CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS IN ASTROLOGY
ELEMENTS. SIGNS. PLANETS. HOUSES.ASPECTS.
HOUSES•
The houses represent the fields of experience wherein the energies of the signs and planets operate. Rather than symbolizing just the outward experiences and environmental circumstances specified by most traditional astrology, the houses are also revealing of the inner state and of one's personal subjective experience and attitudes. By noting the planets' placements in the natal chart, an astrologer can tell which levels and areas of experience will be strongly emphasized in a person's life. The keyword system discussed on the following pages is meant to clarify interpretation and understanding primarily of the psychological and inner significance of the houses. It is an attempt to perceive the essential meanings of the fields of experience known as the “houses." If the essential meanings are understood, they can then be applied to and illuminate all the diverse activities and experiences traditionally symbolized by the houses.
Emphasizing the type of house containing planets in a natal chart helps one to see the chart as a whole. One familiar way of defining the houses is to separate them into the classifications of angular, succedent, and cadent.
The angular houses (1, 4, 7, 10)aare associated with a self-activating quality and have an immediate impact on the structure of one's life. The keyword for the angular houses is ACTION.
The succedent houses (2, 5, 8, 11) are associated with individual desires and the areas of life we want to control and consolidate. The keyword for this type of house isSECURITY.
The cadent houses (3, 6, 9, 12) are areas where there is input, exchange, and distribution of thoughts and observations. The keyword for these houses is LEARNING.
The progression of houses from angular through succedent and cadent and back to angular again symbolizes the flow of life experience: we act, we consolidate the results of our actions in order to gain security, we learn from what we have done and become aware of what remains to be done; and therefore, we act again. Thus, a person with a strong emphasis on one of these three types of houses by planetary placement invariably pours a lot of energy into and experiences many challenges related to action, security, or learning.
ssociated with a self-activating quality and have an immediatThe houses can also be divided into groups of three, depending upon the element of the signs associated with that group of houses. Key phrases and guidelines for understanding these groups are as follows. (Psychic Trinity,' "Trinity of Wealth," etc. are quite old terms, and are used here primarily as convenient labels.) one's attitude toward life and the experience of being alive. They represent an out pouring of energy into the world and aspour sense of identity, our sense of being, determines our attitude toward life in general.
FIRE HOUSES ("THE TRINITY OF LIFE"—1, 5, 9): These houses are associated irations that motivate us to do so. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives in his or her enthusiasms, ideals, and dreams for the future. Faith and confidence (or the marked lack of it) and the need to see an effect on the world at large through one's initiatives dominate much of the person's life activity. The person experiences self most immediately through projecting dreams into the world and seeing them manifested as reality. Planets in the fire houses affect the individual's ATTITUDE TOWARD LIFE ITSELF and the person's entire sense of faith and confidence in self. The keyword that sums up the essential meaning of the fire houses is IDENTITY; for
EARTH HOUSES ("THE TRINITY OF WEALTH"—2, 6, 10): These houses are associated with the level of experience wherein we try to satisfy our basic NEEDS in the practical world. Planets in these houses indicate energies that can most easily be put to use in dealing with the physical world, and that can be developed as expertise in management of resources. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives energetically in the physical world, building, doing, achieving, acquiring, and defining his or her purpose in life by the status and security achieved. Those with a strong emphasis in the earth houses tend to want to settle into a niche in life, as they are searching for the place where they can be the most productive and most easily satisfy their practical needs. This person experiences self most immediately through work, through feeling useful, and through practical achievement. He or she wants to fulfill a calling or role in the great world outside. Planets in the earth houses affect the individual's attitudes toward vocation, career ambitions, and the capacity to produce effective results. The keyword for these houses is MATERIAL, for the earth houses deal chiefly with concerns of the material world.
AIR HOUSES ("THE TRINITY OF RELATIONSHIPS—3, 7, 11): These houses are associated not only with social contacts and relationships of all types, but also with CONCEPTS. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives in the mind and in relationships. Concepts and the sharing of those concepts dominate much of the person's life activity. The person experiences self most immediately through a sense of mutual understanding with others and through discovering and expressing the reality and importance of specific ideas or theories. Planets in the air houses affect the individual's interests, associations, mode of verbal expression, and social life. The keywords for the air houses are SOCIAL and INTELLECTUAL.
WATER HOUSES ("THE PSYCHIC TRINITY"—4, 8, 12): All of these houses deal with the past, with the conditioned responses that are now instinctual and operate through the emotions. Planets in these houses show what is happening on subconscious levels and indicate the process of gaming consciousness through the assimilation of the essence of the past, while simultaneously letting go of the useless memories and fears that hold us back. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives a great deal in the feelings and in his or her deeper YEARNINGS. The emotional and soul needs dominate much of the person's life activity and energy expenditure. Planets in the water houses affect the individual's emotional predisposition, how he or she copes with fulfilling private needs and confronting obsessive feelings, and to what extent the person lives in a private way or in the inner life. The keywords for the water houses are EMOTIONAL and SOUL.
The following The following presents a concise formulation of the keywords described above:
MADE of EXPRESSION
LEVEL of EXPERIENCE
Angular: Action
Succedent: Security
Cadent: Learning
Fire: Identity
Earth: Material
Air: Social & Intellectual
Water: Soul & Emotional
Let's look at the side of you that resides in each of your twelve houses.
The First House and Your Rising Sign
The first house of a chart has the sign that was ascending over the horizon at the moment you were born on its cusp. This sign is known as the Rising Sign, or Ascendant. The first house has to do with how we appear or the way we come across, thus our impact o KEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGYELEMENTS • SIGNS • PLANETS • HOUSES • ASPECTS
The houses represent the fields of experience wherein the energies of the signs and planets operate. Rather than symbolizing just the outward experiences and environmental circumstances specified by most traditional astrology, the houses are also revealing of the inner state and of one's personal subjective experience and attitudes. By noting the planets' placements in the natal chart, an astrologer can tell which levels and areas of experience will be strongly emphasized in a person's life. The keyword system discussed on the following pages is meant to clarify interpretation and understanding primarily of the psychological and inner significance of the houses. It is an attempt to perceive the essential meanings of the fields of experience known as the “houses." If the essential meanings are understood, they can then be applied to and illuminate all the diverse activities and experiences traditionally symbolized by the houses.
Emphasizing the type of house containing planets in a natal chart helps one to see the chart as a whole. One familiar way of defining the houses is to separate them into the classifications of angular, succedent, and cadent.
The angular houses (1, 4, 7, 10) are associated with a self-activating quality and have an immediate impact on the structure of one's life. The keyword for the angular houses is ACTION.
The succedent houses (2, 5, 8, 11) are associated with individual desires and the areas of life we want to control and consolidate. The keyword for this type of house is SECURITY.
The cadent houses (3, 6, 9, 12) are areas where there is input, exchange, and distribution of thoughts and observations. The keyword for these houses is LEARNING.
The progression of houses from angular through succedent and cadent and back to angular again symbolizes the flow of life experience: we act, we consolidate the results of our actions in order to gain security, we learn from what we have done and become aware of what remains to be done; and therefore, we act again. Thus, a person with a strong emphasis on one of these three types of houses by planetary placement invariably pours a lot of energy into and experiences many challenges related to action, security, or learning.
The houses can also be divided into groups of three, depending upon the element of the signs associated with that group of houses. Key phrases and guidelines for understanding these groups are as follows. (Psychic Trinity,' "Trinity of Wealth," etc. are quite old terms, and are used here primarily as convenient labels.)
FIRE HOUSES ("THE TRINITY OF LIFE"—1, 5, 9): These houses are associated with one's attitude toward life and the experience of being alive. They represent an out pouring of energy into the world and aspirations that motivate us to do so. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives in his or her enthusiasms, ideals, and dreams for the future. Faith and confidence (or the marked lack of it) and the need to see an effect on the world at large through one's initiatives dominate much of the person's life activity. The person experiences self most immediately through projecting dreams into the world and seeing them manifested as reality. Planets in the fire houses affect the individual's ATTITUDE TOWARD LIFE ITSELF and the person's entire sense of faith and confidence in self. The keyword that sums up the essential meaning of the fire houses is IDENTITY; for our sense of identity, our sense of being, determines our attitude toward life in general.
EARTH HOUSES ("THE TRINITY OF WEALTH"—2, 6, 10): These houses are associated with the level of experience wherein we try to satisfy our basic NEEDS in the practical world. Planets in these houses indicate energies that can most easily be put to use in dealing with the physical world, and that can be developed as expertise in management of resources. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives energetically in the physical world, building, doing, achieving, acquiring, and defining his or her purpose in life by the status and security achieved. Those with a strong emphasis in the earth houses tend to want to settle into a niche in life, as they are searching for the place where they can be the most productive and most easily satisfy their practical needs. This person experiences self most immediately through work, through feeling useful, and through practical achievement. He or she wants to fulfill a calling or role in the great world outside. Planets in the earth houses affect the individual's attitudes toward vocation, career ambitions, and the capacity to produce effective results. The keyword for these houses is MATERIAL, for the earth houses deal chiefly with concerns of the material world.
AIR HOUSES ("THE TRINITY OF RELATIONSHIPS—3, 7, 11): These houses are associated not only with social contacts and relationships of all types, but also with CONCEPTS. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives in the mind and in relationships. Concepts and the sharing of those concepts dominate much of the person's life activity. The person experiences self most immediately through a sense of mutual understanding with others and through discovering and expressing the reality and importance of specific ideas or theories. Planets in the air houses affect the individual's interests, associations, mode of verbal expression, and social life. The keywords for the air houses are SOCIAL and INTELLECTUAL.
WATER HOUSES ("THE PSYCHIC TRINITY"—4, 8, 12): All of these houses deal with the past, with the conditioned responses that are now instinctual and operate through the emotions. Planets in these houses show what is happening on subconscious levels and indicate the process of gaming consciousness through the assimilation of the essence of the past, while simultaneously letting go of the useless memories and fears that hold us back. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives a great deal in the feelings and in his or her deeper YEARNINGS. The emotional and soul needs dominate much of the person's life activity and energy expenditure. Planets in the water houses affect the individual's emotional predisposition, how he or she copes with fulfilling private needs and confronting obsessive feelings, and to what extent the person lives in a private way or in the inner life. The keywords for the water houses are EMOTIONAL and SOUL.
