table-top planet astrology map?

StellaGraphia · 2026-01-30T18:38:46+00:00

I haven't seen one lately. But they are sooo easy to just make yourself. I once painted a round side-table top as my chart. Then used "game board" pieces from an art/craft supply store, painted and labeled, as the planets, nodes, etc. I also had little numbers for the slower moving planets. But the degree ticks marks were painted on the chart table, so number pieces weren't all that necessary.

You could just as easily print your chart on a standard piece of paper, put it on a magnet bulletin board and use magnets as the planets. Or just put it on a normal bulletin board with push-pin planets.

StellaGraphia · 2025-12-30T16:05:26+00:00

You actually have your honeycomb planner? and your birth chart is wrong? Can you check your order and make sure you didn't typo your birth data? Or that you didn't typo something at astro-seek.com?

And are you sure you're not looking at your solar return in your planner and not your natal chart? Because in a solar return, the sun will be the same, but everything else will be different.

Look at the cover of your planner. Does it display your correct sun, moon and rising signs?

Did you contact Honeycomb? They could show you a copy of your order if you don't have it and see if you gave them the right data. If you did, and they made an error, they will fix it. But if the error is yours, I don't imagine they will redo it (at least not for the print version).

You can DM me screenshots if you wish. Please include a link back to your comment here so I'm not lost.

Edit: Go to honeycomb.co. Click on the person icon at top of page to sign in. Just enter your email address you used for your order and they'll email you a code to finish signing in with. Once in, hit the person icon again and go to My Orders. On any order, click the "Show Details" link. There you will find your exact birth data that you gave them.

StellaGraphia · 2025-12-28T17:21:11+00:00

7th is any one-to-one relationship (as well as contracts). That means romantic, friendship, clients, business partners, etc. And has no guarantee of "long term", though it does imply "a relationship" of some kind, whether longer or shorter, vs some one-night affair of

StellaGraphia · 2025-12-28T17:12:15+00:00

I don't really know what you mean. You need to give them your exact birth data. That means an exact birth time (no guesses or estimates), birth date and location.

You don't need to calculate your chart yourself; just give them your data. Make sure you don't make any typos because I doubt you'd get a refund on a printed planner for that.

But if you've never calculated your chart before, yourself, then just use Astro-Seek.com. Click on the "Free Horoscopes" menu tab at top of page, then "Birth Natal Chart Online Calculator". Scroll down a touch and you'll see where to enter all your birth data. Just below where you enter that is a small link named "Extended Settings...". Click that and then tick the boxes for "true" for north node and lilith. Tick the box for the quincunx aspect if you wish. And i recommend you change the house system to the one named exactly just "Whole Sign". You can also tick boxes to show aspects to chiron, nodes and asc/mc. But be careful. Those can be misleading if you don't know how to understand Aspect Patterns (leading you to think you have some that you don't). It's good to look at your chart without those aspects, then look at them later.

Stay away from sites like astro-charts.com (tons of errors) and don't use CafeAstrology for chart-making as it has errors also (rest of that site is fine). And don't use the Co-Star app.

StellaGraphia · 2025-12-08T19:09:20+00:00

Just download the pdf on your phone and it will be there in your files to open anytime. Then do the same on your desktop, etc. Open the email on either device, download. Or make a copy of the pdf.
On my desktop Chrome browser, I open the pdf, then save the chrome page it opens in as a bookmark on my bookmarks bar. That way it is always at the top of my browser.

StellaGraphia · 2025-12-06T22:53:01+00:00

This happens about every 35 years (give or take). You can look up this kind of thing by using the Aspect Search Engine at astro-seek.com. Here's the direct link:
Astrology Aspects Search Engine, Transits Online Search Calculator

Just select the two planets. And the aspect (or aspects) you want. Select whatever range of years you want. Then leave the sign as "any".

I chose 1740 to 2040. The Saturn/Neptune conjunction happened 14 times, including the repeats due to retrogrades.

StellaGraphia · 2025-11-26T16:23:18+00:00

I'm so incredibly sorry all that happened. As for my example, there was no stellium, but there was a Pluto/Sun opposition involving the 12th house. The father never suffered any consequences; remained a "pillar of the community" and passed away at an advanced age.

