My sun is in Sagittarius and I am a Gemini rising. My Moon, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are in the Eighth House.

I have Scorpio traits beneath my sunny Gemini exterior. Inside, I have a dank and dusty inner world.

Taboo topics of power, sex, and death are not taboo to me at all and I very often dwell on them. I have an affinity for the dark. I’ve always liked snakes and spiders and other creatures people normally hate. Snakes were always my favorite animals.

Most importantly, however, I also go through cycles where I go “under”. My moods darken while I slowly subconsciously transform before emerging out again. This process has happened at least twice already, and I will soon go into a third one.

I also have the Sagittarius traits of always trying to seek a greater understanding of the world and myself. I travel through my own spiral staircase like in the picture. My journey is one of creativity, the creating of Systems, and I obsessively pursue this quest. The worlds that I create are all I live for.

I also felt like an “alien”. I felt that our culture has its cliches and archetypes and I never felt I fit into any of them.

I also realize the many paradoxes that characterize me. For instance, I was physically pampered by my privileged upbringing yet I was emotionally neglected so I had to become self-made on an emotional level. My creativity has caused me to become enterprising, ambitious, and optimistic, yet that is a response to feelings of sadness and pessimism that came over me ever since I left childhood.

I know I’ve said a lot in this post, but you helped me understand myself more. These articles are the deepest interpretations of the signs I’ve read so far. Usually, astrologers simply cater into trite and shallow cliches and never go beyond that.

(However, in the Scorpio article, I disagreed with your notions against scientists, as I’ve put in another post.)

I think we all feel a bit ‘odd’, each in our own way. We’re humans, after all!