I Summarised Me. Proud To Say Im At The Descendant Stage

i summarised me. proud to say im at the descendant stage

DEEPER ASTROLOGY SHIT #3 THE THICK-ASS CROSS

Don’t let that beautiful name fool you. The Thick-Ass Cross is just the title for the relationship between the Ascendant, IC, Descendant, and Midheaven. If you don’t know what those four degrees are, look at this janky ass picture:

Great. Those two thick ass lines make up The Thick-Ass Cross, and that cross is gonna be your compass for your little self-discovery journey (aka Life). Understanding the significance of these four degrees is critical. They’re the context for the rest of the shit in your chart. Every chart has a Thick-Ass Cross. It helps you track your progress as you go through the process of learning how to be yourself in the world. Are the other house cusps important? Yeah. But we all know bigger is better. The thin-ass lines aren’t as crucial as these four mf-ers. So don’t worry about them for now.

First: One of the best things about Astrology is that it’s actually two things in one. When you look at your chart, you get (1) an overall snapshot of your potential and also (2) a map of how to get there. You get space and time in one. It’s a beautiful thing. For this post, we’re looking at (2) - the movement and evolution from the AC to the IC to the DC to the MC. These four degrees take you from one little feeling (AC) to a real live human being (MC). It goes like this:

THE ASCENDANT

You gotta start somewhere. So start at the beginning. The Ascendant is your pure essence. It’s the deepest, realest quality of who you are. There aren’t words to describe it - it’s something that you (and only you) feel. It is the string that holds all the beads of experiences together in your little life necklace. Every experience you have, thought you have, feeling you have grows out of the seed that is The Ascendant. The Ascendant shares the same qualities as Aries - all feeling, totally subjective, very pure. Way back when you were a little spirit fucking around out there in the ether thinking like, “damn I’m tired of being a lame ass intagible thing I wanna go get my substance on,” the Ascendant was what you planned to get out of living. This degree is so important. It’s why you’re even fucking with Life in the first place.

THE IC (IMUM COELI)

But just knowing why you’re here isn’t going to tell you how to get anywhere. Yeah, you’re a pure little thing and you can feel yourself, good for you. But you want to be real, so you’ve gotta start working that little identity out so it can beef itself up into something that can be seen and experienced and all that good stuff. So, next stop on the self-exploration train in the IC.

The IC is your identity. What’s the difference between your essence and identity? Astrologically speaking: Essence is pure and true and it is what it is; Identity is creative - it’s the persona you create for yourself. When you start defining yourself, thinking to yourself, “this is who I am,” you’ve crossed into IC territory. Defining and identifying yourself is a creative process. It has a Cancer quality. You’ve moved past just being who you are and you’ve started thinking, “shit, how am I going to turn these feelings into something real, how am I going to become myself, what the fuck even is a self?” Why do you think Cancer can become paralyzed with fear and totally unable to express itself? It’s working out some heavy questions. But. At the end of the day. You gotta develop a stable identity to move forward with your life - whatever that shit may be.

THE DESCENDANT

The Descendant is a turning point. Now, you step onto the scene for real. The Descendant is you coming face to face with some hard ass truths about yourself. It‘s all chill when you’re just hanging out developing some little ideas and opinions about yourself, but dang. The shit gets real when you gotta go out into the World and put your persona on the line. As soon as you start to test out your identity in the world, all the things you thought you knew about yourself go out the fucking window. Like Libra, the DC shows how and what you need to learn to be in relationship with the world and all the people and things in it. What actually happens when you start trying to be yourself - what does your Ascendant actually look like in action? Spolier: It looks like the Descendant.

The DC is a challenging degree. It starts the process of you actively being yourself in the World; you’re no longer just feeling yourself safely from inside your own head. The movement from Libra to Capricorn (or DC to MC, 7th house to 10th house) is where we have to come up against the reality of ourselves - we don’t always like what we see when we have to actually see ourselves reflected back at us from the World. But, like Libra, there’s two sides. Important to note that the DC is also a serious source of inspiration when we do come across the pieces of ourselves that we love and admire out in the World.

THE MIDHEAVEN

Through dealing with the reality of yourself in the world you get to come to a place where you see and accept yourself for who you are: The Midheaven is you when you’ve dealt with your shit. It’s your essence (AC) in action. You’re past engaging in some crazy ass shit, past imagining who you might be and trying to figure out who you are. The MC is you when you’re on top of your shit, when you’re confident in who you are, and when you’ve established yourself in the world. It’s the full on tree that grew from your baby Ascendant seed. You’re no longer worrying about the fucking seasons and all the conducive to growth bullshit. You’ve grown. You’ve taken an intangible, inexpressible feeling and from that you created an entire identity, then you put that identity on the damn line and you learned and you shared and now you’re solid enough in who you are that you can maybe think about dishing out some shade or some apples or whatever the fuck altruistic shit you got going on in your grown ass tree life.

