By Kylie Woon

I commonly see people get very confused about how placements function and I’m gonna say it again

Sign = traits

House = area of life

Aspects = connections between two things

One does not change the other, having an 8th house something doesn’t magically equate it to being like a Scorpio placement! They all function differently, and whilst overlaps in manifestation exist, they are different and those details should be noted! If you feel drawn to a sign, house or aspect, there will be another reason in your chart! Attempting to force these things into the same box only sheds off the details and proper meanings of each thing!

Russula emetica (the sickener). When eaten raw, they cause severe stomach aches. 

‪If you are feeling very detached and disconnected from your current reality, it’s because it’s about to change. The July 27th lunar eclipse isn’t a rebirth. For a lot of people It’s a completely new life. These past few weeks have been the birthing pains. ‬

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Aries moon natives

easily irritable. Most of the time, you can tell by facial expressions since it’s so impulsive and an “in the heat of the moment” type of thing — regardless if it’s only there for a split second. We become easily irritated when we can’t grasp a specific concept, something along the lines of a subject in school that is just difficult for us to understand. We don’t care if no one in the class doesn’t get it, we still are disappointed and frustrated in ourselves. Contrary, if the whole class gets it but us, we can easily shut down and nearly get to the brink of tears.

One thing I love about us is that we are very direct and candid. Mostly to the ones we love. How we may approach saying it can be in an overly rude and blunt manner, but we truly mean well. This, however, can turn people off about how honest we are. There’s really no sugar coating here 9 times out of 10. We’re actually pretty bad liars when trying to sugar coat or tell you what you want to hear.

Keep your distance when we’re angry. The type to cry angry tears when angry, actually.

Fairly sensitive, even if we don’t show it or not. We tend to not show it because it’s a sign of vulnerability in our eyes, and we’re too strong willed to and give people one of our weaknesses. This sensitivity and sudden outburst of emotions is extremely evident when we’re younger — as we can’t, won’t, and don’t necessarily know how to control our emotions and are more vulnerable to the world.

Extremely emotionally independent. We don’t normally like confiding to others about our deep rooted problems, rather, handle it ourselves until we can’t anymore.

Usually kind and easygoing.

Can you say competitive? Literally everything is a competition. It can be in sports, mental activities, etc. we don’t like losing, and get very on edge when we see someone superseding or attempting to supersede us in our craft. This usually makes us drive even more.

If we want something, we most definitely will find a way to attain it.

There’s a passion and drive in us like no other that cannot be stopped when ignited, and that’s what I love about us Aries moons 🌙💕.

Benjamin Dowie - Stillness Arises | gif by FD

Descendant Signs 101

What? Your Descendant is ruled by Libra and Venus. It mainly represents relationships, partners, romance and who are attracted and why. Your Descendant is exactly opposite to your ascendant/rising sign and is held on the cusp of the 7th house. 

Aries: You will attract and are attracted to people who possess Mars like qualities. People who are obvious, loud, aggressive (not like punch aggressive), blunt, and bright. You will have a libra Rising, and this indecisive, fair ‘attitude’ directly contradicts with the bright, aggressive, in your face people they attract. You are attracted to very kind and generous people too though.

Taurus: People who can provide for you are attractive in your opinion, in a relationship you crave someone who can be co-dependant with you and you can equally (heavily) rely on each other. You will have a Scorpio Rising sign, and this means you love to help people become the best version of themselves, so you may be attracted to people who are not similar to you so you can help them build on qualities they lack. 

Gemini: You have a Sagittarius Rising to go with your Descendant. In relationships you like to be with someone you can feel free with, you like adventurous, constant change, and not too heavy commitment (at least at first). It will take the right kind of person to persuade you into marriage but you fall in love with the people you think are the most true and kind hearted (that’s your weakness). 

Cancer: With a Capricorn rising , the people around you are the ones you hold the most dear and near to your heart. You are attracted to people who have similar family backgrounds to you, because this is a part of your life you find important to relate on. You attract people who want to take control of a relationship, you love to have an equal involvement, but like to be treated and be the one in a back seat. 

Leo: Love can become an obsession to you, you are likely to be undoubtedly in love with love, This means you are attracted to people who are romantic, and pick out the smallest of  details. You are incredibly attracted to people who make you feel like you can do more than what you already do, people who are inspiring and kind. You attract eccentric people who don’t know how to fit in because you show them they do. (Aquarius Rising).

