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I was working on this post back about a month ago and then some shit happened and I had to put it on the back burner for a bit. In lieu of running out of projects to work on, I picked this back up and finally finished it. Hopefully it's accurate, sometimes I feel like I go to one source and it says one thing, and another will say something entirely different.
One thing I've learned from exploring astrology is that things can be very subjective, and some people care about some aspects more than others. I've decided to lay things out as much as possible, but if it disputes what you've read some place else, please feel free to let me know! I'm always interested in hearing others perspectives.
Note that this post is about modern Western astrology, not historic, cultural astrology practices.
ASTROLOGY WEBSITES I LIKE:
Whole signs: Chani
Placidus: Astrotheme
ASPECTS OF THE SIGNS:
Fire: active and enthusiastic
Air: intellectual and communicative
Water: emotional and intuitive
Earth: practical and stable
Cardinal: initiators, enterprising
Fixed: resistant to change
Mutable: flexible, versatile
Receptive: inward focused, reflective (also called feminine)
Active: outward focused, action-driven (also called masculine)
POLARITIES: Signs that are opposite in nature
–Aries and Libra
–Taurus and Scorpio
–Gemini and Sagittarius
–Cancer and Capricorn
–Leo and Aquarius
–Virgo and Pisces
THE SIGNS:
I decided to give really short blurbs on each of these signs because they all mean varying things depending on their placements.
ARIES: ♈︎
–Fire, cardinal, active
–Bold, ambitious, trailblazers
–Ruled by Mars, exalted in the Sun
TAURUS: ♉︎
–Earth, fixed, receptive
–Reliable, steadfast, sensual
–Ruled by Venus, exalted in the Moon
GEMINI: ♊︎
–Air, mutable, active
–Witty, curious, good communicators
–Ruled by Mercury, exalted in the North Node
CANCER: ♋︎
–Water, cardinal, receptive
–Empathetic, loyal, creates security
–Ruled by the Moon, exalted in Jupiter
LEO: ♌︎
–Fire, fixed, active
–Charismatic, radiantly warm, natural leader
–Ruled by the Sun, exalted in Neptune
VIRGO: ♍︎
–Earth, mutable, receptive
–Practical, ambitious, attentive to detail
–Ruled by AND exalted in Mercury
LIBRA: ♎︎
–Air, cardinal, active
–Charming, diplomatic, fair
–Also ruled by Venus, exalted in Saturn
SCORPIO: ♏︎
–Water, fixed, receptive
–Passionate, magnetic, honest
–Ruled by Mars and Pluto, exalted in Uranus
SAGITTARIUS: ♐︎
–Fire, mutable, active
–Optimistic, generous, extroverted
–Ruled by Jupiter, exalted in South Node
CAPRICORN: ♑︎
–Earth, fixed, receptive
–Ambitious, controlled, takes leadership
–Ruled by Saturn, exalted in Mars
AQUARIUS: ♒︎
–Air, fixed, active
–Visionary, independent, unconventional
–Ruled by Saturn and Uranus, exalted in Pluto
PISCES: ♓︎
–Water, mutable, receptive
–Gentle, creative, intuitive
–Ruled by Jupiter and Neptune, exalted in Venus
PLACEMENTS:
Keep in mind that not all readers use all of these aspects, but I’ve decided to include them for the sake of being thorough and because I think they’re interesting. You could very realistically leave out everything listed after Midheaven and still get a pretty good picture.
SUN: ☉
–Changes about every month. Your sense of individuality, style, drive, main role in life, and will. The broad strokes of you and your personality. The sun in Houses 1-6 indicate a daytime birth, and 7-12 a nighttime.
MOON: ☾
–Changes about every two days. Your emotions, instincts, unconscious, inner core, fantasies, and reactions to stimuli.
MERCURY: ☿
–Changes about every two to three weeks. Your communication skills, intellectual practices, mental activities, perceptive abilities, and reason. How you collect information and process it.
VENUS: ♀
–Changes about every one to two months. The way you show and experience affection and love, enjoy or show beauty, the amusements you enjoy, and how you spend your money.
MARS: ♂
–Changes about every couple of months. Your energy, boldness, courage, strength, anger management, conflict resolution skills, sexuality, and impulses.
The above are all called the “personal” or “inner” planets because they cycle through the signs the most often.
JUPITER: ♃
–Changes about every year. How outgoing and genial you are, your career, luck, your philosophy, and worldly possessions.
SATURN: ♄
–Changes about every 2.5 years. How you overcome obstacles and hardships, diligence, self-control, your maturity, and your sense of optimism or cynicism.
URANUS: ♅
–Changes about every 7 years. The changes in your life, inventive or unconventional ideas, inner will and secret power, what kind of genius you have.
