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Sun
Keyword: Life Vitality
The Sun rules the world or rather is the strongest life force. Without the Sun all else perils and dwindles.. Life ceases to exist. The Sun being the giver of life under which all else grows and flourishes, the soul which is housed with in the human being, along with the correlation to the its ruling sign Leo vast expressions of ego, either in strength or weakness depending on the sign and placement of the Sun. Character traits and personal evolvement along with uniqueness are filtered through the base of the Sun along with those who have greatly influenced your life. Starting with your father or father figure. The Sun and more so the Sun placed in the sign Leo or Planets placed in the sign Leo represent the loss of father and the need to gain attention from the father figure or authority on the world stage. It is truly a purposefully ego expression for if we as children are not nourished by the Sun-Father in our lives we are constantly trying striving for that which is lost or missed.The heart knows no sadness like the loss of a Father. For all the world is positioned through the vitality of the Sun and with in your own natal chart the Father is aligned with your vitality and how you express it.

Positive Sun Traits: Generosity, Beauty, splendor, Laughter, Happiness of heart, children, soulful joy, strength in the face of fear. Negative Sun Traits: Arrogance, jealousy, laziness, conceit, vanity.

Moon
Keyword: Emotions
The Moon has a strong and vast expression, on the planet earth, one that begins and ends emotional sequences and trends with in moments based on the nuances and movement of all energy water around the moon. The moon regulates and is a barometer for self expression and latitude of energy As a touch stone and trend setter all behaviors are monitored by the moon who’s influence can change in an instant. The tides change the weather moves and people and bodies are all regulated by the movement of the moon. Brilliant epourvesant, indolent intuitive and fluidity lucid in the Night sky. The Moon ruling sign is Cancer and the fourth house. It represents your needs and desires, habits, instincts and the subconscious mind. The Moon also shows by house and sign placement, how you respond emotionally to others, situations and experiences, as well as how the public will react to you. The Moon represents the mother, babies and the home environment. It also shows how well you get along with women regardless of your gender. The Moon goes through all twelve signs about every 28 days. It spends approximately 2 1/2 days in each sign.

Positive Moon Traits: Inspiration, Flexibility, domestic, nurturing, magnetism, highly developed psychic abilities, medium, fertility. Negative Moon Traits: Self destructive, moodiness, smothering, dreaminess, barren.

Mercury
Keyword: Reasoning Powers
Mercury rules Gemini, Virgo and the third and sixth houses. Mercury is a key to the way a person thinks and communicates. Mercury's house and sign placement will show how the mind directs its thoughts, ideas and opinions.. It is the conscious or reasoning mind. When Mercury is in aspect with another planet, it will give additional information about how a person thinks. For example, If Mercury is joined in expression with Neptune, one received thought from a non logical, intuitive place. If Mercury is joined with the planet Mars, the thinking is geared to action on instinct and act upon their thoughts and ideas. If Mercury is in aspect to Saturn, a cautious serious thinker, would emerge. Mercury also shows how an individual goes from one place to another (slowly, quickly, weakly, strongly etc.) depending on the sign placement. It also deals with day-to-day activities and siblings. Mercury takes approximately one year to go through all of the twelve signs. Mercury can stay in one sign from about 14 to 30 days, depending on its motion.

Positive Mercury Traits: Ability to learn quickly, resourcefulness, awareness, dexterity, intelligent. Negative Mercury Traits: Indecisiveness, instability, gullible, talks too much, two-faced, nosy.

Venus
Keyword: Affection
Venus rules both Taurus and Libra, the second and seventh houses. Venus is socially ingratiating or vulgar, influencing social attitudes and behaviors, as well as values, priorities, an individual's judgment and moral tendencies. Depending on Venus' house position in the natal chart shows where we can exact behaviors in a graceful and somewhat lucky way, money may be gained or spent, and where you will want to relate to others. In a male's chart, Venus will indicate the kind of woman he may be attracted to. It is one of the planets of marriage and partnerships, and its basis is more on a sensual sexual physical level. Venus travels from 0 to 1 degree, 16 minutes a day, depending on its motion, and stays in a sign approximately 23 days to a little over 2 months.

