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Transcendence

The first recorded sighting was by Galileo, who witnessed its conjunction with Jupiter in 1612, but he thought this new object was a moon of Jupiter.

NEPTUNE was discovered in 1846. It has been found to represent non-material influences like dreams and illusions. It brings dissolution of structures and represents idealistic drives – both on a social and a spiritual level. Neptune opens the door to the divine, leaving a residual discontentment about mundane existence. As Neptune takes 165 years to go around the Sun, this planet will be in any one sign for a period of about 14 years. Its influence is therefore experienced most strongly as long-term collective changes. Neptune’s sign position shows the collective need to transcend everyday life through the media, films and visionary ideals. The House position of Neptune shows where specifically you will feel the need to transcend. This House area will show where dreams are built up and dissolve and in what area of life you gain spiritual understanding through acceptance of the transience of all things. Neptune show personality traits which are strongly affected by dreams and idealism. These aspects indicate where you have unrealistic expectations and where you will experience disappointment until you refine your nature through spiritual insight.

The dreamy, deceptive, illusionary and imaginative, escapist side of human nature. It is a model for feelings that are intangible, romantic, magical and mystical, altruistic and unconditionally loving; but it can also be expressed in feelings of being victimised, living in a world of unreality, avoiding facts and embracing fantasy. It gives us the capacity to role-play, to create illusions, to express its energy through music, art, spirituality and imagination. This planet empowers us to shifts in consciousness, to express ideals and visions, and is a ‘generational’ model, staying for 14 years in one sign. All that is self-deceptive and deceptive towards others is connected with Neptune. It can bring escapist tendencies, trigger addictive behaviour and emotional hyper-sensitivity. It enables one to cope or change by transcending life’s difficulties, enabling a subtle acceptance that we do not always get what we think we deserve, and imbues us with faith that we have a higher purpose in life and will attain it by maintaining faith. It brings religious fervour, a belief in a higher power and is often prominent in those who have mediumistic or clairvoyant tendencies.

Neptune is known as the planet of illusion. It stands for equality and the interests of collective society. It represents utopian social movements whose goal is to fairly distribute the world’s resources. It symbolizes compassion, kindness, and the humanitarian concern. It rules hospitals, prisons, and bureaucracies. More than any other planet, its movements represent the destiny and consciousness of humanity as a whole. It is the symbol of everything intangible, mystical, imaginative, and subtle. It is life unrestricted by ordinary limits and boundaries.

Neptune also leads us into confusion, delusion and deception. It is the desire to escape from responsibility and to cleverly avoid facing reality. When fully expressed, Neptune is the beatific vision of universal, divine love and compassion for all beings. It is connected to the sign of Pisces and to the Twelfth House.

Neptune is the planet of transcendence, higher faculties and psychic abilities. In a natal chart, the aspects and position of Neptune deal with the subject’s ability to access higher consciousness and their grip on reality. A heavily afflicted Neptune can lead to unrealistic expectations and self-deception.

Influences, creativity, fantasia, daydreams, escapism, alcohol, drugs, and illusions. It represents, inspiration, psychometry, inner spiritual feelings, prophecy, chaos, con-artists, confidentiality, confusion, delusions, elusive, emotional, glamour, gullible, hypochondria, impostors, lethargy, music, nightmares, perverted, puzzles, subversion, apprehension, visions, witchcraft.

Neptune takes approximately 165 years to cycle the 12 signs of the zodiac, about 1 to 2 degrees a year.

 

MYTHOLOGY:

Poseidon was the god of the sea in Greek mythology.

The son of Cronus and Rhea, and the brother of Zeus and Hades. Poseidon and the Gorgon Medusa were the parents of Pegasus, the famous winged horse.

Poseidon is represented as a bearded and majestic figure, holding a trident and often accompanied by a dolphin. Every two years the Isthmian Games, featuring horse and chariot racers, were held in his honor at Corinth.

The Romans identified Poseidon with their god of the sea, Neptune whose festival was in July. Poseidon was commonly called the earth shaker and the earth encircler in The Iliad and The Odyssey of Homer.

 

 

Neptune Rules :	Pisces (along with Jupiter)
Exalted Degree :	03 Cancer
Detriment :	Virgo
Fall :	Capricorn
House ruled :	12th house
Day Ruled :	none
Persons Represented :	the grandmother, the wise old women. The victim or martyr. The visionary or spiritual person.
Keywords: kindly, courteous, sensitive, intuitive, religious Colors, Stones : Coral, aquamarine, platinum and neptunium
	The symbol for Neptune has evolved into a depiction of the trident representing the rulership of the oceans. Its symbol can be taken as an upward extension of the cross of matter shielded by a crescent of receptivity, although based on the trident of Neptune.

 

IN THE CHART

As Neptune takes 165 years to go around the Sun, this planet will be in any one sign for a period of about 14 years. Its influence is therefore experienced most strongly as long-term collective changes. Neptune ‘s sign position shows the collective need to transcend from the everyday life through the media, films and visionary ideals and has been found to represent non-material influences like dreams and illusions. It brings dissolution of structures and represents idealistic drives – both on a social and a spiritual level. Neptune opens the door to the divine, leaving residual discontent about mundane existence.

The first sign of a Neptune contact is a sense of loss, despair, hopelessness, or confusion. Many people instinctively use this as a time to travel, a time to live on the surface of cultures, to escape from their own world and drift through someone else’s. For others, there can be times of indecision instead of decisiveness, confusion and dreams instead of clarity and logic. This may or may not be a difficult experience.

How Neptune will manifest its energy will depends on the horoscope as a whole. The Sign (and its Element), the House in which it falls, and the Aspects to the other planets will all have a bearing on any interpretation.

On a personal level Neptune shows where specifically you will feel the need to transcend, where dreams are built up and dissolve and in what area of life you gain spiritual understanding through acceptance of the transience of all things.

The dream world can become more vivid and intuition is highly tuned. This is a time when the boundaries of Saturn are once again challenged, not by the frontal attack of Uranus but rather by slow erosion. The structure crumbles—not because of weakness but because of a massive failure of the foundation.

Methods of coping (Saturn) no longer work, people are Usually faced, in this time, with inactivity. They can take no action to solve their problem, they must wait for the problem to dissolve. Neptune’s action is considered to be that of loosening, dissolving boundaries, expanding and distorting and it represents Intuition, Idealism, Self-sacrifice, Glamour, Illusion and Decay.

 

MEDICAL NEPTUNE

Neptune takes approximately 164 years to orbit the zodiac, taking about 13 years in each sign. Its position is a kind of cultural expression manifesting itself with imaginative and creative faculties of a generation. Its location points to a common spiritual destiny shown by the sign that it occupies. As one gets older, new generations may then seem strange in style, cultural or artistic expression, something not innately understood by the native.

People with an afflicted Neptune should always be on guard for deception, trickery, and fraud. Since each one’s life is the outcome of former living, afflictions of Neptune offer ready channels where enemies from past lives or evil spirits can gain entry into our sacred temple. Forewarned is forearmed and confrontations can be stepping stones upward in life, or misery leading to drug abuse and apathy. Afflictions to Neptune may also indicate a previous life of extreme asceticism where the physical body was ignored or neglected leading to a leaky aura in this life. The corroborating symptoms are tiredness and need for a lot of sleep. There is also susceptibility to tuberculosis as Neptune is the ruler of this disease. Sunlight counteracts the tubercular diathesis and helps to harden and anneal an etheric body with a leaky aura. Likewise, a favorably aspected Neptune may let one drone away one’s time, neglecting valuable opportunities offered for soul growth by following the deceptive lines of least resistance. Neptune rules illusion and abstract thinking, as well as those areas of life where conditions are not always what they seem.

PATHOLOGICAL TENDENCIES: Neptune’s placement in the natal chart points to conditions which are difficult to diagnose, or are wrongly diagnosed. It has rulership over the aura and etheric body. Its afflictions denote laxity and weakness of the vital force, and subnormal conditions, as lack of development, undersized body or organs. Its placement in the chart and hard aspects has a strong rule over wasting of tissues leading to decay and disintegration. Its pathological manifestations are lethargy, drug abuse, intoxication, and general lack of tone throughout the body.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: Pineal gland, appendix, right-brain function.

 

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS

none as the ancients did not know of the existence of this planet

 

Hades is not to be soothed, neither overcome, wherefore he is most hated by mortals of all gods. [Agamemnon. Homer, Iliad 9.158] blessed one, be kindly in heart and help those who voyage in ships! – Homer.

PLUTO represents the drive to transform, to completely change, to dig into the  deepest, darkest parts of the self. It can urge us to be destructive, but also to bring about positive reformation and complete changes. It connects to the deepest, unconscious side of the personality, and the realms of the collective unconscious; so through Pluto we can be swept along with the flood tides of collective change. This occurs outwardly through death and destruction but there is a part of us that is compulsively attracted to the darker side of humanity, so it is often experienced as an urge to investigate and uncover the complex issues of the human condition. We might call it the urge to turn life into something entirely new by completely destroying old habits, old relationships, old affiliations, so as to effect rebirth of some part of the psyche. It represents our fascination with evil, and dark forces, but is an instinctive understanding that freedom is found by eliminating parts of the self and life that tie us too close to material life. Thus it represents the highest and deepest form of death and rebirth to a spiritual dimension. It can evoke violence and forceful passions in people and as a collective energy can have a mass effect as much as a personal one.

Pluto symbolizes the capacity to change totally and forever a person’s lifestyle, thought and behavior. Pluto rules all the powerful forces of creation and destruction. Pluto is transcendental courage and guts. It gives us new life by forcing us to face death. It destroys to rebuild, and it kills the old self that we may be born anew. It charts the rise and fall of all civilizations and power structures. It rules groups, syndicates and all who pool their resources to boost their power. It can release wealth and opportunity never before dreamed of. It is sexuality and fertility, and represents the secrets of biology and the mysteries of creation. Pluto is linked to the sign of Scorpio and the Eighth House. Pluto revolves around the sun once every two hundred and forty-eight years. In a natal chart, the aspects and position of Pluto indicate areas of life in which the subject is capable of making fundamental changes, for better or for worse.

The Greek ‘Plouton’ is derived from ploutos ‘wealth’, which according to an ancient scholar originally referred to grain. This fits Pluto’s association with the Earth and his role as the husband of the fertility goddess Persephone, though it says nothing of the astrological Pluto. But Pluto’s role as a god of death is clearly appropriate to its astrological influence.

Pluto transits the chart in 248 years (about 1° per year).

 

MYTHOLOGY:

The planet received this name because it’s so far from the Sun that it is in perpetual darkness – the position that Saturn was thought to be in, in antiquity.

Anubis was the Egyptian god of the dead. Later he was superseded in that role by Osiris. He reached the Greeks as Hades who was the son of the Titans Cronus (Saturn) and Rhea and the brother of Zeus (Jupiter) and Poseidon ( Neptune ).

When the three brothers divided up the universe after they had deposed their father, Cronus, Hades was awarded the underworld. He was originally considered a fierce and unyielding god, deaf to prayers and unappeased even by sacrifices. In later cults and popular belief the milder and more beneficent aspects of the god were stressed. Believed to be the bestower of the blessings hidden in the earth, such as mineral wealth and crops, Pluto also displayed another aspect as Dis or Orcus, the giver of wealth.

The idea was that Ouranos, the father of the gods, had disintegrated and descended physically from Heaven to Earth, whereupon Gaia bore a metaphysical image of Ouranos in the sky, henceforth to be called Mount Olympus, and a metaphysical image of his ‘children’, henceforth to be called the gods.

 

 

Pluto Rules :	Scorpio (along with Mars)
Exalted Degree :	15 Leo
Detriment :	Taurus
Fall :	Aquarius
House ruled :	8th house
Day Ruled :	none
Persons Represented :	mother-figures, loved ones, family members. People connected with death and dying.
Keywords: creation, destruction Colors, Stones : blue, green, ochre, Jades, ceramics
	Pluto’s modern symbol is astrologically irrelevant whereas the symbol preferred by some is the circle poised above a crescent of receptiveness elevated above a cross of matter.

 

IN THE CHART

Third of the Modern planets – those discovered in modern times and not seen with the naked eye.

Pluto was discovered in 1930 and takes 248 years to go around the Sun. Though very small, its influence is completely disproportionate to its size. It brings total transformations. Drawing deep psychological issues up out of the unconsciousness it has a purging function. Its influence focuses on power and power misuse, or feelings of alienation. Pluto has a very irregular orbit and can be in any one Sign from 14 years in the 20th century – to over 30 years at other times. Its influence in a Sign is felt more on a collective than a personal level. The Sign position of Pluto shows in what area of society total transformations take place – often with rather catastrophic consequences. Pluto roots out basic imbalances, replacing corruption with something totally new. It brings a death and rebirth process. The House position of Pluto shows in what specific area of your life you focus too intensely and have a corrupt or fanatic drive for intensity or control. This area shows where you have experienced trauma – at some point in the life a total transformation will take place here. In this area the doors to your unconscious will open. The aspects Pluto makes show the most intense psychological drives in your personality. In these areas of your personality you will be most magnetic and dominating. This stems from an unconscious need for control, which in turn stems from a deep fear of being powerless. Crises and transformation will arise in these areas.

Pluto has a very irregular orbit and can be in any one Sign from 14 to over 30 years and its influence in a sign is felt more on a collective than a personal level. It shows in what area of society transformations take place – often with rather catastrophic consequences.

Pluto roots out basic imbalances, replacing corruption with something totally new. It brings a death and rebirth process. Though very small, its influence is completely disproportionate to its size.

On a personal level it can bring total transformation, drawing deep psychological issues up out of the unconsciousness and purging them; this means being broken down to the point where you must rebuild yourself completely. Been there, done that; not fun. Its influence focuses on power and the misuse of power or feelings of alienation and the experience of trauma. Its action is to isolate, transmute and re-enforce.

How Pluto will manifest its energy depends on the horoscope as a whole. The Sign (and its Element), the House in which it falls, and the Aspects to the other planets will all have a bearing on any interpretation.

It represents the urge to Transform or Regenerate and the start of New Beginnings. Pluto shows the most intense psychological drives in your personality. In these areas of your personality you will be at your most magnetic and dominating.

