PLANET AND PLACEMENT MEANINGS:
SUN Your conscious motivation or conscious path through life; the light for which you strive in this lifetime; the themes that nourish you and help you to grow; your external creative self-expression, egoic understanding of yourself; masculine or yang expression
MOON Your inner, emotional, reflective self; how you access inner guidance and your soul self; how you react emotionally; relates to what you need to feel nurtured and emotionally secure; the past, roots, (soul) family, home and what makes you feel at home; feminine or yin expression
ASCENDANT Relates to a new cycle or theme dawning in your life; a new identity and way of exerting your will in the world; a fresh start; new goals; also personality or façade - the face you show to others upon first meeting them; how you are perceived by others who do not know you on an inner level
MERCURY Intelligence and communication sign; how you process, perceive and communicate information
VENUS Planet ruling love, relationships and partnerships; who/what/how you love; how you interact in relationships and what you need from relationships; what you find beautiful; what you value, including self-value
MARS Physical action planet; rules personal will and goals, physical energy and drives, sexual attraction and desire, anger and aggression; relates to what you want and how you take action to get what you want
JUPITER Relates to a great well-spring of personal wisdom, faith and never-say-die optimism developed through direct experience with the world at large; a thirst for knowledge and truth and development of a guiding personal philosophy; rules expansion of personal horizons and cosmic grace; brings “luck” through qualities deeply ingrained within; an area where we both teach and learn
SATURN The cosmic Father Figure energy, sternly standing over us, ensuring that we learn our lessons well and mature into self-responsible adults; provides karmic lessons, challenges, restrictions and limitations; relates to areas that must be structured and matured, step-by-step, over time; being under the cosmic thumb until we learn our lessons
URANUS Relates to personal genius accessed by direct contact with higher intelligence; lightning bolt flashes of insight bringing sudden change and revolution; quantum leaps of consciousness; relates to individuality, independence, revolutionary nature; an area where we march to the beat of our own drummer and follow the motto: to thine own self be true; higher octave of mercury
NEPTUNE Planet relating to our spiritual consciousness and connection to the universe/God; how we access higher spiritual love and understanding; psychic communion; dreams; spiritual creative expression; relates to interconnection and dissolving into the energetic flow; cycles of disillusionment and faith; also planet of delusion, escapism, where we can have the wool pulled over our eyes due to excessive innocence and belief; higher octave of venus
PLUTO Rules the force of evolutionary desire; soul-directed growth; deep, core-level emotional and psychological transformation that is, for the most part, out of our control; outer circumstances transforming our inner core, eliminating layers that prevent evolution; healing and emotional alchemy; body intuition; shedding the old; regeneration and rising from dark circumstances (the long night of the soul)
NORTH NODE OF THE MOON Your current path through this lifetime; new territory to be learned and mastered; can feel foreign but will bring the greatest progress and fulfillment
SOUTH NODE OF THE MOON Represents cumulative wisdom carried with you into this lifetime; an area of some level of mastery; usually comes naturally to you and feels comfortable but can be an area of stagnation if one attempts to stay there; a deep resource that is always with you but which is to be channelled into the work of the North Node
CHIRON Wounded healer sign; represents a wound you carry with you and will attempt to heal throughout your lifetime; because you know this wound well, you can recognize it in others and help to heal it
DESCENDENT Relates to what you bring into your life through relationships with other people; what you need from relationships; the energetic or thematic flavour of your relationships with others
MIDHEAVEN (MC) The highest point of your chart; your career and public role; your most public self; how people perceive you and relate to you in that realm; relates to your highest potential there; your responsibilities and public role within structure
NADIR (IC) The lowest point of your chart, and the most personal and hidden; your emotional world; emotional anchor; your most private self that only those who know you well will know of; connection to soul guidance; the point at which you take leave of the outer world and develop a relationship with your inner self