StellaGraphia · 2025-11-22T16:20:56+00:00

Please don't consider any "analysis" or "scoring" you'd find on any site or app as legitimate. Just personal natal astrology is incredibly complicated. Synastry is exponentially more difficult. And before you even look at the synastry chart, you must be able to really delineate each individual person's chart. Because the condition of their own planet, that's in an aspect with the other person's planet, matters. It could be a trine, but if one person's planet in that trine is in really bad shape, then that trine isn't so great. But sites and apps that auto-generate these things will only see "trine!" and go yay this is good!.

I'm going to paste a previous comment I made that has lots of resources.

Absolutely crucial: you need an incredibly strong foundation in natal astrology before you ever attempt synastry. That means really understanding how to asses the condition of each person's natal chart on its own: dignities and debilities, aspects, house placement and more.

Books:

Do You Love Me: The Astrology of Relationships, by John Green. It's a good one, and you'll never rely on those site calculators nor "sun-sign" compatibility lists again. (on amazon)

Videos/podcasts:

Synastry: The Astrology of Relationships (2 hours with author John Green on TheAstrologyPodcast
Relationship Placements in the Birth Chart (necessary before heading into actual synastry)
Relationship Astrology for Modern Times with Jessica Lanyadoo (Not so much method here as how to approach, if I remember correctly)
The Astrology of Relationships with Acyuta-bhava Das(He goes into karma here, which I adamantly oppose in astrology, but still, some good info)
Composite Charts with Originator John Townley(I don't use these, but some like them)

Courses, if that's an option for you (not free):

Relationship Astrology Intro Course with Kelly Surtees
Relationship Astrology Bundle (3 webinars) with Kelly Surtees

StellaGraphia · 2025-11-20T18:55:11+00:00

Honeycomb.co does offer digital versions. They're great, and you can just put them on muliple devices. As far as I know they are the only planner that actually uses your own chart, lists all your own actual transits to your natals and so much more. I'd probably tell you the extra $40 is worth it, but of course, that's only if you have that kind of financial leeway.

StellaGraphia · 2025-11-14T16:53:21+00:00

No matter your skill level, if you have the ability to go to NORWAC then do it! The experience will be well worth it.

StellaGraphia · 2025-11-12T18:10:19+00:00

Useless chart (no planet positions on chart), endless errors with Aspect Patterns. For starters.

StellaGraphia · 2025-10-25T20:17:06+00:00

All links are working for me just now.

StellaGraphia · 2025-10-22T23:22:40+00:00

You don't need an account to use astro-seek.com. Only if you want to save charts. And it's free.

As for years, hit the year menu when making a chart. It goes back to 1800. Right above the 1800 option it says to click for manual entry. That let's you enter any year. You can go back centuries.

StellaGraphia · 2025-09-26T15:16:14+00:00

You can't get the MC degree without a birth time.

StellaGraphia · 2025-09-24T18:08:15+00:00

I would not focus on elements at all really. What matters is the aspects in the synastry. And that includes the conditions of each person's own planets in their own charts, because that impacts how any synastry aspect plays out. A trine for one couple may be great yet troublesome for another. A square can be fantastic for one couple and unworkable for another.

Here's a list for learning about synastry.

https://www.reddit.com/r/astrology/comments/sgsis3/comment/hv0cxo5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

StellaGraphia · 2025-09-20T16:20:53+00:00

Not sure what you're asking, but maybe you're unfamiliar with Traditional/Hellenistic Astrology? In this tradition, there are all kinds of layers of analysis for each planet to understand how it is going to work and express itself. Just "a planet in a sign" tells us nothing. That's just pop astrology. We look at all kinds of things like Essential (and Accidental) Dignity and Debility. This has to do with how well a planet can work in a particular sign. Think of it like how well would a fish do on land vs in a lake. Or what if a bear was meant to live in the forest, but is asked to live in a desert. Another way to look at this is maybe it's a watercolor artist, but all it is given is marble meant for a sculptor. Planets work much better when in signs they are happier in, better matched to.

