Aspects
Ascendant Opposition Makemake
With Makemake on your Descendant opposite the rising point, you tend to meet the wild and the creative through others. You may not own your own untamed, nature-rooted force at first; instead you find it in the people you draw close, the ones who seem elemental, instinctive, who make things and live close to the natural order. They carry the wildness you have not yet claimed. The gift is learning your own raw creative nature by meeting it in others. The shadow is living through their wildness, or being drawn to untamed people who act out the part of you left dormant. The lifelong work is to claim the wild maker as your own, letting relationship show you the elemental creator you already are.
Lean in — Claim the wild maker as your own.
Watch for — Live through untamed people who act out your dormant part.
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Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads natal Makemake opposition the Ascendant as the dwarf planet of the wild, untamed nature, and raw creation, expressed through the rising point, the self you meet the world with.
- Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche (2006)Tarnas frames Makemake as an archetype of the wild natural order and the materializing of creative vision; here it works through the Ascendant, the rising point, the self you meet the world with.
- Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet (1977)Greene reads the Ascendant as the rising point, the self you meet the world with, where Makemake opposition sets the theme of the wild, the natural world, and bringing raw creation into form.