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Do You Bloom Wherever You’re Planted? Astrology’s Three Modalities

Astrology In Real Life…

bloom flowers I was talking to a pal last night; she’s a Pisces with a Capricorn Moon.

“If you can’t bloom where you’re planted…” she said. And she went on to give her opinion on this. And I thought about it.

I consider myself inordinately adaptable to whatever the conditions and this allows me to have a pretty good quality of life. But what if you don’t have this skill? What if happiness is elusive? What if it is contingent upon some special circumstance or on the chance that the stars line up just so?

“I will bloom if and only if, blah, blah, blah happens…”

I think a lot of people are like this. Maybe half? A quarter? Three quarters? I’m wondering, so I’m asking.

And are you predominately a Fixed sign (Leo, Aquarius, Taurus, Scorpio)? Mutable (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces)? Or Cardinal (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn)?

Thank you.

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| Posted at 5:56 am

33 Responses to “Do You Bloom Wherever You’re Planted? Astrology’s Three Modalities”

Dani says on 10/29/06 at 6:17 am:

Sometimes it is good to bloom a little less where you are planted like my Capricorn friend who remembers his roots in upstate New York. I’m mutable and I know I am surprised how little I notice the difference going home or going far away. It’s not always good to be adaptable, if it means not being mindful or whatever of where you are. Maybe I would have difficulty adapting to jail, but it seems I can forget everybody I know at home if I simply go somewhere, it’s like I’ve been there all that time and I notice the difference almost only when I drive past it before I get there after I’ve been away. It’s like when you jump in the pool and after a while, you forget that you are swimming.
jamie says on 10/29/06 at 6:59 am:

“Maybe I would have difficulty adapting to jail, ”

Being a Sagittarius I definitely would not bloom there.
I agree, with Dani. It does not matter where I go I always find something to like about the place. If I end up in BFE with no civiliztion within 40 miles I create an environment that enables me to expand in other ways. I do not need familiar faces, objects or land markers to feed my roots. I bloom just about anywhere….but jail!
Lupa says on 10/29/06 at 7:01 am:

I am predominantly mutable (lots of Gemini with a sprinkling of Virgo and Pisces) but I have fixed moon and ascendant (Scorpio). I adapt to whatever my environment happens to be and I am stubborn enough to make it all work.

p.s. I love these polls.
sag fella :) says on 10/29/06 at 7:20 am:

Mutable with 5 planets in Sagittarius.
I don’t think I could bloom elsewhere than where I live right now.
With moon in the 4th house (home, family) plus Cancer rising I need familiar surroundings and faces.
I’ve traveled a lot for business and leisure and often feel homesick after 2 days.
So the answer is no.
Ruth says on 10/29/06 at 8:32 am:

I said I don’t know. Well, I seem to succeed where I am planted, but that doesn’t mean I’m happy.

For example, where I am now, I’m doing a decent job, I like the people, the place, well enough, it’s an acceptable step for my career.

but I’m not blooming. I’m not particularly happy. nor am I terribly unhappy. but I don’t think I’m growing. I’m living where outdoor exercise pretty much equals bronchitis, and you know that’s hard on a virgo. I’m primarily mutable, -I can’t bloom in a job where I don’t need a brain- I suffer. I really suffered as a waitress last summer.

I’m at my best when I know when I’m leaving. I like change, I need beauty.

I probably should have said no. I do wilt really easily in some contexts.
October27 says on 10/29/06 at 9:16 am:

Scorpio, Leo rising, Aquarius moon. In spite of this, or maybe because of it, I am fairly adaptable. I believe I could even adapt to jail. I could not, however, adapt to an abusive situation, I think it would drive me to murder.
Amber says on 10/29/06 at 9:20 am:

Yes.Mutable: a lot of virgo
SaDiablo says on 10/29/06 at 9:27 am:

I bloom anywhere, with some reservations.
Within an hour I can absorb the accent of a new place and I have an almost “photographic” memory for routes/directions in places I’ve visited only once, so almost anywhere can seem familiar to me. But, it takes me longer to find rich soil for my roots and start drawing true nutrients. And, although I adapt quickly, I’ll start to fade in a few months if I haven’t found what I need. So, off to another garden for me!
I suppose that means I carry my blooms around with me.