 

MEDICAL PLUTO

Just as your Sun sign represents your true identity in this life, Pluto’s house represents an old pattern of identity from the past. It is a past pattern of life that is carried over into this life. We can say that Pluto’s house is that area of life where complete regeneration is needed. Compulsive behavior and even ruthlessness needs to be transformed into willful intentions yielding great powers of perception and insight into the subtle forces of life. Plutonian people can make great healers simply by touch or vision.

The aspects of Pluto to other planets gives an indication as to how that transformation can bring new understanding and regeneration. Whether the aspect is "hard" as in square or opposition, or "easy" as in a trine or sextile, determines whether one has an innate knowing, or will meet some hard karmic destiny. There is an enormous potential for power by discovering those fields of experience in the house of Pluto. It heals when it is tapped.

PATHOLOGICAL TENDENCIES: Medically, Pluto’s energy is concerned with eliminative processes, both physical and spiritual. The energy represented by Pluto is life-giving and cleansing. Pluto’s transits are said to destroy the old forms in order to bring in the new. It’s pathological manifestations are abscesses, malignancies, ulcers, and poisonous bites.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: Reproduction, defecation, expulsion of waste matter.

Pluto rules the prostate, tumors, hormones, cancer cells, asthma, hay fever, polyps, finger and toe nails, skin ailments.

 

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS

none as the ancients did not know of the existence of this planet

 

So distant that it can scarce be seen, blue green like Earth, yet cold – so cold.

URANUS is the urge to ‘make waves’ and change things in a radical – sometimes disruptive – way. It expresses self-will and the urge to upset the status-quo by shattering the structural norms of society. As an ‘outer’ planet, its long orbit means that it will stay in one sign for 7 years, so many of the people born in a 7-year period will have this planet in the same sign. Astrologers view it as ‘generational’ or a ‘collective’ energy, and it is notable as the rebellious side of our natures, often expressed in similar ways to our peers. It drives us to seek others who are in some way unique and is the model on which we seek perfection by challenging and improving on the present, through ‘futuristic’ ideas. So it is the part of us that is progressive, inventive and insubordinate! Negatively it can manifest in instability, knee-jerk reactions to life, highly strung nervous reactions, and chaotic thinking. But can make us inspirational and reformative as well as unrealistic and bizarre! It creates a desire for excitement and change by being eccentric, perverse, original and brilliant.

Uranus was first discovered in 1781 and is often associated with revolutions. It represents the drive to be unique, to shock and to surprise. It brings sudden and unpredictable events. Its influence is to raise personal consciousness. It is electric and lightning-fast in its effect. As Uranus takes 84 years to go around the Sun, it will be in any one sign for 7 years – therefore its effect is on a collective level, influencing successive generations. Its Sign position shows in what psychological area of humanity revolutionary changes will take place. The House Uranus is in will show in which specific area of your life revolutionary changes take place. It shows where you are most original, and where sudden developments will raise your consciousness. The aspects Uranus makes show in what part of your personality you have the greatest need to break free and act in the most unique and individual way. These aspects indicate rather extreme character traits where you may wish to shock others, or inspire them to change.

Its role is to free us from all conventional authorities and to drastically reform society along lines of truth and justice, individual freedom and liberty. It can bring quick, beneficial reforms or violent, disruptive, destructive events. It is associated with science and enlightenment, and seeks to base authority on knowledge which we discover for ourselves. Uranus is the planet of genius and constantly challenges us to look at things in a new way. It is sudden revelations and awakenings–the ruling planet of magicians, alchemists and astrologers. It rules capitalism, progress and the utopian expectations, and is one of the symbols of the "New Age."

Uranus is the planet of individuality, the Sudden, Unexpected and Unusual. It represents Originality, Inspiration, Dynamism, Independence, Will and Eccentricity. The influences create, invention, independence, drastic change through one’s life. Uranus, hones into the eccentric side of the personality, causing many to become, adventurous, bizarre, contrary, defiant, erratic, extraordinary, extremist, fanatical, Genius, Illegal, intuitive, inventive, nonconformist, outrageous, strange, transforming, unorthodox. It is the planet of innovation, nonconformity, higher intuition and inspiration. In a natal chart, a well-aspected Uranus can bring a touch of genius to the subject, while a heavily afflicted one can lead to eccentricity and unreliability. It is linked to Aquarius and the Eleventh House.

Uranus takes 84 years to transit the chart (4° / year).

 

MYTHOLOGY:

In Hesiod’s Theogony, the origin of all the gods is traced to an original primal marriage of Ouranos (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth):

Great Ouranos came, bringing on Night, and desirous of love, he spread himself over Gaia, stretched out in every direction.

From this celestial union, Gaia (Earth) bore the first generation of gods and giants, which included Kronos, the three Cyclopes, and the three Hundred-handers. She groaned, we are told, when these gods and giants were pressed tight inside her womb.

In this myth, Ouranos personifies the Mountain of Heaven, which physically explodes and falls to the Earth, thus sowing the seeds of creation. His name Ouranos meant literally ‘Mountain of Heaven’ (from the Greek word ouros for ‘mountain’), and he was thus a cognate for the older Mesopotamian gods Anu, Enlil, Enki, and Zu, who likewise personified the Mountain of Heaven.

Following her insemination by Ouranos, Gaia also gave birth to the mountains, the sea, and the heavenly abode of Mount Olympus, which Hesiod described as ‘a secure seat for ever for the blessed gods’.

At the same time, according to Hesiod, Gaia gave birth to an image of Ouranos himself:

Earth bore, first of all, one equal to herself, starry Ouranos, so that he should cover her all about, to be a secure seat for ever for the blessed gods.

 

The gods were thus given two ‘secure seats’: one on Mount Olympus and one on Ouranos (‘the Mountain of Heaven’). The idea, it would seem, is that the gods, having been born from the Earth, ascended into the sky to take up residence (a) on Mount Olympus; and (b) in the stars (Ouranos being synonymous with the starry heavens).

What was the nature of Mount Olympus? Not a terrestrial mountain with its peak in the Earth’s troposphere, as scholars assume. Rather, an invisible image of the original Mountain of Heaven (Ouranos), which was created in the so-called pure air, or upper air, which the Greeks called aither.

The Olympian gods, as invisible and aethereal entities, thus came to reside upon an equally invisible and aethereal ‘mountain’ which had been created by magic in the heavenly void.

The idea was that Ouranos, the father of the gods, had disintegrated and descended physically from Heaven to Earth, whereupon Gaia bore a metaphysical image of Ouranos in the sky, henceforth to be called Mount Olympus, and a metaphysical image of his ‘children’, henceforth to be called the gods.

 

 

Uranus Rules :	Aquarius (along with Saturn)
Exalted Degree :	23 Scorpio
Detriment :	Leo
Fall :	Taurus
Houses ruled :	11th house
Day Ruled :	none
Persons Represented :	any person who is considered to be unconventional, independent, chaotic, eccentric, or rebellious. In addition the exciting person, the person who brings change. Intellectual and or non-committed.
Keywords: scientific, impersonal, unusual aims, innovative groups, destruction, re-evolution, sixth sense Colors, Stones : checks, tartan, violet, purple; amber, uranium.
	Its symbol shows the cross of matter above the circle of spirit between the columns of Good and Evil (or Light and Dark).

 

IN THE CHART

Uranus is about change, unexpected, seemingly without pattern. The desire to break patterns of responsibility. Not necessarily to be free of the responsibility but rather just to be free. The wild card, electric, weird, fast, non-emotional, life-in-the-fast-lane. The energy of this planet is chaos.

When Saturn has our life firmly in its grasp via order, routine, habits, and life style, Uranus will come thundering into our world, to alter, change, or confront us with the vulnerability of our “nice safe secure systems”. It will blast us out of the structures we have built.

Uranus takes approximately 84 years to cycle the 12 signs of the zodiac (to go around the Sun), it will be in any one sign for 7 years – therefore its effect is on a collective level, influencing successive generations. Uranus is often associated with revolutions and its sign position shows in what psychological area of humanity revolutionary changes will take place. It is the harbinger of sudden and unpredictable events and electric and lightning in its effect.

The energy of Uranus seems to radiate out of a person when it is strongly transiting a chart. Light bulbs can pop, electrical failures and computer hiccups seem to trail behind us like unwanted guests! On a personal level its influence is to raise personal consciousness and can show where you are most original and where sudden developments will raise your consciousness. It represents the drive to be unique, to shock and to surprise.

How Uranus will manifest its energy depends on the horoscope as a whole. The Sign (and its Element), the House in which it falls, and the Aspects to the other planets will all have a bearing on any interpretation.

 

MEDICAL URANUS

Uranus rules your electrical life breath, personal as well as societal freedom. It indicates potential for originality of thought and expression. In society it rules the apparently radical ideas and people that are years ahead of their time. They lead to revolutionary events that upset established structures. The Aquarian age of which we are now entering is ruled by Uranus. Its cycle began with the discovery of electricity which it rules and is now interconnecting everyone on the planet with a synthetic telepathy.

Karmically, all aspects of the personal planets – Mercury, Venus, Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, or the Ascendant – indicate areas of life where there is a strong urge for freedom of expression without restraint and the need for constant stimulation and excitement. This planet also represents the capacity to be high-strung, excitable, and temperamental. The motives of Uranus thus represent the purpose of radically repolarizing an individual’s past lives, and open one up to new experience either through stimulating, shocking, and even traumatic crises to find new ways of living. People who are ruled by Uranus are lovers of freedom, rebellious at least restraint, intuitive and inventive. They are aviators, high level mechanics, or deal directly with electricity. It also tends towards erratic behavior and can make people irritable and brusque in manner.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: Skin, bone and joints, teeth, hearing, ossicification. Uranus rules all the rhythmic processes of the body. It rules the movement of the whole digestive tract from mouth to anus. Thus, the common symptom of its afflictions are spasmodic manifestations and disrupted rhythms – muscles spasms, shock, cramp, strictures, ruptures, paroxysms, and contortions.

Uranus rules the ankles, mental faculties, pineal and sexual glands, continence, immune system, arthritis, rheumatism, gall bladder.

 

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS

none as the ancients did not know of the existence of this planet

 

VENUS is Earth’s closest neighbor and sometimes referred to as a sister planet. She represents our need for balance, love, peace, and harmony. Venus rules diplomacy, cooperation, beauty, nature, the arts, affection, social life, pleasure and happiness.

Venus represents pleasure, the enjoyment of relationships, loving and caring. It helps us to decide what is relevant to well being and happiness, what is irrelevant, and what is bad. It is the urge to seek companionship and love to feel good about ourselves, so has to do with self-esteem. Venus is the subconscious desire to form unions with others, and is our willingness to co-operate. It also allows us to enjoy the things that bring pleasure – aesthetics as well as physical. It is not a highly energetic drive (it can be rather lazy), but one that enables us to seek relatedness.

Venus is the planet of love, higher emotions and artistic sensibility. The aspects and positions of Venus in a natal chart indicate how the subject deals with relationships, sexuality and social interaction, as well as their capacity for creating and appreciating beauty.

The feminine planet, influences affection, sex-appeal, attachments, calm, companionship, gentle, the sense of touch, unity, sympathy, harmony, evaluation, feelings, refined amusements, love, beauty, arts, music, colour and adornments, good humour, tact, generosity, warm, soothing and fruitful.

Venus shows our values and our need and capacity for love. This planet shows aesthetic preferences and the natural attraction we feel to people and things. Venus represents the need for inner and outer harmony and balance. It is associated with the inner feelings we have when we compare and make judgements. Venus also represents sisters and other influential women, as well as our experience of the emotional harmony between our parents. The Sign Venus is in indicates how our values are coloured and what specific aesthetic styles we adopt. Choices of partner are strongly influenced by this Sign position. Venus is always found close to the Sun in the horoscope – either in the same sign, or in one of the two signs alongside the Sun. The House Venus is in shows in what particular area of life we find love, companionship and partnership, and where we have the strongest and most rewarding emotional contacts. This House shows what we value specifically, and where we can be enriched both emotionally and financially. Aspects to Venus indicate specific experiences in love relationships and the individual psychological needs that colour our judgement when making choices.

Venus takes about 1 year to transit the chart. (up to 1°15’ / day)

 

 

" This Venus graceth, here she seats her Throne, And in the World’s high Face erects her own; That Face, whose awful force Mankind admires, And yields Obedience to her pleasing Fires: Her charge is Marriage, for what else can prove The Office of the beauteous Queen of Love? Pleasure’s her aim, yet she forgets her Ease And puts on Providence on design to please My Muse grows weary, and contracts her pace, Refusing to expatiate in her Race." Astronomica, Book II Chapter 33, Verse 21, Marcus Manilius c 10 AD.

 

 

MYTHOLOGY

Aphrodite was known as the Greek goddess of love, beauty, sexual desire and fertility. According to Hesiod, she was born when Uranus, father of the gods, was castrated and his genitals thrown into the sea. Uranus’s genitalia and the sea foam it mingled with are the supposed parents of Aphrodite, who rose from the foam and was carried by waves to Cyprus. This is why she was named Aphrodite, which literally means "foam-born", and is also known as Kypris and Cytherea.

In Roman Mythology Venus was said to be the daughter of Jupiter, although she was born of the Sea and the Sky and came to earth in a shell from under the sea. The Roman goddess of love and beauty was originally a vegetation goddess and patroness of gardens and vineyards.

Aphrodite had affairs with gods and humans but her true love was Mars. She was forced by the god Jupiter to marry Vulcan, a blacksmith. Venus had a son named Cupid, the mischievous and winged god of love. He was her constant companion; and, armed with bow and arrows, he shot the arrows of desire into the bosoms of both gods and men. He later married Psyche and they produced a child named Pleasure.

Venus is, of course, associated with affairs of the heart. The last great temple of Venus was built by the emperor Hadrianus near the Colosseum in 135 AD.

 

 

Venus Rules :	Taurus (by night) Libra (by day) Earth triplicity by day
Angel :	Anael
Exalted Degree :	27 Pisces
Detriment :	Scorpio, Aries
Fall :	Virgo
Houses ruled :	2nd and 7th houses
Day Ruled :	Friday and the first and eighth hour of that day
Persons Represented :	young women, artists, lovers, or money-handlers.
	This symbol has also become universally known to represent female energy. A cross with a circle at the top, it represents the rise of spirit over matter.
Classical Astrology Data at bottom

 

IN THE CHART

Astrologically Venus is seen as the feelings, an indicator of your values. A planet of fortune, pursuit of pleasure, beauty in form, social interactions, an indicator in your chart of your inclinations towards romance, marriage and other partnerships.

