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Signs/Constellations

Major Planets

Minor Planets

Points of Note

Houses

Major Aspects

Minor Aspects

Rays

Elements

Qualities

Polarities

Major Arcana

 

Minor Arcana

 

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Signs/Constellations

Aries
  • Ari, a
  • Masculine cardinal fire (lightning)
  • Signified by the ram
  • Runs generally from March 21-April 19
  • Rules the Emperor card
  • Manifests first and seventh ray energies
  • I Am
  • New- and reborn
  • Self, ego and personality
  • Governed by Mars
  • Governs the head
  • Red
  • Diamond
  • Iron
Taurus
  • Tau, s
  • Feminine fixed earth (rock)
  • Signified by the bull
  • Runs generally from April 20-May 20
  • Associated with the World card
  • Rules the Hierophant card
  • Manifests fourth ray energy
  • I Have
  • Toddlerhood
  • Property and money
  • Governed by Venus
  • Governs the neck and throat
  • Pale blue and mauve
  • Emerald
  • Copper
Gemini
  • Gem, d
  • Masculine mutable air (nebula)
  • Signified by the twins
  • Runs generally from May 21-June 20
  • Rules the Lovers card
  • Manifests second ray energy
  • I Think
  • Child
  • Thought and personal communication
  • Governed by Mercury
  • Governs the hands, arms, shoulders and lungs
  • Yellow
  • Agate
  • Mercury
Cancer
  • Can, f
  • Feminine cardinal water (geyser)
  • Signified by the crab
  • Runs generally from June 21-July 22
  • Rules the Chariot card
  • Manifests third and seventh ray energies
  • I Feel
  • Adolescent
  • Home and family life
  • Governed by the Moon
  • Governs the breasts and stomach
  • Sea green and silver
  • Pearl
  • Silver
Leo
  • Leo {of course}, g
  • Masculine fixed fire (star)
  • Signified by the lion
  • Runs generally from July 23-August 22
  • Associated with the World card
  • Rules the Strength card
  • Manifests first and fifth ray energies
  • I Will
  • Teenager
  • Pleasure and creativity
  • Governed by the Sun
  • Governs the back, spine and heart
  • Gold and orange
  • Ruby
  • Gold
Virgo
  • Vir, h
  • Feminine mutable earth (loose soil)
  • Signified by the temple virgin
  • Runs generally from August 23-September 22
  • Rules the Hermit card
  • Manifests second and sixth ray energies
  • I Analyze
  • Adult
  • Work and self-improvement
  • Governed by Mercury
  • Governing the nervous system and intestines
  • Navy blue and grey
  • Sapphire
  • Mercury
Libra
  • Lib, j
  • Masculine cardinal air (wind)
  • Signified by the scales (specifically of justice)
  • Runs generally from September 23-October 22
  • Rules the Justice card
  • Manifests third ray energy
  • I Balance
  • Marriage
  • Marriage and partnership
  • Governed by Venus
  • Governs the lower back, buttocks and kidneys
  • Blue and lavender
  • Opal
  • Copper
Scorpio
  • Sco, k
  • Feminine fixed water (ice)
  • Signified by the scorpion, the eagle/snake and the dove/eagle (each incarnating from the last as is appropriate to the situation)
  • Runs generally from October 23-November 21
  • Associated with the World card
  • Rules the Death card
  • Manifests fourth ray energy
  • I Desire
  • Sex
  • Inheritance and legacies
  • Governed by Pluto
  • Governs the genitals
  • Crimson, burgundy, and maroon
  • Topaz
  • Plutonium
Sagittarius
  • Sag {pronounced 'sadge'}, l
  • Masculine mutable fire (candle flame, camp fire, forest fire)
  • Signified by the centaur-archer
  • Runs generally from November 22-December 21
  • Rules the Temperance card
  • Manifests fourth, fifth and sixth ray energies
  • I See
  • Knowledge
  • Philosophy, higher learning and broad concepts
  • Governed by Jupiter
  • Governs the liver, hips and thighs
  • Purple
  • Turquoise
  • Tin
Capricorn
  • Cap, z
  • Feminine cardinal earth (bullet)
  • Signified by the sea-goat
  • Runs generally from December 22-January 19
  • Rules the Devil card
  • Manifests first, third and seventh ray energies
  • I Use
  • Experience
  • Reputation, career and public standing
  • Governed by Saturn
  • Governs the bones, joints and knees
  • Dark green and brown
  • Garnet
  • Lead
Aquarius
  • Aqu, x
  • Masculine fixed air (atmosphere)
  • Signified by the water-bearer
  • Runs generally from January 20-February 18
  • Associated with the World card
  • Rules the Star card
  • Manifests fifth ray energy
  • I Know
  • Idealism
  • Hopes and dreams, friends and wishes
  • Governed by Uranus
  • Governs the circulatory system, shins and ankles
  • Electric blue
  • Amethyst
  • Uranium
Pisces
  • Pis, c
  • Feminine mutable water (drop and ocean)
  • Signified by the fishes
  • Runs generally from February 19-March 20
  • Rules the Moon card
  • Manifests second and sixth ray energies
  • I Believe
  • Submission
  • Dreams and mysticism
  • Governed by Neptune
  • Governs the feet
  • Pale green and turquoise
  • Aquamarine
  • Platinum
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Major Planets

