Astrology For Beginners
The Sun (and it’s house) is your identity, ego, and personality, it’s the most important part of your chart. It’s why we say “I’m a Gemini”, and leave it at that. You can, it’s the most important. Some people don’t identify with their Suns and don’t know about the rest of the signs, which could help it make sense. Everything revolves around the Sun, so everything following just modifies your Sun. Can show aspects of the father (along with Saturn & 10th house).
Rising sign (determined by birth time) is the life path you are walking as a Gemini. Every person has every sign influencing some aspect of their chart, lives, and behavior. 1st House (the Rising sign) is second in importance, because it’s how you appear to others, the impression you give, how you look, and equally how you act. A person is like an equal marriage of their Sun + Ascendant. A Gemini with Cancer rising (Moon ruled) is not walking the same path as a Gemini with Sagittarius rising (Jupiter ruled), which is why you find such contrasting differences between the same signs. Nor will they look the same. Genetics matter too. Everything aspecting the 1st house affects it, if you’ve got Leo rising with a lot of Pluto aspects to the 1st, you’ll probably have the deep, intense & hypnotic eyes of Scorpio too…with great hair 😏 and a sunny disposition. The ruling planet of the sign your Rising is in, is your chart ruler, and where that planet is in your chart (sign/house) is as important as your Sun and North Node, it’s what guides you. Mars ruled? Less talk & more action. Venus ruled? You follow your heart.
South Node (and it’s house) is 3rd most important (imo), it’s the sign you have mastered, it’s what’s most comfortable to you, it’s what you are leaving behind in this life. The North Node is where you are headed on your path through the houses, it’s your soul’s destination, what you learn and how you will evolve as a person. You don’t have to know these, you will unconsciously end up here whether you know them or not. When you are feeling down about life, out of control, losing it and at rock bottom, look to your North Node (and it’s house) for direction. You’re probably too comfortable in South Node energy, and it won’t work out, it’s not supposed to, your soul yearns to get back to its path.
The Moon is your emotional responses, it’s what you need to feel comfortable in your life, relationship with the mother (along with 4th house), your mother’s energy or place in her own path at the time of your birth, your inner self, feelings, habits. Negative aspects to the Moon hit us at our core. A Gemini with Leo moon craves the spotlight, friends, overcoming challenges and can be very dramatic with emotion, mother probably gave them a lot of positive attention and helped them succeed. Whereas a Gemini with Virgo moon is squared, anxious, uncomfortable in their emotions & endlessly searching for answers with double Mercury energy. Mother was probably health conscious (or ill), critical, intelligent, and obsessive. Negative aspects to moon can show the sign traits of things they need and didn’t get as a child.
Mercury (and it’s house) is how your brain processes information, how you learn, how you communicate, what stimulates your mind. A Gemini with Gemini Mercury is a lightning fast thinker, an endless student, probably a great rapper 😆 A Gemini with Taurus Mercury learns at a much slower, more practical, more thorough pace. They may have had a speech impediment or had delayed speech as a child (Taurus takes it’s time). They may only focus on subjects that will help them with career, and don’t care about wasting time learning the rest, seeing things from a more practical & black/white perspective.
Venus (and house) is your way of expressing love, what romance and love is to you, the smells, colors, artists, musicians, books, and things that touch you deeply. A Gemini with Gemini Venus values casual friendships and endless interests over deeeep relationships and expresses love with communication and connection. A Gemini with Cancer Venus values children, romantic nights in, movies and fantasies, emotional expression.
Mars (and house) is your energy, sex drive, who/what attracts you, (along with the 5th house, where the 7th shows what you attract to you), what lights your fire, your anger & passion and how it’s expressed. Where you most apply your energy, your focus and where it’s applied. Can show aspects of your siblings (along with 3rd house). A Gemini with Taurus Mars is patient & slow to get angry (boy when they do watch out), but are always loyal and consistent. A Gemini with Aquarius Mars lets most things slide off their back and doesn’t care to get too involved, could be sexually fluid, or at least generally more accepting of “different” people in society, they may not be around much, loners, and are more of the holiday visiting sort, before they disappear again, on some wayward off-the-beaten path.
Jupiter (and it’s house) is your personal good luck charm when positively aspected by other planets. May be seen as “a gift from God”, how Spirit moves through you, where/how you’ve possibly been “saved”. Can show aspects of your spouse, Jupiter returns can be a time (not always) when you meet a spouse. When negatively aspected, can indicate growth, which may materialize as weight problems, literal growth on the body (like tumors), cancer, negative things…that grow, and anything that’s excessive (eating, drinking, studying, working, partying, etc.), things you’re susceptible to overdoing that need to be overcome.