I’m almost evenly split: 5 planets (counting Chiron) in Fixed, 4 planets + ASC in Cardinal, and 3 planets + MC in Mutable. Leo sun with Cancer rising.
SaDiablo says on 10/29/06 at 9:30 am:

OOPS!
I meant to say TWO planets + MC and True Node in Mutable. *blush*

Man, you know it’s going to be a bad day when you read _your own_ chart wrong.
Carielle says on 10/29/06 at 9:44 am:

I said yes, I bloom where I’m planted…but with the caveat that sometimes it takes a bit for the bloom to show (have to dig those roots in first!) I’ve done quite a lot of moving in the course of 30+ years, and have had enough experience to know that, for me, failure to thrive where I’m at is not an option.

I’m not sure what my whole chart says, but I can tell you that I’m a Capricorn Sun / Capricorn Moon with (I think?) Aquarius rising.
Goddess says on 10/29/06 at 10:36 am:

sidiable-it’s merc retro.

i said yes to the question. my chart is highly mutable.
tinkerer says on 10/29/06 at 10:49 am:

Bloom where planted–lots of mutable (including a Pisces Moon, which rules my chart & Sun). But my Cardinal Sun (Cancer) discovered that some gardens are more fertile for my type of blossom, and realized it was perfectly capable of replanting me in the garden of my choice instead of just getting blown by the wind. And that is what it did, and I’m perfectly happy with my current place, where I have been quite a long time now and don’t really plan to leave. Yet. Because the mutable still holds out that variety could be nice, and might like to mosey off to new ground someday…
Shannon says on 10/29/06 at 11:01 am:

I am equally split between the three, but sun, moon, and ascendant are all in mutable signs (gem and sadge) *chuckle* I’m a bloom-where-you’re-planted kind of girl. I call it making lemonade, and I’m damn good at it.
Jontelle says on 10/29/06 at 12:04 pm:

Aries Sun, Sagde Moon, Scorpio Rising… a whole lot of cardinal and mutable signs in my chart, and a whole lot of fire. Maybe it’s less that I bloom where I am planted than it is I consume where I’m planted.
HCSQ says on 10/29/06 at 12:31 pm:

I like that, Jontelle!

I’m an Aries sun, Moon in Pisces, Rising Sag, and I am also half n’ half cardinal and mutable in my planet placements. I can relate to your description. Although I am also equal parts water and fire, so I guess that’s more like a steam engine. It reminds me of that U2 lyric:

“So she woke up from where she was lying still. Saying ‘I’ve gotta do something about where we’re going’. Step on a steam train. Step out of the driving rain, maybe. Run from the darkness in the night.”

Anyway, on another level, I think anyone can adapt to anything. It’s human nature. Some are more ‘natural’ at it than others, perhaps.

XO…
H
PixieDust says on 10/29/06 at 12:54 pm:

Oooo, not at all!!! I am totally affected, positively or negatively, by my environment. I just wilt in certain environments. Scorpio Sun, Virgo Ascendent, Pisces Moon.
circle.dot.clouds says on 10/29/06 at 2:32 pm:

Oohh, this is a hard one. It’s yes and no.
When I move some place, I feel super vulnerable and terribly awkward. And I basically have to rebuild myself (Scorpio Sun+Pluto, Mercury+Saturn) my sense of humor, etc etc, and my idea of home all from stratch. But, I know I will usually adapt, just after a lot of pain and gruesome loneliness and stuff, hehe. Oddly enough, I *make myself go to new places. I think that’s the only way I actually grow. Venus in Sagittarius. And some planets in the 9th house.
circle.dot.clouds says on 10/29/06 at 2:34 pm:

Sorry, 9th house in Capricorn. … Chiron in Gemini? I think that’s about it. (Gotta say it’s mostly a Scorpionic influence going on.)
Heather says on 10/29/06 at 8:42 pm:

I bloom where I’m planted, but I have to have a few things with me that are my “home”. Photos, art on the wall and a favorite afghan…that would be the Cancer rising, but other than that I have a lot of mutable so maybe that’s why.
Ken Albin says on 10/29/06 at 8:48 pm:

Sometimes I act like a blooming idiot. Does that count?
Dani says on 10/29/06 at 8:59 pm:

You know what, guys, I’ve figured it out at least for me. Blooming probably means thriving as in making the best of situations. I know a Sadge who literally flows from environment to environment, from group of people to group of people, though I don’t know how it was when he was in jail :-). Me, however, although I can and need to divulge my shit and feelings (aka “talk”) to anybody and everybody, what happens is that I am discontented in one place, move to another and am discontented the same way like nothing happened! I’m always excited here at home or in school and dream of somewhere else, but as it was in 8th grade I remember getting to Paris and on the first day saying I was depressed, going to London and crying in my room! And then back, pining for Europe! Like college kids say goodbye to their parents and, when their parents leave, they feel the empty nest and miss their children while the (Russian Jewish) college students are heartily pissed at the old world mentality of the parents that live an hour and a half away asking them if they miss them or home when they call five times a day…okay. That’s not an example, that’s me. I meant that when I go home, I get used to it quickly, when I’m in my room in school, I’m pining for something else and in my own little extremely loud thoughts that have pretty much no room for the habituated home, my devoted mother. So yeah, you can also be adaptably pessimistic and discontented.
Dani says on 10/29/06 at 9:05 pm:

