âWait, so iâm not just an Aries?!â
No, youâre not. In fact none of us are just one anything. So letâs dial it back to day we were born. The stars and planets in the sky aligned to convey a story completely unique to you, and thus your natal chart was born!
âPlayboi, whatâs a Sun Sign?â
Well, the Sun Sign is the sign everyone typically knows about themselves. Itâs the sign you were born under that immediately correlates with your birthday. Meaning, âI was born in April so Iâm a Taurus!â Your sun sign is the sign the Sun was in on the day of your birth. So what does the sun represent in astrology? Our vitality and ego, âwho we are.â The thing about the Sun is weâre constantly growing into ourselves and our egos, constantly learning ourselves and strengths, so weâre constantly growing into our Suns. Many people write off astrology due to their inability to relate to their Sun signs when so much more goes into a person. Your Sun sign is less âwho i amâ and more so âwho iâm becoming.â And sometimes we never fully become the poster child of our Sun signs because we grow at different rates and resonate with different things, not to mention the housing of the Sun plays a heavy role in how our âegosâ will play out. Also aspects made to our Sun by other planets are most important as they shape our Sunâs characteristics, but thatâs another post!
ââŠokay, so I understand Sun Signs now, but whatâs a moon sign?â
The moon sign in astrology is of immense importance. This is where we feel most comfortable and secure and our primal emotional reactions. As I mentioned previously, the sun is âwho weâre becomingââ while the moon can be defined as âwho we always are.â Unlike the Sun who illuminates everything, the moon is a softer, dimmer light. It lights up the dark sky at night and it does the same for our personal dark sky emotionally. Simply put, the moon is our emotions. Emotions can be simply irrational and erratic, so we suppress them because throwing a hissy fit in public is not that endearing. My point being that our moons can sometimes be overlooked by others as well as our selves because the attributes of our moons are highly subconscious at times.The moon is how we were nourished, and in turn how we nourish others. Itâs an extremely sentimental and personal part of our being.Itâs what makes us feel safe as well as habitual patterns we carry. A balanced moon is very important as an unbalanced one can take a toll on us physically. When the needs our moon requires arenât met, we can start to display itâs negative attributes and fall into a bit of a depression, eat less, and never leave your bed. Or perhaps become more aggressive and angry depending on your moon sign. Itâs also equally important to understand that others around us have different moon placements then us natally. Everyone requires different things to feel emotionally secure, sometimes weâre harder on others because their love languages differ from our own.
âWhat does Mercury have to do with anything?â
Well, everything. Mercury rules over the mind, how we think, how fast we think, how we learn, our speech, and even our style of writing. Heâs the fastest moving planet in the solar system so itâs fitting that he rules the nervous system. The poor guy gets glossed over a lot until he turns retrograde and everyone starts running around like chickens missing their heads because thatâs when we notice most how strong Mercuryâs influence is on our lives. Mercury is not an emotional planet but more so an intellectual one. Itâs how we asses things and use logic before we act, if we use logic before we act.
âI KNOW THIS ONEâŠLOVE RIGHT?â
Youâve guessed it, Venus rules over romance but a lot more as well. Sheâs our social graces, if we have any social graces at all. How we charm others as well as what we personally find pleasurable. Venus rules over our attitude towards money and material things. How much we spend and how often we treat ourselves. What we like to eat, what tastes good, what feels good. Venus is also our attractiveness, and what weâre attracted to. She gives us a clue to our love language on a more superficial level, what it takes to woo us. How we like to be seduced and pursued. Venus is diplomatic, she shows us how we make peace with others. Venus also rules over artistry and how appreciate the arts and even the possibility of having artistic gifts as well. Venus also highlights our sexual nature in terms of what we find pleasurable, what feels right, and what we find acceptable.
âMars is ourâŠanger?â
He can be, yes. After all he is the God of War. Mars in astrology represents energy. Our physical energy and vitality, and especially our sexual energy. Heâs all about action, what it physically takes us to doâŠwell, anything. Heâs our day to day strength and drive. He exemplifies how aggressive and assertive we are. Our ambitions, durability, temperament, action, and drive. Do we exercise? How sexual are we? Our sexual style? Our competitiveness? All can be answered by our mars sign. Mars showcases how quick we are to anger, what makes us tick/explode. Heâs also the last of the personal planets.
Jupiter is the first non personal planet as it stays in the same for an entire year. Everyone born within that year will have the same Jupiter sign. That doesnât negate Jupiterâs importance in anyway, so donât skim over him. It just means we have take a closer look at him in our natal chart by examining his house placement and aspects made towards him by other planets. Jupiter rules over good fortune, philosophy, travel, and higher level learning (different from mercury.) He is expansive and optimistic. Heâs a grand catalyst to spiritual growth. Heâs where we overindulge, our generosity, and wisdom.
âSo what does Saturn do?â
Saturn is like our astrological father. He sets the rules and regulations, the routine. And like when we disobey our paternal father thereâs consequences the same applies for Saturn. Saturn is not out to punish anyone, he just returns anything we put out into the universe. âWhat goes around comes around.â Sound familiar? Saturn rules over Karma. Saturn in our chart shows us where he grounds us, where we must be held responsible, where we must work hard. Our careers, the practicality of how we achieve success.
Uranus is a much slower moving planet. His energy is very erratic, spontaneous, and rebellious. Heâs extremely progressive and an advocate for originality. Uranus has to be looked at by house placement to determine its effects on us individually, as people from the same generation will share the same Uranus sign. Uranus in our charts will show us where we are unpredictable and rebellious. How and where we go against the grain. Our humanitarian side. How interested in activism we are, where we are liberated ourselves.
Indeed. Neptune is the God of the Sea. In astrology Neptune rules over spirituality, all things hazy, confusion, love and romance on a deeper, ethereal level. He is illusions and our dreams. Intuition and psychic abilities. Neptune has dominion over deeper creativity and artistic abilities. He also shows us where we might try to escape reality and what we may try to use to escape reality with. He is addiction, substance abuse, and deception. Our fantasies.Â
âisnât Pluto like not even a planet anymore?â
Yes, technically Pluto is a planetoid, but we still refer to Pluto as a planet in astrology so he will be respected as such! Despite his small size and the grand amount of distance he is from us his effects are undeniable.Pluto in our charts shows us where we are transformed and regenerated. Where we must die to be born again. His energy is very subconscious, we donât always see it, but we feel it. He is obsession, and our hunger for power, where we struggle for power. He is how we react to sex on a deeper, subconscious level. Where and what we become drawn and attached to. His energy is very primal. He also highlights where weâre manipulative or jealous if weâre displaying the negative attributes of Pluto.Â
Our Ascendant sign is crowned the ruler of our chart, and is of equal importance as our Sun and Moon signs. Itâs specific to our birth time and location. The Ascendant is like the mask we put on to face the world. Itâs our initial reaction to external forces. The lens we see life through on a day to day basis. Our ascendant is our physical bodies, how we look and how we act in public. Itâs how people initially receive you, our first impressions, our mannerisms. Our outer personality. If people were to describe you theyâd likely describe this sign.
So, as you can see a lot goes into a persons personality even more than whatâs been mentioned above, humans are complex beings who canât be described as just one sign, or one anything. We are more than our sun signs, we are more than signs period.
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