Professional

Natal Report

for

Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley Tropical
Tupelo, Mississippi Geocentric
Jan 8 1935 Placidus
4:35:00 AM
34°N 15'27"
88°W 42'12"
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Symbols of the Planets and Signs

= Sun = Saturn ' = Midheaven = Aries = Libra
= Moon = Uranus = Chiron " = Taurus ! = Scorpio
= Mercury = Neptune = Retrograde = Gemini $ = Sagittarius
= Venus = Pluto = Cancer = Capricorn
= Mars = N. Node # = Leo = Aquarius
= Jupiter & = Ascendant = Virgo = Pisces

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 Planetary Positions

Planet Sign Longitude Declination

(Sun is in (Capricorn 17 ( 13' 55" -22 ( 20' 00"

(Moon is in (Pisces 2 ( 01' 27" -8( 13' 00"
(Mercury is in (Capricorn 22 ( 18' 24" -23 ( 39' 00"
(Venus is in (Capricorn 29 ( 21' 52" -21 ( 32' 00"
(Mars is in (Libra 12 ( 49' 50" -2( 56' 00"
(Jupiter is in !(Scorpio 18 ( 04' 09" -16 ( 12' 00"
(Saturn is in (Aquarius 25 ( 44' 33" -14 ( 13' 00"
(Uranus is in (Aries 27 ( 29' 56" +10 ( 05' 00"
(Neptune is in (Virgo 14 ( 26' 58" +7( 00' 00"
(Pluto is in (Cancer 25 ( 08' 02" +22 ( 49' 00"
(N. Node is in (Aquarius 1 ( 51' 10" -19 ( 45' 00"
&(Ascendant is in $(Sagittarius 12 ( 21' 50" -22 ( 17' 00"
'(Midheaven is in (Virgo 26 ( 50' 01" +1( 15' 00"
(Chiron is in (Gemini 5 ( 15' 40" +16 ( 37' 00"
 Planetary Aspects

Your Sun is Semisquare Moon The orb is 0( 12'

Your Sun is Conjunct Mercury The orb is 5( 04'
Your Sun is Square Mars The orb is 4( 24'
Your Sun is Sextile Jupiter The orb is 0( 50'
Your Sun is Trine Neptune The orb is 2( 47'
Your Sun is Opposite Pluto The orb is 7( 54'

Your Moon is Conjunct Saturn The orb is 6( 17'

Your Moon is Sextile Uranus The orb is 4( 32'
Your Moon is Semisextile N. Node The orb is 0( 10'
Your Moon is Square Chiron The orb is 3( 14'

Your Mercury is Sextile Jupiter The orb is 4( 14'

Your Mercury is Square Uranus The orb is 5( 12'
Your Mercury is Opposite Pluto The orb is 2( 50'
Your Mercury is Trine Midheaven The orb is 4( 32'

Your Venus is Square Uranus The orb is 1( 52'

Your Venus is Sesquiquadrate Neptune The orb is 0( 05'
Your Venus is Opposite Pluto The orb is 4( 14'
Your Venus is Conjunct N. Node The orb is 2( 29'
Your Venus is Semisquare Ascendant The orb is 2( 00'
Your Venus is Trine Midheaven The orb is 2( 32'
Your Venus is Trine Chiron The orb is 5( 54'

Your Mars is Semisextile Neptune The orb is 1 ( 37'

Your Mars is Sextile Ascendant The orb is 0 ( 28'

Your Jupiter is Sextile Neptune The orb is 3 ( 37'

Your Saturn is Sextile Uranus The orb is 1 ( 45'

Your Saturn is Quincunx Pluto The orb is 0 ( 37'
Your Saturn is Quincunx Midheaven The orb is 1 ( 05'

Your Uranus is Sesquiquadrate Neptune The orb is 1( 57'

Your Uranus is Square Pluto The orb is 2( 22'
Your Uranus is Square N. Node The orb is 4( 21'
Your Uranus is Sesquiquadrate Ascendant The orb is 0( 08'
Your Uranus is Quincunx Midheaven The orb is 0( 40'

Your Neptune is Square Ascendant The orb is 2 ( 05'

Your Pluto is Sextile Midheaven The orb is 1 ( 42'

Your N. Node is Trine Midheaven The orb is 5 ( 01'
Your N. Node is Trine Chiron The orb is 3 ( 24'

Your Chiron is Opposite Ascendant The orb is 7 ( 06'

 Planets in Elements and Modes

Fire )( &( Total = 2 Weighted Score = 7

Earth )( '(Total = 5 Weighted Score = 15
Air )( ( Total = 4 Weighted Score = 5
Water )( ( Total = 3 Weighted Score = 9

Cardinal )( ( Total = 6 Weighted Score = 17

Fixed )( ( Total = 3 Weighted Score = 4
Mutable )( &' (Total = 5 Weighted Score = 15

Weights Used Above

Sun =6 Moon =6 Mercury = 3 Venus =3

Mars = 3 Jupiter = 2 Saturn = 2 Uranus = 1
Neptune =1 Pluto = 1 N. Node =0 Ascendant =6
Midheaven = 2 Chiron = 0

Introduction
The report that you are about to read is a first step in decoding the symbolic language of your birth
chart. It explains the raw materials that you have been given for building a life. It outlines how the
overall shape of your chart reflects the overall shape of your personality, what your greatest challenges
are likely to be, the strengths you have been given to meet these challenges, and the main arenas you are
given for playing out your life’s drama.

In this report you may notice certain places where the information seems to be contradictory. This is to
be expected, because people are complex. For example, in some situations we are shy and in others,
aggressive. When you see repeated patterns, though, take special note: these are apt to be the dominant
themes in your life.
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The Main Emphasis in Your Chart
The general distribution of planets around you at your birth is one of the things that shows the overall
shape of your personality. Before taking a closer look at the details, let’s stand back for a moment to see
whether your chart contains any obvious emphasis in a sign, group of signs, or other division of the
horoscope wheel.

Most planets are in the eastern half of the chart.

You prefer to be in charge of your own destiny, rather than following someone else's dreams,
adventures, projects or proposals. This tends to make you an outgoing, active person, in charge of your
affairs. Independent and outwardly directed, you are conscious of the direction in which you lead your
life. An entrepreneurial pursuit of some type will find you at your best. You need followers to help you,
so be sure that you attract those who are willing to follow your vision. Be clear, however, as to who is in
charge. Joining forces with someone as strong-minded as you may cause the kind of stress that will
distract you from your goals. Make all possible allowances for practicality; and then go ahead and
pursue your vision.

Most planets are below the horizon.

Your personal sense of identity is very important to you. Who you are and where you have come from
are constant sources of interest to you. Your understanding of your cultural heritage and family roots
will help you to determine your direction and goals in life. You feel that answers to important questions
can best be found within, rather than in the outer world or in a relationship. Self-awareness and self-
composure allow you to be self-assured in your career and relationships.

There are many planets in Earth signs

Having so very many planets in Taurus, Virgo or Capricorn, you tend to be the soul of practicality and
pragmatism. You prefer to deal with tangible things that you can touch, see or hear, and like to live in a
world where things are measurable and there are no abstractions. You also like to work with the present
moment, the here and now, especially if it creates a lasting outcome or is connected to a past. You may
have to guard against a tendency to be overly conservative, cautious or narrow-minded.

Stability is your great strength. You can be counted on when things get crazy around you, because you
generally don’t engage in knee-jerk reactions. Instead, you prefer to allow things to happen, and then
you react in your own time. You initiate matters only when they aren’t proceeding in the direction that
you expect. Because you tend to be passive, you need external stimuli to get you going.

Very fertile, you enjoy producing things of substance, from children to business reports. You are not,
however, overly nurturing. You generally prepare the ground, plant the seeds and then walk away until
harvest time. If the seed needs continual care and attention to grow to its fullest potential, you may or
may not intervene. If you do offer assistance, it tends to be for the material, rather than the emotional,
needs of whatever you are nurturing.
There are many planets in Cardinal signs.
Your strong emphasis in signs like Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn gives you an ability to initiate
things, whether they be actions, relationships or projects. You do not care whether something has been
done before: if it interests you, you will attempt it. Though you tend to be sullen and unhappy in the role
of minion, you feel creative and fulfilled in positions of leadership. Once projects are under way,
however, you tend to lose interest. It would be ideal to have someone to follow in your footsteps and
complete the details.

There are many planets in Mutable signs.

Your chart’s strong emphasis in signs like Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces makes you tend to be
extremely flexible. When the situation demands that you change in order to move forward, you can
adapt and transform yourself with ease. You are not necessarily the pioneering type, but if change must
happen, it is natural for you to glide along with the flow. At times, though, you feel that you are at the
mercy of forces beyond your control, and are constantly being blown from pole to pole. This may make
you feel nervous and anxious, but like everything else in your life, this, too, will pass.

There is an unusual number of planets in Capricorn.

You have remarkably strong desire to be a success in your chosen field. Once you set your goals, you
have a rare ability to focus entirely and solely on attaining them. You are an effective leader who can
both handle details and make visions come true. Beware, however, of always judging yourself and
everything else by the criterion of usefulness. Duty-oriented and practical, you need to loosen up now
and then, have fun just for its own sake, and make choices based simply on enjoyment. This will
actually replenish your energies, making you more effective and creative when you do return to work.
When you relax, you can regale others with your wonderfully wry and earthy sense of humor.
Aspects: Keys to Your Inner Drama
In your birth chart, the Sun, Moon and planets play the central role. They are the actors in the drama,
the moving figures on the stage, each with a character of its own. How these characters relate to each
other, whether and how they clash or harmonize, whether they bring out each other’s best or worst
qualities, is shown by the aspects, or angles, between the planets.

Is the ongoing drama between two planets a continuing tension that periodically erupts into crises
(conjunctions, oppositions and squares), a harmonious alliance where the two planets aid and abet each
other (trines and sextiles), an uneasy truce full of ambiguities (certain other aspects in neither of these
families), or simply indifference (no aspect at all)? Below you will see which pairs of planets are in
aspect in your chart.

Each of the following sections lists the aspects in order of their general importance, with aspects
involving the Sun, Moon and fast-moving planets coming first. You can get a further idea of their
importance in your particular chart by going to the aspect table at the beginning of this report and
finding the five or so aspects with the smallest number of degrees and minutes in the “The orb is”
column.

