflicts. The Sun Sign is a symbol of what needs to be (consciously) struggled for and attained, not just that which comes instinctively (Moon). To achieve our purpose in life, we must do battle with the dark or unconscious elements of the psyche.

The Sun in astrology has often been referred to as the Hero’s Journey. In our modern day the story has been re-created in the movie ”The Matrix”.

Where there is light (Sun) a shadow is cast, in psychological terms, this signifies parts of our self that we have somehow failed to integrate. Jungian psychology calls this the process of individuation, the urge to integrate all disparate parts of the self into a central “whole”. To varying degrees most of us will have to work hard to develop and manifest more fully the nature of our Sun Sign. Although it may be depressed or denied. The Moon sign is what comes instinctively to you, but the fullest expression of our Sun sign usually requires conscious effort, determination and choice. The sign and house placement in which our Sun is placed, can tell us a great deal about the theme of our life’s journey, the zodiac sign of the Sun has been called the “role” we are called on to play in life.

The Sun’s placement by house is an arena where we should actively involve ourselves, a domain where we need to distinguish ourselves in some way, to stand out and feel special. The Sun gives us a feeling of potency and validity. Without this feeling we are left feeling rather empty, and awful and desperate for reassurance from others. If we live our life in alignment with the Sun sign, house and aspects, then we become one with our individuality, and we may realize our solar potential.

The Sun is a masculine planet, and is associated with consciousness, decisions, and impact on the environment. The Sun is a symbol of the paternal archetype, both in terms of how we experience the “father” or the dominant male influence in our early lives, and how this affects the way we connect to our masculine energy later on.

Traditionally men have expressed solar energy more obviously than women, because they are more focused on finding their individual identity. Although in a woman’s birth chart, the Sun indicates qualities she looks for in a man. The gender roles have changed, and today women feel empowered to explore their solar energy in their own right.

When we are in touch with ourselves we are able to trust we are on the right path. There are times when we all lose our connection to the Sun, and wander around in a fog seeking other people’s affirmation to make us feel real again. Without a sense of self we cannot integrate what we have experienced, and we may be knocked off course. But if we are at one with ourselves, then everything we do has a sense of rightness, we feel fully alive, and a strong sense of vitality drives our lives more creatively.

In Jung’s view the individuation process starts in earnest in the second half of life, often triggered by a ‘mid-life crisis’ – where the conscious aspects of the personality (ie, one’s superior function) has diverged too far from the unconscious, causing a split. By confronting opposite tendencies (and ‘inferior’ functions) in one’s psyche, one realizes and progressively integrates unconscious contents, such as the shadow and the anima or animus. For Jung, the favourite image of the Self was the Mandala, it being an age-old symbol of wholeness and totality, with its centre emphasized.

Jupiter

 Jupiter is the planet which represents the symbolic world, and intuits it’s meaning. The function of Jupiter is to enlarge, make fruitful, and bestow a feeling of being protected with a spirit of hope and optimism. Psychologically it is from this archetype of paternal benevolence that we derive self confidence, our ability to extend our horizons, to take life as it comes, and our urge to grow physically, mentally, and spiritually. It enlarges all that it touches and, as a result, it can lead to exaggeration; either the tendency to take risks because of an overdeveloped sense of optimism, or the depletion of resources because of over expansion.

The influence of Jupiter can also lead to an over inflated idea of our own importance and a desire to “play god”. When we lose our connection with Jupiter, we may experience feelings of inadequacy, negativity, skepticism, sluggishness or pessimism. Our Jupiter position by sign, house and aspect will describe where we seek to grow, to expand to find meaning in life. Where we seek to be expansive and do things in a Big Way and the areas which we need quite a bit of space in order to do so. Above all else Jupiter, represents our ability to grasp meaning.

Jupiter urges us to look beyond the immediate facts and the current situation, and see a deeper meaning and significance and purpose. In holding any kind of beliefs, religious, political, philosophical we are having to do this. When Jupiter contacts a planet in the chart we tend to philosophize about the things represented by that planet, we ask what that planetary principle actually means, we want to spread our wings in that area, take as much as possible on board, travel tremendous distances with it.

The house where Jupiter is placed is often an area where we are lucky, where we can get away with things. Our Jupiter placement usually describes an area where we can enjoy a certain measure of protection. Jupiter pushes out our boundaries, away from the personal and immediate to wider horizons. It represents setting out to explore our destiny and make our fortune. The influence of this planet takes us away from the preoccupations of the self and makes us much more aware of the larger whole. Our knowledge is therefore expanded and we are able to intuit future possibilities.

Jupiter is associated with wisdom to be wise we have to have knowledge and information, but also the capacity for understanding these in the right light of the greater whole. Jupiter represents the function which enables us to see the grand scheme of things, the wider implications, and in seeing the whole picture we are better able to make judgments. Being hampered limits one capacity to grow. Jupiter rules the zodiac sign Sagittarius and, in common with that sign, the Jupiterian impulse prompts a dislike of responsibilities and a dislike of limits of all kinds, in Jupiterian mode we like to be at liberty.

Our beliefs dictate the extent to which we may be visionaries. The overly Jupiterian individual believes anything is possible. Without either self-belief or belief in some kind of higher power, basically without the notion of positive thinking, nothing is possible. Our Jupiter, together with planets in the 9th house and planets in Sagittarius, will have much to say about our search for meaning. Life becomes much more joyous if we believe it has some kind of larger significance, without a sense of meaning and purpose, life can feel very bleak indeed.

