Sign and Planet Information

Zodiac Sign, symbol, glyph Mode Element Ruled by Natural House

Aries, The Ram 1 Cardinal Fire Masculine Personal Mars 1

Taurus, The Bull 2 Fixed Earth Feminine Personal Venus 2
Gemini, The Twins 3 Mutable Air Masculine Personal Mercury 3
Cancer, The Crab 4 Cardinal Water Feminine Personal Moon 4
Leo, The Lion 5 Fixed Fire Masculine Social/R’ship Sun 5
Virgo, The Maiden 6 Mutable Earth Feminine Social/R’ship Mercury 6
Libra, The Scales 7 Cardinal Air Masculine Social/R’ship Venus 7
Scorpio, The Scorpio/Eagle 8 Fixed Water Feminine Social/R’ship Mars (Modern: Pluto) 8
Sagittarius, The Archer/Centaur 9 Mutable Fire Masculine Universal Jupiter 9
Capricorn, The Sea-Goat 0 Cardinal Earth Feminine Universal Saturn 10
Aquarius, The Water-Bearer - Fixed Air Masculine Universal Saturn (Modern: Uranus) 11
Pisces, The Fishes = Mutable Water Feminine Universal Jupiter (Modern: Neptune) 12

Planet, glyph Orbits Sun Approx/zodiac Approx/sign Av. daily speed Retrograde (n)

The Sun a Light -- 365.25 days 30 days 00°59’ never

The Moon s Light -- 27.3 days 2.5 days 13°11’ never
Mercury d Inner 88 days but... 1 year 14-30 days 01°23’ 20–24 days (3x a year)
Venus f Inner 225 days but... 1 year 23 days to 2 months 01°12’ 40–42 days (ev.20 mths)
Mars g Inner 687 days almost 2 years 6 weeks 00°31’ 58–81 days (ev.25 mths)
Jupiter h Social 11.86 years 12 years 12 months 00°05’ 4 months yearly
Saturn j Social 29.46 years 29.5 years 2.5 years 00°02’ 4.5 months yearly
Uranus k Outer* 84.01 years 84 years 7 years 00°00’41” 5 months yearly
Neptune l Outer* 164.8 years 165 years 14 years 00°00’24” 5 months yearly
Pluto ; Outer* 248.1 years 248 years 14 to 32 years** 00°00’15” 5 months yearly
* Also known as ‘Transpersonal’ planets ** Pluto’s orbit is elliptical and is slowest in Taurus, fastest in Scorpio
Sun–Moon–Ascendant Trio
Exploring the Components of the Birth Chart Aspect lines show angular
links (by degree) between
A planet showing how far it has travelled parts of the chart. Blue
• Sun Our calling, labours of love, where our through its sign (in this case, the Moon ones are soft/flowing, red
heart is; ‘who we were born to be’, personal is at 15 degrees, 44 minutes in Scorpio). are hard/challenging.
identity (philosophy), significance, essence; Planets move at different
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(retrograde) symbol: the planet appears
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• Moon Needs, habits, emotional reactions

Equal
  
to be moving backwards from our
Mean Node
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and gut responses (our ‘backpack’); daily 
viewpoint on Earth. 
  
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temperament (at home/work); childlike and The Ascendant (ASC – the 
  
 
immature/undeveloped qualities   
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‘rising sign’) begins the 1st 
   
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• Ascendant Meet-and-greet personality

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House and is the starting point  
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function; impressions and expectations as of the whole chart. In a 24 hour  
  
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we interact with our horizon and period, all signs will rise (but 
  
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environment; our personal usually at different speeds). In 
  
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approach/viewpoint/reality this chart, 13°10’ Sagittarius  
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is ‘rising’. The ASC is exactly
   

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The Four Major Building Blocks opposite the Descendant 
 
(DSC). The other two angles    

The Planets • the ‘what’; the players/actors, the form the axis of the MCASPECTS (the    
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energy, the nouns (‘mother’, ‘soldier’, ‘boss’) Midheaven) and the

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  IC 0°10'(Imum
 
   0°06' S    1°18' A
      
S    1°23' A
 
Coeli). In the Equal system of
   0°28' A    1°25' A
    
 
The Zodiac Signs • the ‘how’; archetypes of
   0°33' S    1°35' A
house division, these points do
   0°35' S    1°35' A   
human experience and expression; types of
   0°42' S    1°52' S
not start the 10th/4th houses.
   0°52' S    1°56' A   
energy; they are adjectives describing how the
   0°58' S    1°59' S
   0°58' S    2°00' A  Each sign of
A house of the horoscope (from  
   0°58' S    2°00' A
   the zodiac
planets act through them    0°58' S    2°54' A
1 to 12 in an anti-clockwise
   1°01' A    2°54' A
 
(in an anti-
The Houses • the ‘where’; where the planets are direction). In the Equal
   1°06' House
   1°01' A    3°00' A   
A    3°00' A
clockwise
(EQHS) system, the 2nd house is
  1°15' S    3°02' A

most noticeable/influential and act out/express order from

exactly 30 degrees on from the 1st Aries to
their scripts; mundane areas of life House, and all other houses follow The sign, degrees and minutes of a house cusp.
In this case, 13°10’ Pisces begins the 4th house Pisces) is 30°
The Aspects • the relationship/dialogue suit (i.e. each successive sign of space.
begins – is on the ‘cusp’ of – the (note that in EQHS this is exactly 90° – three
between two planets/points; specific aspects next house at that same degree). signs – from the Ascendant).
between planets in combination (e.g. Sun trine
Jupiter) are descriptive of storylines/scripts –
the dynamic (the type of flow and relationship) Compiled by Frank Clifford for the London School of Astrology
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