The history of others does not belong to us. During their journey, these incarnated souls dock, run aground, escape, sail, break up, form flotillas, and float alone or gregariously on oceans whose memory will be recorded or fade into interstellar or other flesh when the time comes to die.

The exercise of recounting the lives of others is limited to that, to an interpretation, a dream, a fable. With this in mind, I'm analyzing a family through an astrological prism. I wanted to see if I could detect affinities, a wave, a theme modulated by genetics. The astrological metaphor is complex, inexplicable and unscientific. The future is both described and muted in a star chart. Since we're simmering in a cosmic soup, it's logical to think that the ingredients that shape us alter our personality. It's equally logical to believe that randomness does the rest. Help yourself, and heaven will help you. Know your voyage, and you'll know where to sail, but only you will decide the journey.

The mother

I only know an approximation of his birth time, and after a few rectifications (made a long time ago and whose logic I can't remember), I give her this natal chart.

Summer woman, almost a Cancer, her planets are more oriented towards direct experience with others. For her, the understanding of life must be embodied in the earth and society. The ascendant Libra, her mask, and how she presents herself to the world indicate the lover, the artist, the defender of balance, and, therefore, appearances. His Aries Moon, conjoined to the descendant, gives her a constantly renewed, transient emotionality. Aries Moon suggests a proud person who wants to live with a strong being. Aries is her husband’s sign. Sun, in sector IX with Mercury and Mars, gives her boundless aspirations. Always move forward, always marvel, learn, travel, surpass yourself.

The axis of the map is cardinal, based on traditional, active foundations. However, the planets are generally in this theme in cadent positions. This means that she cannot achieve her dreams on her own. It will need people and alliances. It also has a tendency to merge with people. For her, love is a visceral, magnetic force. In conjunction with Pluto, Venus provides her with a magnetism that she will always seek to express (Venus is the ruler of the Ascendant).

The main themes are Gemini (vivacity), Libra (appearance, beauty, art), Aries (perpetual restarts), and Scorpio (fusion and magnetism).

Declinations

OOB and OOB

The father

The father is initially more secretive or dreamy than the mother. His Sagittarius ascendant gives him a gypsy, adventurous and probably philosophical side.

The father is, at first, more secretive or dreamy than the mother. The Sagittarius ascendant gives him a gypsy, adventurous, probably philosophical side, too. Sun in Aries, in sector IV, is not, at first sight, the place where we would like the sun to be for an Aries (who starts so many things and does not necessarily finish everything), because this sector is the one of action in sustainability. However, this gives him a deep desire to start a family and to find meaning in the house.

His descendant in Gemini will lead him to prefer people who like to socialize. His wife is Gemini. Through the spouse, this builder and sensitive "crab" finds the social fabric to feed his family with diverse experiences. The father is also a recluse. His very mature feelings from an early age are still nourished by an emotional (Moon in Libra) and inspiring (sextile with Uranus) madness. Perhaps unstable in his nature, he still has the tools to find more "stable" people. He knows how to surround himself. And he likes to philosophize. His thinking of Pisces contradicts his great ego, Aries. It doesn’t matter because the orientation of his sky chart is cardinal, of action. The opposite of his wife.

If the mother has Mars high in the sky, the father has it below the horizon. Here, we can guess the great dynamic of the couple. Two builders meet. One is in society, the other is in the family.

Moon conjoined to Jupiter and opposite to Uranus/Mars gives an exaggeration of feelings. This emotional liveliness is stabilized by natural fidelity and maturity.

The main themes are Aries (darken, conquer), Sagittarius (go beyond), Capricorn (maturity) and Cancer (family kingdom). Finally, Pisces (philosophy and detachment).

Declinations

The composite chart

We can create a card that amalgamates the influences of each couple member. Overall, it is a harmonious, consensual, fusional chart. The couple is well encamped in sector VII, marriage, receiving energizing aspects from all zones. The Taurus nature is fascinating, for if there's a sign of certainty, it's Taurus. This couple is both built on materiality, the tangible, but also likely to fight for their ideas. Emotions are powerful; one is undoubtedly the transformer of the other, and through a lot of dialogue, they come to understand and agree with each other. The Moon in Capricorn is important here. First of all, because three of the girls will have this same Moon. Mercury conjunct Uranus: independence of spirit, divergent intellectual tastes, the fusion of the Sun, Venus and Mars. A primal, sensual couple, perhaps sometimes angry. At the opposite end of the spectrum, the Scorpio ascendant recalls the mother's Venus/Pluto conjunction. This couple is visceral and magnetic.

The first daughter

If the child is the synthesis of a couple, this first daughter would be a good example. First, her Taurus ascendant represents the couple's theme.

The Moon in Capricorn also recalls this same Moon in the composite theme. And "earth" is the main element of this Pisces in Aries spirit. Like her mother, the daughter learns from experience with the outside world. She's not a philosopher but rather a concrete being. If she's independent, it's not through untimely self-assertion but through steadfastness and determination. Her relationships, in general, will be tinged with differences and instability. This woman is a quiet builder, liking to surround herself with friends, shy sunshine perhaps, hating quarrels, which, nevertheless, will be her lot.

Mars has the same angular presence as her parents. It will also be present in other children. This family is built on self-assertion.

Major themes: Capricorn (maturity), Taurus (sensuality and materiality), Uranus (love affairs and independence).

