The Soft Life: Venus in your Natal Chart

As you know, archetypically, Venus represents what we find pleasurable, what we enjoy, what simple delights have the power to restore equilibrium of soul and spirit. Venus in the natal chart can show us where it is soft, where life can become tenderized. Venus shows us the specific path of least resistance in a life that constantly pushes against us. Venus is for everyone. Everyone has Venus somewhere. Plus, Venus is dynamic. There is no one size fits all approach to softness. Venus’ methods of malleability are myriad, diverse, and unrelenting.

The sign Venus is in in our charts shows us the energies we may embody to step into softness, what activities or mediums we may move to and through to beautify our experience of life. Please keep in mind that for this article, we will be working within archetypal ballparks. The house of and aspects to your natal Venus can mitigate the expression of your soft spots. Nevertheless, admission into the archetypal ballpark can give you an idea of what may feel like a home run for you.

Keep in mind that these vignettes and explainers may also be valid for whatever sign Venus happens to be transiting through. It may represent a 3-4 week period of experimenting with new ways to experience softness and ease. Or even a period of challenge and integration, where life opens a door to softness you’ve previously not seen the value in or been able to walk through.

Let’s begin.

Venus in Aries: May find softness through active pursuit of anything novel, stimulating or challenging. The throughline for Venusian Arians is direct experience with life itself. Always wanted to try rock-climbing and a climbing wall opens near you? Try it. Always wanted to go to a vineyard and smash grapes but all your friends are busy? Do it. As an Aries, solo jaunts may be preferable anyway. Want to become friends with the cool girl across the room? Walk over. Here, the softness enters after a rush of adrenaline, after shooting a shot, through the satisfaction of knocking something off the bucket list, and the pleasure of proving your fear voice wrong. Softness here can also look like passionate engagement in relationships worth fighting for, or an unrelenting insistence that your art, your heart, your beauty, your value…be valued.

Venus in Taurus: May find softness through anything which requires full engagement of the senses. If you can see it, taste it, hear it, touch it or smell it—do it. This Venus placement may actually find softness through the soft life examples I introduced at the beginning, as Taurus loves a good cappuccino, or the feel of expensive sheets. But when we peer deeper, we find that this Venus sign softens when life becomes simple. Anything which uncomplicates the life—a walk through the woods, gazing into the eyes of a pet—or anything which grounds—like mindfully eating your favorite meal--introduces ease. And when you answer the call of animal instinct—so sitting when tired, or even masturbating when horny. Wink wink. Anything that softens the body, softens the Taurus.

Venus in Gemini: May find softness through mental stimulation and curiosity. Like Venus in Aries, Venus in Gemini is an energy that must go up and out. And best if that activity can involve your brain. Trivia night at the local pub? Yes. A bus tour of a city? Absolutely. The Venus in Gemini person giddily absorbs tids bits and bobs, and better if other people are around too. Softness here is created through neuroplasticity—through active learning, wordplay, cracking a joke, communication, and freely following anything that is shiny. To come alive again and again with childlike wonder. Because Mercury rules what we have two of in the body, work with the hands or arms is also implicated. Like the hand-eye coordination of a ping pong game. And never forget the power of a deep breath—Mercury rules the lungs too.

Venus in Cancer: May find softness through enmeshment with community, home, hearth and heart. Of all the Venus signs, Cancer is the one most likely to see softness as an inside job—both inside the home and inside the heart. Active attention to all that it is you feel can feel like the soft slumber that comes after a good cry. Softness here is created through being soft with the self, like a loving mother. Cancer is the initiator of connection with other human beings, so to be able to align hearts with those in community and find chosen (or given) family worthy of your tender heart is an integral soft life ingredient. Also, creating softness for others by initiating care, nurturance, and support returns softness to you tenfold. And never underestimate the power of comfort and familiarity—whether through a recipe, an old show, or through a nostalgic drive down memory lane.

Venus in Leo: May find softness through vulnerable self-expression and the celebration of life itself. Here, instead of boldly going for the sake of experience like the Arian, the Venusian Leo temperament fixates on that which will bring it closer to itself and its potential. Like, following the urge to go to an open mic after declaring to yourself I can sing dammit. Maybe you can, maybe you can’t, but the risk of exposure is needed if you are to grow more in love with yourself. That is the main throughfare to softness with the Leo—the post-performance glow. Whether it is stepping off a literal stage, telling a joke, or going for an absolute compliment-grabber of a haircut—to be seen, received, and regarded for simply being for who you are is where tenderness lives. Leading, guiding, and generosity of spirit soften you too—like the popular girl complimenting the uneasy new kid on their outfit, or the boss recognizing the singular talent of someone on their team. Celebrating others helps you to celebrate yourself helps you to celebrate life in all the different ways it is embodied.

