How to Read Your Personal Monthly Horoscope

So you’ve just read your personal monthly horoscope.  One of the heavenly bodies is lining up at exactly the same degree (number) and sign of the zodiac, as something in your chart. Which area of your life will be affected, and how?

Example – you were born with the Sun at 15 Virgo and this month, there are patterns also at 15 Virgo. Looking down the list you see that a personal story involving your body, daily routine, lifestyle, work ethic, service, duty, food is set to unfold.

LOOK UP THE SIGN – WHICH AREA OF YOUR LIFE IS AFFECTED THIS MONTH?

ARIES Image, brand, appearance, self-interest, self-promotion, profile, reputation, publicity, packaging.
TAURUS Money, business, charity, value, communism, socialism, economy, possessions, property, charity.
GEMINI Multimedia, publishing, internet, words, ideas, images, journalism, books, public speaking.
CANCER Mothers, home, family, home town, country, patriotism, roots, heritage, houses, apartments, home exchanges.
LEO Children, babies, young adults. Youth projects. Junior generations. Lovers who could make you a parent/aunt/uncle.
VIRGO The Body. Daily routine, lifestyle, work ethic, service, duty, food, drink, drugs, doctors, healers, surgery, exercise.
LIBRA Partners. Partnerships. Former, current and potential partners. Enemies, rivals and opponents. Lovers or foes!
SCORPIO Power and money. Sex and money. Death and money. Basically – property/finance in power-based ties.
SAGITTARIUS Travel. Travel in the mind. Academia, education, publishing, beliefs, foreign or regional ties, the internet.
CAPRICORN Ambition. Social climbing. Social status. Achievement. Being at the top of the hierarchy. ‘Making it.’
AQUARIUS Groups. Friends. People power. Clubs, societies, associations, political parties, bands, teams, Twitter networks.
PISCES Drugs and alcohol. Meditation. Mediumship. Secrets. Operating behind the scenes without any credit/visibility.

LOOK UP THE HEAVENLY BODY – WHICH PART OF YOUR PERSONALITY WILL BE TRIGGERED?

Now, which heavenly body in your horoscope is affected? Or which angle or point of your personal chart? This describes a very particular part of your personality which is about to be triggered – in the area of life described above.

Example – you were born with the Sun at 15 Virgo, in a week when there are also patterns at 15 Virgo. Your personal Sun is being activated, so this is a week to shine, glow in the dark, gain attention, be judged, receive feedback, take the spotlight.

THE SUN How you shine, glow in the dark, gain attention, receive judgement, find feedback and experience the spotlight.
THE MOON How you need to be needed. How you ‘mother’ other people or animals, no matter if you are a man or woman.
MERCURY How you communicate. How you use the internet. That part of your personality which is a writer/speaker.
VENUS How you run sexual relationships. How you feel about your children and in-laws. Your vanity and desirability.
CUPIDO How you stir up desire but also succumb to it. That part of you which falls in love with people, places, ideas.
PSYCHE How you survive tests and trials. The rewards are something about yourself that lives forever – that never dies.
MARS How you compete, fight, assert yourself, go all-out to win, come first, attack, respond to emergency, stress and heat.
VULCANUS/VULCANO How you gain power by willpower – controlling your emotions and impulses with a will of iron.
JUPITER How you give back. How you are generous with others. How you use your good fortune by fixing others’ lives.
JUNO That part of your personality which wants to commit. Your desire to lock up agreements in exchange for security.
FORTUNA How you blindly spin the wheel of fate and fortune for other people. How you unconsciously affect their lives.
MINERVA The wise part of yourself. That part of your personality which counsels, advises and knows the best answers.
DIANA A fiercely free and independent part of yourself which dislikes commitment and demands space and autonomy.
BACCHUS The pleasure-seeking and pleasure-generating part of your personality which sees life as one big, long banquet.
APOLLO Your inner leader! The part of you which mentors, guides and inspires others. Your inner superstar multi-tasker.
CHIRON Your inner maverick. How you bend the rules to see if you can change them. How you get away with it all.
AESCULAPIA/AESCULAPIUS That part of your personality which revives, resurrects and brings it back from the brink.
PANACEA You can fix, repair, heal and resolve situations, people or ‘things’ by using your Panacea – but is it also ethical?
HYGEIA The safety and security conscious part of you which protects the future by insuring against risk or problems.
SATURN The scared part of you which self-sabotages in order to feel ‘safe’ – is your coping method worse than the threat?
OPS The strong, practical, optimistic, positive part of yourself which strives to fix up even the most negative of situations.
VESTA The part of your personality drawn into gender politics with one male/two or more females. Feminism helps you.
URANUS How you trigger rebellion or revolution by rejecting what you create, produce or invent – your ‘whoops creation.’
NEPTUNE How you escape from the so-called real world by losing yourself in an alternative reality without boundaries.
SALACIA Your ability to comfortably co-exist in two different parallel universes, or alternative realities. How you escape.
PLUTO Your dominating side which changes the balance of power for yourself and others. Your passionate, powerful self.
CERES How you do (and do not) cope with enforced compromises over control and power. How you learn to share.
PROSERPINA Your inner go-between. How you keep both sides happy. How you connect two powerful people/entities.
ASCENDANT (RISING SIGN) How you project a particular reputation or image, for better or worse, getting it right or not.
DESCENDANT (DC) That part of your personality which is mirrored in your partner, but strangely also your enemy too.
MIDHEAVEN (MC) Your highest spiritual achievement. Your mountain top. It may or may not be related to your career.
IMMUM COELI (IC) Where you come from. A dominant theme in your family tree, culture, country, town that repeats.
NORTH NODE That part of you which has reincarnated to watch particular life stories repeated, from a distance.
SOUTH NODE That part of you which has reincarnated to repeat particular life stories in order to learn detachment.

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