Preparing to judge
a chart
Now that you have learned to read a chart, and the
basic key words, you are ready to take the first steps toward making a
full delineation of the chart. There are definitely no short cuts to success
in this art. There are, however, definite procedures that you should follow
so that you will always produce an accurate judgment. The
first thing to do after you have erected a chart and have calculated
and drawn in the aspects, or received a computer printout of a chart,
is to determine in which of the sextuplets the planets fall, in which
of the triplicities, and in which of the quadruplicities. See the sample
chart and how the needed information is recorded.
Next, you assign values to each of the planets and
sum all values up for each of the sextuplets, quadruplicities, and triplicities.
The next step concerns the taking of accurate and
complete notes in a definite order. Naturally, the more nearly complete
your notes are, the more information you will be able to glean from
the chart. Further, the very act of writing out the notes serves to
strengthen your understanding of the art of reading a chart.
This chapter, then, consists of three sections,
the first of which outlines a fifteen step procedure for making notes.
The second section consists of a fifteen part reference for use in carrying
out the fifteen steps of making notes, and the third section presents
the actual notes made from the sample chart that was erected.
Section I:
Fifteen Steps for Making Notes on a Chart
As you carry out the following fifteen steps for making
notes on a chart, you should use for each step a 5 x 8 index card, or
a sheet of paper of comparable size, so that when you are finished you
will be able to make an efficient use of the notes. All references in
these steps are to the parts of section II of this chapter. Further,
as you make notes, place in the left margin of each note the astrological
symbols, or abbreviations, to identify the note. Remember, too, that
all aspects except those to the MC will appear twice throughout the
notes.
Step 1
From part 1, make notes on the sign that is on the
ascendant of the chart. Then, from part 5, make notes on all aspects to
the ascendant. Step 2
From parts 2,3,4, and 5, make notes as indicated on
the planet that rules the sign on the ascendant. a.
From part 2, make notes on the planet in the sign and in the house.
b. From part 3, make notes on the planet in the sign.
c. From part 4, make notes on the planet in the house.
d. From part 5, make notes on all aspects to this
planet.
Step 3
Follow the directions of step 2 and make notes on the
Sun, unless, of course, the Sun is the ruler of the ascendant.
Step 4
Follow the directions of step 2 and make notes on the
Moon, unless, of course, the Moon is the ruler of the ascendant.
Step 5
From part 6, make notes on the North Node.
Step 6
From part 7, make notes on the south Node.
Step 7
From part 8, make notes on the part of fortune.
Step 8
From part 9, make notes on the distribution of the
planets between the sextuplets. Step
9
From part 10, make notes on the distribution of the
planets among the triplicities. Step
10
From part 11, make notes on the distribution of the
planets among the quadruplicities. Step
11
From part 12, make notes on special aspects.
Step 12
From part 13, make notes on a stellium.
Step 13
Follow the instructions for step 2 and make notes on
those planets upon which you have not already made notes in steps 2, 3,
and 4. Step 14
From part 14, make notes on the hemispheric distribution
of the planets. Step 15
From part 15, make notes on the overall pattern of
the chart. Section
II
Fifteen part reference from which to make notes
This section provides the information that you will
need as you carry out the fifteen step procedure outlines in Section I.
In fact, this section will be a permanent reference for any and all charts
that you may wish to interpret. Part
1 -- Ascendants
The sign on the ascendant is the single most important
point in a chart because, as it is modified by the aspects, it reveals
the general disposition of the subject. In fact, it serves as a kind of
lens through which the rest of the chart is seen. Consequently,
it is of vital importance that you make complete notes on the sign that
is on the ascendant. In the following, you will find the characteristics
that are associated with each of the twelve signs when they appear on
the first cusp of a chart. Note carefully that each sign contains an
outline of eight areas as follows:
1. Attitude expression
2. Mental expression
3. Emotional nature
4. Career areas
5. Leisure time preferences
6. Physiological vulnerabilities
7. Negative tendencies
8. Key words
Aries
Attitude Expression -- BEING, with directness,
boldness, initiative, impulse, spontaneity, and fast motion. Mental
Expression -- non philosophical and quick wit that sees the beginning
and the end but that overlooks the in-between details.
