Table of Contents
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: Family Inheritance 1
Ghosts of our Ancestors 3
Family Inheritance Reflected in the Individual's chart 4
The 4th house 4
Transits and Progressions to the Fourth House 6
Being Good Enough: Values in Family Dynamics 8
The 2nd house 8
Money, loss, and love 10
Mother and father, the family of origin 12
Success, Sacrifice and Redemption 13
The 10th house 13
Honoring the ancestors 15
Communication and exchange 15
Light and shadow in the family 16
Envy and rivalry 17
Servants, orphans and invalids 17
Houses above the horizon 19
Relationship models 19
The family Weltanshauung 21
The social Interface: The 11th house 22
From the Individual to the Family System 22
Part 1 Planetary Threads 25
The Never-Ending Story 27
The notion of family 29
Family myths 35
The Family of Planets 37
The Moon 37
Mars 38
Venus 38
The Sun 39
Mercury 40
Jupiter 40
Saturn 40
The outer planets 41
The Genogram 45
Repeating family patterns: the Fondas 51
Planetary Genograms 59
A Mercury story 60
How to construct a planetary genogram 61
A Case History 64
The thread of suicide 64
The Mars-Jupiter thread 73
The Moon-Mars thread 75
The Neptunian thread 84
The other side of the family 86
The Mars-Chiron thread 87
The Sun-Pluto thread 88
The power of the unknown 93
Pluto and psychotherapy 99
The Venus-Jupiter thread 102
The Moon-Pluto thread 108
The Anniversary Syndrome 110
Genealogy and Identity 113
Genealogy and identity 113
Transforming the models 115
The Saturn-Venus thread 116
The Moon-Saturn thread 120
Great expectations 121
Family values 125
Family curses and family ghosts 130
Freud's skeletons in the cupboard 132
Inheriting a Notion of Self 134
Inheriting a notion of Self 134
The Saturn-Sun thread 135
Pluto in the 4th house 144
The artist and the military man 149
Chiron's threads 156
The Venus-Moon thread 158
In pursuit of a mystery 165
Part 2 Siblings & Friends 169
Connecting with Others 171
An exercise 173
The 3rd House 174
Twins 174
The Twins in Greek myth 176
The sisters 176
Love or war? 178
The Moon's joy 179
Past and future 182
Saturn in the 3rd house 184
An Example Chart: Lorna 186
La lune noire 187
How Saturn affects communication 189
A handicapped sister 192
Past patterns and the 3rd house 194
Learning a new language 201
Two Brothers 205
Interpreting the Moon in the 3rd house 205
Pluto-Sun aspects 207
Sibling synastry: the James family 211
The older brother 212
Mars in the 3rd house 214
Unable to compete: an unhealthy sibling 218
Uranus in the 3rd house: I'm different! 222
Distributing roles in a family 224
Birth order 225
"Silent for Seven Years" 229
Sisters, sisters 232
Missing air 232
Planetary containment 235
3rd/9th house oppositions 236
Shared planets: problems of identity 239
Venus in the 3rd house 239
8th house/Pluto patterns: closeness as a reaction to loss 243
Pluto in the 3rd house 245
The family underworld 247
Mercury-Pluto: power and knowledge 250
Gertrude Stein and Her Brother Leo 252
Cutting off from a sibling 254
Not of this world: Neptune and Chiron in the 3rd 258
Jupiter in the 3rd house 260
Sun in the 3rd house 261
Beyond the 3rd House: Synastry Between Siblings 262
Vincent and Theo 262
The 11th House 268
Freedom and choice 269
The 11th/4th house quincunx 270
Strangers: the 8th house 271
The 11th house: Uranus or Saturn? 272
Pluto in the 11th house 274
The 11th house and the future 275
Sun in the 11th house 276
The ruler of the 11th house in the 8th house 277
Neptune in the 11th house 278
The Bonus Daimon 280
Daimon and destiny 281
Friends as daimons 284
Endings and beginnings 286
Once in three hundred years 290
The 11th house and projection 294
The rules of friendship 295
Terms of Engagement 296
Equality and admiration 296
Closeness versus freedom 300
Saturn-Neptune in the 11th house 309
Jupiter in the 11th house 309
Moon-Venus in the 11th house 310
Mars in the 11th house 311
Seeding the Collective 314
A cell in the larger body of humanity 316
Bibliography 319
About the Author 323
