By relating every house back to your rising sign, you can understand your entire chart in a more holistic way. When you look at everything in a chart isolated and dissected, ultimately you’re not going to get much of a narrative about your entire chart. This isn’t so much of a breakdown, actually, and more of a synthesis. I’m going to be using whole sign houses, which is a house system where every sign is a separate house. Neptune rules mysticism, music, the feet, and all Piscean matters.In this series, I’m going to break down each and every rising sign and every house of your chart, based on the rising sign.

Thus, for example, Pluto rules death, the sexual organs, the principle of regeneration, and all of the other matters associated with the sign Scorpio. Finally, the planets are said to rule the matters associated with their signs. “Lord” and related terms are generally not employed by modern astrologers, who tend to use “ruler” to cover all such associations between planets, signs, houses, etc. Astrologers who feel that the term “ruler” should be reserved for the planet/sign relationship sometimes prefer to use the traditional term “lord” for the planet-house relationship hence, the relevance of the expression “lord of a house” ruler of a sign. The ruler of the sign on the cusp (i.e., the beginning) of a particular house is said to rule that house, and the ruler of the sign on the ascendant is said to rule the chart. Some current astrologers speculate that the planetoid Chiron and/or some of the larger asteroids rule these these signs. For example, the hypothetical planet Vulcan, which some astronomers said might be found between the Sun and Mercury, was thought to be the ruler of Virgo, while an as-yet-undiscovered planet lying beyond Pluto was thought to rule Libra. (There often appears in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century transitional astrological works the term “coruler,” an appelation that allowed astrologers to keep the old schema while introducing new rulerships-e.g., Saturn and Uranus were at one time said to be the corulers of Aquarius.) Only Mercury and Venus are still viewed as ruling two signs each.īecause of the attractiveness of a balanced system in which 12 heavenly bodies rule 12 signs, twentieth-century astrologers have often speculated that two new planets would eventually be discovered that would come to be accepted as the rulers of Virgo and Libra.

From these observations, it was determined that Uranus ruled Aquarius, Neptune ruled Pisces, and Pluto ruled Scorpio, leaving Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars as the rulers of Capricorn, Sagittarius, and Aries. Thus, when the new planets were discovered, astrologers placed them in horoscopes and attempted to determine precisely what the nature of their influence was. The relationship between the planets and the signs is one of kinship in their basic traits and associations. This is still the rulership system held by the great majority practicing Vedic astrology. The known planets each ruled two signs: Mercury ruled Virgo and Gemini, Venus ruled Taurus and Libra, Mars ruled Aries and Scorpio, Jupiter ruled Sagittarius and Pisces, and Saturn ruled Capricorn and Aquarius. The traditional system held that the Sun and the Moon (the two luminaries) ruled one sign apiece, Leo and Cancer, respectively. However, prior to the advent of Uranus, a general consensus about these relationships had endured since the time of Ptolemy. Since the discovery of Uranus and the other newly detected planets, the question of which planets rule which signs has been a subject of hot debate among astrologers. In astrology, rulership is an association of the planets with the signs of the zodiac whereby each planet is said to “rule” a certain sign (or signs) and, secondarily, certain sets of objects and activities. Rulership (Ruler) (religion, spiritualism, and occult)

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