ASTROLOGY 101

Class 1:
• What is Astrology?
ASTROLOGY 101 • Planets
• Astrological Signs
• Using Keywords to
delineate planets in signs

WHAT IS ASTROLOGY? WHAT IS ASTROLOGY?

• As above, so below
• Study of the relationship of the motion of heavenly
bodies and concurrent events on earth • Planets have
• Presumes that our cosmos is divinely ordered, and symbolic meaning
that we can interpret
that there are complex correlations that are to help understand
patterned ourselves, others,
and how we interact
with the world.

WHAT IS ASTROLOGY?

• An ancient study that

preceded astronomy
• Related to principles
of harmonics – every
pattern functions to
symbolize harmony or
discord, ease and
challenge

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ASTROLOGY
FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO TODAY

Theosophy:
• A movement to resurrect esoteric traditions
• Believes that hidden knowledge from the ancient
past offers a path to enlightenment
• Theosophical Society founded in New York in 1875
• Drew from Jewish and Christian mysticism,
hermeticism, and other esoteric traditions

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A NEW ASTROLOGY

• Modern interpretation of ancient texts

• More emphasis on the soul’s evolution and spiritual
growth
• Combined ideas from other esoteric texts
HOW DOES ASTROLOGY WORK?
• Looked at archetypes and symbols more than
prediction

EVERYTHING IS IN OUR COLLECTIVE

EVERYTHING IS FREQUENCY AND VIBRATION
CONSCIOUSNESS

• Planets have specific electromagnetic frequencies • We are connected to the whole

• We are influenced by frequencies in our
environment
• We are made of the same substances as the stars,
and therefore connected on levels beyond our
conception and understanding
• These archetypes and planetary correspondences
have been in our collective consciousness for
thousands and thousands of years
• Over time, we have understood them to be true,
have tested them, and have developed case studies
• We continue our research and discovery today

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR A PLANET TO

WHAT WE STUDY
MOVE AROUND THE ZODIAC?
• Celestial poles and equator:
• The projection of the Earth’s
equator onto the celestial sphere
Moon: 27.5 Days Jupiter: 12 years
• Ecliptic:
• The apparent path of the Sun in the
sky
Sun: 1 year Saturn: 29 years
• Solstice Points: Mercury: 1 year Uranus: 84 years
• Times when the Sun reaches its
maximum declination north or south
of the celestial equator- the zero
Venus: 1 year Neptune: 165 years
degree point of Cancer and
Capricorn
Mars: 22 months Pluto: 248 years

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 ASTROLOGY BASICS

Personal Planets:
• Sun
• Moon
• Mercury
PLANETS • Venus
AND OTHER IMPORTANT CHART POINTS
• Mars

PLANETS- PERSONAL ASTROLOGY BASICS

• Each planet relates to a certain archetypal image in

the psyche
• Each represents an aspect of the self Social Planets:
• Each planet is associated with certain physical body • Jupiter
parts • Saturn
• We consider these planets to have “rulership” over these body
parts, meaning they have a symbolic relationship

PLANETS- SOCIAL ASTROLOGY BASICS

• Informed by community, family, and culture

• Represent expansion and limitation, ideas we need Outer Planets:
to integrate and balance to interact with the world • Uranus
• Neptune
• Beliefs, limiting ideas, life structures are formed
• Pluto
through relationships with others and the culture

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PLANETS- OUTER/TRANSPERSONAL SUN
• Represent evolutionary processes in our charts
• Signify spiritual expansion and non-physical drives

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and aspects of ourselves
• To understand more, learn about the mythology of
the god/goddess associated with the planet, as well
as the properties of the planet

GLYPHS SUN

• Primary expression of the self relating to purpose and

the healthy ego. It is the essence of the chart and one of

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the biggest influences in the personality. It is the “I am.”
• Rules these parts of the body: The heart, mid-back, solar
plexus, thymus gland, spinal column
• Offers insight into physical vitality, self-expression,
father, and more

MOON MOON
S • Our emotions, subconscious thoughts, pre-verbal
memories, family and home
• Rules these body parts: Stomach, breasts, esophagus,
fluids of the body
• Offers insight into relationship with mother and family,
along with early childhood experiences

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MERCURY MERCURY

• Planet of communication, thoughts, ideas, transportation

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• Rules these body parts: Lungs, arms, vocal cords, small
intestines, brain functions, throat chakra, ears, hands
• Offers insights into relationships with children, learning
and communication styles, attention to detail,
organization, ability and desire to travel regionally

VENUS VENUS

• The planet of relationships, personal values, material

possessions, and finances

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• Rules these parts of the body: Kidneys, thyroid, lumbar
region of the back, chin, cheeks, and lips, neck, heart
chakra
• Offers insight into personal relationships, especially
partnerships, personal work ethic, ability to maintain
and keep friendships, priorities, and popularity

MARS MARS

• The planet of passion, physical vitality, defense of self

and others, individuation

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• Rules these parts of the body: Head, muscular system,
and face
• Offers insight into relationships, especially our physical
needs and how we manage conflict, how we handle
authority, competition, drive to succeed, willingness to
act on impulse, and relationships with men.

