By Eileen Nauman, DHM (UK)
Copyright 2000-2012. All Rights Reserved.
How to Use This Guide
If you know what your planet is, what zodiac sign it is in, and what house this combination resides in, you can make a “sentence” out of it. For example I have Mars in Leo in the 12th house.
I would look at the Mars keywords and set them along side the 12th house keywords. You can mix and match them, turn them around, etc. These then are “possibilities” if you so choose to catalyze them or trigger them into your life–or not.
This is a very ‘general’ guide and if you have specific questions, you should ALWAYS defer this to a professional astrologer. Keywords are a way to learn the basics, but never replaces the finished touch that a professional astrologer can put on it.
Aspects: If you know aspects and what they mean, you can further use this guide. For example, my Mars is sextile my Jupiter. I could look up keywords for Mars and Jupiter and look at sextile to see what that means, in order to give a slant to these two planets in aspect to one another.
Asteroids: Asteroids are another component that many astrologers use in interpreting a natal chart. If you know WHERE your asteroids are in your chart, you can look up the asteroid and the house position in your chart to give you a better understanding of where the ‘action’ of it is, and how it will be playing out in your life.
Sentence Examples Using Mars in the 12th House
Mars keywords (taken from the below list….this isn’t all of them, just a few):
- abusive/abuser/abused
- action
- adrenal glands
- aggressiveness
- anemia
12th house keywords (taken from the below list….this isn’t all of them, just a few):
- animals, large
- aunts
- uncles
- confinement
- help from behind the scenes
Examples
- (Mars) Action (12th house) help behind the scenes .
- (Mars) Abusive (12th house) to large animals. It can mean that you’re abusive to a large animal, like a cow, horse, etc. Cats and dogs are considered “little” animals.
- (Mars) Anemia (12th house) confinement. (If anemia is not caught and dealt with, you will be tired and be sitting around a lot….house confinement.)
- (Mars) Aggressiveness (12th house) to large animals. This could mean you beat your dog or cat.
- (Mars) Anemia (12th house) aunt or uncle. This would mean that you may have an aunt or uncle that has had or has anemia.
- (Mars) Adrenal glands (12th house) confinement. This would mean that your adrenal glands may be hypo or hyper functioning and this could put you in the hospital, a form of ‘confinement.’
- (Mars) Abusive (12th house) confinement. This can be interpreted many ways. (a) You are abusive and have been put into prison for abusing someone. (b) Someone has abused you and put you in the hospital.
Sun Sign Keywords?
We don’t have keywords for the Sun signs because you can simply take the planetary ruler of your Sun Sign and look at it and those stand for the sun sign that is ruled by it, as well.
Each word is an adjective which describes possibilities for you. The question you want to ask in the back of your mind is, “Does this word describe me or not?” If it does, fine. If it doesn’t, then this is a “possibility” for you to become if you make the CHOICE to do it.
To make this a little easier for new folks, here is the planetary rulers of your sun sign. Just go to that planet and it will describe your sun sign.
- Aries–Mars
- Taurus–Venus
- Gemini–Mercury
- Cancer–Moon
- Leo–Sun
- Virgo–Mercury
- Libra–Venus
- Scorpio–Pluto
- Sagittarius–Jupiter
- Capricorn–Saturn
- Aquarius–Uranus
- Pisces–Neptune
Planet Keywords
Sun:
- “I”
- actors and actresses
- authority
- children
- conceit
- your constitution
- creativity
- ego
- entertainment
- father
- games
- heart
- hobbies
- holidays
- honor
- Iodine
- love affairs
- Magnesium
- me
- men
- nobility
- power
- pleasure
- pride
- self-expression
- selfish
- speculation
- sports
- vacations
- Vital Force (homeopathic)
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin D
- vitality
- Will
Moon:
- adaptability
- allergies
- asthma
- B-2
- babies
- brain
- changeability
- change & action
- clairvoyance
- cleaning
- common people
- common sense
- consciousness
- digestion & digestive organs
- domestic life
- Edema/water retention
- emotions
- environment
- feelings
- habits
- instincts
- intuition
- mother
- memory
- nurturance
- Potassium
- protectiveness
- public & crowds
- receptivity
- response
- Riboflavin (B-2)
- security
- sensitivity
- stress, emotional
- trust
- women
Mercury:
- arms
- authors
- Books
- book cases
- breathing
- central nervous system
