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Birth Chart

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Carole Baskin

June 6, 1961 -- Time UnknownTime Unknown

San Antonio, TX, USA

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Your birth chart is essentially a picture of the sky at your moment of birth. Because your chart is based on the specific time and place of your birth, no two charts are exactly alike -- meaning that, in the entire history of humanity, you are absolutely unique!

Astrology is based on an ancient idea: “As above, so below.” In other words, the planets and stars above can tell us something about life here on Earth. So your birth chart is like your “road map” on the journey of life … but remember, you're the one who decides which road to go down, how fast to drive, and who gets to come along for the ride!

Gemini Sun

The image of the twins symbolizes the dual nature of the Gemini. They can easily see both sides of an argument, and accept opposites or contradictions … even in themselves! Geminis are curious, talkative, versatile and mentally active. Their minds can bounce around from one topic to another with great ease, making them champions of engaging conversation.

Planetary Positions

PlanetSignMotionSunGemini𝐃MercuryCancer𝐃VenusTaurus𝐃MarsLeo𝐃JupiterAquariusSaturnCapricornUranusLeo𝐃NeptuneScorpioPlutoVirgo𝐃N. NodeVirgo

Aspects

Major Aspects

AspectDegreeSun Sextile Mars+1° 24'Sun Sextile Uranus+6° 31'Mercury Trine Neptune+0° 57'Mercury Sextile Pluto-2° 25'Mercury Quincunx Jupiter+1° 08'Venus Square Saturn+1° 33'Venus Trine N. Node+0° 15'Venus Trine Pluto+4° 50'Venus Square Jupiter-6° 08'Mars Conjunction Uranus+5° 07'Jupiter Square Neptune-2° 05'Jupiter Quincunx Pluto+1° 17'Saturn Quincunx N. Node-1° 48'Neptune Sextile Pluto+3° 23'

Aspect Key

AspectDegreeOrbConjunctionOpposition180°Square90°Trine120°Sextile60°Quincunx150°

1. Your Personality

The Sun

Now that you’ve seen your birth chart, let's turn to the planets, starting with the most important one of all: the Sun. When someone asks, “What's your sign?” they're asking about your Sun sign. As you'll see, there's much more to Astrology than just your Sun sign -- it's only one piece of the cosmic puzzle. But as the planet around which everything else revolves, the Sun is considered the most significant feature of your birth chart.

For simplicity's sake, each of the astrological features of your birth chart are called planets, even things like the Sun and Moon. Each of the planets represents a different facet of who you are; the Sun, for instance, represents your core self. The Sun's sign and house show how you “shine your light” -- your vitality, creativity, and even your work. When you express the qualities of your Sun sign in a positive way, you “light up” and feel confident, happy, and energized.

Sun in Gemini

☉ ♊

You are, in many ways, an eternal child. Your mind is bright, alert, curious, flexible, playful and always eager for new experiences -- and your attention span is often quite brief. You grasp ideas quickly and once your initial curiosity has been satisfied, you want to go on to something else. You crave frequent change, variety, meeting new situations and people.

It may be hard for you to decide just where your talents and true vocation lie, for you have a multitude of interests and are loathe to limit yourself by concentrating on just one. You are easily distracted by all of the other fascinating possibilities. Your curiosity and restlessness propel you into many different experiences in life, and you are willing to taste or try anything once. Doing the same thing over and over again, even it is something you do well, is real drudgery for you.

You live in your head a great deal -- reading, observing, thinking, spinning ideas around -- and you need mental stimulation every bit as much as you need food and drink. In fact, if you had to choose between a good book or movie and a good lunch, you would very likely choose the former. You have a creative mind and often live by your wits.

You are also a very social creature, with a strong need to communicate and to interact with people. You enjoy using and playing with words and have a real flair for getting your ideas across in a clever, interesting, articulate manner. Writing or speaking are areas you have talent for.

You also have a rather light and mischievous sense of humor, and often do not take anything too seriously. Though you crave emotional involvement, it is hard for you to achieve it, for you are frequently unwilling to commit yourself to anything, to take responsibility, or to limit your personal freedom and mobility.

Your happiness lies in using your creativity and your language skills to communicate something meaningful, to teach, inspire, or bring people together. You have an unbiased mind and can usually offer a fresh, clear, uncluttered perspective. Your faults are your lack of constancy and persistence, and your tendency to overlook or ignore deep emotional issues and other people's feelings.