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JUPITER JUPITER

• The planet of expansion, beliefs, faith, religious and

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spiritual ideals
• Rules these body parts: Liver and fat
• Offers insight into a person’s good fortune in life or
luck, religious background, desire for knowledge
and higher education, desire to travel long
distances, optimism and faith

The Outer Planets SATURN

• Transpersonal planets – Generational

• Relate to personal planets but don’t necessarily

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reflect archetypes that manifest in our personal
lives
• Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto

SATURN URANUS

• Planet of limitations, commitments, responsibilities,

recognition, career ambition

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• Rules these body parts: Skin and skeletal structure,
teeth, and spleen
• Offers insight into relationship with father and other
authority figures, our limiting beliefs and what holds us
back, what we are here to master in this lifetime,
karma, things we are here to overcome, and what we
are here to achieve

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URANUS NEPTUNE

• The planet of freedom, independence, rebellion, higher

mind

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• Rules these body parts: Central nervous system and
circulatory system
• When it is in aspect to personal planets, it offers insight
into what specific areas of our life we need variety,
change, and freedom. It also shows generational shifts
in consciousness.

PLUTO PLUTO

• The planet of death and rebirth, regenerative

processes, psychology, occult matters

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• Rules these body parts: Gonads and cells involved with
reproductive system
• When it is in aspect to personal planets, it offers insight
into our obsessive, possessive, or controlling
tendencies, intensity, passion, ideas about death and
the paranormal, and desire for power.

SOUTH NODE NORTH NODE

OTHER CHART POINTS

NODES, CHIRON, AND MORE
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NODES PART OF FORTUNE

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Represent karmic path
• South Node:
• Past lives, karma, familiar, what’s comfortable, family of origin
• North Node:
• Destiny, unfamiliar, purpose

PART OF FORTUNE ASCENDANT

• Represents luck and success

• Positive physical health
• Innate talents and abilities a

ASCENDANT MIDHEAVEN

• How others see you

• Image you project to the world
• How you interact with the external world
• Your Physical body and features
• Health
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MIDHEAVEN CHIRON

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• Cusp of 10th house
• Career
• Reputation
• Public presence
• Father
• Vocation/Inspiration

ASTEROIDS AND DWARF PLANETS

CHIRON

• Ceres V – Goddess of fertility and motherhood

Represents our deepest wounds that inspire us to Juno X – Partnership and marriage
make a difference to help others and heal the world • Pallas Athene W – Courage, wisdom, creative
intelligence

ASTEROIDS AND DWARF PLANETS ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS

• Vesta Y – Keeper of the hearth, mental clarity and

discernment
• Eris – Goddess of discord and fight for justice

• Black Moon Lilith T – Power of magic, healing,

shamanism

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QUALITIES TRIPLICITIES / ELEMENTS

• Cardinal: • Fire
• Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn • Aries, Leo, Sagittarius
• Earth
• Fixed:
• Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn
• Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius
• Air
• Mutable: • Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
• Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces • Water
• Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

DUALITIES: MASCULINE AND FEMININE

WE ALL HAVE MASCULINE AND FEMININE ASPECTS TO OUR SELVES, REGARDLESS OF
GENDER. THESE TERMS ARE NOT ABOUT GENDER, MORE ABOUT QUALITIES

• Feminine
• Masculine
• Water and Earth signs
• Fire and Air signs
• Yin energy
• Yang energy
• Internally motivated, more
• Outer directed, extroverted introverted ZODIAC SIGNS
• External processing of stimuli • Internal processing of stimuli ONE BY ONE

• March 20-April 19 • April 19-May 20

• Ruled by Mars • Ruled by Venus
• Symbol: The Ram • Symbol: The Bull
• Cardinal
• Fixed
• Fire
• Earth
• First sign of the
Zodiac, initiative, • Second sign of the
assertive, Zodiac, stable,
enterprising material, grounded

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• May 21-June 22 • June 22 – July 23
• Ruled by Mercury • Ruled by the Moon
• Symbol: Twins • Symbol: Crab
• Mutable • Cardinal
• Air • Water
• Third sign of the • Fourth sign of the
Zodiac, Zodiac, home and
communicative, family, protective,
intellectually curious changeable moods

• July 23 – August 22 • August 23 –

September 21
• Ruled by the Sun
• Ruled by Mercury
• Symbol: Lion • Symbol: Virgin
• Fixed • Mutable
• Fire • Earth
• Fifth sign of the • Sixth sign of the
Zodiac, expressive, Zodiac, service-
slow to change, oriented, discerning,
creative organized

• September 21-October
22 • October 23-November 22
• Ruled by Venus • Traditionally Ruled by Mars,
Modern Association with
• Symbol: Scales Pluto
• Cardinal • Symbol: Scorpion
• Air • Fixed
• Water
• Seventh sign of the
Zodiac, striving for • Eighth sign of the Zodiac,
intense, calculating,
balance, relational, transformative
peacemakers

