Astrology is the study of planetary and asteroid positions at any certain time around the Earth's orbit and its twelve designated sections (the zodiac signs). The study involves the analysis of their location, their interaction with other placements, and the patterns and relationship between current events and the signs' or planets' assigned symbolism and meaning.
You may know the twelve signs, do you know the twelve main placements you'll find in your natal chart?
A fire sign, a cardinal sign, ruled by Mars! β
An earth sign, a fixed sign, ruled by Venus! β
An air sign, a mutable sign, ruled by Mercury! βΏ
A water sign, a cardinal sign, ruled by the Moon! βΎ
A fire sign, a fixed sign, ruled by the Sun! β
An earth sign, a mutable sign, ruled by Mercury! βΏ
An air sign, a cardinal sign, ruled by Venus! β
A water sign, a fixed sign, ruled by Mars! β
A fire sign, a mutable sign, ruled by Jupiter! β
An earth sign, a cardinal sign, ruled by Saturn! β
An air sign, a fixed sign, ruled by Saturn! β
A water sign, a mutable sign, ruled by Jupiter! β
The source of life and of similar importance in astrology. Referred to as a planet for simplicity. Represents your inner and conscious self, your identity, vitality, energy, and the main masculine figures in your life (such as a father figure or a husband). When asked for their sign, the sign people reply with is their Sun sign. After all, every thing in this solar system revolves around the Sun!
The bright, shining object of everchanging position in the night sky. Referred to as a planet for simplicity. Represents your inner, though subconscious self, your emotions, your instincts, basic urges, memory, intuition, childhood, and the main feminine figures in your life (such as your mother or your wife). When it's just you and the world, She is who you see, and who watches over you through the darkness.
The ascendant or the rising sign is a point of the sky in the eastern horizon, through which the sun was "rising" (could also be setting) at the moment of one's birth. The ASC point marks the beginning of the houses divitions, a determination of your life areas in your natal chart, and your rising sign is the sign of your 1st House. Represents the physical body and appearance, how a person ''comes off''.
The fastest moving planet, the closest orbiting to the Sun. Mercury is the hottest, the quickest, the smallest, and one of the personal planets in astrology. Represents intellect, logic, how one communicates, learning, reading, writing, dexterity, transport, and sibling figures in one's life.
What do you love? What do you hate? What do they have in common? Our neighboring planet, the next personal placement. Venus, like the Roman goddess, is a representative of love, beauty, pleasure, and elegance. Things like affection, attraction, likes, dislikes, actual beauty, material things, affluence, agapΓ©, and abundance (such as flora and fauna) are channeled through our venus sign.
Red adrenaline, fiery passion! Excitation! The Red Planet and another representative of a Roman god, known as Ares by the Greeks. Mars is small and red and represents desire, power, drive, sexuality, anger, courage, basic urges, and ambition in one's chart.
Have you ever wondered how some people are just plain lucky? These people are being favored by a lot of Jupiter in their chart. Jupiter represents good fortune and growth (as it is the largest planet in the Solar System), and these get linked to education, university, professors, morality, ethics. This generational planet (represents a portion of the generation) is the planet of abundance, generosity, philosophy, and spirituality, the higher self, and even one's concept of God (yes, even science can be seen as a god through astrology).
On the other side, have you ever wondered how some people are just plain unlucky? People who's lives seem to be ruled by hardship are people who have strong Saturn in their chart. It is not a ''bad'' planet to be influenced by in astrology, you shouldn't be afraid of Saturn, because without hardship, your brain would take a lot longer to learn and adapt itself so you bring yourself to where you are today. Generational and rules discipline, time, authority, limitations, restrictions, productivity, delay, obligations.
Rebellious, an uprising, and unique. Uranus is a generational planet that embraces modernity as well as excentricity. How does your generation stand out? Uranus rules technology, inventions (and inventors), science, humanitarianism, sudden changes, originality, and even natural disasters.
You know that wonder surrounding unicorns? Fairies? The lights and colors from a psychotropic trip? That is Neptune, my friend. The generational planet of fairy tales, fantasy, and the mystical in the physical world and the imagination. Rules illusions, dreams, inspiration, addiction (and drugs), fantasy, mystery, psychic sprituality, and unconditional love and idealism.
The not-planet planet. Distant, hidden, in the shadows, a small aspect of the human condition yet named after the Roman god of the Underworld. The important fact that we have a deep and dark quality to our lives is reflected through Pluto. Transformation, rebirth, trauma, tragedy, miracles, life, death, birth, sex, the taboo, and the way an entire generation maneuvers through these.
The famed centaur medic who was known for his wisdom and mastery of many skills, the wounded healer, the guide of many gods, demigods, and men who've marked mythical history. Also an asteroid located between Saturn and Uranus, on the line between the personal and the generational/societal. It reveals where one was wounded and where one heals. Trauma, pain, remedies, and sometimes cures are hinted at in Chiron, and it is the ''planet'' that focuses your self-development into one placement.
Coded by Alana CastellΓ³n ( Λ Β³Λ) β₯