Sun
  • Q
  • Named only for himself
  • Rules Leo
  • Rules the Sun card
  • Indicates spiritual and creative energies
Moon
  • W
  • Named only for herself
  • Rules Cancer
  • Rules the High Priestess card
  • Indicates emotional and cyclic energies
Mercury
  • E
  • Named for the messenger to the Roman gods who was himself the Roman god of commerce
  • Rules Gemini and Virgo
  • Rules the Magician card
  • Indicates mental and lifestyle energies
Venus
  • R
  • Named for the Roman goddess of fruitfulness and beauty
  • Rules Taurus and Libra
  • Rules the Empress card
  • Indicates energies of magnetic attraction and subtle fortune
Mars
  • T
  • Named for the Roman god of war and agriculture
  • Rules Aries
  • Rules the Tower card
  • Indicates physical and motivational energies
Jupiter
  • Y
  • Named for the Roman (god of all) god(s) of earth, sky, rain, thunder and lightning
  • Rules Sagittarius
  • Rules the Wheel of Fortune card
  • Indicates energies of bounteous good fortune
Saturn
  • U
  • Named for the Roman god of time and the harvest
  • Rules Capricorn
  • Rules the World card
  • Indicates energies of discipline and reward
Uranus
  • I
  • Named for the original Roman sky god and father of the Titans
  • Rules Aquarius
  • Indicates energies of transformation and evolution
Neptune
  • O
  • Named for the Roman god of earthquakes and the sea
  • Rules Pisces
  • Indicates energies of illusion and hidden motivation
 Pluto
  • P
  • Named for the Roman god of death, the dead and the underworld
  • Rules Scorpio
  • Indicates energies of destruction and recreation
 
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Minor Planets

Ceres
  • C
  • Named for the Roman goddess of agriculture and motherhood
  • Indicates the style of our intentional emotional creativity and nurturance
Chiron
  • M
  • Named for the Greek sage, physician, prophet and centaur who instructed such as Hercules, Achilles and Jason before receiving a fatal poisoning wound in an accident without losing his immortality
  • Represents the pain we must bear and how we may ease the suffering of others
Juno
  • B
  • Named for the Roman (goddess of all) goddess(es) of fidelity, family and pride
  • Signifies energies of sanction and reckoning
Lilith
  • é
  • Named for the barren Babylonian goddess of temple prostitution
  • Bears no known astronomical body
  • Represents energies of flow and pragmatism
Pallas
  • V
  • Named for the Greek goddess of handicraft and restrained passion
  • Reveals the direction of applied energies and healthful deprivations
Vesta
  • N
  • Named for the Roman goddess of chastity and the hearth
  • Indicates directions in idealism and the energy of the heart of the home
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Points of Note

Ascendant
  • Z
  • Sign rising on the eastern horizon at the moment of first breath
  • Indicates the face we put on for the wider world, our style of assertion
Descendant
  • Sign setting on the western horizon at the moment of the first breath
  • Indicates our partnership style and the sort of partners we seek
Horizon
  • Line connecting Ascendant and Descendant
  • Indicates the themes around which our personalities revolve
Meridian
  • Line connecting Nadir and Midheaven
  • Indicates the energies around which our lives revolve
Midheaven/Medium Coeli (middle heavens)
  • X
  • Sign in which the Sun sits at noon Local Mean Time to the chart
  • Indicates the energy of our cumulative life's work
Nadir/Imum Coeli (lowest heavens)
Nodes
  • Points where any planet crosses the Sun's ecliptic
    • North/Ascending lunar (Moon) node ()
      • Head (caput) of the dragon (draconis)
      • What we bring forward from the past
    • South/Descending lunar (Moon) node (Œ)
      • Tail (caudus) of the dragon (draconis)
      • What our life path asks us to send to the future
Part of Fortune
  • <
  • Indicates the areas in and energies with which we are most likely to achieve balanced prosperity for all facets of our being
Vertex
  • Indicates the energies through which our relationships are activated
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Houses

