steer
Mars
18% of the chart
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✦SignatureSignature · Patrick Kane
Dominant planets, element, modality, and the one sign that holds the most weight.
steer
Sun
18% of the chart
steer
Saturn
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
Aquarius
Air · Fixed
At the crossing of your dominant element (air) and your dominant modality (fixed) sits Aquarius: the sign that summarises the gestalt of your chart, distinct from your Sun, your Moon, or your Rising.
This echoes your Rising; the signature confirms the part of you that's most visible.
The runner-up sits close, so the signature carries a Air-Water mix and a Fixed-Cardinal mix in practice.
Reading under Traditional rulership · chart ruler Saturn.
Why Air?
the rising is the door; the signature is the weather inside the house. these are the heaviest-weighted placements that tipped the vote to air, whatever your Rising or Sun happen to be:
- VenusLibra10%
- JupiterGemini10%
Asteria · the archetype
Mars×Air
The feeling
You fight with words and win most of them. Your weapon is the argument, the strategy, the idea deployed at the exact right moment. People who mistook your civility for softness have usually regretted it. You move first in the mind, long before anyone sees the hand.
The architecture
This is a Mars-Air chart. Your will operates through intellect, persuasion, and tactics. You pursue what you want by thinking your way to it and talking your way through it. Conflict, for you, is a chess problem. Action begins as a sentence.
Gravity & hope
The danger is all strategy and no strike, debating the move so thoroughly that the moment to make it passes. At some point the plan has to become a body in motion.
Famous charts · John F. Kennedy · Malcolm X
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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
17.7%
Pos 14.0
Asp 2.0
Total 16.0
- base weight 5
- in the 2nd house (succedent)
- ruler of the Midheaven sign
- ruler of the Sun sign
- ruler of the Moon sign
- in domicile (Aries)
- 7 major aspects on this planet
Sun
17.6%
Pos 15.5
Asp 0.4
Total 15.9
- base weight 8
- in the 10th house (angular)
- conjunct Midheaven within 5°
- sect light (diurnal)
- 5 major aspects on this planet
Saturn
13.7%
Pos 11.0
Asp 1.4
Total 12.4
- base weight 4
- in the 11th house (succedent)
- ruler of the Ascendant sign
- in domicile (Capricorn)
- 5 major aspects on this planet
Moon
12.3%
Pos 9.5
Asp 1.6
Total 11.1
- base weight 8
- in the 2nd house (succedent)
- 7 major aspects on this planet
Venus
10.0%
Pos 9.0
Asp 0.0
Total 9.0
- base weight 5
- in the 8th house (succedent)
- in domicile (Libra)
Jupiter
9.6%
Pos 7.5
Asp 1.2
Total 8.7
- base weight 4
- in the 4th house (angular)
- conjunct Imum Coeli within 5°
- in detriment (Gemini)
- 4 major aspects on this planet
Mercury
8.4%
Pos 7.0
Asp 0.6
Total 7.6
- base weight 5
- in the 9th house (cadent)
- conjunct Midheaven within 8°
- 2 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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