5th Anniversary Astrology – The 5th House (Part 1)
Now that the move from our Web Forum over here has been completed, I can get back to the astrology of the Concordance 5th Anniversary (just in case you forgot why we’re here 😉 ).
The Harmonic Concordance 5th Anniversary 5th House
Here’s the very short story with this particular 5th house, with Pisces on the cusp and occupied by the Moon and Uranus: we fill our emotional needs by creating something spiritual in unexpected and unusual ways. Once again, pretty neat, considering what the Concordance and its Anniversary Party is all about. But let’s fill in the details of how this is so, astrologically.
In the first place, the 5th is our house of creativity and self expression. As it is opposite the 11th house, which represents among other things those similarities we have with our close friends and associates, the 5th is where we attempt to distinguish ourselves from others. We make this statement of individuality through our children, both of the body and the mind, as they are the highest manifestation of our creativity.
This generalized urge to create is as much a part of human nature as any other element and usually demands our attention. Man is a creative animal. A spiritual reading of this house, with Pisces, the Moon and Uranus living there, suggests a desire to create a unique manifestation of idealized Love as our highest from of self expression.
Pisces 5th House
Third of the Water signs, Pisces is perhaps the most spiritual of that element. In all manners of symbolic schemas, water is associated with “Spirit.” As the final water sign it is, theoretically at least, the most mature, highly advanced and spiritual of the water signs. As a matter of fact, since it is also the final sign in the in the zodiacal belt, it could be said that it is the most mature among them too. Thinking along those lines, planets in Pisces are often thought of as being symbolic of the final lesson to learn in regard to the nature of that particular planet.
Speaking of planets, Pisces is associated with Jupiter, its traditional ruler, and Neptune, its modern ruler,1 the sea (water) god But something that is often overlooked is that, like Capricorn, it has a dual bodied symbol, that of two fish, tied tail to tail by a strand of rope, swimming in opposite directions, one North, the other South. Ergo, Pisces can express in apparently contradictory manners, as in the sometimes observed Piscean roles of Comforter or Martyr.
Well what does Pisces do to color the 5th house? First and foremost, Rudhyar2 tells us, it is one of two signs that refer to critical states in the evolution of consciousness. Here in the 5th house it suggests that its creative activity drives the event to create an unique spiritual consciousness. This is a another good thing for the type of event this Anniversary is.
A brief word here about the Moon’s meaning in a chart. Often referred to as indicative of the “feelings” and the ebb and flow of the emotional nature, at a somewhat deeper level it represents an individual’s needs structure. At the base, it is how a person’s needs are being met that determines one’s emotional state. And of course, this needs/emotions connection is made at the level of the subconscious mind, another element associated with the Moon.
With the Moon in Pisces in the Anniversary chart there is a heightened degree of sensitivity which imparts a sort of spiritual awareness of things to come, joined by a marked tendency towards idealism. Astrologer Frederic Van Norstrand once noted that the Piscean Moon “…has been known to endow her subjects (events?) with the pronounced flair for the promotion of schemes…” And too, don’t forget to throw in the Pisces Moon’s well known psychic tendencies, i.e., the ability to discern the future.
And as if this all weren’t enough to convince you of the creative, manifesting power of the Moon on this day, please note that it is exactly conjunct, as in sitting on top of, the Mars in the Concordance chart of 2003. Some may recall that in that chart, that Mars was dubbed the “Spiritual Warrior.” The transit of the Moon over this point, of course, happens every lunar month. but it doesn’t happen in “concordance” with the Concordance Anniversary but once in a great while. The point? Mars stimulates to act.
Applying these ideas to the Anniversary chart, we might see that this Pisces Moon “promotes” a spiritual vision of what might be attained were we motivated to act by the “Concordance Ideals.” And in the 5th house, the house of creativity, can we not see her part here as indicating a need to create a “feminine,” nurturing (remember, Luna rules Cancer, the sign of motherhood) atmosphere for this “Anniversary party?” As a result, the Concordance can help us to create a real difference in people’s lives this year by encouraging, among other things, our compassionate service to others.
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1. (These modern rulerships are a notion that I’m not entirely comfortable with. Jupiter still makes more sense to me, as it is also the ruler of the 9th and thereby imparts its spiritual qualities to Pisces. I also find as well the Jupiter works better when deliniating charts.)
2. Dane Rudhyar, The Astrological Houses, (Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1972) p. 173.