Your Major Challenges

We start with your conjunctions, oppositions and squares because these tend to point out the challenges
that you have been set in life. Mose people experience these aspects as problems, at least at first. Armed
with awareness, however, you can come to view these so-called “ hard” aspects as the blessings that
they really are. These are the forces that spur you forward. When you face the challenges that these
aspects pose, you grow in strength, confidence, wisdom and maturity.

Sun conjunct Mercury

You are known for your sharp mind, and greatly enjoy a penchant for conversation. You would rather
talk than eat, and it will always be important for you to have some sort of intellectual stimulation as an
outlet for your nervous energy. Be careful that you always talk about matters of consequence. Others do
not necessarily want to listen to you prattle on about nothing in particular.

Sun square Mars

You have an abundance of energy, especially physical energy, but you do not always control it
gracefully. You are very competitive and hate to lose. Try to find a worthy outlet for your energy (like
sports or work requiring immense physical effort) so that it does not manifest itself in quarrels and
bickering. You are so rash and impulsive that it is unlikely that you are always right even though you
think you are. Hard though it may be, learn to trust those around you who are calm and practical.

Sun opposite Pluto

Once you have decided on a course of action in your relationships, business or career, you do not allow
others to alter your choice. You proceed on your course like a bulldozer, clearing everything in your
path. It is not your choice of what to pursue that gets you in trouble, but your method of getting there. If
you choose to act in a brutal and compulsive manner, you may win, but you will encounter strong and
violent opposition, and the battle may destroy much of what you were hoping to gain. Learn to temper
your ambition with tact and humility, and the obstacles in your path will melt away.
Moon conjunct Saturn
You are known for your coolness and objectivity in times of stress. You have the ability to make
unemotional and responsible decisions when others are losing their heads or going off half-cocked. And
you appreciate the trust that others have in you. The negative side of this is that you tend to remain cool
and detached at times when warmth and spontaneity are needed. Feelings of self-doubt can make you
shrink from emotional attachments, so that you run the risk of becoming lonely and alienated. Do not
feel bad, though. Once you have made an emotional commitment, you will toil long and hard to make
the relationship work. In the proper circumstances, this is a great gift.

Moon square Chiron

Your mother may have been high-strung and domineering, or she may have had insecurities, which you
absorbed. In turn, you may demand constant reassurance and attention from everyone you meet.
Possessive and manipulative, you may drive away those whom you care about most. Once you grow
confident and trusting, you can provide those close to you with the love and stability that they need. At
times, you are withdrawn and moody. You relish being a confidante who can provide answers and
direction.

Mercury square Uranus

Your quick, agile mind usually has no problem steering a correct path through the mountains of new and
exciting information that you deal with as a normal part of your routine. But every now and then you try
to do things too quickly, and foul-ups begin to occur, much to your embarrassment. Things seem to get
scattered, and you become more and more nervous and frenzied. Learn to slow down just a bit. Your
speed of comprehension far surpasses that of almost anyone else, so why worry about going into
hyperdrive?

Mercury opposite Pluto

Your ability to understand concepts and people at the deepest levels of motivation often causes you to
overestimate your ability to convince others of the appropriateness of your conclusions. Your tendency
to use threatening tactics that impinge upon your personal integrity causes others who disagree with
your views (or your tactics) to rise up and engage you in concerted combat. In your desire for
domination, power and control, is all this stress really worth it? If not, try merely to convince, not
overwhelm.

Venus square Uranus

Your relationships do not seem to last very long and that bothers you. It’s not that you are incapable of
caring deeply, the problem is that you have a relatively short attention span. You need to feel that you
can leave a relationship at the drop of a hat in order to feel comfortable. You must realize that it is
unrealistic to expect others to be able to grant you this much freedom easily. You may appear to be
undependable and irresponsible, but it may just be the best thing for all concerned if you do not try to
hang on to relationships that have outlived their time or usefulness.

Venus opposite Pluto

You show affection in such an intense manner that you often seem to be more at war with your beloved
than in a state of caring and loving. You tend to make impossible demands on the other and on yourself
in order to prove your love and to feel that the relationship is growing and evolving. This is fine as long
as you do not become overly jealous and overly possessive, a trap that is easily fallen into. You have
very high expectations of what a relationship should be — just be careful not to force those expectations
on your lover lest you meet some very strong resistance indeed.
Venus conjunct North Node
Other people seek you out because you have such a gentle, loving nature. You have the ability to put
others completely at ease — to make them think that you’re there for them totally in a supportive role
and to be absolutely sincere about it. You have the knack of saying and doing just the right thing to
make others think well of themselves. Be careful though not to use this great gift for your own selfish
ends — you don’t want to become known as a flirt or a flatterer.

Uranus square Pluto

Your generation is known for zealousness in the pursuit of change, both in society and in one’s own
immediate life. This, of course, has consequences. The forces that would resist the sweeping changes
that you propose are as strong-willed as you are. Many battles may be fought, ideologically and, if
necessary, physically. Be careful that your impatience does not lead you to ruthless extremes. By
learning to compromise a bit, you will find your progress less blocked, because others will not regard
your actions as so severe a threat.

Uranus square Nodes

You find it extremely difficult to form any sort of long-term relationship (except maybe in the case of
those with whom you’re most intimate — family and loved ones, for example). But casual relationships
don’t go well if you’re not allowed perfect and total freedom of self-expression. Any deviation from this
causes you to become quarrelsome, irritable and restless in the extreme. This can of course lead to
misunderstandings and separations. If you try to structure your life in such a way that you’re not
committed to any set routine in your daily doings, you’ll feel much more comfortable dealing with
people in social situations.

Neptune square Ascendant

Your heightened awareness makes you intuitively conscious of the needs of others. At your best, you
can use this knowledge to assist those in need, but at times you do not have the ability to discriminate
between those who are truly helpless and those who are merely comfortable acting the victim opposite
you, the savior. This can produce relationships based on dishonesty, mistrust and guilt. If you find
yourself playing either of these roles with painful consequences, then you should carefully examine your
motivations and those of your partner, or seek the advice of someone objective and respected to help you
sort things out.

Chiron conjunct Descendant

Preoccupied with the way you look and behave, you are much too concerned with the opinions of others.
You often paint yourself as a victim of circumstance and feel that the world owes you a living. At times,
you are tempted to surrender your hopes and dreams for a partner. Once you improve your self-esteem
and carve out your own niche, you will be less dependent on others and will not look to a partner to
define your path.
Your Sustaining Strengths
Trines and sextiles tend to work with a natural harmony that calls for little effort on your part. They
show the things that you just seem naturally good at. Usually they point to the more positive parts of
your nature, and act as support that you can call on in difficult times.

Because these aspects are so comfortable, they are not likely to push you to expand your limits or cause
you to change. It is actually helpful to have a balance of hard aspects (like oppositions and squares) to
stimulate you to grow, and soft aspects (trines and sextiles) to ease your passage and provide places to
rest.

If you are blessed with a predominance of trines and sextiles, your life may tend to be placid and your
nature serene. If so, remember that the world around you is probably sorely in need of these qualities
that are yours to bestow.

Sun sextile Jupiter

Your sunny, upbeat optimism is infectious. Others enjoy being near you because your zest for life puts
them in a positive frame of mind. You tend to think that anything is possible, and that you can and
should grow and become more than you are now. Your thoughts are usually powerful enough to make it
so. Others tend to trust your opinions. You have a balanced and high-minded attitude that gives you a
well-earned reputation for being fair and just. Also, your grand gestures are usually grounded
sufficiently in reality to keep you from overdoing things.

Sun trine Neptune

There is an airy, ethereal, dreamlike quality about you, as if your hold on consensus reality were only
temporary. You have a vivid imagination and the ability to interpret the transcendental meanings behind
ordinary events. Your sensitivity and compassion allow you to deny your own basic needs in favor of
the needs of others. At times, your sense of discrimination is not always sharp, and you can be taken in
by con artists. Therefore, be very careful when it comes to making major decisions or signing contracts.
Always seek out the advice of a trusted friend or advisor.

Moon sextile Uranus

Your zest for life is boundless. You are eternally curious, especially when it comes to relationships.
Because you are easily bored, you do not mind having many brief encounters — once the excitement is
over, you get itchy feet. Your emotional life will never be dull, but its inherent turbulence could raise
havoc on a settled lifestyle. As long as no one tries to put you into too narrow a mold, your unique, free-
spirited attitude will prove to be a breath of fresh air to all with whom you come in contact.

Mercury sextile Jupiter

You have multiple intellectual interests and enjoy reading or traveling in order to broaden your horizons.
Also, you are known for your sound judgment. This is because you have the ability to see the whole
picture and form clear, reasonable opinions. You are generally tolerant and open-minded, traits that
allow others to seek you out for help with their problems.
Mercury trine Midheaven
Your mind is playful, active and curious. You delight in intellectual pursuits of all sorts, from
recreational reading to studying specific subjects. Even though you may have finished formal schooling,
your education is never over. Your inquisitive nature leads you to become well versed in a wide variety
of subjects. Because you easily communicate what you know, do not be surprised if you become a
teacher.

Venus trine Midheaven

You are a truly loving, warm and generous person. This makes you well liked by all. Since you do not
go out of your way to push yourself forward in the world, others tend to look out for your interests. You
prefer peace and harmony so much that you will often compromise your position just so that there is no
tension around you. Be careful of this tendency because, if it becomes habitual, you can soon lose all of
your self- respect and be forever at the mercy of those with whom you associate.

Venus trine Chiron

You are magnetic and charismatic, and you command the love and respect of those whom you meet.
Because of your optimism and cheerfulness, your friends, family and colleagues look to you as a morale
booster. You savor being in the center of a social whirl, and have the ability to look people in the eye
and make them feel as if they were the only one in the room. A great team player and a master of
compromise, you are at your best working with others as a peacemaker and mediator.

Mars sextile Ascendant

You have boundless energy and will happily defend whatever it is you have decided to call your own.
You also delight in competition. When you have a goal in mind, you feel alive and energized, and you
enjoy the give-and-take of trying to better someone else. Also, you work well in groups, as long as the
group goals are similar to your own.

Jupiter sextile Neptune

Your sincere humanitarianism endears you to the less fortunate. You are the original cockeyed optimist,
full of big plans and convinced that they can be made to happen if only everyone has faith. You are
sensitive and charitable — an easy touch if someone appeals to your better nature.

Saturn sextile Uranus

You have the rare gift to be able to be organized in the midst of difficult, chaotic and tense situations. As
a matter of fact, you seem to perform even better when times are tough than you do when things are
proceeding smoothly. Your ability to blend innovation in a structured and disciplined manner makes you
an ideal teacher.