Venus in Virgo: May find softness through meaningful service and tending to the small details of life. The simple act of maintaining a vegetable garden or dedicating yourself to an intricate work of art or writing can invite in a sense of warmth and the satisfaction of a job well done. Even better if the fruits of your labor can be enjoyed by others, or a pet, or a plant, so that their lives are softened by your gracious service. The critical eye of this Venus also invites in softness through attention to that which is often ignored—like clean baseboards, silverware which is complementary in color to your dinnerware, the specific brand and color of red lipstick that will highlight your specific undertone for a specific occasion. Venus here surrounds herself with small reminders that life’s beauty can show up in the mundane and in the process of turning what is into what could be.

Venus in Libra: May find softness through harmony. The harmony of a musical composition. The harmony between colors and shapes. The harmony between words in prose and stanza. The harmony between individuals in relationship. And the harmony that could be between the individual and society. Softness here comes through a classic attention to beauty, that which provides ultimate serenity of spirit. Libra also socializes this need for harmony, finding and creating softness by being the intermediary between two fighting friends, reminding each of them of the value of the other. Softness can come through seeing the validity in everyone’s truth, that perhaps there is no one truth, effectively defanging the poisonous bite of extremity. And softness can come through the simple act of sharing time with a complementary soul. Cultivating elegance and grace of spirit, not just of appearance, creates a reverberation of tenderness from the inside out.  Like conditioner nourishing the strands of tangled hair, so do you have the ability to smooth out what feels knotted.

Venus in Scorpio: May find softness through the catharsis of that which is intense and radical commitment to honesty. Resolving to have a difficult talk with a lover, exposing your haunted past to a friend, putting the rawness of what you feel into song, sharing a dark joke about death—all create a release from which softness can enter. The soft life here looks like becoming unafraid of what used to scare you. And sharing this softness by holding someone else’s hand to hell and back where others would let go. Nothing binds you up like a lie, or like living unauthentically. Untruths create rigidity in expression. Softening into who you are comes at the price of revealing all of who you are to those trusted enough to hear your story. While the truth can sometimes be hard to swallow, it is still infinitely better than choking. Softness may also come through relationship to what is hidden, the mysteries of life, the occult, or that which turns the invisible gears of life. The Venusian Scorpio softens the rough edges of life by acknowledging what lies below the surface and showing us that everything is survivable.

Venus in Sagittarius: May find softness through open horizons and the creation of meaning. Softness comes in the form of finally booking that backpacking trip or that reading from your favorite astrologer or entering yourself into a chili pepper eating contest. Quite possibly all in the same week. Softness is found through these journeys of mind, foot, and mouth, and the necessary freedom needed to dive into them. There is a unique ability here to find softness anywhere in the world, through any belief system, and through immersion into any culture. Diversifying the soft life here is natural, ruler Jupiter ensuring an expansive outlet into just about any area you could imagine.  Venusian Sagittarians don’t need comfort, luxury, or status to feel softened. You just need to know that something is possible. No border, no boundaries, only open space, and the promise of adventure. Softness is in the personal significance of these quests, the meaning they give you, and the meaning they give to life.

Venus in Capricorn: May find softness through commitment to a worthy goal. To be able to build towards something long-lasting, or to build life with another person, that is where Venusian Capricorns delight. Here, softness enters through a sense of pride and accomplishment, a sense of proving oneself to oneself and an earned self-respect. Antithetical as it may seem to softness, nothing can divorce Capricorn energy from ambition and work ethic. But to get to work towards what matters to you, versus spinning your wheels as a cog in someone else’s machine or doing all means to no end, is the differentiating ingredient. The phrase, do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life rings true here. Softness looks like purpose for Venusian Capricorns. Taking life seriously, moving with earnest towards a personal mountaintop, reveling in the milestones along the way and treating yourself in accordance with all that you achieve…that is how you feel softened.

