The planet’s house describes the planet’s main sphere of influence.
The sun in Taurus, for example, describes a person who loves a simple life, a person who finds pleasure in simple things, a life force that is earthy and grounded, a focus on finding peace and serenity, a father who is grounded and a bit materialistic, and a king blessed with wealth and abundance (who might, also, be grounded and materialistic). The sun, for example, describes your ego, the things that bring you joy, your life force, your life focus, father, or “king.”Ī planet’s sign describes the personality of the planet. The basic elements of an astrological sentence are: a planet, a sign, and a house.Įach planet is a part of your psyche or (depending on the school/branch of astrology you’re practicing) a thing out in the world. You could spend a lifetime going deep with an astrological symbol, unpacking the layers of meaning and nuance as you explore each of the correspondences one at a time. If you embrace the complexity and focus on one meaning at a time, the world opens. Trying to work with all of the meanings of an astrological symbol at once is a recipe for a headache. How do you reduce the mind, communication, learning, teaching, astrology, and commerce into a single word? You can’t without losing some of the meaning. It is a challenge because any list of meanings-even meanings as broad as archetypes-will never encompass all of the complexity of the symbols. Working with symbols that have a constellation of meanings is an opportunity and a challenge. (Since the planets were originally considered to be literal faces of the gods, that may be something that actually happened.) It’s more like what you would expect if someone sat down with a description of Mercury the god and made a mind map of all the things he might be interested in. These things are similar in that they all involve thought and working with abstraction, but they aren’t the same in the the way that house cats and tigers are the same. Each symbol points to a collection of tangentially related things.įor example, Mercury rules the analytical mind, communication, learning, teaching, astrology, and commerce.
A cat might be a lion or a tiger or a tabby, but it will never be an orange.Ī planet, sign, or house in astrology doesn’t have only one meaning. The dictionary might have two or three definitions for an English word, but these differences are usually about nuance or context. One of the differences between the language of astrology and human communication languages is that words in human languages generally have one basic meaning, and that isn’t the case with planets, signs, and houses. You can sort of understand each of these three elements in isolation the way you can understand the words in a sentence, but reading a planet in its sign and house is the same level of literacy in astrology as being able to read a sentence in a human language.
One of the most fundamental skills an astrologer needs to have is the ability to read a planet and its sign and house as a complete unit.
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