steer
Mars
20% of the chart
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✦SignatureSignature · Grace Kelly
Dominant planets, element, modality, and the one sign that holds the most weight.
steer
Sun
17% of the chart
steer
Moon
14% of the chart
what "signature" means
Not your Rising. Not your Sun.
your signature sign is the single sign that best summarises your whole chart's gestalt: the crossing of your dominant element (fire, earth, air, water) and your dominant modality (cardinal, fixed, mutable).
think of it like the genre of a playlist, not the first song. your Sun is the track everyone hears first. your Rising is how you walk into the room. signature is the mood the whole collection keeps returning to.
the Rising is the door. signature is the weather inside the house: six placements in water outvote one Aries Rising, every time.
TraditionalMars · Jupiter · Saturn rule the night-side signs
ModernUranus · Neptune · Pluto take over Aqu / Pis / Sco
signature sign
Scorpio
Water · Fixed
At the crossing of your dominant element (water) and your dominant modality (fixed) sits Scorpio: the sign that summarises the gestalt of your chart, distinct from your Sun, your Moon, or your Rising.
This echoes your Sun and your Rising; the chart and the surface agree.
Reading under Traditional rulership · chart ruler Mars.
Why Water?
the rising is the door; the signature is the weather inside the house. these are the heaviest-weighted placements that tipped the vote to water, whatever your Rising or Sun happen to be:
- MarsScorpio20%
- SunScorpio17%
- MoonPisces14%
Asteria · the archetype
Mars×Water
The feeling
Your anger goes underground before it goes anywhere else. You do not explode. You wait, you feel, you remember, and you move when the moment is yours. People underestimate the quiet intensity in you right until they are inside its current and cannot find the shore.
The architecture
This is a Mars-Water chart. Your will is strategic and emotional, the desire that works in the long game and through indirect channels. You pursue what you want with feeling and patience rather than force. Your drive runs deep and pulls hard, the strongest current being the one you cannot see from the surface.
Gravity & hope
The work is to let the wanting move instead of pooling, to act on desire before it ferments into resentment or manipulation. Your depth is power. Stagnant, it becomes poison.
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The bodies steering your chart
Pullen-style breakdown: each body scored on a Position component (sign, house, dignity, rulership, sect, condition) and an Aspects component (orb-weighted contacts). The Percent sums to 100% across all bodies: your share of the total chart steer.
Mars
19.6%
Pos 17.5
Asp 0.2
Total 17.7
- base weight 5
- in the 1st house (angular)
- ruler of the Ascendant sign
- ruler of the Sun sign
- dispositor of the Scorpio stellium
- in domicile (Scorpio)
- in a stellium
- 2 major aspects on this planet
Sun
17.3%
Pos 14.0
Asp 1.6
Total 15.6
- base weight 8
- in the 1st house (angular)
- ruler of the Midheaven sign
- in a stellium
- 6 major aspects on this planet
Moon
13.8%
Pos 11.0
Asp 1.4
Total 12.4
- base weight 8
- in the 5th house (succedent)
- sect light (nocturnal)
- 7 major aspects on this planet
Mercury
12.8%
Pos 10.5
Asp 1.0
Total 11.5
- base weight 5
- in the 1st house (angular)
- conjunct Ascendant within 8°
- in a stellium
- 2 major aspects on this planet
Venus
11.4%
Pos 9.5
Asp 0.8
Total 10.3
- base weight 5
- in the 12th house (cadent)
- conjunct Ascendant within 8°
- in domicile (Libra)
- 2 major aspects on this planet
Jupiter
7.3%
Pos 6.0
Asp 0.6
Total 6.6
- base weight 4
- in the 8th house (succedent)
- ruler of the Moon sign
- in detriment (Gemini)
- 2 major aspects on this planet
Saturn
7.2%
Pos 5.5
Asp 1.0
Total 6.5
- base weight 4
- in the 2nd house (succedent)
- 4 major aspects on this planet
Ascendant
6.7%
Pos 6.0
Asp 0.0
Total 6.0
- the body's front door
- angular by definition
Midheaven
3.9%
Pos 3.5
Asp 0.0
Total 3.5
- the public face
- angular by definition
dominant signs
Which signs hold the most chart energy
Pullen-style breakdown of the weighted body placement summed per sign. Includes the same vote weights used for elements + modalities: Sun, Moon and Ascendant cast the heaviest votes; the inner planets follow; outers count quietly.
element radar
The fingerprint of your chart's element distribution. A dominant axis pulls the polygon out of true; balanced elements draw it close to a centred square.
element balance
Element balance
modality balance
Modality balance
Asteria · the archetype library
Forty namings.
The kind of chart a person is, said in the voice of the reading rather than the textbook. Ten planets, four elements, every cell its own arc.
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