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Basic Natal Astrology, Example Chart Reading

Donald Trump: Birth Chart

Donald Trump’s birth chart (Leo rising, Sun Gemini and Moon Sagittarius) is interpreted for the USA 2024 Election.

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Step 1 – Printing the chart

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Astrology Basics

Here are the basics of astrology and what you need to know to read a horoscope or birth chart.

There are four building blocks to chart reading:

And on top of that you need to know about chart division and chart points.

Master the Basics

If you are learning astrology you will do yourself a favour if you can grasp these basics. Then when you do read more intermediate or advanced astrology it will make more sense.

As a kid when you learned how to read it was one step at a time. First the alphabet J-a-c-k, then words Jack, and then sentences “See Jack.”

Astrology interpretation is much like learning to read.

Series

This series of posts will give you all the basic keywords and facts you need to understand the nature of astrology.

Yes, of course there is more but these are the “See Jack, see Jack run” basic components so you can begin.

More to follow.

Basic Chart Interpretations

This series looks at what to do to get a chart that you can work with in the first place.

Step 2 – Highlighting the physical chart

Step 3 – Margin notes

Step 4 – the Interpretation notes

Astrology Basics: The Planets

Planets

There are many planets used in astrology. Each astrologer may choose to use all or only some of the planets in their work.

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The Seven Visible Planets

The seven visible planets are those that can be seen with a naked eye. They are the Sun, The Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. They are known as the traditional or Hellenistic planets.

The Outer Planets

The three outer planets are Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. They are the modern planets.

The Meaning of the Planets

The Sun

The Sun is your identity, your heart and your character. It shows where you are honest and true to yourself. It is where you can shine in life. It represents your father.

The Moon

The Moon shows your feelings, reactions, gut instincts and your behavior. It rules food, how you care and who you nurture. It represents your mother, mother figures and caregivers.

Mercury

Mercury shows your thinking, talking and communication style. It has to do with all buying and selling. It represents your schoolteacher and neighborhood people.

Venus

Venus shows beauty, art, style, love and money. It has to do with your values and what you invest in both things like jewelry and people. It represents young women and sisters.

Mars

Mars is about sex, energy, drive, challenges and where you compete in life. It shows when you will get off the couch and do something. It represents young men and brothers.

Jupiter

Jupiter is about growth, expansion, reaching and even overdoing things. It shows your vision and potential. It represents uncles, teachers and preachers.

Saturn

Saturn is the planet of achievement, honors, control, limitations and fears. It represents your father, older men and authority figures.

Uranus

Uranus is the planet for the future it rules trends, technology, computers and the space age. It represents adolescents, immigrants, those on the fringes of society and rebels.

Neptune

Neptune is the planet of illusion, intuition, mysticism, art, magic and the unknown. It represents the psychic, the invisible, the underdog and the homeless.

Pluto

Pluto is the planet of power, influence and sex. It represents people who have power over you through your use of their resources or those whom you have the drop on. It represents the loan shark, surgeon, psychiatrist, undertaker, criminal and therapist.

Chiron

Chiron is the planet of wounds and healing. It suggests where you are weak and wanting. It represents people who help you like nurses, teachers, gurus and charity workers.

Eris

Eris is the planet of the female warrior. It represents the fight instinct in women. It suggests those who will fight for you simply because they are on your team, group or crew. It represents sisters-in-arms.

Astrology Basics for Beginner’s

This is part of the special Starzology Astrology Basics series for you all. Many of you ask where to start and here are the planet’s meanings.

You can check out the rest of the series:

How to Create an Electional Chart in Astrology

Basic Natal Astrology, Houses

Electional Charts

Of all the things you can do with astrology I believe that electional astrology is the best.

When used correctly an electional chart can make your life easier.

Everything has a time and place and this is where electional astrology excels.

It makes sense to go with the flow of the energy in the universe and not against it. This is exactly what electional astrology is all about.

Doing the right thing at the right time makes so much sense.

Why wouldn’t you use it?

Electional Astrology

Electional astrology is a technique used by astrologers to cast a chart to do something in the future.

An election chart it is set for a time and date in which you have selected, or elected, to do something later on.

It could be cast for next week, next month or for several months time.

What Electional Astrology is Not

Electional Astrology has nothing to do with political elections or voting for your candidate.

Election Chart Uses

Election charts (or elections for short) can be cast for just about anything you plan to do in the future.

The two most popular election charts arwe for wedding and business start-ups.

Wedding Election Charts

Election charts are excellent charts to use to select a date for marriages and wedding ceremonies because you can choose a time when the union is likely to grow and sustain the test of time.

Business Startup Election Charts

Elections are strong when used to find a time to open a business or register a domain name which you want to flourish. Every new business deserves the chance to last and prevail.

In fact if you can use an election for just about anything in life.

How to Cast an Election Chart

Election Chart House Reinforcement

You have to reinforce the house in which the election is found.

Astrologically all of the houses cover everything in life.

When you choose to do something it will be in one of the houses.

You have to make the planet that rules the activity robust and have it prominent and in good condition.

