Tom Petty

Planet      Longitude      Rx   Declination Sun 26 Libra 44   10S19 Moon 27 Aquarius 56   14S26 Mercury 18 Libra 35   6S03 Venus 20 Libra 34   6S57 Mars 17 Sagittarius 44   24S02 Jupiter 27 Aquarius 36 Rx 11N14 Saturn 26 Virgo 51   2N43 Uranus 9 Cancer 31 Rx 22S56 Neptune 17 Libra 35   5S40 Pluto 19 Leo 33   22N42 Chiron 18 Sagittarius 26   17S47 Node 26 Pisces 37     Ascendant 6 Capricorn 29     Midheaven 22 Libra 58

House System koch House      Longitude      1 6 Capricorn 29 2 6 Aquarius 00 3 12 Pisces 32 4 22 Aries 58 5 17 Taurus 09 6 11 Gemini 09 7 6 Cancer 29 8 6 Leo 00 9 12 Virgo 32 10 22 Libra 58 11 17 Scorpio 09 12 11 Sagittarius 09

Chapter 1. Your Most Important Cosmic Factors

Fewer than two planets in Earth signs

ABOUT GETTING GROUNDED

Because of a certain restlessness and discontent, you're not the most practical person in the world. You may even be a bit spacey. In fact, sometimes you may wonder if you are of this world. Try using a to do list to your advantage. Train yourself to do important things with the force of habit. You may be disinterested in the mundane. As long as stability alludes you, so will a complete and happy life.

TIP: Get the things of the earth into your home.

Add some live plants to your environment. Fill your home with tile, pottery, wicker, ceramics, rocks and crystals. Spend more time in the present moment. Constantly remind yourself to "be here now". Eat more solid foods such as stews, soups, cooked grains and casseroles. Get more into your body. Treat yourself to regular professional massage. Find a sport or exercise regime that you can enjoy. Walk around in your bare feet in the cool dewy grass. Work to acquire a sense of steady rhythm and endurance.

Four or more planets in Air signs

YOUR MIND IS YOUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET

Your mind is your most valuable asset; you could be an intellectual. The world of ideas is important to you. Intellectual companionship, seminars, books, magazines, films, and educational cassettes interest you. Feeding your mind is just as important as feeding your body. School can be the place for you.

TIP: In the words of Robert Anton Wilson, "You need to learn more about everything, including how to learn more."

People fascinate you and you tend to regard them in a detached manner. Consequently you enjoy teamwork and social interactions more than most folk. Sentimentality does not figure highly in most of your relationships.

You can excel in any field that requires negotiation skills. Sales and writing may be avenues of pursuit. You have an affinity for abstract reasoning, codes of law and ethics - you're very good at perceiving, comparing and communicating. You are much more objective than most people, and probably more liberal in your thinking.

Your weakness is not foolishness so much as it is indecisiveness. Too much thinking can result in lost opportunities. There is a time to get out of your head and make a decision. If you find that you can't sleep because your mind is racing, get up and work with your ideas. Get ideas down on paper, onto index cards, into a word processing machine or up and out into the airwaves.

Consider getting a brain machine and taking "smart drugs." Learn speed reading and typing. To avoid overstimulation, cut back on the use of artificial sweeteners and sugar. To the same end, you might take a mineral supplement and kelp tablets.

Five or more planets in Cardinal signs

YOU DO YOUR OWN THING

You like to start things and take the initiative. You have to act, but do not like to be told what to do. You are restless, energetic, driving, outgoing, opportunistic and ambitious. You're full of primal energy and do not cope well with direct and constant supervision. You're suited for self-employment, or the kind of work where you are in charge. Probably, you're more busy than bored.

TIP: Learn to delegate in order to become a better leader.

You've a strong outward orientation to career, love, home and family. Deal directly with surroundings and others.

Concentration of planets in Libra

STRONG DIPLOMATIC STYLE

If someone works with you they better do their job or else watch out. You are an instigator, which is a paradox because you're tactful, romantic, diplomatic, cultured, gracious, fickle, social, talkative and responsive. You have bonding skills, are obliging and you can equivocate and manipulate. You need beauty and partnership.

Sun Contraparallel Jupiter

EXTRA GOOD LUCK

You're known as someone who is very fortunate, honorable and professional. This indicates the potential for super-success. Be ambitious. You've natural leadership and negotiating skills. Make a written plan for your life. Memorize the plan by heart and make it real.

