Astrology

As above, so below — the sky read as a mirror of the soul.

Astrology is the old art of reading the heavens as a map of character and time. Its grammar is simple and endlessly combinable: planets (the what — the drives and faculties of the psyche) move through signs (the how — the styles those drives take) and fall in houses (the where — the arenas of life they play out). The same symbols run straight through the rest of this vault — every Tarot card carries a planetary or zodiacal attribution, the Tree of Life hangs its spheres on the planets, and the gods are the planets under another name.

The three parts of speech combine, endlessly, into every placement a chart holds:

flowchart TD
    P["Planets — the what — drives of the psyche"]
    S["Signs — the how — the styles they take"]
    H["Houses — the where — arenas of life"]
    P --> R["A placement — planet in sign in house"]
    S --> R
    H --> R

The Signs

The twelve signs of the zodiac — four elements times three modalities — each ruled by a planet and mirrored by a trump of the Major Arcana. See Signs for the wheel entire.

The Planets

The moving lights — the faculties of the psyche. (Pages are suffixed (astrology) to keep them distinct from the gods they share names with.) See Planets for the faculties entire.

Sun ☉ · Moon ☽ · Mercury ☿ · Venus ♀ · Mars ♂ · Jupiter ♃ · Saturn ♄ · Uranus ♅ · Neptune ♆ · Pluto ♇

The Houses

The twelve arenas of life, from the self at the Ascendant to the hidden twelfth. See Houses for the arenas entire.

First House · Second House · Third House · Fourth House · Fifth House · Sixth House · Seventh House · Eighth House · Ninth House · Tenth House · Eleventh House · Twelfth House

Phases of the Moon

The one cycle visible to the naked eye night by night — the month read as eight moods of time, from seed to fullness to surrender. See Phases of the Moon for the cycle entire.

New Moon 🌑 · Waxing Crescent 🌒 · First Quarter 🌓 · Waxing Gibbous 🌔 · Full Moon 🌕 · Waning Gibbous 🌖 · Last Quarter 🌗 · Waning Crescent 🌘

Related

• The 36 Decans — the ten-degree faces tying zodiac, tarot pips, planets, and the 72 angels/spirits into one grid
• Tarot — every card carries a planet or sign; the trumps mirror the twelve signs and seven planets
• Tree of Life — the seven classical planets are the middle and lower Sephiroth
• Mythology — the planets under their older names
• Alchemy — the seven planetary metals
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