Emotional Nature -- self-centeredly and tactlessly
romantic with strong sex drive.
Career Areas -- where competitive spirit,
initiative, leadership, pioneering spirit, and physical activity are
involved.
Leisure Time Preferences -- activities that
offer adventure, competition, and daring.
Physiological Vulnerabilities -- head, face,
brain, adrenal glands, kidneys, lumbar region, lower back, endocrine
glands, and those parts of the body associated with the sign on the
cusp of the sixth house.
Negative tendencies -- argumentativeness,
insensitivity, aggressiveness, brusqueness, and impulsiveness.
Key Words -- assertive, urgent, vigorous,
forceful, and enterprising.
Taurus
Attitude Expression -- HAVING, with reliability,
steadfastness, conservatism, slowness, thrift, and gentility. Mental
Expression -- unoriginal and deliberate wit that follows tested
and proven patterns.
Emotional Nature -- possessively and instinctively
sensual and affectionate with an awareness of the sexual powers of the
body.
Career Areas -- where patience, perseverance,
responsibility, art, economy, and routine are involved.
Leisure Time Preferences -- activities that
offer creativity through staying seated for long periods of time.
Physiological Vulnerabilities -- neck, throat,
larynx, thyroid gland, genitals, bladder, pelvis, gonads, eliminative
tracts, and those parts of the body associated with this sign on the
cusp of the sixth house.
Negative tendencies -- stubbornness, self
centeredness, possessiveness, and stodginess.
Key Words -- enduring, possessive, passive,
cautious, and stable.
Gemini
Attitude Expression -- THINKING, with inquisitiveness,
mimicry, duality, changeability, mediation, and wit. Mental
Expression -- flexible and intelligent wit that concerns itself
with many matters at once.
Emotional Nature -- flirtateously and lightheartedly
affectionate in more than one direction at the same time.
Career Areas -- where intellect, travel,
innovation, and change are involved.
Leisure Time Preferences -- activities that
offer intellectual challenge, variety, and dexterous functions.
Physiological Vulnerabilities -- shoulders,
arms, lungs, chest, nervous system, thymus gland, hips, thighs, buttocks,
liver, pituitary gland, and those parts of the body associated with
this sign on the cusp of the sixth house.
Negative tendencies -- inconsistency, hypocrisy,
cunning, and superficiality.
Key Words -- versatile, variable, vigorous,
pensive, and adjustable.
Cancer
Attitude Expression -- FEELING, with moodiness,
common sense, patriotism, and tradition. Mental
Expression -- intuitive and shrewd wit that is impressionable, receptive,
and retentive.
Emotional Nature -- protectively and sentimentally
romantic with susceptibility to sensuality.
Career Areas -- where sensitivity, tranquillity,
economy, and protection are involved.
Leisure Time Preferences -- activities that
offer collecting, domestic and aquatic associations.
Physiological Vulnerabilities -- stomach,
breasts, mammary glands, bones, knees, skin, and those parts of the
body associated with the sign on the cusp of the sixth house.
Negative tendencies -- moodiness, clannishness,
timidity, untidiness, and instability.
Key Words -- sensitive, protective, passive,
emotional, and enterprising.
Leo
Attitude Expression -- RESOLVING, with generosity,
creativity, power, and loyalty. Mental Expression
-- intellectual and forthright wit that generalizes and sees the whole
pattern.
Emotional Nature -- sincerely and generously
romantic with the happiness of the love partner foremost in mind.
Career Areas -- where leadership, creativity,
artistry, and the dramatic are involved.
Leisure Time Preferences -- activities that
offer amusement, gaiety, and role playing.
