posted February 21, 2009 06:17 PM         

HI!!!! Welcome to the 'hood

posted February 21, 2009 10:19 PM           

For your basic terminology you'll want to know:

Aspect- in astrology this is commonly used to address a geometric relationship between two things in your chart or a chart anyway (there are charts to see how you will do at whatever time you'd like to know and stuff like that aswell). These are all the lines crisscrossing in the middle of your chart. you'll notice they end at planets.
Among aspects are:

Conjunction: This is when planets are overlapping each other looking looking towards them from the place of your birth. On your chart they'll be noted by two planets being within 10 degrees of each other. Validation could be taken to the extent of maths concerning the diameter of the questionably conjunct planets, and the distance (diminishing the diameter) between them and Earth before you might declare the planets are actually conjunct, but that's more the kind of stuff discussed on this website.
This is an aspect noted to amplify the sign (or what ever is out there affecting this - every degree has a different personality perhaps based on other stars in the vicinity - this is why we note the 10 degree difference instead of the whole sign being one), pretty obviously.

Trine: Trines are when planets (or whatever two things) are within (by standard) 10 degrees of 120 degrees apart.
This is known as a positive aspect, both planets sharing the same element.

Square: 90 degrees.
This is the negative aspect. These two planets rub each other the wrong way, or at least, are assumed to. I have a theory that they are good in that they give you a fuller understanding, having more viewpoints on the same temptation.

Opposition: 180 degrees.
These is what some say are both the best and worst aspects. It requires enlightenment to get the best out of this aspect. With out it, one of the two things in question will likely be dominated by the other.

Sextile: 60 degrees.
Quirky to pursue and suggestive in name is the sextile. It is thought to be a more powerful, less consistent version of the trine. You can see where that's going, lol.

There are smaller aspects less known in meaning.

Sign- I'd hope you'd know this, there are twelve zodiac signs representing the sky evenly partitioned. you've probably read yours considering you're interested in astrology, or at least have some association with Linda Goodman. Every four signs is the same element and every three the same mode. This gives every combination (3x4=12).
I'm not going to recite the signs, that would just be a pain in the ass.

Besides that there is the ascendant and houses. I actually don't know what every house's degree represents, but I know that the midheaven/zenith is directly out from the core of the earth passing through your birthplace, and nadir is opposite, so under the earth. And I guess the ascendant must be left ans the descendant must be left.
You'll notice that there are twelve houses, and each is said to represent the sign in order to it's grade in the path to enlightenment, eg. Aries=1 Pisces=12. There may be some confusion between there being houses AND ascendants and that but there isn't they are the same thing as follows: ascendant: 1st house cusp Nadir: 4th house cusp Descendant: 7th house cusp & Zenith: 10th house cusp.

Last but not least Planets- In case you didn't know, these are recognized as the fundimentality of astrology. How you know your self to be Pisces is the sun's position at your birth. All other planets (and lotsa comets and asteroids too!) may have there position recorded on your natal chart. These are the body of the chart.

Well perhaps you should know this aswell: Synastry- this is the comparison of two peoples natal charts to understand relationship. Aspects are noted between the two subjects' planets instead of their own individually.

Well that's just the conventional stuff everyone here will know, but a lot of them have dabbled into all sorts of other interpretations with different tools.

You may find this an overly large text and be overwhelmed to read something so textbook, but perhaps you can use it as a sort of glossary if you ever get lost and look back at it.

Anyway, perhaps you would post some superficial information about yourself to break some ice. You've probably read others' threads. We're not strictly astrologers here; we have to act out OUR personalities too!

Novel concept: Why don't you tell us how you came to recognize Linda Goodman; what books you've read of hers, since it's a site dedicated to her!

posted February 21, 2009 11:58 PM           

I dont know what you mean by act out our personalities?? I thought this post was to tell about yourself and someone suggested to me that i introduce myself on this thread... idk? But anyways the first book i read of lindas was Love signs and it was given to me by one of my moms friends when i was about 15. I loved how accurate it was about all of my relationships and i guess thats when i became really interested in astrology... i used to read my horoscope every day when i was younger but i had no idea how complex astrology really was. In Love signs Linda talked her upcoming book Gooberz so i went to the library and got that. I have read it twice because i didnt really understand it the first time. I was 16 the first time i read it and i just finished reading it for the second time about two months ago. I have also skimmed through her book Sun signs.