Electional Chart Houses

1st house – Cosmetic surgery, makeovers and haircuts
2nd house – Buying jewelry, art or financial instruments
3rd house – Short travel and weekends away
4th house – Buying or selling a house
5th house – Parties and conceptions
6th house – Job interviews and getting a new pet
7th house – Marriages and contracts
8th house – Signing your will and doing things you want kept secret
9th house – International travel, starting college and launching an advertising campaign
10th house – Business startups and IPO’s
11th house – Starting a group and mingling at social occasions
12th house – Going off the grid and being incognito

Election Chart Planets

Each of the planets has particular meaning very similar to natal astrology about it’s urges.

Remember, the planets are where the energy is in a chart and you want to energize an election chart with the correct planet being prominent.

Planets in Electional Charts

The Sun – Things for your personal benefit.
The Moon – Family and home related events.
Mercury – Interviews, exams, and brokering any deals.
Venus – Marriage, investing or decorating.
Mars – Surgery, sports events and running a marathon.
Jupiter – International vacations, starting college and publishing your book.
Saturn – Any business registration, company start or IPO and watches.
Uranus – Computers, software, apps and technology.
Neptune – Rehab, hypnosis and anaesthesia.
Pluto – Rejuvenation and spa treatments, surgery and donating blood.

The list does go on and you can find the correct house and planet for everything in life.

Tech Business Start Up Election Example

This chart is an example of a good chart for a tech startup business.

The main features are as follows:

10th House – Business House

10th Cusp

10th house cusp is Aries therefore Mars rules 10th to bring energy and action.

This suggests a startup as well.

Looking at the 10th hous eplanets in order that the meet the MC.

Mercury

Mercury in the 10th house indicates good communication in the business.

The owners will be able to get the word out.

Advertising will be easy.

Venus

Venus in 10th is beneficial for the style of the business and perhaps the branding will be tasteful as well.

Venus is super well placed in rulership in Taurus.

The business finances will be strong and steady.

The Sun

The Sun in the 10th House.

The Sun is the chart ruler and represents the heart of the enterprize.

Uranus

Uranus in the 10th house and conjoined Sun. Uranus rules technology and computers and so this planet in the house of the business is perfect.

Jupiter

Jupiter in the 10th house brings high profile fortune and luck to the venture.

Moon

Moon in the 10th house suggests there will be a family style about the business.

It is a New Moon phase chart which supports new beginnings.

Moon in Taurus is in exaltationa dn is super well placed.

Author Bio

Alison encourages you to explore your unique creativity and live a satisfying life through your personal astrology. She offers her insights from the heart and with a sense of humor.

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The 3rd House

In astrology, the 3rd House represents how you are with the world on a daily basis, including your siblings, neighbors and local environment.

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The People in Your Astrological Houses

In astrology, the people in your life are shown by the planets in the particular houses in your birth chart.

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Aspects: Applying and Separating

In astrology, applting aspects bring focus and separating aspects show release. Aspects are either applying or separating.

Jupiter Trine Uranus – Get Fired Up!

by Alison Price

We have experienced several challenging planetary placements in recent years. I am of course referring to the Uranus Pluto square which has had astrologers and laymen alike buzzing with excitement.

Enter the Jupiter Uranus fire trine.

Whilst it is typical that we have both easy and challenging aspects within the zodiac at any one time, it is the individual and combined mixture of flow and resistance between the planets making the aspects that shape our lives.

That Uranus appears in both aspects (square Pluto and trine Jupiter) is telling. He seems to want to fit in and stick out at the same time.

We can live with this.

Aspects

One way to interpret an astrology chart is by a technique called aspects

Astrological aspects are the angular distances between the planets.

Every planet has a measurement in degrees with the other planets but only certain angles are noted in astrology charts.

By dividing the circle of 360 degrees by any whole numbers we get the aspect angles.

The Trine Aspect

If you divide 360 by 3 the result is 120 degrees (360/3=120) and this is the size of the trine aspect.

Two planets that are 120 degrees apart in the zodiac will be in trine to each other.

The aspect degree does not have to be exact but can be within 8 degrees (the orb) either side of 120.

So when the two planets become between 112 to 128 degrees apart they are considered to be trine to each other.

Transiting Jupiter Trine Uranus

When the slower planets like Jupiter and Uranus trine each other it is to be noted.

It is a phenomenon that only happens around every six years then there is a gap of seven years before the next trine.

The elemental sequence is fire, earth, air then water. With two trines in each element, one waxing and one waning trine. Then it slowly shifts into the following element.

The Jupiter Uranus Synodic Cycle

Jupiter and Uranus have a fourteen year synodic cycle.

This means they are together and Jupiter (which is quicker off the mark) races off around the zodiac as Uranus moves forward slowly. Jupiter will catch up with Uranus around fourteen years later.

In 2010 Jupiter was conjunct Uranus at zero Aries. They will next be conjunct in 2024 at twenty-one Taurus.

Looking further forward in 2037 22 Cancer direct and in 2038 at 20 Cancer retrograde.

This shows the conjunction moves around either 30 degrees when at the retrograde three pass conjunction, or around fifty-one to fifty-four degrees and fourteen years during a one pass direct conjunction.

