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Chart shapes

See-Saw

A seesaw chart divides the bodies into two groups on opposite sides of the wheel, so your life oscillates between two distinct themes, camps, or commitments. In the Jones taxonomy this is the personality that lives in awareness of opposites, weighing alternatives and mediating between contrasting forces. The gift is genuine perspective, the ability to see both sides and bridge them, and a talent for relationship and balance. The cost is indecision, feeling pulled two ways, or swinging between extremes. The work is integrating the two poles rather than ricocheting between them. At your best you hold opposites in a working balance others cannot.

Sources

  • Jones, The Guide to Horoscope Interpretation (1941)Defines the chart shape in the Jones distribution taxonomy and its core temperament.
  • Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Reads the whole-chart shape as the gestalt of how the bodies are spread.
  • Oken, Alan Oken's Complete Astrology (1980)Gives the accessible reading of the Jones chart-shape personality.