Intercepted signs
Aries/Libra
People around you are likely to find that you have a very complex personality which can be very difficult to understand, while you may have alternately observed that those, who you tend to form close alliances with, are very complicated themselves.
Aries makes it difficult to take action. Since Pisces is the sign with the house-cusp, you will generally find it easy to daydream in the area ruled by that house, and daydream, and daydream… Taking action tends to get put off. When you finally do act, you’re likely to suddenly dive in as if you had never thought about the thing they were considering. You either give too much or take too much because you don’t understand what is yours and what is theirs. Not owning anything of your own, creates a strong desire to know yourself now sincerely, and to create something that only you can have.
Libra creates a strong desire for relationships that you never got to experience (- hehe yep that’s me. Rip.). It’s difficult for you to form partnerships where both parties are equal. Since Virgo is the sign on the house-cusp, you will be seen as a servant in that area, or as someone who is always supplying services, or who always has the answers. For whatever reason, you, ultimately never felt worthy of someone else’s love since you never accepted yourself (Aries). This lack of Aries creates insecurity inside that doesn’t allow you to offer yourself to another. Focusing on growing yourself, will bring you to someone who will love you for everything you already are.
How to deal with these problems? Look up your Venus and Mars in your chart. Their sign and house placements, as well as the aspects they form may offer a way out. Also, see which signs appear on two houses. The functions of “duplicated signs” and the areas of your life, affected by the houses they occupy, can give you an escape hatch from the interceptions.
Taurus/Scorpio
You will view money and possessions in a very compulsive manner which others may have difficulty fully understanding.
Since Aries is the sign that begins the house, there is usually no trouble starting things. But, they are very difficult to finish. You may constantly accumulate and seldom eliminate. Not having Taurus as part of your development, means you never learned how to hold on to your own opinions, or allowed yourself to have nice, clean, and comfortable things. Maybe there was even a lack of love, as Taurus is ruled by Venus, you desperately craved to hear that you were liked as a person. You could also be very good at starting romances, but be unable to sustain relationships. You probably do a lot of one-night stands. When it comes to children, you can be good at bringing them into the world, but soon loose interest in taking care of them. Your security was stifled at a young age, and you never felt sure of yourself or valued. As you grow, connect with yourself more, develop a strong sense of self-love.
Not having Scorpio means not having solitude and never allowing yourself the freedom of stepping into the dark world inside yourself. After all, if you you are missing love and value (Taurus), compensation will tell you to refuse the feeling of loss through avoidance, and there you will never learn how to actually cope with it. Losing things and people, is hard to handle for an intercepted Scorpio person, because you don’t know where they’ve gone. You might spend many years of your life like a zombie, with your foot half in depression, and half in life, until you fully immerse yourself into love and loss.
How do you deal with these problems? Look to the sign and house placements of Venus and Pluto in your horoscope (and Mars as well since it co-rules Scorpio). The signs and houses they occupy show you possible solutions. Check your “duplicated signs” too. They show functions you can emphasize. The houses these signs occupy show the life areas that offer ways out.
Gemini/Sagittarius
You will likely have been bitten by the wander bug as you desire to travel and acquire knowledge through your life experiences.
With an intercepted Gemini, feeling free to speak is a luxury that only other children get to feel, you have to learn to conquer that with time and age. As you grow you might find that it is only you who is holding yourself back from saying your thoughts – everyone around you has been waiting to hear you speak for ages now. You will learn that people will hinder others, in order to remain unquestioned and unopposed, but that does not have to apply to you anymore. In the house with Gemini intercepted, all sorts of useless information will be gathered. The intercepted Sagittarius can’t help discriminate between facts that are significant and those that are drivel. Since Taurus begins the house, there is also a tendency to be closed minded. Everything presented to your mind (especially in the area governed by the house containing the interception) has to be solid and tangible, or it will tend to be rejected. There is also a tendency to keep quiet about any idea that could get you embarrassed in public.
A Sagittarius interception has a hard time taking themselves away from the straight and narrow path they were put on, but they secretly and subconsciously plan their escape, and then leave abruptly, confusing everyone around them. You could also find that as an adult, you spend all your time seeking truth and sharing it because you can’t seem to get enough of this magical world that you get to call your home. In the opposite house, where Sagittarius is intercepted, Scorpio is on the cusp. Everything there is heavy. Scorpio likes to get into things in depth. But with Sagittarius intercepted, you could find it difficult to express your opinions with enthusiasm, or even to express them at all! After all, Scorpio does like to keep secrets. Since Gemini is intercepted on the other side of the chart, you may have a problem coming up with reasons to back up what you say so your claims can sound like dogmatic (take it or leave it) assertions. Too often, other people will leave it and not pay attention to your views.
To deal with the problems of this interception, first look to the sign, house, and aspects of Mercury and Jupiter. These can indicate possible solutions. Then check your duplicated signs. They show more ways out of your interception dilemmas.