Refiner of the aesthetic and artistic and giver of the sentiments of love and sharing. Venus is the goddess of love and beauty and where Mars uses physical force, Venus seduces and persuades.

All things that are pleasant and leisurely are symbolised by Venus. Her domain is music, art, games, dancing, acting and all things that are used for adornment or ornamentation, such as perfumes, cosmetics, jewelry and fine fabrics.

As Lady Luck she has special significance for gamblers. A feminine planet, her action is to pacify, harmonise, make beautiful and soften. How Venus will manifest her energy, a soft and cooling one which seeks harmony and an indicator of your inclinations and values, depends on the horoscope as a whole. The Sign (and its Element), the House in which if falls, and the Aspects to the other planets will all have a bearing on any interpretation.

Venus shows our values and our need and capacity for love. This planet shows aesthetic preferences and the natural attraction we feel to people and things. Venus represents the need for inner and outer harmony and balance. It is associated with the inner feelings we have when we compare and make judgements. Venus also represents sisters and other influential women, as well as our experience of the emotional harmony between our parents.

 

MEDICAL VENUS

TFrom the days of Hippocrates, father of Western medicine (Fifth century B. C.), the ancients emphasized the value of diet and exercise as the prime methods of restoration of health and longevity. The ancient figurines of women, known as the "Venus statues", depict a bottom heavy, obese figure of a woman. Some of these Paleolithic figurines are believed to be more than 20,000 years old. They are found in all areas of Europe, as far away as Russia, and they all show women with huge, fat hips and buttocks. Today, it is known as the "Venus Syndrome", the connection between Venus and the lower body fat, today referred to as "cellulite" – the thickening and laxity of connective tissue beneath the skin, around gelatinous pockets of fat, which traps toxic matter and body wastes.

Venus is the principle of harmony, equilibrium, homeostasis, and thus rules the body’s hormonal secretions. The Moon and Venus rule strongly over the affairs and health of women. It rules over all regulatory and secretory functions, especially the female sexual hormones. It rules the chemical composition of the body’s fluids, acidity and alkalinity, sodium-potassium balance, and the other mineral ions. The planet is basically benefic in action, but in hard aspect frequently points to numerous little disorders, showing a general relaxation of the system and body tone, but eventually debilitates the native as the years pass. Its afflictions are generally maladies due to indiscretions in diet and habit.

PATHOLOGICAL TENDENCIES: Venus has traditionally been associated with diabetes. Hard aspects to Venus point to lack of homeostasis, lack of tone, congestion and swelling of the body’s tissues; cyst formation; and kidney disorders. Venus also rules over the veins and indicates such disorders as varicose veins, hemorrhoids, vascular spiders, etc.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: Homeostasis, hormonal balance, ovaries, kidneys, venous system, tissue tone, nutritional functions, skin and complexion.

Venus rules the throat, kidneys, veins, ovaries and generative system, hair, thyroid gland, oesophagus, skin, social diseases, anorexia.

 

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

Anciently called Cytherea, Aphrodite, Phosphoros, Vesperugo, Ericina. She is well known amongst the vulgar by the name of the Evening Star or Hesperus; and that is when she appears after the Sun is set: common people call her the Morning Star, and the learned Lucifer, when she is seen long before the rising of the Sun. Physical descriptions: Venus represents a man of fair, but not tall stature, his complexion being white, tending to a little darkness, which makes him more lovely; very fair lovely eyes, and a little black; a round face and not large, fair hair, smooth, and plenty of it, and it usually of a light brown colour; a lovely mouth and cherry lips, the face pretty fleshy, a rolling wandering eye, a body very delightful, lovely and exceedingly well shaped, one desirous of trimming and making himself neat and complete both in clothes and body, a love dimple in his cheeks, a steadfast eye, and full of amorous enticements. When Venus is oriental, the body inclines to tallness; or a kind of upright straightness in person, not corpulent or very tall, but neatly composed. A right venerian person, is such as we say, a pretty, complete, handsome man or woman. When Venus is occidental the man is of a shorter stature, yet very decent and comely in shape and form, well liked of all.
Associated Terms : Aries degrees 7 – 14 Taurus degrees 1 – 8 Gemini degrees 15 – 20 Cancer degrees 21 – 27 Leo degrees 14 – 19 Virgo degrees 8 – 13 Libra degrees 7 – 11 Scorpio degrees 15 – 21 Sagittarius degrees 9 – 14 Capricorn degrees 1 – 6 Aquarius degrees 13 – 20 Pisces degrees 1 – 8
	Rulership by face (or decanate) : Aries degrees 21 – 30 Cancer degrees 1 – 10 Virgo degrees 11 – 20 Scorpio degrees 21 – 30 Pisces degrees 1 – 10 Nature: Feminine, nocturnal, temperately cold and moist; the Lesser Fortune, author of mirth and jollity.
Colors and odors: In colours she signifies white, or milky sky-colour mixed with brown, or a little green; also light blues and greens, pastel shades. In savours she delights in that which is pleasant and toothsome; usually in moist and sweet, or what is very delectable; in smells what is unctuous and aromatical, and incites to wantonness.	Minerals & Stones: Copper, especially the Corinthian and white; brass, all lattenware. Stones include Cornelian, the sky-coloured sapphire, white and red coral, marcasite, alabaster, lapis lazuli (because it expels melancholy), jade, the beryl, chrysolite.
People Signified: Musicians, gamesters, silk-men, mercers, linen-drapers, painters, jewellers, players, lapidaries, embroiderers, women-tailors, wives, mothers, virgins, choristers, fiddlers, pipers, when joined with Moon, singers, perfumers, semsters, picture-drawers, gravers, upholsterers, limners, glovers, all as sell those commodities which adorn women either in body (as clothes) or in face, (as complexion-waters.) Places Signified: Gardens, fountains, bridal-chambers, fair lodgings, beds, hangings, dancing schools, wardrobes	Anatomy and Illnesses: Diseases signified by Venus are principally in the matrix and members of generation; in the reins, belly, back, navel and those parts; the gonorrhoea or running of the reins, French or Spanish pox; any disease arising by inordinate lust. Priapismes, impotency in generation, hernias, etc, the diabetes or pissing disease.
Herbs, Plants and Trees: Myrtle always green; all the herbs she governs have a sweet flavour, a pleasant smell; a white flower. They are of a gentle humour, whose leaves are smooth and not jagged. She governs the lily, white and yellow, and the lily of the valley, and of the water. The satyrion or cuckoopint, maidenhair, violet, the white and yellow daffodil. In trees and plants she rules Sweet apples, the white rose, the fig, the white sycamore; wild ash, turpentine-tree, olive, sweet oranges, mugwort, ladies mantle , sanicle, balm, vervain, walnuts, almonds, millet, valerian, thyme, amber, laudanum, civet or musk, coriander, French wheat, peaches, apricots, plums, raisins.
Manners when well dignified: Venus signifies a quiet man, not given to law, quarrel or wrangling, not vitious, pleasant, neat and spruce, loving mirth in his words and actions, clean in apparel, rather drinking much than gluttonous, prone to venery, often entangled in love-matters, zealous in their affections, musical, delighting in baths and all honest merry meetings, or masks and stage-plays; easy of belief, and not given to labour or taking any pains, a company-keeper, cheerful, nothing mistrustful, a right virtuous man or woman, often had in some jealousy, yet no cause for it.	Manners when badly placed: When Venus is ill-placed, then the man is riotous, expensive, wholly given to looseness and lewd companies of women, not regarding his reputation, coveting unlawful beds, incestuous, an adulterer; fanatical, a mere skip-jack, of no faith, no repute, no credit; spending his means in alehouses, taverns, and amongst scandalous, loose people; a mean lazy companion, not careful of the things of this life or anything religious; a mere atheist and natural man.

 

 

22 47 16 41 10 35 4 5 23 48 17 42 11 29 30 6 24 49 18 36 12 13 31 7 25 43 19 37 38 14 32 1 26 44 20 21 39 8 33 2 27 45 46 15 40 9 34 3 28 VENUS 75 / 1225

“It is affirmed by Magicians, that there are certain tables of numbers distributed to the seven planets, which they call the sacred tables of the planets, …   “The fifth table is of Venus, consisting of a square of seven drawn into it self, viz. of fourty nine numbers, whereof seven on each side and Diameter make 175. and the sum of all is 1225. And there are over it divine names with an Intelligency to good, and spirit to evil; And there is drawn out of it the Character of Venus, and the spirits thereof. This being engraven on a Silver plate, Venus being fortunate, procureth concord, endeth strife, procureth the love of women, conduceth to conception, is good against barreness, causeth ability for generation, dissolves enchantments, and causeth peace between man, and woman, and maketh all kind of Animals and Cattle fruitful; and being put into a Dove-house, causeth an increase of Pigeons. It conduceth to the cure of all melancholy distempers, and causeth joyfulness; and being carryed about travellers make them fortunate. But if it be formed upon Brass with an unfortunate Venus, it causeth contrary things to all that hath bin above said." Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book II (circa 1510)

 

The SUN expresses our personal identity and awareness of conscious personality. It represents the realization of the ‘self’, the essence of ‘being’, and the vitality of life. Through the Sun we express our own individuality in a creative way. It symbolizes our life expression, the way we actively participate in worldly matters.  It constitutes the ego of the person, the aspirations, the Will.

Knowing who we are and being able to find a special place in life is probably the most powerful drive in the human psyche. People want to express themselves in the world in an individualistic and personal way. It is through the Sun that we personalize our experiences, because we have a sense of an inner "I". This determines what is relevant to each of us. So the Sun is our reality as we might understand it externally.

It is the male share of the personality, Yang, it represents all the male roles (the father, the husband, the head, etc). It makes it possible to interpret the image of the father and the man in general, the type of relation with them (that the subject is man or woman). However it seems to be more present in the topic of a man, since it represents all the male and positive values.

It is a star of heat, life, light, it thus emphasizes courage, honesty, the nobility, generosity but also pride, irritability, self-centredness.

In the topic of a woman, it tends to symbolize the father later then the husband even if it is always present in the personality of the woman: the Sun represents its ideal of man.

In the life, it represents youth, where his studies are finished, filled of ambition and hope.

 

MYTHOLOGY:

The Sun and Moon are the oldest and most visible of all mythological symbols. The male and female principles made visible in the sky.

Modern science has proven that without the sun life could not exist on Earth – something that mankind has known from earliest times!

From the astronomical calendar of Stonehenge, through to ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, Mayans, Incas; we know that Man has worshipped the Sun.

Usually taken as a male symbol – often partnered with the female Moon – the Sun is universally a symbol of power.

Known by many names throughout history, the sun god is often transformed into the head of the pantheon of gods in polytheistic religions. The solar principle has been personified by Brahma to the Hindus, Mithra to the Persians, Quetzalcoatl to the Aztecs, Helios to the Greeks.

The Egyptians personified the sun as Aton Ra and a moving Hymn to Ra has travelled down through the ages to us.

 

It takes one year for the Sun to complete the cycle of the 12 signs of the chart; approximately one degree each day, 30 degrees or one full sign) per month.

 

 

The Sun Rules :	Leo (by day and night) Fire triplicity by day
Angel :	Michael
Exalted Degree :	19 Aries
Detriment :	Aquarius
Fall :	Libra
House ruled :	5th house
Day Ruled :	Sunday and the first and eighth hour of that day
Persons Represented :	father, authority figures of any type, a famous person, a superior person. Colors, Stones : Ruby, gold, chrysolite, adamant, carbuncle, the etites stone found in eagle’s nests.
	The symbol is a circle with a central point, and many religions regard it as a god or goddess whose divine life and light radiates in all directions.
Classical Astrology Data at bottom

 

IN THE CHART

The Sun also symbolizes what is central for us – our identity, the Will, Individuality. Psychologically it represents our experience of the father and his influence or lack of influence on the building of our character and ability to express ourselves as individuals. It also symbolizes our creative drive and need to be visible. We strive to realise the qualities the Sun represents in our horoscope through a process of individuation throughout our life. This self-realization process is our highest goal.

The Sign the Sun is in shows the direction in which we strive to realise ourselves. The Sun changes sign every month. The qualities of this sign are like adjectives which colour our self-expression. We have to develop and perfect these qualities to truly find ourselves. The House the Sun is in indicates the specific area in the material world in which we manifest our identity. We will identify very strongly with the practical issues that this House represents. Self-realization comes through the matters connected with the House. The Aspects to our Sun show psychological influences on our identity which have to be integrated in some way. Aspects indicate specific effects that modify the expression of our identity and make us unique individuals. Aspects can also show quite precisely how we experienced the influence of the father, and how that modifies our attempts to become individuals.

The Sun sign tells us who we are, while the Rising Sign shows us who we feel we have to be to fit in to our environment. Since the Rising Sign represents the moment of birth (you can’t calculate your Rising Sign without your time of birth), the first place we have to fit into is our family. From there most of us have to learn to fit in to various situations – school, life in general, relationships, etc.

Where the Sun is a conscious, masculine and an outgoing energy that is easy to spot, the Moon is an unconscious, internal, feminine and an illogical energy. I look at the Sun as being what we want, while the Moon symbolism is what we need.

The Sun is what we aspire to, what we wish to believe of ourselves, how we express ourselves, our essential value, the "essence" of who we are. It represents vitality, leadership, creativity and the nobility of mankind. It often denotes those of high or noble birth and is important in relationships with superiors. Its action is to illuminate (obviously), stabilise, integrate, elevate and improve.

How the Sun will manifest its energy, it’s life-generating creative potential, depends on the horoscope as a whole. The Sign (and its Element), the House in which it falls, and the Aspects to the other planets, will all have a bearing on any interpretation.

The sign the Sun is in shows the direction in which we strive to realise ourselves. The Sun changes sign every month, defining your birth sign. The qualities of this sign are like adjectives, which colour our self-expression. We have to develop and perfect these qualities to truly find ourselves.

The House the Sun is in indicates the specific area in the material world in which we manifest our identity. We will identify very strongly with the practical issues that this House represents. Self-realisation comes through the matters connected with the House.