Positive Venus Traits: Charm, appreciation, of beautiful things, creativity, considerate, social. Negative Venus Traits: Vanity, laziness, self-indulgent, indecisive, possessive, jealousy.

Earth (PART OF FORTUNE)
Keyword: Reality
Earth represents the physical plane and mundane matters. The Earth is always the exact opposite of the Sun sign, degree and house placement. In the natal chart, Earth describes the area in which a person will be the most successful and one's own approach. It shows the individual's mission in life.

Mars
Keyword: Energy
Mars rules Aries and the first house. Mars represents action and energy and harnessing ideas . Where Mars is placed in the natal chart will show where one is most likely to take risks, lose your temper and move forward with though and jump into action. Activities and the kind of passions that one will put a lot of effort into. In a male's chart, Mars will indicate the sexual potency and drive. In a female's chart, Mars will describe the kind of man she would be physically attracted to. Mars travels from 0 to one degree, 16 minutes per day depending on its motion, and takes about 2 years to go through all 12 signs, staying in one sign for about 1.5 months.

Positive Mars Traits: Courage, determination, independent, energetic, self reliant. Negative Mars Traits: Impulsive, stubborn, violent, cruel, destructive.

Jupiter
Keyword: Expansion
Jupiter rules the sign Sagittarius and the ninth house.
Jupiter is the benevolent planet of expansion and abundance and Optimistic thought and action as well as the over expression of expansion and abundance leading to a over usage of energies. It's a tricky energy , much energy and zeal is afforded by Jupiter’s energy, yet at the same time combustion of energies can lead to detrimental expressions and emotional exhaustion. Where Jupiter it is located in the natal chart, will show an abundance in the individual's life. It also describes the potential for growth be it physical, intellectual, spiritual or cultural. It also describes one's capacity for enjoyment, optimism and the development of aspirations. In a female's chart, Jupiter represents the father. Jupiter is sometimes called the greater benefactor because it is associated with good fortune in major ways and more often a benefit in a chart than it is a detriment. It takes Jupiter about 12 years to go through the 12 signs, staying in one sign an average of one year. Jupiter travels from 0 to 14 minutes a day depending on whether it is retrograde or in direct motion.

Positive Jupiter Traits: Success, ambition, inspiration, wealth, optimism, generous, aspiring. Negative Jupiter Traits: extravagance, pomposity, conceit, very lazy, overconfident, fanatical.

Saturn
Keyword: The Teacher
Saturn rules the sign Capricorn and the 10th house. Saturn is the 'teacher' Karmic planet and through its influences we learn. Saturn represent circumstances or options. Karmic repercussion and life guidance, through restriction and boundaries and discipline comes the ultimate freedom and success. In life one need to focus only on the necessary and not act or react. Saturn's house placement shows the area of a person's life where that person has the most lessons to learn and where that person has the greatest feelings of inadequacy, responsibilities and limitations. Saturn's action is slow and enduring. Saturn travels from 0 to 8 minutes per day depending on its motion and takes approximately 29 1/2 years to go through all twelve signs, staying in one sign for about 2 1/2 years.

Positive Saturn Traits: Stability, self- discipline, patience, endurance, humility, thriftiness, conventional. Negative Saturn Traits: Misery, narrow-minded, selfish, fearful, pessimistic, rigid.

Uranus
Keyword: The Awakener
Uranus rules the sign Aquarius and the eleventh house.
Uranus is an enterprising and uniquely expressive innovative unpredictable thought and expression. It's also associated with sudden changes and events, unpredictability and where a person's lifestyle may be different from the norm. Uranus in the natal chart indicates where a person will be unconventional, intuitive and individualistic. Uranus rules astrology, electricity, inventions and friends. Uranus travels from 0 to 4 minutes per day, depending on its motion and it moves through all twelve signs of the Zodiac approximately 84 years, staying in one sign about 7 years.