Sun Sextile Mars

☉ ⚹ ♂

You can be an inspiring leader of a team or group effort. Your dynamism and energy evokes the same in others, and you see healthy competition between people as a plus. Generally, you enjoy fine health as well.

Sun Sextile Uranus

☉ ⚹ ♅

You are an original! You radiate a sort of electrical excitement about the things you are interested in, and convey this to others, but you get bored rather quickly also. You don't mind being a bit unusual or breaking a few rules either.

2. Your Ideas

The Planet Mercury

From the feeling nature of the Moon we now turn to the realm of the mind, represented by the planet Mercury. Because Mercury travels closest to the Sun, it has a shorter and faster orbit than the other planets. For this reason, the ancients associated Mercury with the wing-footed messenger god by the same name. Mercury's position and aspects show you how your mind works -- how you think and learn, as well as how you communicate those thoughts to others.

Mercury in Cancer

☿ ♋

You are highly interested in inner, subjective, and personal issues, and your thinking is based more on feelings, intuition, personal experiences, and prejudices rather than reason or logic. Intellectual abilities and accomplishments without heart or soul mean little to you. You are empathic and would be an excellent counselor, for you are a sensitive listener and deeply interested in a person's feelings and inner life. In addition to psychology, you are drawn to education, art, poetry, music or mythology. You are not especially confident about speaking in public, but will open up and share your thoughts in small, intimate groups. You enjoy keeping a diary or personal journal and reading the chronicles of others' lives and personal development.

Mercury Quincunx Jupiter

☿ ⚻ ♃

You often seesaw between what your conscious reasoning tells you versus a belief in things that seem to defy logic. You have a penchant for thinking big and being able to visualize the future, but beware of grandiose schemes and exaggerated claims. Oftentimes the most "far out" theories or speculative ideas seem perfectly plausible to you, but it would be wise to test these ideas before you invest too much into them.

Also, you are prone to severe wanderlust at times, so try to see as much of the world as you can.

Mercury Trine Neptune

☿ △ ♆

You are open and receptive to subjects that defy rational explanation, such as psychic phenomena, mental telepathy, metaphysics, etc., and you could teach these subjects to others. Your mind is imaginative and inspired and you have an aptitude for art and creative writing.

Mercury Sextile Pluto

☿ ⚹ ⯓

Your mind is characterized by a penetrating depth and thoroughness. You ferret out the facts, and especially enjoy a problem if there is an element of mystery, darkness or the forbidden. Generally, you don't shy away from the truth, no matter how unpleasant.

3. How You Love

The Planet Venus

The next planet in the solar system is Venus, named for the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Venus reveals how you relate to others -- the kinds of people you are attracted to, the kinds of people who are attracted to you, and your unique way of experiencing love. Venus helps us realize what kinds of interpersonal relationships we need to feel happy and fulfilled. On a more basic level, Venus also describes what gives us pleasure and what we find desirable or valuable.

Venus in Taurus

♀ ♉

In love, you are steadfast and loyal, especially if you have a warm, demonstrative partner. You are very sensually oriented and need lots of touching and physical affection. You enjoy being pampered with a good meal, loving massage or other sensual delights. You are a wonderful lover, very attentive to the comfort and enjoyment of the one you love. You are tremendously responsive to beauty and physical appearances, and the physical attractiveness of your partner is very important to you.

Venus Square Jupiter

♀ □ ♃

You share freely whatever you have, and your friends know they can always count on your generosity and support, both emotional and material. Your good-hearted acceptance and tolerance of others' foibles goes a long way in maintaining harmony in your relationships. You also have a lazy streak and sometimes avoid confronting difficult issues in relationships simply because it seems like too much trouble and too petty. You like to socialize and will use any excuse to celebrate with friends. You cannot tolerate too much restriction by your love partner, and encourage your partner's freedom as well.

Venus aspects both Jupiter and Saturn

Your pleasure-loving nature and your emotional and material generosity discussed above are counterbalanced by a certain caution or restraint in expressing your affection, and by a fear of heartache. At times you are likely to be the jovial, friendly, rather extravagant person mentioned previously, but at other times you are far more contained as described here. Because you are upbeat and fun-loving, people probably do not suspect how sensitive you are to being left out or unappreciated.

