The importance of Planets

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Hi Therese and everyone,

 

I know the post I wrote yesterday was long

enough, but it was actually unfinished. Which

means there's more. (Sorry.) Here's part two, on

something slightly different.

 

 

Elisabeth:

> >Strangely,

> >the western sidereal astrologers seem a lot

> >better in this respect, which is partly why I

> >came to this group. When reading about the

> signs

> >on the western sidereal site (I forget the

> name

> >of it but we all know about it in the sidereal

> >group) it seems to me that in general all the

> >signs come off as equally good -- and equally

> as

> >bad.

 

Therese:

> I think part of the reason for this is that the

> sidereal astrologers don't

> want people to think in terms of signs, but

> mostly in terms of the planets.

 

Elisabeth:

I have noticed this. Sidereal astrologers

identify less with signs and rarely seem to say

things like " I'm an Aries " or " He has Pisces

rising " and then make conclusions based on that.

I agree that the planets are much more important.

Wasn't astrology originally focused on the

planets anyway? I think you once wrote in a post

to the list that the planets=psychology and the

signs=situation or environment, or something like

that. And then I read somewhere, maybe on this

list, that the signs were once called " houses " .

That got me thinking that the " archetypal "

meanings in astrology probably belong firstly to

the planets. Signs are just " houses " that have

affinity to certain planets and have a tendency

to resemble the planets that they have affinity

with. Planets are like people, and the signs are

like the houses that people live in -- or visit.

People's homes tend to reflect the personality of

their owners, and people tend to feel more

comfortable in certain houses than in others.

 

And so I see how a person with a strong Sun could

be more like a Leo, even if the Sun is in

Capricorn. The main characteristics comes from

the Sun, which is like Leo. Only in this case the

Sun is visiting, and it's expression is modified

by Capricorn, Saturn's home. Correct me if this

doesn't sound right.

 

So I think Sun signs are, in a way, all " Leos " .

We all have a Leo in us, which seems to tie in

with what I said before about all the signs being

something real in all of us.

 

 

 

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