When we study ‘karma’ we are looking cause and effect, consequences of our actions. Our soul evolves over thousands of years, however our earth body is here to reflect what the soul needs in order to evolve. In this study we are looking at the following:
- How Saturn and the outer planets signify Karma as it relates to Sun, Ascendant and Moon.
- How Karma is attracting us to the family situation and our roots to be determined by 4th house family and its relationship to the Moon and rulership of the 4th/10th house aspects
- How Karma determines our intimate relationships and our level of intimacy as determined by the 7th/Ascendant aspects rulers and their relationship to Venus and the Moon
- How Karma determines our manifestation of career, personal authority and connection to self. 10/4th aspects and the relationships specifically to Saturn and inner planets.
The questions each week will be based on the connection in our personal natal charts to the questions above. We can also use our intuitive understanding of the answers to these questions by drawing our ‘tarot cards’ for each question asked. (I use a three-card draw represented by the immediate past, present and immediate future of the question asked.)
| SIGNS | Karmic Condition | Positive/Negative Karma |
|---|---|---|
| Aries ♈ | Pioneering, Independent Path, Warrior | P: Independent, Assertive, Action-oriented, Quick learner N: Impulsive/compulsive, headstrong, confrontive. |
| Taurus ♉ | Possessions, Material Manifestation, Senses Developed and Practical Lifetime | P: Loyal, Practical, Material Wealth N: Possessive, Spiteful, Materialistic |
| Gemini ♊ | Communication, Balanced Thinking, Duality and Polarity understood | P: Great communicator, Understands people, Facilitates clarity N: Superficial, Gossips, Confusing issues, Lack of understanding. |
| Cancer ♋ | Family Devotion, Mass Consciousness Awareness, Tribal loyalty | P: Compassionate, familial, loyal, feeling-oriented N: Moody, depressed, overly emotional, possessive of family |
| Leo ♌ | Master Teacher, Engaging, Director, Leader | P: Energetic, Magnetic, Leader, Teacher, Communicates Higher Consciousness N: Dramatic, Exaggerates, Dictatorial, Narcissistic |
| Virgo ♍ | Healer, Analyst, Higher Thinking, Self-Sacrificing for the Greater Good | P: Thoughtful, Healing, Natural and Guided Helper, Interactive Teacher N: Critical of Self and Others, Nitpicking, Poor Boundaries, Auto-Immune Problems. |
| Libra ♎ | Balanced Thinking, Relationship Understanding, Developed Discernment | P: Great Partner, Sees Both Sides of Situation, Empathizes for Greater Good N: Superficial Romantic, Projects and Blames Others, Seeks External Partner |
| Scorpio ♏ | Transformer, Balanced Sexuality, Leadership Ability, Depth Thinker | P: Loyal Partner, Intuitive Master, Detects Negative Energies, Investigator N: Possessive, Jealous, Petty, Secretive, Competitive |
| Sagittarius ♐ | Great Philosopher, Teacher, Naturalist, Eastern Thinker, Knowledgeable | P: Adventuresome, Challenging, Competitive, Philosophical, Speaks Truth N: Superficial, Gossips, Self-serving, Endless talker, Dogmatic, Judgmental. |
| Capricorn ♑ | Practical Teacher, Realist, Old Soul, Ancient Wisdom | P: Practical, Earthy, Loyal to Family and Career, Realistic Ideas N: Petty, Controlling, Negative Nagging, Possessive, Judgemental |
| Aquarius ♒ | Humanitarian, Loyal Friend, Cosmological, Leadership, Team Player | P: Understanding, Friendly, Creative, Aware N: Self-serving, Controlling, Confused, Escapist |
| Pisces ♓ | Sacrificing, Compassionate, Empathetic, Creative, Healer | P: Empathetic, Understanding, Musical, Artistic,Healing N: Martyr, Blaming, Isolates, Secretive, Delusional |
| PLANET | Karmic Indicators | Karmic Challenges |
|---|---|---|
| Sun ☉ | Creative Energy, Identity, Self Concept, Leadership Ability, Consciousness | Challenge to create identity in this life and to move toward self-actualization, Individuation Awareness |
| Moon ☽ | Self Comfort, Past Life Habits, Feelings, Family Choices, Self-Nurturing | To learn to deal with the emotional and feeling level with self-nuturing and karmic family issues |
| Mercury☿ | Thinking, Communicating, Perception, Intelligence, Expression | Learning to flow with communication and accuracy about expression. Finding your voice in all areas of communication |
| Venus ♀ | Loving, Relationships, Romanticism, Values, Intimacy, Receptivity | Learning how to be intimate and honest in close relationships. Learning affection and sensitivity. |
| Mars ♂ | Initiative, Pioneering, Desire, Motivation, Focus | Self-assertiveness, independent action and purposeful will |
| Jupiter ♃ | Goals, Ambitions, Beliefs | Staying with goals and ambitions and trying to not overdo or exaggerate any of these qualities |
| Saturn ♄ | Discipline, Boundaries, Structure, Focus, Authority, Manifestation | High Karmic significance and essentially the ‘dweller at the threshold’ boundaries, boundaries, structure, structure. |
| Uranus ♅ | Innovative, Freedom, Independent Thinker, Unique, Inventive | Ability to be independent and unique without being eccentric and rebellious. |
