This planet symbolizes the principle of independence and self-sufficiency, as well as a principle of transformation. Its most striking characteristic is distance from others: the Uranian strives to stand out from the herd, distanced from structuring influences like convention, tradition, etc. Although this need to free yourself from the confines of convention, tradition, and family symbolizes an appeal for freedom and a desire to evolve beyond the bounds of physical limits toward a spiritual dimension, it may also correspond to a form of escape.

Your intense fear of being swallowed up psychologically causes you to react to certain emotional demands by making yourself remote or running away. You need a lot of space and frequent change. In a relationship, you are seeking a certain degree of intellectual excitement. Without it, you feel as though an unbearable, suffocating boredom sets in. By refusing certain concessions to convention which are practically inevitable, you may find yourself in unpleasant situations. Finding an intelligent alternative to the routine set by the rigid forms of the past is extremely different from rebelling against any form of authority, in the settings of family, school, business, or society.

One of the major problems you have to solve is how to wield your freedom, in your emotional relationships, as well as your relationships with society. This can be difficult, as you tend to be very demanding in both areas. You often feel as though you need to be in control at all times, and this can make it difficult for others to trust or confide in you. You also have a high level of independence and self-reliance, which can come at the expense of feeling alone and unprotected. You need someone who is willing to stand up for you, even when you don’t want to be defended.

The sun is the center of the solar system and the gravitational center of the earth’s orbit. It is the primordial light, the source of all warmth and life. The sun symbolizes the absolute power kings and despots yearn for and emulate. It is the sun king, the nucleus of society, embodied a principle of cohesion and harmony. Various subordinates—aka planets—revolve around it. In terms of psychological symbolism, the sun corresponds to the center of an individual, the factor that rules your psyche. Its luminous aspects are usually associated with knowledge and consciousness. As a creator of life, it is related to the image of the mother and the influence of motherhood on an individual’s consciousness and ideals. As a result, the sun’s position in a birth chart always indicates the way in which an individual will relate to your goals and ideals, what your ambitions and aspirations might involve. A person whose chart is strongly “solar” usually identifies very positively with motherhood. Your personality is friendly, energetic, and creative, with high ideals and a firm determination to accomplish them. You take your own superiority and authority over others for granted, and you have a natural ability to command the attention and admiration of an audience. You are a born leader who enjoys being in the limelight and may behave somewhat theatrically or with dramatic exaggeration. You have definite artistic leanings. The sense of your ideals is evident to you and may lead you to be somewhat self-focused. If ill-directed, your deep aspirations may lead to such faults as egotism, selfishness, or greediness for power.

Bobby Mares is under the influence of Venus, the planet of love. Under its influence, Bobby Mares is struggling with his love instincts, and this is why he cannot conceive of living without a personal emotional relationship to someone else. He is extremely attractive to others, and his artistic skills are obvious to the people around him. His life is characterized by pleasure, outings, seduction, and love, but it can also be superficial and fleeting.

Bobby Mares has identified the eleventh house as an area of the sky which is especially important in your theme, because it contains several planets, including the one which rules your rising sign.

This sector of the astral chart is related to the world of social activity. It thus governs friendships, group projects, publicity, politics in a humanitarian cause, customers, hope, help, and assistance. More specifically, this sector symbolizes the power and gratification society grants to an individual in exchange for their career activities. For each person, this power is a function of their capacity to work and produce something valuable to the community to which they belong (the country, corporation, etc.). This power may either be used for selfish ends or be re-invested for the elaboration of more cooperative social projects. From a psychological viewpoint, people with a prominent eleventh house in their birth chart may have to concentrate on being fair and objective in relation to social successes and/or failures. Success could entail efficient use of the power and prestige they have already obtained for more significant projects which are in better harmony with their inner truth. Failure, on the other hand, requires a detailed analysis of its causes. Any mistakes that may have been made are an opportunity for insight. The work of understanding and assuming one’s failures is a positive, constructive way out of a situation of failure.

Bobby Mares reads the paragraph above and understands that the ninth house is an area of the sky which is especially important in his theme.

According to traditional astrology, the ninth house rules a much broader framework, which includes law as well as philosophy, psychology, science, religion, mysticism, occult studies, etc. Bobby Mares’ life and consciousness gravitate around two fundamental principles: the self (the Ascendant) and others (the Descendant). In life, everything begins in him and proceeds outward, but it is reflected, experienced, and renewed by his relations with others. Indeed, once he grows beyond the subjective field of his ego and becomes an adult, he must be able to adapt and modify his abilities in such a way as to fulfill a specific function in the outer world. The reference framework he uses to judge his worth is not only his personal life, but the huge complex of values, principles, and laws which regulate life in a community. The ninth house rules this much broader framework, which includes law as well as philosophy, psychology, science, religion, mysticism, occult studies, etc. An individual with a great deal of activity in this area of their astrological chart will probably feel a strong desire for personal expansion. An idealist, he will seek out experiences which reveal knowledge and meaning to him and give him a better indication of his purpose in living. The difficulties he is likely to face will be hidden behind what appears to be success. They may arise from his expansiveness, which is sometimes uncontrollable, or disproportionate. Although at the outset, his ambition and desire for personal development are a source of strength, they later become powerful enough to cut him off from himself. If he identifies too strongly with the flattering self-image reflected by the community, he may gradually begin to neglect his personal essence. Because this perverse tendency to confuse form with function is reinforced by modern society’s emphasis on packaging and advertising, he is liable to lose himself completely. A state of expansion could be expressed as a psychic inflation (a loss of oneself in an abstract ideal, or a delusion of grandeur) or as a partial loss of oneself due to over identification with his personal mask (or persona). This house thus reveals that nothing is more difficult than failure in a period of success. Ambition, which may be a compensatory personal over evaluation, sometimes transforms understanding, a principle of cohesion and love, into personal power.

The second house is an important part of Bobby Mares’ theme.