Pluto sextile Midheaven

You want to make a mark in the world and you are willing to put out the effort required to allow that to
happen. You see yourself as a catabolic agent — one who can bring about sweeping and radical changes
in your particular line of endeavor. And the more difficult the challenge, the better you like it. You are
very competitive and love a good tussle.
North Node trine Midheaven
Your advancement in life is due to the quality of the people and groups with whom you associate. Your
community spirit is high — you enjoy working with others for common goals. Your enthusiasm and
sincerity and true caring allow you to quickly rise to the top and assume leadership roles in the many
volunteer projects you take on. You’re a true humanitarian, caring little for personal gain. At some point
your peers will probably honor you for your good works.

Chiron trine North Node

Throughout much of your life you have experienced the pain and isolation of feeling like an outsider.
Whenever you come into contact with others who also have difficulty communicating, your sympathy is
easily aroused. Identifying with the underdog provides a sense of purpose and gives you an enormous
need to reach out to others. Working hard has always been an outlet for self-expression, and it makes
you feel needed. Most important, professional recognition does wonders to improve your self-esteem.
Rounding Out the Picture
Two other families of so-called “minor” aspects add yet more information about the way the planets
relate to each other in your chart. Semisquares and sesquares (also known as sesquiquadrates) share
the dynamic, crisis-prone nature of the square but need to be quite exact in order to be felt.

Semisextiles and quincunxes connect signs that are totally unrelated to each other. They can have an
odd, unsettling quality, indicating problems or issues that it’s hard to get a grip on. They are like
interesting puzzles that call for a creative solution.

Sun semisquare Moon

In certain situations you experience problems in making decisions that are balanced, appropriate and
reasonable. Because you feel, at some times, that you are lacking either the ability to be rational and
logical or, at other times, the ability to be compassionate and feeling, you tend to overcompensate and
the result always seems to put you off center, forcing you to continually make adjustments. Be aware of
this tendency and consciously try to seek a middle path in all you do.

Moon semisextile North Node

You feel such a strong affinity with those in need that you are always joining groups and organizations
in an attempt to assist them. When you devote too much time to these charitable needs, you sense that
your own personal needs and those of your family are suffering. But you don’t really know how to deal
with the guilt and frustration this causes because you have made a serious commitment to the group or
groups you have joined. Try to learn to limit your charitable activities a bit. You’ll be much more
effective if you’re less frustrated — especially if you don’t feel that you’re neglecting yourself and your
family. It’s OK to say no every once in a while.

Venus sesquare Neptune

You are more in love with the idea of being in love than you are with your lover as a person. You have
the tendency to build such elaborate and romantic fantasies about your beloved that it will be almost
impossible for him or her to live up to them. Try to learn to be more realistic in your expectations so that
the gap between reality and your cherished illusions becomes smaller. Then you will not be so
disappointed when you notice that your perfect lover has very human flaws.

Venus semisquare Ascendant

You are quite attractive, perhaps physically, but definitely in your mannerisms and attitude toward life.
You enjoy making others feel comfortable and relaxed and will go out of your way to make the
environment around you seductive and peaceful. Be careful, however, that you are not doing this merely
to avoid stress and difficult situations or you will soon find yourself totally dependent on the good will
of others.
Mars semisextile Neptune
You experience a continuing conflict between the need to stand up and defend yourself — to motivate
yourself toward a clear and definable goal — and the feeling that you just do not have the requisite will
power or energy to act on your own behalf. You are much more comfortable helping others to reach
their goals than you are in helping yourself to do so. The problem here is that you know that this is not
right for you and it frustrates you greatly. Your physical energy is an issue for you and you should
recognize it as such. Do not attempt any major effort if you are tired or weak if you do, you will
probably become ill. Also, build up your self-confidence wherever possible. You have a valid
contribution to make.

Saturn quincunx Pluto

You tend to think that all of life is hard and difficult and that you can only make your way by
overcoming overwhelming odds. Everything that you do seems to be an uphill battle and, if you
continue to accept this as an inevitability, your thoughts will assure that it will indeed continue as a
never-ending pattern for you. The only way to work around this tendency is to realize that it is self-
created. You must accept that things can be better and will be better, only more gradually for you than
for most others. At your best, you have the toughness to weather any storm.

Saturn quincunx Midheaven

You have a very strict and disciplined approach to life that can assure your success in the world, given
that you feel comfortable and secure with yourself. If, on the other hand, you doubt your self-worth,
usually due to having been subjected to an overly harsh environment as a youngster, you may regard the
world as such a difficult place to be in that you stop trying altogether. If this is the case, you may need
the help of a respected advisor who can assist you in dealing with these very serious issues. You must
relearn the fact that you are in control of your own destiny and that you have the right to choose the path
that will be best for you.

Uranus sesquare Neptune

You, and your peer group, are very interested in the propagation of new ways of looking at the
humanitarian concerns of your times. You will propose unique and original solutions to age-old
problems, but you may be faced with a certain amount of resistance by traditional authority figures,
simply because they are afraid of change per se. Carry on, though — you can be a force for positive
change.

Uranus sesquare Ascendant

Others regard you as somewhat of a zany character because you are always the one in your group that
seems to be out of step with everyone else. You must be free to be your own person and will rebel at any
attempt to mold you into other people’s images. This, of course, may cause you to get into trouble with
authority figures. Your life will never be dull, but it may be difficult for you ever to be able to settle
down into a permanent lifestyle.

Uranus quincunx Midheaven

You are aware of the need to cooperate with the authority figures in your life, especially with your
bosses and, earlier in your life, with your parents and teachers. But you have such a strong and
stubbornly independent streak that you are often in hot water because of your actions. You see this
happening and it bothers you because you would like to be able to conform like everyone else and you
know that your actions are hurting your chances of moving ahead in life. You must learn that you have
to forge your own particular path in life if you would be comfortable with yourself. Have traditional
goals, but go about attaining them your own way.
Houses: Bringing the Planets Down to Earth
The positions of the planets in the zodiac, and the aspects between the planets, are nearly the same for
everyone born on a given day. But the houses reflect how the planets were arranged around you and you
alone, at a given hour and minute, and at a given place on Earth. Houses therefore personalize the
planets, showing how they relate to your own particular life.

The meanings of the twelve houses echo those of the twelve zodiacal signs, but are more specific and
concrete. For example, the second sign, Taurus, is much concerned with the material world, whereas the
second house deals with your actual possessions: how you feel about them, and how you acquire them.

The house delineations that follow show how the affairs of each house are flavored by the sign that lies
on its cusp. Since houses are sometimes larger than signs, a house may also have one or more signs
completely enclosed or “intercepted” within it, in which case you will find additional material about the
intercepted signs in a house. Most important, you will learn below in what areas of life the planets —
the main actors in your drama — are disposed to be most active, and how the way each planet operates
is influenced by both its house and its sign.

House 1: Your Interface with the World

The first house focuses on the basic equipment that you have been given for interacting with the world:
your body and your physical constitution, your face, your appearance, your personality, mannerisms
and the way you present yourself. It may not be how you see yourself, but it is how others tend to
perceive you, and you should be aware that it has an important effect on how you are accepted in social
situations. Planets in the first house tend to be strong and “out-front,” especially when they are close to
(that is, conjunct) your Ascendant.

Sagittarius on the First

Impatient with social niceties and considering them hindrances to real communication, you prefer to live
your life in a straightforward and simple manner You are known for being open, frank, outgoing and
honest. At times, though, you can be blunt and quite indiscreet. Usually you do not mean any harm, so it
is best if others learn not to take everything you say personally. You demand the freedom to do as you
choose, and if you are not self-directed you feel trapped and anxious. You have lots and lots of energy,
and tend to become restless if you feel confined. You may love the outdoors, and physical exercise can
help you burn off some of your excess energy. A gregarious person who likes to socialize, you have an
innate enthusiasm that livens up any gathering.

No planets in the First

You have no planets in the first house, which means that the way that others regard you is not usually a
major issue for you. Look to the house position of the Sun, Mars and Saturn to learn how your sense of
personal identity is integrated into your overall character.

House 2: What You Own and Value

The second house goes a step outward from your own person and has to do with resources that you
possess, including money. It shows your attitude toward what you own or would like to own: what you
crave and covet, what you most value, how you go about getting it, how you take care of it, and whether
or not you hang on to it. By extension, it can also indicate your sense of values: not just material things
but also the attitudes and ideas that you hold dear.
Capricorn on the Second
You are a high achiever and you regard material prosperity as a mark of your success in the world. You
have an unreasonable fear that, if you do not surround yourself with wealth or possessions, others will
regard you as a failure. As such, you have the self-discipline to put on the blinders and work without
distraction for goals that are at present only dimly realizable. You are very cautious and responsible,
however, and are not willing to risk everything on any sort of gamble or speculation in order to get
ahead. You prefer to proceed at a steady, reasonable pace. Be careful not to get so caught up in trying to
get ahead that you forget to relax and enjoy the rich variety that life has to offer.

Many planets in the Second

You have a strong sense of values. It will be important for you to make sure that you have not defined
your value structures too narrowly — if you do, you will be missing out on much of life’s richness and
variety. Once you have decided what it is that you want, either philosophically or in the realm of
personal possessions, you will strap on your blinders and pursue your goals with dogged determination.
You are basically a stable person and others can count on you to be consistent in your beliefs and way of
life.

Sun in the Second

A very strong sense of values is your hallmark. You will go to great lengths to make sure that you are
secure and to see that whatever you have staked out as your “turf” is protected from outside influence.
This applies equally to the material things in your life as well as to your cherished concepts and ideas. It
is necessary for you to feel comfortable in your surroundings — what is known and familiar is very
important. An inveterate collector, you are very possessive about what you own. Try to learn to share
with others and make sure that your possessions and values are worthy of you and are not just outworn
pieces of junk from yesteryear.

Sun in Capricorn
Extremely serious and mature, you are capable of accepting responsibilities and do so willingly. Others
expect you to be dutiful as a matter of course. You may get angry when people are rewarded after not
having worked nearly as hard as you have. Goal-oriented and an achiever, you are justifiably proud of
the tangible results of your efforts. You are not a fast worker, but you are thorough, and you are known
for being unusually persistent, tireless and tenacious in reaching your goals. When you’re working, you
tend to have a kind of tunnel vision that allows you to block out extraneous matters that would distract
others. Your power to concentrate totally on the matter at hand enables you to be practical and efficient
at managing and structuring complex, ongoing projects.