Declinations

The son

As the reader may have guessed, this superficial description is of my family. I know our shared history but not the details of its members. This family is built on independence. I'm having fun painting a portrait that could turn out to be completely false.

So I know this son's card very well. He's a surprise child, born eleven months after the first. He has a different natal chart, without denying his roots with his father and mother. Venus in Aries is conjunct with the father's bottom of the sky, and Mars in Gemini is conjunct with the father's descendant. At the same time, Venus in Aries is also conjunct with the mother's Moon. This strong Venus also recalls the mother's ascendant in Libra. The mother's fusional intensity of love is unmistakably reflected in the son's Sun/Pluto opposition.

Moreover, this son has always been attracted to people with powerful Scorpio tendencies; his known lovers all have this "energy." Let's not forget that the father's energy is also Scorpio (in sector VII, square to his Moon). The son has the father's temperament but the likely energy of his mother.

Unlike his mother and first daughter, the son has a map spread out. His experiences are varied in every field. This doesn't make him a better person - in fact, he's pretty scattered - but it is a reminder of how different individuals can be. Each theme has its own particularities, and it's not a family that dictates them. However, the planetary distribution is reminiscent of the father.

Mars in Gemini (the mother), Saturn in his sign, Capricorn, Jupiter in his sign, Sagittarius (the father's ascendant). We must remember Uranus in the ascendant. Like Saturn and Pluto, this planet plays a significant role in the family: Independence, Originality, and Fusion.

Major themes: Pisces (philosophy, inspiration), Scorpio (combative intensity), Capricorn (coldness), Aquarius (originality) and Sagittarius (adventure).

Declinations

OOB

The second daughter

The planetary distribution of the second daughter is the most different in the family.

The stellium Sun, Mercury, Uranus, Moon and Pluto make this a complex personality focused on the need for love. Suppose the correction of the mother's chart is correct. In that case, this second daughter's chart is exactly the same orientation as her mother's, i.e. an ascendant at 8º Libra. Venus is at the top, like her mother and brother. And what about this Moon conjunct Pluto? Aren't we still seeing the Pluto energy of mother and father?

A personality with stellium may always seem difficult to understand because nature has made it so that it can seem all of a piece. Leonine spirit, independence, emotional intensity, and Venus and Neptune are in harmony with this stellar formation. And Saturn in Capricorn in the background. This family always gravitates towards the same energies. The second daughter shares the same desire for concrete experience as the mother and first daughter.

Major themes: Leo (solitary Sun), Virgo (nuanced, critical analysis), Cancer (family)

Declinations

The third daughter

The children follow one another and the energy, though modulated, follows the same paths.

Moon in Capricorn, Pluto high in the sky (also Scorpio at the ascendant. Pluto here represents the army to which she belonged for a long time), Saturn in the background (Capricorn energy), Mars in Gemini (like the brother). Uranus is in mid-heaven. Always these great themes of intensity and independence, but, as with three daughters, with emotional caution (not with the son). The second daughter also has the Moon in an Earth sign, like her sisters). This Moon in Capricorn has a tinge of rigour. This usually denotes a mother of high principles. Remember that the couple's composite chart has a Moon in Capricorn. Circumstances undoubtedly meant that parents tended to discipline their children's emotions. This desire for discipline stemmed from the same rigour they received from their parents. This is not harmful in itself, far from it. Let's say that the daughters of this family have forged an emotional character from the couple's roots, making them demanding of themselves, sometimes appearing a little cold, always in control of their emotions. They are structuring father-wives.

Major themes: Scorpio (transformation and intensity), Aquarius (originality, companionship, independence), Capricorn (structure).

Declinations

OOB
OOB

The fourth daughter

This one is not to be outdone by the family heritage. Like the second daughter, she has the same orientation (same ancestry) as her mother.

And the Moon in Capricorn, always. Uranus is at the ascendant, and Saturn and Mars are in Taurus in Pluto's sector. At the same time, the Moon, though in Capricorn, is pushed aside by Uranus. She's in Aries and shares this energy with her father, without being like him, since her way of asserting herself is more conventional and stable. The father transmitted to her, along with the others, that she must always be herself. In fact, the father achieved this in a roundabout way. At the same time, the children responded naturally to this aspiration by being born around the Uranian energy represented by the Uranus/Mercury conjunction in the couple's chart. Being independent-minded has always been the parents' motto. The children have responded differently, but the roots seem the same.

Major themes: Aries (leadership), Aquarius (originality and independence), Capricorn (structuring emotion), Scorpio

Declinations

OOB

Conclusion

Such an exercise in comparing natal charts can go in all directions and will only have real meaning if we see an allegory, a way of looking at things, a family myth like every family likes to surround itself with.

The lesson I draw from this is that you're not born isolated, and every family has its own fable and way of being present in the world.

I've deliberately remained vague in my analysis because people's psychology is their personal garden. Visualizing our parents' "energies" and seeing them reproduced in our children tells me that we have a specific mission on this Earth, that our destiny, even if it's our own, has palettes inherited from our ancestors, and that it's essential to continue the fresco we've passed on.

I'm happy to have come from such a strong couple. I don't want to idealize them any more than necessary, but I will say that heaven has blessed them. Their strong personalities were able to build the next generation with the great paradox of having to transmit a desire for freedom and individualism.

My father told me when I was still in CEGEP that he realized his children were his antidote. In fact, they were more a response to what he and his beloved are.