The assessment of your birth chart commenced with an analysis of the planets. You need to know your planets.
They depict thought-cell groups in your not-conscious soul-mind that express thoughts, feelings and impulses and their power, harmony or discord scores reveal the relative strength and functional status of the dynamic urges that define your character.
When it comes to self-understanding the planets provide important information. They can be prominent, non-prominent or weak and their corresponding thought-cell groups aka desire-urges express in your life influencing what you think and do.
Each planet is located in a zodiac sign which associates its desire-urge with an attitude motivation aka mode of behavior. But it’s your keynote signs – the ones where your dominant planet and the Sun, Moon, ascendant and Mercury are located – that provide the big data when it comes to your attitudinal behavior. It plays a pivotal role in your success and what you achieve.
Each sign corresponds to a zone of your astral body which has a correspondence with your physical body and their harmony or discord scores provide data pertaining to the health and wellbeing of their corresponding body regions. So, when it comes to self-understanding the sign locations of the planets provide important information.
There are zodiac signs in your chart that have a subdued influence and you won’t be able to personally connect with their attitude-motivations and likes and dislikes. You should devote your study time to understanding your keynote signs.
Each planet in your chart is located in a decanate of the zodiac which gives its desire-urge a special trend of development. But it’s your keynote decanates – the ones occupied by your dominant planet and the Sun, Moon, ascendant and Mercury – that require your attention. They reveal ethical teachings associated with the development of your spiritual attributes.
When it comes to self-understanding your keynote decanates provide important information. You should devote your study time to understanding their precepts and spiritual teachings.
The houses in your birth chart
The 12 houses in your birth chart correspond to 12 compartments of your astral body. They depict departments of life – life-matters, activities and social relationships – through which events occur that influence your intelligence and ability development. You live and learn.
Each planet is located in a house or associated with it by house cusp/intercepted sign rulership so you need some understanding of the life-matters pertaining to each house.
A planet located in a house is an important data reference. The thought-cell activity corresponding to the planet is working to attract events affecting the department of life corresponding to the house. But your keynote houses – the ones with more that 8.3% of your chart’s house power – provide big data that requires your attention. They reveal how your life story is inclined to play out.
So, when it comes to self-understanding the house locations of the planet provide important information pertaining to the events and conditions that will play a keynote role in the development of your special type of intelligence and ability. You should devote your study time to learning and understanding the planet-house associations in your chart.
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