Cancer/Capricorn
You will have a private life which seems to be intricately interwoven with your public image.
With an intercepted Cancer house, you have a mutable sign, Gemini, on the house cusp. This means we can intellectualize, but there is trouble expressing how we feel about anything. You were not given nurturing and emotional connections in your development. There’s a tendency to shy away from hugs and cuddles, and any person or thing that wants to create warmth around you because that’s not what you received at home. Feeling and emoting seems like the furthest thing from easy, as you were taught to “conceal your feelings, don’t let them show”. Well, time to stop that. When emotions do come out, they can do so suddenly and fitfully. Our emotional expression is also likely to be inappropriate (usually, it is some sort of outburst) and that also is a major turn off.
With Capricorn intercepted and without the ability to feel (Cancer), you lack the ability to intuitively know how to take power in your life. Sagittarius, the architect, begins the house where Capricorn, the builder, is intercepted. Usually, there is no trouble making plans. The problem is actually DOING something about them. Capricorn is also the organizer. When it’s intercepted, our ability to organize and control is blocked. You always feel powerless, with an inability to set yourself up for success. When it does come out, that cheerful, happy-go-lucky Sagittarius that everybody sees in us disappears. Suddenly, there is a Capricorn control freak! Once again, the inappropriate emotional outbursts of intercepted Cancer, the sudden discipline and desire for control of an intercepted Capricorn is usually…inappropriate. “Why should I be able to build an empire and feel strong? I should put on a happy face and never put myself out there to fail.” Do it all for your own happiness, and mental health. You are worth it.
Look up where your moon (cancer) and where your Saturn (Capricorn) is located. Check the aspects to your other planets — that’s your solution to the problems this interception is bringing.
Leo/Aquarius
Many of the persons you come into contact with are not quite compatible with you character, you may at times feel somewhat depressed as you seek a group of people who you feel comfortable with.
Leo intercepted is like the caged Lion and because Leo the Lion is the King, so can you not rule a single house in your chart? You were not taught how to roar or feel inner strength and ego. That it’s silly to allow yourself to shine above others. You learned you didn’t deserve the praise that other people could get so easily. There’s an unconscious need to receive what you were not given, and so as an adult, you still seek the attention to flattering your ego.
Intercepted Aquarius: Since Aquarius has no ability to give of itself, it’s hard for you to rebel, or give any original ideas out into the world. If you worked super hard to create for the mainstream, and you were shot down, it becomes that much harder to share your originality, and allow your freak flag to fly. Aquarius is also the water-bearer, bringing useful things to those in need – If you are not worth anything, what would the less the fortunate actually want from you? Capricorn is on the house cusp, and that sign is cautious, conservative, and very concerned with its public image. Your desire to different, to explore new, strange, and socially unacceptable things is not going to be tolerated. You probably cover it up with a Capricorn veneer so you could appear to be “normal.” And when the pressure builds up, when you do finally rebel, it could be extreme and inappropriate.
Your Sun and Uranus, rulers of the intercepted signs, could show the way out of these difficulties. For other ways out, look to the duplicated Signs in your chart.
Virgo/Pisces
This disillusionment you feel in your day-to-day routine is destined to force you to question your spirituality and seek answers of a rather esoteric nature to help you better understand the life role you were born into.
Virgo is mundane, and with this interception you were denied the mundane, the routine and the order. You might have been allowed to stay up until the sun came out, even though you had school the next morning, because who really cared anyway? And school? Not really enforced. If you did your homework, it seemed to be no one’s business, but your own. It’s hard to structure you and for you to find routine, but you are also a slave to habits, which may not be that good for you. Being denied the teachings of a good routine, you still had to create one to survive, and so you immediately fought back with your own compensation. As an adult, you start to see how ridiculous your routines are, but the habits you created early on, are sometimes very hard to let go of – no matter how silly. Without the help from the intercepted Pisces, Virgo becomes the true cynic, knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing. In the house with the Virgo intercept, we may attract people who, at first, seem sunny, optimistic, and generous (Leo begins the house where Virgo is intercepted). It isn’t until we’ve been sucked in that they start tearing us apart with relentless criticism.
Intercepted Pisces: If you cannot structure yourself (Virgo) it becomes hard to reach REM sleep, and so it becomes hard to dream. Dreams are also a metaphor for ambition, creativity and optimism–all those are hard to find when you seem to have no time whatsoever to think about them. You’re too busy playing video games, when your mom yells to you that your dinner is now in the fridge, and that everyone ate without you, to have time to dream. Pisces also represents spirituality, and so you as an adult you are not only chasing impossible dreams (that you will reach), but you are also seeking enlightenment from a higher power, guru, or something else to guide you, since you cannot seem to guide yourself.
Look to Mercury and Neptune, rulers of the intercepted signs, for ways out of these difficulties. Look also to the duplicated signs, the ones appearing on the cusps of two houses. These will provide other ways out.
