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Planetary Positions


Sun = Overall personality
Moon = Your emotions
Mercury = How you think; How you communicate
Venus = How you handle relationships
Mars = Your competitive and sexual drive
Jupiter = How you have fun; Religion and philosophy; How you see the world
Saturn = Your insecurities
Uranus = Where you find your individuality; what you rebel about and how
Neptune = Your daydreams and fantasies
Pluto = Overall control for the rest of your planets

Each planet has another planet affecting it. I'll explain with this made-up chart:
Sun Gemini 12th house
Moon Pisces 9th house
Mercury Cancer 1rst house
Venus Leo 2nd house
Mars Capricorn 7th house
Jupiter Cancer 1rst house
Saturn Capricorn 7th house
Uranus Capricorn 7th house
Neptune Capricorn 7th house
Pluto Scorpio 5th house

Let's just look at Mercury. The ruler of Cancer is moon. Hence also with the Mercury in Cancer in 1rst house, we must look at Moon in Pisces in 9th house. They have extra influence from Pisces and Sagittarius (more powerful). Houses are more powerful in this portion.

Major Aspects



Opposition = Many obstacles reside between the things involved
Square = Friction between the things involved
Quincunx = Things are uneasy with each other
Conjunction = Either favorable or unfavorable depending on the planets involved; the traits each thing exhibits is amplified
Semi-Sextile = Mildly favorable between things involved
Sextile = Things are working good with each other
Trine = Things are working great with each other

Decans

We'll start then with more information about the sun signs.
Each sun sign is broken into 3 equal decans. Since each sun sign is 30 degrees long, each decan is 10 degrees. Few examples.

Aquarius:
1- 10 degrees = Aquarius in the Aquarius decan
10-20 degrees = Aquarius in the Gemini decan
20 -30 degrees = Aquarius in the Libra decan

Scorpio:
1-10 degrees = Scorpio in the Scorpio decan
10 - 20 degrees = Scorpio in the Pisces decan
20 - 30 degrees = Scorpio in the Cancer decan

Aries:
1-10 degrees = Aries in the Aries decan
10-20 degrees = Aries in the Leo decan
20 - 30 degrees = Aries in the Sagittarius decan

Virgo:
1- 10 degrees = Virgo in the Virgo decan
10-20 degrees = Virgo in the Capricorn decan
20-30 degrees = Virgo in the Taurus decan

Decans simply influence the sun sign a little more. For example, if you had Aries in the Aries decan, your sun sign would be primarily influences by Aries. (There are other influences but we'll get into those a little later).
If perhaps you were an Aries in the Leo decan, you'd be more extraverted (Aries is sometimes regarded a loner because they get too annoyed with people. Leos are regarded very friendly. So...friendly + them being extraverted anyway?)
If you were a Pisces in the Scorpio decan, you'd be more likely to manipulate people and be much more susceptible to falling into bad morals and such.

Now cusps.
Cusps happen when you're in the first few/last few degrees of any sign. To make it safe, we'll just say 2 degrees. For example, if you were born on January 22, you would be an Aquarius on the cusp of Capricorn. That means you are an Aquarius with more Aquarius influence, yet another influence of Capricorn. It gets complicated when you're born on the last 2 degrees. For example, March 20th. You'd be a Pisces with Scorpio influence and then Aries influence. Since you can't go around asking random people their birthtime and birthtown without odd looks, this is a rather nice, subtle way of getting a basic idea of their personality.

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So now trying to synthesize all these together....
Keep in mind anything in the natal chart can be overruled by other influences. Just some are harder to overrule than others (the ones in blue being the most difficult to). I'll give a few examples.

You want to figure out what your ideal astrological partner (female) would be. You take mainly the Descendant, some of the Venus with additional influence with whatever Venus's house is.
Ex: Descendant Sagittarius 08'35' 12
Venus Pisces 23'02'10 11 direct

This person wants someone who is open-minded, idealistic, changeable, objective, outgoing and intuitive. They don't mind if they're tactless, impulsive, temperamental, indecisive, emotional and a bit secretive.

If you're looking for attraction to men, you take mainly descendant, some of Mars with additional influence with whatever Mars's house is.

Or what your natal chart says about how this person views the world:
Take primarily Jupiter then combine it with 9th house position.
Ex: Jupiter Aries 23'48'53 12 direct
9th House Capricorn 20'57'46

They likely try to put up an arrogant facade to hide their fear they don�t know the world. They're suspicious, mistrustful and can be stubborn about their views, but they do take initiative. They also seem a bit impulsive when trying to analyze the world and form their opinions, but they do look at it objectively.

Any questions and/or comments?

I didn't. Tobi Sapphos did. It was a good idea of them ^^

I added some more in case no one noticed because this forum doesn't get bumped if you just edit a post.

sorry but that kinda just confusses me redface