NEPTUNE: ♆
–Changes about every 14 years. Your sense of perfectionism, unselfish ideals, your spiritual quest, mysteries and illusions, dream life, art and spiritual movements.
PLUTO: ⯓ or ♇
–The most prominent difference between generations, as it stays in signs for around 12 to 31 years. Represents change, transformation, dormancy, death and rebirth, the highest highs and lowest lows.
The above are all called “outer” or “generational” planets because they cycle through the signs slowly.
ASCENDANT: ↑ or AC
–The zodiac sign that was rising in the east at the time you were born.
–Your outward demeanor, mask or image, impact on the world, experiences, and relationships with others.
MEDIUM COELI or MIDHEAVEN: MC
–The sign at the highest point of the sky when you were born.
–The work you’re meant for, your public persona, reputation, and legacy.
DESCENDANT: DC
–The zodiac sign that was setting in the west at the time you were born.
–Your “missing half” (can be referred to as a person or a thing), how you relate to others, things you are drawn to.
IMUM COELI: IC
–The lowest point of the sky (the highest point on the exact opposite of the globe) when you were born.
–Your roots, ancestry, private self, childhood and upbringing, the unconscious.
NORTH NODE: ☊
–The intersection point between the moon and Sun's orbits, where the moon is moving upwards.
–The future, unfamiliar territory, the key lessons you’re supposed to learn, your destiny.
SOUTH NODE: ☋
–The intersection point between the moon and Sun’s orbits, where the moon is moving downwards.
–Your comfort zone, past-life experiences, innate talents and abilities.
VERTEX: 🜊
–The intersection between the Ecliptic and Prime Vertical circles in the West.
–Your hidden destiny, fated encounters, and divine give and take.
FORTUNE: ⊕
–Calculated differently depending on if you were born during the day or at night. Day= AC + Moon - Sun and Night= AC + Sun - Moon.
–The parts of your life you will naturally have success or luck in.
EAST POINT: EP
–The eastern intersection between the Ecliptic and Prime Vertical circles.
–Your more casual, off the cuff personality.
LILITH DARK MOON: ⚸
–The point where the moon is furthest away from the Earth.
–Your sense of independence, rebelliousness, shame, and personal power.
CHIRON: ⚷
–The placement in the sky of the celestial body Chiron.
–Your “deepest wound,” often originating from childhood or another foundational time, and your journey towards wisdom after that.
PALLAS ATHENA: ⚴
–The placement in the sky of the comet Pallas.
–Your creativity, intelligence, problem-solving abilities, wisdom, logic, and practical intuition.
CERES: ⚳
–The placement in the sky of the dwarf planet Ceres.
–Your parenting style, how you nurture others, how you react to cycles of growth and loss.
JUNO: ⚵
–The placement in the sky of the asteroid Juno.
–Your ideal partner, your relationship style, how you go about power dynamics, and your deal-breakers.
VESTA: ⚶
–The placement in the sky of the asteroid Vesta.
–Your dedication, inner spark, and what ignites your passions.
RETROGRADES:
Signified by an R, Я, or ℞. Retrogrades occur when a planet appears to be moving backwards from the Earth’s point of view. These signs indicate an aspect of self that is not as easily expressed, and often remains internalized. Having a natal retrograde can change your experiences when living through a current transit.
MERCURY: Happens three to four times a year for a few weeks, can make communication with others and learning new things more difficult. Getting misunderstood happens more often, which can lead to the strife and struggling that a lot of people know Mercury retrogrades for.
VENUS: Happens about every 18 months and lasts for a month or so. Makes understanding love and affection more difficult, and positive self-talk harder to achieve. Creativity and beauty may not be uplifted, and your femininity suppressed. Indulgences are harder to resist.
MARS: Happens about every 26 months and lasts for weeks or months. Anger and frustration get bottled up and internalized. Toxic masculinity or purity culture and violence are emphasized. Struggles with motivation, energy, ambition, or sexuality (especially being sexual with others).
JUPITER: Happens about every 14 months and lasts for four months. Feeling like you’re unlucky or have to work harder than others. Independence and a strong sense of inner guidance. Feeling out of place with your beliefs, being misunderstood or ignored when you share your philosophy. Not being allowed to take up space. Pessimism. Struggles with risk-taking, seeing others perspectives, and faith. Self-teaching is easier. Follows their own code of ethics.
SATURN: Happens once a year for about five months. Lack of consistent rules or guidelines, especially with role models. Your internal thoughts are organized, but externally you seem disorganized. Struggles with setting and honoring boundaries. Struggles with self-motivation and direction. Commitment issues. Rebelliousness and authority issues.
URANUS: Happens once a year for about five months. Feeling like you have to keep yourself hidden, especially the parts of yourself that are shameful or unique. Following the rules, conforming to expectations or the “norm.” Swinging between a very rigid and a very loose sense of self and self-expression. Structure becomes important, mostly out of fear or anxiety.
