Aspects
Ascendant Sextile Virginia
Virginia A friendly, opportunity-shaped aspect between planets about 60 degrees apart. It offers help you have to reach for rather than receive automatically. 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. offers steady invitations to step forward as someone who answers to herself. The openings are real but will not chase you, so you have to choose them. Each time you decline to be talked out of your own boundary, your presence grows more solid. Say yes to the small moments that ask you to stand for yourself.
Lean in — Act on the small chances to show up as your own person.
Watch for — Do not wait for a crisis to practice standing on your own.
- opportunity
- autonomy
- initiative
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Virginia by her namesake, the Roman maiden Verginia, as a point of inviolate integrity, self-possession, and autonomy preserved against coercion.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of inviolate self-possession and the Ascendant, the self and persona, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the sextile as an opportunity that rewards being acted on.