The house
that has Leo on the cusp (beginning) shows one place where you
want to express yourself and receive praise or admiration.
That can also be the place where you want to be treated
royally and have others do things for you. The motto of Leo is
“Nothing but the best”. It takes very hard work to be the best
and Leo is the place where we don’t want to be embarrassed by
failure. This means that we will either work very hard there
and tend towards perfectionism, or give up the struggle, be
lazy, and fool
ourselves into thinking that we are above it all.
An example
of someone with Leo on the Mid-Heaven (career) is
Martha
Stuart, a
legendary workaholic, running a media empire named after-what
else-her. The other place we want to express ourselves, receive praise
and admiration, and have “Nothing but the best” as our motto is the
house where our Sun is placed. Martha Stuart has her Sun in the Ninth
House, (higher education and publishing) and she publishes a magazine
that shows how to do everything to perfection.
Sagittarius: is
Mutable Fire. Mutable signs are communicators. Gemini gathers
facts quickly. Virgo gathers them slowly and carefully (Virgo is the
best sign for details). But Sagittarius is the sign of the
Big Picture. Never mind this fact or that. How does it all fit
together?
In your horoscope,
the house with Sagittarius on the cusp (beginning) is one of the
places where you tend to feel optimistic, safe and secure, so you will
be more adventurous in this area of your life. Since “Nothing
ventured, nothing gained”, this can be a place of your biggest
achievements. On the negative side, it will show the place
where you can be over optimistic, charge in thinking that nothing can
go wrong, and fall flat on your face. The other place in your
horoscope where this will tend to be true is the house position of
Jupiter, ruling planet of Sagittarius.
Muhammed
Ali
for example, has Sagittarius on his 5th House, the house of sports and
games. Any doubts about where he felt, safe, secure, and lucky?
Jupiter, the ruler, is in his 10th House, career and public image,
showing that he could make a career from sports or “creative”
pursuits, and that whatever he did here would tend to come before the
public.
Martha Stuart
has Sagittarius on her 2nd House cusp. The 2nd house is money.
Jupiter, the ruler, sits in house number eight (other people’s
money). She became a “paper billionaire” after her IPO. Now
you couldn’t tell just by looking at her horoscope that she
would become a billionaire. But you could have seen that money
would tend to come to her from sources other than her own
salary.
The next lesson 4.5 discusses the
Earth Signs.
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