The MC has a Capricorn quality. It’s you when you’re established. When you’re standing tall and you’ve turned a feeling into something tangible and real and powerful. Now you’re ready use your own power to empower others and contribute something meaningful to the World. Spoiler: your contribution is yourself.

THE ASCENDANT

Welcome back.

Last: Your chart is gonna look different to you depending on where you’re at in your life. Sometimes you’re closer to the AC, other times the MC. But if you ever feel lost and confused, the four degrees of The Thick-Ass Cross can help you get an idea of why you’re here, where you’re headed, and what moving forward in life will look like for you.

Peace, bitches.

XO BULLSHIT FREE ASTROLOGY

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i agree omg like same goes for me. as a taurus nn in the 8th house, pursuing in taurus instead of the 8th house had me go through so many shitty things that ended up taking so much of a toll on me (cue the identity crisis, mental breakdowns, study life + friendships going to shit). now that im pursuing in the 8th house instead, things are falling into the place the way i want it to. uncomfortable, but things are going much better than before.

ASTRO NOTES II.!!

disclaimer: this is merely from a personal observation of people in my life so it may not be applicable to all!

tw/cw: slight mention of traumas/mental health issues/unpleasant thoughts/dreams.

pov: we're picnicking by a lake on a calm sunday evening as you lay on my lap while I infodump astrology observations on you <3.

libra risings and sagittarius risings besties are a common combo bc they both like to do vibe checks. the libra rising approaches it more analytically while the sagittarius rising usually go with their instincts.

air placements need people to function more in comparison to other placements. let it be an aquarius placement who rely on their friends' presence, or a gemini placement who rely on the attention people give them or a libra placement relying on people liking them. despite their habits of ghosting people and moving from people to people, they need the constant reassurance that they at least have people.

celebrities/influencers who do not pursue in their north nodes are more likely to get cancelled (let it be for the smallest/silliest things). on the flip side, those who do pursue do not get cancelled despite getting called out for how problematic they are.

contrary to popular beliefs, leo venus/mars focuses more on pleasing their partners rather than being worshipped. generally, leo placement become the biggest simp when they find someone interesting enough to keep them committed and would make said person their whole world.

you may find yourself idealising people who's sign is in your descendant without realising it.

note to all the libra risings who are struggling to understand the blurred lines between their north node and south node, focus on your north node house. act/behave according to the house will get you to your north node.

for example, internalising the scorpio mindset helps my libra rising friend to move closer towards her taurus north node in the 8H. while internalising an aquarius mindset helps my other friend to move closer towards their leo north node in the 11H.

an example of misunderstanding your north node for libra rising is britney spears. although she behaves very cancerian, it pulls her away from her cancer north because her north node is in the 10H.

cancer north nodes, the summary of your challenge in this lifetime is to learn the difference between someone taking you seriously and caring for you vs someone who is taking advantage of you and emotionally manipulating you. please have people around you to help you with that and please let them take care of you.

scorpio/8H placements are not as sexual as people portray them to be, or at least they never intend to be sexual beings. it's just the aura they have which they usually aren't aware of most of the time. this causes the problem of being sexualised without consent. same goes to people with libra/7H and gemini/3H placements.

if you don't understand why you always feel like the mom friend towards specific people, check the sign in your 4H and see if your friends have that sign in their chart.

5H synastry can make the house person very impressionable because they view the person with the sign in their 5H as someone who inspires them and could easily be influenced by the sign person behaviour/attitude/mindset/interests.

libra/7H placements please stop using your love language against people and wonder why it backfires. it causes more damage towards you then it does towards others. besides that, no, no one else is doing that.

people with leo/cancer placements may show symptoms of age regressions because leo/cancer is often linked to nurturing and the inner child thing.

(disclaimer; please do not self-diagnose or consider this something to use as to diagnose yourself. emphasise on the words "symptoms". symptoms =/= diagnosis. remember to always refer to professional help at the end of the day when it comes to mental health issues!)

those who have chiron in scorpio and lilith in sagittarius may take their beliefs systems to an extreme due to their response to an event that seems inconsequential but triggered a traumatic/intense reaction within them.

an example, someone i know with said placements grew up in a religious household which was not strictly enforced on them but because it felt like an obligation, their chiron reacted to it by no longer believing in higher power.

another example, someone i know swearing to themselves they would never tell people what to do because they felt deeply disrespected when someone did it to them.

these people would take their beliefs to the extreme of either overindulgence or be entirely restrictive towards it to the extent it may seem unhealthy.

these people are usually unaware of their behaviour!!

please check up on your pisces/12H stelliums/placements friends— they may have problems with unpleasant thoughts and reoccurring nightmares.

please check up on your air placements friends— they've probably been masking/intellectualising their emotions for too long.

please check up on your fire placements friends— they're lying; they can't do it own their own. they need a shoulder to cry on.

pov cont.: i give you a forehead kiss and thank you for listening to me ramble <3