Venus in Aquarius: May find softness through adherence to individuality no matter what. There’s a kind of rebel spirit here, a fixed determination to do the opposite of what others or society tries to coerce you into. Come from a family of scientists? Go into acting. Everyone is turning left? Buy a jetpack and beam yourself up. Raised to hate a certain kind of person? Grow up and that kind of person. In fact, it is my own Venus in Aquarius that inspired this piece to begin with, finding the soft life initiative incredibly reductive and trite. I’ll determine what a soft life is for myself, thank you very nuch. Venusian Aquarians benefit from being a friend to all, from welcoming in all the myriad ways human relationship can deliver an expansive mindset, softening the absolute rigidity of tribalism, nationalism, racism, sexism, ableism, etc.  Aquarius finds softness by eating dessert first, by dancing to the beat of a drum only they can hear and by inviting others to dance with them. Expectation is taxing. Living life on your own terms is freeing. And freedom is oh so soft.

Venus in Pisces: May find softness through genuine connection with consciousness. Venusian Pisceans know that while you and I look like separate entities, we are in fact all connected, all one.  Venus in Pisces softens when it softens into this awareness. You are not really your body, but the energy animating your body. You are not your thoughts, merely the witness of your thoughts. Trippy. But it allows for a type of escape that feels like transcendence. This doesn’t mean disappearing from the world, but rather, the ability to watch the world through the tender distance of compassion. Close enough to hold space yet removed enough not to buy into the propaganda of material reality. That is why art created and shared from this placement touches the soul. Softness here looks like a universal compassion for the plight of the human condition, and the willingness to heal in a world hellbent on causing harm. This is why Venusian Pisceans want to merge with others, so that they may also experience the softness of simply being, accepting, and surrendering.

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My hope is that this talk has opened you to new, more relatable, more personal, and more profound ways of living a soft life. It doesn’t have to be pretty, or showed off, or expensive…it just has to feel good. And we are all entitled to that feeling.

Reframing Aquarius: How the Cool and Detached Offer Us Love

I want to disclaim, before you jump in, that Love in this write-up and in my opinion, is not a feat of romantic heroism or distilled in ambiguous twin-flame theory. It is not a Drew Barrymore rom-com or an episode of The Bachelor. The Love I speak of here transcends the human trappings of performance, expectation, and desperation. The Love I speak of here, the Aquarius Love, is dispassionate, impersonal, and vastly encompassing. It is a validation of humanity, in all its forms. It is the simple act of non-judgement and fundamental acceptance, that allows the human spirit space to breathe and be. That is my Love.

I want to disclaim, also, that this write-up is about the archetype of Aquarius, what exists in the ether independent of human form. I write from my personal brand of Mercury conjunct Neptune magic. Therefore, this is not necessarily about your Aquarius Sun mother, or your Aquarius Venus crush, or about historical figures of Aquarian nature and lore. It is about energy. What human beings do with that energy sprouts a myriad of potential. Below is one of those potentials.

Like Capricorn and Christmas, Aquarius and Valentine’s Day seem to be fundamentally at odds. Where the serious Saturn-ruled earth sign seems incongruous to merrymaking, so does the Saturn-ruled air sign seem an out-of-place home for one of the more romantic days of the year. If pop Astrology had its way, Aquarius would remain inextricably associated with stereotypes of distance and detachment. While those descriptors are certainly relevant, they are not the end of the story.  You may find Taurus or Libra more fitting for Valentine’s Day, where the planet of love and romance is home. Or Pisces, where the planet of love and romance is exalted. Perhaps even Leo, where bouquets of red and pink balloons and Leo-ruled heart-shaped boxes of candy proudly boast and roar: love!  But in removing the superficial layers that surround the misunderstood Aquarius, we can come to understand why Cupid’s foray through this cerebral sign is no accident, and rather points us towards a more fitting, yet shocking, conclusion: that the Aquarius love is deep and endless, that the Aquarian heart throbs with an alien passion. If this shocks you, good. Aquarius can enjoy a revolution, a subversion, a brain-fuck. And so may this revolution set Aquarius free from misinformation, and set ablaze a different way of thinking. If you choose to want to think it, that is—Aquarius doesn’t care!