The Aspects to our Sun show psychological influences on our identity which have to be integrated in some way. Aspects indicate specific effects that modify the expression of our identity and make us unique individuals.

Aspects can also show quite precisely how we experience the influence of the father, and how that modifies our attempts to become individuals.

Transits and progressions to or from this luminary indicate events in the journey of life and a reassessment of personal identity. The person may experience this as life-threatening, or life-supporting. Either way, it is like turning the page in the story of life and getting on to the next “adventure”.

 

MEDICAL SUN

The Sun is the source of your vital power, principally ruling the brain and heart in man and woman. Its sign location (zodiac Sun sign), aspects to other planets, and house position indicate the vitality of the body, especially in males. The Sun is thus the indicator of health in males, while the Moon governs health matters in females. However, the Sun and Moon are important in health matters in both sexes. The Sun signs and Moon signs at birth, along with their aspects and positions, are regarded as the "fountains of life on Earth". The Sun is one of the vital centers in a star map, along with the Moon, Ascendant (rising sign), and Midheaven (tenth house).

The power of the Sun and how it radiates within you can be thought of as light rays emanating from a light bulb, powering into your body. The Sun signs are divided into the Four Elements: FIRE (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius); AIR (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius); WATER (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces); and EARTH (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn). All males born with the Sun in fire signs have the best prospects for good vitality, as light radiates most freely in a body composed of the fire element. Light also radiates freely in air, and these natives are the next strongest, but air sign people become weakened by worry and nervousness. They need rest to recuperate. The earth element for sunlight is linked with the densest matter, gives tenacity, wear and tear, rather than vitality. Theses individuals tend to recovery slowly from their illnesses. The water element for transmission of sunlight gives the weakest constitution, being a more difficult medium to manifest light (except Scorpio).

The Sun is the giver of life, but is quite impersonal in its influence that the average man or woman rarely contacts its higher qualities in a conscious or positive sense. Planetary aspects, even if hard (square or opposite), are better than no aspects at all, as in the latter, the native is hardly touched at all by its influence. This fact is the reason "Sun sign" prophecies found in the tabloids and daily paper make no sense to some individuals. When well placed, however, it signifies will power, authority, and self-reliance. If afflicted by the Moon or Ascendant, it will make the health feeble and the vitality low.

The Sun rules the metabolic fires of your body’s cells. Its placement represents how that energy is needed and distributed. Your body requires copious quantities of light from many sources to maintain your health, vitality, and beauty. Each Sun sign has recommended foods that tend to foster vitality, as well as dietary pointers, and warnings about certain foods that will disturb your body’s distribution of the Sun’s vital rays, indicative by your Sun’s zodiac placement (the season of the year in which you were born).

In terms of the Zodiac, the twelve signs represent the Grand Man, and rule the different parts of the body, from head as in Aries, to toe as in Pisces. Thus, there is a zodiacal rulership over the body and its organs. In terms of Sun signs and rising signs, it represents where disease potential exists. The locations and transits represent how an organ or bowel will be afflicted since these are rotating, dynamic entities. The houses at birth, signify why disorders will manifest.

Inharmonious aspects to the Sun are angles and locations of the other planets in their orbits in relationship to the Sun. They are called afflictions. For example, if the Sun is afflicted by a hard angle to the Moon, the health will be weak, and the rays of the Sun will be on the cold side, the eyesight will suffer.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: Vitality, the absorption of prana through the spleen, the immune system, heart function, spine and back, eyesight, individual cellular metabolism, the blood and oxygenation, consciousness.

The Sun rules the heart, spleen, upper back, lower spine, right eye for males, left eye for females, cerebral haemorrhage, skin cancer, hormones, glands.

 

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

Anciently called Sol, Titan, Ilios, Phoebus, Apollo, Pean, Osyris, Diespiter. Physical descriptions: Usually the Sun represents a man of a good, large and strong corporature; a yellow, saffron complexion, a round, large forehead: goggle-eyes or large, sharp and piercing; a body strong and well composed, not so beautiful as lovely; full of heat, their hair yellowish, and therefore quickly bald, much hair on their beard, and usually a high ruddy complexion, and their bodies fleshy; in conditions they are very bountiful, honest, sincere, well-minded, of great and large heart, high-minded, of healthful constitution, very humane; yet sufficiently spirited, not loquacious. For the Sun, we can only say he is oriental in the figure, or in the oriental quarter of the figure, or occidental, etc., all other planets are either oriental when they rise or appear before him in the morning. Occidental, when they are seen above the earth after he is set.
Associated Terms : Aries degrees 15 – 21 Taurus degrees 9 – 15 Gemini degrees 1 – 7 Cancer degrees 14 – 20 Leo degrees 7 – 13 Virgo degrees 1 – 7 Libra degrees 20 – 24 Scorpio degrees 22 – 27 Sagittarius degrees 15 – 20 Capricorn degrees 7 – 12 Aquarius degrees 7 – 12 Pisces degrees 11 – 20
	Rulership by face (or decanate) : Aries degrees 11 – 20 Gemini degrees 21 – 30 Virgo degrees 1 – 10 Scorpio degrees 11 – 20 Capricorn degrees 21 – 30 Nature: Masculine, diurnal, hot and dry, choleric; a fortune if well dignified.
Colors and odors: Yellow, the colour of gold, scarlet or clear red, some say purple. In savours, he likes well a mixture of sour and sweet together, or the aromatical flavour, being a little bitter and stiptical, but withal confortative and a little sharp.	Minerals & Stones: Amongst the elements the Sun has domination over fire and clear shining flames; over metals, he rules gold. Stones include the hyacinth, chrysolite, adamant, carbuncle, the etites stone found in eagle’s nests, the pantaure, if such a stone be the ruby.
People Signified: Kings, princes, emperors, dukes, marquesses, earls, barons, lieutenants, deputy-lieutenants of counties, magistrates, gentlemen in general, courtiers, desirers of honour and preferment, justices of peace, majors, high-sheriffs, high-constables, great huntsmen, stewards of noblemen’s houses, the principal magistrate of any city, town, castle or country village – yea, though a petty constable, where no better or greater officer is. Goldsmiths, braziers, pewterers, coppersmiths, minters of money. Places Signified: Houses, courts of princes, palaces, theatres, all magnificent structures being clear and decent, halls, dining rooms.	Anatomy and Illnesses: Pimples in the face, palpitations or trembling, or any diseases of the brain or heart, timpanies, infirmities of the eyes, cramps, sudden swoonings, diseases of the mouth and stinking breaths, catarrhs, rotten fevers; principally in man he governs the heart, the brain and right eye, and vital spirit, in women the left eye.
Herbs, Plants and Trees: The plants subject to the Sun smell pleasantly, are of good flavour, their flowers are yellow or reddish, are in growth of majestical form, they love open and sunny places, their principal virtue is to strengthen the heart and comfort the vitals, to clear the eyesight, resist poison, or to dissolve any witchery, or malignant planetary influences; and they are: saffron, the laurel, the pomecitron, the vine, enula campana, Saint John’s wort, amber, musk, ginger, herbgrace, balm, marigold, rosemary, rosa solis, cinnamon, celandine, eyebright, peony, barley, cinquefoil, spikenard, lignum aloes, arsenic. Trees include the Ash, palm, laurel tree, the myrrh tree, frankincense, the cane tree or plant, the cedar, heletrepion, the orange and lemon tree.
Manners when well dignified: When well dignified very faithful, keeping their promises with all punctuality, a kind of itching desire to rule and sway where he comes: prudent, and of incomparable judgement; of great majesty and stateliness, industrious to acquire honour and a large patrimony, yet as willingly departing therewith again; the solar man usually speaks with gravity, but not many words, and those with great confidence and command of his own affection; full of thought, secret, trusty, speaks deliberately, and notwithstanding his great heart, yet is he affable, tractable and very humane to all people, one loving sumptuousness and magnificence, and whatever is honourable; no sordid thoughts can enter his heart.	Manners when badly placed: Then the solar man is arrogant and proud, disdaining all men, cracking of his pedigree, he is purblind in sight and judgement, restless, troublesome, domineering; a mere vapour, expensive, foolish, endued with no gravity in words, or soberness in actions, a spendthrift, wasting his patrimony, and hanging on other men’s charity, yet thinks all men are bound to him, because a gentleman born.

 

 

 

6 32 3 34 35 1 7 11 27 28 8 30 19 14 16 15 23 24 18 20 22 21 17 13 25 29 10 9 26 12 36 5 33 4 2 31 SUN = 111/ 666

“It is affirmed by Magicians, that there are certain tables of numbers distributed to the seven planets, which they call the sacred tables of the planets, …   The fourth table is of the Sun, and is made of a square of six, and contains thirty six numbers, whereof six in every side, and Diameter, produce 111, and the sum of all is 666. There are over it divine names… [as before]. This being engraven on a Golden plate with the Sun being fortunate, renders him that wears it to be renowned, amiable, acceptable, potent in all his works, and equals a man to Kings, and Princes, elevating him to high fortunes, inabling to do whatsoever he pleaseth: but with an unfortunate Sun, it makes a tyrant, and a man to be proud, ambitious, unsatisfiable, and to have an ill ending. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book II (circa 1510)

 

SATURN represents the energy of discipline, limitation and structure. It empowers us to apply self-regulating habits,  the desire and ability to achieve maturity and status by living our lives according to standard norms of acceptable behavior. It is connected to family and the feeling of security that traditions bring. Saturn has a negative side too, as do all the planets, because in the desire to conform to standards set by time and hierarchies, it can make us fearful of change and self defeating, limiting growth through conservatism or fear of change. We use this planetary model in establishing routines and goals that are comfortable, so that it works to balance some of the expansive drive of Jupiter. It is the side of us that is law abiding, rather than revolutionary, and enables us to build solid, worthwhile structures in life that allow us to prosper through preserving and regulating life. Ambitions and goals that are established with the Saturn side of the psyche are usually attainable but demand hard, slow, sometimes laborious application of set routines and standards. Negatively it can express pessimism.

Saturn is the planet of structure, limitation, experience and discipline. A heavily afflicted Saturn in a natal chart can leave subjects selfish, rigid and limited in their ability to interact meaningfully with others. Favorable influences can make them ambitious, successful and self-disciplined.

It is the ringed planet that encloses and encircles what is within its realm. It defines limits, form and structure. It represents caution, conservatism, realism, pessimism, orthodoxy and old age. It brings depression, poverty, stagnation, restriction and misfortune. It elicits depth of thought, ambition, perseverance, and the desire for status. It represent the State, the Establishment, politics, organization and civil authority. It institutes discipline and repression, imposes order, and establishes justice. It signifies miners, land owner, officials, and administrators. It represents the world and all its laws. It rules the tenth sign, Capricorn, the eleventh sign, Aquarius, and the Tenth and Eleventh Houses. Its orbit lasts twenty-nine and a half years.

 

MYTHOLOGY:

In the Egyptian legend Isis (Jupiter) swathes Osiris (Saturn).

This became the Greek legend of Saturn too. Cronus (Kronos or Chronus) was warned that his child would be his downfall and took to eating his offspring. Zeus, however, escaped this fate and usurped his father to become king of the gods.

All men are eventually usurped by their children.

The reign of Saturn was celebrated by the poets as the Golden Age which was later celebrated by the Romans as Saturnalia. Along with the Solstice celebrations, this holiday later became the Christian Christmas.

The Romans took Cronus and transformed him into their Saturn – a god of agriculture – and again the symbol came to represent the conquest of time and death.

One very strange fact about Saturn is that the rings were not clearly seen and understood until Huygens who discovered of Titan in 1655, yet they were known about by the ancient Greeks and Romans as well as other ancient peoples, including some native Americans.

Saturn takes approximately 29 years to cycle the 12 signs of the zodiac.

 

 

Saturn Rules :	Capricorn (by night) / Aquarius (by day) Air triplicity by day
Angel :	Cassiel, alias Captiel.
Exalted Degree :	21 Libra
Detriment :	Cancer
Fall :	Aries
Houses ruled :	10th house (and 11th)
Day Ruled :	Saturday and the first and eighth hour of that day
Persons Represented :	any person or group who can wield authority over you. Individuals who intimate. Individuals or groups for which you are responsible.
	Saturn’s symbol shows the cross of matter above the crescent of receptivity symbolically placed at the Nadir.
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IN THE CHART

Saturn is the furthest planet in the solar system visible to the naked eye. As such it represents limits. Saturn in the horoscope shows where the greatest challenges are to be found, and the hardest lessons learned. This planet shows where rigid systems restrict growth. It is connected with the parents, authorities and rules. Saturn brings strength through self-limitation, discipline and planning.

As Saturn takes nearly 30 years to go around the Sun, it will be in any one Sign over a period of about 2½ years. Saturn in a Sign therefore represents cultural and authoritarian influences and trends in society. It shows the influence of society on the individual, and where in society the greatest efforts are made to build up lasting structures.

Saturn’s House position shows where specifically you will experience the greatest challenges and limitations. This is an area which will absorb much of your time. No matter how hard you try to avoid commitment in this area, you will be forced by circumstances to overcome your fears and become an expert in the field indicated.

Aspects to Saturn show areas of the personality where you will feel lack of confidence. In these areas you will be shy, repressed, desperate for recognition, frustrated. Normally you will build up self-reliance and independence in the part of your character Saturn affects after around 30 years.

 

But now, what Images they did attribute to the Planets, although of these things very large volumes have been written by the ancient wise men, so that there is no need to declare them here, notwithstanding I will recite a few of them; for they made, from the operations of Saturn, Saturn ascending in a stone, which is called the Loadstone, the Image of a man, having the countenance of an Hart, and Camels seet and sitting upon a Chayr or Dragon, holding in his right hand, a sithe [scythe], in his left hand a dart; which image they did hope would be profitable for prolongation of life; for Albumasar in his book Sadar, proveth that Saturn conduceth to the prolongation of life; where also he telleth that certain regions of India being subject to Saturn, there men are of a very long life and dye [die] not unless by extream old Age: They made also an other Image of Saturn for length of dayes, in a saphire, at the hour of Saturn, Saturn ascending or fortunately constituted, whose figure was an old man setting upon an high chayre [chair], having his hands lifted up above his head, and in them holding a fish or Sickle, and under his feet a bunch of Grapes, his head covered with a black or dusky coloured cloth, and all his garments black or dark coloured: They also make this same Image against the Stone and diseases of the kidnyes [kidneys], viz. in the hour of Saturn, Saturn ascending with the third face of Aquarius: they made also from the operations of Saturn, an Image for the encreasing in power, Saturn ascending in Capricorn; The form of which was an old man leaning on a staff having in his hand a crooked sickle, and cloathed in black.

