About Zane B Stein Expertise I WILL BE HAPPY TO answer questions about astrology in general, the meanings of planets, signs, houses, aspects, asteroids, Chiron, etc. I use Western, Tropical Astrology. Please do not ask me questions about Vedic Astrology as I am not an expert on this.
I WILL NOT ANSWER PERSONAL QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR INDIVIDUAL CHART, such as "Will I get rich?" or "Will I get married?", or "Are we compatible?" I do have a private astrological practice, and if you need to ask those type of questions, contact me privately and we`ll discuss a possible astrologer/client relationship. Also, I cannot answer questions about Vedic Astrology, or Chinese Astrology.
Also, astrology is NOT "What is my lucky stone?" or "What is my lucky color?" or "What are my lucky numbers?" Any astrologer who gives you a lucky object, or number, based on your chart, is not a real astrologer, but someone who is giving in to superstition. In order to find out how to enhance your luck, you need to have an astrologer look at your whole chart, and tell you what areas you need to focus upon, how to accent your positives, and work to resolve any problems that exist.
Experience I've been involved with astrology since 1969, taught classes on several occasions, written a number of articles and one book, and lectured around the USA, in Canada, Great Britain, Scotland and Ireland.
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Question is there any major significance to a yod?does it have to be all planets? if one has sun inconjunct neptune and sun sextile midheaven is that a yod?
Answer A Yod (also called a Finger of God, and the Finger of Fate) is an aspect pattern that must involve at least 3 planets, or two planets and an angle like the MC or Ascendant. It does not need to involve all of the planets.
How do you tell you have a Yod?
First, you will have two or more planets, or planets and an angle, that are sextile (60 degrees apart). Then, BOTH sides of the sextile will be quincunx (150 degrees, also known as an inconjunct) to at least one other planet or angle.
The planet or angle that is quincunx the two sides of the sextile is called the APEX and is the most significant planet in the Yod.
Thus, in the situation you describe, you have a Yod if both the Sun and your Midheaven are quincunx Neptune. If only one is quincunx Neptune, and the other is not (perhaps because it is out of orb), then it is not a Yod.
If you have a Yod, then Neptune is your Apex planet.
There is a LOT of potential energy in a Yod. It is the "I can't rest" type. And this is because the 'motor' for this energy is made up of two opposite quincunx's.
A quincunx is an aspect where two planets just do not synch with each other. The signs are so different that the respective planets just can't understand where each other is coming from.
As a result, each is trying on some level to transform the other, and is never satisfied that the transformation is complete. If you were quincunx another person, you would probably feel that you were two ships passing in the night....not enough in common to interact with the person. But because the quincunx is internal, the planets have to interact...they just can't comprehend each other's energy.
And then, in a Yod, the apex planet is being pushed one way by one side of the sextile, another way by the other side of the sextile...and the apex planet is pushing back in both directions. The two planets that are sextile work together well....which means the apex planet pushes them both into action.
This 'motor', as I called it, motivates you to try to discover
your reason for being, your special purpose in life, and then to attain it...and so it gives you a motivation to push to accomplish your goals. It can at times reach 'compulsive' status. (Some astrologers believe that there is a type of 'karmic debt' repayment connected with the Yod...that the urgency, the need to achieve
your purpose, ties into something unfinished from a past life.)