Mercury in the Second

You value practical ideas. Your innate cleverness helps you to make money by using your wits, and you
enjoy the challenges involved in making money. It’s important to pursue specialized skills training or an
advanced education, because you are a good learner and will be able to apply what you learn to advance
yourself in whatever field you choose. Excellent careers for you to explore include teaching, writing,
radio, TV and other jobs involving communication.
Mercury in Capricorn
Rather than being attracted to abstract thoughts and ideas, you prefer things that are practical and useful.
With this and your tendency to be highly focused and goal-oriented, you have a good head for business.
You are also probably skillful at organizing, directing and planning activities. Your thinking is careful,
cautious and conservative, perhaps to the point where you should beware of being narrow-minded and
dogmatic. Your sense of humor is on the earthy side, and may be either dry and self-deprecating, or
slapstick and crude.

Venus in the Second

You feel that you need to live as comfortably and luxuriously as possible and you devote a great deal of
your time and energy trying to make sure that it happens. You love to make money and are probably
good at it, but it tends to run right through your fingers as you spend it on the beautiful and expensive
things with which you like to surround yourself. Generally, you do have a good sense of value, but you
should be careful to avoid impulse buying and any form of self-indulgence. Without some serious self-
discipline, your budget (and waistline) will tend to spread and spread ...

Venus in Capricorn
You tend to keep your feelings under control, releasing your emotions only in serious or important
situations. Also, you distrust others who behave in an excessive or immoderate way. You prefer to relate
to people older than you or whose position is such that respect and duty are more important for both of
you than passion or emotional response. To avoid being lonely, be careful to form relationships that are
based on something more than practicality or utility.

North Node in the Second

You’re justly proud of the groups you belong to and the alliances you have formed. You tend to be
extremely selective about your choice of associates — you make sure well in advance that your goals
are the same as that of the group’s. Casual or trivial relationships have no interest for you. Once you’ve
made a commitment to someone or something, you can be counted on forever to be supportive of them.
A lack of spontaneity in your daily life may cause others to judge you as being dull and set in your ways,
but a well- ordered daily routine seems to suit you just fine.

North Node in Aquarius

As long as someone else (or a group or organization) appeals to your intellectual sensibilities, you’ll try
to ally yourself with them in some way. You may find that you always seem to get involved with many
wide- ranging groups — so much so that you find it difficult to fit them all into your busy schedule.
Your many friends and acquaintances provide you with needed stimulation. Loyal and fair-minded, you
try to spend time equally with all your friends, never concentrating on just one or two for any length of
time. Although probably quite conservative yourself, you’re attracted to those who are a bit offbeat or
eccentric, because you enjoy watching their minds work.

House 3: Your Immediate Surroundings

Going a step further out from your own body and possessions, the third house has to do with your
immediate surroundings and how you interact with them. The first “social” house, it describes brothers
and sisters, neighbors and anyone who just happens to be near you on a daily basis. It also describes
daily communication and transportation: letters, phone calls and emails, and routine journeys such as
commuting to shopping, school or work. The first “mental” house, it governs early education and basic
skills training, paving the way for higher education in the ninth house which is directly opposite it in the
chart.
Aquarius on the Third
You have an objective, detached mind that allows you to have unusually good judgment about most
things. You are attracted to studies that demand an unruffled temperament in order to handle any kind of
intricate and complex subject matter. This would include science, communications, electronics,
computers and maybe even astrology. Your opinions do tend to become set and rigid once you have
made up your mind, however, and you must be careful of a tendency toward intolerance and dogmatic
thinking. You do love a challenge though, and you can come up with original and inventive solutions to
complicated problems. You tend to live so much of your life in your mind that you often neglect the
daily amenities of life and can get a reputation for being odd or eccentric.

Moon in the Third

How you think about things and how you act and react to life’s everyday situations has been strongly
influenced by habit patterns that you picked up at a very early age. If they were negative patterns, they
will be very difficult to unlearn. You have a very subjective approach to life — be careful not to depend
too heavily on your ingrained prejudices and beliefs or you will not be open-minded enough to see the
necessity to grow and evolve. Your feelings and emotions sometimes interfere with your normal ability
to be logical and reasonable. You may experience a very close attachment to your siblings or to the
neighborhood of your youthful years.

Moon in Pisces
You have strong feelings and are extremely sensitive. It would help if you had a thicker skin — you tend
to react emotionally to every situation you come across. Kind, gentle and considerate of the feelings of
others, you are good at taking care of the sick, wounded and helpless. But you tend to absorb the energy
of others — so avoid those who are always negative. You have a rich, creative and lively imagination,
but you should be careful not to spend all your time daydreaming. Very intuitive, you have good ESP
and may be quite clairvoyant or psychic. Remember that you too have the right to get what you want
from life. If you are always defensive and kowtowing to others, people will take advantage of you and
exploit you.

Saturn in the Third

A very cautious thinker, you speak slowly and carefully — and only after you have worked things out in
your head in great detail. For you to consider any learning experience to be valuable, it must be highly
structured and very orderly. You find it difficult to comprehend abstractions — you prefer practical,
concrete ideas. Very conservative, at times you seem to have blinders on, only being able to comprehend
what is directly in front of you or what is known and familiar. Try not to be too narrow-minded.
Consider the opinions of others carefully before rejecting them out of hand.

Saturn in Aquarius
Your personal sense of values is a reflection of the value structures of your peer group and of those you
respect and admire. Try to be more critical in your acceptance of these values — you tend to prejudge
the abilities of those you trust and then follow what they say blindly. Basically very conservative, you
prefer orderly, systematic changes and fear doing things rashly or impulsively. Ideas and philosophies
must have some sort of immediately realizable, utilitarian function in order for you to pay any attention
to them.
House 4: Where You Come From
Being at the very bottom of the wheel, the fourth house is both where you originate and where you come
to rest. As such, it describes your parents and ancestral background, and later the home or protected
space into which you retreat each day for nourishment and sleep. A deeply personal house, the fourth is
concerned with security and peace of mind, the safety of loved ones, and how you care for others and
yourself. The place of your roots and the earth beneath your feet, the fourth house rules the house or
apartment where you live and also real estate in general. In your trajectory through life, the fourth
house shows your origins and where you are coming from, just as the tenth house and Midheaven
describe your career and where you aim to go.

Pisces on the Fourth

At your very roots, you seem uncertain about your basic security in life. You fear that those who are
closest to you will not support you in time of need, and you often tend to set yourself up to be hurt and
vulnerable. You prefer to dwell in the vivid life of your imagination rather than get involved with the
gritty necessities of dealing with home and family on a day-to-day basis. You are at your best when
others are kind and gentle to you — you can then show your self-sacrificial nature by tenderly caring for
those you love best.

No planets in the Fourth

You have no planets in the fourth house. This means that home and family are not likely to be major
issues for you, or demand much time and energy on your part. For further information on how you
handle the issues of security and peace of mind, look to the house and aspects of your Moon.

House 5: Playtime
After being nurtured and restored in the fourth house, you are refreshed and full of energy for play and
creative pursuits. Replenished by dreams, you have creative ideas. Nurtured by your parents, you are
ready to have your own children. Fresh from the security of home, you are ready to trust the universe
and take risks. For all these reasons, the fifth house traditionally rules the child in you and the children
around you, your own personal creativity and self-expression, plays and amusements of all sorts,
gambling and speculation, and courtship, love affairs and romance. This is an outgoing house, but it is
still beneath the horizon, in the territory of your heart’s desires.

Aries on the Fifth

You have a daring and cocksure attitude when it comes to playing and having fun. You delight in taking
risks — gambling and speculation of all kinds appeals to you. You often do not make out too well,
though, because you usually don’t think things out completely. But you hit it big often enough with your
“hunches” so that you keep coming back for more. Very creative and original, you are not afraid to
break into new areas of self-expression. You enjoy children, but you do not want them to become too
dependent on you, and vice versa. You would rather wait for them to get older so that you can challenge
them to go beyond themselves. Still you love to play games with them just be careful that you don’t get
too rough.

Uranus in the Fifth

You demand complete and total freedom of self-expression. Your tastes are unique and unconventional,
and your leisure activities and friends must be exciting and different in order to hold your interest. It is
very hard for you to follow strict rules or guidelines or to do any sort of work that is not fun or exciting.
When you fall in love, you demand and expect the unexpected — unstable, unstructured love
relationships are the only ones that really seem to interest you.
Uranus in Aries
For you, as well as for the rest of your peers, the issue of personal freedom is not just an abstract issue
that can be discussed and then forgotten. You feel very deeply the loss or threat of loss of your ability to
remain unrestricted and independent. And you will react vigorously and vociferously to defend your
right of self- expression, no matter what the cost.

House 6: Taking Care of Business

After the candle-lit dinner comes the credit-card bill. Courtship is followed by the nitty-gritty of married
life: babies, diapers and saving up for college. After your creative impulse comes the need to learn the
technique of actually making something. And if you overexpend your energy, you get health problems.
The sixth house rules taking care of business on an everyday level. This includes your job, paying bills
and keeping the house clean. It also includes maintaining your body with medical checkups and a daily
regimen of nutrition and exercise. In the old books it ruled servants, and it can by extension rule the way
you offer service to others. It also ruled useful animals, particularly small ones like cats, dogs, chickens
and pigs. Today this usually means small pets, which exist in the personal, intimate part of your life that
is signified by houses that lie below the horizon.

Taurus on the Sixth

Being rather conservative and cautious by nature, you appreciate regular employment and the security
that it brings. You will be attracted to work situations that will assure you of a livelihood over the long
haul and will not mind working for someone else, especially an old, established, reliable firm — and you
will reward them by your loyalty and trust. You work long and hard and are known for your physical
strength and endurance. Although you have an innate tendency toward self-indulgence, you are aware
that if your health suffers, you may lose your job. That will be enough to worry you into good exercise
and nutrition habits.

Chiron in the Sixth

You are a dedicated worker who often places responsibility and duty ahead of having fun. It is not
uncommon for you to work into the wee hours of the night. Don’t feel guilty about relaxing and
enjoying yourself. Letting your hair down from time to time does wonders for your mental and physical
health. Being saddled with physical limitations has given you insight into health problems and a fierce
determination to overcome shortcomings. You make an excellent healer, social worker or teacher.