They also made an Image of melted Copper, Saturn ascending in his rising, viz. in the first degree of Aries, or which is more true in the first degree of Capricorn, which Image they affirm to speak with a mans voyce; They made also out of the operations of Saturn, and also Mercury, an Image of cast metall, like a beautifull man, which they promised would foretell things to come, and made it on the day of Mercuy, on the third hour of Saturn, the sign of Gemini ascending, being the house of Mercury, signifying prophet, Saturn and Mercury being in conjunction in Aquarius in the ninth place of Heaven, which is also called God; Moreover let Saturn have a trine aspect on the ascendent, and the Moon in like manner, and the Sun have an aspect on the place of conjunction. Venus obtaining some Angle may be powerfull and occidentall; let Mars be combust by the Sun, but let it not have an aspect on Saturn and Mercury; for they said, that the splendor of the powers of these Stars was diffused upon this Image, and it did speak with men, and declare those things which are profitable for them.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book II (circa 1510)

 

 

MEDICAL SATURN

In Greek, Saturn is known as "kronos", from which our word "chronic" is taken. Permanent disease is signified by the placement of Saturn in the chart, and its course and attack by the motion of other planets. Its action signifies binding, crystallizing, cold, dry, hardening, depleting, obstructing, retarding, and suppressing. The afflictions of Saturn are for prolonged periods, whereas Mars afflicts more acutely, for short periods.

Saturn’s placement in the chart is associated with the solid matter of one’s body, ruling all dense components and processes. Saturn in any part of the horoscope is considered an affliction to the zodiac sign, house, and parts of the body so ruled. It tends to weaken and make one more liable to disease, and the sign and parts ruled are usually considered the most vulnerable, even to cause death through disease and malignancy. Those parts ruled at birth by Saturn indicate reduced nerve and energy supply, insufficient oxygenation, accumulation of tissue acids, and thus fibrositis, myositis, and rheumatism. The planet Saturn indicates subnormal conditions by inhibition, retention, and suppression. The medical astrologers at the turn of the century stated that carcinoma is most liable to occur in that part ruled by the sign that Saturn is in at birth. Saturn also has rulership over the blood’s clotting factors, the parathyroids, and calcium metabolism.

Saturn’s afflictions come from lack of self control, spiritual development, and materialistic tendencies. When manifested negatively, Saturn’s principle action is quite simply fear. The hard aspects indicate opportunity to come to terms with a specific kind of fear. The type of fear is indicated by Saturn’s aspects (conjunct, square or opposition) to the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury or Venus.

PATHOLOGICAL TENDENCIES: Typical Saturnine problems are chronic skin complaints, stiffness of the joints and muscles, deformity; dental problems; deafness; depression; slowed atrophy and functioning of the body’s processes; scleroses of the body’s tissues, rheumatism from accumulated tissue wastes in the sign or house of the nativity chart.

Subluxations of the spine are partial dislocations of the vertebra which impinge and put pressure on the nerves passing through them, shutting off nerve supply and causing irritation and pain leading to disease. Along the lines of chiropractic philosophy, health is maintained by a correctly aligned spine that requires periodic adjustments by manipulative therapy. Palpation and X-ray discover these deviations but your astrological chart can identify weak areas that will be chronically affected. Each sign of the zodiac, and malefics placed in them, tend to afflict the vertebra, especially the vertebra ruled by the sign in which Saturn is found at birth. Such subluxations tend to be the major one throughout life. For example, the sign Libra rules the kidneys and if Saturn is here at birth, the 10th, 11th, 12th dorsals, and 1st lumbar will be afflicted the most, and this is known before examination. From a chiropractic or osteopathic standpoint, the emphasis of treatment should be in the area where Saturn was afflicting at birth as this area will show stasis, restrictions, stiffness, and congestion.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: Skin, bone and joints, teeth, hearing, ossicification.
Saturn rules the teeth, bones, spleen, right ear, sense of hearing, circulation, constipation, vitamin deficiency, fibrous tumors.

 

SATURN and DEATH

Now then, if Saturn holds the lordship of death, he brings about the end through long illness, phthisis, rheumatism, colliquations, chills and fever, and splenic, dropsical, enteric, or hysteric conditions, and such as arise through excesses of cold. … Thus, then, those who depart from life in the way described die natural deaths, whenever the lords of death happen to be in their own or in kindred natural characters, and if no planet that is able to do injury to make the end more remarkable overcomes them. They die, however, by violent and conspicuous means whenever both the evil planets dominate the destructive places, either in conjunction, or in quartile, or in opposition, or also if one of the two, or both, seize upon the sun, or the moon, or both the luminaries. (4.9.198-99). Ptolemy Tetrabiblos (2nd century CE)
—Ptolemy Tetrabiblos (2nd century CE)

 

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

Anciently called Chronos, Phaenon or Falcifer. Physical descriptions: Generally the body is cold and dry, of a middle stature; the complexion pale, swartish or muddy, his eyes small and dark, looking downward; a broad forehead, black or sad hair, and it hard or rugged; great ears, hanging; lowering eye-brows, thick lips and nose, a rare or thin beard, a lumpish, unpleasant countenance, either holding his head forward or stooping; his shoulders broad and large, and many times crooked; his belly somewhat short and lank; his thighs spare, lean and not long; his knees and feet indecent, many times shovelling or hitting one against another. You must observe, if Saturn is oriental (east) of the Sun, the stature is more short, but decent and well composed; if occidental (west), the man is more black and lean, and fewer hairs; if Saturn lacks latitude, the body is leaner; if he have great latitude, the body is more fat or fleshy; if the latitude be meridional or south, more fleshy, but quick in motion. If the latitude be north, hairy and much flesh. Saturn in his first station, a little fat. In his second station, fat, ill favored bodies, and weak; and this applies to all the other planets.
Associated Terms : Aries degrees 27 – 30 Taurus degrees 23 – 26 Gemini degrees 22 – 25 Cancer degrees 28 – 30 Leo degrees 1 – 6 Virgo degrees 19 – 24 Libra degrees 1 – 6 Scorpio degrees 28 – 30 Sagittarius degrees 21 – 25 Capricorn degrees 26 – 30 Aquarius degrees 1 – 6 Pisces degrees 27 – 30
	Rulership by face (or decanate) : Taurus degrees 21 – 30 Leo degrees 1 – 10 Libra degrees 11 – 20 Sagittarius degrees 21 – 30 Pisces degrees 1 – 10               Nature: Masculine, diurnal, cold and dry, melancholic, earthly, malevolent, the Greater Infortune, Author of solitariness.
Colors and odors: Sour, bitter, sharp savours. Dark, sad, ashy colours, black.	Minerals & Stones: Lead, the lead-stone, the dross of all metals, also the dust and rubbidge of every thing. Stones -Sapphire, lapis lazuli, all black, ugly country stones not polishable, and of a sad ashy or black color.
People Signified: Husbandmen, clowns, beggars, day-labourers, old-men, fathers, grand-fathers, monks, Jesuits, Sectarists, Curriers, night-farmers, miners under ground, tinners, potters, broom-men, plumbers, brick-makers, malsters, chimney-sweepers, sextons of churches, bearers of dead corpses, scavengers, hostlers, colliers, carters, gardeners, ditchers, chandlers, dyers of black cloth, an herdsman, shepherd or cow-keeper.	Anatomy and Illnesses: All impediments in the right ear, teeth, all quartan agues proceeding of cold, dry and melancholy distempers; leprocies, rheums, consumptions, black jaundice, palsies, tremblings, vain fears, fantasies, dropsy, the hand and foot-gout, apoplexies, dog-hunger, too much flux of the haemorrhoids, ruptures if in Scorpio or Leo, in any ill aspect with Venus. Rules the spleen.
Places Signified: Deserts, woods, obscure valleys, caves, dens, holes, mountains, or where men have been buried, church-yards, ruinous buildings, coal-mines, sinks, dirty or stinking muddy places, wells and houses of offices.
Herbs, Plants and Trees: Bearsfoot, starwort, wolf-bane, hemlock, fern, white and black hellebore, henbane, ceterach or finger-fern, clotbur or burdock, parsnip, dragon, pulse,] vervain, mandrake, poppy, moss, nightshade, bythwind, angelica, sage, box, tutsan, orache or golden herb, spinach, shepherd’s purse, cumin, horsetail, fumitory. Trees and plants include Tamarisk, savine, senna, capers, ] rue or herbgrace, polypody, willow or sallow tree, yew-tree, cypress tree, hemp, pine-tree.
Manners when well dignified: Profound in imagination, severe in his acts, in words reserved, in speaking and giving very spare, in labor patient, in arguing or disputing grave, in obtaining the goods of this life studious and solicitous, in all manner of actions austere.	Manners when badly placed: Then he is envious, covetous, jealous and mistrustful, timorous, sordid, outwardly dissembling, sluggish, suspicious, stubborn, a condemner of women, a close liar, malicious, murmuring, never contented, ever repining.

 

 

4 9 2 3 5 7 8 1 6 Saturn = 15/45

“It is affirmed by Magicians, that there are certain tables of numbers distributed to the seven planets, which they call the sacred tables of the planets, …   The first of them [table] is assigned to Saturn, and consists of a square of three, containing the particular numbers of nine, and in every line three every way, and through each Diameter making fifteen. Now the whole sum of numbers is fourty five. Over this are of Divine names set such names as fill up the numbers with an Intelligency to what is good, with a spirit to what is bad, and out of the same numbers is drawn the seal, or Character of Saturn, and of the spirits thereof, such as we shall beneath ascribe to its table. They say that this table being with a fortunate Saturn engraved on a plate of lead, doth help to bring forth, or birth, and to make a man safe, and powerfull, and to cause success of petitions with princes, and powers: but if it be done with an unfortunate Saturn, that it hinders buildings, plantings, and the like, and casts a man from honours, and dignities, and causes discords, and quarrellings, and disperses an Army. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book II (circa 1510)

 

The MOON expresses our instincts, habitual reactions, emotional responses and subconscious conditioning. Through the Moon we express the principle of needing and nurturing, the desire for safety and security in relationships. The Moon is related to instincts, and is profoundly connected to the personal unconscious, and all the habitual behaviour that is looked after by this mysterious part of ourselves. The Moon shows how we instinctively react to protect ourselves and others.. The Moon represents our emotions and the need for security. It represents our early environment and particularly the way we experienced the mother. It shows our ability to be sensitive to the environment and to both give and receive emotion.

The Moon rules the brain, stomach, glands, breasts, left eye in males, right eye in females, bowel, thymus gland, menstrual cycle, depression, obesity, headache, posture.

 

MYTHOLOGY

The Moon, of course, has been known since prehistoric times. She has too many names to list here but throughout time she has represented the female side of our nature.

Ishtar was the Babylonian Goddess who ruled the Moon, derived in part from the Sumerian goddess Inanna. Ishtar was the daughter of the Moon God Sin and sister of Shamash the Sun God. According to legend, on a trip to the underworld to find Tammuz, her dead lover, she had shed her clothes, which caused the moon to darken. On her return trip, as she regained her clothes, the moon brightened again.

Isis was the Egyptian Goddess who was both the moon and the mother of the sun. She was depicted holding a papyrus sceptre and the ankh, which represents life.

The Greek Goddess Artemis was assimilated by the Romans as Diana who was frequently worshipped out in the open, so she could look down at her faithful.

 

Cancer and Capricorn are called the Gates of the Sun; Cancer is the Northern Gate, Capricorn the Southern. More specifically, Cancer is the Gate of the Moon (and Cancer is its House), the path of moist generation, through which souls descend into incarnation, just as Capricorn is the Gate of the Sun by which they ascend to bright Olympus. When a soul is born into earthly life, it descends through the Signs Cancer, Leo, …, Capricorn; on death it ascends through Capricorn, Aquarius, …, Cancer. Thus the soul visits the Signs in the same sequence as the Sun; in each case it passes through the Seven Planetary Spheres
Porphyry On the Cave of the Nymphs
Macrobius’ Commentary on the Dream of Scipio

 

 

Moon Rules :	Cancer Earthly triplicity by night
Angel :	Gabriel
Exalted Degree :	03 Taurus
Detriment :	Capricorn
Fall :	Scorpio
House ruled :	4th house
Day Ruled :	Monday and the first and eighth hour of that day
Persons Represented :	mother, children, loved ones that you nurture, people who need physical help
	Its symbol, the crescent of reception, represents the Moon as a lens focussing the rays of the sun.
Classical Astrology Data at bottom

 

IN THE CHART

The Moon symbolizes change and fluctuation within a birth chart. This is the planet of the home, domestic life, the family – especially babies and children, the "Mother" and other females in your life.

The Sign the Moon is in shows the specific way we react, and the kind of emotional needs we have. The Moon goes through all 12 Signs in a month. The Moon sign’s influence is at least as powerful as the Sun, showing specific habitual and environmental needs as well as ingrained reaction styles. The House the Moon is in shows the particular area in actual life to which we become attached to increase feelings of security. This area is where we are most vulnerable and defensive. However it is also this area where we experience the greatest growth and show the greatest concern for others. The Aspects to the Moon show specific emotional experiences which affect our psychological make-up. These aspects are integrated into our emotional nature to give specific reaction patterns and habits.

The Aspects to the Moon show specific emotional experiences which affect our psychological make-up. These aspects are integrated into our emotional nature to give specific reaction patterns and habits.

So if we look at the sign, placement and relationship to the other planets the Moon has then we can get a good feel for what the individual needs to survive. This is different to the Sun in that it represents what we want in order to feel special and recognized as an individual.

 

MEDICAL MOON

Your Sun sign indicates constitutional vigor and its elemental quality (fire, air, water, earth), your Moon sign shows the flow of this vital force and your health. The Moon predominates health matters in the female chart, as well as those caught under the influence of its emotional force. A disturbed flow of the vital force, ruled by the Moon, will cause fluctuations in vitality and ultimately disease. Your Moon sign and its aspects shows your instinctive, reflex actions, and your habits (good or bad). Moon patterns are reactions and habits set up in childhood, and become fixed unless acted upon by the individual themselves. Its location, aspects, and afflictions are one of the most important factors to consider in the health chart.

