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Thomas. Missing earth also gives a tendency towards abstraction. The charts of great modern astrologers, Marc
Edmund Jones, Dane Rudhyar and Robert Hand are waterless.
When the absent function appears on the Ascendant or the Midheaven, the persona, personal or public tends to
overcompensate; it is all faade. Often it is a case of false advertising: what you see is not what you get when you
take the package home and unwrap it! Marilyn Monroe, with her Taurus Midheaven, is a good example. The public
image she projected was the sex goddess. Inside she was air and water, all ideas, thoughts and emotions, with no
way of grounding herself. In my own practice, I have noticed people with a missing function represented by the
Ascendant sign to be very frustrated and uneasy. They may identify totally with the Ascendant personality and feel
hollow inside, or feel that they have to put out a lot of energy to keep up the false front and, therefore, can never
completely express who they really are.
When dealing with a chart that has missing functions, it is important to look at the progressed planets and the
outer planet transits. For example, a person with no air may have a progressed Sun in an air sign, at the same
time outer planets may be transiting another air sign. That would be a time for the person to really use his or her
hidden talents and experiment with communication, writing, speaking, relationships and group involvements.
It is important also to look at the persons relationships, especially family relationships that we do not consciously
choose. For example, a woman with no fire was born into a family with a double Sagittarius (Sun and Moon)
father, a double Leo (Sun and Moon) sister and a mother with an Aries Moon as part of a grand fire trine! She had
to learn very early to overcompensate along dramatic, creative lines just to survive in that volatile household. Bill
Clinton, with no water, has a water sign daughter (Pisces) and wife (Scorpio Sun and Pisces Moon). That is a
case, perhaps, of let Jane do it, of projecting his own unexpressed emotional qualities on female family members.
We see again, as we did with Singleton planets, that missing functions correlate with uniqueness, talent, color and
drama in the personalities and lives of the charts owners.
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About the author:
Eleanor Buckwalter has studied, practiced and taught astrology in Los Altos, CA for more than twenty-five years,
including three years with the late Richard Idemon, a psychological astrologer. Her primary astrological focus of
interest is parent-child relationships and family dynamics.