Venus Square Saturn

♀ □ ♄

You are serious and find it difficult to enjoy yourself in a lighthearted, open and playful way with others. You rarely do something purely for pleasure, and can be very close-fisted and parsimonious. Perhaps due to painful separations in your early life, you are very cautious about becoming close to people and sharing your feelings. Though you crave love and affection, intimacy is difficult for you. You may become romantically involved with people who do not value you or treat you well. You need to learn to love and value yourself before you will find happiness in love.

Venus Trine Pluto

♀ △ ⯓

You love deeply, passionately and wholeheartedly, and others may find your intensity either extremely attractive or threatening. You are charismatic and can have a powerful emotional influence on others, especially those of the opposite sex. You may use your attractiveness to manipulate others, sometimes without even realizing it.

4. How You Live Life

The Planet Mars

We now move from the feminine symbol of Venus to the masculine symbol of Mars, which influences our motivations. Mars is the first planet beyond Earth in our solar system. It represents your activity level and drive -- the way you approach life. This can mean anything from how you behave at your job to what activities you pursue to how you go about your daily life.

Mars in Leo

♂ ♌

You are proud and ambitious, and you strive to excel, to stand out and be recognized for who and what you are. You have a very strong ego drive and like to be Number One. You find it difficult to take orders from others or to stay in the background, and you hate being wrong; you always insist that you are right!

You are forceful, strong, energetic, determined and highly competitive. You play hard, you play to win and you do not give up easily. In fact, you see life as a competitive sport or performance. You love admiration and applause, and you have a strong sense of personal honor and integrity. You tend to be very self-confident, even arrogant. Because of your belief in yourself, you are able to accomplish much, but if your confidence is ever undermined, you become self-conscious, defensive and rather belligerent.

Mars Conjunct Uranus

♂ ☌ ♅

Dynamic, self-willed, and fiercely independent, you have extraordinary drive and energy. When you want something, you want it NOW, and you act quickly, impulsively and decisively. Your impatience inclines you to be abrupt with people and reckless. You need a great deal of personal freedom to do things in your own way and do not happily conform to schedules, rules or regimes imposed by others. You are intolerant of authority and can be very rebellious. You are very frank with others, sometimes brutally so. You may have an explosive temper. High-strung and often nervous and tense, you find it difficult to slow down, pace yourself, or relax. You are always on the go. You are restless, daring and experimental.

Jupiter Square Neptune

♃ □ ♆

You have a need to escape from the demands of everyday life and to reach out to something bigger, more exotic, more exciting. Traveling is good for you. You may also daydream, fantasize or philosophize a great deal.

Jupiter Quincunx Pluto

♃ ⚻ ⯓

You are apt to have very strong convictions and beliefs, and some might say you border on being fanatical. At some point in your life, the urge to act on these beliefs may put you in a questionable position with your superiors, or even the law of the land.

On another level, you may have inordinate ambitions and unless you take care not to overstep yourself, a fall due to greed or arrogance could result.

5. Your Strengths

The Planet Jupiter

Next we meet Jupiter, king of the gods and the largest planet in our solar system. Jupiter represents luck, opportunity, and reward. Looking at Jupiter in your birth chart will help you realize the possibilities that are available to you and figure out what kind of work will benefit you the most.

Complementing Jupiter is another part of your birth chart, the Midheaven. The Midheaven is the highest point in your chart, representing your purpose in life: your career, fame, and public reputation. Your midheaven is a guiding light toward what will bring you ultimate fulfillment in life.

Jupiter in Aquarius

♃ ♒

Your strength lies in your ability to be innovative, open to new progressive concepts, willing to experiment and to reject customs and traditions when they cease to serve any positive function in the present. Also, you have an expansive view of the world, one that includes humanity and not only your own small, personal circle.

6. Your Challenges

The Planet Saturn and The North Node

Saturn has a lot to do with your life's work and ambitions. However, Saturn is considered a “heavy” influence, showing where you will be tested. It represents the lessons and challenges you have to tackle on your way to success.

Slow-moving Saturn teaches patience and endurance. It’s placement in your birth chart shows the limitations placed on you and the types of experiences you may go through in order to learn how to overcome these obstacles.

Saturn in Capricorn

♄ ♑

You have a great capacity for self-denial in the pursuit of a long-range goal. You are capable of hard work and persistent labor, but you may lack joyfulness and the ability to play. You often feel burdened by life's demands and responsibilities, and may envy those who seem to attract what they want in life without a great deal of personal effort.

