Aspects in astrology show us the relationship between different elements of our charts. Some of these are usually positive and harmonious, whilst others can manifest in a more problematic light.
In this article, I’ll be exploring how aspects to Eros form our passions and desires in a part two to my Eros in the Houses post.
Natal retrogrades can be important details often overlooked in a chart. They can tell us why we are more introverted than we originally thought we should be, or why we have a methodical approach compared to more impulsive individuals of our placements.
In this article, I discuss each planet in retrograde. (Can be applied to transits!)
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I’ve seen a lot of people talk about them and also received a lot of asks, so I believe it’s time I made my own post on them. This goes for anything which enters retrograde.
When you first learn about a placement, the obvious thing to do is look for descriptions, however these can be extremely unhelpful. Why? No description will ever fully encapsulate a placement. It will focus on one idea of it, or go straight to possible conclusions without explaining why those could be true.
Instead, I prefer to take the ‘anti-description’ route. When I start learning, I look to each part of the placement for its ingredients and build them together myself. In this way, you can see all the possible conclusions a placement may take.
With this in mind, I’ve compiled a cheat sheet of possible ingredients of each aggregate: signs, modalities, elements, planets, houses, and aspects!
In present day, the term ‘romantic’ connotes love, relationships and affections, but dating back to the middle of the 1800s, the term was picked up to describe an age of art and literature just passed which argued for nature and feelings as opposed to the industrialisation of the world and its people.
Broadly, the Romantic Era in Britain is laid out to be 1800 to 1850, works created in this time coming as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution which began circa 1760. However, the term ‘romanticism’ is known to specifically apply to works created between 1790 and 1820.
Whilst the line between developed and undeveloped placements is sometimes blurred, it is undeniable that there are positive and negative manifestations of everything you can see within a chart. This post is a quick discussion of this concept and how it’s factors are not as clear cut as some may perceive.
I’ve noticed a lot of people seem to make the mistake of taking only the first dominant sign or planet, but your dominants works more as a rank than as one true thing.Everyone has every sign/planet/element/modality within them. Each sign will have some amount of prevalence in your chart. Whether it only sits on a house cusp, or is in a planet placement in your chart. Still, for this reason, it’s key to look at dominants as encompassing yourself, rather than defining yourself by one sign of planet.
For example, my dominant sign is Libra, but this would not be enough to understand or study me. I would also take my next two: Virgo and Sagittarius. Then, I could start to study these signs and their archetypes, and see how they can relate to me as a whole.
That’s the key to dominants: it is you as a whole. They work as a flash point, a conclusion, to your chart. I like to use the analogy of a blurb to a book. They’re the part of you which quickly gives as idea of the details to come. Each sign or planet has a certain set of values and characteristics, which when you combine with the other most prominent dominants you have, can act as almost a small biography of who you are.
After receiving many messages asking why certain signs were attracted to people and who they may attract based on their charts, I decided to turn the information into a whole post.
This is part one of my analysis and only focuses on the exoteric natal signs of placements within your chart.
The placements here are likely to draw in people of certain signs or planetary dominants. Usually, it will attract the Suns, Risings and dominants of these signs.
Below, in no particular order, are areas of your chart that may attract certain people or placements.
Continue reading Attraction in Astrology: Sun, Moon, Rising and Stellia
A lot of the interpretations I see can be hard to relate to because we can’t always identify the 10th house in ourselves, with it being public image and all. For this reason, this post isn’t about to exude the archetypes and be really radical and dramatic in what it says, but more aim to highlight the simpler parts of the planets in the 10th house which we can often overlook!
Without further ado, here are the planets in the 10th house.
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