Virgo: You are someone who changes yourself for you partner without even realising. You fall in love and are attracted to people who point out things about you that are permanent and you don’t change. For example “I love your natural curly hair”; it makes you feel actually wanted. You attract (luckily) very kind hearted people because they know they can give you a lot of love and affection. Pisces Rising. 

Libra: You are someone who might overuse the term “it’s not you, it’s me”, but really mean it. You are attracted to people who tell you to sort your head out, and tell you not only when you are in the wrong, but when actually you aren’t. You are also attracted to people who really considers your feelings and needs. You attract lively and tenacious people, people who are fun loving and natural smooth talkers. Rising is Aries.

Scorpio: You partner will choose you because they want to really feel love. Your rising is Taurus. You are attracted to passionate people, who never do anything to make you feel jealous and concerned (unstable) in your relationship. You attract strong minded individuals. You fall in love very hard and crave the same in return. 

Sagittarius: You are attracted to people you can talk on another level with; whether this is a deep talk or an intelligent conversation, In fact, you value the conversations over anything else. You attract people with hell of a will power. You attract people you are blunt and not co-dependant. Your Rising is Gemini, so you also think a physical connection is important, and will attract partners who feel the same. 

Capricorn: You have a very emotional and sensitive rising sign; Cancer. You are attracted to people who value family and get along with yours (no matter what your relationship with them is). You tend to really fall for people who don’t make you feel like you have to do anything, as you often will feel like you need to be perfect and do everything perfectly for them. You attract people who have a huge sense of humour and love to be safe and feel secure.

Aquarius: You are attracted to people who challenge and attract people who are full on and intense. You fall in love with people who wear their hearts on their sleeves and love very openly and publicly. You attract people who want a 24/7 relationship and someone to really rely on. The people who want you tend to be wanted and are fairly dependant on you to make them feel good. You also attract very understanding people. Rising in Leo. 

Pisces: Your ascendant/rising is Virgo (the virgin). You attract people who are sensual, and love the physical parts of relationships. You also attract very intelligent people, who like balanced and honest relationships, too (just pick them apart wisely). You like people to be romantic for you, especially when they aren’t naturally romantic people. You are attracted to people who are unapoligetically themselves, people you just couldn’t change even if you wanted to. 

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“He loved everything, he was full of joyous love toward everything that he saw. And it seemed to him that was just why he was previously so ill – because he could love nothing and nobody.”

— Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (via thatwhichdoesnotsuffer)

Giant fairy ring of Leucopaxillus albissimus (click the photo for the full panorama)

Emotional Temperament

Moon in Aries: Sacrificial, young hearted, imaginative, reactive, self prophetic, fearless, quick tempered, innocent, abandoned, alone

Moon in Taurus: Faithful, relapses into self indulgence, lazy, concerned but refusing to self sacrifice, overtly loyal, maternal and welcoming, disarming, fretful

Moon in Gemini: lacks concentration, unsympathetic but genial, emotionally reactive, nerves, travels, secretive about emotions, undramatic

Moon in Cancer: Restless, fearsome, psychic, unstable, intuitive, despondent, martyred, delivering, rich emotional world

Moon in Leo: dramatised, fears of the inner child exaggerated, very coloured in impulse, self shame associated with lack of appreciation, faithful, subject to elusion

Moon in Virgo: Irritable, over conscious of environment, easily triggered, helpful, intuitive, responsive to distress, anxious and consumed with worry, pedantic

Moon in Libra: Impressionable and sympathetic, morale and concerned but detached and self contained, temperamental, evasive, passive aggressive, emotionally unstable especially regarding the day's interaction with people

Moon in Scorpio: Contained but secretly uncontrolled, unsympathetic but empathetic, suspicious and paranoid, splitting, passionate and then empty, debilitating and destructive highs and lows

Moon in Sagittarius: Escapist, psychic, speculative, detached but generous, tender hearted and noble hearted, shows tremendous loyalty to animals

Moon in Capricorn: Self sacrificial, often altruistic and kindly, Dry, distanced but concerned, consumed with material worry, emotionally conscious to the extreme, suspicious

Moon in Aquarius: Active emotional life is inhibited by over reactive intellectualism, can generate a coldness about the individual that hides regenerative warmth, excitable, over analyses emotion to extreme

Moon in Pisces: Cannot resist environmental stimulus, the impressionable, lack of boundaries, psychic, devoted, melancholy, withdrawing, sacrificial, emotional hemophiliac -C.