Saturn (and it’s house) is the father, authority, discipline, restrictions, where life throws a grenade at you because grow tf up 😆, “the system” and how it affects you, where you have continuous long-term issues and how, karmic cycles you have to learn on your own how to break (though aspects to Saturn in synastry may show others that can help…or trigger), your motivation to overcome problems and how you do this, what needs to be “broken” in you so to speak, so you’re not a wild crazy horse anymore, you’ve grown up. It’s aspects are very difficult lessons to overcome as they’re long lasting or take years (several cycles even, and maturity) to learn. The Saturn return at around age 30 is known to be a time in your life where everything changes to get you back on your path…if you’ve strayed from it, which isn’t so bad if you’re already there, but can be quite painful for others. How many of us have it all figured out at 30…not everyone 💯 It’s effects last a long time. It signifies age as well, especially in the 7th House, partners may be much older or younger, or take a long time to come in, there are lessons involved.
Uranus (and it’s house) is a wild card, spontaneous changes, actions, responses, impulses, like a lightning strike out of the blue. It can be good, like lottery wins and sudden job offers. It can be the literal Tower tarot card, and lightning strikes your home, you never saw it coming. It can show your natural impulses, and aspects (good or bad) show you the effects of those impulses (good or bad).
Neptune (and it’s house) is dreams, sleep, substances and drugs, what’s illusion, what you dream of, but also can’t see clearly. Positively affected is living out your dreams, manifesting, negatively aspected causes all sorts of chaos. Responsible for psychics, astral projection, intense spirituality, ghosts, any level of occult interest (plus the 8th, 9th & 12th houses, especially with Neptune in them). Can also show confusion, lack of direction, negatively aspecting Mercury/Moon/Jupiter/6th & 12th Houses can show mental health problems or addictions.
Pluto (and it’s house) is a bitch 😆 I’m sorry, mine is. Needed some humor. Ruling over Scorpio, those with many aspects to Pluto have Scorpion & 8th house themes ruling their lives, even if they have no Scorpio in their planets. Death & rebirth, what ends will be born again, obsession, control, taboo subjects and dark, very intense situations & relationships. What will die and be transformed in your life, usually symbolic deaths, can be actual deaths sometimes, sometimes several times throughout life. Can show struggles and dangers with the world around you, and how it affects you, being a generational planet. Pluto describes an entire generation of people and the changes they make to society and the world. In synastry, it’s best unaspected imo, in its little corner just existing, positive is still obsession and negative is control and power trips. Often plays a role in your own death, being aspected in some way, though astrologers can’t and won’t try to specifically predict these things, just that difficult times are coming. We are not God. The same aspects that causes one person’s death causes another person’s struggle & rebirth…that’s Pluto. After death, the aspects at the time of death are apparent in the chart, especially regarding the 8th and what Pluto is aspecting at the moment.
Dark Moon Lilith (and it’s house) is the darkest and most negative aspect of you, your darkest traits, the kinks, sexual deviancy, obsessions, and temptations. Your worst behavior. I find it as important as the South Node in realizing what needs to be released, but with Lilith, it’s more what needs to be tamed. You are this way, you can’t hide it, you can’t kill it, you can only accept it, learn about it, and control it. Many celebrities have Lilith in the 1st, people are obsessed with them/their looks and they channel their Lilith in positive ways (usually), while still being provocative. In regular life, the same placement may bring opposition, especially from/towards women. When it’s you, hi, you’re the problem, it’s often Lilith being aspected by something in the current astrological lineup, or in synastry with another person. Lilith is obsession, lust, desire, acting “out of character”. At worst she’s a she-demon from hell, in whatever house she’s in. People that aspect your Lilith may bring out the worst in you, the quiet closet freak in you, all of your most intense triggers and deepest secrets. It attracts intensely or repels intensely, you have to have them or you cannot fn stand them, there is no middle ground. Also best unaspected imo, at best they’re simply compatible, my dark side understands & accepts yours, but you can’t change your/their chart. If a connection is toxic as hell, Lilith is probably front and center in one or both people.
Chiron (and it’s house) is your deepest pain. It’s also where you may cause pain (hurt people, hurt people). It’s how you heal yourself, and can help others heal in the same way. People that aspect your Chiron may deeply wound, or help heal, or you do this with them. Hard telling which.
Placidus is my way of calculating charts, I don’t find whole sign to be authentic because of degree theory, intercepted signs, and the following paragraphs, and it being proven to make sense to me over a lifetime of study. Some disagree. That’s your choice. I don’t discount it, it’s just not for me. If you’re a whole sign person, your time reading probably ends here.