The following presents a concise formulation of the keywords described above:
MADE of EXPRESSION
LEVEL of EXPERIENCE
Angular: Action
Succedent: Security
Cadent: Learning
Fire: Identity
Earth: Material
Air: Social & Intellectual
Water: Soul & Emotional
Let's look at the side of you that resides in each of your twelve houses.
The First House and Your Rising Sign
The first house of a chart has the sign that was ascending over the horizon at the moment you were born on its cusp. This sign is known as the Rising Sign, or Ascendant. The first house has to do with how we appear or the way we come across, thus our appearance and personality. This is the essential stuff that bubbles up in us spontaneously and that is obvious to others as our trademark or activity. It is what makes us each so personally different. This house rules our personal self and everything about us that draws a reaction from our surroundings or others.
The Second House
The second house is concerned with how we respond to or field whatever impulses or unique and personal qualities we manifest via our first house. This is how we hold or "have" things (possessions, material goods, money, and the like). The second house always refers to how we secure ourselves, the kind of response we get from life and those around us.
The Third House
The third house is concerned with explorations, investigations, and inquiry and research of all kinds. It also rules connections, communications, wires, tubes -- anything that we can get through with our body, mind, voice, letters, what-have-you. It is here that we explore and search for the limits of our life, whatever we are working with at the moment. A very mental house, concerned with finding, furthering, peering, and all manner of questioning. Traditionally rules short journeys, siblings.
The Fourth House
The fourth house is where we send down roots, find our limits, and generally secure ourselves. It is the end of any searching we might have done in the third house. Here we find or end our search, settle down, and manage to get in possession of the whole situation. This is our home and the base from which we can work, feel, and experience. This is the root of our experience, the core or thick of it.
The Fifth House
The fifth house has to do with awareness, emotion (to move out), and expression (to press out). Here there is always a growing sense of self-confidence and even a pride of ownership, since we begin to recognize and own our experience. We know that we have had or are having an experience. All forms of expression and offspring are connected to this house -- children, animals, creative expression, and so on. A sense of direction and ownership takes hold at this point in our experience.
The Sixth House
The sixth house has to do with salvaging and preserving what is good and healthy in our experience. Here we separate the wheat from the chaff. We begin to care for ourselves and our experience and thus health, nutrition. The idea here is that we are able to analyze our experience and have thoughts about what is pure and what is not. The sixth house is an attempt to save the heart of an experience, one that already by that attempt is beginning to pass or not cohere.
The Seventh House
The seventh house is the house of partnerships, relationships, social life, and all that carries us beyond our personal self into an awareness of other people, community, and the like. This includes spiritual awakening and the discovery that we are more than just our personality. Here we begin to respond to our personal needs (and those of others) for the first time. We can see what is going on and are committed to it; thus, marriage and yoga, or union, is indicated in this house.
The Eighth House
The eighth house, traditionally the house of death, is concerned with getting rid of excess parts of ourselves that we see we no longer need. Thus this house also covers initiation and any activities where we are transforming toward a more integral position, getting to the heart of things. The no-nonsense quality of the eighth house makes it good for business ventures since here we are stripping away the dross to reveal the truth or essence of the subject.
The Ninth House
The ninth house covers long journeys and religion (the longest journey of all). Here is what remains of the purification that takes place in the eighth house -- the seed, or essence, of an entire cycle of experience. Religion comes from a Latin word that means to bind back, and thus refers to all things that last or endure, such as the truth. Essential ideas, philosophy, and all that is the very heart of things belong here.
The Tenth House
The 10th house is a house of practical vision and clairvoyance, for here we can see clearly what is. Reputation and career are often connected to this house, since the areas where we can see with greatest clarity are those we most often can put to use to make a living. In summary, this house is where we have real vision and can see to do and work. Planets transiting this house may provide moments of insight and clear-seeing as well.
The Eleventh House
The 11th house has to do with putting our visions and dreams to work. We have been on the mountain and had a vision (10th house). Here we take our vows never to forget what we have seen and to work hard to make these dreams into reality. Thus this house has always been connected with altruistic and humanitarian goals and trying to set them in motion. It is the house of friends and community, because when we are powered by a real insight or vision we share with all -- irrespective of differences.
The Twelfth House
The 12th house is about all that we go through in order to make our dreams into reality and manifest them in the world around us. It covers what we are willing to put up with, the sacrifices we will make in order to bring across what is really important. This is connected to prisons, institutions, betrayal, self-undoing, and the like, because it is here that we must choose to take some possible abuse for the sake of the message we are carrying, or blow it all away with a negative reaction.
n the structure of one's lifKEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGYELEMENTS • SIGNS • PLANETS • HOUSES • ASPECTS
PLANETERY ASPECTS
The dynamic interactions between the various energies of life are represented on an individual level by the "aspects" in a natal chart—that is, the angles between planets and between the Ascendant or Midheaven and the planets. Aspects have been spoken of as ('lines of force'' between the various energy centers (planets) in the energy field mapped by the chart. In the birth chart, which reveals this energy field with remarkable precision, the aspects are measured within the 360° circle. We will concentrate on the most commonly used aspects—the ones occurring every 30° all of which we consider "major aspects" that are reliable and illuminating.
ASPECTS
Aspects can be categorized in two groups:
DYNAMIC or CHALLENGING ASPECTS
This refers to the square (90°), opposition (180°), quincunx (150 °) and sometimes, depending upon the harmony of the planets and signs involved, the conjunction (0°) and the semi-sextile (30°).
HARMONIOUS or FLOWING ASPECTS
This refers to the trine (120°), sextile (60°), and some of the conjunctions (0°) (depending of the planets involved) and semi-sextiles (30°) (depending on the harmony of the planets and the elements of the signs involved).
THE MAJOR ASPECTSe. The k KEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGYELEMENTS • SIGNS • PLANETS • HOUSES • ASPECTS
PLANETERY ASPECTS
The dynamic interactions between the various energies of life are represented on an individual level by the "aspects" in a natal chart—that is, the angles between planets and between the Ascendant or Midheaven and the planets. Aspects have been spoken of as ('lines of force'' between the various energy centers (planets) in the energy field mapped by the chart. In the birth chart, which reveals this energy field with remarkable precision, the aspects are measured within the 360° circle. We will concentrate on the most commonly used aspects—the ones occurring every 30° all of which we consider "major aspects" that are reliable and illuminating.
Aspects can be categorized in two groups:
DYNAMIC or CHALLENGING ASPECTS
This refers to the square (90°), opposition (180°), quincunx (150 °) and sometimes, depending upon the harmony of the planets and signs involved, the conjunction (0°) and the semi-sextile (30°).
HARMONIOUS or FLOWING ASPECTS
This refers to the trine (120°), sextile (60°), and some of the conjunctions (0°) (depending of the planets involved) and semi-sextiles (30°) (depending on the harmony of the planets and the elements of the signs involved).
THE MAJOR ASPECTS
CONJUNCTION (0°)
Any conjunction in an individual chart should be regarded as important, since it indicates an intense merging and interaction of two life energies. The most powerful of all conjunctions are those involving one of the "personal planets" (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars) or the Ascendant. Such conjunctions always characterize particularly strong modes of energy flow and personal expression (by planet and sign) and dominant emphases in the person's life (by house). The keynote of the conjunction is action and self-projection.
SEMI-SEXTILE (30°)
This is traditionally considered a minor aspect, but at times it can be more noticeable even than the conjunction, depending upon the planets involved and the other aspects to the two planets. Planets in semi-sextile are constantly interacting and building on the energy of each other. They do not usually generate the stress of a square and are in fact usually gentler in effect than the quincunx, but they are persistent and almost always in evidence if the aspect is quite close.
SEXTILE (60°)
The sextile seems to be an aspect of openness to the new: new people, new ideas, new attitudes; and it symbolizes the potential for making new connections with either people or ideas that can ultimately lead to new learning. This aspect usually involves signs of harmonious elements, and thus compatible energies. The sextile shows an area of life where one can cultivate not only a new level of understanding but also a greater degree of objectivity which can lead to a feeling of great freedom. It indicates an automatic, natural attunement and sometimes a definite skill.
SQUARE (90°)
The square usually involves planets in inharmonious elements and thus calls forth significant effort in order to integrate such divergent energies. Any close square involving one of the personal planets represents a major life challenge. A square aspect shows where energy must be released, usually through action of a definite sort, in order that a new structure may be built. Many astrologers have written that the square aspect has the nature of Saturn: it represents what you have to deal with. Another Saturnian feature related to the square is .fear, for we are often afraid of dealing with whatever is symbolized by the squares in our charts. Fearing challenge restricts the energy available to deal effectively with whatever problem is at hand.
TRINE (120°)
A trine aspect represents an easy flow of energy into established channels of expression. One does not need to build a new structure or to make marked adjustments in one's life in order to utilize this energy creatively. The planets involved in the trine reveal dimensions of life and specific energies which are naturally integrated and which flow together harmoniously. (Note that trines are commonly between signs of the same element, which is the basis for the harmony of energies.) Such an aspect often shows a way of being, however, rather than a way of doing; one often takes for granted the abilities and talents shown by the trine and thus sometimes does not feel challenged to make the effort required to use the energy constructively.
QUINCUNX (or INCONJUNCT) (150°)
This aspect indicates a strong flow of energy between those dimensions of life symbolized by the planets involved, but the individual may feel that the experience of those energies is too compulsive or consistently annoying. It is difficult to remain aware of both energies simultaneously, and one usually has to make a conscious, concerted effort to do so. Note that the quincunx aspect usually involves signs that are not only of inharmonious elements but also of different modalities. (E.g., a quincunx between planets in Gemini and Capricorn involves mutable Air and cardinal Earth—quite a dissimilarity but potentially a combination of deep understanding and practical skill.) It is important to be aware of both energies, because it often seems that the expression of are not well integrated. Dealing with this aspect effectively requires discrimination in subtly adjusting one's approach to those areas of life rather than trying to force a solution.