Physiological Vulnerabilities -- spine, upper
back, heart, ankles, calves, shins, circulatory system, and those parts
of the body associated with the sign on the cusp of the sixth house.
Negative tendencies -- conceit, intolerance,
pomposity, bombast, and snobbiness.
Key Words -- impressive, creative, vigorous,
forceful, and stable.
Virgo
Attitude Expression -- EXAMINING, with productivity,
thoroughness, memory, evaluation, and precision. Mental
Expression -- non abstract and logical wit that discerns small details
and learns easily.
Emotional Nature -- conventionally and analytically
romantic with idiosyncratic attention to the techniques.
Career Areas -- where serving, analyzing,
discriminating, and assimilating are involved.
Leisure Time Preferences -- activities that
offer detail, criticism, study, and quiet.
Physiological Vulnerabilities -- hands, abdomen,
intestines, feet, and those parts of the body associated with the sign
on the cusp of the sixth house.
Negative tendencies -- fastidiousness, interference,
suppression, pedantry, modesty, and hypercrtiticalness.
Key Words -- analytical, critical, passive,
cautious, and adjustable.
Libra
Attitude Expression -- BALANCING, with diplomacy,
cooperation, sincerity, refinement, and neatness. Mental
Expression -- optimistic and intelligent wit that is indecisive
and easily influenced.
Emotional Nature -- intellectually and sentimentally
romantic with flirtatiousness.
Career Areas -- where congeniality, harmony,
quiet, refinement, and human relationships are involved.
Leisure Time Preferences -- activities that
offer comfort, art, conversation, and little motion.
Physiological Vulnerabilities -- kidneys,
lumbar region, lower back, endocrine glands, head, face, brain, adrenal
glands, and those parts of the body associated with the sign on the
cusp of the sixth house.
Negative tendencies -- frivolty, indecisiveness,
untidiness, and changeability.
Key Words -- united, harmonious, vigorous,
pensive, and enterprising.
Scorpio
Attitude Expression -- DESIRING, with subtlety,
fervor, shrewdness, and tenacity. Mental
Expression -- intuitive and imaginative wit that is perceptive,
analytical, and penetrating.
Emotional Nature -- passionately and enduringly
romantic with emotions oriented toward sexual outlets.
Career Areas -- where realities, research,
analyzing, and solving are involved.
Leisure Time Preferences -- activities that
offer intellectual challenge, mystery, and aquatic associations.
Physiological Vulnerabilities - genitals,
bladder, pelvis, gonads, eliminative tracts, neck, throat, larynx, thyroid
gland, and those parts of the body associated with the sign on the cusp
of the sixth house.
Negative tendencies -- jealousy, stubbornness,
secretiveness, vindictiveness, suspiciousness, and resentment.
Key Words -- intense, secretive, passive,
emotional, and stable.
Sagittarius
Attitude Expression -- SEEING, with cheerfulness,
optimism, curiosity, and foresight. Mental
Expression -- open and deep wit that perpetually ferrets out and
interprets.
Emotional Nature -- intellectually and conventionally
romantic with a desire to remain free from attachment.
Career Areas -- where versatility, farsightedness,
and intellectual challenge are involved.
Leisure Time Preferences -- activities that
offer sport, motion, and mental functions.
Physiological Vulnerabilities -- hips, thighs,
buttocks, liver, pituitary gland, shoulders, arms, lungs, chest, nervous
system, thymus gland, and those parts of the body associated with the
sign on the cusp of the sixth house.
Negative tendencies -- extravagance, exaggeration,
tactlessness, carelessness, and extremism.
Key Words -- free, wide, vigorous, forceful,
and adjustable.
Capricorn
Attitude Expression -- USING, with purpose,
patience, quiet, resourcefulness, and efficiency. Mental
Expression -- exacting and calculating wit that is calm and severe.
Emotional Nature -- conservatively and faithfully
romantic with modesty and cautiousness.
Career Areas -- where responsibility, economy,
resourcefulness, and patience are involved.
