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I'm curious if anyone can help me understand the yod pattern by articulating what it means to you in your natal chart and/or synastry. Do you feel it's very significant? Does the pattern signify something "fated" you experienced in life?

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Indeed, and I haven't figured it out quite yet. Very tight yod at the very end of three signs: Sun 29 Tau (3H), Mars 29 Pis (1H), both pointing at Ura 29 Lib (8H). I do believe that I'm being called upon to believe in myself and fight for my values as concerns 8th House matters, in a way that reflects both Uranus and Libra.

I've done plenty of things over the years to pay the bills, but when I come back to what I think I should be doing with my life it always comes back here.

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I have a Yod, but I have never understood what it means.  Mercury 13 Aries 10th house; Moon 15 Virgo, Mars 15 Virgo, Pluto 14 Virgo, 3rd house; Neptune 19 Scorpio, 5th house.

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A Yod is a fork in the road where you're presented with a choice of different paths to follow.  The planets in a Yod fall within Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable signs.

For example, when part of the Yod is activated by a transit, you might go in three different directions at once and not be sure which one is right for you.  What if you were dating three men when your Yod is activated.  You want to get married though, so you will need to choose one of them.  Its a dilemma of sorts.  You might choose the wrong one and things don't work out well or you could choose wisely and live happily ever after. 

It is fated in a way.  What if your karma has always been choosing the wrong man over and over again.  A Yod gives you the chance to change that.

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Oh hell, JoFrance, you've just described my life. Lol. Thank you so much for this information, makes a lot of sense. I think I'm repeating something from a former life. Last year, when I was into past life regression, I thought I figured this all out, but later on, chalked it all up to delusion or fantasy. I still don't know what to believe.

Surf, 29 degrees is an anaretic degree... I have 2 planets at 29 degrees, myself: Neptune 29* Sag and Pluto 29* Libra; It means something like - a last chance to get something right - an urgency. They say when you have more than one planet at the same degree, it's a "fated aspect".

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PIseas314, it could very well be a past life pattern.  Yod's are interesting to study and I think its important to not only consider the natal planets involved, but also aspects to those planets and the houses they're in.

I have a Yod with NN conjunct Chiron in the 4th house in Cap, inconjunct Pluto in Leo in the 11th house and inconjunct Jupiter in Gemini in the 9th house.  Jupiter and Pluto are sextile.  All the aspects are within 3 degrees.

It is fated for me because of the NN involvement and Chiron.  That is the odd leg of my Yod.  I kind of see that as the obstacle I had to face in life.  My parents were a real burden on my life.   My father was an alcoholic and my mother was devastated by it and had a nervous breakdown.  I was the healer, as much as a child could be.  Forced to become an adult as a child.  They're both gone, but it left a permanent scar on me.  I buried it as much as I could in life, but faced it at different times during my life and finally came to accept it.

The sextile in my Yod between my Pluto and Jupiter has always offered me options to climb out of that childhood nightmare and it saved me.  Good, close friends (Pluto 11th house) and good philosophy in life (Jupiter 9th house).  It never solved the problem though with the odd leg of the Yod for me.  I accepted my life, but the original wound never healed and I'll take it to my grave, I think.

This was my experience with having a Yod.  I think of it now as me being someone that has great potential, but . . .

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