Where Taurus makes love physical, Libra makes love delightful and Pisces makes love dreamy or transcendent—Aquarius makes love ideal. In any working definition of the word romance, “idealized love” makes a literal or alluded appearance. It could be said, then, that from Aquarius, the idea of love is born, even if not practiced. And from ideas, all things sprout. This isn’t altogether odd. Aquarius deals with intellect and logic. And ruled by Saturn, striving towards lasting standards of excellence and fairness, signposts of anything ideal, lines up with what we know about the archetype. In potentializing love to an ideal place, the Aquarius Love comes with a bigger heart and bigger mission. As a human sign, Aquarius is not particular about love— who deserves it, who is giving it, why it went away, when it’ll come, how it looks, etc. With the power of scope and objectivity, Aquarius Love transcends physical limitations and instead becomes a universal concept under which all of humankind can shelter. And what could be more loving than the unrelenting acceptance Aquarius offers? And so where things aren’t sensual or material or comfortable enough for Taurus, where things aren’t refined or classic enough for Libra, or magical and hypnotizing enough for Pisces—Aquarius asks no price of admission, for love to them remains priceless, a public good to be doled out and shared not on pretense, but on brotherhood. It is Aquarius’s diligent eye on humankind and fraternity that expands the concept of love: come one, come all, and come as you are.

Saint Valentine of Rome, whose written account has come to serve as an historical template for the inception of Valentine’s Day, acted out these Aquarian ideals. He performed weddings for those forbidden to marry and when sent to jail, healed his jailer’s daughter of blindness. Afterwards and right before he was due to be executed, he sent a letter to the jailer’s daughter, and signed it, your Valentine. Saint Valentine of Rome was also said to give out paper hearts while ministering to people about God’s love (an impersonal Aquarius resonance, equality under an all-seeing eye), and a direct line can be drawn from this action to the Valentine’s Day decorations we see today. In this brief recounting, we meet two Aquarian archetypes, the former more recognizable than the latter: rebellion and compassion. A human thing to do despite the laws of the time, Saint Valentine, though perhaps not an Aquarius himself, extolled all of the best, yet often ignored tenets of the sign—the push towards equality, that all deserve to have their love legitimized and recognized, endless openness to the human condition, and the Love with a capital L that drives one to such measures. Questionable religious ideology aside, Valentine lived and died on one principal: that love, in all its myriad of incarnated forms, in all of its ceremonials, is for all. That the Sun was travailing through Aquarius as the framework for our modern conception of Valentine’s Day was underway can be no coincidence. All of Astrology bears correspondence to human events, even if they remain obscured or misunderstood for a time.

In Ancient Greece, Aquarius season coincided with Gamelion, the month of marriage. Two festivals occurred then, roughly translated to Sacred Wedding and Divine Wedding. These festivals celebrated the union of Zeus and Hera. In Roman texts, Hera was known as Juno, the goddess of marriage. If Juno sounds familiar, it is because an asteroid was named after her and has come to represent what is looked for in marriage and commitment. Modern natal chart calculators can show where Juno is in the sky for an individual, and can points towards the characteristics of a most suitable long-term partner. So what is it about Aquarius that corresponds to this cultivation of lasting love and marriage? Look to the element and modality: fixed air. Like any fixed sign, Aquarius holds on tight and when best expressed can exalt the virtues of fidelity. Of course, any ideal marriage or partnership needs this brand of loyalty and perseverance. Though much is said about the Aquarius need for space, even the Aquarius need for isolation, it cannot be overlooked that when in intimate partnership, Aquarius is one of the more steadfast partners, seeking not for frivolous union, but for deep connection. But the elemental nature of Aquarius sets it apart from the rest of the fixed family. It can be said that inherent to Aquarius symbolism are two life-sustaining elements: air, and water, as Aquarius is the water-bearer, often mistaken by novices as a water sign. Let me poetically pontificate: no living being can do without air or water. And so the Aquarian love is life-sustaining, from which all bounty and blessings grow, from which all beings benefit. It is the grandeur of this concept that gives Aquarius its aloof quality—their Love is so universal and welcoming that to the casual observer, it appears impersonal. But it is precisely the scope of Aquarius Love that makes it so palpable, an equally matched breadth and depth. Where fixed Taurus can become materialistic, fixed Leo can become self-aggrandizing, and fixed Scorpio can brood and become paranoid, no more fixed is Aquarius than the air it represents: ubiquitous, self-sustaining, stretched over distance yet deeply intimate, as oxygen and the connectivity of breath is shared by all. Co-dependency has long reigned as a romantic model of love, clinginess and self-dissolution perversely used as measures of affection. Psychology has now caught up and identified this proclivity as self-sabotaging and maladaptive. The Aquarius model of live and let live in relationship can appear threatening to the osmosis some wish to experience, or expect to experience. But it offers us a great chance at healthy love—as when air is squelched out of the equation, breathing becomes labored, and the life of the relationship is threatened. When inserted in mutually consented amounts, air allows for space, wherein two individuals (or more, *wink*) can fully stretch out into their identity, their lived experience, always feeling supported, but never entrapped. That is what Aquarius can offer—a Love given the air to float, fly, and flex.

