Helene Cixous

Helene Cixious is a French Feminist writer. I picked up her book on how to write: The Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing. The Book is set into 3 Chapters or Sections and the amazing thing is how the ideas behind each Section perfectly describe the 3 Water Signs or Houses. These are the signs that deal with sensitivity to environment and the "non-conscious" mind. Here they are:

The School of the Dead
The School of Dreams
The School of Roots

Helene Cixious
b. June 5, 1937 Orans, Algeria

Sun 15 Gemini; Moon in either Aries or Taurus; NN 16 Sagittarius

Sun in Gemini c. SN in Gemini with North Node in Sagittarius. School and Writing is Cixious' Natural Habitat.

The School of the Dead: Mars Retrograde in Scorpio trine Pluto in Cancer; opposite Mercury in Taurus; sextile Jupiter in Capricorn; inconjunct Chiron in Gemini.

From the book: "We annihilate the world with a book." "Reading is eating the forbidden fruit, making forbidden love, changing eras, changing families, changing destinies, and changing day for night. Reading is doing everything exactly as we want and "on the sly." Literally there's discussion about Pluto in a story.

The School of Dreams: Neptune in Virgo square Sun and Nodes.

"Dreams await us in a country we can't get tickets to." "A dream's charm is that you are transported into another world; no, you are not transported, you are already in the other world." A story about shoes; ample talk about mystery, especially lost mysteries. And about Fear: "...it is the fear, the delight in fear, we enjoy, a delight we cannot enjoy in reality since we fear for our skin...it's at this moment...that "we see the light...the joy."

The School of Roots: Pluto in Cancer squaring Venus in Taurus, maybe Moon; and trining Saturn in Aries.

That which is excluded and exiled. "Birth Certificates." "Borders." "Nature." "Proper Names." "Since we are shaped by years and years of all kinds of experiences and education, we must travel through all sorts of places that are not necessarily pleasant to get there: our own marshes, our own mud. And yet it pays to do so. The trouble is we are not taught that it pays, that it is beneficial...We don't know that we can fight against ourselves, against the accumulation of mental, emotional, and biographical cliches."

Adding the Asteroids really shows the Feminist side of Cixious' chart: Saturn is in a Mystic Rectangle with Pallas, Vesta and Juno. Jupiter-Pallas is opposite Pluto-Vesta squaring Venus and maybe Moon on one side. On the other side it is sextiling/trining Mars-Lilith in Scorpio.