SEXUALITY IN ASTROLOGY ✧.*
I — In this series, we’re going to check multiple points in the birth chart regarding a native’s sexual nature. This post being the first of many, I will discuss the basic significations of the planets important to this topic. In later parts, I will address the planets and their corresponding nakshatras/yonis, rashis and house positions, as well as the Darakaraka and the succeeding houses: 3H, 7H, 8H & 11H.
✧.* I use Galactic Center Mid Mula Ayanamsha and TROPICAL zodiac signs with SIDEREAL nakshatras, but all the info here is true for any method you use.
The Big 3 and Mars, Jupiter & Venus as the inner and outer planets. The planets not mentioned can influence your sexual energy, it only requires that they’re directly associated with the planets above (conjunctions/oppositions), or find themselves in the aforementioned houses.
Finn Cole & Elisha Cuthbert: Rohini Moon, Maggie Gyllenhaal: Shravana Moon
✧ MOON — Our unconscious psyche, and therefore our primitive inner drives (such as sexual impulses). The unconscious is still partly unknown, but what we do know is that it speaks the language of symbols within the mind. These symbols are responses to our sensory perception of the world, which becomes encoded as images, feelings and other symbolic analogs. The Moon communicates with the Sun through this symbolic language, such as dreams. An unconscious-conscious relationship, each giving its own characteristic message to the other.
The Moon also rules the senses themselves (hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell), which become encoded in the psyche. The subjective interpretation of the senses results in the externalization of them: communication, actions with the hands, locomotion, reproduction, and elimination/excretion. The Moon is the strongest point to study for a broad view on one’s sexuality because of its descriptive importance; it is our inner drives and perception of the world.
Extra associations: Blood flow, water, night, salt, face. Femininity, social interactions, temptation, receptivity, sensitivity, hotels & motels.
Sabrina Carpenter: Krittika Sun, Josh O’Connor: Krittika Sun & Moon, Elle Fanning: Uttara Phalguni Moon
✧ SUN — The soul, our conscious identity in action, powered by our values and beliefs. The true soul is physical and expressive, it is the body performing and interacting, everything the Sun represents. This is a more physical than mental outlook on one’s own sexuality. Lana Del Rey wrote the song “Body Electric” inspired by the poem “I Sing the Body Electric” by Walt Whitman, both artists are Leo Moons.
Extra associations: The head, sight. Masculinity, creativity.
⌜I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?⌝ I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman
✧ ASCENDANT — Similar to the Sun, a physical outlook on sexuality. Karma happens predominantly through this point. It signifies our bodily incarnation and emergence, our birth. It’s our point of reference, as it sets the stage for other houses and directly impacts us. This house represents both conscious and unconscious actions. It is our individuality and self-awareness, simultaneously opposing and activating the 7H.
Extra associations: The head & body.
Paul Mescal & Michael B. Jordan: Punarvasu Moon, David Corenswet: Punarvasu Sun
✧ JUPITER — Traditionally, Jupiter serves as a personal outer planet for men, indicating their behavior towards marriage and their spouse. It tells what kind of husband, father, family patriarch, and man they are. Sexually, it resonates with the marriage bed and the kind of sexual energy they have. For women, it represents the man they’d marry and feel attracted to. This sexual attraction is of a highly spiritual nature; it can be discerned when they look up to him or feel they can learn something from him, especially regarding morality, values and society.
Jupiter is human nature and all the complex problems that arise from it, such as the battling of morals, philosophies and religions, which naturally become entangled in human sexuality. It’s also the biggest and most expansive planet. Jupiterians “overflow” and seek to deposit their overspilled abundance into something or someone else, as they are extremely giving people.
Extra associations: Wet planet, hearing sense, altars, masculine. Fat tissue, abdomen, circulatory & lymphatic systems.
Gigi Hadid: Bharani ASC, Natalia Vodianova: Bharani Moon, Zara Larsson: Purva Phalguni ASC
✧ VENUS — Sexual desire and pleasure, loves to overindulge the senses, very creative. Venus indicates women’s behavior towards love and relationship partners, it shows what kind of wife or girlfriend they are. It is an important planet for understanding their sexual nature and physical aesthetic (colors, patterns, style). It can, to a certain extent, indicate what and who they sexually desire. For men, it represents the woman they desire; her personality, appearance and sexuality. It can also give information regarding their own sexual/romantic habits in society. This planet is all about others: socially engaging and focusing on them. It indicates sexual or sensual skill.
Extra associations: Feminine, fertile, water, spring. Acts the strongest when it’s dark or night, bedrooms & brothels. Reproductive system (internal and external), semen & ovum, taste. The Morning and Evening Star.
Aaron Taylor Jonhson: Dhanishtha Moon & Mrigashira Sun, Lorenzo Zurzolo: Chitra Moon, Addison Rae: Mrigashira ASC
✧ MARS — This is the hunt taking place. Our inner drives in action, the actualization of our desires cementing passion in its path through the active pursuit of seeking and conquering consummation. Mars leaves marks of pain or pleasure. When a person is the focus of your Mars, the motivation is doing things with them with the goal of clouding the senses and altering the state of mind, performing a set of actions to cause physiological changes in both others and oneself, sex being one of them. The goal can also simply be the action itself: a ritualistic working out of our free-will and power of choice through the energy of moving our limbs. Many cultures practice rituals of all kinds, it is something in our human nature that is wholly natural and necessary for expression and externalization.
There has been discussion in our time about the comparison or sameness of love and cannibalism. Through stereotypes we assume that Mars is aggressive and Venus is docile, when in actuality Venus often crosses boundaries whilst Mars respects them. Cannibalism is the crossed boundary between consummation and annihilation; the overly indulgent Venus doesn’t stop before it, getting the infamy of immorality. Mars is protective and defensive against annihilation itself, it knows to consume without killing. Through this protectiveness, the qualities of possessiveness and jealousy are acquired, leading to betrayal in some cases. Mars is only loyal to the person subjected to receive the aim of their passion, regardless of societal standards regarding faithful marriage or what is “proper”.
Benefics and Malefics don’t necessarily translate into good or bad in a person’s chart; Malefics train the muscles of morality by presenting limitations and restrictions, sometimes destroying what no longer serves. Benefics expand and grow without limitations, sometimes preserving what must be destroyed. This is one of the reasons why aggression and perversion are qualities of Venus more so than Mars (Specifically Venusians compared to Martians).
Sigmund Freud wrote “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, where he introduced his theory regarding the opposing drives: Eros and Thanatos, life and death in psychoanalysis. He had a Mrigashira Moon, Scorpio ASC and ♉︎ Bharani Sun. His Scorpio ASC opposes his Taurus Sun in the 7H.
Extra associations: Masculine. The senses of pleasure, tingling, prickling, chills, pressure, fluttering, pulsing, throbbing, shuddering, spasming, contracting & expanding, burning, aching, warmth. Blood flow, muscle, chest, sight. Aphrodisiacs, herbs, weeds, thorns, poison, liquor, meat.
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