First
  • Self
  • Exploration and expression of ego
Second
  • Money & Possessions
  • Sense of entitlement and style of acquisition
Third
  • Communication
  • Realization of separation from and style of connection with others
Fourth
  • Home
  • Influence in and on the family
Fifth
  • Creativity & Sex
  • Style of individual contribution to the whole
Sixth
  • Health & Service
  • Reflection within the physical of our dealings with others
Seventh
  • Partnership & Marriage
  • Tendencies in our dealings inside marriage, business and any other contracted partnerships, physical, spiritual or mental
Eighth
  • Death & Regeneration
  • Inheritance and that which comes in through external forces to be redistributed
Ninth
  • Mental Exploration & Long Distance Travel
  • Realization and exploration of social and community concepts
Tenth
  • Career & Public Standing
  • Realization of the desire to contribute in a productive manner without losing sense of self
Eleventh
  • Friends, Hopes & Wishes
  • Realization of interdependence
Twelfth
  • Secrets, Sorrows & Self-Undoing
  • Realization of balance in all areas and starting over
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Major Aspects

Conjunction
  • q
  • 0(±9)°
  • Indicates prominence of conjuncting energies
    • Combust*
      • Conjunction involving the Sun
      • Indicates major challenge in the combusted area
    • Cazimi*
      • Combust of less than or equal to 0° 17'
      • Indicates nearly unavoidable mastery of involved energies through life experience
Sextile/Hexagon
  • t
  • 60(±5)°
  • Indicates opportunity
Square/Quadrate/Quartile
  • r
  • 90(±9)°
  • Indicates obstacle
Trine
  • e
  • 120(±9)°
  • Indicates luck
 Opposition
  • w
  • 180(±9)°
  • Indicates separation
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Minor Aspects

Semisextile
  • i
  • 30(±3)°
  • Indicates growth
Semisquare/Semiquadrate/Semiquartile
  • y
  • 45(±5)°
  • Indicates friction
Sesquisquare/Sesquiquadrate/Sesquiquartile
  • u
  • 135(±3)°
  • Indicates agitation
Quincunx
  • o
  • 150(±3)°
  • Indicates expansion
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Rays

FirstSecondThird
FourthFifthSixth
 Seventh 
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Elements/Triplicities*

Air
  • Mental
  • Rules the Fool card
  • Corresponds with Swords suit, Knight principle
  • Represents the mind; communication, acuity, thought
Earth
  • Physical
  • Corresponds with Pentacles suit, Page principle
  • Represents the body; sensation, gravity, matter
Fire
  • Spiritual
  • Rules the Judgment card
  • Corresponds with Wands suit, King principle
  • Represents the spirit; motivation, energy, existence
Water
  • Emotional
  • Rules the Hanged Man card
  • Corresponds with Cups suit, Queen principle
  • Represents the emotions; inspiration, affectivity, feeling
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Qualities/Quadruplicities*

Cardinal
  • Leading
  • Pivotal
  • Constitutive
  • Critical degrees: 0, 13, 26, 29
Fixed
  • Enduring
  • Unequivocal
  • Definitive
  • Critical degrees: 0, 8-9, 21-22, 29
Mutable
  • Fluctuating
  • Transitional
  • Elusive
  • Critical degrees: 0, 4, 17, 29
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Polarities/Dualities*

Feminine
  • Receptive and evolutionary
  • Represented in the Queen cards
Masculine
  • Transmissive and complete
  • Represented the King cards
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Major Arcana