Degrees matter. The degree of your planets (and houses) are how those planets and houses are expressed most often. Sag rising on a Cancer degree, you may spend a lot of time teaching…children, cooking, home matters, art. Cancer things. Venus Virgo on an Aquarius degree is helpful, detailed, acts of service in behavior, but towards everyone as a whole, for the greater good, could be a volunteer or social worker, or are known for these things, depending on other placements. 18 & 22 degrees are known as negative degrees, along with others, there are many pages dedicated to just this topic. I don’t really pay attention to these two, unless they’re together. Those people have seen (or done) some intense shit, and have probably dealt with violence at some point 💯 29 degrees is difficult as well, it’s a placement of fame, but it’s the master, you’ll find these placements as naturally more mature in its planet/placement’s sign’s energy, having mastered every angle of the degrees prior. 0 degrees is the baby, is brand new to the sign’s energy and very eager to jump in and…make mistakes. Learn. It’s a very excitable and naive (The Fool) type of energy.
Intercepted houses are two opposing signs that are not comfortable being expressed, and though they are 100% valid in the house that they are in, they are often hidden. Part of your karma is learning to become comfortable expressing these energies in yourself, which may have been ridiculed or otherwise unable to manifest themselves in younger years. The ruling planets of the more than one houses you have opposite signs ruling, and where those planets are (house), are more powerful and affect you more than they normally would by just ruling one house.
Every sign in a house matters. So do their ruling planets, they work as a team. If you have a 7th house of Aquarius and Pisces, it’s ruled by Uranus and sudden unexpected encounters, but you attract both. Along with Capricorn (Aquarius’s co-ruled Saturn ruler) and Sagittarius (Pisces’ co-ruled Jupiter ruler). That’s 4/12 signs, you’re bound to be compatible with one of them. Then you would find Uranus, Jupiter, and Saturn in your houses. All signs of those houses also apply. Could be three or more signs. There are many possibilities and you’re not stuck to one sign you often can’t stand 😁 I see those questions more than any other. So if you’re full of Taurus/Scorpio, and have a hard time getting along with Aquarius, the 7th may show them specifically more as lessons, enemies, and the other signs may actually show up as your spouse. Similarly, if your 1st is Aries 29’ & Taurus, you’re ruled by Mars, at the tail end of the sign having mastered its energy, and may look more like Aries, but act more like Taurus, because it’s an entire house of Taurus. Your personality contains both. Plus The Sun. 2nd question I’ve seen asked more than any other, especially when it’s Cancer/Leo, they feel more Leo, it’s because they are. These explain many contradictions people have with astrology.
Touching on enemies, 7th and 12th are known as the enemy houses. 7th because there is a fine line between love & hate, you attract both, or your enemies may act in the way of the sign towards you (like Aquarius 7th, ick people may ghost you a lot, and act condescending towards you, even not being Aquarians, for example). 12th describes secret enemies, ones you don’t see in the open and don’t expect, they consciously or unconsciously work against you. While that may be true, I find the 12th to be intense spiritual & karmic connections, those you’ve known in past lives, spiritual contracts, Twin Flames. Being the house of the unconscious, it difficult to pinpoint how positive or negative a 12th heavy connection may be. Some are very spiritual. Some may be dangerous or toxic. Mercury especially, in 12th synastry, has a mind control effect on the other person, the 12th person may not understand why they do what they do while Mercury pulls the strings. The same placement can show intuitive understanding of how the other person expresses themselves, or non verbal communication, being able to speak and understand with expressions & body language. It’s like they can read your mind. Mostly positive. Positive or negative, 12th synastry (along with Pisces, Scorpio, Neptune, and Pluto) is very intense, powerful and can indicate soul ties.
Aspects - things may be in the same sign, or even squared/opposite, and still give each other space, and those are more tolerable. You can have Mars and Pluto in the same sign but one is at 1’ and the other is 27’, they’re not conjunct. Similarly, someone’s Scorpio Sun may square your Jupiter Leo, by sign, but the degrees are far enough apart that they’re largely unaspected, and less likely to cause issues. Aspects are usually within a 5’-10’ orb, conjunctions are within 2’ at their most powerful. When it comes to asteroids, they all exist somewhere but only really apply when tightly conjunct one of your personal planets or the AC/DC/IC/MC or 1st, 4th, 7th & 10th house cusps. When The Sun is within 10’ of another planet, it tends to combust that planet’s energy, or make it harder to express, even in synastry.
A synastry chart is laying yours and other persons chart on top of each other and seeing what affects who and where they are. A composite chart is the combination of yours and another persons chart. You know how married people act like the same person after some years? That’s a composite chart, the personality they become together. A progressed chart is how you have progressed in the time since you have been born. Though you are your same signs existing as you, you have learned many lessons and are now, currently, expressing yourself in this way, based on how far you’ve come. Current projects, interests, difficulties, lovers, what’s going on last week, tomorrow & today in this moment, may be shown here.
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