Transits
farther. We have pushed it as far as it will go and it is
time to let it go, taking what we can from it and rising on.
As we turn away from a purely personal focus we
discover the world of other people and of cooperation.
We take a less personal and a more objective view of
life.
This is considered, by many, to be the favored sector,
because it is here that we become objective enough to
actually make clear and impartial choices—choices not
based solely on our selfish interests. Here we begin to
reap our rewards, for better or for worse. The outer and
external world appears and our personal existence (the
lower six houses) is somehow left behind, or, at least
takes a back seat to a more public or cooperative life—
we ‘partner’.
It is from this point forward that we draw whatever
conclusions we can from this entire cycle of existence,
for we are moving out and upward socially, ever more
able to see what is useful compared to what is non-
essential. This is the house of responsibility, and it is
here that we can fully respond, perhaps for the first time,
to whatever we have been and done. We take
responsibility in that we can get our arms around and
somehow step outside of our personality. This is the
opposite point from the ascendant—which is considered,
by astrologers, to be the most personal point in the
chart—since this is so, then this point, here, is the most
impersonal or public one in the chart, where everything
is seen and shared, where we ‘reflect’.