Or more precisely, the type of adaptable where you very conveniently can forget your family ties and responsibilities, i.e. if you live some place in a small group for two years and when you move to some foreign country for some months, you forget the connections you’ve made and are completely absorbed in the new group of people around you. Seriously, “adaptability” is very convenient for people who want to…uhh..write other people off because they want new scenery. To make new friends and not deal with the commitment of keeping the old.
june says on 10/30/06 at 12:22 am:

no.
3 cardinal(+asc), 3 fixed, 4 mutable.
Krista says on 10/30/06 at 7:15 am:

I said no to this question.

I am Leo Sun, Moon and Venus.

Gemini Asc and Cancer Mercury and Mars (both in 4th house).

I bloomed somewhere when I moved through choice. Sadly I left there (for many reasons) 6 years later.

I am NOT blooming where I am. And where I am happens to be my home town!

Seems I can bloom in cities or places with a lot of options and plenty going on. Not so much in stagnant empty wildnernesses.

I think I could probably even handle a complete change of culture. Provided this was something fairly modern and cosmopolitan. I need variety and new faces and places to feel like I am really living. Can’t bear the same old same old.
Laura Elizabeth says on 10/30/06 at 8:29 am:

Loads of Virgo and Pisces (8 planets), so I’m very mutable. But do I bloom where-ever I am? No, not really. Having Cancer rising, Jupiter in Taurus and Neptune in Scorpio so I need to set the rules and boundries and if I can’t, I’m not happy. Finding a comfortable spot to bloom, the right size pot, isn’t all that easy. Once I find it, I don’t like to leave it.

So… yes and no. How very mutable
Marly says on 10/30/06 at 9:00 am:

I’m adaptable but now I know well enough that there’s a difference between surviving and thriving. I tried to live in the suburbs. It was okay, it had its pleasant aspects but I couldn’t bloom there. In adapting to that place, I forgot who I was.
Lennie says on 10/30/06 at 9:41 am:

I come from a huuuge mexican- italian upbringing here in so cal. So huge that at 17 I ran away to Kauai to live with a cousin. I grew roots there and built a business so I consider that a “home” because I was so young and spent almost 25 yrs there. But now here I am back in so cal an I love it so much and I’m still flourishing with my business. I’m surrounded by tons of family members and I truly think that when you have a good support system it is easier to bloom. I thank the heavens daily for my large family and blessings. There are times when I would still like to run away to Kauai and I do visit there still because my kids live there… but I think this is where my real roots are.
A says on 10/30/06 at 9:41 am:

Well, i take some time to do the blooming….to get familiar to things….and make new friends (which i find i invariably do…wherever i go i find a bunch of like-minded ppl)….then i bloom !
But one thing i have found, i never miss any thing/place from the past…rarely get nostalgic. i am too much in the ‘now’ to think of the ‘then’
I am sun in capri, cancer rising, moon-gemini
Lennie says on 10/30/06 at 9:43 am:

I forgot to add that I’m a Virgo and Taurus rising.
Marly says on 10/30/06 at 9:56 am:

I’m a Leo Sun, Cancer rising, Pisces Moon with a lot of Neptune in my chart.
Daeshii says on 10/30/06 at 11:03 am:

I said ‘yes’. It’s kinda my mantra for most of my life, ‘adapt and overcome’. Part of that, I’m sure comes from being an Army brat, but I’m also a Pisces. But my ascendant is Scorpio, so would that explain why it takes me a year (usually) to get used to the new ‘dirt’ before I bloom again?
Michelle M says on 10/30/06 at 2:38 pm:

I have 5 planets in fixed signs but feel fueled by a 4th house cusp Mars to make a good go of it wherever I’m planted - I immediately “set up house” and move out from there.
Belle says on 11/5/06 at 10:39 am:

Yes, up to a point. My life has been mostly a series of moves, from LA to TX to NV to CA and back to LA. I am now getting ready to move again within the next year (fingers crossed) to the East coast. Every place has a certain purpose for my development, somtimes inner, sometimes outer. I do not know if I will ever settle anywhere, and I do not mind it.

Pisces sun, Scorpio moon, Virgo rising, Sag 4th house (with Mars in Cap there).