There is a very judgmental, stern, and uncompromising side of yourself that may inhibit you a great deal. You must avoid becoming heavy and cynical, or becoming a rather callous, sophisticated adult whose practicality and realism squeeze out the playful, imaginative side of life.

Overcoming Your Challenges

When we're under stress, we instinctively slip into certain habits and patterns of behavior. In Astrology, this “survival mode” is represented by the South Node of the Moon. The South Node shows the path of least resistance that you're likely to take, because it’s what’s already comfortable to you. However, just because it’s the easiest path doesn’t make it the best. Instead, the North Node of the Moon shows you a healthier, more balanced method of dealing with difficult situations. Learning to cope with problems through your North Node rather than your South Node will help you put an end to negative patterns and grow as a person.

North Node in Virgo

☊ ♍

Your natural instinct, especially when under stress, is to passively flow along with whatever is easiest, not clearly analyzing or assessing your situation and perhaps even trying to escape seeing your situation clearly by indulging in fantasies, intoxicants, and the like. Dreaminess and impracticality, being unfocused and undefined (at least in certain areas) are ways you cope with stress. You also have trouble setting boundaries and saying no.

Your path of development lies in cultivating discrimination and clarity, becoming more precise, developing technical and practical skills that will enable you to function more efficiently in the world. Finding a way to be of practical service is also important.

7. How You Fit In

The Planets Uranus, Pluto and Neptune

The outer planets -- Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto -- are so far away they can only be seen with a telescope. Since they move so slowly, they remain in the same sign for several years. For example, while Jupiter takes 12 years to circle around the Sun and therefore spends about a year in each sign, Pluto with its 240-year orbit can spend over 20 years in the same sign!

Because all the people in your age group will most likely have Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in the same signs, they are called “generational” planets. Instead of describing your personal life, they reveal influences that affect your entire generation.

However, the houses in your chart where the outer planets reside -- determined by your time of birth, rather than your year of birth -- show how you may go against the grain or be unusual among people of your age. In brief, Uranus represents your rebellious, unusual, innovative, and possibly unstable side; Neptune represents your imagination, dreams, and ideals; and Pluto shows your passion, depth, and intensity.

Your 7-Year Group: Uranus in Leo

♅ ♌

You are part of a 7 year group of people who are unusually self-willed, proud and egotistical. You are a group that defies authority and insists on having its own way. Parents and school teachers found that it was extremely difficult to discipline your age group. Governments that are repressive to individual expression and freedom meet a great deal of resistance from your age group, and you tend to rise up against any form of tyranny and oppressive rule.

Your 14-Year Group: Neptune in Scorpio

♆ ♏

You are part of a 14 year group of people that have very intense psychic sensitivity and imagination. Your age group is very attracted to the strange, weird, and unusual. The sense of the macabre and bizarre is strong, and this is reflected in much of the music, art, and fashions of your age group. Novels and movies with mystery and chilling suspense are also popular with your age group. Emotional depression, drug use and suicide are likely to be relatively high in your age group. There is also a deep mystical sense, and Eastern religions and meditation are very attractive to your age group.

Neptune Sextile Pluto

♆ ⚹ ⯓

The entire generation to which you belong has tremendous opportunities for spiritual rebirth and awakening. This will not be forced upon you or precipitated by unavoidable events; rather, it comes from an inner yearning and a natural propensity to seek the depths.

Your 15-Year Group: Pluto in Virgo

⯓ ♍

You are part of a 15 year group of people that are driven by the need to find an ethical standard and a clear sense of what is right and what is wrong. There is a subconscious drive to straighten out all the world's evils and create a world of perfect order. There is a feeling of repulsion to anything ugly, dirty, or grotesque. Oddly enough, there is also often a fascination with these very things that are so distasteful, and often a feeling of hopelessness and despair about the world's condition.

These inner, emotional and conflicting qualities are reflected in the attitudes and life styles of your generation. Most people of your age group are conservative and ethical, and a small minority goes to the opposite extreme and relishes being strange or unusual in appearance, and sloppy or even grotesque in manners and appearance. There seems to be no middle ground for your generation. Usually, the rebellious type of behavior comes out during adolescence, and tends to subside thereafter, and your age group tends to be very conservative in later life.

Your age group is not very good at compromising and tends to have strong ideas about what is right and what is wrong. There is a strong feeling that you must extinguish evil in the world. Certainly, fostering good works is very commendable, but a categorical and simple-minded response to complex issues is not helpful. Your age group will undergo great transformations in attitudes regarding Good and Evil and will swing to great extremes. Your generation will also make great contributions in the areas of medicine and nutrition, ecology, and education.