| Neptune ♆ | Spiritual Knowing, Idealistic, Artistic, Musical, Empathic | Living in an illusion and avoiding delusional thinking, staying within a creative framework. Learning not to martyr oneself in the guise of healing. |
| Pluto ♇ | Transformative power, Insightful, Change Oriented, Tantric Master, Will Power | Transformative and purging nature can be helpful to others, if one can avoid controlling and competing at this level. |
| (IMPORTANT) ASPECTS | DEGREE | Karmic Force |
|---|---|---|
| Conjunction ☌ | 0 | Extra energy and power to achieve nature of conjunction. |
| Sextile ∗ | 60 | Opportunities to advance the soul |
| Square □ | 90 | Challenges and karmic significance |
| Inconjunct | 150 | Acute situations usually around health issues. |
| Trine △ | 120 | Talents brought over from past lives |
| Opposition ☍ | 180 | Balancing Polarities |
The four elements: Fire, earth, air, and water
| Fire Aries, Leo, Sagittarius | Earth Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn | Air Gemini, Libra, Aquarius | Water Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic | Practical | Intellectual | Emotional |
| Courageous | Skillful | Social | Intuitive |
| Passionate | Down to Earth | Thoughtful | Romantic |
IMPORTANCE OF HOUSE POSITIONS
| HOUSE-POSITION | QUALITY | KEY WORDS |
|---|---|---|
| ANGULAR (1, 4, 7, 10) | self-activating quality (how you initiate action) | ACTION – strong planets (like exalted signs) (AC, IC, DC, MC) – very important when dealing with the horoscope/felt more strongly |
| SUCCEDENT (2, 5, 8, 11) | individual desires and the areas we want to control (shows outcome of whatever was started in angular) SECURITY/PRODUCTIVITY | SECURITY/PRODUCTIVITY (strength as if it were in the sign of its detriment) They sync with the fixed sign quality of rooting in, to be able to fully materialize, prosper, bring to completion |
| CADENT (3, 6, 9, 12) | where there is input, exchange, and distribution of thoughts and observations (how you maintain what was started in angular) | LEARNING/COMMUNICATION These Houses are in flux, the planets are here the weakest (like a sign in its fall) |
PRACTICAL USE OF HOUSES: UNDERSTANDING PRIMARY MEANINGS OF EACH HOUSE
| HOUSE AND KEYWORDS | MAIN CONCEPTS | RULES | ELEMENTS WITH KEYWORDS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st house – Personal/Self- identity; physical body, early childhood, tied to health/ANGULAR = self-activating quality (how you initiate action). ACTION | The first house has to do with how we appear or the way we come across, thus our appearance and personality | Rules our personal self and everything about us that draws a reaction from our surroundings or others. | Fire – Trinity of Life – attitude toward life and the experience of being alive/ Planets in the fire houses affect the individual’s attitude toward life itself and the person’s entire sense of faith and confidence in self/IDENTITY. |
| 2nd house – values, memory, self-worth, material possessions, inner resources/SUCCEDENT = individual desires and the areas we want to control (shows outcome of whatever was started in angular); SECURITY/PRODUCTIVITY | Is concerned with how we respond to or field whatever impulses or unique and personal qualities we manifest via our first house | Refers to how we secure ourselves, the kind of response we get from life and those around us. How we hold/have things/possessions | Earth – Trinity of Wealth – associated with the level of experience wherein we try to satisfy our basic needs in the practical world/MATERIAL |
| 3rd house – communications, knowledge, siblings, short trips, immediate environment/CADENT = where there is input, exchange, and distribution of thoughts and observations (how you maintain what was started in angular); LEARNING/COMMUNICATION | Is concerned with explorations, investigations, and inquiry and research of all kinds | Rules connections, communications, wires, tubes and rules short journeys, siblings | Air – Trinity of Relationships – associated not only with social contacts and relationships of all types, but also with concepts/SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL |
| 4th house – psychological foundation, roots, domestic affairs, home and family, how things end; early years/ ANGULAR = self-activating quality (how you initiate action). ACTION | Where we send down roots, find our limits, and generally secure ourselves | This is our home and the base from which we can work, feel, and experience. | Water – The Psychic Trinity – All of these houses deal with the past, with the conditioned responses that are now instinctual and operate through the emotions. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives a great deal in the feelings and in his or her deeper yearnings/EMOTIONAL AND SOUL. |
| 5th house – self expression, romance, play, art, children, creativity, pleasure, hobbies, vacations/ SUCCEDENT = individual desires and the areas we want to control (shows outcome of whatever was started in angular); SECURITY | Has to do with awareness, emotion (to move out), and expression (to press out) | All forms of expression and offsprings are connected to this house — children, animals, creative expression, and so on | Fire – Trinity of Life – attitude toward life and the experience of being alive/ Planets in the fire houses affect the individual’s attitude toward life itself and the person’s entire sense of faith and confidence in self/IDENTITY. |
