
After all, we never know when Vertumnus might enter our garden in the guise of someone else, offering an unexpected turn of fate! All students are encouraged to watch the vertex in their own charts, determining for themselves the relative value. The house and sign position can offer clues as to where the change or turning point may take place and in what way. It may be stimulated by transits, progressions or directions, other people (synastry/composite) or a change of location. The Leo/Aquarius axis might highlight self-expression as opposed to group participation where the Virgo/Pisces might compare structured boundaries and limitless longing.Ĭonclusions: The vertex is a point in the horoscope that can indicate a sense of destiny working through another person or outstanding event. Gemini/Sagittarius could contrast knowledge and vision, where Cancer/Capricorn could emphasize protection verses enterprise. Aries/Libra could indicate issues between personal will and sharing, where Taurus/Scorpio may be about security verses risk. The vertex/anti-vertex by sign can signify the way we may experience activation to this axis. In the eighth/second house axis, destiny may arrive in the form of an erotic encounter or intense research (eighth house) perpetrated by a desire for pleasure, security or peace (second house).


In the seventh/first house axis, sudden epiphanies could radically effect socially significant partnerships (seventh house) through an experience of projecting ourselves out into the world (first house). In the sixth/twelfth house axis, the turning point, or spin out, could effect our day by day living, or our link between psyche and soma (sixth house) through contact with those in the helping professions, those less fortunate or through dreams and creative fantasies (twelfth house). In the fifth/eleventh house axis, there could be a propensity to experience fateful romantic or creative encounters (fifth house) through contacts with friends or groups (eleventh house).

As noted earlier, the vertex falls usually between the fifth and the eight house, on the western side of the chart, with the anti-vertex 180 degrees opposition. What about the sign and house position of the vertex? The house positions of the vertex/anti-vertex can offer clues as to where we may experience turning points, meetings with destiny or fateful encounters in life.