The Moon represents the personal habits, suffering, worry, and disease tendencies. The Moon sign is always very sensitive and represents the weakest part of the body. Operations should not be performed when the Moon is passing through the native’s sign. The Moon rules the body’s fluids, lymphatics, and the natural power of each organ, including its expulsive or detoxifying powers. Acquired and destructive habits are generally under the influence of the Moon sign. It rules the period of life from one to seven years, when so many destructive habits and health patterns are acquired, as for example from the parents or guardians. It shows what type of habits you may develop and how they affect your health.

Moon diseases today predominate the health chart. The Moon has a special affinity for the eyes and eye disorders, defects and errors of accommodation, putrefaction of the bowels, autointoxication; and disorders or the breasts, womb, and stomach. Moon forces harden and crystallize the body with age. Moon dominated persons are inconstant, restless, changeable, and variable, and succumb easily to infectious illnesses, colds and flu. The Moon rules the stomach. Today we see swollen abdomens due to excessive eating. Full, round bellies with visual defects reflect just how Moon bound and problematic the aspects of this orbital body is in the health astrological chart.

The Moon afflicts other planets and signs by its oppositions and squares. Ill-aspects show an inclination to little or no exercise. The less afflictions in the female nativity, the better a chance of a long and prosperous life. The Moon sign signifies diseases that are acquired after birth, particularly due to indiscretions, bad habits, and emotional proclivities. It rules the natural powers and immunity. Cancer, the malignant disease, is a Moon disease, and is prevalent in our mood-based society of foul language, nasty thoughts, toxic diet, and bad habits.

It should be noted whether the Moon is above the horizon at birth (waxing) or below the horizon at birth (waning). The health will be stronger with the Moon above the horizon, rather than below. Hard aspects (afflictions) are not as strong when the Moon in waxing or increasing in light.

PATHOLOGICAL TENDENCIES: The Moon rules diseases that are periodic, return time and again, as in epilepsy, vertigo, menstrual problems, swellings, migraine headaches, and gout. Rheumatism is a Moon disease, caused by the retention of wastes in the joints and fascia. Cancer is a Moon disease, caused not only by retention of wastes but also morbid bacteria, fungi, and viruses. Moon diseases today are epidemic, as obesity, lymphatic stasis, tissue puffiness, autointoxication, fungal/zymotic disorders, and worm infestation affect nearly all industrial populations. Moon diseases are accentuated by working under artificial lights or at night, drinking water from underground pipes and/or obtained from recycled wastes, eating devitalized food stored in refrigerators and freezers, breathing stale, foul or polluted air; and eating slaughterhouse meats.

The foods and spices that benefit Moon afflictions are those ruled by the Sun and Mars. The Sun produces fruits and vegetables which when eaten raw and/or fresh, will vitalize the individual and ward off disease. The old adage, fresh is best, aptly applies to the health rules.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: Lymphatic system, breasts, mucous membranes, menstruation/fertility/uterus in pregnancy, stomach and alimentary tract.

ARE YOU A SUN OR MOON DOMINATED PERSON?

The night is ruled by the Moon, and the Sun rules the day. The ancient astrologers believed that those born during the day are more ruled by the Sun, whereas those born at night are more ruled by the Moon. Moon activities tend to raise the action of morbid germs, while the electric action of the day tends to destroy them. Night activities are less vitalizing than daytime activities. Females and Moon people tend to suffer more at night when ill. Moon people are more restless, inconstant, and changeable. The Moon rules the personality and lower mind, while the Sun rules the intellect and higher mind. Health tends to return when one begins to "see the light".

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

Physical descriptions: Generally fair stature, white (pale) complexion and colour, round face, grey eyes, and a little louring; much hair both on the head, face, and other parts; usually one eye a little larger than the other; short hands and fleshy, the whole body inclining to be fleshy, plump, corpulent and phlegmatic: if the Moon is impedited by the Sun in the nativity or question, she usually signifies some blemish in, or near the eye: if she be impedited in succeedant houses; in the sight if she be unfortunate in angles and with fixed stars, called nebulosae.
Associated Terms : The Sun and Moon have no rulership by term     Associated Names: The Moon we find called by the Ancients, Lucina, Cynthia, Diana, Phoebe, Latona, Noctiluca, Proserpina
	Nature: Feminine, nocturnal, cold, moist and phlegmatic
Colors and odors: White or pale yellowish-white, pale green, or silver. Of saviours, the fresh, or without any flavour, such as is in herbs before they be ripe, or such as do moisten the brain, etc.	Minerals & Stones: Silver, selenite, all soft stones, crystals.
People Signified: Queens, countesses, ladies, all manner of women; the common people, travellers, pilgrims, sailors, fishermen, fishmongers, brewers, tapsters, vintners, letter-carriers, coachmen, huntsmen, messengers, mariners, millers, alewives, malsters, drunkards, oisterwives, fisherwomen, charwomen, tripewomen, and generally such women as carry commodities in the streets; midwives, nurses, &c, hackneymen, watermen, waterbearers. Places Signified: Fields, fountains, baths, havens of the sea, highways and desertplaces, port towns, rivers, fishponds, standing pools, boggy places, common shores, little brooks, springs.	Anatomy and Illnesses: Apoplexies, palsy, the colic, the bellyache, disease in the left side, stones, the bladder and members of reproduction, menstruation, the liver in women, dropsies, fluids of the belly, all cold rheumatic diseases, cold stomach, the gout in the wrists and feet, sciatica, worms, rheums or hurts in the eyes, viz., in the left of men, and right of women: surfeits, rotten coughs, convulsion fits, the falling sickness, kings-evil, apostems, small pox and measles.
Herbs, Plants and Trees: Those which have soft and thick juicy leaves, of a waterish taste, they love to grow in watery places, and grow quickly into a juicy magnitude; and are the colwort, cabbage, melon, gourd, pompion, onion, mandrake, poppy, lettuce, rape, the linden tree, mushrooms, endive, all trees or herbs who have round, shady, great spreading leaves, and are little fruitful. Herbs that are used for the muses and divination, such as vervain, the reed. Of drugs, treacle, hiera, diambra.
Manners when well dignified: Composed manners, a soft, tender creature, a lover of all honest and ingenious sciences, a searcher of, and delighter in novelties, natural propensity to flit and shift habitation, unsteadfast, wholly caring for the present times, timorous, prodigal, and easily frightened, however loving peace, and to live free from the cares of this life. If a mechanic, the man learns many occupations, and frequently will be tampering with many ways to trade in.	Manners when badly placed: A mere vagabond, idle person, hating labour, a drunkard, a sot, one of no spirit or forecast, delighting to live beggarly and carelessly, one content in no condition of life, either good or ill.

 

 

37 78 29 70 21 62 13 54 5 6 38 79 30 71 22 63 14 46 47 7 39 80 31 72 23 55 15 16 48 8 40 81 32 64 24 56 57 17 49 9 41 73 33 65 25 26 58 18 50 1 42 74 34 66 67 27 59 10 51 2 43 75 35 36 68 19 60 11 52 3 44 76 77 28 69 20 61 12 53 4 45 MOON = 369 / 3321

“It is affirmed by Magicians, that there are certain tables of numbers distributed to the seven planets, which they call the sacred tables of the planets, …   The seventh table is of the Moon, of a square of nine multiplied into it self, having eighty one numbers, in every side and Diameter nine, producing 369. and the sum of all 3321. And there are over it divine names with an Intelligency to what is good, and a spirit to what is bad. And of it are drawn the Characters of the Moon, and of the spirits thereof. This fortunate Moon being engraven on Silver, renders the bearer thereof grateful, aimiable [amiable], pleasant, cheerfull, honored, removing all malice, and ill will. It causeth security in a ourney, increase of riches, and health of body, drives away enemies and other evil things from what place thou pleaseth; and if it be an unfortunate Moon engraven in a plate of Lead, where ever it shall be buried, it makes that place unfortunate, and the inhabitants thereabouts, as also Ships, Rivers, Fountains, Mills, and it makes every man unfortunate, against which it shall be directly done, making him fly from his Country, and that place of his abode where it shall be buried, and it hinders Physitians [physicians], and Orators, and all men whatsoever in their office, against whom it shall be made. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book II (circa 1510)

 

MERCURY rules your intellect, your mind, logic and reasoning power, perception, speaking & writing. It shows the capacity to rationalize, express abstracts, imagine, and mentally identify with the world. It is connected to the nervous system and physical co-ordination. This planet represents the urge to use verbal, mental and negotiating skills to express ourselves imaginatively and factually. It governs all forms of communication.

Mercury rules the nervous system, solar plexus, bowels, arms, mouth, tongue, eyesight, ears, nervousness, sciatica, mental disorders, diarrhoea, ulcers, warts, moles.

The mind (Mercury) is the link between the soul and the personality; it is the link between heaven and earth, both of which are within us.

Mercury takes about 1 year to transit the chart. (up to 2°30’ / day).

 

From the operations of Mercury, they made an Image at the hour of Mercury, Mercury ascending in Gemini, the form of which was an handsome young man, bearded, having in his left hand a rod in which a serpent is twyned about, in his right carrying a dart, having his feet winged; They report that this Image conferreth knowledge, eloquence, diligence in merchandizing and gain; moreover to beget peace and concord, and to cure feavers; They made another Image of Mercury, Mercury ascending in Virgo, for good will, wit and memory; The form of which was a man sitting upon a chaire, or riding on a Peacock, having Eagles feet, and on his head a crest, and in his left hand holding a cock or fire.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book II (circa 1510)

 

 

Mercury Rules :	Gemini by Day Virgo at Night Air signs at Night
Angel :	Raphael
Exalted Degree :	15 Virgo
Detriment :	Sagittarius & Pisces
Fall :	Pisces
Houses ruled :	3rd and 6th houses
Day Ruled :	Wednesday
Persons Represented :	young people, or people who deal with information or stationery
	The symbol, resembles that of Venus, with the addition of a semi-circle (hat) at the top. Spirit (circle) over matter (cross), resulting in receptivity (crescent).
Classical Astrology Data at bottom

 

IN THE CHART

The Sign Mercury is in shows the way we communicate and the psychological areas in which our mental talents lie. Mercury is the fastest of all planets and cleaves to the Sun, either being in the same Sign as the Sun or one of the Signs on either side of the Sun. The House Mercury is in shows the particular area in which our mental talents are put to practical use. This is the area in which we realize our need to make contact and increase our learning. Aspects to Mercury show mental talents and communication styles in a very specific way. They indicate our individual interests and abilities.

The planet influences duality, the ability to communicate, through mental and nervous co-ordination and transmission. Intellectual faculties, curiosity, gossip, study, knowledge, observation, perception, facts, understanding, interpretation and expression. Mercury retrogrades 3 times a year and takes approximately one year to cycle the 12 signs of the zodiac.

MEDICAL MERCURY

Physically, it is connected to the nervous system and physical co-ordination; it rules the arms, hands, lungs, and shoulders. Mercury, when well placed in the nativity chart, indicates a good and balanced mind. It rules the cerebral hemispheres. Ill-aspected and afflicted, it shows a tendency to various disorders of mental reasoning, bad judgment, nervous disease, and tendency to gamble, swindle, insomnia, and a lack of spiritual calm. The location in the chart shows what body parts may be prone to neuralgia.

Mercury rules Gemini and Virgo, therefore it manifests in diseases related to respiratory and digestive disorders, particularly of nervous origin. Physiologically, Mercury rules the respiration and breath. Mercury afflicted at birth indicates a tendency to shallow breathing. The Hindus believe rhythmic breathing is necessary for direct link between the soul and mind. Unrhythmic breathing severs this connection leading to nervous conditions, those easily influenced by others, proneness to depression, and even insanity. Proper and unregulated breathing beginning in early life leads to a cascade of pathological actions including lack of intellectual development, oxygen deficient blood, tendency to overeat since the diaphragm does not "massage" the stomach due to stifled breathing, lymphatic stasis since breathing opens the lymph channels, and lethargy due to lack of vital force and sluggish pranic currents.

Mercury is considered a neutral planet, in that its transmissions are governed by the aspects to other planets in the chart. When Mercury conjuncts the Sun, the ego is involved; aspected to the Moon, the subconscious and habits; to Jupiter, exaggeration, etc. When Mercury’s nervous messages are distorted by the rays of another planet, inaccurate reception of information and inappropriate neural commands are likely. Simply, response does not match stimulus resulting in unbalanced behavior. If the large planets are involved, this can translate into important health consequences.

PATHOLOGICAL TENDENCIES: Mercury’s chief influence is on the nerves. In regards to aches and pains, the placement of Mercury in the sign of body rulership shows tendency to affliction when ill-aspected. Thus, Mercury in Aries shows the tendency to headaches, in Taurus a tendency to laryngitis and sore throats, in Gemini chest pains, etc. To offset Mercury afflictions and thus reduce tendency to aches and pains, the native must learn proper and rhythmic breathing. Taking up study of yoga or Chinese Ch’i Kung would be of great benefit.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: Nervous system, nervous faculties; breathing, the hands, the touch; organs of speech and hearing.