Chiron in Gemini
Fearful of being alone and unloved, you may overcompensate by surrounding yourself with a large
circle of friends. Filling your hours with endless activities distracts you from obsessing over emotional
problems or fear of abandonment. You are an entertaining and humorous raconteur but often lack the
ability to listen. At times, you offend others with the pointedness of your words. Your greatest asset is
the power to make others laugh.
House 7: Relating One-to-One
If you courted in the fifth house and woke up in the sixth yoked to another in a daily routine, the seventh
house gives you a chance to hammer out a relationship of true equals. The goal is wedded bliss and a
true sense of relatedness, but along the way there may be fights as you each define your individuality
and establish your own territory. Not only is the seventh the traditional house of marriage, it is also the
house of open enemies, your sparring partners in life. In general, since the first house is you yourself,
the seventh house, directly opposite, is the other person in a variety of situations. Besides signifying a
marriage or sparring partner, the seventh house rules business partners, or those on the other side of a
desk, such as consultants, lawyers, therapists or astrologers.

Gemini on the Seventh

Your relationship needs are many and varied and only rarely can be fulfilled by any one person. This
may lead you either to having more than one relationship ongoing at any given time or to moving in and
out of relationships rather quickly. The worst thing that can happen to you is to have your partner try to
settle down and build a permanent daily living algorithm. This causes you to feel very restless, and you
soon find an excuse to move on. The most successful and long-lasting business or personal relationships
for you are ones that have as their common root a shared intellectual interest. This allows you to
continually bounce ideas off each other and to receive the mutual mental stimuli that you both need.

No planets in the Seventh

You have no planets in the seventh house of your horoscope. This does not mean that you will never
have any relationships or that you will never get married. What it does indicate is that you will not find
your life overly dominated by working out problems associated with relationships. You will experience
more or less activity in these areas occasionally, along with everyone else.

House 8: Giving It All Away

Having achieved a relationship of equals in the seventh house, you are ready to give up your
separateness in the eighth, merging in sexual union and becoming one on a deep emotional level. If the
second house was about grasping and possessing, the eighth is about sharing and letting go. While the
second rules your own money, the eighth rules how you deal with other people’s money and how you
pool resources. On a mundane level the eighth rules taxes, but on a fundamental level it can rule giving
up anything you value, including your ego and even your body. In relaxing your grasp on what you find
most dear, you may find that you are really not as dependent on it as you thought. In relinquishing, you
achieve a new level of freedom, and feel lighter, renewed and more alive. Related to all this, the eighth
signifies mysteries such as death and resurrection, magic and the occult, and the deep parts of the
psyche that are beyond our conscious grasp.

Cancer on the Eighth

You tend to be cautious and careful when it comes to investing your resources. You have such strong
feelings and are so emotionally attached to what you own that you do not want to let go of it unless you
can also be assured that you will be closely and intimately involved with the process of investing. As
such, you never do really ever let go all the way. You have a similar attitude toward sexual matters —
you only really can relax with someone who is as totally committed as you are to the relationship. When
you feel the least hesitancy on your partner’s part, you immediately pull back and withdraw into your
own non-threatening, private world. But when you do feel secure, you are warm, open, giving and
caring.
Pluto in the Eighth
You like to be able to fully marshal all of your available resources for whatever you want to do. As such,
you do not particularly like to share what you have with others. You have a deep and continuing interest
in understanding the mysteries of such things as birth and death (and rebirth). You like to push life to its
limits, enjoying being able to live always at the cutting edge, with its associated dangers. As such, your
life tends to proceed through many intense and cathartic changes.

Pluto in Cancer
Your entire generation was born into a period of profound global change, especially in the nature and
shape of the family. During the twentieth century, major calamities such as depression and world war
accelerated the replacement of the old village-oriented extended family by modern cosmopolitan living.

House 9: Expanding Your Awareness

Approaching the highest point in the sky, the ninth house wafts you up and out of your rut, giving you a
broad and lofty view of the terrain beneath. Whereas the third ruled basic schooling and short trips, the
ninth rules higher education and long-distance travel. It removes you from your everyday routine so you
can see the overall pattern, the overlooked connections between things. It rules all-embracing concepts
(such as your philosophy of life) and institutions (like religion and law) that stand over society and keep
it bound together. It can also signify your teachers and mentors, your library, and all else that broadens
your outlook.

Leo on the Ninth

You are an enthusiastic student of subjects that allow you to broaden your mind and expand your
consciousness. Once you have studied for a while, you tend to form your opinions and cast your lot with
a particular philosophy or religion or metaphysical system. You will then be the ideal proselytizer for
your cause — you take great pride in your intimate knowledge of the subject and will gladly defend it
against all comers. The thought that “convictions make convicts” does not deter you, and you gladly
seek converts (and disciples). The fact that you are so confident and assured in your beliefs may attract
like-minded individuals to you. You may also find yourself involved quite a bit in teaching or in
administering to those who share your goals.

Neptune in the Ninth

You are fascinated by faraway peoples and worlds. An idealist and a dreamer, you have difficulty
dealing with everyday details and realities — you would rather solve the world’s problems than wash
the dishes or do the laundry. Very compassionate and kind, you enjoy helping society’s misfits and
unfortunates. Your faith in the ultimate nobility and high standards of those you meet often finds you
disillusioned and disappointed when you wake up to the fact that your idols really do have clay feet after
all. Make sure that the causes you espouse are really worth the sacrifices you are willing to make for
them.

Neptune in Virgo
You, and your entire generation, tend to idealize work, duty and responsibility. You may be fearful of
anything that would force you out of the protective shell of your everyday routines. You place a high
premium on personal pride in productivity and craftsmanship, but in your search for perfection in minor
details you can lose track of the overall purpose of life.
House 10: Your Public Self
If the fourth house showed your roots and where you came from, the tenth shows what you are
ultimately aiming at in life. Whereas the sixth shows your daily job and how you make a living, the tenth
signifies your career, your personal contribution, your reputation and what you become known for.
Some astrologers also believe that the fourth house signifies one parent, and the tenth signifies the
other. The tenth-house parent is most likely the one who prepares you for the world. The closer a planet
is to the Midheaven, the more likely that planet is to be the major significator of your life’s direction.

Virgo on the Tenth

Your ability to classify, analyze and sort things out makes you the ideal one to be assigned the task of
keeping track of large amounts of minute details. As such, you are especially suited for such fields as
bookkeeping, accounting, library work, research facilitation and secretarial functions. You tend to
operate under the assumption that if all the small, picky details are properly taken care of, the larger
issues will take care of themselves. You will have to try to avoid being supercritical and petty, however.

Mars in the Tenth

Once you have chosen a career, you will work very hard to become a success at it. You will have
sharply defined goals and move quickly and decisively to attain them. Because you are so self-directed
and self- confident, you may find it difficult to work well in cooperation with others. It helps to be self-
employed or in a position of leadership. The harder your career forces you to work, either physically or
mentally, the better you will like it and the faster you will move ahead.

Mars in Libra
You are very aware of the need to cooperate with others in order to further any effort. You are usually
willing to compromise with others, although you can be quite competitive in a friendly way. Fair-
minded and impartial, you are able to sense injustice and wish to take corrective actions to make proper
compensations. You see both sides of issues and questions, but you tend to be undecided or wavering
when forced to make choices that might make you vulnerable or unpopular.

House 11: Your Circle of Acquaintances

The eleventh is the last house of relationships: not brothers, sisters and neighbors who just happen to be
around you, not one-to-one partners, but the circle of friends and associates whom you actively choose.
It shows the way you make and keep friendships, the organizations you join, the networking you do, and
the general way you interact with groups. After you have established yourself as an individual and
learned to form personal relationships with others, you are ready to think about the common good. This
is why the eleventh often signifies groups dedicated to social or other sorts of collective improvement.

Libra on the Eleventh

You enjoy the challenge of being a good friend. You realize the necessity of compromise in working out
interpersonal relationships and are always willing to listen to the problems of friends and associates.
You can then take the requisite measures to smooth out any problems. Your ability as a mediator
probably will make you popular and successful in any group situation that involves many diverse
factions. You have the sense of objectivity and fair play required to make everyone work together so that
group goals can be accomplished.
Jupiter in the Eleventh
Very gregarious, you like being with others and enjoy nothing better than having a good time. You may
find that those you attract are socially prominent or that they bring material advantage to you. If so, it is
because they are attracted by the generous, noble, openhearted attitude that you display. You enjoy
sharing whatever you have (and it might well be a great deal) with others who share similar
humanitarian interests.

Jupiter in Scorpio
You love to dig deep beneath surface appearances in order to find out what is really happening. A
persistent researcher, you are very interested in the psychology of any situation. You tend to become
overwhelmed by the complexity of what you uncover, however, and that makes you a bit gun-shy about
explaining things to others. But you must learn to try to communicate as best you can because what you
know is really very valuable to others.

House 12: The Hidden You

The twelfth house is where planets go just after they have risen. Here planets are still wet behind the
ears, blinking in the sunlight and unsteady on their feet. Feeling completely vulnerable, planets in the
twelfth tend to hide. Their energies can become repressed and secretive, and sometimes they lurk as
complexes in the subconscious. This is why the twelfth is associated with self-sabotage, with hidden
enemies, and with prison and whatever else makes you feel confined. The traditional association with
hospitals and prisons suggest that constructive ways of dealing with twelfth-house problems include
helping others who are similarly repressed or confined. Also, some with a strong twelfth-house emphasis
become successful as undercover workers or as the power behind the throne.

Scorpio on the Twelfth

You tend to become so confused by that part of your nature that becomes emotionally involved with
issues or other people that all reason disappears. You pride yourself on your intellectual objectivity and
tend to feel that you are betraying the better part of your individuality when you become obsessed
unreasonably by an idea or person. This leads you to try to suppress these feelings, and this makes you
even more uncomfortable because they are so powerful. In order to be at peace with yourself, you must
learn that you are a complex personality and that it is quite natural for you to have these urges. Try to
deal with them rationally — allow yourself some sort of safety valve so that they can be released
constructively and harmlessly. If you don’t, they will assert themselves at the most inappropriate of
times.

No planets in the Twelfth

Your twelfth house is not activated by planetary activity. This does not mean that you will never have to
deal with energies in your life that are difficult to understand, although most people would consider this
a blessing. It merely means that these will not be paramount concerns for you. Occasionally, due to
influences that come from outside of yourself, you will find yourself in situations that prove to be
temporarily uncomfortable or even mysterious, but these incidents should not dominate your life as they
do for some others.
A Mirror of Your Uniqueness
This report is based on the position of the Sun, Moon and planets at the moment of your birth, as seen
from the point on Earth where you were born. Such an arrangement of planets and stars will never be
repeated in exactly the same form. Like the genes that determine your body and temperament, your
astrological chart is made up of the same basic parts that other humans have, but the arrangement of
these parts is uniquely your own.

