Astrology Basics - Wheel, Houses, Universal Archetype Meanings

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Each birth chart represents your unique blueprint in the whole of existence.  Astrology uses a language of symbols and archetypes to describe your uniqueness. These symbols and meanings are written to the circle, the chart wheel, a graphic model of awakening, growth, and processes of your life.
Planets = WHAT is going on = WHAT you want
Signs = HOW it occurs = HOW you go about getting what you want.
Houses = WHERE the activity is taking place= WHERE you seek what you want.
Aspects = The quality of the energy, use or abuse, with which you seek what you want.

The Astrology Wheel, Houses, Signs, and Realms of Expression

Astrology   You are much more than your sun sign!  No one else in the world is exactly like you (not even a twin!).  So how can you read only the newspaper horoscope and plan your life?  You can't.  You can only get accurate astrology horoscopes with your exact birth time, birth place, and date.  If you plan your life with less, you are not getting the whole picture.  Get your individual AstroProfile now.

Astrology is a science that studies the synchronicity of cycles within our solar system. Cosmic events like eclipses, orbits of planets and stars, alignments, and so forth, are not seen as causing events to occur on Earth, but as profiles of events paralleling events also happening here on Earth. Planetary and earthly events happen simultaneously and reflect each other.  As Above, So Below.  Neither causes the other, both are profiles of the moment, one acted out in the heavens, the other here on planet Earth,  with our Moon.

For Current Planetary movement see: 2005 Astrological Events.
An astrology chart and our reports are a method of mapping the heavens and our Earth for a birth moment.  A chart is simply a profile of the cosmos at the time of birth...a cosmic profile. It is what the universe has to say about who you are and what you may become.  Astrology simply provides the language to describe the profile of yourself and others.  This is what the study of astrology is all about: reading the signs of the times, what is happening, and listening to what the signs have to say about ourselves, where it is happening, now and in the future. Astrology can not only teach us about ourselves, but also about others.  Astrology studies cycles of life and gives a language to describe the cycles.  It allows us to see behind and plan ahead.

Table of Astrology Symbols and Correspondences

Basic Meanings of Astrology Glyphs (Glyphs mean Symbols)
Yang = Masculine; Yin = Feminine

Sign	Symbol	House	Planet	Symbol	Element	Mode	Polarity
Aries		1	Mars		Fire	Cardinal	Yang
Taurus		2	Venus		Earth	Fixed	Yin
Gemini		3	Mercury		Air	Mutable	Yang
Cancer		4	Moon		Water	Cardinal	Yin
Leo		5	Sun		Fire	Fixed	Yang
Virgo		6	Mercury		Earth	Mutable	Yin
Libra		7	Venus		Air	Cardinal	Yang
Scorpio		8	Pluto		Water	Fixed	Yin
Sagittarius		9	Jupiter		Fire	Mutable	Yang
Capricorn		10	Saturn		Earth	Cardinal	Yin
Aquarius		11	Uranus		Air	Fixed	Yang
Pisces		12	Neptune		Water	Mutable	Yin

Personal, Social, and Universal Qualities of Planets - Planetary Orbiting Cycles

The Orbits and Planet Qualities - Personal, Social, or Universal                             Click for Larger View

• Orbiting tightly around the Sun in the center are:

• Personal Planets: Mercury, Venus, the Earth, the Earth's orbiting Moon, and then Mars.

• The Social or Interpersonal Planets:  Jupiter and Saturn. 

• Next comes the orbit of Chiron (not shown, but is often called the Rainbow Bridge-between the visible to the naked eye and the transpersonal planets).

• The Transpersonal Personal or Universal Planets:  Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

• The Moon's Nodes and 4 Key Asteroids are also shown in the table below.

When beginning to study astrology, it is extremely helpful to be reminded of the amount of time it takes the bodies to complete an orbit around the Sun, which is the same amount of time it takes to complete a revolution on your Astrology Chart Wheel. (See Table Below.)  It is also helpful to be reminded that the Planets move on the Chart Wheel in a counter clockwise motion.  For example:  The orbit time of Saturn is 28-30 years.  Thus, from Saturn's position on your birth chart, it would take Saturn 28 - 30 years to return to the exact same position on the Chart Wheel as it travel counter clockwise.