 

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

Physical descriptions: Commonly depicts a high stature and straight thin spare body, a high forehead and somewhat narrow long face, long nose; fair eyes, neither perfectly black or grey, thin lips and nose, little hair on the chin, but much on his head, and it a sad brown inclining to blackness; long arms, fingers and hands; his complexion like an olive or chestnut colour. Mercury, more than all the planets will usually partake of the influence of that planet: if with Saturn then heavy, with Jupiter more temperate, with Mars more rash, with the Sun more gentle, with Venus more jesting, with the Moon more shifty. When Mercury is oriental, the complexion is honey colour, or tanned; the stature of the body not very high, but well jointed, small eyes, not much hair; in very truth, according to the height of body, very well composed, but still a defect in the complexion, viz. swarty brown, and in the tongue, viz. all for his own ends. When Mercury is occidental, a tawny visage, lank body, small slender limbs, hollow eyes, and sparkling and red or fiery; the whole frame of body inclining to dryness.
Associated Terms : Aries degrees 15 – 21 Taurus degrees 9 – 15 Gemini degrees 1 – 7 Cancer degrees 14 – 20 Leo degrees 7 – 13 Virgo degrees 1 – 7 Libra degrees 20 – 24 Scorpio degrees 22 – 27 Sagittarius degrees 15 – 20 Capricorn degrees 7 – 12 Aquarius degrees 7 – 12 Pisces degrees 11 – 20   Minerals & Stones: Quicksilver. The milestone, marcasite or fire-stone, the achates, topaz, vitriol, all stones of diverse colors.	Rulership by face (or decanate) : Taurus >degrees 1 – 10 Cancer degrees 11 – 20 Virgo degrees 21 – 30 Sagittarius degrees 1 – 10 Aquarius degrees 11 – 20   Nature: Masculine or feminine, depending upon its placement; if in conjunction with a masculine planet, Mercury becomes masculine; if with a feminine, then feminine. By its own nature Mercury is cold and dry, and therefore melancholic. Mercury is adaptable; its influence is beneficial when associated with good planets, malefic when associated with bad planets. Mercury rules the animal spirit and is the author of subtlety, tricks, devices, and perjury.
Colors and odors: Mixed and new colors, grey mixed with sky-color, such as is on the neck of the stock-dove, linsie-woolsie colors, or consisting of many colors mixed in one. Of odors, a hodge-podge of all things together, so that no one can give it any true name; yet usually such as quicken the spirits, are subtle and penetrate, and in a manner insensible.
People Signified: Literary men, philosophers, mathematicians, astrologers, merchants, secretaries, scriveners, diviners, sculpturers, poets, orators, advocates, schoolmasters, stationers, printers, exchangers of money, attorneys, embassadors to emporers, commissioners, clerks, artificers, generally accomptants, solicitors, sometimes thieves, prattling muddy ministers, busy sectaries, and they unlearned; grammarians, tailors, carriers, messengers, footmen, usurers. Places Signified: Tradesmen’s shops, markets, fairs, schools, common halls, bowling-alleys, ordinaries.	Anatomy and Illnesses: All vertigos, lethargies or giddiness in the head, madness, either lightness, or any disease of the brain; phthisis, all stammering and imperfection in the tongue, vain and fond imaginations, all defects in the memory, hoarseness, dry coughs, too much abundance of spittle, all sniffling and snuffling in the head or nose; the hand and feet gout, dumbness, tongue-evil, all evils in the fancy and intellectual parts.
Herbs, Plants and Trees: Herbs attributed to Mercury are known by the mixed colour of the flower; they love sandy barren places; they bear their seed in husks or cobs, they smell rarely or subtlety, and have principle relation to the tongue, brain, lungs or memory; they dispel wind and comfort the animal spirits and open obstructions. Beans, three leaved-grass, the walnut and walnut-tree; the filbert-tree and nut; the eldertree, adderstongue, dragonwort, twopennygrass, lungwort, aniseed, cubebs, marjoram. Herbs that are used for the muses and divination, such as vervain, the reed. Of drugs, treacle, hiera, diambra.
Manners when well dignified: When well dignified, Mercury represents a man of a subtle and political brain, intellect, and cogitation; an excellent disputant or logician, arguing with learning and discretion, and using much eloquence in his speech, a searcher into all kinds of mysteries and learning, sharp and witty, learning almost anything without a teacher; ambitious of being exquisite in every science, desirous naturally of travel and seeing foreign parts: a man of an unwearied fancy, curious in the search of any occult knowledge; able by his own genius to produce wonders; given to divination and the more secret knowledge; if he turn merchant, no man exceeds him in a way of trade or invention of new ways whereby to obtain wealth.	Manners when badly placed: A troublesome wit, a kind of phrenetick man, his tongue and pen against every man, wholly bent to spoil his estate and time in prating and trying nice conclusions to no purpose; a great liar, boaster, prattler, busybody, false, a tale-carrier, given to wicked arts, as necromancy and such like ungodly knowledges; easy of belief, an ass or very idiot, constant in no place or opinion, cheating and thieving everywhere; a news-monger, pretending all manner of knowledge, but guilty of no true or solid learning; a trifler; a mere frantic fellow; if he prove a divine, then a mere verbal fellow, frothy of no judgement, easily perverted, constant in nothing but idle words and bragging.

 

 

8 58 59 5 4 62 63 1 49 15 14 52 53 11 10 56 41 23 22 44 45 19 18 48 32 34 35 29 28 38 39 25 40 26 27 37 36 30 31 33 17 47 46 20 21 43 42 24 9 55 54 12 13 51 50 16 64 2 3 61 60 6 7 57 Mercury = 260/2080

“It is affirmed by Magicians, that there are certain tables of numbers distributed to the seven planets, which they call the sacred tables of the planets, …   The sixth table is of Mercury resulting from the square of eight drawn into it self, containing sixty four numbers, whereof eight on every side and by both Diameters make 260. and the sum of all 2080. and over it are set divine names with an Intelligency to what is good, with a spirit to what is evil, and from it is drawn a Character of Mercury, and the spirits thereof; and if it be with Mercury being fortunate engraven upon Silver, or Tin, or yellow Brass, or be writ upon Virgin Parchment, it renders the bearer thereof gratefull, and fortunate to do what he pleaseth: it bringeth gain, and prevents poverty, conduceth to memory, understanding, and divination, and to the understanding of occult things by dreams: and if it be an unfortunate Mercury, doth all things contrary to these. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book II (circa 1510)

 

MARS is known as the "lesser unfortunate" ( Saturn being the "greater unfortunate") and both are considered malefic planets. It stands for strength, competition, energy, drive, courage, initiative, impulsiveness, self-assertion, war, violence, quarrels and accidents. It signifies soldiers, pioneers, and agitators. Mars rules the sex organs, bladder, muscular system, head, face, left ear, the sense of taste, blood poison, sexually transmitted diseases, hemorrhoids, burns, accidents, cuts, scalds, influenza, kidneys, inflammatory conditions.

Mars takes about 2.5 years to transit the chart – (up to 0°40’ / day).

 

From the operations of Mars they made an Image in the hour of Mars, Mars being in the second face of Aries, in a Martiall stone, especially in a Diamond; The form of which was a man armed, riding upon a Lyon [lion], having in his right hand a naked sword erected, carrying in his left hand the head of a man; they report, that an Image of this kind rendreth a man powerfull in good and evill, so that he shall be feared of all; and whosoever carryeth it they give him the power of enchantment, so that he shall terrifie men by his looks when he is angry, and stupifie them; they made another Image of Mars for the obtaining of boldness, courage, and good fortune in wars, and contentions, the form of which was a souldier armed and crowned, girt with a sword, carrying in his right hand a long Lance; and they made this at the hour of Mars, the first face of Scorpio ascending with it. 
—Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book II (circa 1510)

 

 

Mars Rules :	Aries by Day Scorpio at Night Water signs Day & Night
Angel :	Samael
Exalted Degree :	28 Capricorn
Detriment :	Libra
Fall :	Cancer
Houses ruled :	1st and 8th houses
Day Ruled :	Tuesday
Persons Represented :	young, rough-edged, strong, motivated, sexual, angry or coarse males or females
	The Mars symbol (glyph) represents the cross of matter exalted over the circle of spirit.
Classical Astrology Data at bottom

 

IN THE CHART

Mars shows challenges and the ability to meet them bravely. Mars is connected with the muscular system. The Sign Mars is in represents the particular psychological area in which we express our energy. Mars takes 2 years to go around the Sun, as it is in each sign for approximately 2 months. In a woman’s horoscope it represents the type of men she is attracted to, in a man’s his own attitude to men, competitiveness and masculinity.

The House Mars is in shows the specific area where you want to tend to invest energy. Mars is the Ego in action, an aggressive planet which causes divisions and splits between mankind, but is also the giver of courage and physical energy. In Mars we find great risk-taking, physical energy, and the symbolism of fighting, argument, hostility and hot-headed action.This house will also show where one is most dynamic, where men are encountered, and where one is confronted with issues of power. Battles are fought in this area. It energizes, stimulates, inflames, spurs to action, intensifies and aggravates.

Aspects to Mars show the way we use our energy and special talents for particular kinds of work.
A heavily afflicted Mars in a natal chart may give the subject impulsive or violent tendencies. Favorable influences may channel the energy of Mars more positively, into strength, determination and achievement, for example.

Mars represents athletes, soldiers and weapons, in fact any cutting implement, and so associates with surgeons and blood. It is a planet of boldness, courage, competitiveness and connects with violence, anger and murder. Mars represents passion, desire, energy, assertiveness, courage and initiative.
How Mars will manifest its energy, the force of life and creator of matter out of spirit, depends on the horoscope as a whole. The Sign (and its Element), the House in which if falls, and the Aspects to the other planets will all have a bearing on any interpretation. Mars represents drive and masculinity, as well as issues connected with sexuality and power. It indicates the work we choose and the way we approach it. Mars is strongly associated with the experience of brothers, the father and men in general. Where Mars is there is trouble, but also the fighting instinct to get on in life. Mars shows challenges and the ability to meet them bravely. Mars is also connected with the muscular system.

When a chart is receiving a Mars contact it will indicate that anger, motivation, or drive is being activated. The reason is enthused with an idea or feeling. This idea may plunge the reason into physical activities, to experience strong sexual motivation, encounter angry people, or even cause the person to be part of an accident.

MEDICAL MARS

Mars is known as the "lesser unfortunate", and Saturn is known as the "greater unfortunate", as both are considered malefic planets. The action of Mars is acute and violent, heating, inflammatory, and febrile. Mars rules one’s physical energy, expressed as either self-assertiveness and healthy efforts, or aggression and hostility. Mars actions include arousal, erection, and penetration. Mars diseases are traumatic, contagious, burning, blistering, leaving scars, pock marks, and disfigurements. They are diseases that arise from anger, frustration, madness, and wickedness. When Mars is well aspected, it shows a strong constitution, good physical endurance and independence. Natives under strong benefic influence are practical, handle instruments well, and make good surgeons and dentists. When unfavorably aspected, the native is prone to fits of fury, argumentative, and accident-prone.

Esoterically speaking, Mars, like the Moon, is one of the planets that loses its influence as spiritual faculties are developed. It is a planetary influence where its principal expression – anger – always brings reciprocal negative reactions of the worst kind. To better understand its influence in the native, the house location indicates the external conditions in the life of the native that needs spiritual development. The zodiac sign location of Mars indicates the body’s susceptible areas where the negative emotion of anger will raise havoc and disorder.

PATHOLOGICAL TENDENCIES: Inflammations and scars on the body parts ruled by the zodiac sign or house of its placement; alterations in blood chemistry, especially glucose, calcium, magnesium; geloses and myogeloses in muscular tissues; liver torpidity and congestion; genitourinary infections; hypertension and hypertensive headaches, migraine.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: Body heat, inflammatory response, adrenal function, formation of hemoglobin and blood clots, digestion of food, muscular activity, glycogen storage and liver function, genitals.

 

DEATH in CLASSICAL INTERPRETATION

Jupiter causes death through strangulation, pneumonia, apoplexy, spasms, headaches, and cardiac affections, and such conditions as are accompanied by irregularity of foulness of breath. … Thus, then, those who depart from life in the way described die natural deaths, whenever the lords of death happen to be in their own or in kindred natural characters, and if no planet that is able to do injury to make the end more remarkable overcomes them. They die, however, by violent and conspicuous means whenever both the evil planets dominate the destructive places, either in conjunction, or in quartile, or in opposition, or also if one of the two, or both, seize upon the sun, or the moon, or both the luminaries.
—Ptolemy Tetrabiblos (2nd century CE)

 

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

Physical descriptions: Generally middle stature, strong bodies, big bones, more lean than fat; complexion of a brown, ruddy colour, or of a high colour; their face round, their hair red or sandy flaxen, and many times crisping or curling. Sharp, hazel eyes, and they peircing; a bold, confident countenance, and the man active and fearless. When Mars is oriental [east] he signifies valiant men, some white mixed with the redness, a decent tallness of body, hairy of his body. Occidental [west]: very ruddy complexioned, but mean in stature; little head, a smooth body, and not hairy; yellow hair, stiff, the natural humours generally more dry.
Associated Terms : Aries degrees 22 – 26 Taurus degrees 27 – 30 Gemini degrees 26 – 30 Cancer degrees 1 – 6 Leo degrees 26 – 30 Virgo degrees 25 – 30 Libra degrees 25 – 30 Scorpio degrees 1 – 6 Sagittarius degrees 26 – 30 Capricorn degrees 20 – 25 Aquarius degrees 26 – 30 Pisces degrees 21 – 26	Rulership by face (or decanate) : Aries degrees 1 – 10 Gemini degrees 11 – 20 Leo degrees 21 – 30 Scorpio degrees 1 – 10 Capricorn degrees 11 – 20 Pisces degrees 21 – 30
	Nature: Masculine, nocturnal, hot and dry, choleric
Colors and odors: Red, yellow, fiery and shining. Odors that are bitter, sharp and burn the tongue.	Minerals & Stones: Iron, antimony, arsenic, brimstone, ocre, adamant, loadstone, bloodstone, jasper, the many coloured amethyst, the touchstone, red lead or vermilion.
People Signified: Princes ruling by tyranny or oppression, tyrants, usurpers, new conquerors. Generals of armies, colonels, captains or soldiers generally; physicians, apothecaries, surgeons, alchemists, gunners, butchers, marshals, sergeants, bailiffs, hangmen, thieves, smiths, bakers, armourers, watch-makers, botchers, tailors, cutlers of swords and knives, barbers, dyers, cooks, carpenters, gamesters, bear-wards, tanners, curriers. Places Signified: Smiths, shops, furnaces, slaughterhouses, places where bricks or charcoal is burnt, chimneys, forges.	Anatomy and Illnesses: The gall, the left ear, tertian fevers, pestilent, burning fevers, migraines, carbuncles, the plague and all plague sores, burnings, ringworm, blisters, frenzies, mad, sudden distempers in the head, yellow-jaundice, bloody-flux, fistulas, all wounds and diseases in men’s genitals, the stone both in the reins and bladder, scars or small pox in the face, all hurts by iron, the shingles, and such other diseases as arise by abundance of too much choler, anger or passion.
Herbs, Plants and Trees: Those that are red in colour, whose leaves are pointed and sharp, whose taste is caustic, and burning; that love to grow in dry places, are corrosive and penetrate the flesh and bones with a subtle heat. They are as follows: The nettle, all manner or thistles, restharrow or cammock, devils-milk or petty spurge, white and red brambles, the white vulgarly called by the herbalists ramme, lingwort, onion, scammony, garlic, mustard-seed, pepper, ginger, leeks, dittander, hoarhound, hemlock, red sanders, tamarinds, all herbs attracting or drawing choler by sympathy, radish, castoreum, aresmart, assarum, carduus benedictus, cantharides. All trees that are prickly, such as the thorn or chestnut.
Manners when well dignified: Generally middle stature, strong bodies, big bones, more lean than fat; complexion of a brown, ruddy colour, or of a high colour; their visage, round, their hair red or sandy flaxen, and many times crisping or curling. Sharp, hazel eyes, and they piercing; a bold, confident countenance, and the man active and fearless. When Mars is oriental (eastern side, left side of the chart) he signifies valiant men, some white mixed with the redness, a decent tallness of body, hairy of his body. Occidental (western side); very ruddy complexioned, but mean in stature; little head, a smooth body, and not hairy; yellow hair, stiff, the natural humours generally more dry.	Manners when badly placed: Then he is a prattler without modesty or honesty, a lover of slaughter and quarrels, murder, theivery, a promoter of sedition, frays, and commotions, and highway-thief, as wavering as the wind, a traitor, of turbulent spirit, perjurer, obscene, rash, inhumane, neither fearing God or caring for man, unthankful, treacherous, oppressors, ravenous, cheater, furious, violent.