You could think of your birth moment as a seed that contains the potential for how you will unfold. The
arrangement of the planets at your birth does not, however, cause your body structure and temperament
in the way that the patterning of your DNA causes it. Instead, the planetary positions at your birth
employ the language of symbols to mirror who you are. Like a mirror, your chart enables you to see
yourself from outside yourself, and it therefore extends your point of view.

To use a different analogy, your chart shows the deck you’ve been dealt, the raw materials you are given
from which to fashion a life. Nobody’s perfect: we are all given our special problems to solve and our
special strengths and beauties. In knowing what you have to work with, you will be better able to make
use of your gifts, fill in (or at least be comfortable about) what you lack, and grow in the life directions
that are right for you and you alone.

Instead of assuming that there is one norm for everyone, astrology attempts to show the special pattern
that is right for you. In doing so, it can give you clues as to how you can more fully and consciously fill
the unique role that you have been given in this lifetime, and enrich the world with the gifts that only you
can bestow.

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Getting the Most from Your Professional Natal Report

If you want to know more about your report, here is a brief outline of how horoscopes work, concise
meanings of each part of the horoscope and, scattered throughout, tips on how to put these parts together
to get further information from your birth chart.

Deciphering Your Horoscope Wheel

The horoscope wheel in your report is a complete, accurately calculated chart such as a professional
astrologer would draw up. This wheel is actually a diagram showing how the planets and signs were
arranged around you at the moment of your birth.
Think of yourself, just being born, as being at the center. The two horizontal spokes are the horizon of
the place where you were born. Above this line are the planets that were up in the sky. Below it are the
planets that were hidden below the horizon. The sky is shown as if you were facing south. As the Earth
turns on its axis each day, the Sun would rise to your left in the east, culminate or reach its highest point
around noon, set to your right, and anticulminate or reach its lowest point about midnight before rising
the next day.

Were you born during the day or at night? If you look at your own horoscope wheel, you should see
your Sun ( ) either above or below the horizon, reflecting the time of day when you were born. The
diagram above shows approximately where the Sun would be at various times during a 24-hour period.
The planets, too, make this entire trip clockwise around the horoscope wheel each day, but each rises
and sets at a different time.

The twelve spokes of the horoscope wheel are the borders, or cusps, of the twelve houses. You can think
of the house cusps as partitions that are attached to the Earth and radiate out into space. Each day as the
Earth turns on its axis, each of the house cusps sweeps through every degree of the zodiac. Most wheel
styles available in Professional Natal Report show the degree, sign and minute of the zodiac that was on
each house cusp at the moment you were born. Inside the houses are the planets, shown with the degree,
sign and minute of their zodiacal position.

The Planets
The planets are the main actors in the drama. To astrologers, planets are bodies that appear from Earth to
move through the zodiac. For this reason, they include the Sun and Moon as well as the other bodies
(like Jupiter, Venus and Mars) that orbit the Sun. The Moon appears to go once around the zodiac in a
month; the Sun, Venus and Mercury take about a year; Mars takes about 2 years; Jupiter about 12;
Saturn about 30; Uranus about 84; Neptune about 164; and Pluto about 245 years.

What the Planets Symbolize

Astrology recognizes that people really cannot be adequately described in simplistic terms like good or
bad, energetic or lazy, loving or cold. Perhaps the richest of all languages for describing human
complexity, astrology sees people as a composite of at least ten different internal characters. Like the
inhabitants of a royal court, each character has an official function (king, queen, jester, minstrel,
gardener, cook, etc.) that is the same for everyone. The personality of each functionary and its
relationship to all the other characters, however, is unique for each individual. Therefore, though the
number of actors is the same, the drama can vary hugely from person to person.

These ten characters are, of course, the planets. The sign each planet is in determines its personality. For
example, is the king (the Sun) in a naturally regal sign (Leo), in a sign that is shy and retiring (Pisces), or
in one that is all business (Capricorn)? The house a planet is associated with shows the area of life where
the planet will tend to express itself. For the king, will it be mainly through pomp and celebrations (5th
house), secret diplomacy (12th house), or repairing the roads and making the trains run on time (6th
house)? And finally, his relations with the others in the realm are shown by the aspects he makes with
them. Does he work smoothly with his ministers and generals (trines and sextiles), is he in open conflict
with them (oppositions and squares), or is he in poor communication with them or even being secretly
undermined (quincunxes and semisextiles)?

We will get to all these factors further on. Right now, the first step in understanding this complex drama
is understanding each courtier's basic role. The basic functions of the planets are as follows.

The Sun Just as its target-shaped symbol or glyph suggests, the Sun represents your center: the
center from which all your energies radiate, the center from which you view the universe, and also the
physical center that is your body. Its position by sign, house and aspect shows how and where you
radiate your energies into the world. The Sun is the basic life-initiating or father principle. You could
think of the Sun as the king.

The Moon Whether you see this symbol as a crescent Moon, bowl, or radar dish, the idea is the
same. The Moon receives, contains, and gives form to the abstract energy represented by the Sun. If the
Sun is the basic you, the Moon is what gives you your particular personality – your genetic heritage,
earliest training, and habit patterns. The symbol can also be seen as a cradle or enfolding arms; the
Moon is the basic life-sustaining, nurturing or mother principle. Most obviously, the Moon is the queen,
but she is also the land and the people.

Mercury This glyph suggests the messenger of the gods with his winged helmet. Fittingly, this
planet represents how you think, communicate and move about. Mercury appears from Earth to shuttle
back and forth near the Sun – like the nerve impulses in your body or the transportation systems of our
society. It is a link, a bridge, a translator, putting abstract energies into symbols so they can be
manipulated within your mind or communicated to others. Mercury has many guises, including the
scribe, the ambassador, the merchant, the bell cord that goes from banquet hall to pantry, and the air
itself, which carries the sound waves of speech. Mercury is also the nimble juggler, and the child who
skips through the hallways and plays pranks.

Venus This glyph is traditionally the mirror of the goddess, but it is even more like a flower, whose
function is to attract pollination so the plant can bear fruit. Venus symbolizes your powers of attraction,
of bringing people, objects or ideas together to create harmonious wholes. It shows how you project and
appreciate beauty, how and what you love, what gives you pleasure, the areas of your creativity, your
tact and social skills. Venus could be the royal mistress, the hostess, or the artisan who makes the castle
beautiful.
 Mars The shield and spear of the war-god Mars are also like the Sun glyph with an arrow showing
energy emerging from it. Whereas the Sun is your basic energy center, Mars, centerless but with an
arrow, shows how you apply this energy to get things done. And, if the Sun is your basic self or ego,
Mars is how you assert yourself and defend your ego. It is anger and aggression, but it is also the energy
that enables you to fight for survival. Mars is the "muscle" of society as well as your body: the workers,
the soldiers, the knights who defend the helpless, and the police who enforce Saturn's law.

Jupiter The glyphs for Jupiter and Saturn are almost the reverse of each other, just as the planets in
many ways symbolize opposite energies. Jupiter is like arms raised and flung out to take in all the
goodness of the world. It signifies that part of you that wants to reach out, overcome limitations, and
take in everything to make it your own. (Appropriately, Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system.)
It gives expansiveness, optimism, generosity, magnanimity and a love of freedom and new experiences,
but it can also bring acquisitiveness, wastefulness, insensitivity to others' needs, and lack of attention to
detail. Jupiter can be the chancellor who helps the king rule, a minister of far-reaching vision who sees
the big picture and lays plans for the future prosperity and well-being of the state. He can also be the
lawgiver who maps out the basic code that holds society together; or the archbishop, who calls on a
higher power and unites the realm under the banner of faith.

Saturn To make a bad pun, the glyph for "Sat-on" looks like a seat-or maybe a candle-snuffer.
When carried to excess, Saturn can keep life down or even snuff it out, but when applied in moderation
it is the necessary force that defines limits and keeps Jupiterian expansion from getting out of hand. It
signifies obstacles and frustration, but also discipline and order. Saturn could be the minister of finance
or the royal housekeeper who keeps a tight hand on the purse-strings, the conservative advisor who
champions traditional values and stems the tide of change, the severe judge who puts a stop to crime
(and sometimes people's lives as well), or the wise old counselor who guards against excess.

Saturn is the furthest planet in the solar system to be seen by the naked eye. Beyond lie planets not
ordinarily visible; these enable you to transcend the everyday reality of Saturn and explore worlds
outside ordinary common sense.

Uranus The glyph for Uranus was made up to suggest the initial of its discoverer, Herschel, but it
could also be seen as the head of a baby emerging from the birth canal. It represents the first
breakthrough into the universe beyond Saturn, a sudden disruption and cracking-open of Saturn's
confining shell. It brings upset, surprise and insecurity but also originality, a love of the new, creativity
and freedom. Uranus is the court jester who turns reality on its head, the rebel who shakes up the status
quo, or the traveler from a remote kingdom who stands out from all others at court with his outlandish
manners and dress.

Neptune The trident of the Roman sea-god suggests the oceanic quality of Neptune. Whereas
Uranus cracked open the rigid shell of Saturn, Neptune furthers the process by dissolving the shell
entirely. Neptune is the urge within you to go beyond all the boundaries and limitations that make you a
particular human being and return into the vast and formless ocean of oneness with the universe. When
people are insufficiently grounded, Neptune can bring weakness, dishonesty, illusion, addiction and an
inability to cope with everyday life. But once their egos are fully developed, Neptune can bring
empathy, selfless service to others, and transcendent knowledge and bliss. Neptune is the soothsayer,
who brings knowledge from the world of dreams; or the religious hermit, who bypasses the archbishop's
church and is in direct contact with God.
 Pluto Pluto is often represented as "*," but many astrologers prefer a glyph like Mercury's with
the crescent in a different place. Whereas Mercury translated information from one form to another,
Pluto transforms – people, situations, whatever it touches. Another way of seeing the Pluto glyph is as a
dying plant releasing a seed. The disruption and dissolution begun by Uranus and Neptune is completed
by Pluto in death and the rebirth that follows. Pluto shows up in everyday life as change, development,
transformation, regeneration. People with a strong Pluto can lead lives with many upheavals and
"rebirths" or can be forceful and persuasive in bringing about change in others. Pluto could be the
magician, who works in the secret realms to bring about change. He is also the invisible tide of change
itself, which brings an end to whatever is outworn, so that life can periodically be renewed.