| 6th house – work and service, daily routines, health, habits/ CADENT = where there is input, exchange, and distribution of thoughts and observations (how you maintain what was started in angular); LEARNING | Has to do with salvaging and preserving what is good and healthy in our experience | Is an attempt to save the heart of an experience, one that already by that attempt is beginning to pass or not cohere. | Earth – Trinity of Wealth – associated with the level of experience wherein we try to satisfy our basic needs in the practical world/MATERIAL |
| 7th house – relationships, partnership, marriage, dealing with others, public, grandparents/ ANGULAR = self-activating quality (how you initiate action). ACTION | The house of partnerships, relationships, social life, and all that carries us beyond our personal self into an awareness of other people, community, and the like | Includes spiritual awakening and the discovery that we are more than just our personality. Marriage and yoga, or union, is indicated in this house | Air – Trinity of Relationships – associated not only with social contacts and relationships of all types, but also with concepts/SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL |
| 8th house – other’s resources, taxes, inheritance, sexuality, occult, hidden things, death, rebirthing, inheritance, transformation/ SUCCEDENT = individual desires and the areas we want to control (shows outcome of whatever was started in angular); SECURITY | Is concerned with getting rid of excess parts of ourselves that we see we no longer need | Covers initiation and any activities where we are transforming toward a more integral position, getting to the heart of things | Water – The Psychic Trinity – All of these houses deal with the past, with the conditioned responses that are now instinctual and operate through the emotions. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives a great deal in the feelings and in his or her deeper yearnings/EMOTIONAL AND SOUL. |
| 9th house –, inspiration, philosophy, world view, education, travels, higher mind/ CADENT = where there is input, exchange, and distribution of thoughts and observations (how you maintain what was started in angular); LEARNING | Covers long journeys and religion. Here is what remains of the purification that takes place in the eighth house — the seed, or essence, of an entire cycle of experience. | Essential ideas, philosophy, and all that is the very heart of things belong here. | Fire – Trinity of Life – attitude toward life and the experience of being alive/ Planets in the fire houses affect the individual’s attitude toward life itself and the person’s entire sense of faith and confidence in self/IDENTITY. |
| 10th house – career and ethics, ambitions, status/public image/ ANGULAR = self-activating quality (how you initiate action). ACTION | Is a house of practical vision and clairvoyance, for here we can see clearly what is. Reputation and career are often connected to this house | This house is where we have real vision and can see to do and work. Planets transiting this house may provide moments of insight and clear-seeing as well. | Earth – Trinity of Wealth – associated with the level of experience wherein we try to satisfy our basic needs in the practical world/MATERIAL |
| 11th house – community, social activities, ideals, groups, friends, clubs, humanitarian interests/ SUCCEDENT = individual desires and the areas we want to control (shows outcome of whatever was started in angular); SECURITY | Has to do with putting our visions and dreams (from 10th house) to work. | This house has always been connected with altruistic and humanitarian goals and trying to set them in motion. It is the house of friends and community, because when we are powered by a real insight or vision we share with all — irrespective of differences | Air – Trinity of Relationships – associated not only with social contacts and relationships of all types, but also with concepts/SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL |
| 12th house – spirituality, house of illusion, addictions, dreams, hidden resources, psychic phenomena, inner, meditative, entrapped, spiritual, hospitals/ CADENT = where there is input, exchange, and distribution of thoughts and observations (how you maintain what was started in angular); LEARNING | Is about all that we go through in order to make our dreams into reality and manifest them in the world around us. It covers what we are willing to put up with, the sacrifices we will make in order to bring across what is really important. | This is connected to prisons, institutions, betrayal, self-undoing, and the like, because it is here that we must choose to take some possible abuse for the sake of the message we are carrying, or blow it all away with a negative reaction. | Water – The Psychic Trinity – All of these houses deal with the past, with the conditioned responses that are now instinctual and operate through the emotions. The person with an emphasis on these houses lives a great deal in the feelings and in his or her deeper yearnings/EMOTIONAL AND SOUL. |