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JupiterSign rulership: SagittariusNatural house: Ninth house of higher education, travel, principles, philosophySignificance: Where you can attract abundance and luck, where you're least cautious, where you want to gain knowledge and where you can benefit most from itRules: Luck, legal matters, higher education, clergy, religion, obesity, advertising, publishing, travel, hips, liver, arteries, thighs, horses, colleges and universities, places of worshipMythology: Jupiter, the god of Earth and the heavens, was a protector but also the god of justice. He was associated with weather, thus the thunderbolt with which he delivered justice. Jupiter has two faces: fun and frivolous, and ...
Forget global warming. What's going to bring about the demise of civilization as we know it is the twisted attitude toward sex and sexuality, especially in the United States. (I'm exaggerating of course, but stay with me—there's a method to my madness.) One of the things that really bugs me is the fashion trend that has slogans emblazoned on T-shirts and shorts, with phrases like "hottie" and "I like boys with big toys." Yes, maybe I'm an old feminist crank, but has anybody stopped and thought this through? I can see titillating T-shirts for older girls and college women, but for pre-teens? I've even seen them being sold to girls of elementary school age. I don't know about you, ...
Your higher destiny is to learn the secret of right human relations through finding the equilibrium point between the polarities of life. This midpoint is your key to the peace your soul craves: perfect balance through a tolerance for paradox. Learning to be decisive, ironically, is part of the journey toward achieving this tolerance. Your esoteric ruler is Uranus—ruler of the higher mind. You have the ability to tune in to a more advanced level of intuition and to use this to make the right choice, the one aligned with the highest good. Your tendency to sit on the fence, because you see "both sides" and dislike the idea of choosing one over the other, will transform as you evolve ...
Let's play a game! Let's see how many truly awful people we can name who were born with their Sun in the Eighth House. Maybe I should go first, since I wrote a book on the Sun and the Moon in the Houses (Behind the Horoscope: How the Placement of the Sun and Moon Tells a Story about You). We'll start with some disreputable writers: Lord George Byron, Charles Baudelaire, and the Marquis de Sade. During the brief period when he was still accepted in London's social circles, Byron was labeled a man who was "dangerous to know." Baudelaire wrote a famous book of poetry titled The Flower of Evil that was considered so perverse that it was banned in his native France and his publisher was ...
