Aspect Grid Analysis (Part IV)

"Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. 
Realise that everything connects to everything else."  

Concluding the theme of the three previous monthly articles, we'll look at the following aspect grid, and see what we can glean from the grid without using any other astrological information. It is hard to imagine any real-life scenario where we would have only the aspect grid to do a full analysis. The purpose of this exercise is, rather, to highlight and appreciate the wealth of information contained in the aspect grid.

Last month, we looked at the Unaspected Planets. This month, we'll conclude our analysis and the identity of the person will be revealed.

As we finalize our grid-only analysis, we'll take a look at the remaining aspects that we have yet to address.

Moon Semisquare Venus - Emotional fulfillment needs create tension with social, aesthetic, or relationship needs.

Mars Semisquare Ascendant - Efficient use of energy creates tension with identity definition and personal projection.

Pluto Sesquiquadrate Ascendant - power needs; sweeping dramatic change; empowerment, a new perspective, and transformation create tension with identity definition and personal projection.

Mercury Quintile Node - Efficient thoughts and communication suggests creativity related to relationship with the public.

Neptune Quintile Ascendant - Sensitivity, inspiration, creative visualization, fantasy, or escape suggests creativity related to identity definition and personal projection

Neptune Quindecile Node - Sensitivity, inspiration, creative visualization, fantasy, or escape is almost compulsively connected to the relationship with the public

As the closest aspect in the grid, Saturn forms a Quindecile with Mercury, suggesting a compulsion for thoughts, ideas, and communications to be well-delineated and firmly based or concretely expressed. A secondary health-related interpretation may represent a tendency toward depression.

As we consolidate the suggestions from the previous three months along with those listed above, we could summarize by saying that this individual:

- needs to relate to others on an emotional, communicative, yet unorthodox level

- may feel pressures on a personal level with the expression of identity and uniqueness to the public

- while at times feeling out of the mainstream, it is this very uniqueness (eccentricity?) that suggests the potential  to create public appeal

- uses imagination, fantasy, or creative visualization that can be energetically and effectively communicated

- exhibits a somewhat contradictory focus on both seeking stability and a tendency to break the rules

So, without further delay...This is the aspect grid for John Belushi, described in this excerpt from the  AstroDatabank biography as:

American actor and comedian who had a fast-paced, six-year career as the talented comedy star of "Saturday Night Live" and such films as "Animal House".  A study in contradictions, he was a slob, an artist, comedically wild but privately sedate, a writer and an actor, a man prone to swing from hostility to hospitality in a matter of seconds.  In all, he was a superb entertainer whose potential was barely tapped in his too-short career, a compulsive over-achiever who lived with passionate indulgence.

As we read this biography, we see how the astrological suggestions -- that we arrived at by the aspect grid only without benefit of houses, signs, etc. -- serves to help us understand the inborn talents, motivations, and challenges represented in this individual.