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Charts and placements

Signs, planets and houses

The twelve signs, the ten bodies, the twelve houses and the major aspects, each on its own page: what it describes, how to read it in a chart, and what the astronomy underneath it actually says.

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Aries
The sign of the opening move. Aries describes the impulse to start before the ground is...
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Aries

initiative, directness, impatience, courage, beginnings

Taurus
The sign of what is worth keeping. Taurus describes the appetite for solidity, comfort ...
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Taurus

steadiness, patience, comfort, possessiveness, persistence

Gemini
The sign of the second opinion. Gemini describes a mind that works by comparison, holdi...
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Gemini

curiosity, versatility, communication, restlessness, wit

Cancer
The sign of what gets protected. Cancer describes the instinct to build a safe interior...
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Cancer

protection, memory, attachment, indirectness, loyalty

Leo
The sign of being seen. Leo describes the need to be witnessed and the willingness to t...
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Leo

warmth, pride, generosity, visibility, showmanship

Virgo
The sign of the correction. Virgo describes the instinct to improve what is already in ...
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Virgo

precision, service, analysis, self-criticism, craft

Libra
The sign of the other person. Libra describes the habit of deciding by comparison and t...
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Libra

fairness, partnership, diplomacy, comparison, hesitation

Scorpio
The sign of what is not being said. Scorpio describes the appetite for what lies under ...
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Scorpio

depth, privacy, intensity, persistence, suspicion

Sagittarius
A mutable fire sign ruled by Jupiter, drawn as an archer aiming away from himself. Sagi...
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Sagittarius

expansion, candour, restlessness, search, overreach

Capricorn
A cardinal earth sign ruled by Saturn, drawn as a goat with the tail of a fish. Caprico...
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Capricorn

structure, endurance, responsibility, restraint, ascent

Aquarius
A fixed air sign with two rulers, drawn as a figure pouring water. Aquarius describes a...
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Aquarius

principle, detachment, systems, reform, fixity

Pisces
A mutable water sign with two rulers, drawn as two fish tied together and swimming apar...
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Pisces

receptivity, dissolution, imagination, compassion, diffusion

Jupiter
The planet astrologers assign to enlargement and to belief. Jupiter describes where a p...
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Jupiter

expansion, belief, excess, meaning, generosity

Mars
The planet astrologers assign to wanting something and doing something about it. Mars d...
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Mars

assertion, anger, drive, appetite, conflict

Mercury
Mercury describes how a person takes in information and passes it on. It never strays f...
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Mercury

communication, process, exchange, analysis, wit

Moon
The Moon describes what a person needs rather than what they want: the baseline state, ...
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Moon

need, habit, memory, security, instinct

Neptune
The planet astrologers assign to the blurring of edges. Neptune is read as imagination,...
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Neptune

dissolution, imagination, longing, deception, compassion

Pluto
Discovered in 1930, reclassified in 2006, and read by astrologers throughout as power a...
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Pluto

power, compulsion, buried, intensity, control

Saturn
The planet astrologers assign to limits and to time. Saturn describes where a person me...
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Saturn

limit, time, structure, responsibility, fear

Sun
The Sun is the chart's organising principle: what a person is consciously trying to bec...
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Sun

identity, purpose, vitality, centre, direction

Uranus
The first planet nobody inherited from antiquity. Uranus is read as sudden change and r...
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Uranus

disruption, independence, sudden change, detachment, deviation

Venus
Venus describes what a person values and what they find pleasant, which is broader than...
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Venus

value, attraction, harmony, taste, exchange

The First House
The house that begins at the Ascendant, the degree rising on the eastern horizon at bir...
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The First House

self, body, appearance, arrival, manner

The Second House
The house of what a person holds: income, possessions, and what they treat as theirs. T...
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The Second House

resources, money, values, security, possession