OPPOSITION (180°)
The opposition, particularly since it usually involves planets in harmonious elements, indicates a degree of over-stimulation in the person's energy field which often manifests as a feeling of being caught in the middle of completely opposite tendencies. This is usually felt most directly as a constant challenge in the area of personal relationships. There is often a marked lack of objectivity since the individual tends to engage in “projection'' of different sides of his or her nature onto others; and thus there is some difficulty in distinguishing what is yours and what is somebody else's. Having an opposition in one's chart is similar to being stretched between two contrasting, sometimes contradictory tendencies. Opposite signs are similar in many ways and in fact complementary, but there is no denying that they are also totally opposed in many ways.
PRINCIPLE
URGES REPRESENTED
NEEDS SYMBOLIZED
SUN: Vitality; sense of individuality; creative energy, radiant inner self (attunement of soul); essential values
MOON: Reaction; sub-conscious predisposition; feeling about self (self-image); conditioned responsenseself
MERCURY: Communication; conscious mind (i.e., logical or
VENUS: Emotionally-colored tastes; values; exchange of energy with others through giving of self and receiving from others; sharing
MARS: Desire; will toward action; initiative; physical energy; drive
Self-asser
Need to achieve desires; need for physical and sexual excitement
JUPITER: Expansion; grace
Urge toward a larger order or to connect self with something greater than self
Need for faith, trust, and confidence in life and self; need to improve self
SATURN: Contraction; effort
Urge to defend self’s structure and integrity; urge toward safety and security through tangible achievement
Need for social approval; need to rely on one's own resources and work
URANUS: Individualistic freedom; freedom of ego-self
Urge toward differentiation, originality, and independence from tradition
Need for change, excitement and expression without restraint
NEPTUN: Transcendent freedom; unification; freedom from ego-self
Urge to escape from the limitations of one's self and of the material world
Need to experience a oneness with life, a complete merger with the whole
PLUTO: Transformation; transmutation; elimination
Urge toward total rebirth; urge to penetrate to the core of experience
Need to refine self; need to let go of the old through pain
THE TWELVE SIGNS
KEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGYELEMENTS • SIGNS • PLANETS • HOUSES • ASPECTS
ARIES - LEO - SAGITTARIUS • TAURUS - VIRGO - CAPRICORN • GEMINI - LIBRA - AQUARIUS • CANCER - SCORPIO - PISCES
FIRE SIGNS • EARTH SIGNS • AIR SIGNS • WATER SIGNS
ARIESLEOSAGITTARIUSFire Signs express the warming, radiating, energizing life principle which can manifest as enthusiasm, faith, encouragement, and the drive to express self.
TAURUSVIRGOCAPRICORNEarth Signs reveal an attunement with the world of physical forms and a practical ability to utilize and improve the material world.
GEMINILIBRAAQUARIUSAir Signs are correlated with the mind's sensation, perception, and expression, especially related to personal interaction and to geometrical thought forms and abstract ideas.
CANCERSCORPIOPISCESWater Signs symbolize the cooling, healing principle of sensitivity, feeling response, and empathy with others.
KEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGYELEMENTS • SIGNS • PLANETS • HOUSES • ASPECTS
ARIES - LEO - SAGITTARIUS • TAURUS - VIRGO - CAPRICORN • GEMINI - LIBRA - AQUARIUS • CANCER - SCORPIO - PISCES
FIRE SIGNS • EARTH SIGNS • AIR SIGNS • WATER SIGNS
ARIESLEOSAGITTARIUSFire Signs express the warming, radiating, energizing life principle which can manifest as enthusiasm, faith, encouragement, and the drive to express self.
TAURUSVIRGOCAPRICORNEarth Signs reveal an attunement with the world of physical forms and a practical ability to utilize and improve the material world.
GEMINILIBRAAQUARIUSAir Signs are correlated with the mind's sensation, perception, and expression, especially related to personal interaction and to geometrical thought forms and abstract ideas.
CANCERSCORPIOPISCESWater Signs symbolize the cooling, healing principle of sensitivity, feeling response, and empathy with others.
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THE FOUR ELEMENTS
KEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGY
ELEMENTS • SIGNS • PLANETS • HOUSES • ASPECTS
The "four elements" of astrological tradition refer to the vital forces (or energies) that make up the entire creation that is commonly perceived by human beings. The four elements in a birth chart reveal the ability to participate in certain realms of being and to tune in to specific fields of life experience. These elements have nothing to do with the elements of chemistry and in fact transcend them completely. The astrological birth chart is drawn for the moment of first breath, that instant when we immediately establish our lifelong attunement with cosmic energy sources. The birth chart therefore reveals your energy pattern or cosmic attunement to the four elements. In other words, the chart symbolizes the pattern of the various vibratory manifestations that comprise the individual's expression in this plane of creation.
The four elements--Fire, Earth, Air, and Water—each represent a basic kind of energy and consciousness that operates within everyone. Each person is consciously more attuned to some types of energy than others.
The element of any sign that is emphasized in a chart (by significant planetary placement in that sign) shows a specific type of consciousness and method of perception to which the individual is strongly attuned.
Fire Signs express the warming, radiating, energizing life principle which can manifest as enthusiasm, faith, encouragement, and the drive to express self.
Earth Signs reveal an attunement with the world of physical forms and a practical ability to utilize and improve the material world.
Air Signs are correlated with the mind's sensation, perception, and expression, especially related to personal interaction and to geometrical thought forms and abstract ideas.
Water Signs symbolize the cooling, healing principle of sensitivity, feeling response, and empathy with others.
One way of understanding these various energy patterns is to analyze them in terms of their modalities. Each of the four elements manifests in three vibrational modalities: Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutable. Combining the four elements with the three modalities produces the twelve primary patterns of energy called the Signs of the Zodiac.
The Cardinal Signs correlate with the principle of action and symbolize initiating movements of energy in a definite direction.
The Fixed Signs represent concentrated energy gathered inward toward a center or radiating outward from a center.
The Mutable Signs are correlated with .flexibility and constant change and may be conceived as spiralic patterns of energy.
The elements have traditionally been divided into two groups. Fire and Air being considered active and self-expressive, and Water and Earth considered passive, receptive, and self-containing.
This differentiation is of great importance in a wholistic approach to birth charts. These terms refer to the mode of operation of these energies and to the individual's method of self-expression rather than to a generalized quality that can be haphazardly and rigidly applied to all people in a certain category.
For example, the Water and Earth signs are more self-contained than the Fire and Air signs in that they live more within themselves and don't allow themselves to project their essential energy outwardly without a good deal of caution and forethought. However, this enables them to build a solid foundation for action. The Fire and Air signs are more self-expressive since they are always "getting it out," pouring forth their energies and life-substance unreservedly (at times ignoring limits completely): the Fire signs by direct action and the Air signs by social interaction and verbal expression. This classification of elements, and the fact that the signs of the same element (e.g., Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius—all Fire) and of the elements in the same group (e.g., Taurus & Pisces = Earth & Water) are considered to be generally "compatible," is of the greatest importance not only in the interpretation of individual charts but also in the art of chart comparison.
Each sign of a specific element is a different mode of expression of the same elemental energy and represents a different level of development and pattern of energy.
moment of first breath, that instant when we immediately establish our lifelong attunement with cosmic energy sources. The birth chart therefore reveals your energy pattern or cosmic attunement to the four elements. In other words, the chart symbolizes the pattern of the various vibratory manifestations that comprise the individual's expression in this plane of creation.
The four elements--Fire, Earth, Air, and Water—each represent a basic kind of energy and consciousness that operates within everyone. Each person is consciously more attuned to some types of energy than others.
The element of any sign that is emphasized in a chart (by significant planetary placement in that sign) shows a specific type of consciousness and method of perception to which the individual is strongly attuned.
Fire Signs express the warming, radiating, energizing life principle which can manifest as enthusiasm, faith, encouragement, and the drive to express self.
Earth Signs reveal an attunement with the world of physical forms and a practical ability to utilize and improve the material world.
Air Signs are correlated with the mind's sensation, perception, and expression, especially related to personal interaction and to geometrical thought forms and abstract ideas.
Water Signs symbolize the cooling, healing principle of sensitivity, feeling response, and empathy with others.
One way of understanding these various energy patterns is to analyze them in terms of their modalities. Each of the four elements manifests in three vibrational modalities: Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutable. Combining the four elements with the three modalities produces the twelve primary patterns of energy called the Signs of the Zodiac KEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGY
ELEMENTS • SIGNS • PLANETS • HOUSES • ASPECTS
The "four elements" of astrological tradition refer to the vital forces (or energies) that make up the entire creation that is commonly perceived by human beings. The four elements in a birth chart reveal the ability to participate in certain realms of being and to tune in to specific fields of life experience. These elements have nothing to do with the elements of chemistry and in fact transcend them completely. The astrological birth chart is drawn for the moment of first breath, that instant when we immediately establish our lifelong attunement with cosmic energy sources. The birth chart therefore reveals your energy pattern or cosmic attunement to the four elements. In other words, the chart symbolizes the pattern of the various vibratory manifestations that comprise the individual's expression in this plane of creation.
The four elements--Fire, Earth, Air, and Water—each represent a basic kind of energy and consciousness that operates within everyone. Each person is consciously more attuned to some types of energy than others.
The element of any sign that is emphasized in a chart (by significant planetary placement in that sign) shows a specific type of consciousness and method of perception to which the individual is strongly attuned.
Fire Signs express the warming, radiating, energizing life principle which can manifest as enthusiasm, faith, encouragement, and the drive to express self.
Earth Signs reveal an attunement with the world of physical forms and a practical ability to utilize and improve the material world.
Air Signs are correlated with the mind's sensation, perception, and expression, especially related to personal interaction and to geometrical thought forms and abstract ideas.
Water Signs symbolize the cooling, healing principle of sensitivity, feeling response, and empathy with others.
One way of understanding these various energy patterns is to analyze them in terms of their modalities. Each of the four elements manifests in three vibrational modalities: Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutable. Combining the four elements with the three modalities produces the twelve primary patterns of energy called the Signs of the Zodiac.
The Cardinal Signs correlate with the principle of action and symbolize initiating movements of energy in a definite direction.
The Fixed Signs represent concentrated energy gathered inward toward a center or radiating outward from a center.
The Mutable Signs are correlated with .flexibility and constant change and may be conceived as spiralic patterns of energy.
The elements have traditionally been divided into two groups. Fire and Air being considered active and self-expressive, and Water and Earth considered passive, receptive, and self-containing.
