Astrology & You
Sun Sign
The sun sign (AKA zodiac sign or star sign) is the sign that most people know since you only need your date of birth to find it. It’s what you tell people when they ask you what your sign is—”I’m a Taurus” or “I’m a Cancer.”
The sun represents your identity, sense of self, and ego. The sign your sun is in indicates what motivates and drives you, and it also can show how you express yourself.
It can take a while to grow into your sun sign, so if you don’t relate to yours, you may start to as you get older, the same way you become more confident in yourself as you mature.
Moon Sign
Your moon sign represents the inner you—who you are when you’re alone and how you view yourself. It also indicates how you process and communicate your emotions and what you need to feel comfortable.
Your moon sign is an extremely important placement when looking at compatibility since it tells you how you can feel emotionally secure. If your moon sign is in the same element (Fire, Water, Earth, or Air) or is the same modality (Cardinal, Fixed, or Mutable) as your partner’s, it helps you understand each other.
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Rising Sign
The rising sign, also known as the ascendant, is how you project yourself. It’s your first impression, how others see you, and how you interact with and view the world.
The ascendant is super important because it sets up the whole birth chart. Your birth chart is a wheel that’s divided into 12 houses (or segments of the circle), one for each zodiac sign. The order of these houses is determined by the rising sign.
efore sun sign and pop astrology became popular, when someone asked, “What’s your sign?”, they were actually referring to your rising sign. That’s because it’s the sign that’s most indicative of how you’re different from other people born during your birth month (or even on the same day as you).
The rising sign changes frequently—every two hours (for reference, the moon changes signs around every two days). That’s why you need an exact birth time to accurately calculate your birth chart.
Unlock Your Planet Number
- One is affiliated with the Sun
- Two with the Moon
- Three with Jupiter
- Four with Earth
- Five with Mercury
- Six with Venus
- Seven with Neptune and Ketu
- Eight with Saturn
- Nine with Mars
- Eleven with Pluto
- Twenty-two with Uranus and so on.
Unlock Your Zodiac Number
- Number 1 and 4 is connected with Leo
- 2 and 7 with Cancer
- 5 with Virgo and Gemini
- 6 with Libra and Taurus
- 9 with Scorpio and Aries
- 3 with Sagittarius and Pisces, and
- 8 with Capricorn and Aquarius.
Sister Signs
A sister sign is the zodiac sign that sits opposite yours on the astrological wheel. “The sister-sign pairings always sit six signs away from one another, or 180 degrees apart on the zodiac wheel, in an aspect known as an opposition,” explains Brittany Beringer, a mystic and astrology writer. “Because they’re directly across from one another, they share a similar outlook or attitude toward love, but differ in the way they express or experience it.”
Each sister-sign couple shares a complementary zodiac element (water and earth; fire and air), which causes the initial attraction. But these pairings also share the same zodiac polarity (cardinal, fixed, mutable), which is why the sister signs can frustrate each other as well.
There are six pairs of sister signs in astrology:
- Aries and Libra
- Taurus and Scorpio
- Gemini and Sagittarius
- Cancer and Capricorn
- Leo and Aquarius
- Virgo and Pisces
Brother Signs
Brother signs refer to Zodiac signs that share a planet in common. Now, each Zodiac is ruled primarily by one planet but are exalted or are “born” from another planet. These are called Brother Signs. You may have heard them to be referred as the “children of” by many astrologers. For example, Aquarius and Capricorn are both children of Saturn; as they are both ruled by Saturn, but Aquarius’s father planet is Uranus. Another example, Aries and Scorpio are children of Mars, though Scorpio’s father planet is Pluto. So, since “Sister” sign was already taken for the description of opposites, “Brother” refers to the zodiacs “holding hands” by the same planet by calling them brothers.
Mars: Aries & Scorpio
Jupiter: Sagittarius & Pisces
Mercury: Virgo & Gemini
Saturn: Capricorn & Aquarius
Venus: Taurus & Libra
Moon: Cancer
Sun: Leo
Life Path 1
Life Path 1
Life Path 1
You insist on your right to make up your own mind; you demand freedom of thought and action. You have drive and determination. You don't let anything or anyone stand in your way once you are committed to your goal.
Life Path 2
Life Path 1
Life Path 1
You are extremely sensitive, perceptive, and a bit shy. These qualities are both your strengths and weaknesses, for while you possess enormous sensitivity to your feelings and those of others, that same sensitivity can cause you to hold back and repress your considerable talents.