The Fool
  • 0
  • Ruled by Air
  • Indicates new beginnings, faith, and folly
The Magician
  • I
  • Ruled by Mercury
  • Indicates creation, initiative, and first steps
The High Priestess
  • II
  • Ruled by the Moon
  • Indicates latent potential, wisdom, and esoterica
The Empress
  • III
  • Ruled by Venus
  • Indicates fulfilled potential, marriage, and fertility
The Emperor
  • IV
  • Ruled by Aries
  • Indicates ambition, authority, and material success
The Hierophant
  • V
  • Ruled by Taurus
  • Indicates spiritual guidance and assistance from a wise person in order to find necessary spiritual meaning in life
The Lovers
  • VI
  • Ruled by Gemini
  • Indicates a relationship involving a trial or choice
The Chariot
  • VII
  • Ruled by Cancer
  • Indicates fighting energy, struggle, and when well-placed, victory
Strength
  • VIII
  • Ruled by Leo
  • Indicates courage, determination, and potential self-awareness
The Hermit
  • IX
  • Ruled by Virgo
  • Indicates a time for meditation, and a need for patience and solitude
Wheel of Fortune
  • X
  • Ruled by Jupiter
  • Indicates an important decision and a new cycle of luck
Justice
  • XI
  • Ruled by Libra
  • Indicates a need for reason, impartiality, and balance.
The Hanged Man
  • XII
  • Ruled by Water
  • Indicates increased understanding, and sacrifice in the name of gain
Death
  • XIII
  • Ruled by Scorpio
  • Indicates endings in the name of surrender to new beginnings
Temperance
  • XIV
  • Ruled by Sagittarius
  • Indicates cooperation, successful blending, and emotional stability
The Devil
  • XV
  • Ruled by Capricorn
  • Indicates the removal of blocks which when fulfilled will allow for great growth.
The Tower
  • XVI
  • Ruled by Mars
  • Indicates the destruction of the old in making way for the new
The Star
  • XVII
  • Ruled by Aquarius
  • Indicates promise, inspiration, and renewal
The Moon
  • XVIII
  • Ruled by Pisces
  • Indicates fluctuation, illusion, and a directive to look to dreams and intuition for guidance
The Sun
  • XIX
  • Ruled by the Sun
  • Indicates energy, prosperity, and optimism
Judgment
  • XX
  • Ruled by Fire
  • Indicates settlement, resurrection, and reward
 

 

 

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Minor Arcana

 

Cups

Pentacles

Swords

Wands

Ace/One/Root

  • Root of Water
  • Creation, illumination, inspiration, satisfaction
  • Root of Earth
  • Continuation, revitalization, investment, potential, prosperity
  • Root of Air
  • External pressure, tension, anxiety
  • Root of Fire
  • Potential, increased activity, unexpected opportunity

Two

  • Venus in Cancer
  • Impactful relationships, cooperation, reconciliation, pleasure
  • Jupiter in Capricorn
  • Time management, discouragement, ineffectivity in the written word
  • Moon in Libra
  • Anticipation despite doubtfulness, choice, friendly support

Three

  • Mercury in Cancer
  • Self-realization, social interactions, enlightenment, animals
  • Mars in Capricorn
  • Career, written communication, construction, application
  • Saturn in Libra
  • External influences, strife, disappointment, restructuring
  • Sun in Aries
  • Crises of faith, productive partnerships, companies, contracts, unexpected triumph

Four

  • Moon in Cancer
  • Health, desire, purpose, ability, application
  • Jupiter in Libra
  • Activity, especially writing, self-promotion, starting a business
  • Venus in Aries
  • Relationships, communications, travel, quest for enlightenment

Five

  • Mars in Scorpio
  • Setback, exhaustion, longing, depression
  • Saturn in Leo
  • Inner conflict, analysis, reformation

Six

  • Sun in Scorpio
  • Motion, dynamism, loved ones, nostalgia, work
  • Moon in Taurus
  • Symbolic beginnings, potential, health decisions, fulfillment
  • Jupiter in Leo
  • Frustration due to circumstance, broken things

Seven

  • Venus in Scorpio
  • Epiphany, intense experience, confusion, potential enlightenment
  • Moon in Aquarius
  • Effort, introspection, self-protection, family, health
  • Mars in Leo
  • Clarity, pressure, schedules, commitments

Eight

  • Sun in Virgo
  • Support, enlargement, accomplishment, betterment

Nine

  • Jupiter in Pisces
  • Intense personal- and physically-related emotional events
  • Mars in Gemini
  • Deprivation, blocked conception, worry for the future
  • Sun in Sagittarius
  • Discipline, faith, striving for excellence regardless of circumstances, patience

Ten

  • Mars in Pisces
  • Impromptu travel, flight from responsibility, rest, relief, unusual relationships
  • Mercury in Virgo
  • Domestic matters, friends, neighbors, community, work environment
  • Sun in Gemini
  • Stagnancy, loose ends, decluttering