- cleverness
- copyrights
- communication
- dexterity
- eyesight
- eyeglasses
- flexibility
- gestures
- hands
- fingers
- ideas
- insomnia
- jokes
- learning
- logic
- memory
- Molybdenum
- nerves, motor
- news
- newspapers
- periodicals
- reason
- Selenium
- small things
- speech
- Stress
- teachers and teaching
- Thiamin (B-1)
- Thyroid
- writing
Venus:
- affability
- anorexia
- artistry
- attraction
- beauty
- Carbohydrate metabolism
- Copper
- courteous
- cultured
- easy
- equality
- flexibility
- flirtatious
- forgiving
- harmony
- intimacy
- laziness
- love
- Niacin
- peace
- polite
- self-indulgent
- sensuality
- serenity
- sociability
- sweets, desire for
- throat
- vain
- values
- veins of body
- Vitamin E
- women
Mars:
- abusive/abuser/abused
- action
- adrenal glands
- aggressiveness
- anemia
- anger and temper
- B-12
- blood pressure
- hyper
- anger
- adrenaline
- stress related
- brutality
- Chlorine
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- Cobalt
- contact with men
- courage
- danger
- desire
- drive & energy
- enthusiasm
- excitement
- Fatty Acids (Vitamin F)
- feuds
- Folic Acid
- force
- hostility
- hyperalert
- hyperactivity
- impatience
- impulsiveness
- Iron
- initiative
- ligaments
- machismo
- masculinity
- muscles
- PTSD symptoms
- passion
- pioneers
- red blood cells
- self-confidence
- sensuality
- sprains
- strains
- tendons
- testosterone
- vigorous
- will
Jupiter:
- abundance
- affluence
- amplification
- arteries of the body
- attorneys and lawyers
- B-6
- benefactors
- Biotin
- blood pressure
- high/fat related
- books
- bulimia
- celebrations
- ceremonies
- charity
- cholesterol high
- Choline
- Chromium
- church officials
- courts
- exaggeration
- expansion
- Fat metabolism
- Inositol
- joviality
- judgment
- “larger than…”
- Liver
- luck
- Manganese
- Obesity
- optimism
- Pangamic Acid (B-15)
- philosophy
- Professional people
- Professors and one’s education
- Prosperity
- Publishing
- religion
- Triglycerides, high
- Zinc
Saturn:
- ambition
- arthritis/osteoporosis
- authority
- Bioflavanoids
- business
- Calcium
- caution
- cold
- consolidation
- control
- delay
- discipline
- father
- fear
- Fluorine
- inflexible
- inhibition
- ligaments
- limitation
- losses
- loyalty
- old age
- Osteoporosis
- PABA
- patience
- practical
- reliable
- responsibility
- restriction
- skeleton of body
- “Smaller than…”
- structure
- Sulfur
- tediousness
- teeth, bones, joints
- tendons
- time
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin K
Uranus:
- aliens (off world type)
- aliens (from another country)
- brotherly love
- chaos
- computers
- derelict
- eccentricity
- electricity
- freedom
- genius or madman
- homeless person
- independence
- insomnia
- insubordination
- inventions
- left-brain thinking
- liberation
- nervous disorders (parasympathetic nervous system)
- nervous person
- the Net
- new/futuristic
- original thinkers
- radical
- rebellion
- stressed out
- sudden changes
- technology (science)
- tension
- UFO’s
- uprooted/turned upside down
- upset
- urge for free self-expression
- vehicles in general
Neptune:
- actors and actresses
- alcohol
- artists
- ambiguities
- anesthesia (bad reaction to–allergic reaction)
- bacteria
- beaches
- beverages
- boats
- clairvoyant
- coma
- compassion
- confusion
- codependent
- creative
- dancing
- deception
- delusion (by ourselves toward ourselves or others)
- dreams
- drug addiction
- drugs (hypersensitive to)
- drugs (allergy reaction to)
- energy defrayed (feels tired, exhausted)
- epidemics
- escape forgery
- fishing
- idealism and what one idealizes
- illumination
- illusion
- imagination
- Laetrile
- manipulated by others
- music
- obligations and serving
- Pantothenic Acid (B-5)
- poisons of all kinds
- psychic
- sacrifice
- sensitivity
- spirituality
- suffering
- vagueness
- victim
- virus
- weak (as in an organ or system of the body)
Pluto:
- abduction
- compulsion
- contamination
- contempt
- control
- convicts
- crime and the underworld
- death of some thing (spiritual, mental, emotional or physical)
- decay
- deep analysis
- depravity
- destruction
- detectives
- disasters
- elimination
- endocrine system
- epidemics of global proportion
- fanatics
- guilt
- legacies
- mortality
- Orotic Acid (B-13)
- passion
- penis
- Phoenix bird (rising from the ashes)
- power
- prostate gland
- regeneration
- resurrection
- sexuality issues/dysfunction/hyperfunction
- sub-conscious mind
- testicles
- transformation (spiritual, mental, emotional or physical)
Moon Nodes
by Carol Willis
Copyright 2000. All Rights Reserved.
