#astro101

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✩ first quadrant: self ✩

first house: self-expression, confidence, how we view the world, how we approach new people/environments/situations, the way in which we view ourselves

second house: values, self-image, body image, self-worth, how we view and treat our possessions, our sense of security and stability (where we feel safe/secure, how we go to achieve this), fashion sense / style (also first house/tenth house/seventh house) and aesthetics

third house: how we communicate our thoughts, our approach to studying, views on education/learning, what you need to keep mentally stimulated, sibling relationships (* also reflected in the fourth imo), information processing, approaching daily interactions (communication) with others

✩ second quadrant: our interaction/integration with immediate environment ✩

fourth house: family interactions and relationships, connection with parents/family, childhood experience, how we learn to nurture ourselves and others, our safe spaces and comfort zones

fifth house: creative pursuits and passions, hobbies, the way we interact with/view children, casual romance and sexual encounters (think: flings, initial relationship stages/beginnings; not long-term), how we let loose and enjoy life

sixth house: the routines we develop, how we approach small tasks and breakdown instructions, the casual work we intend to pursue (non-career & short term), work style, our interactions with/connection with animals (mainly small & domesticated animals), the way we structure our days (or lack structure), self care & self improvement, how we provide for others (sometimes also viewed as a house relating to health / physical health)

✩ third quadrant: awareness of others/environment ✩

seventh house: serious relationships and partnerships (usually romantic - intense long-term/marriage/etc - or business partnerships), enemies, conflict style/approaches to serious disagreement, in which light do we view romantic relationships, how do we approach serious relationships, what do we look for in long-term connection, i also truly believe the seventh house can be indicative to “best friends” (any serious one-on-one connection)

eighth house: intense sexual encounters, intimate vulnerable relationships, the possessions and things we share with others, the things we try to repress and hide from others/feel shame in expressing, our interest in the occult/etc, the area of life where we frequently transform and rebirth ourselves

ninth house: spiritual and religious beliefs, expansion of the self and self-growth/reflection, values (think values discovered through life experience, unlike second house values which are usually taught/inherited - ninth house values are very changing/open), views on higher education, information processing (especially bigger/deeper beliefs, abstract concepts, etc), life philosophies, views on travel/exploration, expansion of the self, morals and ethics, meaning of life/questioning of purpose

✩ fourth quadrant: integration/interaction with society/the world/humanity ✩

tenth house: career ideals, our reputation and public image, the thing(s) we wish to be remembered/known for, how we interact and come off as on social media (along with eleventh house), the way we view and interact with authority figures, the way in which we go about achieving our goals/general life structure, our leadership (along with first house)

eleventh house: our deepest ambitions and aspirations, our communities and where we feel belonging (or lack of), creative pursuits (connects to fifth house as well- i feel like eleventh house is where/how we apply our hobbies to the real world/material world/etc), where we feel most individual/unique, friendships and approach to interacting with large groups of people, views on technology/social media influence

twelfth house: dreams, (mental) health, where we tend to self-sacrifice, the part of ourselves we deeply yearn for but struggle to express fully and connect to without worry, areas of unconditional love/forgiveness, our views on spirituality/religion (along with ninth house), the unconscious mind (versus ninth house: higher mind, third house: lower mind), areas we may frequently self-sabotage

Hey 😊There is many ways to find a Dominant … It is more a combination of things (sign, position and aspect). I feel like every Astrologer has is own way to find it xD

The Ruler of the Rising, Mars (or Pluto) in your case, is your Chart Ruler but not necessarily you”re Dominant planet. Your Mars is in a very good sign for him so it gave him strength … Pluto is also in his own sign of Scorpio so he is quite strong too …

On astro.com they have a section where you can calculate it.(If you don’t have an account with your info, you can enter them as Guest).

Go on Free Horoscopes > Extended Chart Selection > Method : Pullen/Astrolog > (drop down menu) Simple Chart delineation by Walter Pullen > Click Here to Show the Chart.

You get a looooong page with a lot of texts … scroll scroll scroll … until you are halfway and you’re gonna have something like that (that’s mine)Planet:    Position      Aspects    Total Rank  Percent     Sun :   33.5 ( 8) +  17.4 ( 8) =   50.9 ( 9) /   6.9%    Moon :   48.5 ( 4) +  14.4 ( 9) =   62.9 ( 6) /   8.6%Mercury :   52.5 ( 3) +  39.9 ( 2) =   92.4 ( 1) /  12.6%   Venus :   60.0 ( 1) +  21.2 ( 7) =   81.2 ( 3) /  11.1%    Mars :   15.0 (11) +  46.2 ( 1) =   61.2 ( 7) /   8.3%Jupiter :   35.0 ( 6) +  33.4 ( 3) =   68.4 ( 4) /   9.3%  Saturn :   53.5 ( 2) +  33.2 ( 5) =   86.7 ( 2) /  11.8%  Uranus :   13.5 (12) +  33.3 ( 4) =   46.8 (10) /   6.4%Neptune :   35.0 ( 7) +  30.7 ( 6) =   65.7 ( 5) /   9.0%   Pluto :   47.5 ( 5) +  11.2 (10) =   58.7 ( 8) /   8.0%  Chiron :   32.0 ( 9) +   0.0 (11) =   32.0 (11) /   4.4%    Node :   27.0 (10) +   0.0 (12) =   27.0 (12) /   3.7%   Total :  453.0      + 280.8      =  733.8      / 100.0%They also give you the same thing for your dominant sign and dominant element/mode. 