NEPTUNE: Happens once a year for about five months. Favoring logic and science rather than intuition and emotions. Struggles with expressing creativity and externalizing dreams. Struggling with existing in reality. Ignoring intuition or signs. Conditional, strings attached relationships, and surface level bonds. Having a hard time empathizing with or understanding others perspectives.
PLUTO: Happens once a year for about five months. Staying in imbalanced relationships or roles, not wanting to express boundaries as they’re violated. Distrusting others to have authority or control, trouble with authority figures. Strong inner beliefs and convictions, but not expressing them. Preferring to process trauma and grief alone. Struggling with being vulnerable. Keeping your struggles secret. Building up resentment and then exploding.
ESSENTIAL DIGNITIES:
DOMICILE: When a sign is in a planet that already rules it. Ex) Mars in Aries.
EXALTED: When a sign is in a planet that exalts it. Ex.) Mars in Capricorn.
DETRIMENT: When a sign is in a planet ruled by its opposing sign. Ex.) Mars in Libra.
FALL: When a sign is in a planet exalted by its opposing sign. Ex.) Mars in Cancer.
MAJOR ASPECTS:
CONJUNCT: 0° apart (or within 10°)
–A strong focal point, enhances good or bad.
TRINE: 120° apart (or within 9°)
–Most harmonious, very favorable, too many make someone weak.
OPPOSITION: 180° apart (or within 9°)
–Unharmonious opposition, challenges to growth and achievement.
SEXTILE: 60° apart (or within 6°)
–Harmonious and favorable, requires effort to be beneficial.
SQUARE: 90° apart (or within 9°)
–Challenging and stressful, places obstacles and teaches lessons.
THE HOUSES:
1-6: present above the horizon at your time of birth
7-12: present below the horizon at your time of birth
Therefore, if your Sun sign is located above the horizon, you were born during the day, and if below the horizon you were born at night.
FIRST: “House of Self,” your mannerisms, style disposition, temperament, likes and dislikes, how you are perceived and present yourself.
–Ruled by Aries
–Your ascendant is always in your first house
SECOND: “House of Money and Possessions,” what you own in life, your prospects, how you feel about worldly possessions, what might be lucrative for you.
–Ruled by Taurus
THIRD: “House of Communication,” self-expression, family ties, day-to-day travel, the way you think, speak, and write, logic, memory, and manual skills.
–Ruled by Gemini
FOURTH: “House of Home,” your home life in the past, present, and future, ancestor relationships, the security you seek in old age, what you keep protected and secluded.
–Ruled by Cancer
FIFTH: “House of Creativity and Sex,” what you do for pleasure and to express yourself, love affairs, children, new undertakings, things you love unconditionally
–Ruled by Leo
SIXTH: “House of Service and Health,” your need to help others, especially those “below you,” your place in hierarchies, constitution and illness, altruism
–Ruled by Virgo
SEVENTH: “House of Partnership and Marriage,” your partner, the partnership(s) in your life, the unions or contracts you enter, your ability to work with others
–Ruled by Libra
EIGHTH: “House of Death and Regeneration,” spiritual transformation, legacies and inheritance, psychic powers, occult knowledge, and mental health.
–Ruled by Scorpio
NINTH: “House of Exploration and Travel,” expanded study, travel, mental pursuits, study of deep and profound subjects, foreigners and foreignness.
–Ruled by Sagittarius
TENTH: “House of Career and Public Standing,” all matters outside of the home, professions, status, reputation, ambitions, attainment, aspirations, and expression of your talents.
–Ruled by Capricorn
ELEVENTH: “House of Hopes and Wishes,” long-term dreams and relationships, involvement in your community, “it takes a village” mentality, clubs or societies.
–Ruled by Aquarius
TWELFTH: “House of Secrets and Sorrows,” the most mystical house, ends of cycles, limitations, boundaries, unseen forces, disappointments, debts, the meaning of life.
–Ruled by Pisces
HOUSE CONSTRUCTION METHODS:
PORPHYRY: The Medium Coeli and Ascendant are calculated first, with the Imum Coeli and Descendant being 180 degrees across from them. The remaining houses are divided equally between these two lines. This means each house may be different sizes.
WHOLE SIGNS: The first house is always your Ascendant sign, and each sign that follows your ascendant will be your second, third, etc. Every house is the same size (30 degrees).
PLACIDUS: A much more complex system, the Placidus houses are decided by measurements calculated with your location and time of birth. Your Ascendant will always be the cusp of your first house, and, moving clockwise, the next cusp will be marked after two hours. This continues until the seventh house, where the remaining six houses will be extended as needed to make up the remaining space. The further from the equator you live, the more uneven your houses. Sign interceptions and doubles are only possible with this system.
