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Jupiter in Your Chart. Jupiter is the planet that represents the universal principle of expansion.

Jupiter in Your Chart

Where it is located in your chart, by sign and house, reveals where this expansion wants to express in your life. Jupiter is associated with all aspects of higher learning and broad fields of knowledge such as psychology, education, spirituality, healing, and law. Those who have a strong Jupiter influence in their charts, either by aspect with the Sun or by house position, often find themselves working in these fields of study. In India, Jupiter is known as "Guru" which means teacher or "dispeller of darkness. " Jupiter shows where we get the greatest expansion in our lives and where we can help others expand in theirs. If you don't know what sign Jupiter is placed in your natal chart, you can go to the Jupiter Signs Table at and look it up.

Jupiter in Aries/1st House. Jupiter in Taurus/2nd House. Jupiter in Gemini/3rd House. Jupiter in Cancer/4th house. Jupiter in Leo/5th house. Your Natural Partners · What Your Seventh House Cusp Has To Say About Your Closest Connections. By Tauna Magness In the astrological analysis of a birth chart, the rising sign (also referred to as the Ascendant) symbolizes the way in which one projects oneself into the environment.

Your Natural Partners · What Your Seventh House Cusp Has To Say About Your Closest Connections

It represents one’s self image and speaks volumes about the personal interplay of an individual’s personality with the world in which we live. If you have ever had your astrological birth chart calculated, you know your rising sign. This point in the chart is based upon the precise moment that you entered the world, along with the exact date and location of your birth. The point directly opposite to your Ascendant is the Descendant—your Seventh House. For the purpose of this article, you simply need to know your rising sign in order to determine the sign on your partnership house cusp. Aries Rising: The planet Venus rules your Seventh House. Taurus Rising: The planets Pluto and Mars rule your Seventh House.

Gemini Rising: The planet Jupiter rules your Seventh House. Neptune.

Minor bodies

Meanings of the Planets. Sun The sun represents your will or life force.

Meanings of the Planets

It is the conscious, extroverted, positive, male side of yourself. The sun or solar principle provides the life energy that is expressed by the rest of your chart. So-called "sun-sign" astrology can work as well as it does because the sun is such an important feature of your chart/life, but one should never forget that there are other planets in your chart. The moon, midheaven and the ascendant are of equal value in describing a life. Moon The moon represents the emotional side of your existance. Mercury Mercury represents the concretely intellectual part of your personality, the functioning mind. Venus Venus can be said to represent "love" and is often paired with Mars in a polarity: The symbol for Venus is the standard biological symbol for female, and the glyph for Mars is the symbol for male. Mars Mars represents our active energy, the way we go out and get what we want, which can be determined by, amoung other things, Venus.

Sun, Moon, Ascendant. Heather has written in with a question that expresses a confusion or uncertainty that bothers many people who are interested in Astrology.

Sun, Moon, Ascendant

Rob Tillett, leading astrologer and founder of Astrology on the Web, responds with a brief explanation of the way the signs, planets and other factors interact to form the whole person. Heather writes: "Hello, I noticed on your site that you state the sun sign as being our "inner nature". It has always been my thought and in all books that I read that the moon sign is your inner nature and the sun sign in the outward demeanour and then the rising sign is your character. If I am misunderstanding this, let me know...

However, I don't see anything about the moon signs on your site either. Rob answers:Hi Heather and thanks for your thoughtful note. To understand ourselves and to make sense of the way our lives develop is the ultimate purpose of the study of astrology.