Life Path 3
Life Path 1
Life Path 3
Your talent for the expressive arts is so abundant that you may well have felt drawn to becoming an artist while still very young. Your artistic abilities can only be developed, however, through discipline and commitment to the true development of your talent.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4
Life Path 3
You are the Salt of the Earth. You are orderly and organized, systematic and controlled, you are decisive and methodical employing a step by step rational approach to problems solving. Once committed you do not give up easily!
Life Path 5
Life Path 4
Life Path 5
You love travel, adventure, variety and meeting new people. You possess the curiosity of a cat and long to experience all of life. You like to be involved in several things at the same time as long as you are not tied down to any one area.
Life Path 6
Life Path 4
Life Path 5
You have concern for the weak and the downtrodden. You are a healer and a helper to others. You are capable of giving comfort to those in need and will frequently offer a shoulder for others to cry on. Your task in life is to develop the tools necessary to be truly helpful to others, rather than to simply be a sympathetic ear.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7
Life Path 7
You have a clear and compelling sense of yourself as a spiritual being. As a result, your life path is devoted to investigations into the unknown, and finding the answers to the mysteries of life.
Life Path 8
Life Path 7
Life Path 7
You have great talent for management in all areas of life, especially in business and financial matters. You understand the material world; you intuitively know what makes virtually any enterprise work.
Life Path 9
Life Path 7
Life Path 11
You are a utopian, and will spend your life trying to realize some aspect of your utopian dream, sacrificing money, time, and energy for a better world. It is in giving that you will find much satisfaction. You have a broad outlook on life. You tend to see the big picture, rather than the minute details.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11
Life Path 11
You possess an inordinate amount of energy and intuition. There is so much going on in your psyche that you are often misunderstood early in life, making you shy and withdrawn. You have far more potential than you know.
Life Path 22
Life Path 11
Life Path 22
This number offers the extremes of life's possibilities: on one hand, you have the potential to be the Master Builder, the person capable of perceiving something great in the archetypal world and manifesting it in the relative world; on the other hand, you can slip into the depths of obscurity, achieving little more than personal support.
Life Path 33
Life Path 11
Life Path 22
You possess great compassion and seek to be of service to others. You have concern for the weak and the downtrodden. You are a healer and a helper to others. You are capable of giving comfort to those in need and will frequently offer a shoulder for others to cry on.
Ophiucus?!
Personality & Traits
Ophiuchans are seekers of knowledge. Like the Roman hero Asclepius, who discovered the secret of immortality and who is associated with the constellation, people ruled by Ophiuchus tend to be insatiably curious. They've always got another question, and they're always ready to get their hands dirty to find an answer.
Mythology
Ophiuchus (/ˌɒfiˈjuːkəs/; Ancient Greek: Ὀφιοῦχος, 'Serpent-bearer'; astrological symbol) has sometimes been suggested in sidereal astrology as a 13th astrological sign in addition to the 12 signs of the tropical zodiac. The constellation Ophiuchus, as defined by the 1930 International Astronomical Union's constellation boundaries, is situated behind the Sun from November 29 to December 18.
The idea appears to have originated in 1970 with Steven Schmidt's suggestion of a 14-sign zodiac, also including Cetus as a sign. A 13-sign zodiac has been promulgated by Walter Berg and by Mark Yazaki in 1995, a suggestion that achieved some popularity in Japan, where Ophiuchus is known as Hebitsukai-za
However, in sidereal and tropical astrology (including sun sign astrology), a 12-sign zodiac is based on dividing the ecliptic into 12 equal parts rather than the IAU constellation boundaries. That is, astrological signs do not correspond to the constellations which are their namesakes, particularly not in the case of the tropical system where the divisions are fixed relative to the equinox, moving relative to the constellations
Stellium?
What does a Stellium in my birth chart mean about me?
Think of your chart like a parliament: ten planets (and infinite asteroids) take seats in their respective signs, coming into archetypal clashes with one another, all for the sake of your higher evolution. A stellium, then, would be like a supermajority, or a dominating party. There’s only ten planets — to have three or more in one sign means the attributes of that sign would intensely weigh over your chart.
That’s an intense assignment. You will be called to reckon with the sign’s challenges, claim its gifts, and — perhaps the hardest of all — learn and accept your blind spots. A hyper-emphasis on one sign will arm you with its greatest strengths, but it’s on you to develop conscious awareness of its natural limitations to transcend getting stuck in a cosmic cul-de-sac.
