It's often quite confusing to people how to tie all these keywords and phrases into useful and
practical terms. I like to use metaphors when explaining how astrology works - Look at the
planets as the actors and / or situations within a play, the signs as the script and the houses as the
stage and / or setting. If that doesn't work for you try imagining within the sentence structure
of your life the planets as the verb, the signs as the adjectives and the houses as the nouns.
NATURE OF THE SIGNS or ELEMENTS
Fire Signs
Spiritual power, impulse (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) (Yang+)
Earth Signs
Materialism (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn)(Yin-)
Air Signs
Intellectuality (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius)(Yang+)
Water Signs
Spiritual and psychic qualities, emotion (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces)(Yin-)
Fire and Air (Yang) signs are always found opposite of one another, as are Earth and Water (Yin).
The modalities explain the basic qualities of the signs in terms of their movement.
Cardinal Signs
Outward Movement / Enterprising & goal oriented (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn)
Fixed Signs
Inward Movement / Unyielding to outside influences (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius)
Mutable Signs
Spiral Movement / Adaptable & Changeable (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces)
The following is a very basic list of keywords and concepts for the planets, signs and houses within their
realm of rulership. Each individual will have all the planets and all the signs intermingled and dancing through
different houses of their chart, all of which depend upon the time, date and location of your birth. As Carl Jung
put it so simply. "Whatever is born or done in a moment of time, has the qualities of this moment of time."
MARS
Dynamic energy, passion, assertiveness, desires, courage, enterprise, enthusiasm, friction, destructiveness, audacity.
ARIES
Self-esteem, initiating, pioneering, thrives on new experiences, courage, enterprising, temperamental
1st House
Beginnings, early environment, outer personality, physical body, self awareness
VENUS
Attraction, cohesion, coalition, personal love, social instincts and activities, sense of beauty, harmony, artistic
ability, grace, sensuality.
TAURUS
Determined, resourceful, enduring, understands the power of the voice, sensuality.
Obstinacy, argumentative.
2nd House
Finance, freedom given by money, values
MERCURY
Reason, intellectuality, self-expression of all kinds; speaking, writing, gestures; knowledge through reason,
eloquence, literary ability, dexterity
GEMINI
Talkative, literary, strong sense of duality, versatile, adaptable, flexible, superficial, quick-witted
3rd House
General Communication, short journeys, siblings, community
THE MOON
Personality, imagination, instinctual mind, emotions, phases, women, daily habits, nurturing
CANCER
Love of home, impressionable, nurturing, sympathetic, sensitive, often lives in the past, emotional
4th House
The home, more nurturing parent, emotional foundation, midnight self
THE SUN
Individuality, what one really is, vitality, will, chief ambitions, men, generosity, dignity, heart center, arrogance,
ostentation
LEO
Vibrant, creative in self expression, affectionate, loyal, dignified, strong leadership qualities, cruel, overbearing,
vane, ostentatious
5th House
Pleasure, children, creative self expression, romance
MERCURY
Represents "intellect" versus "communication" in Gemini
VIRGO
Service oriented, sharp mentality, discriminating, analytical, studious, hygienic, pure, critical, concerned with
health
6th House
Service, relations with employers and employees, health and sickness
VENUS
Represents "our values" versus "my values" in Taurus
LIBRA
Capacity for partnership, artistic, balanced, diplomatic, courteous, indecisive, discerning taste
7th House
Partnership, marriage, the public, open enemies
PLUTO
Renewing, enlivening, breaking open, germinating, erupting, reorganizing, provoking, transition, regeneration,
clairvoyance, motivation to strive for spiritual power, force, defiance, death, destruction, fanaticism, struggle,
self undoing
SCORPIO
Sexual, healing, powerful. mysterious, regenerative, secretive, passionate, willful, vindictive, jealous,
understanding of the secret forces of nature
8th House
Sexuality, cause of death, regeneration, taxes (what we owe), cycles
JUPITER
Expansion, vision, optimism, ideals, spiritual tendencies, benevolence, broad-mindedness, executive ability, legal
ability, respect for law, charity, reverence, indulgence, popularity, success, extravagance, indolence
SAGITTARIUS
Aspiring, idealistic, religious, philosophical, generous, love of out-door life and athletics, gregarious,
over-confidence, dogmatic, deep connection with animals, strong sense of justice
9th House
Higher mind, education, religion, philosophy, justice, long journeys
SATURN
Contraction, persistence, caution, faithfulness, stability, order, form , deliberation, responsibility, conservatism,
endurance, discipline, crystallization, obstruction, limitation, melancholy, pessimism
CAPRICORN
Concerned with position, honorable, ambitious, organized, cautious, practices authority, rigid, prideful,
unforgiving
10th House
Profession, standing in community, the dominant parent, legacies
URANUS
The Awakener; altruism, inventiveness, originality, sudden action, unconventionality, progressive, universal love
of humanity, independence, liberty, intuition, bohemian, eccentricity
AQUARIUS
Humanitarian, natural at science and technology, needs friendship, unusual, unique, practices detached love,
impractical
11th House
Friends, hopes, and wishes, humanity
NEPTUNE
Metaphysical entities, divinity, occultism, knowledge from sources above reason, spirituality, intuition,
inspiration, clairvoyance, prophecy, devotion, music, delusions, chaotic mental conditions
PISCES
Sensitiveness to metaphysical influences, sense of unity with all life, mystical, ripe destiny, flowing, intuitive,
inspiring, compassionate, renunciation. Psychic negativeness, lack of confidence, secretiveness, procrastination,
sorrow.
