steer
Mars
23% of the chart
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✦SignatureSignature · Patti Smith
Dominant planets, element, modality, and the one sign that holds the most weight.
steer
Sun
18% of the chart
steer
Saturn
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
Aries
Fire · Cardinal
At the crossing of your dominant element (fire) and your dominant modality (cardinal) sits Aries: 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 Fire-Earth mix in practice.
Reading under Traditional rulership · chart ruler Mars.
Why Fire?
the rising is the door; the signature is the weather inside the house. these are the heaviest-weighted placements that tipped the vote to fire, whatever your Rising or Sun happen to be:
- SaturnLeo12%
- MercurySagittarius8%
Asteria · the archetype
Mars×Fire
The feeling
When you decide, you move. The gap between wanting and doing is the shortest thing about you, and you have spent a life slightly impatient with people who need to think about it first. You do not wait for permission. You were not built for it.
The architecture
This is a Mars-Fire chart. Mars is the will, the capacity to want something and go take it, and here it operates in pure ignition. Your drive is direct, fast, and combustible. You initiate. You go first. You find out who you are by what you are willing to charge at.
Gravity & hope
The work is the aim, not the throttle. Raw will with no patience burns out or burns others, and the bravest thing a fighter learns is when not to swing.
Famous charts · Muhammad Ali · Serena Williams
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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
22.8%
Pos 17.0
Asp 2.0
Total 19.0
- base weight 5
- in the 10th house (angular)
- conjunct Midheaven within 5°
- ruler of the Ascendant sign
- exalted in Capricorn
- out of bounds
- 4 major aspects on this planet
Sun
18.2%
Pos 13.0
Asp 2.2
Total 15.2
- base weight 8
- in the 9th house (cadent)
- conjunct Midheaven within 5°
- sect light (diurnal)
- 5 major aspects on this planet
Saturn
11.5%
Pos 8.0
Asp 1.6
Total 9.6
- base weight 4
- in the 5th house (succedent)
- ruler of the Midheaven sign
- ruler of the Sun sign
- in detriment (Leo)
- 5 major aspects on this planet
Moon
11.1%
Pos 8.5
Asp 0.8
Total 9.3
- base weight 8
- in the 12th house (cadent)
- 3 major aspects on this planet
Jupiter
10.4%
Pos 8.5
Asp 0.2
Total 8.7
- base weight 4
- in the 7th house (angular)
- ruler of the Moon sign
- 1 major aspect on this planet
Mercury
7.5%
Pos 5.5
Asp 0.8
Total 6.3
- base weight 5
- in the 9th house (cadent)
- in detriment (Sagittarius)
- out of bounds
- 3 major aspects on this planet
Ascendant
7.2%
Pos 6.0
Asp 0.0
Total 6.0
- the body's front door
- angular by definition
Venus
7.1%
Pos 5.5
Asp 0.4
Total 5.9
- base weight 5
- in the 8th house (succedent)
- in detriment (Scorpio)
- 2 major aspects on this planet
Midheaven
4.2%
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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