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Sun
18% of the chart
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✦SignatureSignature · Joshua Bassett
Dominant planets, element, modality, and the one sign that holds the most weight.
steer
Mars
17% of the chart
steer
Mercury
12% 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
Capricorn
Earth · Cardinal
At the crossing of your dominant element (earth) and your dominant modality (cardinal) sits Capricorn: the sign that summarises the gestalt of your chart, distinct from your Sun, your Moon, or your Rising.
This echoes your Sun; the signature confirms the part of you that's most visible.
The runner-up sits close, so the signature carries a Earth-Air mix in practice.
Reading under Traditional rulership · chart ruler Mars.
Why Earth?
the rising is the door; the signature is the weather inside the house. these are the heaviest-weighted placements that tipped the vote to earth, whatever your Rising or Sun happen to be:
- SunCapricorn18%
- SaturnTaurus12%
Asteria · the archetype
Sun×Earth
The feeling
People trust you before they can say why. You are the one they call when the thing has actually broken, not when they want to talk about it breaking. Steadiness reads as quiet on you, but it was never quiet. It was chosen.
The architecture
This is a Sun-Earth chart. The organizing awareness at your center expresses itself through what can be built, kept, and relied upon. Your sense of self is bound to the tangible. You become real to yourself through making, not through declaring.
Gravity & hope
The risk is mistaking your usefulness for your worth, and waking at fifty having built everything except a life you wanted to live inside. Build something that is only yours.
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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.
Sun
18.5%
Pos 13.0
Asp 1.6
Total 14.6
- base weight 8
- in the 9th house (cadent)
- conjunct Midheaven within 5°
- sect light (diurnal)
- 4 major aspects on this planet
Mars
16.6%
Pos 11.5
Asp 1.6
Total 13.1
- base weight 5
- in the 7th house (angular)
- ruler of the Ascendant sign
- ruler of the Moon sign
- in detriment (Libra)
- 5 major aspects on this planet
Mercury
12.3%
Pos 8.5
Asp 1.2
Total 9.7
- base weight 5
- in the 9th house (cadent)
- conjunct Midheaven within 5°
- in detriment (Sagittarius)
- out of bounds
- 3 major aspects on this planet
Saturn
11.7%
Pos 9.0
Asp 0.2
Total 9.2
- base weight 4
- in the 2nd house (succedent)
- ruler of the Midheaven sign
- ruler of the Sun sign
- 1 major aspect on this planet
Moon
11.4%
Pos 8.0
Asp 1.0
Total 9.0
- base weight 8
- in the 8th house (succedent)
- in fall (Scorpio)
- 5 major aspects on this planet
Venus
9.0%
Pos 6.5
Asp 0.6
Total 7.1
- base weight 5
- in the 11th house (succedent)
- 2 major aspects on this planet
Jupiter
8.5%
Pos 4.5
Asp 2.2
Total 6.7
- base weight 4
- in the 2nd house (succedent)
- in detriment (Gemini)
- 5 major aspects on this planet
Ascendant
7.6%
Pos 6.0
Asp 0.0
Total 6.0
- the body's front door
- angular by definition
Midheaven
4.4%
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
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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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