Lez Keep It Real

When I was away on vacation, I asked a couple of fellow bloggers to fill in for me. Beth over at Astrology Explored had volunteered but unfortunately I had already left for New Hampshire before she had a chance to get back to me. She did, however, send me the blog post she wrote and I decided to post it today.

So enjoy!

The Perfect Intent to Experience An Alternate Lifestyle
We all have heard stories of medical student given cursory instruction
on subjects that impact their future patient’s lives, like diet and
nutrition. In a page that sounds like it ripped out a medical
student’s diary, my astrologer teacher, towards the end of my time with
her, went through with the class what to look for different situations.

“In a gay(meaning gay and lesbian) chart,” she said, “You look for
Uranus in the eighth house, Aquarius (ruled by Uranus) as the sign on
the eighth house or Mars in the eighth square or opposed to Uranus”.

It was only last year that a gay and a lesbian crossed my path for
consultations, so this information pretty well sat on the shelf until
then. But it worked pretty well, so I had no reason to question it.

Then I started doing some research on the internet in preparation for
this post. Guess what I found? Nada, zip, and a couple articles that
proclaimed vehemently that you can not tell whether someone is
attracted to their own sex from their birth charts.

Let’s be clear. From a
spiritual astrologer’s perspective, all situations are marked in
the chart. People who come to earth and experience an alternate
lifestyle, any alternate lifestyle, do so with perfect intent to
experience that life style and all the ramifications attached to it. It
makes no sense that there is no “astro signature”, especially for a
situation where the individual must face significant challenges in
living that life.

It may be that we don’t know exactly what that “astro signature” is. Or
maybe we do, it just hasn’t been distributed to the astrological
community at large. In my case, my teacher’s teacher was Isabel
Hickey, a well known practicing astrologer and astrology teacher.
Though I have no proof of this, it just may be that Isabel passed this
information along to her students, which was passed down in turn to me
through my teacher.

Mars is about agressiveness and the sexual drive. It makes sense that
anything having to do with sexual matters is going to be involved with
a subject like sexual orientation.

Uranus in the eighth house of sex talks about “unusual sexual
preferences.” In a broader view, Uranus is about the individuation
process, to stand apart from the community. It speaks of a sense of
being disenfranchized in regards to matters of sex. Isabel Hickey says
“That sexual drives need to be controlled.” At the time her work was
written and released this was pretty much the attitude relating to gay
and lesbian sex. Maybe you felt that way, but you shouldn’t do it!

Same goes for aspects, squares (challenges) and oppositions (tension)
coming from the eighth house, especially if they relate to Uranus in
some way. These lines of energy that need resolution in a constructive
way.

So it looks like we need to do some more research into this area. I
invite any of you who wish to share your birth date, birth place and
birth time (this is essential for this study) to send this information
to starrrynightastro@aol.com.

astrology explored, lez keep it real, gay astrology, astrology for lesbians