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Yod Y od in, in , yod out In my last post about yods , I mentioned the yod’s yod’s ef f ect as being hard to quantif y as the energies energies of the planets planets are channelled channelled thro ugh incompatible elemen elementt s and modalities. Pe People ople with yods in t heir charts charts tend to f ind itit challen chal lenging ging to integrate thes e conf lic licting ting energies, energies, if , in the f irst place, they are aware of it. One of the characteristics chara cteristics o f natives with with yods is t hat they may may not identif iden tif y with with any of the placem placement ent of the yod planets planets at all… all … Jo an Kellog Kellog writes in her boo k, T he Yod: Yod: Its Its Esot eric Meaning,, that the yod is a karmic Meaning karmic conf conf igura iguratio tio n, and that in the realm of eso teric astro logy logy,, such conf igu igurations rations may remain hidden to the natives until such a time the so ul is ready to deal with with its energ energies. ies.
I have no opinion on esot eri eric c ast ast rology at present, am just just learn learning ing af af ter all. Bu Butt if you f ind the esot eric argument argum ent to o convenient, convenient, it is also quite poss ibl ible e to s ee itit f rom a dif f erent point of vie view w — rather than see the yod’s karmic nature as causing causing it it to be hidden hidden to the native, it is quite poss ibl ible e to see its elusiveness elusiveness as producing a sense that a karmic event/situation must be dealt with. Either wa y, sel s elff -recogni -recognition, tion, awareness, aware ness, and -f orgivene orgiveness ss are involved. involved. Indee ndeed, d, Robert C. Jansky Jansky’s ’s o bservation is quot ed here here::
One of the more interesting observations that have come out of Quincunx and Yod research is that very often their significance in the chart does not become apparent until the subject is approaching 40 years of age … At about this age the affairs of life that are associated with the house location of the Apex Planet seem to take on an inordinately important focus of attention for the individual.
Temporary yods Yod natives, like like ot hers who have to deal with with ‘dif f icu icult’ lt’ conjunc conjunctio tio ns, squares o r oppo sitio ns in their charts charts , learn,, however im learn imperf ectly ectly,, to liv live e with the st ress es in their chart. For tho se less acc accust ust omed to yod effects, Karen Hamaker-Zondag in The Yod Book argues Book argues that this does not mean they are spared f rom yod energies, energies, due to t he phenome phenomenon non o f the temporary yod . A temporar temporary y yod is made when a s extile aspect or a quincunx quincunx is trans f ormed into into a yod conf igu iguration ration by the presence of a transiting planet. planet. In t hat sense every sextile and quincu nx in a chart chart is a po tential yod. So So considering the Moo n makes makes its way through each each sign roughly every every two and a half days, the chances chances of any anyone one with sext ile iles s o r quincunx quin cunxes es in t hei heirr charts getting a t em emporary porary yod even f or a f ew hours is not unl unlike ikely ly.. Chi Chirot rot ic notes in the comment comm ent st ream to my earlier earlier post that it is po ss ibl ible e to get a yod by secondary progressio n as well. well. Wi With th slo wer moving moving planets, planets, however, however, temporary temporary yods can last last a period period o f years, so their ef f ects may not not seem very temporary at all! Generationally,, Neptune Generationally Neptune and Pluto Pluto have been been in sextile sextile f or mos t o f the t wen wentieth tieth century, century, so mos t o f us would at least least have that sextile in our charts . As Hamaker-Z Hamaker-Z ondag not es: ‘it ‘it won’t be long bef ore half the zo diac has had to cope with a yod over t he years years because of this Pluto- Neptune sextile’ sextile’ (127). Indeed ndeed,, ‘this means means t hat every perso perso n will will go t hrough a yod period several times times in life — with t he progressed Moo n and the transit o f Sa Saturn, turn, at any rate’ (127).
What is the ef f ect of a temporary yod? This is what Hamaker-Z ondag writes:
In practice, a temporary yod often turns out to have the same turbulence and dynamic as a natal yod — you can end up in the most complicated or unpleasant situations. However, if you have no yod in your natal chart, a temporary yod is still different. Since there is no question of a collective Family Shadow and the entire family theme doesn’t come into play in the same way…’ (127)
I.e. the whole ‘karmic’ dimensio n. Yod- less natives experiencing temporary yods are suppo sed, in t his analysis, t o have to address mainly the immediate iss ues at hand, while tho se with natal yo ds are s aid to have to deal with issues t hat go back f urther. Once the temporary yod passes, t he turbulence of ten disappears and the ef f ect may be one of waking up fro m a bad dream (128). Coping mechanisms may also dif f er f or t hos e with natal yods and thos e without .
If there is no yod in the natal chart, it really is harder to deal with the themes of a yod, because the inexplicable feelings, the ambiguity, the feeling of having our back to the wall, and such, are new and so we have not been able to develop tools for these things. People who have a yod imperceptibly learn to live with these energies and dynamics through familiarization and another kind of attitude toward life, so that a new temporary yod may be tricky, but will not be such a great shock or produce so much confusion. (128)
I guess, put dif f erently, f or t hos e with natal yods, experiencing anot her is simply a case of ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you st ronger ’ (!). Not s o very dif f erent f rom tho se with, s ay, Sun-Saturn conjunctions having to deal with Saturn returns, perhaps. And this is over- generalis ing, but it may be worth looking to see o f there are any temporary yods , if yo u (or anyone you know) are f eeling or acting out o f character, especially if there is a lot of unexpected inner turbulence involved… And hey, it need not be all bad you know. See what Jans ky says here:
The temporary Yod [between natal and transiting planets] will often be found in the horoscope of the individual who wins first prize … or in the chart of the gambler who really “hits it big” for the first time in his life. Wherever Destiny or Fate seems to take a hand in the life of the individual, look for the formation of a temporary Yod in the horoscope, or where a natal Yod already exists, look for an important transit to the Apex Planet.
Let it no t be said, however, that winning the lot tery does n’t also bring on its own stresses and turbulences . Update, 28 July 2008: Just came across this very interesting article about the quincunxes this summer . Not sure if a temporary yod works in the same way with two transiting planets and one natal one, but might be interesting to keep an eye out, anyway. Images: Swing seat , and (UK) National Lottery sign. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
