Twenty years of astro blogging

Chart for this blog, started 4.3.2006 at 16.14 in Knutsford, UK 

Twenty years ago, I set up this blog site, noted the time, and looked at the chart. I noted the chart's shaping/motivation was dynamic and linear (one complete triangle, an edgy, active figure and various disconnected linear aspects). The complete Efficiency/Performance figure has probably been instrumental in keeping it going for 20 years (Jupiter opposite Moon on the IC/MC axis and Neptune in 6th the apex). It's all red, is primed to be active, and doggedly slogs on.

The edgy, active figure, known as a Runner, Jumper or Dancing figure is attached to and entwined with the Efficiency figure. Trace it's shape from Moon to Neptune, then to Jupiter and then to the Sun/Uranus conjunction . This figure uses the red aspects for energy and reacts strongly to external pressure with movement and action. Attached to  the Efficiency figure, this works well, speedily springing into action. This accurately describes how blog posts have been created in response to external global events with shared thoughts on the charts of people or situations in the news.

I wasn't too keen to see that the chart contained only red and blue aspects - ideally there should have been some green aspects too, to give a rounded balance between red/doing energy and motivation, green/thinking motivation and the enjoyment and stability that the blue/being aspects confer.

So much for the "ideal" balance of these colours- with only red and blue aspects, it seemed at the time that this might turn out to be an experience of either on or off, of energetically writing it or letting it lie still and do nothing.  With no green aspects to prod me into awareness to keep up it's momentum, I might just forget about it and let it fade lazily away into the background of my life. Sometimes it's felt like this, especially as there has often been a low level of feedback, comments and interaction from readers.  But blog stats speak otherwise, and the most popular posts stand out statistically.

I accepted having a red/blue blog start chart, and realised that creating some of the green awareness it appeared to lack, would depend on what I did and how I did it. This has worked reasonably well; the posts seemed to flow fairly well, but I only write when the need or the interest or the spirit moves me. I'm aware of not leaving too long a gap between posts and initially aimed for around 3 or 4 a month, which felt comfortable. I now do less, and in a way this reflects, to some extent, the on/off motivation of a colour balance or ratio of

6 Red: 0 Green: 5 Blue.

It's a "You" sided chart, with the majority of planets on the DC side. Sun is placed in the 7th House, eager for contact with the world and is appropriately conjunct Uranus, the planet often associated with astrology. But the Sun is on the Low Point of the 7th House, meaning it is eager to get out there and be noticed, yet often is not. It can be frustrating, for sure, not knowing if anyone ever reads this blog, although the stats suggest otherwise.

Moon is on the MC. It's the highest planet in the chart and it wants to be recognised, stand out and shine. It's very strongly placed in the 10th House, is quite strong by Sign too, and during those 20 years it would certainly have liked more comments to be left, but being strongly placed in Fixed, Earthy Taurus it's hung in there.

But right now, twenty years on from the  blog's beginning, the Age Point is in intercepted Sagittarius in the 4th House, and it feels like it's time for this long-running blog to retire and be a well- filled source of information about Astrological Psychology & the Huber Method.

In this long-running blog you will find 20 years worth of chart interpretations of real people, descriptions of aspect patterns, and details of the numerous techniques used in Astrological Psychology, and much more which is covered in a total of 301 posts.

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