I don’t always agree with it (especially because they include Chiron and the Nodes in it), but it’s still a good indicator …

I’ve written a bunch of posts about awe-inspiring astronomical phenomena, but recently I’ve realised that to some people, it might not mean much. If I—a pretty switched-on person—could have made it through high school without learning the difference between a nebula and a galaxy, then a lot of others might be unsure about the basics too. So, what follows is a quick introduction to the universe and our place within it. 

We’ll start close to home: our planet, Earth, is in a nearly-circular orbit around the Sun. It completes one orbit a year, and every day it revolves once on its axis; we face the Sun during the day, and face the void of the universe at night. So the Earth is orbiting the Sun, and then in turn the Moon orbits the Earth. It takes 28 days to complete an orbit, and its phases depend on where its position relative to the Sun.  

The Sun sits in the centre of the solar system. The four closest planets, from inwards out, are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, but they’re still millions of kilometres from the Sun, with millions of kilometres between each planet too. These are called the terrestrial planets because they’re rocky in composition. Past Mars is the asteroid belt, where a smaller, rocky bodies zoom around the Sun in their own orbits. Beyond this are the Jovian planets, or the gas giants: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Jupiter is the largest, with massive storms and wind currents raging in its thick, deep atmosphere; Saturn and Uranus boast rings made up of ice and dust; and Neptune is one of the coldest places in the solar system. 

Beyond these planets are a few dwarf planets, including Pluto, and then the Kuiper belt, which contains thousands of icy objects and short-period comets. Finally, the last stop in the solar system is a huge halo extending right around the edge. Called the Oort cloud, it’s home to long period that take thousands of years to orbit the Sun. 

Our Sun is a star, a vast sphere of hydrogen so hot and pressurised that at its core, nuclear fusion takes place. Hydrogen atoms are fused into a helium atoms, and in the process release energy—the energy we could not live without. 

Our Sun is part of a bigger collection of stars called a galaxy, bound together by the force of gravity. When I say “collection”, I don’t just mean ten or fifty—most galaxies are home to billions of stars of different sizes and ages; some only have a few thousand but others have trillions. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, contains around 100 billion stars. We live in a spiral galaxy, located on one it its outer arms, but galaxies come in different shapes—not just spiral but also barred, elliptical, and many others. 

In the spaces between stars, galaxies also contain clouds of gas and dust called nebulae. Under the influence of gravity, this gas and dust can clump together until there’s enough material to collapse into a hot, pressurised ball—and when nuclear fusion ignites, a star is born. 

There are over 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe, organised into groups or clusters. We’re part of the imaginatively named Local Group. These clusters are then organised into superclusters, and then on the biggest scales in the universe, these superclusters are organised into filaments and sheets. Between these filaments are voids of such enormous immensities that it’s hard to imagine. 

The Harmony of the Planets

The Copernican model of the universe tells us that all the planets, including the Earth, orbit around the sun, but it wasn’t until German mathematician Johannes Kepler came along in the 17th century that we were truly able to understand their movements. With data collected—painstakingly, without a telescope—by Tycho Brahe, noseless Danish eccentric and astronomer, Kepler developed three fundamental laws of planetary motion. Together, they underpin everything we know about how our solar system works.

The Law of Ellipses: Each planets orbits in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus. A circular would have one focus (the centre) and one radius, but an ellipse has two focii, a semimajor axis (the longest distance from the centre to the edge) and a semiminor axis (the shortest distance from the centre to the edge. How elliptical an orbit is can be described by its eccentricity, which equals the distance between the centre and one focus divided by the semi major axis. 

The Law of Equal Areas: A line from the Sun to any planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times. The most important thing to grasp here is that when a planet orbits in an ellipse, the sun is at one focus. Because of this, a planet’s speed is not constant. Sometimes the planet is close to the Sun and travels faster (and therefore further, in any given time period time period), and sometimes it’s further away and travels slower (and therefore not as far, for the same time period). However, the “area” it sweeps out will be exactly the same, anywhere on its orbit, for any given time. This allows us to calculate the planet’s orbital speed at any time. 

The Law of Periods: The square of a planet’s orbital period is proportional to the semimajor axis squared, i.e., P2 = a3, where the period is measured in years, and the semimajor axis is measured in astronomical units. This tells us the relationship between the time it takes for a planet to orbit and the distance between the planet and the Sun. 

These laws are neat because they apply to all kinds of orbits—not just planetary ones, but satellite, comet and spacecraft orbits too, so they have a range of applications. They’re also significant because they influenced Newton’s thinking about planetary interaction, leading to his Universal Law of Gravitation, and to modern physics.