Astrology: Understanding the Birth Chart [1 ed.]

Table of contents :
Contents

List of Figures ................................... xiii

Acknowledgments ................................. xv

Chapter 1

Introduction and History of Astrology .................... 1

What Astrology Is-And What It Isn't . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

History of Astrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Branches of Modern Astrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Mundane Astrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Interrogatory Astrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Natal Astrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Modern Natal Astrology and the Battle Between Fate and Free Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

How and Why Astrology Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

A Word about Astrology and Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Chapter 2

The Planets ...................................... 13

Categories and Classifications of the Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Inner Planets versus Outer Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Personal Planets, Social Planets, and Transpersonal Planets . . . . . . . . 15

Straight Talk About Sect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

The Sun .....................................16

The Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Backing Up to Look at Retrograde Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Mercury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Venus .......................................27

Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Jupiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Saturn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Chiron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Uranus .......................................38

Neptune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Pluto ........................................42

Chapter 3

The Signs ....................................... 45

The Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Fire ........................................46

Earth .......................................47

Air ........................................48

Water ......................................49

The Modalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Cardinal ........................................ 50

Fixed .......................................51

Mutable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Aries ..........................................53

Taurus ........................................55

Gemini ........................................57

Cancer ........................................59

Leo ..........................................61

Virgo .........................................63

Libra .........................................65

Scorpio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 67

Sagittarius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Capricorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Aquarius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Pisces .........................................76

Chapter 4

Essential Dignities ................................. 79

Introduction to Essential Dignities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Rulership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Exaltation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Triplicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Term .......................................84

Face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Detriment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Fall ........................................85

Peregrine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

A Word About Classical Interpretations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

How the Outer Planets Fit In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Dispositor Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Chapter 5

Interpreting Planets in Signs .......................... 93

The Sun .......................................94

The Sun in Fire Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

The Sun in Air Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

The Sun in Earth Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

The Sun in Water Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

The Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

The Moon in Water Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

The Moon in Earth Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

The Moon in Fire Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

The Moon in Air Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Mercury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Mercury in Air Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Mercury in Earth Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Mercury in Fire Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Mercury in Water Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Venus ........................................115

Venus in Earth Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Venus in Water Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Venus in Air Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Venus in Fire Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Mars in Fire Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Mars in Water Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Mars in Earth Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Mars in Air Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Jupiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Jupiter in Fire Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Jupiter in Water Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Jupiter in Air Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. .. . . 134

Jupiter in Earth Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Saturn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Saturn in Air Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Saturn in Earth Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Saturn in Fire Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 143

Saturn in Water Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

The Outer Planets Through the Signs . . . ..... . . . . .... . . . . . . 146

Chiron Through the Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Uranus Through the Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 153

Neptune Through the Signs ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 158

Pluto Through the Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Chapter 6

The Angles, the Houses, and the Part of Fortune ........... 167

A Brief Overview of House Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Equal House Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Quadrant Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 169

Time Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Space Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Quadrants and Hemispheres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 170

The Southern Hemisphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

The Northern Hemisphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

The Eastern Hemisphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

The Western Hemisphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

The Quadrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 172

Understanding the Houses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. 172

Understanding the Angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

The Three Types of Houses: Angular, Succedent, and Cadent . . . . . . . . 174

A Tour of the Houses and Angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

The Ascendant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . .. 176

The First House . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . 176

The Second House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

The Third House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

The Imum Coeli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

The Fourth House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

The Fifth House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

The Sixth House . .. . ... .. ... . ... .. . .. .... .. ..... 178

The Descendant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

The Seventh House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

The Eighth House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

The Ninth House . . . . . . . . . .. . ... . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 180

The Midheaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

The Tenth House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

The Eleventh House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

The Twelfth House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

The Part of Fortune (and the Part of Spirit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Chapter 7

Basic Interpretation ............................... 185

Interpretation Example 1: Sylvester Stallone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Interpretation Example 2: Meryl Streep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Chapter 8

The Aspects .................................... 201

Whole Sign versus Harmonic Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

The Difficult Question of Orbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Moiety .....................................204

Interpreting Out-of-Sign Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Waxing and Waning Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Applying, Partile, and Separating Aspects . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . 206

The Aspects Defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

The First-Harmonic Aspect: The Conjunction (cl) (Major) . . . . . . . . 208

The Second-Harmonic Aspect: The Opposition (cP) (Major) . . . . . . . 208

The Third-Harmonic Aspect: The Trine (A) (Major) . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

The Fourth-Harmonic Aspect: The Square (a) (Major) . . . . . . . . . . 209

The Fifth-Harmonic Aspects: The Quintile (Q) and Biquintile (Q2) (Minor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

