Transit Lab: Sun conjunct IC
Tonight I’ve packed up my stuff, prepping for my move to a new place tomorrow. I’ve been renting a room from a friend while helping her renovate her property & house. She told me when she offered the room that I’d be moving into a construction zone, and my hyper-Sagittarian self decided that a little adventure was welcome.
And then I moved. The house did turn into a construction zone, and I remembered that while my Moon is in Sagittarius in the 3rd, my South Node of the Moon is in Cancer. What’s happened is, in short, a fairly animated (and sometimes gruesome) conflict between the desire for adventure and change and the need for stability and security. It’s the conversation between the 3rd and 4th houses, Mercury/Gemini and Moon/Cancer, but also that between Moon (what we need to do to make ourselves happy) and the South Node of the Moon (our habits and comfort zone - all based in our emotional memories).
As I type this, I’m getting a handle on those dialogues: I seem to enjoy adventure as long as I have a firm home base, and I’ve had something less than I’m used to here. If there’s no stable home base, I’ll marginally tolerate the notion of adventure, but try to avoid it. Interesting.
I think I was coping well until the kitchen sink went away and we started eating on and with disposable things. There’s something about that that sets my emotional innards to rotting. I was fine with postponing sprouting and juicing until I moved, but the entrance of disposable things made me feel a bit like I’d begun punishing myself.
And I didn’t mind taking showers outside while the bathroom was being redone. And I haven’t once minded the toilet being outside - See?, I want to ask, haven’t I just been a trooper?
So, as the Sun hits my IC (the beginning of the 4th house) at 13 Capricorn 59 tomorrow, I’ll be hauling boxes into an adorable little guest house in LA. It’s Capricorn, though, so you can probably guess that I’m pretty sparse at home. And my North Node is not far from it. I see in this that, for one thing, doing the 4th house home/roots/stability thing has not been on my list of priorities in the past and I’ve set myself the challenge of figuring out how to, as well as if I’m willing to do that new thing that the North Node symbolizes for any of us. (And as the Sun hits my NN in a few days, I expect I’ll be confronted with just how much I don’t know about setting up a comfortable, suitable home space.)
Not only do I not have much stuff to move, but virtually none of it is homey. The IC ruler Saturn is retrograde in Gemini in the 9th house. Guessed yet what most of my stuff is? You got it: books, notebooks, pens, papers and paper items (including arty things I always hope might defray the lopsidedness of the ratio…).
Tonight I remembered that I need to turn on the electric and gas, and went to the LA Department of Water and Power website to initiate a service order to get electricity going. The first thing to comment on is that electricity is called “Power” - I’ll be paying them for power, as it turns out. I’m not sure I’ve ever paid anyone for power. I wonder how my Scorpio Sun and Venus-Pluto life will change once that starts up.
But what you have to do is fill out the online form called ”Residential Turn On Service Form,” which, I’m pretty sure, is going to turn out to be quite a letdown when it’s all said and done.
They really need to come up with a better name.
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January 3, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
January 11th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Tom, this is really interesting, because I have my SN in Cancer too and a Sag ascendant. So I do understand the impetus for adventure as long as the home base is stable. I am moving in April and while I am excited about it, I am also dreading the process at the same time… My Moon is in Cap - so it kicks in and says ‘just get on with it and stop being so wishy washy…’
Anyway all the best for the move and thanks for the blog.