As a beginner, I have been recommended to use the Whole Signs method, since it’s a lot easier to interpret. Placidus is wholly the most popular method nowadays, though.
SIGN INTERCEPTIONS: Only occurs in the Placidus system. When a sign has no house cusps present in it. Always occurs in opposing pairs. Aspects of yourself that are blocked or underdeveloped.
SIGN DUPLICATES: Only occurs in the Placidus system. When a sign has two or more house cusps present in it. Always occurs in opposing pairs. Aspects of yourself that are enhanced or reinforced.
If you have an interception you will always have a duplicate, and vice versa.
SOURCES:
“The Only Astrology Book You’ll Ever Need,” by Joanna Martine Woolfolk– honestly I wouldn’t recommend it. It’s very surface level, gendered, and ignores some very important aspects of astrology and I was still left feeling pretty confused after reading it.
Free Astrology Course by Shaina Astrology– the one issue with these videos is that they seem a bit biased or subjective-passed-off-as-objective, but they were helpful to get the basics down!
Do you use music for meditation/connection/rituals/etc? Any recommendations, especially for planet work?
For the classical planets I have the music associated to them in Planetary Magick by Denning and Phillips, and for general work or pcp I tend to use specific Zelda ost like Sealed Temple or Nayru's song. Recently though I've been wanting to search for more suggestions, especially with cosmic witchcraft.
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Planet Rise, Planetary Culminations, and Planet Set
There are many ways to determine how and when one should perform workings that draw on the energy and attributes of a celestial body. We can consider planetary days and hours, or astrological positioning.
Something I have yet to see anyone else talk about is considering the physical position of a planet in relation to one's position on earth. Specifically, is a planet "visible" in the sky above you?
The planets, like the sun and moon, rise, traverse our sky, and set. Now, they don't always make it above the horizon, or to a truly visible height above it, just something to keep in mind.
There are four major events for the planets each day:
Rise: The time the planet crosses above the horizon.
Upper Culmination[1]: The time the planet reaches its highest point in the sky for the day.
Set: The time the planet crosses beneath the horizon.
Lower Culmination[1]: The time the planet reaches its lowest position in the sky for the day.
For planets that will not truly rise or truly set in a day (akin to the midnight sun and endless nights experienced by the poles), you will still have culminations, but no rise and set.
These four events can be used in much the same way that we use moon phases, with rise being like waxing, upper culmination like full, set like waning, and lower culmination like new. For a planet that will not experience a rise or a set, we can consider it to be "waxing" as it travels from its lower culmination to the higher, and "waning" as it travels back from its upper culmination to the lower.
More generally, we can also consider a planet's influence to be stronger when it is above the horizon, and weaker when it is below the horizon.
This can of course be used in conjunction with other planetary considerations, like astrology, but definitely doesn't need to be. Sometimes a planet just isn't in a notable sign for the work you want to do, and won't be for months, years, or even within your own lifetime.
For example, at the time of writing this post (June 2026), Saturn is in Aries, the sign of its fall[2], and will be for almost another year. So, when I looked for ways to invoke Saturn in the making of an Arnica salve (a flower strongly associated with Saturn[3]), I looked for when it would be above the horizon in my location. The entire creation of this salve will take place within this time frame.
Alternatively, you could try to weaken or block a planet's influence by working while the planet is below the horizon and therefore blocked from you by the earth itself!
Where to find rise and set times:
theskylive.com
This is what I personally have been using. It provides, rise, upper culmination, and set times for the planets based on your location. This site is good to see what's going on at present and over the next day.
in-the-sky.org
This website shows you a summary of all the planets at a given location and time, and lets you set any time you want! Great for planning into the future. It also notes visibility based on light and if the planet rises high enough over the horizon.
this design is largely inspired by isaac hill's zodiac garden
if you have a large enough space, a centerpiece garden can be designed to represent your personal natal chart, or to represent the seven classical luminaries (or the modern planets, if you have enough space). a smaller pot garden may be created as a centerpiece.
smaller scale container garden
each zodiac sign could be represented by a single potted plant, or even a vase for flowers.
as the centerpiece, you could represent your natal chart with crystals representing each planetary placement; in a similar fashion you could create a constantly moving orrery out of crystals. or utilize this space as an astrolatry altar, for spellwork and offerings to the luminaries.
plants associated with each planet and each zodiac sign, from Stephen Skinner's "The Complete Magician's Tables" (2006).
more sources for plant correspondences:
the english physitian by nicholas culpeper; see wikipedias list of plants in the english physitian, which is sorted by planets
book 1, of the three books of occult philosophy by agrippa, chapters 23-29 & chapter 32 (includes planetary, zodiac, & fixed stat plant correspondences)
cunningham's encyclopedia of magical herbs (includes planetary plant correspondences)
