In broad terms, signs are identity, while houses are the arena within which identity operates. Signs provide the psychological framework, the needs and fears, the attitudes and biases, with which we attack the houses. Houses indicate problems and issues. They represent tasks we must face. Signs symbolize processes that take place within the mind, E

What focalizers help us do is to organize our approach to the planets. They tell us which phrases are most vividly present in an individual’s character, and which ones play secondary roles. All we seek in determining focalizers is a sense of priorities. Of these eight phrases, which ones are cornerstones? With which ones is the person most strongly

the moon’s south node is a symbol of the time before the birth and its impact on a person’s subsequent development. It can be viewed as a symbol of one’s karma – one’s residual personality left over from previous physical incarnations – or as a clue to the formative pressures brought on us by our hereditary or genetic background. Either way, the so

As languages go, astrology is an easy one. There are ten planets, twelve signs, and twelve houses. Only thirty-four words.

Signs are avenues of expression, but they are also roads back to the source,back to the prime symbol. They offer effective descriptions of personality. They form a useful catalog of human character types. But they are also evolutionary methods,ways of growing.

Growth and change are the lifeblood of their philosophy. To them, the north node, with its emphasis on potentials and possibilities, is the most important symbol on the birthchart. Everything else – signs, planets, houses – are the means. The north node is the end.

When a man or woman is born under the predominant influence of the fire signs, he or she is developing will. Courage or willpower is simply the translation of the fire principle into the language of psychology. In a similar way, a person conditioned by earth is here to learn patience and self-discipline; one shaped by air, to develop alertness and

Planets are the third dimension of astrological symbolism. They represent the actual structure of the mind. Each one symbolizes a particular psychological function: intellect; emotions, self-imagery, the impulse toward intimacy.

Five Steps – Analysis of the Primal Triad STEP ONE Look at the sun. It’s what is the formation of identity. Consider the sign it occupies. Why is that person alive? What is his evolutionary goal? How can he most effectively realize it? What risks does he face? Now add the sun’s house. Where is he confronted with the clearest expression of those sol