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 • December 22 –January
• November 23-December 19
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• Ruled by Saturn
• Ruled by Jupiter
• Symbol: Mountain
• Symbol: Archer
Goat
• Mutable
• Cardinal
• Fire
• Earth
• Ninth sign of the Zodiac,
adventurous, seeking with • Tenth sign of the
higher mind, questioning Zodiac, goal-oriented,
reality ambitious, focused

• January 20 -February 18 • February 19 – March 19

• Traditionally Ruled by • Traditionally Ruled by
Saturn, Modern Association Jupiter, Modern
with Uranus Association with Neptune
• Symbol: Water Bearer • Symbol: Fish
• Fixed
• Mutable
• Air
• Water
• Eleventh sign of the Zodiac,
innovative, connected with • Twelfth sign of the Zodiac,
others, humanitarian creative, intuitive, deeply
feeling

PUTTING THEM TOGETHER

• Use keywords
• Each planet is like a note, each sign is like an octave
PUTTING THEM TOGETHER • Planets have a particular resonance in each sign
PLANETS, SIGNS, AND KEYWORDS

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PUTTING THEM TOGETHER PUTTING THEM TOGETHER

• Jupiter: Beliefs, luck, expansion

• Sun: I am, essence, vitality
• Saturn: Limitations, karma, mastery
• Moon: Feeling, emotions, subconscious needs
• Uranus: Freedom, rebellion, innovation
• Mercury: Thoughts, mental processes, everyday tasks
• Neptune: Spirituality, illusion, intuition, creativity
• Venus: Finances, values, relationships, attraction
• Mars: Action, sexual attraction, libido, manage conflict • Pluto: Death and rebirth, psychological
underpinnings, regenerative processes

PUTTING THEM TOGETHER PUTTING THEM TOGETHER

• Aries: Initiating, assertive, self-directed
• Taurus: Stable, possessions, financially
motivated
• Gemini: Communicating, adaptable, versatile
• Cancer: Protective, sensitive, nurturing
• Leo: Creative, expressive, impressive
• Virgo: Critical, analytical, discerning
• Libra: Relational, harmonious, striving for balance
• Scorpio: Intense, passionate, transformative
• Sagittarius: Free, adventurous, expansive views
• Capricorn: Ambitious, careful, disciplined
• Aquarius: Humanitarian, independent, progressive
• Pisces: Emotional, intuitive, impressionable

PUTTING THEM TOGETHER PUTTING THEM TOGETHER

Combine keywords into one statement:

• Sun in Libra: My essence is relational, harmonious, striving for balance. Sun:

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• Mercury in Leo: I think creatively; I communicate in ways that impress others
• Venus in Aquarius: My relationships are progressive and allow me to • Rules Leo
maintain my independence
• Mars in Capricorn: My actions are careful and disciplined.
• Exalted in Aries
• Moon in Scorpio: I feel things intensely. • Detriment in Aquarius
• Jupiter in Pisces: My beliefs are impressionable, and my intuition leads my
sense of luck • Fall in Libra

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PUTTING THEM TOGETHER PUTTING THEM TOGETHER

Moon:
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• Rules Cancer • Rules Gemini and Virgo
• Exalted in Taurus • Exalted in Virgo
• Detriment in Capricorn • Detriment in Sagittarius
• Fall in Scorpio • Fall in Pisces

PUTTING THEM TOGETHER PUTTING THEM TOGETHER

Venus: Mars:

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• Rules Taurus and Libra • Rules Aries and Scorpio
• Exalted in Pisces • Exalted in Capricorn
• Detriment in Aries • Detriment in Libra
• Fall in Virgo • Fall in Cancer

PUTTING THEM TOGETHER PUTTING THEM TOGETHER

Jupiter: Saturn:

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• Rules Sagittarius and Pisces • Rules Capricorn and Aquarius
• Exalted in Cancer • Exalted in Libra
• Detriment in Gemini • Detriment in Cancer
• Fall in Capricorn • Fall in Aries

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PUTTING THEM TOGETHER PUTTING THEM TOGETHER

Uranus: Neptune:

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• Associated with Aquarius • Associated with Pisces
• Exalted in Scorpio • Exalted in Leo
• Detriment in Leo • Detriment in Virgo
• Fall in Taurus • Fall in Aquarius

PUTTING THEM TOGETHER SPECIAL POINTS

Ascendant
Pluto:

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Midheaven
• Associated with Scorpio
Chiron
• Exalted in Aries
North Node
• Detriment in Taurus
South Node
• Fall in Libra Part of Fortune

SPECIAL POINTS

Ascendant: The way others see me, my physical body ASTROLOGY: YOUR TOOL FOR
Midheaven: My career, my reputation ASSESSING PERSONAL STRENGTHS AND
Chiron: The part of me that is most wounded CHARTING YOUR COURSE TO SUCCESS
North Node: My purpose, destiny
South Node: My karma and past
Part of Fortune: My luck

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