Jordan Maxwell Religion and Astrology

Saturn

Psychologically Saturn is the great teacher, the archetype of the wise old man, the voice of conscience. It represents the innate desire for order, form, and security. Saturn gives us a sense of duty and responsibility, it impels us toward self improvement. However , this comes at a price and invariably involves an inner struggle. Saturn represents fear, and many of the problems and difficulties surrounding this planet can be traced back to this single root principle. When Saturn contacts a planet in our chart we seem to be frightened of expressing those things symbolized by that planet.

More than that we feel unable to express them for we feel awkward in that area of ourselves – awkward clumsy and severely hampered. It reveals fears and anxieties that make us feel deeply inadequate. Because these feelings are given the stamp of disapproval, we try to camouflage them by putting on a brave face, or by building elaborate defense mechanisms. But no matter how well we appear to hide them, these feelings don’t go way. Commonly they re-emerge as personality traits that we despise in others.

Saturn imposes certain limits, and without it there is chaos. At it’s must constructive, it imparts worldly wisdom gained through hard experience. It’s influence helps us to define our place in the world and work towards long term goals. Saturn can help us become responsible, socially aware adults. It’s position in our birth chart indicates where we can learn persistence, self discipline, and humility. Where the lessons are to be learned, and the areas where we should try to accept the difficulties or obligations, and by acceptance grow and acquire wisdom.

Often Saturn indicates where we feel hardship, and the problems can be usually traced back to childhood issues. In childhood we often feel denied those things that planets contacting Saturn represent. And because we feel denied them, we crave then for all the more. When we do learn things the hard way, and through experience, we generally know them thoroughly, we become an authority, in that area. And this is what Saturn seems to insist upon, that we deal with the issues, whatever they are, thoroughly. For as always Saturn never lets us get away with anything.

Saturn has an uncanny knack of accentuating those parts ourselves that we most dislike. It is when we are at our most defensive and oversensitive, and when we most fiercely blame others for our own shortcomings, that we reveal the shadow. Discovering what our Saturn represents is inevitably a long and painful process. Like everything, pain too seems to have a purpose, for it is our pain that tels us that something is wrong inside ourselves. Pain tells us that there is a wound somewhere that demands our attention. In confronting what we least like in life, Saturn can show us where we need to work on ourselves.

Saturn is not merely representative of pain, restriction, and discipline, he is also the symbol of the psychic process, natural to all human beings, by which the individual may utilize the experiences of pain, restriction, and discipline as a means for greater consciousness and fulfillment. The psychic process which Saturn symbolizes seems to have something to do with the realization of the inner experience of psychic completeness within the individual. According to Liz Greene, Saturn is connected with the educational value of pain, with he difference between external values which we acquire from others, and internal values-those which we have worked to discover within ourselves.

Our Saturn contacts can describe us as being under defended or over defended in various aspects of life. As children we have a special need of our defenses, and childhood is the prime time for building them, but as we get older some of these defenses may become inappropriate even strangulating. We can never look at the distant horizon if the first thing our eyes meet is a brick wall. For many people with difficult aspects to Saturn, much of their adult life is spent taking the wall down. For confronting the shadow has to be done slowly, and with great care and respect. Saturn contacts by house aspect and lesser extent sign, describe those areas where we lack confidence, where we feel we could do better.

Saturn is traditionally associated with the father and sometimes the mother. Saturn correlates with the internalized image of father and often with the physical father. Where an authority figure is giving out discipline they are acting in the role of Saturn. Saturn aspects usually get better as one gets older and is better able to accept that living in the real world does involve living with fears, constraints and limitations and that some of these are merely self-imposed. Saturn is the planet concerned with time and age and with the taking on of duties and responsibilities we associate with adulthood. When restrictions seem to heavy and difficult, our lives may seem fated. But a strong Saturn needs difficulties to work on and teaches us to operate within our limitations and to accept we are human.

Uranus

Uranus takes us into the higher mind, it gives us a clear perspective and the capacity to see the future in blinding flash of clarity. Uranus is a great awakener, who brings visions and revelations. This planet symbolizes the urge for rebellion and for instigating a new order that reflects a more progressive way of thinking. Uranus seems to personify the need within the psyche to break free of identification with the material reality and to experience the world of archetypal mind.

Uranus has been called the Awakener because, the urge he symbolizes like all unconscious contents, is projected. It appears to come back to the individual as a sudden event which rips away the fabric of what was previously  reality often in a highly painful way. Uranus has come to be associated with things such as invention, space, science , technology, electricity computing, aviation, exploration and the social sciences.

Maintaining this remarkably strong practical link with revolutionary change, modern astrology associates Uranus with radical idealism. Uranus symbolizes the power of the human mind to reach the realm of “universal ideas” and apply them to everyday lives. This is not the realm of the rational mind which belongs to Mercury, but that part of the intuitive mind that is capable of grasping whole concepts in a single blinding flash of insight.

Uranus is concerned with the truth and the kind of realizations that cut through everything. Uranus challenges all that has become stuck, sterile and predictable. It’s message is fiercely anti-establishment and unconventional. Planets touched by Uranus seek excitement, freedom and independence. In early life strong Uranian contacts in the chart suggests that with regard to the planet that is being contacted, there was probably not too much in the way predictability and anchorage. Instead some kind of sudden disruption, shock or at least some inconsistency is indicated.

Individuals with such contacts seem to habitually recreate disruption in adulthood, rejection, alienation, estrangement and feelings of isolation are major emotional experiences to be associated with this planet. The notion of rejection is the insistence upon independence. Uranus is the enemy of the tried and tested path and seeks to break free of things that tie us to the past or limits. us in some way.