8. Today & Beyond

This is just the beginning of your cosmic exploration!

Planets

The planets of our solar system -- including the Sun, Moon, and Pluto -- create a sort of map in the cosmos. When a person looks at their Astrology birth chart, they are looking at the exact locations of each planet at the moment of their birth -- in essence, a map of their life.

Each planet is connected to a deity, archetype, or idea that represents some part of our fundamental nature as humans. By understanding the meaning of each planet and the ways it can influence our lives, we have the opportunity to understand not only what drives us, but, ultimately, how far we can go.

The Sun Your Ego Structure

Your Ego Structure

The Sun is the center of our solar system. All life revolves around it. In the same way, the ego is the center of personal identity and gives integration and continuity to individual experience. In this sense, it might be said that the Sun in Astrology reveals a person’s character and is the prime indicator of what the individual is trying to achieve. This is the fixed pillar at the center of the person around which all else revolves.

The sign placement of the Sun indicates how your natural drive and ambition are going to be directed. The sign of the Sun is the most primary indicator of the forms of experience you are attracted to. The house placement of the Sun shows the primary area of expression for the individual in life. There is a psychological, emotional, and physical significance to the house placement of the Sun.

Aspects to the Sun show ways that the core of the personality is linked to other component elements in the individual’s life. Aspects to the Sun have a deep and overriding significance in the life of the individual and are generally more important and more prominent than other aspects in the chart.

The Moon Your Personal Life

Your Personal Life

The Moon inscribes a circle around the Earth. It moves more swiftly than other celestial bodies and thus represents day-to-day and moment-to-moment movements, adjustments, and preoccupations. The Moon in Astrology represents the inner, emotional life and the unconscious, which is molded and shaped by our environment, events, and social and familial expectations. Further, the Moon indicates how we respond to life as a result of our past habits and experiences, our heritage, and our individual and collective instincts.

The sign placement of the Moon tells a lot about your private inner life, how the instinctive and imaginative component of your mind operates, how you express your feelings, and your most general experiences with your family and mother figure.

The house placement of the Moon shows how and where you make day-to-day adjustments and indicates which realm of experience will play a dominant role in your emotional life. Further, it shows the things you are most drawn to in order to gain emotional equilibrium.

The aspects of the Moon show general characteristics of the personality that are emphasized. Planets in aspect to the Moon are symbolic of qualities in the personality that are used instinctively, habitually, and with a high degree of versatility. While the Sun reveals your intended purposes and lessons for this present life cycle, the Moon represents what you have already done and developed, hence, what is instinctive and natural to you and what you tend to do over and over again.

Your childhood is also reflected in the Moon’s placement, because it’s through those childhood circumstances that any unresolved past-life issues are restimulated. Your subconscious predisposition is indicated by the Moon’s position as well. It is the psychic imprint of the past. Furthermore, the nodes of the Moon in an Astrology chart describe behavior patterns from the past and indicate the direction you are evolving toward as you move forward in your life.

Mercury Your Mental Life

Your Mental Life

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. From our viewpoint on Earth, it seems to dart back and forth across the face of the Sun. Mercury is the planet of your mental life. It shows how you receive, process, and disseminate information. It also relates to short trips, siblings, and other parts of your immediate environment. The sign placement of Mercury shows your basic attitude and mental habits. The aspects of Mercury show your scope of vision and your methods for accomplishing tasks.

Venus Your Love Nature

Your Love Nature

The planet Venus shows the way you express your love nature and what you deem good or beautiful in life. It also influences your approach to partnerships and indicates what adjustments will be made in order to encourage a loving relationship. Venus thrives on harmony and is drawn to social activities of all kinds, as well as the arts (music, dance, literature, and drama, among others). The sign placement of Venus describes your style of sharing your love with others. The house placement of Venus shows the natural area of expression for your love energy. The aspects of Venus indicate how and under what circumstances you express the gentle and loving side of your nature.

Mars Your Energy

Your Energy

Mars is the planet of motivation, action, and libido. It shows how you aim at your goals and how you power yourself toward them. Mars represents your most fundamental passions. The sign placement of Mars shows the intrinsic nature of your assertions. The house placement of Mars shows the area of your life where you tend to be most active. The aspects to Mars show how and to what extent your ambitions are involved with other aspects of living.