In a sense, and as alluded to above, Aquarius love can be cerebral. But all things start first with thought. The belief of a thing creates the experience of a thing. So for Aquarius to hold you in their minds with love and affection is to tap into a potent creative energy, one that serves as the basis for all emotion and action. And because these ideas are fixed, good luck changing the Aquarian mind. Once loved, always loved. For Aquarius, the idea of love for a person, up close or from afar, is to render that love timeless and shapeless, graduated out the physical dimensions of gift-giving, face-time and attention, and into an ethereal experience. Aquarius is associated with personal freedom and independence. Aquarius gives Love the freedom to expand, to individuate, untethered by expectation or precedent.

Aquarius is traditionally ruled by Saturn. There is, then, a resonance with Aquarius and Saturn’s sign of exaltation—Libra. They trine one another, and share a common Saturnian DNA. Libra, in some ways, is the sign of marriage, one-on-one partnership, diplomacy, and fairness. Therefore, there is an invisible but what I find a personally noteworthy through-line and resonance connecting the idea of peaceful partnership to the Aquarius archetype. With this link, Saturn, and by virtue, Aquarius, can delight when relationships become stable and enduring, planting fertile ground for love to blossom perennially, even after the cold and dry winters.

In sum, I invite you to reconsider what you’ve heard about Aquarius. Leave room for the wondrous ways in which this sign offers us love, and hold space for a history that can corroborate it symbolically. Remember that as the water bearer, Aquarius has within it wells of untapped emotional capacity. Only, unlike any other sign, Aquarius shoulders these emotional conditions with impenetrable strength and understanding, turning them into nutrient, tilling human soil, watering it with compassion. In this alchemical process, all human experience, the sordid and splendid, meet their highest resolution in the arms of Aquarius. It is this level of belonging, of feeling seen and heard, that allows unbridled love to flow. It could be that the Aquarius tendency for distance and austerity is merely erected as a means of protection. That the love they feel for others must somehow be contained behind a wall, less it completely overwhelm them, less their waters drown the world. But do not be mistaken—beyond the ideas of coldness and detachment lies a soft, loving center. A sweetness disguised, but always alive.

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

-William Shakespeare

Over The Top Virgo Rising? Out of Bounds Planets ft. DOLLY PARTON

I am going to just assume you know who Dolly Parton is. If not, just Google her. Spotify too, because she's a musical genius.

When you see her, what does it conjure for you astrologically? To be that overtly feminine and flashy? Bet Virgo Rising wouldn't ever come to mind.

Virgo on the ASC renders one, archetypically at least, modest, shy, bookish. Regardless of beauty or fashion sense, Virgo Risings are not known to make their presence known. Shrinking violets, and certainly a demeanor that is not overt. Ruler Mercury renders these natives studious of human behavior, which places one in the background. Out from after Leo, Virgo cleans up the party versus making itself the center of one.

ENTER. DOLLY. PARTON. Her chart is rated AA--so there is little to no debate about her Virgo ASC. Charming, quirky, talkative, yes, all traits of Mercury. But the flashiness, the overt femininity--things that make you go "huh" when you see her chart. And with Virgo as the virgin, the maiden--Parton's enhancement of her breasts, make-up, tight clothing, short-shorts, and thigh-high boots--seems to subvert the idea of innocence. She has even stated that she modeled herself, her persona, after the town trollop.

Now you may look to Venus. She has hers in Capricorn in the 5th conjunct Sun. Clearly this has made her artistically talented, charming, and entrepreneurial. She rose from complete poverty to being worth many millions. That's Cap! But Capricorn with Virgo ASC isn't exactly a dead ringer for extreme costuming. I wrote about how Capricorn loves to have fun as much as the rest of them, maybe even moreso. But the overt expression of her femininity still isn't exactly Saturnian. And its worth noting that her Venus doesn't trine her ASC. Her Saturn is fallen in Cancer, conj. Mars. Mars will come up again.

