Cheat Sheet: Easy Placements

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!

Was The Romantic Era Perfectly Timed?

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.

 

Manifestations: Developed and Undeveloped

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.

Planetless Ponders: What Do Your Empty Houses Mean?

Whilst no house is ever truly empty as all have signs in and possibly lesser known asteroids, the term is coined when planets and major asteroids are absent of a house, leaving it seeming empty.

An astrodienst chart

Here, if you were to look to the 1st house (under AC), for example, you can see there is no planets, asteroids or luminaries. This would be a house commonly referred to as an empty house. A house that isn’t empty is like the 12th house (above AC), as you can see two glyphs (for Saturn and Jupiter) in it.

Are empty houses rare?

They’re actually incredibly common, in fact, I’d argue it’s nearing impossible to not have them.

Are empty houses bad?

Empty houses are, in effect, neutral as they mean there is less pull or importance to this area of life for you. However, this doesn’t mean the area of life doesn’t exist altogether as you still have a sign on the house cusp, and thus you still navigate through it in the ways of the sign.