Page

  • Earth of Water
  • Expansion, yearning, meetings, forward thinking, a Pisces-type person
  • Earth of Earth
  • Career, work, pragmatism, a Capricorn-type person
  • Earth of Air
  • Surprise, dynamism, ideas toward growth, a Taurus-type person
  • Earth of Fire
  • Inventory, philosophy, desire for expansion, sexual attraction, a Sagittarius-type person

Knight

  • Air of Water
  • Friends, social occasions, travel or advancement, branching out
  • Air of Earth
  • Travel, promotion, investment, but most of all happiness
  • Air of Air
  • Renewal, increasing status, decision-making
  • Air of Fire
  • A crossroad, stress, difficulty, eventual success

Queen

  • Water of Water
  • Study, attempted communication, resolution, the home, magnetism, a Scorpio-type person
  • Water of Earth
  • Aspirations, results, humanitarianism, finance, an Aquarius-type person
  • Water of Air
  • Research, technology, training in a new area, shifted consciousness, a Virgo-type person
  • Water of Fire
  • New direction, family, spirituality, fulfillment, a Leo-type person

King

  • Fire of Water
  • Home business, financial independence, romantic daydreaming, a Cancer-type person
  • Fire of Earth
  • Communication, expansion, mental absorption, powerful contacts, completion and beginning, a Gemini-type person
  • Fire of Air
  • Getting ahead, conflict, change, clarity, legal matters, a Libra-type person
  • Fire of Fire
  • Ambition, planning, development, standing alone, an Aries-type person
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Miscellaneous Terms

***/***/***Astrologer
  • One who reads astrological charts
Astrology
  • The study of the movement of the Earth in relation to the stars and planets and the ways in which these movements correspond with natural cycles and patterns of energy and matter
Chart
  • Horoscope pertaining to a specific event or entity
    • A natal chart depicts the exact moment of birth. (Sample natal chart)
    • A birth day chart depicts the day's general map (for use when one is unsure of one's time of birth).*
    • A synastry chart depicts the dynamics of a relationship or set of relationships.
    • A horary chart depicts the energy of the time of an event, past or future.
Decanate
  • 10° subdivisions of the signs
    • First decanate is highly-charged with the energy of it's own ruling planet
    • Second and third are imbued with the energies of the rulers of the other two planets in the same triplicity
Degree
  • °
  • The zodiac wheel is divided into 360
    • 30 per sign
    • 10 per decanate
  • Critical degrees indicate strengths and sensitivities
    • 0 and 29 tend to be crisis-oriented
Direct
  • When a planet or other body appears from our perspective here on Earth to be moving forward
  • Indicates building, organizing energy
Ecliptic
  • The path the Sun appears to travel as Earth moves around it
Horoscope
Metaphysical
  • Pertaining to the philosophical study of the nature of reality and existence
Minute
  • '
  • Each degree is divided into 60
Person/a/lity
  • Person/Moon (emotional motivation)
  • Persona/Ascendant (public self)
  • Personality/Sun (basic makeup)
Retrograde
  • When a planet or other body appears from our perspective here on Earth to be moving backward
  • Indicates erosive, nebulous energy
Second
  • "
  • Each minute is divided into 60
Tarot
  • A process of divination using a deck of cards consisting of a series depicting a journey (the Major Arcana) and various people, events, and energies (the Minor Arcana)
    • A query is presented
    • The cards are shuffled, cut, and dealt in one of any number of spreads
    • The cards are read by a practitioner who interprets them according to their 'value' and position
Transit
  • The motion of the planets through the signs and houses
Void of Course
  • Time between a planet's last major aspect with another planet and it's entry into a new sign
    • When the Moon is VOC, it's best to avoid starting anything one would like to see last or doing any new thing one would like to do again.
Wheel
 Zodiac
  • A belt of constellations through which, from our perspective on Earth, the bodies of the solar system move in loose conjunction with cyclic universal energies
 
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Examples from Peace's Chart

AspectsHouses
  • Mars in the Fourth House
    • A personality asserted and made manifest through the home
    • Often shaped largely by conflict within the birth family, especially with the father
  • Uranus in the Sixth House
    • Service in uncommon and erratically changing ways
    • Unusual, transient, difficult-to-diagnose health conditions
  • Neptune in the Seventh House
    • Need for spiritual connection and common dreams in partnerships, especially love relationships
    • Strong need to maintain a balanced perspective in interactions
  • Saturn in the Twelfth House
    • Strong capacity for being and working alone
    • Reclusive nature that does not and in most cases ought not readily share sorrows or other feelings

 

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