Leisure Time Preferences -- activities that
offer practicality and seriousness.
Physiological Vulnerabilities -- bones, knees,
skin, stomach, breasts, mammary glands, and those parts of the body
associated with the sign on the cusp of the sixth house.
Negative tendencies -- pessimism, conventionality,
cruelty, narrowness, and selfishness.
Key Words -- prudent, reserved, passive,
cautious, and enterprising.
Aquarius
Attitude Expression -- KNOWING, with idealism,
progressiveness, brotherhood, and reformation. Mental
Expression -- inventive and intuitive wit that synthesizes imaginatively
and broadmindedly.
Emotional Nature -- independently and detachedly
romantic with a desire to be faithful.
Career Areas -- where progressiveness, togetherness,
truth-seeking, welfare, and electricity are involved.
Leisure Time Preferences -- activities that
offer the unusual, career connection, and politics.
Physiological Vulnerabilities -- ankles,
calves, shins, circulatory system, spine, upper back, heart, and those
parts of the body associated with the sign on the cusp of the sixth
house.
Negative tendencies -- rebelliousness, erraticism,
perversity, rudeness, tactlessness, and fanaticism.
Key Words -- indifferent, unconventional,
vigorous, pensive, and stable.
Pisces
Attitude Expression -- BELIEVING, with hospitality,
kindness, compassion, reticence, and fluidity. Mental
Expression -- impressionable and intuitive wit that is highly imaginative
and emotional.
Emotional Nature -- submissively and intensely
romantic with a reluctance to accept the responsibility that accompanies
involvement.
Career Areas -- where sympathy, creativity,
imagination, intuition, and fluids are involved.
Leisure Time Preferences -- activities that
offer fluctuations, art, rhythm, and emotionality.
Physiological Vulnerabilities -- feet, hands,
abdomen, intestines, and those parts of the body associated with the
sign on the cusp of the sixth house.
Negative tendencies -- indecisiveness, dependence,
gullibility, impracticality, softness, confusion, and extravagance.
Key Words -- impressionable, intuitive, passive,
emotional, and adjustable.
Part 2 -- Planets,
signs, and Houses
For the planet involved construct this sentence: The
inclination (key words for the planet) will operate (key words for the
sign), concentrating upon (key words for the house). Planet Sign House
Sun to integrate Aries assertively 1 personal and self- to express urgently
related concerns to project Taur. enduringly 2 personal possession Moon
to respond possessively and security to react to regulate Gem. versatilely
3 relationships to the Mercury to communicate variably immediate environment
to concentrate to transmit Canc. sensitively 4 personal home and protectively
private life Venus to relate to unite Leo impressively 5 instinctive affections
to connect creatively and re-creation Mars to initiate Virgo analytically
6 services given and to activate critically received and health to move
Libra unitedly 7 partnership relations Jupiter to expand harmoniously
at a personal level to mature to experience Scor. intensely 8 material
relationships. secretively involv. shared resources Saturn to limit to
control Sag. freely 9 mental and physical to discipline widely explorations
Uranus to deviate Cap. prudently 10 place in society and stan- to invent
reservedly ding in the world to reform Aqu. indifferently 11 hopes and
wishes and Neptune to refine unconventionally impermanent attachments
to detect to transcend Pisc. impressionably 12 freedom from intuitively
restrictions Pluto to eliminate to transform to regenerate
Part 3: Planets in Signs
Construct a two part sentence, using the key statements
from the planet as the first part and the adverbs for the sign as the
second part. Planets:
Sun
As the subject seeks to become a whole person, to let
others know of his (her) existence, and to become a significant part of
the environment, he (she) proceeds -- Moon
As the subject seeks to make his (her) emotions known,
to effect revision of the emotions, and to conform to cyclic actions,
he (she) proceeds -- Mercury
As the subject seeks to make his (her) thoughts known,
to give careful consideration to that of which he (she) becomes aware,
and to convey his (her) feelings to others, he (she) proceeds --
Venus
As the subject seeks to achieve harmony, to effect
beauty in his (her) relationships, and to bring together that which should
be linked, he (she) proceeds -- Mars