Jupiter Your Values

Your Values

Jupiter is the king of the planets. He is in charge of the order of creation. Jupiter shows your morals, where you feel confident and in control, and where you feel you have something to teach others. Jupiter also rules religion, philosophy, long-distance travel, and higher education. The sign placement of Jupiter describes your ideologies in life. The house placement of Jupiter shows the area of life where you feel luckiest and where you receive the most help from outside sources. The aspect patterns to Jupiter show the direct network of good and administrative power in your life.

Saturn Your Obligations

Your Obligations

The planet Saturn shows where you feel restricted. You feel obligations and fears through Saturn, the taskmaster of the zodiac. Saturn rewards discipline, hard work, and perseverance. The sign placement of Saturn shows the basic type of energy connected with your obligations. The house placement of Saturn shows an area of life that you feel restricted in and where you have to work hard to obtain the things that come to you. The aspects of Saturn show the most direct involvement of other areas of your life with your feelings of responsibility.

Uranus Your Search For Freedom

Your Search For Freedom

The planet Uranus is beyond the orbit of Saturn and can’t be seen without the aid of a telescope. It represents the sky in us -- that which transcends the limits of finite life. Uranus represents originality and unconventionality. It can stimulate sudden or erratic change, like that expressed in revolution, or the invention of new ways of doing things. The sign placement of Uranus shows your broadest striving for freedom. The house placement of Uranus indicates your area of direct unique expression. The aspects to Uranus indicate the way you express your need for higher consciousness.

Neptune Your Spiritual Life and Ideals

Your Spiritual Life and Ideals

The planet Neptune has an almost perfectly circular orbit. It represents the part of our nature that strives for perfection, that looks to some higher ideal. The planet Neptune rules the ocean and the part of us that is beyond the limits of the shores of personal existence, namely the unconscious. It also rules our dreams. The culture moves with the cycles of Neptune and it is the primary indicator of your connection to the culture that you live in. The sign placement of Neptune shows an ideal that you desire to manifest. The house placement of Neptune shows the area of your life that you want to express this ideal in. The aspect patterns of Neptune indicate the networking of your personality into the world at large.

Pluto Your Need For Fundamental Change

Your Need For Fundamental Change

The planet Pluto represents the dark, underground part of you. It shows your ability to transform the most fundamental properties in your own inner nature. The sign placement of Pluto is the way the obsessive, compulsive, and committed part of your nature expresses itself. The house placement of Pluto shows the area of life where you make your most fundamental and potent changes. The aspects to Pluto show the deepest, most unconscious links in your personality structure.

Ascendant Your External Self

Your External Self

The Ascendant -- also called the Rising sign -- is based on the time, date, and place of birth, and indicates both the sign and degree of the 1st house of a birth chart. The Ascendant represents your outside appearance to the world and the world’s general perception of you as a person. It is also widely believed to rule your physical characteristics.

Midheaven Career & Reputation

Career & Reputation

The Midheaven (English for “Medium Coeli”) is the highest point of a birth chart, located on the cusp of the 10th house. To astrologers, the Midheaven governs career, public reputation, and interactions with authority.

Elements

The Fire signs are Aries, Leo and Sagittarius. The Earth signs are Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn. The Air signs are Gemini, Libra and Aquarius. And the Water signs are Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces.

The four elements -- Fire, Earth, Air, and Water -- describe the inherent temperament and orientation of each sign of the zodiac. As the ancient Greeks taught, everything in the universe including the human personality can be examined in terms of these elements.

Fire and Earth are primary elements and have to do with the self. Conversely, Air and Water are derivative and therefore more focused on others. The elements of Fire and Air tend to be extroverted, active, and freedom-oriented, while Earth and Water are more introverted, passive, and security-oriented.

Earth Taurus, Virgo, & Capricorn

Taurus, Virgo, & Capricorn

Earth represents practical, material world concerns

Air Gemini, Libra, & Aquarius

Gemini, Libra, & Aquarius

Air is the element of ideas and thought

Water Cancer, Scorpio, & Pisces

Cancer, Scorpio, & Pisces

Water represents feelings and the empathetic impulse

Houses And Their General Meanings

Your birth chart is divided into 12 houses -- sections of your chart that govern specific areas of your life. At the time of your birth, each planet was located in a particular astrological sign and in one of the 12 houses.

First House Your Self-Identity

Your Self-Identity

How you appear to the world and the first impression you make on others; your external presentation, including physical characteristics (body type, facial features, etc.)

