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.

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.

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.

Yes.Mutable: a lot of virgo

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.

sidiable-it’s merc retro.

i said yes to the question. my chart is highly mutable.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

no.
3 cardinal(+asc), 3 fixed, 4 mutable.

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

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.

I forgot to add that I’m a Virgo and Taurus rising.

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?

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).

I’m primarily fixed, but my moon is mutable so I feel pretty comfortable adapting. At least I think (says transiting Neptoon).

I voted yes. I have been told every where you go there you are,lol. My Sun and Merc are in Gemini my Moon is in Aquarius.

I voted yes. I am primarily cardinal, so I make sure I do.

I voted no, am mainly Cardinal. There are some places I just couldn’t hack it, and that’s fine, I just don’t go there.

I’m a cardinal sign yes (cappy). My husband is a fixed sign no (taurus). Seems he’s always gonna be happy when “this” occurs, or “that” happens, or we go “there” instead of here. Drives me freakin’ crazy.

I voted “I wish”
Course of action (very active Mars I have) is this:

-I figure out quickly what is required of me to maintain sanity and keep the peace around me.
-Plot, immediately, an escape. I’ll take a practical one if need be (Saturn trine) but in a pinch a psychic escape will do. (Neptune trine)

See? I just bloomed by wishing I could bloom. ha ha

I don’t know. I think I bloom in my own way the best that I can with what I’m given. I’m not given much sometimes and I still manage to do something. But I wouldn’t say that I thrive on poor dirt.

I’d say no and yes. I can’t bloom in my home town. After a few days I get depressed. I thrive living in a city but in a nice neighbourhood where things are a convenient walk away and there are trees and families everywhere so that i can get out and about. I grew up in the country which was where my escapism thrived but once I wanted more stimulation I was depressed a lot. I prefer city living and doing yoga/meditation to calm my nerves, rather than living somewhere without stimulation but where I get bored easily.
5 libra planets including ascendent (i guess i love the right balance lol), gemini moon, neptune in sag, NN in sag, Jupiter in pisces and saturn in cancer.
We’ll see though. I might get a job that will take me to a small city. I plan on getting an apartment in the busy part of town and a car to drive to the beach etc. Hopefully I’ll thrive and the job will be permanent so I can start a family just as soon as I find a new fella.