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Learning to Interpret Birth Charts

By Molly Hall, About.com

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The Squares in a Birth Chart

The "negative" aspects found in the birth chart can point to areas of great challenge or difficulty. These are called squares and oppositions because of their relationship on the birth chart wheel. A square is three houses apart, and an opposition is directly opposite on the wheel.

Harry's chart has an opposition between Pluto and the MC, which is indicated by the darker black line running top to bottom on the wheel. His striving for his destiny as a leader and "warrior" with the MC in Aries can be at odds with Pluto's lessons about balance.

And here I've highlighted a square between Harry's Jupiter and Uranus. With Jupiter in expansive Leo in the 1st coming up against the unexpected with Uranus in the house of home (the 4th), this shines light on how early upsets and cruelties undermined Harry's natural confidence.

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