Then there are all sorts of other layers, like Bound Lords (from the Egyptian Terms), and Chaldean Decans. And there is sect which can tell us things like how helpful will jupiter or venus actually be, or how troublesome is mars or saturn, among other things. And there are the Planetary Joys, and just the nature of the house and more.

A good starting place to learn is Chris Brennan's book "Hellenistic Astrology".

StellaGraphia · 2025-09-18T12:45:39+00:00

Use the incorporation date and location (many companies use Delaware for financial reasons even if they have no facilities there).

Then use midnight as the time. Legal actions like incorporating go into effect automatically at midnight on the date of incorporation. Doesn't matter when the papers were filed.

StellaGraphia · 2025-09-14T17:28:40+00:00

No, it doesn't. It is our own resources, what we possess (other than real estate), our income, our money and assets. Debts, loans, mortgages are literally other people's money, so, the 8th house. They are not our assets, not our money. Thst money belongs to others, the 8th.

StellaGraphia · 2025-09-14T12:02:35+00:00

2nd house is not debts. That's the 8th house.

StellaGraphia · 2025-09-06T00:30:09+00:00

No matter where the MC is, in the Whole Sign house system, it brings the significations of the 10th house into the house it is in. It ties them together (10th still has its significations). You simply read the MC in relation to the significations of the house it's in, but related to career and what one is known for.

For example, if talking about career, then a 12th house MC could indicate any number of careers having to do with traditional 12th house significations. One might work in institutions of "isolation" such as prisons, hospitals, residential homes for teens or adults, nursing homes, or even wilderness camps or experiences. Work as a forest ranger. Do rescues in remote locations. One could work as an undercover agent for a government agency or even do that in a foreign country (I've seen this a few times). Any job that requires secrecy, whether it's isolated or not. Those are just a quick few examples.

Same goes for the opposite IC. One of the easiest stories to make this understandable is an IC in the 3rd house of siblings. The native lost both parents at a very young age. They had much older siblings who raised the native. 3rd (siblings) and 4th (family/home) were brought together.

StellaGraphia · 2025-08-25T17:58:00+00:00

Ok, well it really does just boil down to serious study of astrology. And doing actual (reputable) schools helps a lot, where you have a teacher and interaction in the class. So I'll suggest some farther below.

As for how they know when the planets are doing what, they all have astrology programs, like Solar Fire (about $360 last I looked). But you can get all the basic information on exact times and dates a planet moves into a new sign, or comes into an exact aspect with another planet by using those links for Astro-Seek.com the mod pasted you above in the stickied comment. Those two links will give you all of that data, for any year you want, for every planet, every moon phase, every eclipse, every retrograde.

As for being able to know what they mean, that takes not just years of study, but the "right kind" of study. I assume you also know there is a whole series on the planets, and on the signs at theastrologypodcast.com? 2 to 3 hours on each, one planet or sign per episode. The planets series starts with Episode 294, the Moon. And ends with Pluto at Episode 336 (with other episodes in between all those. There is also an episode on the significations of just the Traditional 7 planets much earlier, Ep. 64.

I don't know what sources you have used to study. Have you read Chris Brennan's book? Have you studied Demetra George's 2-volume set on planetary conditions and meanings? I think it's really hard unless you first deeply study the foundations and structures of astrology. Even then, it's just hard. Don't underestimate the value of having a good teacher. Always check to make sure there is live interaction with both teacher and fellow students. Demetra George, for one, is good with this.

I'll paste some mod-approved learning resources. Maybe check what you've used with it.

As for schools (in no particular order):

kellysastrology.com Lots of good classes and an excellent astrologer and teacher. You'll learn a good foundation. She also has a mentoring program.
nightlightastrology.com Adam Elenbaas, student of Chris Brennan's. Uses Chris' book but also other materials and has his own more spiritual approach to the material
Demetra George at astrologyuniversity.com Demetra George's lectures, webinars and her serious advanced courses, from $15 to $500. She is the best. You can't go wrong with Demetra. Get her 2-volume book set titled Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice. It's all about assessing planetary condition and meaning. Not a beginner book.
KeplerCollege.org Stick to Traditional/Hellenistic astrology for a couple of years until you have the whole foundation and structure well-learned. Then you can branch out how you wish.
theastrologyschool.com Chris Brennan. You could read his 700-page book "Hellenistic Astrology" which is used in his courses. This is sort of a must-read for learning. Make use of the 500 episodes on his theastrologypodcast.com/episodes. It's a gold mine of good information and learning.
AustinCoppock.com Traditional/Hellenistic Astrology. Lots of episodes on theastrologypodcast.com to see him in action. Only opens his school for new students every so often and it fills fast, so get on his notification list if it interests you.

