The planets & what they mean

The Sun is your star sign and your life-force: identity, confidence and what lights you up. You feel it most when you feel completely like yourself.

Rules: Leo

The Moon shows how you feel, what soothes you and what you need to feel safe. It speaks in your first, instinctive reaction — before your mind catches up.

Rules: Cancer

Mercury rules communication, learning and logic — how you take ideas in and pass them on. It shows up when you talk, write, plan, and in the quick back-and-forth of thought.

Rules: Gemini & Virgo

Venus rules love, pleasure, values and taste — how you bond and what draws you in. You feel it in affection, style, money, and anything that simply feels good.

Rules: Taurus & Libra

Mars is energy, courage and assertion — how you act, desire and stand up for yourself. It shows up when you fight, push hard, or get angry.

Rules: Aries (& traditionally Scorpio)

Jupiter rules growth, optimism, meaning and opportunity — where life is generous with you. It works when you expand: travel, study, believe, trust.

Rules: Sagittarius (& traditionally Pisces)

Saturn rules structure, responsibility, limits and time — the lessons that make you grow up. It shows up as pressure, duty, and the slow earning of mastery.

Rules: Capricorn (& traditionally Aquarius)

Uranus rules freedom, upheaval and sudden insight — where you rewrite the rules. It shows up as restlessness, lightning ideas, and the pull toward independence.

Rules: Aquarius

Neptune rules imagination, spirituality and compassion — but also fog and illusion. It works in dreams, art, devotion, and wherever boundaries go soft.

Rules: Pisces

Pluto rules power, depth, crisis and rebirth — where the old dies so the new can form. It shows up in intense turning points that leave you changed.

Rules: Scorpio

The Ascendant is the sign rising on the eastern horizon at your birth — your first impression and the chart’s starting point. It needs your exact birth time to calculate.

The MC is the highest point of your chart: vocation, public role and where you’re heading. It anchors the top of the 10th house and also needs your birth time.

The North Node points to where you’re headed — qualities that feel unfamiliar but grow you. It’s a compass, not a command.

The South Node sits exactly opposite the North Node: old strengths and habits that come easily — sometimes too easily. It’s home turf you’re learning to release.

Chiron marks a tender spot where you’re easily hurt — and from that very place grows your gift for helping others heal. The chart’s "wounded healer".