Positive Uranus Traits: Clairvoyant ability, intuition, humanitarian ideals, strength of will, progressive, original.
Negative Uranus Traits: Rebellious, eccentric, impulsive.

Neptune
Keyword: Intuition
Neptune rules the sign Pisces and the 12th house. Neptune is a difficult planet to describe because it rules anything that is difficult to pin down or define. However, in the natal chart, Neptune represents spirituality, abstract thinking, illusions, along with self manipulating tendencies that distract from the truth of given situations. Things aren't always what they seem. It can also rule those who are oppressed, abandoned or persecuted and wildly paranoid. Creative glamorous and charismatic, compassionate and highly creative. Neptune also indicates good fortune and protection that almost seems supernatural. The house that Neptune’s resides in gives a clue to the unconscious energies and how they will be expressed by the person. Neptune travels from 0 degrees to 3 minutes per day, depending on its motion. It takes Neptune about 165 years to go through all 12 signs, staying in each one for approximately 14 years.

Positive Neptune Traits: Mystical, inspiration, genius, devotion, sensitive, idealistic, creative, psychic, understanding. Negative Neptune Traits: Self-delusion, self indulgence, chaotic events, negativity, self-sacrificing, powerlessness, misplaced sympathies, Fraud.

Pluto
Keyword: Transformation
Pluto rules the sign Scorpio and the eighth house. Pluto's energy is intense and unbending. While Pluto mainly applies to a generation, a strong Pluto in the natal chart generally indicates an individual who will most likely be a nonconformist, who will bring new developments into the world. It can also indicate great amounts of money and power behind the scenes for the individual. The presence of Pluto's energy is never obvious until it is used. Pluto is the transformer, breaking down the old and replaces it with the new and is associated with drastic changes and forced conditions. Pluto is also associated with karmic responsibility and where a person must gain a deeper level of understanding. Pluto's action is slow, ponderous and inescapable. Pluto travels from 0 to three minutes a day and takes approximately 248 years to go through all 12 signs, staying in each one from 14 to 30 years.

Positive Pluto Traits: Spirituality, revitalization, positive clairvoyance, transformation. Negative Pluto Traits: Fanaticism, anarchy, destruction, turmoil, criminal behavior.

The Nodes Of The Moon
The nodes of the moon are not planets; they are calculated points in space based on the Moon's position. There is a North Node and a South Node which are always in opposition to each other. Traditionally, the north node is viewed to have an influence similar to that of Jupiter and the south node has an influence similar to that of Saturn. The moon's nodes are indicative of where your soul purpose lies in this life and where your development of new talents should be directed. The south node represents talents already developed and experiences already lived in prior life times.

The Vertex
The vertex represents an important life instruction. The vertex mostly falls between the fifth and eighth houses. Its exact point varies depending on the individual's birth date, time and place. The vertex and the anti-vertex (opposite point of the vertex) indicate karmic events in the life of an individual regarding cause and effect. Be careful of what you wish for, as it just might come true when the vortex and anti-vortex come into play.

Planetary Movements Direct Motion:
Refers to the forward movement of planets as seen from Earth. Direct motion allows an outward expression of a planet's energy, as indicated by house, sign placement and its aspects.

Retrograde Motion:
Refers to a planet that appears to be moving backwards as seen from the Earth. The energy of a retrograde planet is less assertive and more internalized, sometimes reversing situations and changing our feelings and regular activities. The Sun and Moon can never be in retrograde motion.

Stationary Motion:
A planet is said to "make a station" when it seems to stop moving. A planet has a greater influence in the horoscope when it is stationary because its energy is concentrated and focused at the degree of the zodiac it occupies.

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