The Moon’s nodes represent the polarity and balance of the spiritual and the worldly. You will tend to have the most affinity and success with the lunar node closest to your Sun. If your Sun is exactly square to the lunar axis, then you have equal affinity with each.
South Node (KETU):
- Spirituality.
- Metaphysics and esotericism.
- Renouncing the “world”, i.e. renouncing worldliness.
- Releasing things, persons, and situations on the material plane, lightening the material load, simplifying.
- Gifts and talents that are easily available, easily unfolded and expressed further.
- Past life connections, old familiarity.
North Node (RAHU):
- Materiality, worldliness.
- Challenges, trying, efforting, struggle, tenacity, holding one’s own.
- Developing talents and willingness to operate in an area, and do this successfully.
- Persistence over time, often best done by applying self, then backing off, then going at it again after regrouping, over and over as needed, having a more neutral and willing attitude about outcomes, being less attached to worldly outcomes in the area of the Node.
House Cusps Keywords
Ascendant (Rising Sign) (1st House Cusp):
- coat, like a–the public persona we wear for others
- mask that we put on when outside our home
- one’s appearance
- one’s bearing and demeanor
- one’s behavior in public
- how one approaches life
- natural disposition shown to public
- our physical body
- persona, the ‘false self’
- public persona
- the way People see you (the mask, the costume)
- those in your life–work, the public
- the way YOU Would like to be seen by others, the public
Midheaven (10th House Cusp):
- ambitious
- authority figures (i.e. the boss, the government, etc.)
- ego, the driving force that urges one
- to achieve
- fame and promotion
- highest one can reach in a worldly sense
- parental authority
- parents, one of the
- your reputation
- standing in the community
- your status
- your worldly achievements
First House:
- appearance, personal
- appearance, how one cares for his
- approach to life, one’s
- beginning of all enterprises
- one’s birth
- one’s character
- your desires
- disposition
- environment, immediate (school, office, public buildings)
- habits
- how one is seen
- I am
- impression one makes on others
- individuality
- personality
- physical body
- projected image (the mask and costume we wear outside our home)
- self-opinion
- way one expresses himself
- way one wants others to see him
Second House:
- banks
- banker
- budgets
- cash
- checks
- debts, Personal
- earning capacity
- freedom
- financial losses
- gifts bestowed or received
- income
- inheritance of power
- I Possess
- investments
- material resources Or Possessions
- money
- negotiable assets
- partner’s death
- Personal values
- Physical senses
- self-worth
- stockbroker
- talent
- wealth
Third House:
- brothers & sisters
- communication
- commuting
- concrete thought – the conscious mind
- contracts & agreements
- correspondence
- intellect
- intelligence journalist,
- journalism,
- journals
- lungs
- breathing
- meetings & conferences messages
- telegrams neighbors
- nerves & nervous system
- post office,
- postmen
- receptivity to ideas from others
- secretaries
- short trips
- speech
- studies
- students
- studying
- teachers & teaching
- tests, written and oral
- trade
- local transportation of all kinds
- writing
- writers
Fourth House:
- agriculture
- cause of losses in speculation
- cities and buildings
- cousins
- domestic environment
- end of life
- estates
- father or mother-in-law
- family
- gain from writing or contracts
- one’s grave or place of rest
- home or residence
- hotels or motels
- land
- later life conditions
- leases
- parent
- personal activities
- one’s private life
- property and possessions, immovable
- ranches and ranchers
- security and fortifications
- traditions, family
Fifth House:
- amusement
- Children, birth or adopted
- concerts
- concert hall
- Courtship
- creative self-expression
- drama and dramatists
- excitement
- games
- groups
- bowling league
- hobbies
- holidays
- Income from real estate
- love affairs
- one’s lover
- Love given
- Preachy
- Places of entertainment
- Pleasure
- Public schools
- show business
- social affairs & functions
- speculation
- gambling
- teachers
- teaching
Sixth House:
- animals, small (dog or cat)
- pets
- small or domestic
- army
- nannies
- assimilation of food
- cafes
- civil service
- closets
- clothing, in general
- co-workers
- daily work or routine
- doctors
- nurses
- dress, one’s manner of
- employment
- employees
- health
- hygiene
- labor
- laboring classes
- libraries
- nutrition
- pantries
- relations with co-workers
- servants
- service
- subordinates, one’s
- tenants
- work
- work environment
Seventh House:
- agreements & contracts
- communication, meaningful
- competition
- controversies