This differentiation is of great importance in a wholistic approach to birth charts. These terms refer to the mode of operation of these energies and to the individual's method of self-expression rather than to a generalized quality that can be haphazardly and rigidly applied to all people in a certain category.
For example, the Water and Earth signs are more self-contained than the Fire and Air signs in that they live more within themselves and don't allow themselves to project their essential energy outwardly without a good deal of caution and forethought. However, this enables them to build a solid foundation for action. The Fire and Air signs are more self-expressive since they are always "getting it out," pouring forth their energies and life-substance unreservedly (at times ignoring limits completely): the Fire signs by direct action and the Air signs by social interaction and verbal expression. This classification of elements, and the fact that the signs of the same element (e.g., Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius—all Fire) and of the elements in the same group (e.g., Taurus & Pisces = Earth & Water) are considered to be generally "compatible," is of the greatest importance not only in the interpretation of individual charts but also in the art of chart comparison.
Each sign of a specific element is a different mode of expression of the same elemental energy and represents a different level of development and pattern of energy.
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PLANETARY HOURS
The planetary hours are based on an ancient astrological system, the Chaldean order of the planets. This is the sequence: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, then repeating endlessly Saturn, Jupiter, etc. The Chaldean order indicates the relative orbital velocity of the planets. From a heliocentric perspective this sequence also indicates the relative distance of the planets from the center of their orbits, i.e., the distance of the planets from the Sun (with the Sun switching places with the Earth in the sequence) and the distance of the Moon from the Earth. From a traditional geocentric perspective the Chaldean order also shows the arrangement of the planetary spheres.
The planetary hours use the Chaldean order to divide time. Each planetary hour of the planetary day is ruled by a different planet. The planet that rules the first hour of the day is also the ruler of the whole day and gives the day its name. Thus the first hour of Sunday is ruled by the Sun, the first hour of Monday is ruled by the Moon and so on.
However, planetary hours are not the same as the sixty-minute hours that we use for normal time-keeping. The day is split into two periods, daytime and nighttime. Sunrise to sunset is considered daytime. Sunset to sunrise of the next day is nighttime. Then these two periods are each divided into twelve equal length hours, which are the planetary hours. The planetary hours of the day and the planetary hours of the night will be of different lengths except on the Equinoxes, when light and darkness are balanced.
Each planetary hour is associated with a planet. These can be used to fine-tune a magickal working. This is one step up from performing magick on the day ruled by the planet best suited for the goal. This will give you a specific hour to work the magick.
So say you're planning to do a money spell. Money and prosperity is ruled by Jupiter, so you'd want to do it on a Thursday. But to make the spell more precise and give it more "weight", you can calculate the planetary hours for the upcoming Thursday. Four planetary hours are ruled by Jupiter (two of day, two of night), so once the exact times are figured out, you have your pick of those hours in which to perform that money spell.
Planetary hours are also good for when you can't wait till the appropriate day. If you needed that money, like, yesterday, and today is Saturday, do the spell today but aid it along by doing it during one of the Jupiter hours.
These can also aid you when other things may be working "against" you, or if you're sick but still have to work some magick anyway.
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PLANETARY HOURS CALCULATOR
01 March 2010 Monday
Location: Istanbul / Turkiye
Latitude, Longitude: 41n04, 29e00
Local Time: 10:15
Time Zone: -02:00 (EET)
Summer Time: 00:00
Sunrise: 06:38 (-0.8° altitude)
Sunset: 17:54 (-0.8° altitude)
Sunrise (tomorrow): 06:37
Hours of Daylight: 11:15 hours (675 min)
Hours of Nighttime: 12:42 hours (762 min)
Lenght of Planetary Hours (day): 00:56 hours
Lenght of Planetary Hours (night): 01:03 hours
Ruler of Day: MoonRuler of Hour: Mars
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Planetary Hours (Daylight)
Hour
Start Time
End Time
Ruler of Hour
1.
06:38
07:34
Moon
2.
07:35
08:30
Saturn
3.
08:31
09:26
Jupiter
4.
09:27
10:23
Mars
5.
10:24
11:19
Sun
6.
11:20
12:15
Venus
7.
12:16
13:12
Mercury
8.
13:13
14:08
Moon
9.
14:09
15:04
Saturn
10.
15:05
16:00
Jupiter
11.
16:01
16:57
Mars
12.
16:58
17:53
Sun
Planetary Hours (Nighttime)
13.
17:54
18:57
Venus
14.
18:58
20:00
Mercury
15.
20:01
21:04
Moon
16.
21:05
22:07
Saturn
17.
22:08
23:11
Jupiter
18.
23:12
00:14
Mars
19.
00:15
01:18
Sun
20.
01:19
02:22
Venus
21.
02:23
03:25
Mercury
22.
03:26
04:29
Moon
23.
04:30
05:32
Saturn
24.
05:33
06:36
Jupiter
Day
Planetary Ruler
Attributes
Monday
Moon
Feminine, changes, emotions, secrets, dealing with women.
Tuesday
Mars
Enthusiasm, energy, passion, protection, competition, anything requiring aggression or determination.
Wednesday
Mercury
Law, education, travel, thinking, communications, dealing with siblings, medical.
Thursday
Jupiter
Increase (be careful what you ask for, you will get it in LARGE measure!) good luck, gambling, speculation, merciful, long distance travel.
Friday
Venus
Love, luxury, beauty, decorating, shopping for romantic or creative things, pleasure.
Saturday
Saturn
Long term stuff, career, institutions (such as prisons, hospitals marriage), investments, lords of Karma, good day for a reversal spell.
Sunday
Sun
Wishes, success, happiness, all-purpose, no secretive work on Sunday.
UNDERSTANDING LUNAR ASTROLOGY
While the Sun is indeed the origin and sustainer of life on Earth, the exposure of the Sun’s light and heat alone would not offer the stimulus to change and growth as do the tides that respond to lunar influences. Using astrological knowledge in our everyday lives will nurture and support us, just add the lunar cycle supports the growth of all living things on Earth.
From the very beginning of life, Earth’s two companions in the sky-the Sun and the Moon-established two separate rhythms that continue to this day: the Sun with its pattern of heat and light, and the setting of the seasons; the Moon raising and lowering the water in and with which life is nourished.
The moon cycles and their correlations with everyday life are the foundation of the Lunar Astrology.
Moon Cycles
First Quarter
(New Moon)
The first quarter begins at the New Moon, when the Sun and Moon are conjunct (the Sun and Moon are in the same degree of the same zodiac sign). The Moon is not visible at first, since it rises at the same time as the Sun. The New Moon phase is a time for new beginnings that favor growth, the externalization of activities, and the expansion of ideas. The first quarter is the time when things germinate and emerge; a time of beginnings, and outwardly directed activity.
Second Quarter
The second quarter begins halfway between the New Moon and the Full Moon, when the Sun and Moon are ninety degrees apart. This half Moon rises around noon and sets around midnight, so it can be seen in the western sky during the first half of the night. The second quarter is the time of growth, development, and articulation of things that already exist.
Third Quarter
(Full Moon)
The third quarter begins at the Full Moon, when the Sun is opposite the Moon and its full light can shine on the full sphere on the Moon. The round Moon can be seen rising in the east at sunset, and then rising a little later each evening. The full Moon stands for illumination, fulfillment, completion, drawing inward, unrest, and emotional expressions. The third quarter is a time of maturity, fruition, and assumption of the full form of expression.
Forth Quarter
The fourth quarter begins about halfway between the Full Moon and New Moon, when the Sun and Moon are again at ninety degrees, or square. This decreasing Moon rises at midnight, and can be seen in the east during the last half of the night, reaching the overhead position just about as the Sun rises. The fourth quarter is a time of disintegration, drawing back for reorganization, and for reflection.
New Moon Full Moon : Waxing Moon (~14.5 days) Full Moon New Moon : Waning Moon (~14.5 days)
PLANETARY HOURS CALCULATOR
01 March 2010 Monday
Location: Istanbul / Turkiye
Latitude, Longitude: 41n04, 29e00
Local Time: 10:15
Time Zone: -02:00 (EET)
Summer Time: 00:00
Sunrise: 06:38 (-0.8° altitude)
Sunset: 17:54 (-0.8° altitude)
Sunrise (tomorrow): 06:37
Hours of Daylight: 11:15 hours (675 min)
Hours of Nighttime: 12:42 hours (762 min)
Lenght of Planetary Hours (day): 00:56 hours
Lenght of Planetary Hours (night): 01:03 hours
Ruler of Day: MoonRuler of Hour: Mars
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Planetary Hours (Daylight)
Hour
Start Time
End Time
Ruler of Hour
1.
06:38
07:34
Moon
2.
07:35
08:30
Saturn
3.
08:31
09:26
Jupiter
4.
09:27
10:23
Mars
5.
10:24
11:19
Sun
6.
11:20
12:15
Venus
7.
12:16
13:12
Mercury
8.
13:13
14:08
Moon
9.
14:09
15:04
Saturn
10.
15:05
16:00
Jupiter
11.
16:01
16:57
Mars
12.
16:58
17:53
Sun
Planetary Hours (Nighttime)
13.
17:54
18:57
Venus
14.
18:58
20:00
Mercury
15.
20:01
21:04
Moon
16.
21:05
22:07
Saturn
17.
22:08
23:11
Jupiter
18.
23:12
00:14
Mars
19.
00:15
01:18
Sun
20.
01:19
02:22
Venus
21.
02:23
03:25
Mercury
22.
03:26
04:29
Moon
23.
04:30
05:32
Saturn
24.
05:33
06:36
Jupiter
Day
Planetary Ruler
Attributes
Monday
Moon
Feminine, changes, emotions, secrets, dealing with women.
Tuesday
Mars
Enthusiasm, energy, passion, protection, competition, anything requiring aggression or determination.
Wednesday
Mercury
Law, education, travel, thinking, communications, dealing with siblings, medical.
Thursday
Jupiter
Increase (be careful what you ask for, you will get it in LARGE measure!) good luck, gambling, speculation, merciful, long distance travel.
Friday
Venus
Love, luxury, beauty, decorating, shopping for romantic or creative things, pleasure.
Saturday
Saturn
Long term stuff, career, institutions (such as prisons, hospitals marriage), investments, lords of Karma, good day for a reversal spell.