 

 

11 24 7 20 3 4 12 25 8 16 17 5 13 21 9 10 18 1 14 22 23 6 19 2 15 MARS = 65 / 325

“It is affirmed by Magicians, that there are certain tables of numbers distributed to the seven planets, which they call the sacred tables of the planets, …   The third table belongs to Mars, which is made of a square of five containing twenty five numbers, and of these in every side and Diameter five, which make sixty five, and the sum of all is 325. And there are over it Divine names… [and so forth]. These with Mars being fortunate, being engraven on an Iron plate, or sword, makes a man potent in war, and judgments, and petitions, and terrible to his enemies, and victorious against them; and if engraven upon the Stone Correola, it stops blood, and the mestrues [menses]; but if it be engraven with Mars being unfortunate, on a plate of red Brass, it hinders buildings, casts down the powerfull from dignities, honors, and riches, and causeth discord, strife, and hatred of men, and beasts, chaseth away Bees, Pigeons, and Fish, and hinders Mils, and renders them unfortunate that go forth to hunting, or fighting, and causeth barreness in men and women, and other Animals, and strikes a terror in all enemies, and compels them to submit. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book II (circa 1510)

As first of the outer planets, JUPITER is the planet of expansion, exploration, growth, and cooperation. In a natal chart, the aspects and position of Jupiter indicate how subjects are able to expand their horizons, set their own ethical and moral limits, and how they fit into and contribute to society. It stands for wisdom, the higher mind, prophecy, organized religions, universities, law, ceremonies, and rituals. It establishes far-ranging connections between people and ideas. It is the planet of abundance, prosperity, generosity, joviality, fortune, optimism, finance, and world commerce, but it tends to excess, over-confidence, self-righteousness, and complaisance. Jupiter rules the, blood, liver, arteries, thighs, neck, weight problems, diabetes, catarrh, auto-intoxication, biliousness, colostral.

It takes approximately 12 years for Jupiter to transit the chart (up to 30 degrees / year or one sign per year).

 

From the operations of Jupiter, they made for prolongation of life, an Image, in the hour of Jupiter, Jupiter being in his exaltation fortunately ascending, in a clear and white stone, whose figure was a man crowned, cloathed with garments of a Saffron Colour, riding upon an Eagle or Dragon, having in his right hand a dart, about as it were to strike it into the head of the same Eagle or Dragon. They made also another Image of Jupiter at the same convenient season, in a white and clear stone, especially in Crystall, and it was a naked man crowned, having both his hands joyned together and lifted up, as it were deprecating something, sitting in a four-footed chair, which is carried by four winged boys, and they affirm that this Image encreaseth felicity, riches, honor, and conferreth Benevolence and prosperity, and freeth from enemies; They made also another Image of Jupiter for a religious and glorious life, and advancement of fortune; whose figure was a man having the head of a Lyon [lion], or a Ram, and Eagles feet, cloathed in Saffron coloured cloathes, and he was called the son of Jupiter. 
—Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book II (circa 1510)

 

 

Jupiter Rules :	Sagittarius by Day Pisces at Night Fire Signs at Night
Angel :	Zadkiel
Exalted Degree :	15 Cancer
Detriment :	Gemini (Virgo)
Fall :	Capricorn
Houses ruled :	9th and 12th houses
Day Ruled :	Thursday
Persons Represented :	grandfather, teacher, guru, traveler, adventurer
	The semi-circle of the Moon rising above the cross of matter symbolizes the stage in our development where Man’s soul has risen above earthly experiences, thereby gaining a wisdom and insight of the universal laws of existence.
Classical Astrology Data at bottom

 

IN THE CHART

Known as the Greater Benefic, Jupiter has a positive, expansive effect. But remember, it will expand both good and bad. Jupiter rules the law and moral authority, and our attitude to these issues. It brings a strong desire for understanding and the tendency to have powerful opinions and convictions.

When favorably aspected, Jupiter shows one’s tendency to benevolence and jovial disposition. These natives are courteous, refined, law abiding, and honorable. When adversely aspected, it denotes lawlessness, self-indulgence, carelessness in meeting obligations, and gluttony which results in ill-health.

How Jupiter will manifest its energy depends on the horoscope as a whole. The Sign, House, and the Aspects to the other planets will all have a bearing on any interpretation.

In general, the Zodiac Sign Jupiter is in, shows cultural influences and social drives for expansion and improvement. It is an indicator of one’s faith and confidence, showing the areas where one will find opportunity, growth and fulfillment. It may also relate to those in authority from whom you can expect some assistance. A well placed Jupiter should not be mistaken as a sign for material prosperity. Rather, it is associated with the spiritual, philosophical and intellectual realms. An overstress on the function of Jupiter may lead to exaggeration, delusions of grandeur, and a depletion of energies through over-extension. An afflicted Jupiter can manifest as scepticism, pessimism, feelings of inadequacy, depression, and lethargy.

The Astrological House Jupiter is in shows where there will be good fortune and expansion, and where you can grow in understanding in your personal life. This area will generally be very fortunate for you.

The aspects Jupiter makes shows a psychological identity characteristic where the need for expansion, influence and understanding is paramount. These aspects show the specific personal drives where the search for wisdom is most intense.

When Jupiter is being emphasized by dynamic astrology, there are going to be changes to your worldview. What you are learning, what you are mastering, what you believe in are all areas that can be affected. Jupiter is the energy of expansiveness, whether you like it or not. It takes joy in the big picture and will influence life by the desire to expand the individual’s world. The outward effect of this can be to bring study (mental expansion) or travel (physical expansion of the worldview) into your life. If it is impossible for the world to expand due to the life circumstance, then Jupiter will simply change the life circumstance so that an expansion can occur. This may not be a joyful event.

In addition, it would seem that people with a strong natal Jupiter (or who have a large dollop of Sagittarius in the chart) find that transits from or progressions to Jupiter are too excessive, leading to obsessive, manic types of overreactions which generally leave them exhausted at the end of the period.

MEDICAL JUPITER

Medically, Jupiter rules the liver, the largest and main organ for balance and detoxification, reception of the intestinal portal circulation, and control of fat utilization. Thus, Jupiter rules fat metabolism. It rules the arterial blood, and the functions of digestive assimilation, especially in regards to the liver. Jupiter also rules the adrenals and the storage of glycogen, and thus has influence over the stamina and muscular power. The placement of Jupiter points to those herbs and dietetics that will best suit the native for detoxification and periodic cleansing of the bowels and thus the liver.

Although Jupiter by nature is benefic, it has a malefic influence when in hard aspect to the Sun, Moon or Ascendant, and in the sixth house. Most of its maladies are accentuated by indiscretions (over-doing) in diet leading to blood disorders, toxicity, and fatty accumulations.

PATHOLOGICAL TENDENCIES: Obesity, toxicity, hypertension, abdominal fullness, diseases from "high living", stroke, hemorrhagic diseases, jaundice.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: Liver functions, especially detoxification and glycogen storage, production of urea and bile; fat metabolism; blood and arterial system; growth hormone.

 

DEATH in CLASSICAL INTERPRETATION

Jupiter causes death through strangulation, pneumonia, apoplexy, spasms, headaches, and cardiac affections, and such conditions as are accompanied by irregularity of foulness of breath. … Thus, then, those who depart from life in the way described die natural deaths, whenever the lords of death happen to be in their own or in kindred natural characters, and if no planet that is able to do injury to make the end more remarkable overcomes them. They die, however, by violent and conspicuous means whenever both the evil planets dominate the destructive places, either in conjunction, or in quartile, or in opposition, or also if one of the two, or both, seize upon the sun, or the moon, or both the luminaries.
—Ptolemy Tetrabiblos (2nd century CE)

 

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

Physical descriptions: Signifies an upright, straight and tall stature; brown, ruddy and lovely complexion; of an oval or long visage, and it full or fleshy; high forehead; large grey eyes; his hair soft, and a kind of auburn brown; much beard; a large, deep belly: strong proportioned thighs and legs; his feet long, being the most indecent parts of his whole body; in his speech he is sober, and of grave discourse. When Jupiter is oriental, the skin is more clear, the complexion honey-colour, or betwixt a white and red, sanguine, ruddy colour; great eyes, the body more fleshy, usually some mole or scar in the right foot. When Jupiter is occidental, the complexion is more pure and lovely, the stature more short, the hair a light brown, or near a dark flaxen; smooth, bald about the temple or forehead.
Associated Terms : Aries degrees 1 – 6 Taurus degrees 16 – 22 Gemini degrees 8 – 14 Cancer degrees 7 – 13 Leo degrees 20 – 25 Virgo degrees 14 – 18 Libra degrees 12 – 19 Scorpio degrees 7 – 14 Sagittarius degrees 1 – 8 Capricorn degrees 13 – 19 Aquarius degrees 21 – 25 Pisces degrees 9 – 14	Rulership by face (or decanate) : Gemini degrees 1 – 10 Leo degrees 11 – 20 Libra degrees 21 – 30 Capricorn degrees 1 – 10 Pisces degrees 11 – 20
	Nature: Masculine, diurnal, hot and moist, airy, sanguine; the Greater Fortune, author of temperance, modesty, sobriety, justice
Colors and odors: Governs sweet or well scented odors; or odors where the smell is in no way extreme or offensive. Colors are sea-green or blue, purple, ash-color, a mixed yellow and green	Minerals & Stones: Tin, amethyst, the sapphire, the smarage or emerald, hyacinth, topaz, crystal, bezoar, marble, and freestone.
People Signified: Judges, senators, councillors, ecclesiastical men, bishops, priests, ministers, cardinals, chancellors, doctors of the civil law, young scholars and students in a university or college, lawyers, clothiers, woollen-drapers. Places Signified: Jupiter delights in or near altars of churches, in public conventions, synods, convocations, in places neat, sweet, in wardrobes, courts of justice, oratories.	Anatomy and Illnesses: Pleurisy, all infirmities in the liver; the left ear, apoplexies, inflammation of the lungs, palpitations and trembling of the heart, cramps, pain in the back-bone, all diseases lying in the veins or ribs, and proceeding from corruption of blood, squinzies, windiness, all putrefaction in the blood, or fevers proceeding from too great abundance thereof.
Herbs, Plants and Trees: Cloves and clove-sugar, mace, nutmeg, gilly-flower, the strawberry, the herb balsam, betony, centaury, flax, arsesmart, fumitory, lungwort, pimpernel, wallwort, oregano or wild marjoram, rhubarb, selfheal, borage, bugloss, wheat, willow-herb, thorough-leaf, violets, laskwort, liverwort, basil, pomegranates, peony, liquorice, mint, mastic, the daisy, feversend, saffron. Plants and trees: Cherry-tree, birch-tree, mulberry-tree, coral-tree, the oak, barberries, olive, gooseberries, almond-tree, the ivy, manna, mace, the vine, the fig-tree, the ash, the pear-tree, the hazel, the beech-tree, the pine, raisins.
Manners when well dignified: Magnanimous, faithful, bashful, aspiring in an honourable way at high matters, in all actions a lover of fair dealing, desiring to benefit all men, doing glorious things, honourable and religious, of sweet and affable conversation, wonderfully indulgent to his wife and children, reverencing aged men, a great reliever of the poor, full of charity and godliness, liberal, hating all sordid actions, just, wise, prudent, thankful, virtuous: so that when you find Jupiter the significator of any man in a question, or lord of his Ascendant in a nativity, and well dignified, you may judge him qualified as abovesaid.	Manners when badly placed: When Jupiter is unfortunate, then he wastes his patrimony, suffers every one to cozen him, is hypocritically religious, tenacious, and stiff in maintaining false tenets in religion; he is ignorant, careless, nothing delightful in the love of his friends; of a gross, dull capacity, schismatical, abasing himself in all companies, crouching and stooping where no necessity is.

 

 

4 14 15 1 9 7 6 12 5 11 10 8 16 2 3 13 Jupiter = 34 / 136

“It is affirmed by Magicians, that there are certain tables of numbers distributed to the seven planets, which they call the sacred tables of the planets, … The second is called the table of Jupiter, which consists of a Quaternian drawn into it self [i.e. 4 times 4], containing sixteen particular numbers, and in every line, and Diameter four, making thirty four. Now the Sum of all is 136. And there are over it divine names with an Intelligence to good, with a spirit to bad, and out of it is drawn the Character of Jupiter, and the spirits thereof. They say that if it be impressed upon a Silver plate with Jupiter being powerfull, and ruling, it conduceth to gain, and riches, favor, and love, peace, and concord, and to appease enemies, to confirm honors, dignities, and counsels, and dissolve enchantments if it be engraven on a corall. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book II (circa 1510)