As the subject seeks to expend physical stamina, to
let himself (herself) into worthwhile motions, and to resist inertia,
he (she) proceeds -- Jupiter
As the subject seeks to satisfy his (her) intellectual
curiosity, to become a well-informed person, and to become independently
emotionally satisfied, he (she) proceeds -- Saturn
As the subject seeks to exercise restraint, to be master
of his (her) own destiny, and to gain command of both his (her) overt
acts and private thoughts, he (she) proceeds -- Uranus
As the subject seeks to be individualistic, to design
that which is yet unknown, and to improve upon that which has weakness
or faults, he (she) proceeds -- Neptune
As the subject seeks to probe below the surface, to
attach himself (herself) to the immaterial, and to elevate himself (herself)
to the highest planes of understanding, he (she) proceeds --
Pluto
As the subject seeks to get rid of that which serves
no positive purpose, to remodel completely that which is undesirable,
and to reorganize that which has fallen totally from its original status,
he (she) proceeds -- Signs Aries vigorously, forcefully, and enterprisingly.
Taurus passively, cautiously, and stably. Gemini vigorously, pensively,
and adjustably. Cancer passively, emotionally, and enterprisingly. Leo
vigorously, forcefully, and stably. Virgo passively, cautiously, and adjustably.
Libra vigorously, pensively, and enterprisingly. Scorpio passively, emotionally,
and stably. Sagittarius vigorously, forcefully, and adjustably. Capricorn
passively, cautiously, and enterprisingly. Aquarius vigorously, pensively,
and stably. Pisces passively, emotionally, and adjustably.
Part 4 -- Planets in
Houses
Construct a two-part sentence, using the key statements
from the planet as the first part and the key statements from the house
as the second part. Sun -- The subject
will best learn projection of self through --
Moon -- The subject will show a special interest
in and will effect changes through --
Mercury -- The subject will develop his (her)
communicative powers through --
Venus -- The subject will form intimate relationships
and develop his (her) sense of personal values through --
Mars -- The subject will exercise his (her)
physical stamina and his (her) initiative through --
Jupiter -- The subject will have opportunities
for material expansion and mental growth through --
Saturn -- The subject will experience limitation,
suffering, and frustration through --
Uranus -- The subject will realize originality
and unusual experiences through --
Neptune -- The subject will realize peculiar
and nebulous experiences through --
Pluto -- The subject will realize critical
endings and beginnings through --
Houses
1st House -- matters pertinent to his (her)
establishing himself (herself) as a distinct personality and being.
2nd House -- matters pertinent to his (her)
accumulating materials resources in order to establish security.
3rd House -- matters pertinent to his (her)
adjusting himself (herself) to those close to him (her) because of circumstances
and to the beginning of the process of education.
4th House -- matters pertinent to his (her)
establishing a place within which to protect himself (herself) and his
(her) possessions.
5th House -- matters pertinent to his (her)
creating his (her) own image through both the body and the mind.
6th House -- matters pertinent to his (her)
serving others and being served in order to maintain good health through
reciprocity.
7th House -- matters pertinent to his (her)
attaching himself (herself) to others in order to compensate for his
(her) own sense of lack.
8th House -- matters pertinent to his (her)
sharing his (her) possessions with others and to his (her) sharing the
possessions of others.
9th House -- matters pertinent to his (her)
furthering the process of education through in-depth study and extensive
travel.
10th House -- matters pertinent to his (her)
going outside his (her) home to establish himself (herself) properly
in the social, business, and professional circles through entering upon
a career.
11th House -- matters pertinent to his (her)
relating successfully to group activity in order to participate in the
creative concerns that are communal in nature.
12th House -- matters pertinent to his (her)
resisting impediments of his (her) efforts to be a totally integrated
part of the process of living.
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