Then we have something called the Ascendant. This is the ascending or rising sign at your time of birth that 'colors' or lends its qualities to your first house and this house is involved with individuality. This is how other people see you at first even if the majority of your planets and Sun are in a different element (water, fire, etc.) than your Ascendant. The first house represents the individual self and the planets found in this house are very significant in your life. Remember you get your Sun sign from the time of the year you are born -but your Sun can be positioned in a different house than your first house. Your Sun will influence the house it is positioned in but the ascending sign is always the sign of the first house and the initial quality that others see in you.

There are other influences like the Midheaven, and the newly discovered stars or moons such as Chiron, etc. If you want to get really detailed astrological information you will have to get a professional astrologers "opinion" or interpretation of the good or bad aspects involved. This requires 'pinhead precision' which will defeat the purpose of what I am giving you now. I want this to be easy for you as it can be.

Something Else....

Although astrology can do a lot for you -(it involves us and the people around us -some would say even animals),-one thing it cannot do is reveal someone's morality and, of course, animals have no capacity for morality, do they?!. In other words, you might be able to get along with someone very well, (this is astrological), but if you happen to be an angel and the other person is a devil you're in for trouble even if your astrological aspects are good or even great. How you decide to deal with what's going on around you is your choice regardless of any astrological aspects. Morality involves the conscience. Astrology is not concerned with the spiritual or with matters of morality or in matters of decision making. It does not "kick you over the edge" to make a decision. Knowing astrology can 'tune you into' the positive energy or the negative energy that surrounds you, but what you dish out to others involves your conscience. Of course, if you're dealing with someone who has no conscience you will understand why you were attracted to that person in the first place (if you ever were) after reading this. I decided to visit a Catholic priest one day although I am not a Catholic but am a Christian, and ask him what he thought about studying astrology. He told me that even the Vatican has studied astrology. He reminded me that the three "Wise Men" followed the star to Bethlehem. He told me that I could use astrology for a 'guide', but not as a 'god'.