Because there is a trine in place for such a long period, when planets pass through the other fire sign of Sagittarius, they will create a fire grand trine when they trine both Jupiter and Uranus.

The most frequent planet to do this is the Moon.

It will provide huge opportunities and original approaches to how you can use that planet in Sagittarius.

The trine from Jupiter offers good things in line with your natal planet being aspected and the trine from Uranus offers unique and up-to-date solutions which allow things to move forward with ease and flow.

Get fired up!

Fire is all about inspiration. It gets the juices flowing and everyone hot under the collar. It gets people raving about things and issues. It creates fireworks and burning issues. We can get incandescent and want to burst. We are filled with bright ideas and get excited about anything with fire in it like dragon’s breath, candlelight, torches, barbecues and camp fires.

Make the most of this special fire trine.

Jupiter in Leo

Author: Alison Price – Published: July 2014

Jupiter in Leo

As the planets wander through the sky they change positions against the backdrop of the zodiac.

This movement can be like a dance as everyone (the planets) take their place and enter the stage.

At anytime one or two of the planets will take center stage as the others fade into the background for a while.

Planets in prominent positions may have a story to tell, and we listen.

This time it is Jupiter as he enters the fifth sign of Leo. A fire planet (Jupiter) in a fire sign (Leo).

Up there right now the biggest planet in the solar system and the ruler of Sagittarius, Jupiter, is entering the zodiac sign of the Lion.

Jupiter in Leo Imagery

I often use the imagery of a hot air balloon to explain the astrological meaning for Jupiter.

Balloons are big, brightly coloured and when they drift by you simply can’t miss them. Much like Jupiter.

The collective noun for balloons is a festival of balloons which brings a fun and exciting element to ballooning. Much like Jupiter.

They travel on their journey, but to who knows where? Much like Jupiter.

They are filled with hot air or gas, and balloons will explode if over-filled. Much like Jupiter.

They often broadcast a message from their sponsors or promote special events (such as at sports events) written in huge letters on the sides of the balloon. Much like Jupiter

And I would imagine that the people who do take a ride in a hot air balloon say a prayer before launch. Much like Jupiter.

I have always fancied trusting the woven basket and journeying on a balloon flight and perhaps one day I shall. Much like Jupiter.

Benefits of Jupiter in Leo

Jupiter in Leo is especially good news for the fire signs and that means those with strong fire signs present in their birth charts.

I will tell you I am strongly Leo myself and I have been waiting for a while now for this shift in energy as Jupiter changes sign.

If you have an Aries, Leo or Sagittarian Sun, Moon, Ascendant, Jupiter or other cluster of planets in these three signs you will benefit during the upcoming year as Jupiter goes through Leo.

If your business chart has the fire signs emphasized as well your business can experience huge growth now.

If you are strongly Gemini or Libra you will see some support and some good things. You need to grasp any opportunities fleeting as they may be.

If you are strongly Taurus, Scorpio or Aquarius could face the difficult side and this may suggest the over excessive situations as mentioned later.

Those of you with strong Cancer, Virgo, Capricorn and Pisces may not see much change although you will try to make adjustments this year.

How can you make the most Jupiter in Leo

Jupiter in Leo is upbeat, positive and outgoing. It encourages taking chances and aiming higher in life.

Leo is the sign of the theatre and when planets enter the “stage” they will play their roles to perfection.

Using the theater analogy, Jupiter in Leo can either be the highly colorful swashbuckling much loved hero or he can be an overly costumed blow-hard in a pantomime.

The down side of Jupiter in Leo can be over-extension, over-doings things and excessive behavior. Or just too much of a good thing.

Pace yourself and all will be fine.

Jupiter in Leo, what’s in it for you?

Jupiter is the planet of growth and expansion.

It has to do with reaching for things just out of your grasp but it is the reaching that is important.

We like to s-t-r-e-t-c-h ourselves when Jupiter is active.

You can lift your eyes to gaze at your horizons.

Now is the time to aspire towards previously laughable dreams. Dust off your visions and start to believe.

When Jupiter is prominent by transit, and if it contacts your chart, you can raise your profile and aim for more in life.

Jupiter will support activities in broadcasting, promotion (self and business), publishing, gaining knowledge (as opposed to information), adult education, religious temperance, international travel and cosmopolitan situations.

Jupiter in Leo reinforces the theatre and daily dramas. See them for what they are.

Author Bio

Alison Price: Professional Astrologer

Alison helps you uncover your individual creativity and lead a fulfilling life using your own astrology. She shares her wisdom from the heart with a touch of humor. She offers Consultations for everyone and Coaching for Aspiring Astrologers.

If you’d like to get in touch with Alison, you can reach out to her via email at starzology@gmail.com.

Aspects: Applying and Separating

In astrology, applting aspects bring focus and separating aspects show release. Aspects are either applying or separating.

Starzology Astrology Podcast 100th Episode Celebration

Author: Alison Price - Published: July 2013 - Revised: January 2024 Our Journey to 100 episodes When you start your astrological journey, you never know where it will end up. Sometimes you don’t even realize there is a journey at all. It just seems like...