I tried to post my birth chart on here but i couldnt do it.. i guess im not very "tech savvy" but my birth time is 10:05 pm.

posted February 22, 2009 01:12 AM         

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Look in the FAQs section too here

If you read through the astro forum stuff (both forums) there's a TON of info on just about everything...the threads are also a great way to learn astrology and know how to associate lots of stuff

posted February 22, 2009 02:22 AM           

By saying we have to "act out OUR personalities" I was saying that along with taking all this time to analyze astrology, we are also subject to whatever forces allow us to declare such influence.

And that's cool that you read Love Signs at 15. 'Cause that's my first book of hers, and I'm 15! I started reading it while less than a year ago, I must have. (I'm 16 on the Ninth)

posted February 22, 2009 02:05 PM           

And if you want to post your chart, you put the website of the raw picture (copy the astro chart pic, save it then upload it to one of the suggested image hosting sites, or one of your one if you already have one, or if you've got face book you could put it on there, then find the internet address where there is just the picture in the upper right and white everywhere else) in between the two bracketed [img]s like [img]URL[/img] <remember that slash, too!

posted February 22, 2009 03:48 PM           

It's interesting then, if your fireless, since you, according to this book I'm holding, are born on The Day of Zest (it's a book with a recorded personality for every day, perhaps reliant on the degree of your sun sign), and of course, fire represents just that.

This book says your strenths are being vibrant, alive, and emotionally complex, yet you're weak in that you are overenthusiastic, excessive, and thoughtless. -pretty strait forward with the title. It advises you to "Cultivate you contemplative side and confront the impotant questions of your existence. Don't get carried away with thrills and sensation. That with makes you fell alive must adapt to the aging process.". I suppose you've got a start on the first one on the first one with pursuing astrology, but I don't know you, so I can't really judge. And it gives you the meditation: "The object of one's enthusiasm is at least as important as the enthusiasm itself". It also list twenty notable people, but none of them seem to famous to me, hahaha, though I don't know your culture. So I'll look the day up on a website which has like 6 famous people born on every day, but they're up to date. yeah none of these are too popular either, but I'm sure you can look it up and see for you self, if you're interested.

This may seem like a considerable amount of stuff I'm telling you from a book for a person who claims he loves analyzing charts, so let's get on with it.

It's appears that you have 5 planets in Capricorn and Nadir running through it aswell. It seems like Nadir may represent what you are not used to being exposed to, as it is the opposite of what you are exposed to at birth, anyway. And since you have many planets there, perhaps you don't know yourself very well, or maybe even repel your intuition and natural impulses (or maybe that's what descendant is about). I could, of course, look up a meaning in a book or a website, or many of either or both (or one of both >.> ), but I would not trust someone else' analysis without analyzing it myself on a subject so important (though perhaps I am more enthusiastic about myself on this matter than you or anybody else).

Perhaps some superficial instances would appease your conception. The planet Venus is conjunct Nadir EXACTLY like not just the first number but the second one too! This is of course dependent on your birth time which may be inaccurate, but at any rate it's conjunct! So what does this mean? Well Venus represents love and relations in astrology, and, putting this together with my prediction on the meaning of Nadir, it would seem perhaps it means you feel uncomfortable around new acquaintances (you actually mentioned this, too), or with society as a whole.

I've got a book here, and I will recite what IT says about this aspect:

"This aspect indicates a love of domestic harmony. Therefore, the natives' home will be artistic and beautiful, even if on a simple scale. Since the relationship of home to marriage is important to this person, much of his money is spent on improvements in the home. Thus, there is likely to be a deep love for family and parents, along with a tendency to marry for the sake of having a beautiful family and domestic life. Fondness of good cooking is also indicated."

At the beginning I was thinking "where is this coming from?" but now I elaborate, that the meaning maybe defines a superficial reaction to being uncomfortable with society and love. It basically says this aspect indicates a love of domestic harmony. that's the first sentence, then the rest is just some superficial stuff likely associated with domestic life. Anyway it would make sense that one would love domestic harmony if uncomfortable with Venus associated stuff, because they would stereotypically feel amiss without it.

posted February 23, 2009 08:01 AM           

Thank you very much!! It amazes me how much you know about astrology and chart reading considering how old you are. It was kind of confusing to me but I'm gonna get the hang of it soon.