Aspects
Ascendant Opposition Flora
With Flora opposite your The zodiac degree rising on the eastern horizon at your birth, also called the rising sign. It sets the whole house framework of the chart and colors how you meet the world., your own freshness reaches you secondhand, through how others light up around you. You may feel ordinary while everyone insists you brighten the place. The work is to stop outsourcing the verdict on your own beauty and to take the compliment as data, not flattery. Believe the people who keep telling you that you bring spring with you.
Lean in — Take it in when people tell you that you brighten a room.
Watch for — Don't wait for others to grant you permission to feel lovely.
- mirroring
- recognition
- self-worth
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Flora by her myth, Roman goddess of flowers and spring, as a point of blossoming, sensual beauty, and the flourishing of life, shadowed by surface-prettiness and the fear of fading.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of blossoming beauty and the Ascendant, the self and persona, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the opposition as a polarity seeking balance, often met through others.