My daughters recently came home with the DVD. Hedwig and the angry inch, a poignant transsexual punk rock musical, directed by and starring the brilliant John Cameron Mitchell. It started out as an off-Broadway hit, but I hadn’t heard of it. I immediately thought that Yitzhak, Hedwig’s second wife and backup singer, was so horny, it reminded me of some men who lured me into one.
So when my son turned on the DVD player this morning and the movie’s special features started to play, I was stuck and then had to laugh when I found out that the actor who played Yitzhak was a woman. They cheated on me (I had all sorts of rational reasons why her voice was that of a woman!).
There are many terms that are being launched these days, which I see as an attempt to go beyond the strict duality and polarization of the masculine and the feminine. After all, we are eternal souls temporarily assigned to a body and I suspect that the many variations on a theme have always been with us, along with the ever-present strict labeling, definition, and conditioning of sex and gender roles.
Most people don’t think about this too much because for them things are clear and simple. And then, for some, not so much. Both gender and sexual orientation are on a continuum even if most of us fall within the average bell curve. And you can be attracted to a certain guy, but not sexually. However, as with the latest pansexual concept, romantic attraction can occur with anyone, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. The diversity of rankings is growing!
Everything is very complex, and looking at the astrology of this is equally complex since, obviously, the dynamics of the entire table must first be taken into account. However, through the work of Jeffrey Wolf Green and others, I have seen the following concepts to be true:
The recent gender change can be indicated by Pluto or the lunar nodes on the 4/10 house axis. This correlates with some emotional disorientation if (from a past life perspective) the change is very recent. Barbara Hand Clow also mentions the Mars / Venus conjunction.
For general gay / bisexual themes, the Scorpio / Taurus axis is always involved in some way, particularly if it involves Pluto, Mars, Venus, or Chiron. But there is also almost always a strong Gemini, Leo, or Aquarius signature, such as Venus in Gemini in the 8th house, or Mars in Aquarius square Pluto. With the conjunction Mars / Venus, I have noticed a frequent correlation with the balsamic phase but not with the new phase.
Pisces is often a correlated signature, which could provide the ability to be quite open and boundless when faced with more unique and different orientations. I see Mars, or some other strong Pisces signature frequently when studying specifically same-sex orientation charts.
And then there is the interesting Virgo connection that appears with transsexual or transgender cases, which would give the ability to hone and improve what is in place.
If I were to let myself go completely through the barriers of conditioning, I would probably call myself pansexual, since at one point or another I was intensely attracted to someone in almost every category out there. That doesn’t mean that I have or will act on these desires, it just opens my mind to how fluid this whole area of our humanity is.
There is also a difference between sexual attraction and infatuation. Not everyone may be interested in that, but it’s something my Venus in Taurus (3rd house) vs. Saturn in Scorpio (retro 9th) knows all too well. A lesson for a Venus Taurus is to go beyond the physical … but from a physical point of view a certain guy drives me crazy … physical androgyny (someone who has both male and female characteristics – I put Johnny Depp or David Bowie in that category as an example) and implies a lot of ambiguity and diversity. The Gemini theme in my letter includes Venus in Taurus in the third house, a Sun of Gemini, Mercury and South Node, which in some house systems falls in the fourth, others in the fifth (Leo) which also has my trine. Cancer Mars with Neptune (Pisces) in the eighth house, not forgetting Scorpio Saturn. My rising sign is Aquarius.
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