Additional Points
Some astrologers consider additional bodies such as various asteroids and Chiron, a small comet-like
object that orbits between Saturn and Uranus and goes around the zodiac in just under 51 years. Many
also use the lunar Nodes, mathematical points that travel backwards around the zodiac in about 19 years.

Chiron The key-like glyph that astrologers have settled upon since Chiron's discovery in 1977
suggests the opening of a door, possibly one through the wall erected by Saturn, leading to a new realm
of innovation and freedom represented by Uranus. Half-horse, half-man, Chiron arose from the savage
race of centaurs to teach civilized values and technologies for improving human life. Most memorably,
he himself suffered a painful wound that would not heal, yet taught the healing arts to the young
Aesculapius. Epitomizing the wounded healer, Chiron is thought by many astrologers to signify the hurt
places within us, and the ways they can enable us to heal and improve the lives of others.

North Node The glyph suggests the Dragon's Head, the old name for this point. Directly opposite it
in the zodiac is the South Node or Dragon's Tail (+), which is often omitted from the chart wheel
because it is always 180 degrees from the North Node. The Nodes are the two places in the zodiac where
the the Moon's orbital plane connects with the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Some
astrologers read both Nodes as connections, particularly to relatives or groups. Others see the South
Node as old skills, relationships and attitudes that you have thoroughly mastered and now must leave
behind, and the North Node as new areas that you need to advance toward for your continuing evolution.

Which Planets Are Most Important in Your Chart?

In general, the Sun and Moon – the "luminaries" or "lights" – are the solar-system bodies to which
astrologers would pay the most attention. While the other planets supply the details, these great lights in
the sky symbolize the two fundamental poles of your being, the basic yang/yin, radiating-
outward/enfolding-inward sides of your nature. Contemplating the aspects, signs and perhaps also the
houses of the Sun and Moon can reveal volumes about the most profound parts of your self.

Next in personal significance are the inner planets, Mercury, Venus and Mars. Following this are the
outer, or slow-moving, planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

This basic order of importance is reflected in your report, where aspects from the Sun, Moon and inner
planets are always listed before aspects from the outer planets. Also, whenever planets are tallied in
signs, houses or other categories, the luminaries and inner planets are given more weighting points.

Each individual chart also has its own individual pattern of planetary strength that distinguishes it from
other people's charts. Which planet or planets happen to be speaking the loudest in your chart? Here are
some things to look for, in order of their importance.
1. Turning back to the chart wheel or aspect listing at the beginning of this report, do you find any
planets very near the Ascendant, Midheaven, Descendant or Imum Coeli of your chart? (The way
charts are most often cast, these are at the beginning of the First, Tenth, Seventh or Fourth houses.)
Having a planet within seven degrees of a conjunction to any of these four points is almost
guaranteed to make that planet one of the most obvious and strong components in your character.
The closer a planet is to one of these points, the stronger it is.

2. A close aspect to the Sun or Moon (say, within a 5-degree orb) can also confer great importance on
one of the other planets.

3. A planet can also become very important if it is in some other aspect than the conjunction to the
Ascendant or Midheaven. Here, you would consider aspects within an orb of about 5 degrees.

Aspects between the Planets

Since each planet travels around the zodiac at its own speed, the angles between the planets constantly
change. When the angle between two planets approaches an even division of the circle (such as 1/2 or
180 degrees, 1/3 or 120 degrees, 1/4 or 90 degrees, etc.) astrologers find that the symbolism of those
planets becomes linked in your personality. These significant angles are called aspects. Aspects come in
families, each of which is based on number, and each of which has its own characteristic feeling.

The Strongest Aspect The conjunction (0 degrees, symbol ,) is in a family by itself. Whether it is
easy or difficult depends almost completely on the two planets involved. It is usually considered along
with the "hard" aspects below simply because it is so intense.

The "Hard" Aspects Aspects that arise from dividing the circle by 2 (the opposition, 180 degrees,
symbol -) and 4 (the square, 90 degrees, symbol .) are called "hard" because they tend to precipitate
crises and usually call for effort on your part. For the same reasons, they can also be dynamic and
productive. This report discusses the conjunction and hard aspects first, because these are the aspects
that usually concern people the most, and which bring them to consult their astrologers.

The "Soft" Aspects These arise from dividing the circle by 3 (the trine, 120 degrees, symbol /) and 6
(the sextile, 60 degrees, symbol 0). Planets linked by trines or sextiles tend to work easily together,
aiding and abetting each other. Trines and sextiles show the parts of your nature that tend to run along
smoothly and effortlessly.

The Minor Aspects The semisquare (45 degrees, symbol 1) is 1/8 of the circle, and the
sesquiquadrate or sesquare (135 degrees, symbol 2) is 3/8. Coming from a smaller subdivision of the
square, the semisquare and sesquare have a similar dynamic and stressful feeling but are not quite as
strong.

The semisextile (30 degrees, symbol 3) is 1/12 of the circle and the quincunx (150 degrees, symbol 4)
is 5/12. These aspects connect signs that have no relation to each other, being neither of the same
element nor of the same mode. They have a problematic quality, like two characters who have to deal
with each other, but just don't seem to speak the same language.

The "Orb" of an Aspect

It's rare for the angle between two planets to be exactly 60 degrees or 90 degrees, or whatever. How far
an aspect can be from exact and still have an effect is called the aspect's allowable orb. For example, for
a conjunction between the Sun and Moon many astrologers would set an orb of 10 degrees. This means
that if the Sun and Moon were 9 degrees, 30 minutes apart, it would be considered a conjunction; but if
they were 10 degrees, 5 minutes apart, the aspect would be ignored.

Most astrologers give wider orbs to aspects that involve the Sun or Moon, and narrower orbs to aspects
that do not involve these two luminaries. Also, major aspects like squares and trines usually get larger
orbs than minor aspects like semisquares and semisextiles.

Which Aspects Are Most Important in Your Chart?

The aspect table at the beginning of this report summarizes the aspects that exist in your chart. In the
"The orb is" column you will see the number of degrees and minutes that each of your aspects is from
being exact. Aspects having an orb of less than 1 degree are likely to be main keynotes in your
personality, particularly if they are a major aspect such as a conjunction, opposition, trine or square. You
might want to make a list of the five closest aspects in your chart, and then pay special attention to those
interpretations in your report.

The Signs of the Zodiac

As the planets orbit the Sun, they appear from Earth to travel through a narrow belt of fixed stars. This
we call the zodiac. Most astrologers in the West use the tropical zodiac, which puts its starting point (0
degrees Aries) at where the Sun is on the first day of spring in the Earth's Northern Hemisphere. The
tropical zodiac describes the cycle of the seasons, a cycle of beginning, growth, and preparation for new
beginning. Each of the twelve signs represents a stage in that cycle, and gives its own characteristic
coloration to the planets and houses that lie within it.

Aries The pointed face and horns of the ram – or a young plant springing from seed. As befits the
beginning of spring, the idea is one of arising out of nothing into life, from non-being into being. Aries
gives a fresh, sharp, young, eager quality, full of starting energy not yet disciplined or refined. It is
adventurous, impatient, self-expressive, open, direct, and not always sensitive to others' feelings.

" Taurus The bull's head and horns – or a pot of earth to contain the Aries seedling. Taurus gives
Aries energy a material, earthy base of operations. It is symbolized by the plant taking root, and by the
baby discovering the physical world: seeing, tasting, touching. It is much concerned with the body, with
comfort and sensual pleasure, with good quality in material things. It is practical, steady, persistent, and
tends to do things more slowly than other signs.

Gemini The twins – or the Roman numeral two, or a swing. The idea is of shuttling back and forth.
It is the young plant putting forth its feathery branches in all directions, and of the baby learning to walk
and name things, to move about the world, to communicate and interact with others. This sign has a
light, youthful quality. It is sociable without getting deeply involved, interested and curious, talkative,
restless and in constant motion.

Cancer The crab – or cradling arms. This is the sign of the family unit, a protected space from
which one can grow. The plant is now lush and green, pulling water up from deep levels of the soil so it
can provide nourishment and shade. Cancer has to do with shelter, food, mother love, nurturing, taking
care of. It gives a sensitive, emotional quality, a tie to one's heritage and the past, a concern with home
and security, and a desire to foster, protect and to be attached to someone or something.
# Leo A lion's tasseled tail – or the proscenium arch of a stage. The plant is now in full flower, at the
apex of its development, yet already it is showing signs of dryness. In Leo the child revels in its own
energy, in pleasure, in being alive and having a self; and it proudly presents itself to the world. Leo is a
star performer, radiating life energy to others and desiring in turn to be admired and appreciated. It runs
the risk of egotism and bombast, but on the plus side is self-expressive, open and generous, as well as
proud, dignified, fond of ceremony, and persistent.

Virgo Coils of energy walled off and contained – or a symbol with its legs tightly crossed! This is a
time of toil, when the plant bears fruit that needs picking, and the grain is ready to be gathered and
stored for the lean part of the year. The energy realized in Leo is contained and put to work in Virgo.
Pleasure is now deferred in order to master life's practical details, develop one's skills, learn to do and
make. One learns not just to be an individual as in Leo, but to function as one, to be self-sufficient.
Virgo gives a consciousness of duty, practicality, craftsmanship, pride in accomplishment,
discrimination and attention to detail.

Libra Balance-type scales, a bridge, or the setting Sun. This is a time of pause after the harvest, a
point of equilibrium, of Indian summer when there is a final burst of flowering before the cold. Being
self-sufficient, one is now ready to reach out for a partner and settle down. If Aries was a sign of a single
being springing up vertically into life, Libra, its opposite, is one of reaching out horizontally. Aries went
from stillness into motion; Libra seeks balance – in a relationship to another, in judgments and opinions,
in manners and esthetic matters. In order to achieve balance, scores must sometimes be settled, so Libra
may court contests and confrontations on the way to establishing a relationship of equals. Libra sees the
world in terms of relationships; is sociable; is concerned with harmony, beauty, decorum and justice.

! Scorpio The scorpion with its barbed tail – or a coil accumulating and releasing energy. This is the
time when the first frost congeals water, putting a decisive end to that which is green. In the old Celtic
calendar it is the point of death, a break in the chain of the year, when the plant kingdom goes dormant
and soul separates from body before a new cycle begins. In Scorpio, the energy harnessed for practical
uses in Virgo is gathered more intensely and released to effect profound transformations. Having linked
with another at a social level in Libra, one is ready for a deeper merging in Scorpio. Taurus had a simple
sensuality; for its opposite sign, Scorpio, sex is the ego-death and merging of two individuals. Scorpio
has a sustained emotional intensity, an interest in what is below the surface, a probing quality, an air of
hidden power.