The Sixth-Harmonic Aspect: The Sextile (*) (Major) . . . . . . . . . . . 210

The Seventh-Harmonic Aspects: The Septile (S), Biseptile (S2), and Triseptile (S3) (Minor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

The Eighth-Harmonic Aspects: The Semisquare (z) and Sesquiquadrate (4) (Minor, but Important) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

The Ninth-Harmonic Aspects: The Novile, Binovile, and Quadnovile (Minor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

The Tenth-Harmonic Aspects: The Decile and Tredecile (Minor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

The Twelfth-Harmonic Aspects: The Semisextile (x) (Minor) and Quincunx (pc) (Major) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Other Types of "Aspects" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Receptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Antiscia and Contra-Antiscia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Aspects in Latitude: Parallels and Contraparallels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Chapter 9

A Brief Look at Natal Retrograde Planets ................ 221

Growth versus Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

The Precession of the Equinoxes (and Why We're Not in the Age of Aquarius) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Progression and Precession Cycles Through the Zodiac ... . . . .. . . . . 224

The Progression Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 224

The Precession Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

And Precession Relates to Retrograde Planets How, Exactly? . . . . . . . . . 228

Interpreting Natal Retrograde Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Mercury Retrograde in the Natal Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Venus Retrograde in the Natal Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .... .. . 230

Mars Retrograde in the Natal Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Outer Planets Changing Direction in the Natal Chart . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Secondary Progressions and Retrograde Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Chapter 10

Eclipses, Lunations, and the Moon's Nodes ............... 235

Eclipses and the Moon's Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Interpreting and Understanding the Moon's Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

The Nodes Are Mathematical PointsThey Are Not Physical Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

The Nodes Are Related to the Moon, the Sun, and the Ecliptic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

The Nodes Are Always in Perfect Opposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Putting It Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

The South Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

The North Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Interpreting the Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

The Aries/Libra Nodal Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

The Taurus/Scorpio Nodal Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

The Gemini/ Sagittarius Nodal Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

The Cancer/Capricorn Nodal Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

The Leo/Aquarius Nodal Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

The Virgo/Pisces Nodal Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Chapter 11

Aspect Patterns .................................. 261

Aspect Patterns Can Only Be Formed by Physical Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Aspect Patterns Require Very Small Orbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Aspect Patterns Must Be in the Correct Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Interpreting the Aspect Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Stellium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Grand Trine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Fire .......................................269

Earth ......................................269

Air ........................................270

Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Kite .........................................271

Mystic Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Grand Sextile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Grand Cross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Cardinal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Fixed .. .... .... .... ... ...................... 278

Mutable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

T-Square .. . . .... . ... . . . .. .. .. . ... . .. . . . . . ... . . 279

Cardinal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Fixed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Mutable . . . .... . .. . . . . ... . ... .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . 282

Yod .........................................282

Boomerang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Grand Quintile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Chapter 12

Synthesized Chart Interpretation ...................... 289

Interpretation Example 1: Sylvester Stallone, Continued . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Interpretation Example 2: Meryl Streep, Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Interpretation Example 3: Evita Peron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Interpretation Example 4: Woody Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Some Last Words of Advice and Encouragement . ... ... .. ..... .. 325

Appendix A

Natal Chart Interpretation Worksheet ................... 327

Appendix B

Astrology Organizations, Resources, and Web Pages ......... 335

Astrology Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Kepler College of Astrological Arts and Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

National Council for Geocosmic Research (NCGR) . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

American Federation of Astrologers (AFA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Astrological Association of Great Britain (AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

International Society for Astrological Research (ISAR) . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Centre for Psychological Astrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Astrology on the World Wide Web ........................ 339

Astrological Horoscopes & Forecasts . . . . . . . .. . .. . .. . . . . . . 339

Astrodienst Atlas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Astrology Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Classical Astrology Links and Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Appendix C

Astrology Software ................................ 341

Astrology Software for the Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Time Cycles Research: 10 Edition, IO Horoscope, 10 Forecast, 10 Relationship, Star*Sprite, Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Macintosh Software Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Astrology Software for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Astrolabe: Solar Fire 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Matrix Software: Win*Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Other Software Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Bibliography .................................... 345

Index ........................................ 347

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Astrology Made Easy: A Guide To Understanding Your Birth Chart 978-1-78817-248-6, 978-1-78180-647-0

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Astrology 101: Beginner's Guide to Reading Your Chart 9781412218191

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Understanding Human Design: The New Science of Astrology: Discover Who You Really Are 9781938289149, 9781938289101, 1938289145

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