Mercury Parallel Venus

CONCEPTS UNITE WITH AFFINITY

Good ideas can spring from any conflict you experience between your thinking and your values. You have a somewhat different approach to love. Educate yourself to the power of charm.

TIP: Upgrade vanity and conceit to beauty and art.

Become more aware of love by analyzing your values. Make an extra effort to communicate with wit, charm and affection. Your most beautiful thoughts need a pleasurable outlet. Tom Petty, you need to appreciate what is good for you and what soothes your nerves.

You have some tender, lovely thoughts and a clearly defined sense of beauty. You can do very well at creative, expressive and designing activities. You have some great female friends and a can develop a penchant for saying the right thing at the right time.

Mercury Parallel Neptune

CONCEPTS UNITE WITH FANTASY

Your imagination can work overtime. You can paint pictures with words. You can think on your feet. You can become a super salesperson. Some of your most creative work is done unwittingly, as if you are attuned to a faraway source. You could be an actor, a dreamer, a mystic, a faith healer, a psychic and probably are some combination thereof.

There is something artistic about your voice. Develop your musical and dramatic talents. Learn to deliver your lines with something extra.

Instead of letting your imagination play tricks on you, work to communicate meaningful and significant information. Since you can unconsciously attune yourself to other people's thoughts and motivations, you need to stay centered, balanced and grounded. You are naturally psychic and prophetic. Organization is a key to your success.

TIP: Evaluate plausibility and credibility.

Learn a middle path between fantasy and reality. Be creative without being an escapist. Your imaginative powers are second to none, and you could create for a living. With an extra creative effort, you could turn your richest fantasies into reality.

Prayer will play a pivotal role in your life.

Uranus Contraparallel Pluto

IMPROVED ENFORCED EMBRACED

You command attention and control. You can move public opinion and policy. You have some very pronounced interests and great willpower. You are very good at whatever you pursue one hundred percent. You can be known for making radical reforms and revolutionary changes.

Mars beyond the Tropic of Capricorn

SUPER ATHLETIC POWER UNIQUE MOTIVATIONS AND TALENT

You have more energy than is humanly possible and you have enough energy to power your team to the top. You have the makings to become a professional athlete, musician, writer, fine artist or performing artist.

You could find that your energy runs in cycles with major highs and lows. Sometimes you only motivate yourself through sheer willpower. Other times you have so much energy that you may not feel the need to sleep. Then you can become a dare-devil and a courageous fighter with a furious anger.

TIP: Find an exercise program that you are comfortable with and do the physical thing early in your day. This will take some getting used to. However, in time, you will speed up your metabolism and increase your energy levels.

It may be relatively easy for you to spark up a relationship and more challenging to sustain one.

Uranus beyond the Tropic of Capricorn

SPECIAL GENIUS KINKY CHARACTER

You are a "Uranian Character." You can be a: scientist, eccentric, radical, iconoclast, soothsayer, wizard or mother of invention. Whether or not you are comfortable with the concept, you are in fact something of a genius. Maybe you're more accepting of yourself as a character, rebel, or someone who marches to the beat of a different drummer. You could be in the public eye a long time.

TIP: Utilize electronic gizmos and gadgets more to your advantage. Become friends with computers, flying machines and positive forces from above.

Something about you is futuristic or interested in ancient civilizations. You may not be much concerned with fashion and what's "in" by today's standards. You can create the standards of tomorrow. Sometimes it may seem as if your life is on hold with nothing happening. Then, in an instant, your whole world is transformed.

Jupiter Retrograde

FORCE OF ENCOURAGEMENT IS TURNED WITHIN (APPARENT BACKWARD MOTION)

It hasn't been easy for you to find your place in the community. You're more philosophical and meditative than most people. Somewhat socially reclusive, you often prefer your own company. Paradoxically, you have a great need to belong to a group. This is one of your most basic choices: Will you sustain the effort to create a place for yourself in the community, or will you become progressively more unhappy, isolated and alienated?

TIP: If you're not happy with social conditions, retreat, reconsider and find a creative way to rebel.

Search out groups of people who share your belief systems and with whom you are psychologically attuned. This may take some time to find the proper fit. The people that you are looking for are out of the ordinary, uncommon and atypical. Consider starting a local chapter of a national or global organization.

Uranus Retrograde

LIBERATING FORCE IS TURNED WITHIN (APPARENT BACKWARD MOTION)

When you are feeling especially anxious and socially alienated, it may be a sign that you are rebelling against yourself. Allow yourself the freedom to be unique and, possibly, unconventional. Unusual friends are pluses too. You can be a genius.