Sunday
Sun
Wishes, success, happiness, all-purpose, no secretive work on Sunday.
eyword for the angular houses
The houses represent the fields of experience wherein the energies of the signs and planets operate. Rather than symbolizing just the outward experiences and environmental circumstances specified by most traditional astrology, the houses are also revealing of the inner state and of one's personal subjective experience and attitudes. By noting the planets' placements in the natal chart, an astrologer can tell which levels and areas of experience will be strongly emphasized in a person's life. The keyword system discussed on the following pages is meant to clarify interpretation and understanding primarily of the psychological and inner significance of the houses. It is an attempt to perceive the essential meanings of the fields of experience known as the “houses." If the essential meanings are understood, they can then be applied to and illuminate all the diverse activities and experiences traditionally symbolized by the houses.
Emphasizing the type of house containing planets in a natal chart helps one to see the chart as a whole. One familiar way of defining the houses is to separate them into the classifications of angular, succedent, and cadent.
The angular houses (1, 4, 7, 10)aare associated with a self-activating quality and have an immediate impact on the structure of one's life. The keyword for the angular houses is ACTION.
The succedent houses (2, 5, 8, 11) are associated with individual desires and the areas of life we want to control and consolidate. The keyword for this type of house isSECURITY.
The cadent houses (3, 6, 9, 12) are areas where there is input, exchange, and distribution of thoughts and observations. The keyword for these houses is LEARNING.
The progression of houses from angular through succedent and cadent and back to angular again symbolizes the flow of life experience: we act, we consolidate the results of our actions in order to gain security, we learn from what we have done and become aware of what remains to be done; and therefore, we act again. Thus, a person with a strong emphasis on one of these three types of houses by planetary placement invariably pours a lot of energy into and experiences many challenges related to action, security, or learning.
ssociated with a self-activating quality and have an immediatThe houses can also be divided into groups of three, depending upon the element of the signs associated with that group of houses. Key phrases and guidelines for understanding these groups are as follows. (Psychic Trinity,' "Trinity of Wealth," etc. are quite old terms, and are used here primarily as convenient labels.) one's attitude toward life and the experience of being alive. They represent an out pouring of energy into the world and aspour sense of identity, our sense of being, determines our attitude toward life in general.
FIRE HOUSES ("THE TRINITY OF LIFE"—1, 5, 9): These houses are associated irations that motivate us to do so. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives in his or her enthusiasms, ideals, and dreams for the future. Faith and confidence (or the marked lack of it) and the need to see an effect on the world at large through one's initiatives dominate much of the person's life activity. The person experiences self most immediately through projecting dreams into the world and seeing them manifested as reality. Planets in the fire houses affect the individual's ATTITUDE TOWARD LIFE ITSELF and the person's entire sense of faith and confidence in self. The keyword that sums up the essential meaning of the fire houses is IDENTITY; for
EARTH HOUSES ("THE TRINITY OF WEALTH"—2, 6, 10): These houses are associated with the level of experience wherein we try to satisfy our basic NEEDS in the practical world. Planets in these houses indicate energies that can most easily be put to use in dealing with the physical world, and that can be developed as expertise in management of resources. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives energetically in the physical world, building, doing, achieving, acquiring, and defining his or her purpose in life by the status and security achieved. Those with a strong emphasis in the earth houses tend to want to settle into a niche in life, as they are searching for the place where they can be the most productive and most easily satisfy their practical needs. This person experiences self most immediately through work, through feeling useful, and through practical achievement. He or she wants to fulfill a calling or role in the great world outside. Planets in the earth houses affect the individual's attitudes toward vocation, career ambitions, and the capacity to produce effective results. The keyword for these houses is MATERIAL, for the earth houses deal chiefly with concerns of the material world.
AIR HOUSES ("THE TRINITY OF RELATIONSHIPS—3, 7, 11): These houses are associated not only with social contacts and relationships of all types, but also with CONCEPTS. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives in the mind and in relationships. Concepts and the sharing of those concepts dominate much of the person's life activity. The person experiences self most immediately through a sense of mutual understanding with others and through discovering and expressing the reality and importance of specific ideas or theories. Planets in the air houses affect the individual's interests, associations, mode of verbal expression, and social life. The keywords for the air houses are SOCIAL and INTELLECTUAL.
WATER HOUSES ("THE PSYCHIC TRINITY"—4, 8, 12): All of these houses deal with the past, with the conditioned responses that are now instinctual and operate through the emotions. Planets in these houses show what is happening on subconscious levels and indicate the process of gaming consciousness through the assimilation of the essence of the past, while simultaneously letting go of the useless memories and fears that hold us back. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives a great deal in the feelings and in his or her deeper YEARNINGS. The emotional and soul needs dominate much of the person's life activity and energy expenditure. Planets in the water houses affect the individual's emotional predisposition, how he or she copes with fulfilling private needs and confronting obsessive feelings, and to what extent the person lives in a private way or in the inner life. The keywords for the water houses are EMOTIONAL and SOUL.
The following The following presents a concise formulation of the keywords described above:
MADE of EXPRESSION
LEVEL of EXPERIENCE
Angular: Action
Succedent: Security
Cadent: Learning
Fire: Identity
Earth: Material
Air: Social & Intellectual
Water: Soul & Emotional
Let's look at the side of you that resides in each of your twelve houses.
The First House and Your Rising Sign
The first house of a chart has the sign that was ascending over the horizon at the moment you were born on its cusp. This sign is known as the Rising Sign, or Ascendant. The first house has to do with how we appear or the way we come across, thus our impact o KEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGYELEMENTS • SIGNS • PLANETS • HOUSES • ASPECTS
The houses represent the fields of experience wherein the energies of the signs and planets operate. Rather than symbolizing just the outward experiences and environmental circumstances specified by most traditional astrology, the houses are also revealing of the inner state and of one's personal subjective experience and attitudes. By noting the planets' placements in the natal chart, an astrologer can tell which levels and areas of experience will be strongly emphasized in a person's life. The keyword system discussed on the following pages is meant to clarify interpretation and understanding primarily of the psychological and inner significance of the houses. It is an attempt to perceive the essential meanings of the fields of experience known as the “houses." If the essential meanings are understood, they can then be applied to and illuminate all the diverse activities and experiences traditionally symbolized by the houses.
Emphasizing the type of house containing planets in a natal chart helps one to see the chart as a whole. One familiar way of defining the houses is to separate them into the classifications of angular, succedent, and cadent.
The angular houses (1, 4, 7, 10) are associated with a self-activating quality and have an immediate impact on the structure of one's life. The keyword for the angular houses is ACTION.
The succedent houses (2, 5, 8, 11) are associated with individual desires and the areas of life we want to control and consolidate. The keyword for this type of house is SECURITY.
The cadent houses (3, 6, 9, 12) are areas where there is input, exchange, and distribution of thoughts and observations. The keyword for these houses is LEARNING.
The progression of houses from angular through succedent and cadent and back to angular again symbolizes the flow of life experience: we act, we consolidate the results of our actions in order to gain security, we learn from what we have done and become aware of what remains to be done; and therefore, we act again. Thus, a person with a strong emphasis on one of these three types of houses by planetary placement invariably pours a lot of energy into and experiences many challenges related to action, security, or learning.
The houses can also be divided into groups of three, depending upon the element of the signs associated with that group of houses. Key phrases and guidelines for understanding these groups are as follows. (Psychic Trinity,' "Trinity of Wealth," etc. are quite old terms, and are used here primarily as convenient labels.)
FIRE HOUSES ("THE TRINITY OF LIFE"—1, 5, 9): These houses are associated with one's attitude toward life and the experience of being alive. They represent an out pouring of energy into the world and aspirations that motivate us to do so. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives in his or her enthusiasms, ideals, and dreams for the future. Faith and confidence (or the marked lack of it) and the need to see an effect on the world at large through one's initiatives dominate much of the person's life activity. The person experiences self most immediately through projecting dreams into the world and seeing them manifested as reality. Planets in the fire houses affect the individual's ATTITUDE TOWARD LIFE ITSELF and the person's entire sense of faith and confidence in self. The keyword that sums up the essential meaning of the fire houses is IDENTITY; for our sense of identity, our sense of being, determines our attitude toward life in general.
EARTH HOUSES ("THE TRINITY OF WEALTH"—2, 6, 10): These houses are associated with the level of experience wherein we try to satisfy our basic NEEDS in the practical world. Planets in these houses indicate energies that can most easily be put to use in dealing with the physical world, and that can be developed as expertise in management of resources. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives energetically in the physical world, building, doing, achieving, acquiring, and defining his or her purpose in life by the status and security achieved. Those with a strong emphasis in the earth houses tend to want to settle into a niche in life, as they are searching for the place where they can be the most productive and most easily satisfy their practical needs. This person experiences self most immediately through work, through feeling useful, and through practical achievement. He or she wants to fulfill a calling or role in the great world outside. Planets in the earth houses affect the individual's attitudes toward vocation, career ambitions, and the capacity to produce effective results. The keyword for these houses is MATERIAL, for the earth houses deal chiefly with concerns of the material world.
AIR HOUSES ("THE TRINITY OF RELATIONSHIPS—3, 7, 11): These houses are associated not only with social contacts and relationships of all types, but also with CONCEPTS. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives in the mind and in relationships. Concepts and the sharing of those concepts dominate much of the person's life activity. The person experiences self most immediately through a sense of mutual understanding with others and through discovering and expressing the reality and importance of specific ideas or theories. Planets in the air houses affect the individual's interests, associations, mode of verbal expression, and social life. The keywords for the air houses are SOCIAL and INTELLECTUAL.
WATER HOUSES ("THE PSYCHIC TRINITY"—4, 8, 12): All of these houses deal with the past, with the conditioned responses that are now instinctual and operate through the emotions. Planets in these houses show what is happening on subconscious levels and indicate the process of gaming consciousness through the assimilation of the essence of the past, while simultaneously letting go of the useless memories and fears that hold us back. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives a great deal in the feelings and in his or her deeper YEARNINGS. The emotional and soul needs dominate much of the person's life activity and energy expenditure. Planets in the water houses affect the individual's emotional predisposition, how he or she copes with fulfilling private needs and confronting obsessive feelings, and to what extent the person lives in a private way or in the inner life. The keywords for the water houses are EMOTIONAL and SOUL.