Dolly has Jupiter in Libra in the 2nd, and Uranus conj her Gemini MC. Jupiter in Libra is expansion of femininity. But I opine that this placement has more to do with her obvious wealth, and her extending of a helping hand financially (Libra) when disaster strikes. Jupiter here is averse to her ASC in Virgo. In spirit, it expands on her feminine nature, but in physicality, it can't. Her Uranus conj. MC certainly makes her stance on the world stage electric and flashy! But that didn't satisfy me. Her Uranus in Gemini is more about the message she is sharing with others, and as far as sexuality and appearance, Uranus wouldn't exaggerate, it would subvert--androgyny, gender fluidity, etc.

(Runner up: she has Moon in Virgo in her 1st. It doesn't conj her ASC degree, but Moon in 1st house folks are good at projecting an image that others want/desire. For a woman, overt sexuality in the music industry can provoke this.)

That's why when I realized her Mercury and Mars were out-of-bounds, I was relieved. Her chart remained kind of enigmatic at first glance, with only the two dimensional picture of the sky taken into account. In brief, declinations are a sub-section of astrology that take into account the three dimensional picture of the sky at birth. It measures the distance of planets from the celestial equator, the ecliptic. Out of bounds planets are ones that fall above or below the limits of the Sun on this ecliptic, 23 degrees 27 minutes. Planets above or below this are outside the "control" of the Sun. They are planets with no babysitter, no one to answer to. As such, they manifest as individuals with profound derangement, or profound talents. They bend the laws of what is thought possible or permissible, for better or worse

(Adele has OOB Venus, for example. Her artistic prowess is a phenomenon. Einstein had OOB Moon in Sag, and literally expanded our concept of reality itself).

The inner planets go out of bounds more frequently than the outer ones. Asteroids do it too. Dolly's ASC ruler, Mercury, a very important planet in the chart, was OOB. Her Mars, conj. that Saturn in Cancer was also OOB.

"As you might guess, people with an out-of-bounds planet tend to know no boundaries and accept no limits. Often there’s no stopping them. This can result in boundless creativity and success, allowing the native to go way beyond the potential that one might normally expect."

And so is the case with Dolly. From a young age, she received hoards of media (Mercury) attention for her singing and more notably, her songwriting (she'd later pen I Will Always Love You, made infamous by Whitney Houston). She is a goddamn prolific songwriter, penning over 3000 in her lifetime. Her OOB Mercury also rules her Gemini MC with Uranus (country to pop to musicals to film--shift shaping career) there. She'll go down in history.

Her Mercury stands at an opposition with Mars, both looking at the other, trying to get what they want. In the 5th in Cap, Parton obviously wanted to be recognized for her writing skills and derives a tremendous amount of joy and catharsis from it. But Mars in Cancer in the 11th made aware to her that as a musician, she was a public (11th) commodity. So she modeled herself in this vain. She told Oprah Winfrey that she had undergone so many surgeries in order to maintain her famous image. Her Mercury ruling Virgo is doing the most. Scrapping together all the she could to methodically plan and conceive of an image that would boost her success.

"It takes a lot of money to look this cheap". Here we see the Saturn principle of restriction (the restriction of wealth is "cheap", the restriction of class and prestige is "cheap") leaking into her humor.

She went out of her way to construct an overtly sexual persona in order to transition from country singer to mainstream pop success. That is due to Mars, the principle of cutting and surgery. "If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging, I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked." Cancer is a feminine sign, having to do with the Mother and nurturing. Mothers nurture through their breasts, and Cancer rules the mammary glands. Her breast enhancements are an obvious manifestation of this martial energy. Mars OOB in Cancer also has a inordinate amount of energy placed towards Cancer things--so this can be the ultimate culprit of her consciously sculpted feminine physique. Enhancing traditionally feminine features like the breasts and lips, whilst nipping and sucking at the waist to achieve a Cancerian hourglass shape. Conj. Saturn, it has aided in her monetary success. And square that Jupiter in glamorous Libra, Mars has provided fuel to this overtly feminine persona.

(Her OOB Mars in Cancer has also, again, made her a fierce helper and protector of her community. She even created her own literal community--Dollywood! Theme parks are a Mars-Jupiter arena! Thrill rides, amusement! And the play on Hollywood is apropos for Jupiter in Libra.)

While there are many things in her two dimensional chart that pinpoint Parton's specific brand of humanity, I hope this look into the three dimensional aspect of declinations can provide a more robust explanation. To note, Dolly has been in a 50 + year marriage, and refused to pose nude for Playboy. Clearly, the Virgo ASC and Capricorn sensibilities we all know are firmly in tact here.

Thanks for reading xx