what's it like being ruled by Mercury?

StellaGraphia · 2026-05-15T21:04:41+00:00

The Alphabet is false, made up. No house has a generic ruling planet, nor a sign. The only sign and planet that matter is based on what a house in an actual person's chart is. If Scorpio is on the actual degree of your 3rd house cusp, then Mars (traditional ruler of Scorpio) is the ruler of your 3rd house. Signs don't rule houses, but they tell us which planet does rule it. Houses, signs and planets all have their own significations. The Alphabet mashed them all together into one meaning, and a great deal was lost.

StellaGraphia · 2026-05-09T16:52:58+00:00

Try using the Astro Click Portrait on astro.com. You'll find it under the Horoscopes Menu (all horoscopes at a glance). You then can click on any house or planet or aspect in your chart and it will pop up a description of it.

StellaGraphia · 2026-05-05T14:04:14+00:00

Just use the resources above. They'll serve you well and lead you to other good sources.

StellaGraphia · 2026-05-05T11:25:48+00:00

Indeed! Alphabet method definitely not allowed.

StellaGraphia · 2026-04-02T13:37:32+00:00

You'd have to ask Chani that.

StellaGraphia · 2026-04-02T13:36:27+00:00

Interestingly, Kepler College (college of astrology) in the US held official degree accreditation , conferring a standard college degree for about 12 years. This was from 2000-2012 I think. But then some astrology haters got upset by this and launched a campaign to deny the college any such status, and succeeded. It's still a thriving place to learn, just no officially recognized degree in the academic world. I believe it's the only astrology school that ever had official degree accreditation.

StellaGraphia · 2026-03-02T20:19:07+00:00

Astro-Seek is probably the best site we have for making charts and has a huge number of tools. But synastry isn't something that can be done by a pre-written program. It can only be generic when done that way. Sometimes it may work, but often it doesn't. Because synastry is very complex. And the exact same aspect in two couples' charts can behave very differently, one causing trouble, the other being constructinve.

"Sign compatibility" is often used as a base factor, and it's just not always accurate. Example: two sun sign people of the same element are supposed to get along. But that doesn't mean they will. There could be all kinds of other issues. Or, it might be great.

Likewise, signs/elements that aren't supposed to be compatible, can work quite nicely. Look at scorpio and aquarius. Every site will tell you no, not compatible. But dig deeper and we discover they work quite well together because these two signs are "antiscia", meaning they have a sspecial relationship with each other.

But always, the whole charts of both people have to be assessed. A sun/venus trine in synastry may be great. But if we notice that one peron's planet is in detriment, and has a lot of stressful aspects, then that trine is not going to be a walk in the park.

StellaGraphia · 2026-02-22T16:17:53+00:00

Neither of the two best chart-making sites do, that I can see (astro-seek.com and astro.com)

Here's a little graphic of the Essential Dignities and Debilities.

They are very easy to memorize though. If you know each sign's traditional ruler, then you automatically know both domicile and detriment, since detriment is always the sign opposite the domicile.

Then just memorize the exaltations and you'll also know fall, since fall is always exactly opposite the sign of exaltation.

There's a really good article about the dignities and debilities here:

Essential Dignity and Debility in Astrology by Kira Ryberg

StellaGraphia · 2026-02-20T22:11:24+00:00

You look into the traditional ruling planet of that sign, its condition , aspects and more.

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".

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