The following presents a concise formulation of the keywords described above:
MADE of EXPRESSION
LEVEL of EXPERIENCE
Angular: Action
Succedent: Security
Cadent: Learning
Fire: Identity
Earth: Material
Air: Social & Intellectual
Water: Soul & Emotional
Let's look at the side of you that resides in each of your twelve houses.
The First House and Your Rising Sign
The first house of a chart has the sign that was ascending over the horizon at the moment you were born on its cusp. This sign is known as the Rising Sign, or Ascendant. The first house has to do with how we appear or the way we come across, thus our appearance and personality. This is the essential stuff that bubbles up in us spontaneously and that is obvious to others as our trademark or activity. It is what makes us each so personally different. This house rules our personal self and everything about us that draws a reaction from our surroundings or others.
The Second House
The second house is concerned with how we respond to or field whatever impulses or unique and personal qualities we manifest via our first house. This is how we hold or "have" things (possessions, material goods, money, and the like). The second house always refers to how we secure ourselves, the kind of response we get from life and those around us.
The Third House
The third house is concerned with explorations, investigations, and inquiry and research of all kinds. It also rules connections, communications, wires, tubes -- anything that we can get through with our body, mind, voice, letters, what-have-you. It is here that we explore and search for the limits of our life, whatever we are working with at the moment. A very mental house, concerned with finding, furthering, peering, and all manner of questioning. Traditionally rules short journeys, siblings.
The Fourth House
The fourth house is where we send down roots, find our limits, and generally secure ourselves. It is the end of any searching we might have done in the third house. Here we find or end our search, settle down, and manage to get in possession of the whole situation. This is our home and the base from which we can work, feel, and experience. This is the root of our experience, the core or thick of it.
The Fifth House
The fifth house has to do with awareness, emotion (to move out), and expression (to press out). Here there is always a growing sense of self-confidence and even a pride of ownership, since we begin to recognize and own our experience. We know that we have had or are having an experience. All forms of expression and offspring are connected to this house -- children, animals, creative expression, and so on. A sense of direction and ownership takes hold at this point in our experience.
The Sixth House
The sixth house has to do with salvaging and preserving what is good and healthy in our experience. Here we separate the wheat from the chaff. We begin to care for ourselves and our experience and thus health, nutrition. The idea here is that we are able to analyze our experience and have thoughts about what is pure and what is not. The sixth house is an attempt to save the heart of an experience, one that already by that attempt is beginning to pass or not cohere.
The Seventh House
The seventh house is the house of partnerships, relationships, social life, and all that carries us beyond our personal self into an awareness of other people, community, and the like. This includes spiritual awakening and the discovery that we are more than just our personality. Here we begin to respond to our personal needs (and those of others) for the first time. We can see what is going on and are committed to it; thus, marriage and yoga, or union, is indicated in this house.
The Eighth House
The eighth house, traditionally the house of death, is concerned with getting rid of excess parts of ourselves that we see we no longer need. Thus this house also covers initiation and any activities where we are transforming toward a more integral position, getting to the heart of things. The no-nonsense quality of the eighth house makes it good for business ventures since here we are stripping away the dross to reveal the truth or essence of the subject.
The Ninth House
The ninth house covers long journeys and religion (the longest journey of all). Here is what remains of the purification that takes place in the eighth house -- the seed, or essence, of an entire cycle of experience. Religion comes from a Latin word that means to bind back, and thus refers to all things that last or endure, such as the truth. Essential ideas, philosophy, and all that is the very heart of things belong here.
The Tenth House
The 10th house is a house of practical vision and clairvoyance, for here we can see clearly what is. Reputation and career are often connected to this house, since the areas where we can see with greatest clarity are those we most often can put to use to make a living. In summary, this house is where we have real vision and can see to do and work. Planets transiting this house may provide moments of insight and clear-seeing as well.
The Eleventh House
The 11th house has to do with putting our visions and dreams to work. We have been on the mountain and had a vision (10th house). Here we take our vows never to forget what we have seen and to work hard to make these dreams into reality. Thus this house has always been connected with altruistic and humanitarian goals and trying to set them in motion. It is the house of friends and community, because when we are powered by a real insight or vision we share with all -- irrespective of differences.
The Twelfth House
The 12th house is about all that we go through in order to make our dreams into reality and manifest them in the world around us. It covers what we are willing to put up with, the sacrifices we will make in order to bring across what is really important. This is connected to prisons, institutions, betrayal, self-undoing, and the like, because it is here that we must choose to take some possible abuse for the sake of the message we are carrying, or blow it all away with a negative reaction.
n the structure of one's lifKEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGYELEMENTS • SIGNS • PLANETS • HOUSES • ASPECTS
PLANETERY ASPECTS
The dynamic interactions between the various energies of life are represented on an individual level by the "aspects" in a natal chart—that is, the angles between planets and between the Ascendant or Midheaven and the planets. Aspects have been spoken of as ('lines of force'' between the various energy centers (planets) in the energy field mapped by the chart. In the birth chart, which reveals this energy field with remarkable precision, the aspects are measured within the 360° circle. We will concentrate on the most commonly used aspects—the ones occurring every 30° all of which we consider "major aspects" that are reliable and illuminating.
ASPECTS
Aspects can be categorized in two groups:
DYNAMIC or CHALLENGING ASPECTS
This refers to the square (90°), opposition (180°), quincunx (150 °) and sometimes, depending upon the harmony of the planets and signs involved, the conjunction (0°) and the semi-sextile (30°).
HARMONIOUS or FLOWING ASPECTS
This refers to the trine (120°), sextile (60°), and some of the conjunctions (0°) (depending of the planets involved) and semi-sextiles (30°) (depending on the harmony of the planets and the elements of the signs involved).
THE MAJOR ASPECTSe. The k KEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGYELEMENTS • SIGNS • PLANETS • HOUSES • ASPECTS
PLANETERY ASPECTS
The dynamic interactions between the various energies of life are represented on an individual level by the "aspects" in a natal chart—that is, the angles between planets and between the Ascendant or Midheaven and the planets. Aspects have been spoken of as ('lines of force'' between the various energy centers (planets) in the energy field mapped by the chart. In the birth chart, which reveals this energy field with remarkable precision, the aspects are measured within the 360° circle. We will concentrate on the most commonly used aspects—the ones occurring every 30° all of which we consider "major aspects" that are reliable and illuminating.
Aspects can be categorized in two groups:
DYNAMIC or CHALLENGING ASPECTS
This refers to the square (90°), opposition (180°), quincunx (150 °) and sometimes, depending upon the harmony of the planets and signs involved, the conjunction (0°) and the semi-sextile (30°).
HARMONIOUS or FLOWING ASPECTS
This refers to the trine (120°), sextile (60°), and some of the conjunctions (0°) (depending of the planets involved) and semi-sextiles (30°) (depending on the harmony of the planets and the elements of the signs involved).
THE MAJOR ASPECTS
CONJUNCTION (0°)
Any conjunction in an individual chart should be regarded as important, since it indicates an intense merging and interaction of two life energies. The most powerful of all conjunctions are those involving one of the "personal planets" (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars) or the Ascendant. Such conjunctions always characterize particularly strong modes of energy flow and personal expression (by planet and sign) and dominant emphases in the person's life (by house). The keynote of the conjunction is action and self-projection.
SEMI-SEXTILE (30°)
This is traditionally considered a minor aspect, but at times it can be more noticeable even than the conjunction, depending upon the planets involved and the other aspects to the two planets. Planets in semi-sextile are constantly interacting and building on the energy of each other. They do not usually generate the stress of a square and are in fact usually gentler in effect than the quincunx, but they are persistent and almost always in evidence if the aspect is quite close.
SEXTILE (60°)
The sextile seems to be an aspect of openness to the new: new people, new ideas, new attitudes; and it symbolizes the potential for making new connections with either people or ideas that can ultimately lead to new learning. This aspect usually involves signs of harmonious elements, and thus compatible energies. The sextile shows an area of life where one can cultivate not only a new level of understanding but also a greater degree of objectivity which can lead to a feeling of great freedom. It indicates an automatic, natural attunement and sometimes a definite skill.
SQUARE (90°)
The square usually involves planets in inharmonious elements and thus calls forth significant effort in order to integrate such divergent energies. Any close square involving one of the personal planets represents a major life challenge. A square aspect shows where energy must be released, usually through action of a definite sort, in order that a new structure may be built. Many astrologers have written that the square aspect has the nature of Saturn: it represents what you have to deal with. Another Saturnian feature related to the square is .fear, for we are often afraid of dealing with whatever is symbolized by the squares in our charts. Fearing challenge restricts the energy available to deal effectively with whatever problem is at hand.
TRINE (120°)
A trine aspect represents an easy flow of energy into established channels of expression. One does not need to build a new structure or to make marked adjustments in one's life in order to utilize this energy creatively. The planets involved in the trine reveal dimensions of life and specific energies which are naturally integrated and which flow together harmoniously. (Note that trines are commonly between signs of the same element, which is the basis for the harmony of energies.) Such an aspect often shows a way of being, however, rather than a way of doing; one often takes for granted the abilities and talents shown by the trine and thus sometimes does not feel challenged to make the effort required to use the energy constructively.
QUINCUNX (or INCONJUNCT) (150°)
This aspect indicates a strong flow of energy between those dimensions of life symbolized by the planets involved, but the individual may feel that the experience of those energies is too compulsive or consistently annoying. It is difficult to remain aware of both energies simultaneously, and one usually has to make a conscious, concerted effort to do so. Note that the quincunx aspect usually involves signs that are not only of inharmonious elements but also of different modalities. (E.g., a quincunx between planets in Gemini and Capricorn involves mutable Air and cardinal Earth—quite a dissimilarity but potentially a combination of deep understanding and practical skill.) It is important to be aware of both energies, because it often seems that the expression of are not well integrated. Dealing with this aspect effectively requires discrimination in subtly adjusting one's approach to those areas of life rather than trying to force a solution.
OPPOSITION (180°)
The opposition, particularly since it usually involves planets in harmonious elements, indicates a degree of over-stimulation in the person's energy field which often manifests as a feeling of being caught in the middle of completely opposite tendencies. This is usually felt most directly as a constant challenge in the area of personal relationships. There is often a marked lack of objectivity since the individual tends to engage in “projection'' of different sides of his or her nature onto others; and thus there is some difficulty in distinguishing what is yours and what is somebody else's. Having an opposition in one's chart is similar to being stretched between two contrasting, sometimes contradictory tendencies. Opposite signs are similar in many ways and in fact complementary, but there is no denying that they are also totally opposed in many ways.