- cooperation or the lack- of it
- courts, the
- divorce
- fugitives
- grandparents
- law-suits
- love
- lovers
- marriage
- nephews
- nieces
- opponents, known
- outcome of all contentions
- partnerships, marriage or business
- peace
- public, the
- relationships, one-on-one
- rivals
- rivalry
- social affairs
- social functions
- strife
- enmities
- pleas
- war
Eighth House:
- alimony
- astral experiences
- bankruptcy
- corporate
- death
- debts
- dowries
- drastic changes
- inheritances
- insurance
- matters relating to death
- occult matters
- outcome of lawsuits
- partner’s income
- recycling
- regeneration
- reincarnation
- resources, other people’s
- sex
- suicides
- support from others
- surgery
- taxes
- wills
Ninth House:
- advertising
- airline hostesses
- attorneys, lawyers
- ceremonies
- churches, church affairs, ministers
- courts of law
- dreams
- foreigners
- anything that is foreign
- foreign politics
- freedom
- grandchildren
- higher education & universities
- hips, upper legs, sciatic nerves
- ideals
- in-laws
- journeys
- literature
- litigation
- metaphysics
- places at a distance
- publishing
- religion
- philosophy
- science, in general
- travel agents
- truth
Tenth House:
- achievement
- advancement
- ambitious persons
- authority figures
- business
- career or profession
- dishonor
- employers
- esteem
- fame
- famous people
- government
- illness of one’s children
- leaders
- leadership
- matters outside the home
- one’s moral qualities
- one’s position in the world
- parent, a
- politics
- politicians
- prestige
- honors
- popularity
- pride
- promotions
- reputation
- responsibilities & duty
- social status
Eleventh House:
- business income
- civic organizations
- congress or the House of
- Representatives
- colleagues
- companies
- contacts
- counselors
- death of parents (also 5th)
- expectations
- finances of one’s employer
- friends & acquaintances
- groups
- hopes
- wishes
- goals
- legacies
- memberships
- money from one’s profession
- one’s fourth child
- one’s ideas of happiness
- organizations
- projects
- ambitions
- sons
- daughter-in-laws
- sororities
- fraternities
- stepchildren
Twelfth House:
- animals, large
- aunts
- uncles
- confinement
- help from behind the scenes
- hospitals & other places of confinement
- institutions
- meditation
- occupations of brothers & sisters
- private investigators
- rest homes
- retirement
- sanctuaries
- sea
- seamen
- seclusion
- loneliness
- self-analysis
- self-undoing
- solitude
- places of solitude
- sorrows
- secret sorrows
- study
- subconscious
- thieves
- welfare
- secrets
- secret enemies
Major Aspect Keywords
Conjunction (0 degrees between two planets):
- power
- emphasis
- inauguration
- intensification concentration
- new activity
- merges with …
- unconsciously identifies with …
- potential for intensified strength through
- unification
Sextile (60 degree angle between planets):
- opportunity
- attraction
- self-expression
- affability
- productivity combines with…
- facilitates the expression of…
- potential for building a new talent
Square (90 degree angle between two planets):
- obstacle
- challenge
- action, often dynamic
- tension
- accomplishment
- turning points
- difficult, but energizing
- potential for productivity through focus of
- energy
- Stepping stone or stumbling block
Truine (120 degrees between two planets):
- flow and ease
- idealism
- inspiration
- harmony
- indolence
- expansion
- tendency to choose the line of least resistance
- potential for creative expression
- laziness
- no drive
Quincunx or Inconjunct (150 degree angle between two planets):
- adjustment
- reorganization
- lack of perspective
- strain
- change of attitude
- change of habit patterns
- potential for transformation through
- adjustment
Opposition (180 degrees between two planets):
- awareness
- need for balance
- being pulled in two opposite directions
- outreach
- cooperation or conflict
- tension
- recognizing a lack within oneself
- potential for transformation through
- adjustment
Asteroid Keywords: Five Major Asteroids
By Carol Willis
Copyright 1998-2000. All Rights Reserved.
Chiron:
- a bridge between the old and the new
- charismatic
- maverick
- keys that unlock the door or mystery
- an “opening”
- improvements
- fixes
- tricky
- bizarre reversals
- wounds
- intuition
- healing and healers
- the “wounded healer”
Ceres:
- nurturing
- nourishment
- protective
- unconditional love
- bringing up children
- mothering
- grains
- agriculture, farms, gardens
Juno:
- marriage
- partnership
- collaboration
- mutual respect, dignity, reciprocity, empowerment
- in relationships
Pallas Athena:
- wisdom
- intuitive development
- balance of logic and intuition
- strategy
- plans
- goal-setting
- genetics
- VESTA
- “keeper of the flame”
- mission and purpose
- idealism
- “holding down the space,” or “creating a context”