Second House Your Personal Resources

Your Personal Resources

Money matters, material possessions, and your relationship with both

Third House Your Immediate Environment

Your Immediate Environment

Communication with others, short trips, and your relationships with siblings and neighbors

Fourth House Your Home & Family

Your Home & Family

Your childhood, ancestral roots and influences, and what brings you comfort and security

Fifth House Your Expression

Your Expression

The ways you express yourself creatively, romantically, and personally; also love affairs, children, and luck

Sixth House Your Daily Life

Your Daily Life

Health concerns, work, service, and routine

Seventh House Your Relationships

Your Relationships

Your identity in relation to others and your patterns in all 1-on-1 relationships

Eighth House Shared Resources

Shared Resources

The influence of other people’s money and talents; secrets; your feelings about sex and intimacy

Ninth House Higher Learning

Higher Learning

Long-distance travel, education, religion, and philosophy; mental expansion of all kinds

Tenth House Your Career & Reputation

Your Career & Reputation

Your social status, career goals, and potential for success; your relationship to authority, government, and power

Eleventh House Your Friends & Aspirations

Your Friends & Aspirations

How you integrate with friends, groups, and the community; your hopes, aspirations, and ideals

Twelfth House Your Spiritual Life

Your Spiritual Life

Your connection to spirituality and the universe; your subconscious mind; solitude and privacy

Aspects

When a planet in the sky makes a specific angle to another planet, that angle is called an “aspect.” Planets that are aspecting each other are influencing each other, changing each other’s energy. Some aspects are soft, meaning that the qualities of the two planets come together smoothly and harmoniously. Other aspects are hard, meaning that the qualities are at odds with one another and may create tension or conflict.

There are a handful of different types of aspects, but most astrologers focus on six major aspects: the conjunction, sextile, square, trine, quincunx, and opposition. You can learn what each of these means -- plus a few rarer aspects -- by reading below.

A note about Orbs: Planets don’t have to be at the EXACT degree for us to feel its effects. The number of degrees that two planets can travel apart while still being considered in aspect is called the “orb.” Different astrologers use different orbs, but the closer that two planets are to an exact aspect degree (the smaller the orb), the more noticeable the effects will be.

Conjunction 0 degrees

0 degrees

If two planets occupy the same degree or are very close to each other, they are said to be conjunct. Most astrologers believe that conjunctions are dynamic, but not as difficult and challenging as squares and oppositions. Planets that are conjunct tend to energize each other.

Sextile 60 degrees

60 degrees

If two planets are close to being 60 degrees apart, they are said to be sextile to each other. Sextiles are similar to trine aspects and considered favorable.

Squares 90 degrees

90 degrees

If two planets are close to being 90 degrees apart, they are said to be square to each other. Almost all astrologers agree that squares are motivating but can be difficult. Some astrologers emphasize the negative potential of a square, while others focus on the character-building potential inherent in this aspect.

Trine 120 degrees

120 degrees

If two planets are close being 120 degrees apart, they are said to be trine to each other. Most astrologers agree that trines are soft and easy, pleasant and harmonious, but sometimes lazy. However, trines can provide relief from the tension inherent in more challenging aspects that may also be present in a person’s chart.

Quincunx 150 degrees

150 degrees

If two planets are close to being 150 degrees apart, they form a quincunx aspect. Most astrologers view the quincunx as being awkward, bothersome, and requiring adjustments from a person.

Opposition 180 degrees

180 degrees

If two planets are close to being opposite to each other in the sky, they are forming an opposition aspect. Most astrologers agree that oppositions are difficult and often emphasize challenges with other people. However, the challenges suggested by an opposition can be balanced and resolved with effort.

Semi-Sextile aspect 30 degrees

30 degrees

If two planets are close to being 30 degrees apart, they form a semi-sextile aspect. This is generally regarded as being a slightly harmonious or favorable minor aspect.

Semi-Square aspect 45 degrees

45 degrees

If two planets are close to being 45 degrees apart, they are in semi-square aspect. This minor aspect is similar to a square aspect, though often not quite as intense. Some astrologers feel that the semi-square creates very internal challenges or conflicts.

Sesquiquadrate 135 degrees

135 degrees

If two planets are close to being 135 degrees apart, they are in sesquiquadrate aspect. Generally regarded as being similar to a square, but some astrologers feel that this minor aspect is easier to release and express than a square aspect.

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