PRINCIPLE
URGES REPRESENTED
NEEDS SYMBOLIZED
SUN: Vitality; sense of individuality; creative energy, radiant inner self (attunement of soul); essential values
MOON: Reaction; sub-conscious predisposition; feeling about self (self-image); conditioned responsenseself
MERCURY: Communication; conscious mind (i.e., logical or
VENUS: Emotionally-colored tastes; values; exchange of energy with others through giving of self and receiving from others; sharing
MARS: Desire; will toward action; initiative; physical energy; drive
Self-asser
Need to achieve desires; need for physical and sexual excitement
JUPITER: Expansion; grace
Urge toward a larger order or to connect self with something greater than self
Need for faith, trust, and confidence in life and self; need to improve self
SATURN: Contraction; effort
Urge to defend self’s structure and integrity; urge toward safety and security through tangible achievement
Need for social approval; need to rely on one's own resources and work
URANUS: Individualistic freedom; freedom of ego-self
Urge toward differentiation, originality, and independence from tradition
Need for change, excitement and expression without restraint
NEPTUN: Transcendent freedom; unification; freedom from ego-self
Urge to escape from the limitations of one's self and of the material world
Need to experience a oneness with life, a complete merger with the whole
PLUTO: Transformation; transmutation; elimination
Urge toward total rebirth; urge to penetrate to the core of experience
Need to refine self; need to let go of the old through pain
THE TWELVE SIGNS
KEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGYELEMENTS • SIGNS • PLANETS • HOUSES • ASPECTS
ARIES - LEO - SAGITTARIUS • TAURUS - VIRGO - CAPRICORN • GEMINI - LIBRA - AQUARIUS • CANCER - SCORPIO - PISCES
FIRE SIGNS • EARTH SIGNS • AIR SIGNS • WATER SIGNS
ARIESLEOSAGITTARIUSFire Signs express the warming, radiating, energizing life principle which can manifest as enthusiasm, faith, encouragement, and the drive to express self.
TAURUSVIRGOCAPRICORNEarth Signs reveal an attunement with the world of physical forms and a practical ability to utilize and improve the material world.
GEMINILIBRAAQUARIUSAir Signs are correlated with the mind's sensation, perception, and expression, especially related to personal interaction and to geometrical thought forms and abstract ideas.
CANCERSCORPIOPISCESWater Signs symbolize the cooling, healing principle of sensitivity, feeling response, and empathy with others.
KEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGYELEMENTS • SIGNS • PLANETS • HOUSES • ASPECTS
ARIES - LEO - SAGITTARIUS • TAURUS - VIRGO - CAPRICORN • GEMINI - LIBRA - AQUARIUS • CANCER - SCORPIO - PISCES
FIRE SIGNS • EARTH SIGNS • AIR SIGNS • WATER SIGNS
ARIESLEOSAGITTARIUSFire Signs express the warming, radiating, energizing life principle which can manifest as enthusiasm, faith, encouragement, and the drive to express self.
TAURUSVIRGOCAPRICORNEarth Signs reveal an attunement with the world of physical forms and a practical ability to utilize and improve the material world.
GEMINILIBRAAQUARIUSAir Signs are correlated with the mind's sensation, perception, and expression, especially related to personal interaction and to geometrical thought forms and abstract ideas.
CANCERSCORPIOPISCESWater Signs symbolize the cooling, healing principle of sensitivity, feeling response, and empathy with others.
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THE FOUR ELEMENTS
KEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGY
ELEMENTS • SIGNS • PLANETS • HOUSES • ASPECTS
The "four elements" of astrological tradition refer to the vital forces (or energies) that make up the entire creation that is commonly perceived by human beings. The four elements in a birth chart reveal the ability to participate in certain realms of being and to tune in to specific fields of life experience. These elements have nothing to do with the elements of chemistry and in fact transcend them completely. The astrological birth chart is drawn for the moment of first breath, that instant when we immediately establish our lifelong attunement with cosmic energy sources. The birth chart therefore reveals your energy pattern or cosmic attunement to the four elements. In other words, the chart symbolizes the pattern of the various vibratory manifestations that comprise the individual's expression in this plane of creation.
The four elements--Fire, Earth, Air, and Water—each represent a basic kind of energy and consciousness that operates within everyone. Each person is consciously more attuned to some types of energy than others.
The element of any sign that is emphasized in a chart (by significant planetary placement in that sign) shows a specific type of consciousness and method of perception to which the individual is strongly attuned.
Fire Signs express the warming, radiating, energizing life principle which can manifest as enthusiasm, faith, encouragement, and the drive to express self.
Earth Signs reveal an attunement with the world of physical forms and a practical ability to utilize and improve the material world.
Air Signs are correlated with the mind's sensation, perception, and expression, especially related to personal interaction and to geometrical thought forms and abstract ideas.
Water Signs symbolize the cooling, healing principle of sensitivity, feeling response, and empathy with others.
One way of understanding these various energy patterns is to analyze them in terms of their modalities. Each of the four elements manifests in three vibrational modalities: Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutable. Combining the four elements with the three modalities produces the twelve primary patterns of energy called the Signs of the Zodiac.
The Cardinal Signs correlate with the principle of action and symbolize initiating movements of energy in a definite direction.
The Fixed Signs represent concentrated energy gathered inward toward a center or radiating outward from a center.
The Mutable Signs are correlated with .flexibility and constant change and may be conceived as spiralic patterns of energy.
The elements have traditionally been divided into two groups. Fire and Air being considered active and self-expressive, and Water and Earth considered passive, receptive, and self-containing.
This differentiation is of great importance in a wholistic approach to birth charts. These terms refer to the mode of operation of these energies and to the individual's method of self-expression rather than to a generalized quality that can be haphazardly and rigidly applied to all people in a certain category.
For example, the Water and Earth signs are more self-contained than the Fire and Air signs in that they live more within themselves and don't allow themselves to project their essential energy outwardly without a good deal of caution and forethought. However, this enables them to build a solid foundation for action. The Fire and Air signs are more self-expressive since they are always "getting it out," pouring forth their energies and life-substance unreservedly (at times ignoring limits completely): the Fire signs by direct action and the Air signs by social interaction and verbal expression. This classification of elements, and the fact that the signs of the same element (e.g., Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius—all Fire) and of the elements in the same group (e.g., Taurus & Pisces = Earth & Water) are considered to be generally "compatible," is of the greatest importance not only in the interpretation of individual charts but also in the art of chart comparison.
Each sign of a specific element is a different mode of expression of the same elemental energy and represents a different level of development and pattern of energy.
moment of first breath, that instant when we immediately establish our lifelong attunement with cosmic energy sources. The birth chart therefore reveals your energy pattern or cosmic attunement to the four elements. In other words, the chart symbolizes the pattern of the various vibratory manifestations that comprise the individual's expression in this plane of creation.
The four elements--Fire, Earth, Air, and Water—each represent a basic kind of energy and consciousness that operates within everyone. Each person is consciously more attuned to some types of energy than others.
The element of any sign that is emphasized in a chart (by significant planetary placement in that sign) shows a specific type of consciousness and method of perception to which the individual is strongly attuned.
Fire Signs express the warming, radiating, energizing life principle which can manifest as enthusiasm, faith, encouragement, and the drive to express self.
Earth Signs reveal an attunement with the world of physical forms and a practical ability to utilize and improve the material world.
Air Signs are correlated with the mind's sensation, perception, and expression, especially related to personal interaction and to geometrical thought forms and abstract ideas.
Water Signs symbolize the cooling, healing principle of sensitivity, feeling response, and empathy with others.
One way of understanding these various energy patterns is to analyze them in terms of their modalities. Each of the four elements manifests in three vibrational modalities: Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutable. Combining the four elements with the three modalities produces the twelve primary patterns of energy called the Signs of the Zodiac KEY CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS of ASTROLOGY
ELEMENTS • SIGNS • PLANETS • HOUSES • ASPECTS
The "four elements" of astrological tradition refer to the vital forces (or energies) that make up the entire creation that is commonly perceived by human beings. The four elements in a birth chart reveal the ability to participate in certain realms of being and to tune in to specific fields of life experience. These elements have nothing to do with the elements of chemistry and in fact transcend them completely. The astrological birth chart is drawn for the moment of first breath, that instant when we immediately establish our lifelong attunement with cosmic energy sources. The birth chart therefore reveals your energy pattern or cosmic attunement to the four elements. In other words, the chart symbolizes the pattern of the various vibratory manifestations that comprise the individual's expression in this plane of creation.
The four elements--Fire, Earth, Air, and Water—each represent a basic kind of energy and consciousness that operates within everyone. Each person is consciously more attuned to some types of energy than others.
The element of any sign that is emphasized in a chart (by significant planetary placement in that sign) shows a specific type of consciousness and method of perception to which the individual is strongly attuned.
Fire Signs express the warming, radiating, energizing life principle which can manifest as enthusiasm, faith, encouragement, and the drive to express self.
Earth Signs reveal an attunement with the world of physical forms and a practical ability to utilize and improve the material world.
Air Signs are correlated with the mind's sensation, perception, and expression, especially related to personal interaction and to geometrical thought forms and abstract ideas.
Water Signs symbolize the cooling, healing principle of sensitivity, feeling response, and empathy with others.
One way of understanding these various energy patterns is to analyze them in terms of their modalities. Each of the four elements manifests in three vibrational modalities: Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutable. Combining the four elements with the three modalities produces the twelve primary patterns of energy called the Signs of the Zodiac.
The Cardinal Signs correlate with the principle of action and symbolize initiating movements of energy in a definite direction.
The Fixed Signs represent concentrated energy gathered inward toward a center or radiating outward from a center.
The Mutable Signs are correlated with .flexibility and constant change and may be conceived as spiralic patterns of energy.
The elements have traditionally been divided into two groups. Fire and Air being considered active and self-expressive, and Water and Earth considered passive, receptive, and self-containing.