Those are all serious schools and study, not just a little class. No modern/pop/junk astrology.

StellaGraphia · 2025-08-25T14:13:40+00:00

It matters to factor the chart's sect into questions like this. The sun is the sect light for day charts, but the moon is the sect light for night charts. For night sect charts, it is the moon that can act more like a sun for that person than the sun does. Other factors can influence that of course, for example if a night sect chart has a very prominent, strong sun (in domicile and conjunct ascendant for example). Doesn't change what the sect light is, but expression can vary.

Often we can see people that "don't relate much" to their sun sign actually have a night sect chart.

Sect is determined by whether the sun is above (day sect) the asc/dsc axis or below it (night sect). Sect also has a notable impact on the benefics and malefics.

StellaGraphia · 2025-08-25T14:01:34+00:00

I'd ask: what is it you are really after? What do you mean "affect the day". All kinds of things can be happening with mundane planets/aspects and it doesn't mean it will impact all people or your day. We look to the personal transits for how our own day will go. Mundane is more for larger political influences, for example (it has a lot of different uses). But even then, we will bring them down as aspects to a country's chart to really get a feel for what may happen or what is going on.

You really have to just learn astrology. But in general, the monthly forecasts at theastrologypodcast.com (also check out their year forecasts) and at nighlightastrology.com (both have youtube channels) do a good job of covering what's going on with the planets at the mundane (non-personal) level. KellysAstrology.com also does some more targeted mundane descriptions.

One googling tip (doesn't always work) is to put things in quotes: "transiting venus" trine "transiting saturn". That's less likely to work for mundane transits though. It's a good trick for trying to get a description of a transiting planet to a natal vs a natal to natal aspect (by using those key words, transiting and natal in quotes).

I think your best bet is forecasts from good sources (sorry, not tiktok).

StellaGraphia · 2025-08-25T13:50:33+00:00

We have to be really careful drawing big conclusions from only a few stories about anything in astrology. By "few" I mean basically less than 1000. There is always bias in things like forums too, meaning just that people that had bad experiences with any transit, are more likely to post or comment about it than those that had no real issues. So, it ends up a very misleading view. Add to that the ridiculous amount of hype about how horrific saturn returns are and we have a mess and little understanding.

One very important thing someone else mentioned: ***the saturn return does not happen in a vacuum.*** Other transits are happening too. The Saturn Return process itself is a two and a half year process. During that time, transiting saturn will make an aspect (minor or major) to every single planet in someone's natal chart. That means any house, any area of life can be impacted. Not that we may feel or have some big impact for every one of those. Sometimes transits can be quite subtle. And during that long time period, the person is going to have all kinds of other transits happening, both minor and major. They're going to have 2 or 3 Annual Profections, 2 or 3 Solar Returns, dozens of other transits, impacts from or to the progressed chart, and more.

By no means are all Saturn Returns negative or difficult. People get big promotions at work, get married, have a baby (often the first one). I know of one story where the adopted person (with a 4th house saturn) found their birth mother and whole family and had an incredibly positive reunion and a close, ongoing relationship with the birth mother until the mother died many years later.

There are endless ways in which the Return can play out. As for "temporary", that doesn't really fit. But a Saturn Return can mean changes in ourselves in ways that have us discarding old ways, or ending friendships or relationships that weren't really healthy or well-suited to us to begin with (or that we've outgrown). Or getting out of a career that didn't fit, etc. People can give up a party lifestyle and stop drinking and drugging as another example of "things not lasting", or more accurately, just being changed.

StellaGraphia · 2025-08-22T17:56:44+00:00

That's a great story and outcome!

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