$ Sagittarius The arrow and bowstring of the archer – or the Scorpio arrow of energy breaking
through the surface. Deciduous plants are dormant, and so we celebrate the evergreen to remind
ourselves that life continues. As the world of nature retreats, we enter the conceptual world of
philosophy and religion. In Sagittarius the coiled-up energy of Scorpio is released into the air and it
soars toward freedom. Sagittarius symbolizes wide-ranging energy, either physical as in travel and
sports, or mental as in far-reaching intellectual interests. In both motion and thought, it covers much
more ground than Gemini, its opposite sign. Whereas Libra and Scorpio perfected personal
relationships, Sagittarius now attempts to comprehend relationship to society and the world as a whole.
Sagittarius is fast-moving, energetic, idealistic, philosophical, and dislikes details.
 Capricorn The face and curling horn of the goat – or the winding path to a mountain peak.
Capricorn marks the turning point when the year reaches its darkest day, and the daylight begins to
increase once more. Cold and dry, it symbolizes a maximum of separateness and solidity. Capricorn
slows down the energy released in Sagittarius so it can be used in the world to make things. It puts
Sagittarian insights to work, implementing the details. Its eye fixed on the peak, it plods onward and
upward, aspiring toward the pinnacle of personal achievement. It is firmly embedded in the social
structure, conscious of everyone's place on the ladder. It still sees itself as an individual in society; only
in the next sign will a true group consciousness be attained. Capricorn is conscious of authority,
practical, serious, and wants to achieve something concrete and significant in the eyes of the world.

Aquarius Streams of water from the waterbearer's jug – or a row of seats in a theater. Aquarius
marks the time of year when the life processes that ended in Scorpio have new, barely perceptible
beginnings. Looking closely, you will see buds forming. Humans, however, are still indoors and focused
on their social world. If Leo is the star performer, concerned with personal identity, Aquarius, the sign
opposite, is the audience, the collective participant in the drama of life. Instead of the one-to-one
relationships of Libra, Aquarius signifies one-among-many relationships. Capricorn carried the idea of
personal achievement to the utmost; Aquarius begins the theme of being part of a group. Aquarius
identifies with friends and organizations, wants to perfect society, wants freedom for groups of people,
is detached and fair-minded though fixed in opinions, does not cling to the past, is idealistic and wants
the good of all.

Pisces Two fishes bound together – or an image reflected in water so you cannot tell the image
from the reflection. The remains of last year's plants have reached their final dissolution, and the
moisture gathers to provide a medium for new growth in Aries. In Pisces everything is dissolved in the
same ocean, image and reflection are the same, and you cannot tell the player from the audience.
Whereas Aries began the zodiac with the first assertion of individuality, and Aquarius transmuted this
into group identity, Pisces ends the cycle with the individual's letting go of the structure that peaked in
Capricorn. The most fluid of the water signs, Pisces functions by loosening up and simply allowing
flow, change and living processes to take place. The Pisces dissolving of structures and blurring of
boundaries can come out in ordinary life as dreaminess and vagueness, but also as selflessness,
sensitivity, and a deep sense of unity and empathy with others.

Which Signs Are Most Important in Your Chart?

Obviously, the more planets you have in a sign, the more significance that sign is likely to have for you
personally. Otherwise, the most important signs in your chart tend to be those of the so-called "personal
points": the Sun, Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven. Next in importance will be the signs of the faster-
moving planets like Mercury, Venus, and Mars. But Jupiter stays in a sign for about a year, Saturn for
about two and a half years, Uranus for about seven, Neptune for about fourteen and Pluto for an average
of twenty years, so that the signs of these planets usually have more to do with the generation you were
born in than with your personal characteristics.

The Elements and Modes

In the above descriptions of the signs, you may sense that there is more to the signs than just seasonal
symbolism, and you are right. The twelve signs also derive their meaning from each being a unique
combination of one of the four elements and one of the three qualities, or modes.

Fire, Earth, Air and Water

The four elements are also called the triplicities because there are three signs formed from each element,
and these signs are related by a trine aspect. Elements get their characteristics from being a unique
combination of hot (high-energy and active), cold (low-energy and passive), wet (blending or making
connections between things) and dry (separating things into distinct parts).

The Fire signs (Aries, Leo and Sagittarius) are hot and dry, meaning that they are high-energy and
have a hard-edge, high-definition approach to life. Among the signs, they tend to be the most active and
decisive. Fire signs are concerned with process and action, and with making one's personal mark on the
world. A strongly placed Sun or Mars can make people seem more fiery; a strong Moon or Neptune, less
so.

The Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn) are cold and dry, meaning that they also see things as
distinct entities, but are lower in energy so that they do things more slowly. Earth signs are deeply
concerned with tangible reality, with things. A strong Saturn can make people seem more earthy; a
strong Mercury or Uranus, less so.

The Air signs (Gemini, Libra and Aquarius) are hot and wet, meaning that they are high-energy,
active, outgoing and eager to make connections. Known for their sociability and impulse to talk, the air
signs are associated with social and intellectual relationships. A strong Mercury or Uranus can make
people seem more airy; a strong Saturn, Moon or Neptune, less so.

The Water signs (Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces) are cold and wet, meaning that they also like to make
connections, but are more inward, passive and still. These are the signs most concerned with emotional
relationships. A strong Moon or Neptune can make people seem more watery; a strong Sun, Mars or
Saturn, less so.

Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable

The three modes or qualities are also called the quadruplicities because there are four signs in each
mode, and signs in the same mode are related by a square or opposition aspect. The modes mark the
three stages of each season.

The Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn) begin a new season and symbolize starting
energy. If you have a high score in Cardinal signs, you may be specially gifted at initiating new projects.
A strong Sun, Mars or Uranus could make you seem more Cardinal; a strong Moon, Venus or Neptune,
less so.

The Fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius) are points of equilibrium in the middle of a
season. With a high score in Fixed signs, you would tend to keep whatever has been started going,
polishing it and bringing it to perfection. Fixed people are noted for stability, constancy, and, on
occasion, stubbornness, qualities that can also be imparted by a strong Saturn. A strong Mercury or
Moon can make you seem less Fixed.

The Mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces) symbolize times of transition to the next
season and are noted for their adaptability. If you have a high score in Mutable signs, you tend to
change, adapt and transform what has already been started and sustained. A prominent Mercury or
Moon can make you seem more Mutable; a strong Saturn, less so.
To get the overall feel of your horoscope, astrologers often note which signs your planets are in and tally
up the elements and modes that are occupied. The system works best if the scoring is weighted, with the
Sun and Moon receiving the most points and the slow-moving planets receiving the fewest. You can see
your element/mode scores at the beginning of this report.

The Houses
The signs measured the motion caused by the planets' going around in their orbits. But there is another
important motion in astrology, the motion of the Earth's daily spinning on its axis. This is measured by
the twelve houses of the horoscope. Because they move so fast (all around the zodiac in 24 hours,
averaging one degree in every four minutes of time), the house cusps can be completely different for two
people born on the same day. While the sign positions and aspects of the planets show your basic
structure, the way the planets fall in the houses show the particular ways in which the planets are apt to
work in your life.

The Structure of the Houses

The houses are based on the four most important points in a planet's daily cycle: when it rises,
culminates, sets and anti-culminates. These points are known as the Ascendant (or rising degree); the
Midheaven or M.C. (for Medium Coeli , "middle heaven" in Latin); the Descendant; and the I.C. (for
Imum Coeli, "lowest heaven"). There are dozens of mathematical systems for defining the twelve
houses, but most of these systems use these four points as the basic framework and differ only in the
way that they subdivide the intervening space. These four points are grouped into two basic axes, as
follows.

The Midheaven-I.C. Axis You can think of the Midheaven-I.C. axis in your chart as you, standing
up. Your feet and roots (I.C. and fourth house) are planted at the farthest possible point below the
horizon, symbolizing your past, genetic heritage, and earliest training – your foundation and all that you
have to build on. The Midheaven and tenth house are the farthest possible point a planet can travel
above the horizon, and so are like your head. They symbolize the highest you aspire to grow or build,
what you are aiming for, and the most public and visible parts of you, such as your career and
reputation. The axis as a whole describes who you perceive yourself to be.

The Ascendant-Descendant Axis The Ascendant-Descendant axis is like your arms reaching out
horizontally to the world around you. Not surprisingly, it symbolizes how you relate to other people and
your environment. The Ascendant (and, directly opposite it, the Descendant), mark the points where the
zodiac intersects the horizon. The line of the horizon is where the inner you (what is hidden from view
below the horizon) meets the outer world (what is above the horizon). Therefore it symbolizes the way
you put yourself out into the world (the Ascendant and the first house) and the way you draw the world,
especially other people, into your innermost being (the Descendant and seventh house).

Like the Sun and Moon, the Ascendant and Midheaven are considered "personal points" whose sign and
aspects are given primary significance. Any planet within a few degrees of one of these four chart
"angles" leaps to the foreground of your chart. It is as if these are points of emergence, where the
energies of a planet are able to come out the strongest.

Which Houses Are Most Important in Your Chart?

Planets move quickly through the houses, with each staying in a house for an average of only two hours
each day. Except for the first, fourth, seventh and tenth houses, the borders of houses are not clear-cut,
so that houses tend to shade into one another. If you have a planet within five degrees of the end of a
house, you may very well find that the next house affects that planet. Similarly, if a house cusp is within
five degrees of the end of a sign, you may want to think about how the next sign would affect that house.

The most important houses for you will probably be those that contain your Sun and Moon and those
that contain more than a single planet.

Beyond Sun Signs

Most people today know what "sign" they are, or have glanced at their horoscope as it appears in
newspaper and magazine columns. However, you have most likely realized that you are a much more
complex and varied person than your Sun sign, by itself, suggests. As you can see, there is much more to
astrology than this. For example, when you are told you are an Aries, Leo, or any other sign, it simply
means that you were born at the time of the year when the Sun was in that particular part of the zodiac.
While the Sun indicates a person's essence or basic character, in each person's chart there are actually
nine other planets and all twelve signs. All of these play a part in making you who you are and all you
can be. Your Professional Natal Report report aims to correct these misconceptions and demonstrate
that astrology can give you easily understood information that can enable you to obtain insight about
yourself and your life.

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