This aspect is often found in the charts of souls who have experienced sexual abuse or trauma early in life. The violation(s) may have been physical or just purely emotional, but in either case you carry a deep emotional wound that may be repressed as well. You have a highly charged sexual/emotional nature that needs to be consciously directed and channeled toward meaningful goals. Since you were branded by an uncaring, impersonal, or brutal relationship/experience, you tend to be too heavy-handed and forceful where a lighter touch would be more appropriate. A bad temper and brusque manner are also a signature of your past trauma. A commitment to self-exploration through a somatic or emotionally centered therapy—or to align your personal will and desires with a higher will or more universal purpose—may be necessary to achieve integration and peace of mind. Without some commitment like this you can wander from one experience or the fulfillment of one desire to the next, dissipating your energy and losing your sense of self.

You probably resent or want to change external restrictions, or even limitations in yourself or your personal reality. You may wish to control or manipulate others, or to be controlled and manipulated by others, or experience obsessive or hypnotic sexual attractions. The source of this energy may be a very difficult and painful childhood experience, such as rape, incest, violence, or some form of sexual molestation. If so, its purpose may be to externalize and objectify aspects of your own desire nature that need to be looked at and dealt with. In general, you have the capacity for total self-transformation or self-destruction, and may alternate between these poles.

Consider also the quadruplicity (cardinal, fixed or mutable signs) that this opposition is in. Mutable oppositions (between Gemini and Sagittarius, or Virgo and Pisces) need an adjustment in thinking or attitude and are telling you that you need to change your mind about something. Cardinal oppositions (between Aries and Libra, or Cancer and Capricorn) can be handled by appropriate action, or by changing or ceasing the way you go after or start things. Fixed oppositions (between Taurus and Scorpio, or Leo and Aquarius) are the hardest to deal with because they symbolize your will, which is far harder to surrender or to change than thought or action.

My first teacher Isabel Hickey thought that squares or oppositions in mutable signs are just beginning to manifest in this lifetime and are therefore the easiest to handle. Squares or oppositions in cardinal signs, on the other hand, are carried over from our last lifetime. If handled appropriately through constructive action they won't manifest in the next life in fixed signs. And squares or oppositions in fixed signs symbolize "lessons we have failed to learn over many lifetimes, and are deeply ingrained patterns of behavior." And because they symbolize our will and have become habituated ways of being or responding, they need a great deal of attention and self-discipline to change.