From the outside in Astrology seems mysterious and complicated. There seems to be much to learn. Zodiac signs, planets, houses and aspects all combine to form a cosmic alphabet soup of intricacy. However, learning the principles of astrology does not have to be difficult. In fact, astrology is a structured and orderly system. Once you have the secrets to understanding astrology, you can breeze through its principles to start interpreting charts yourself, practically overnight.

Tip Number One: Astrology is a Tightly Interconnected System

Planets, zodiac signs and the houses of the birth chart have similar meanings.Right now don't worry. There isn't as much to learn about astrology works as it first seems. You can find plenty of information on the internet that can teach you more about the close relationship of many aspects of the astrological system fairly easily. Likewise there are many courses that you can enroll on that will help you to understand this ancient art and how it all connects together, but it is tightly connected. Hence when you learn one thing, it transitions smoothly onto the next part making study relatively easy and progressive.

Tip Number Two: Astrology is a Language

The planets and the energetic connections they make punctuate the meanings of the zodiac signs as they are placed in your chart. Planets are nouns, the people, places and things in your life. Aspects are like verbs, the action words. Zodiac signs are like adjectives, they color the action of the planets their particular signature. The birth chart is the snapshot of the skies at the moment of your birth. You represent that single moment of time, the position of the stars at the time of your birth.

Tip Number Three: All The Planets Have Something to Say About Your Personality

Horoscope columns in the newspapers, while interesting and fun, represent only the most fundamental form of astrology that is based on where the sun was at the time of your birth. However, all the other planets in the solar system have specific things to say about your personality. The sun represents your essential essence, the core of your personality. It functions like the Central Processing Unit of your computer. All the actions of the other planets goes through it and is colored by the orientation of the zodiac sign the sun is in. The placement of the planets in different sectors of our charts called zodiac houses indicates how we naturally perceive the world around us.

The Moon represents your emotions, Mercury, your thinking processes, Venus, your value systems, and Mars, your survival instincts. These are your inner processes. For that reason we call them the personal planets. From here out the rest of the planets represent outer processes, the place from which we look out from ourselves to understand the Universe. Jupiter represents our sense of something bigger than ourselves, whether it is God or a sense of social order. Saturn represents the restrictions and burdens placed upon by our roles in society. Uranus represents how we individuate ourselves, Neptune, our sense of Universal consciousness, and Pluto, the process of transformation for spiritual growth.

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