I haven’t pinpointed what I see yet, but now I’m gonna be lookin!

Well.. I don’t know what it is I pick up.. but.. I pick up whatever is UNDER the mask it appears, all the hidden, vulnerable, wonderful, and fascinating parts of a person. Unfortunately, some people just don’t want to be “seen” like this.

(Now I’m thinking of “I see London, I see France..”)

I’m not sure what I see actually, since I don’t try to guess people’s signs. When I started running people’s charts for fun, I’d have a thrill finding their actual ascendant confirmed my impression of them. A friend of mine and my cousin both have Leo rising, which I got from her vivaciousness and fabulous mane of hair and my cousin’s habit of knowing everything in a superior fashion and lecturing everyone (he loved his university lecture class). I wonder what comes across online — Mercury?

@Nota… I think that’s a pretty good Theory ya got going there
My Sister & I often argue if we’re guessing… now I’ll have to try & suss what it is SHE picks up on…. hmmmm
So Cool!

I work with a girl who is into astrology too. When I told her it was my birthday early October, she said: “I though you were a Scorpio !!” I do have some Scorpio, but I think she has been seeing my Sun/Pluto conjunction there.

For me, it really does depend of the person. For instance, take my two Sadge colleagues. Another couldn’t be mistaken for anything but a Sadge. He doesn’t have any other planets in the sign, so I was certain he’d have Sadge Rising even before knowing his exact birth time. And sure enough, it turned out that he was born at dawn, so yes, he has Sadge Rising.

The other one gave me the most intensive Scorpio glaze I’ve ever witnessed (and I come from a family where especially men tend to have strong Scorpio) when we first met. So, I always knew there was some Scorp in the mix. In his case, I don’t know the Rising Sign, but he has a Scorp Moon. When he opened his mouth, and proved to be a quirky geek, I got Aquarius. He does have some, but most importantly, Mercury conjunct Uranus in Sadge. Sadge is somewhere there, but not that apparent.

I get Sun sign usually and Ascendant. Both. For example, with Johnny Weir, I knew he was a Cancer because he has Cancer eyes. Like WHOA. And I knew he has a Scorpio ascendant (which he is) because of how he plays with sex, gender, sexuality in his routines/life, and because how people either love him or hate him on sight, basically, or how people swing with regards to their opinion of him. I also knew that he had a Moon in Virgo because of his actual lack of sex life — (would make him too particular in what makes him feel safe to be random with his sex life). True facts.

But, here’s the thing, while I love that you used Johnny because I ADORE HIM, he’s got his Moon in Virgo, actually. Being Johnny, he revealed his birthtime as 4.02 pm in Coatesville, PA, on July 2, 1984. Which makes him:

Sun – Cancer
Ascendant – Scorpio
Moon – Virgo
Mercury – Cancer
Venus – Cancer
Mars – Scorpio
Jupiter – Capricorn
Saturn – Scorpio
Uranus – Sag
Neptune – Sag

I have just spent the last…well, however long since I posted my comment scrolling through Johnny Weir’s Twitter posts trying to find this! LOL!

http://twitter.com/#!/JohnnyGWeir/status/2431567187

I see Moon and Mercury.

I see Pluto.
and I can always tell when people have Mars in Cancer. That sticks out to me…big time!

Sea,

Who eats standing up? Is it ARIES?! I know a couple and they eat standing or on the go…

The only thing I can usually pick up on is if someone has a strong Pisces or Leo flavour in their chart.

I actually think I see the Moon too. I’ve guessed, and got it wrong – what I thought was their Sun sign has turned out to be the Moon. I notice it more, it seems a prominent energy. I feel that the Moon sign is more important to me in synastry too.

I might not be able to even guess at the Sun or the Asc but I usually get a feel of the Moon, at least the element, if not the exact sign. I’ve been known to guess Venus too. But I’m strangely oblivious of the Sun usually.

Rkkggg,

Thanks for posting that. I’m going to go take a look at Johnny’s chart again. I absolutely adore him as well. I’m caught in his Pluto tractor beam.

The first time I saw him I thought “What a Showman!”

I pick up where they are vulnerable and compensating for it.Don’t know what that is though.

Rkkggg and Xenia,

LOL! I shouldn’t have written that – it’s part of a longer story. I had a lot of other clues, too, but the thing that tipped the scales was the fact that she ate every meal standing up. I said she must be an Aquarian, and that turned out to be right. It wasn’t an astrological conversation (those are the best, when people are just describing others and talking)…

It’s just interesting to think that what I can get from a person’s natural descriptions of another varies so much from my direct perceptions when I meet a person, astrologically speaking. I’m not as good at discerning sun signs in person. For that, I’m always going with the ascendant or mars… haven’t thought about the Midheaven, though. Now I’m going to try to follow up on that possibility.

*smiles*, Xenia!

I see the moons signs when i’m guessing sun signs, so I guess I’m a moon sign person as well. I thought I was just horrible at guessing sun signs in the beginning, then I started checking the rest of the planets…hot damn its the moon!

Lately if I try really hard I can figure out most of a chart, I love it its so complex! But it can be really draining.

I’ve noticed with my Pisces moon I’ll absorb and identify the moon signs of others first, while my friend with the Pisces rising is adept at pinpointing their risings right off the bat. I assume this is due to the sensitive nature of Pisces.

I see Venus, almost every time. It’s my ruling planet, and, well, I can tell what people like. Strangely enough, I am almost never right about Mars placements.