12th House
Karma, limitations, confinement, secrecy, mysticism
practical terms. I like to use metaphors when explaining how astrology works - Look at the
planets as the actors and / or situations within a play, the signs as the script and the houses as the
stage and / or setting. If that doesn't work for you try imagining within the sentence structure
of your life the planets as the verb, the signs as the adjectives and the houses as the nouns.
NATURE OF THE SIGNS or ELEMENTS
Fire Signs
Spiritual power, impulse (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) (Yang+)
Earth Signs
Materialism (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn)(Yin-)
Air Signs
Intellectuality (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius)(Yang+)
Water Signs
Spiritual and psychic qualities, emotion (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces)(Yin-)
Fire and Air (Yang) signs are always found opposite of one another, as are Earth and Water (Yin).
The modalities explain the basic qualities of the signs in terms of their movement.
Cardinal Signs
Outward Movement / Enterprising & goal oriented (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn)
Fixed Signs
Inward Movement / Unyielding to outside influences (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius)
Mutable Signs
Spiral Movement / Adaptable & Changeable (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces)
The following is a very basic list of keywords and concepts for the planets, signs and houses within their
realm of rulership. Each individual will have all the planets and all the signs intermingled and dancing through
different houses of their chart, all of which depend upon the time, date and location of your birth. As Carl Jung
put it so simply. "Whatever is born or done in a moment of time, has the qualities of this moment of time."
MARS
Dynamic energy, passion, assertiveness, desires, courage, enterprise, enthusiasm, friction, destructiveness, audacity.
ARIES
Self-esteem, initiating, pioneering, thrives on new experiences, courage, enterprising, temperamental
1st House
Beginnings, early environment, outer personality, physical body, self awareness
VENUS
Attraction, cohesion, coalition, personal love, social instincts and activities, sense of beauty, harmony, artistic
ability, grace, sensuality.
TAURUS
Determined, resourceful, enduring, understands the power of the voice, sensuality.
Obstinacy, argumentative.
2nd House
Finance, freedom given by money, values
MERCURY
Reason, intellectuality, self-expression of all kinds; speaking, writing, gestures; knowledge through reason,
eloquence, literary ability, dexterity
GEMINI
Talkative, literary, strong sense of duality, versatile, adaptable, flexible, superficial, quick-witted
3rd House
General Communication, short journeys, siblings, community
THE MOON
Personality, imagination, instinctual mind, emotions, phases, women, daily habits, nurturing
CANCER
Love of home, impressionable, nurturing, sympathetic, sensitive, often lives in the past, emotional
4th House
The home, more nurturing parent, emotional foundation, midnight self
THE SUN
Individuality, what one really is, vitality, will, chief ambitions, men, generosity, dignity, heart center, arrogance,
ostentation
LEO
Vibrant, creative in self expression, affectionate, loyal, dignified, strong leadership qualities, cruel, overbearing,
vane, ostentatious
5th House
Pleasure, children, creative self expression, romance
MERCURY
Represents "intellect" versus "communication" in Gemini
VIRGO
Service oriented, sharp mentality, discriminating, analytical, studious, hygienic, pure, critical, concerned with
health
6th House
Service, relations with employers and employees, health and sickness
VENUS
Represents "our values" versus "my values" in Taurus
LIBRA
Capacity for partnership, artistic, balanced, diplomatic, courteous, indecisive, discerning taste
7th House
Partnership, marriage, the public, open enemies
PLUTO
Renewing, enlivening, breaking open, germinating, erupting, reorganizing, provoking, transition, regeneration,
clairvoyance, motivation to strive for spiritual power, force, defiance, death, destruction, fanaticism, struggle,
self undoing
SCORPIO
Sexual, healing, powerful. mysterious, regenerative, secretive, passionate, willful, vindictive, jealous,
understanding of the secret forces of nature
8th House
Sexuality, cause of death, regeneration, taxes (what we owe), cycles
JUPITER
Expansion, vision, optimism, ideals, spiritual tendencies, benevolence, broad-mindedness, executive ability, legal
ability, respect for law, charity, reverence, indulgence, popularity, success, extravagance, indolence
SAGITTARIUS
Aspiring, idealistic, religious, philosophical, generous, love of out-door life and athletics, gregarious,
over-confidence, dogmatic, deep connection with animals, strong sense of justice
9th House
Higher mind, education, religion, philosophy, justice, long journeys
SATURN
Contraction, persistence, caution, faithfulness, stability, order, form , deliberation, responsibility, conservatism,
endurance, discipline, crystallization, obstruction, limitation, melancholy, pessimism
CAPRICORN
Concerned with position, honorable, ambitious, organized, cautious, practices authority, rigid, prideful,
unforgiving
10th House
Profession, standing in community, the dominant parent, legacies
URANUS
The Awakener; altruism, inventiveness, originality, sudden action, unconventionality, progressive, universal love
of humanity, independence, liberty, intuition, bohemian, eccentricity
AQUARIUS
Humanitarian, natural at science and technology, needs friendship, unusual, unique, practices detached love,
impractical
11th House
Friends, hopes, and wishes, humanity
NEPTUNE
Metaphysical entities, divinity, occultism, knowledge from sources above reason, spirituality, intuition,
inspiration, clairvoyance, prophecy, devotion, music, delusions, chaotic mental conditions
PISCES
Sensitiveness to metaphysical influences, sense of unity with all life, mystical, ripe destiny, flowing, intuitive,
inspiring, compassionate, renunciation. Psychic negativeness, lack of confidence, secretiveness, procrastination,
sorrow.
12th House
Karma, limitations, confinement, secrecy, mysticism
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