This differentiation is of great importance in a wholistic approach to birth charts. These terms refer to the mode of operation of these energies and to the individual's method of self-expression rather than to a generalized quality that can be haphazardly and rigidly applied to all people in a certain category.
For example, the Water and Earth signs are more self-contained than the Fire and Air signs in that they live more within themselves and don't allow themselves to project their essential energy outwardly without a good deal of caution and forethought. However, this enables them to build a solid foundation for action. The Fire and Air signs are more self-expressive since they are always "getting it out," pouring forth their energies and life-substance unreservedly (at times ignoring limits completely): the Fire signs by direct action and the Air signs by social interaction and verbal expression. This classification of elements, and the fact that the signs of the same element (e.g., Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius—all Fire) and of the elements in the same group (e.g., Taurus & Pisces = Earth & Water) are considered to be generally "compatible," is of the greatest importance not only in the interpretation of individual charts but also in the art of chart comparison.
Each sign of a specific element is a different mode of expression of the same elemental energy and represents a different level of development and pattern of energy.
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PLANETARY HOURS
The planetary hours are based on an ancient astrological system, the Chaldean order of the planets. This is the sequence: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, then repeating endlessly Saturn, Jupiter, etc. The Chaldean order indicates the relative orbital velocity of the planets. From a heliocentric perspective this sequence also indicates the relative distance of the planets from the center of their orbits, i.e., the distance of the planets from the Sun (with the Sun switching places with the Earth in the sequence) and the distance of the Moon from the Earth. From a traditional geocentric perspective the Chaldean order also shows the arrangement of the planetary spheres.
The planetary hours use the Chaldean order to divide time. Each planetary hour of the planetary day is ruled by a different planet. The planet that rules the first hour of the day is also the ruler of the whole day and gives the day its name. Thus the first hour of Sunday is ruled by the Sun, the first hour of Monday is ruled by the Moon and so on.
However, planetary hours are not the same as the sixty-minute hours that we use for normal time-keeping. The day is split into two periods, daytime and nighttime. Sunrise to sunset is considered daytime. Sunset to sunrise of the next day is nighttime. Then these two periods are each divided into twelve equal length hours, which are the planetary hours. The planetary hours of the day and the planetary hours of the night will be of different lengths except on the Equinoxes, when light and darkness are balanced.
Each planetary hour is associated with a planet. These can be used to fine-tune a magickal working. This is one step up from performing magick on the day ruled by the planet best suited for the goal. This will give you a specific hour to work the magick.
So say you're planning to do a money spell. Money and prosperity is ruled by Jupiter, so you'd want to do it on a Thursday. But to make the spell more precise and give it more "weight", you can calculate the planetary hours for the upcoming Thursday. Four planetary hours are ruled by Jupiter (two of day, two of night), so once the exact times are figured out, you have your pick of those hours in which to perform that money spell.
Planetary hours are also good for when you can't wait till the appropriate day. If you needed that money, like, yesterday, and today is Saturday, do the spell today but aid it along by doing it during one of the Jupiter hours.
These can also aid you when other things may be working "against" you, or if you're sick but still have to work some magick anyway.
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PLANETARY HOURS CALCULATOR
01 March 2010 Monday
Location: Istanbul / Turkiye
Latitude, Longitude: 41n04, 29e00
Local Time: 10:15
Time Zone: -02:00 (EET)
Summer Time: 00:00
Sunrise: 06:38 (-0.8° altitude)
Sunset: 17:54 (-0.8° altitude)
Sunrise (tomorrow): 06:37
Hours of Daylight: 11:15 hours (675 min)
Hours of Nighttime: 12:42 hours (762 min)
Lenght of Planetary Hours (day): 00:56 hours
Lenght of Planetary Hours (night): 01:03 hours
Ruler of Day: MoonRuler of Hour: Mars
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Planetary Hours (Daylight)
Hour
Start Time
End Time
Ruler of Hour
1.
06:38
07:34
Moon
2.
07:35
08:30
Saturn
3.
08:31
09:26
Jupiter
4.
09:27
10:23
Mars
5.
10:24
11:19
Sun
6.
11:20
12:15
Venus
7.
12:16
13:12
Mercury
8.
13:13
14:08
Moon
9.
14:09
15:04
Saturn
10.
15:05
16:00
Jupiter
11.
16:01
16:57
Mars
12.
16:58
17:53
Sun
Planetary Hours (Nighttime)
13.
17:54
18:57
Venus
14.
18:58
20:00
Mercury
15.
20:01
21:04
Moon
16.
21:05
22:07
Saturn
17.
22:08
23:11
Jupiter
18.
23:12
00:14
Mars
19.
00:15
01:18
Sun
20.
01:19
02:22
Venus
21.
02:23
03:25
Mercury
22.
03:26
04:29
Moon
23.
04:30
05:32
Saturn
24.
05:33
06:36
Jupiter
Day
Planetary Ruler
Attributes
Monday
Moon
Feminine, changes, emotions, secrets, dealing with women.
Tuesday
Mars
Enthusiasm, energy, passion, protection, competition, anything requiring aggression or determination.
Wednesday
Mercury
Law, education, travel, thinking, communications, dealing with siblings, medical.
Thursday
Jupiter
Increase (be careful what you ask for, you will get it in LARGE measure!) good luck, gambling, speculation, merciful, long distance travel.
Friday
Venus
Love, luxury, beauty, decorating, shopping for romantic or creative things, pleasure.
Saturday
Saturn
Long term stuff, career, institutions (such as prisons, hospitals marriage), investments, lords of Karma, good day for a reversal spell.
Sunday
Sun
Wishes, success, happiness, all-purpose, no secretive work on Sunday.
UNDERSTANDING LUNAR ASTROLOGY
While the Sun is indeed the origin and sustainer of life on Earth, the exposure of the Sun’s light and heat alone would not offer the stimulus to change and growth as do the tides that respond to lunar influences. Using astrological knowledge in our everyday lives will nurture and support us, just add the lunar cycle supports the growth of all living things on Earth.
From the very beginning of life, Earth’s two companions in the sky-the Sun and the Moon-established two separate rhythms that continue to this day: the Sun with its pattern of heat and light, and the setting of the seasons; the Moon raising and lowering the water in and with which life is nourished.
The moon cycles and their correlations with everyday life are the foundation of the Lunar Astrology.
Moon Cycles
First Quarter
(New Moon)
The first quarter begins at the New Moon, when the Sun and Moon are conjunct (the Sun and Moon are in the same degree of the same zodiac sign). The Moon is not visible at first, since it rises at the same time as the Sun. The New Moon phase is a time for new beginnings that favor growth, the externalization of activities, and the expansion of ideas. The first quarter is the time when things germinate and emerge; a time of beginnings, and outwardly directed activity.
Second Quarter
The second quarter begins halfway between the New Moon and the Full Moon, when the Sun and Moon are ninety degrees apart. This half Moon rises around noon and sets around midnight, so it can be seen in the western sky during the first half of the night. The second quarter is the time of growth, development, and articulation of things that already exist.
Third Quarter
(Full Moon)
The third quarter begins at the Full Moon, when the Sun is opposite the Moon and its full light can shine on the full sphere on the Moon. The round Moon can be seen rising in the east at sunset, and then rising a little later each evening. The full Moon stands for illumination, fulfillment, completion, drawing inward, unrest, and emotional expressions. The third quarter is a time of maturity, fruition, and assumption of the full form of expression.
Forth Quarter
The fourth quarter begins about halfway between the Full Moon and New Moon, when the Sun and Moon are again at ninety degrees, or square. This decreasing Moon rises at midnight, and can be seen in the east during the last half of the night, reaching the overhead position just about as the Sun rises. The fourth quarter is a time of disintegration, drawing back for reorganization, and for reflection.
New Moon Full Moon : Waxing Moon (~14.5 days) Full Moon New Moon : Waning Moon (~14.5 days)
PLANETARY HOURS CALCULATOR
01 March 2010 Monday
Location: Istanbul / Turkiye
Latitude, Longitude: 41n04, 29e00
Local Time: 10:15
Time Zone: -02:00 (EET)
Summer Time: 00:00
Sunrise: 06:38 (-0.8° altitude)
Sunset: 17:54 (-0.8° altitude)
Sunrise (tomorrow): 06:37
Hours of Daylight: 11:15 hours (675 min)
Hours of Nighttime: 12:42 hours (762 min)
Lenght of Planetary Hours (day): 00:56 hours
Lenght of Planetary Hours (night): 01:03 hours
Ruler of Day: MoonRuler of Hour: Mars
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Hour
Start Time
End Time
Ruler of Hour
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06:38
07:34
Moon
2.
07:35
08:30
Saturn
3.
08:31
09:26
Jupiter
4.
09:27
10:23
Mars
5.
10:24
11:19
Sun
6.
11:20
12:15
Venus
7.
12:16
13:12
Mercury
8.
13:13
14:08
Moon
9.
14:09
15:04
Saturn
10.
15:05
16:00
Jupiter
11.
16:01
16:57
Mars
12.
16:58
17:53
Sun
Planetary Hours (Nighttime)
13.
17:54
18:57
Venus
14.
18:58
20:00
Mercury
15.
20:01
21:04
Moon
16.
21:05
22:07
Saturn
17.
22:08
23:11
Jupiter
18.
23:12
00:14
Mars
19.
00:15
01:18
Sun
20.
01:19
02:22
Venus
21.
02:23
03:25
Mercury
22.
03:26
04:29
Moon
23.
04:30
05:32
Saturn
24.
05:33
06:36
Jupiter
Day
Planetary Ruler
Attributes
Monday
Moon
Feminine, changes, emotions, secrets, dealing with women.
Tuesday
Mars
Enthusiasm, energy, passion, protection, competition, anything requiring aggression or determination.
Wednesday
Mercury
Law, education, travel, thinking, communications, dealing with siblings, medical.
Thursday
Jupiter
Increase (be careful what you ask for, you will get it in LARGE measure!) good luck, gambling, speculation, merciful, long distance travel.
Friday
Venus
Love, luxury, beauty, decorating, shopping for romantic or creative things, pleasure.
Saturday
Saturn
Long term stuff, career, institutions (such as prisons, hospitals marriage), investments, lords of Karma, good day for a reversal spell.
Sunday
Sun
Wishes, success, happiness, all-purpose, no secretive work on Sunday.
eyword for the angular houses