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Useful Resources and Links

This links post is being added to my “Your Placements” page which I wrote/sourced for people getting into astrology. You can find it here if you would like information on finding your chart, dominants, or a quick understanding of some key parts of the chart when starting astrology!

This post will provide the more detailed information for the page.

Note: Posts linked are not all mine! They are, however, my favourite posts for learning and understanding! All links go to the original post and blog so you can read more of their excellent posts.

Signs:

Intercepted and duplicated signs by @astrology-addict​

Signs, houses, and how to start out by @astrology-addict​

Ascendent/Descendent element axis by @lupuslupercalia​

Signs in the personal placements by @universalstrology​

Signs in the Sun and Mercury by @seraonthestars​

Basics on the signs (and everything) by @gothicastrology​

The Rising signs by me

Cardinal signs in the natal chart by @astroalive​

Fixed signs in the natal chart by @astroalive​

Mutable signs in the natal chart by @astroalive​

The Modes by @ayyries​

The Moon signs by @astrollusion​

Luminaries and Planets:

What the planets mean within us posted by @astro-paradiso​

What the planets represent by astrotheme.com

Falls and detriments by @transcendicalprosperity​

Exaltations and falls by @acaipsychelife​

Luminaries and planets in astrology by @aesthetics-astro​

The Sun by @aesthetics-astro​

The Moon by @aesthetics-astro​

Mercury by @aesthetics-astro​

Venus by @aesthetics-astro​

Mars by @aesthetics-astro​

Jupiter by @aesthetics-astro​

Saturn by @aesthetics-astro​

Uranus by @aesthetics-astro​

Neptune by @aesthetics-astro​

Pluto by @aesthetics-astro​

Saturn and its houses by @ayyries​

Jupiter and its house potential by @astrologylunarfish​

Saturn and Uranus Brotherhood by @astrawrlogy​

Neptune and its houses by @ayyries​

Natal Saturn by @acaipsychelife​

Learning about the natal chart by @astrology-addict​

Blathin’s planetary masterpost by @astrollusion​

Dominants:

How to find your dominants [VIDEO] by @astrology-addict

Dominant planets by me

Dominant houses by @astrawrlogy

Sign dominants posted to tumblr by @astroasteria​

Calculating element percentage by @astroalive​

Calculating dominant signs by @geministereo​

Houses:

Sun in the houses by @zodiac–signs

The 12 astrological houses by astrolibrary.org

The 12 houses by astrostyle.com

The 12 houses by astrotheme.com

Introduction to houses by @astrology-addict

Houses of astrology by @astrolocherry

Importance of the Ascendent (1st house cusp) by @ayyries

The 10th house by @astrollusion

The 12th house by @isastrobitch

The 10th house planets by me

The 5th house planets by @imstuckinarut-astrology

What the houses mean in short by @gothicastrology

The 12th house planets by @cutestrology

Chart shapes by @astrollusion​

How the houses flow together by @transcendicalprosperity

Midheaven:

In Aries by @aesthetics-astro​

In Taurus by @aesthetics-astro​

In Gemini by @aesthetics-astro​

In Cancer by @aesthetics-astro​

In Leo by @aesthetics-astro​

In Virgo by @aesthetics-astro​

In Libra by @aesthetics-astro​

In Scorpio by @aesthetics-astro​

In Sagittarius by @aesthetics-astro​

In Capricorn by @aesthetics-astro​

In Aquarius by @aesthetics-astro​

In Pisces by @aesthetics-astro​

Retrogrades:

What to know about retrogrades by @coolastrology​

Planets in retrograde by @isastrobitch​

Natal retrograding planets by @astrolocherry​

Retrogrades in astrology by @aesthetics-astro​

Stelliums:

An introduction to stelliums by @ashwolfastro​

House stelliums by @ashwolfastro​

Sign stelliums, house stelliums, and what each planet means for them by @astrawrlogy​

How to analyse a stellium by @astrologyisfrequentlyaccurate​

How to master a stelium by @soulofsaturn​

Decans:

The sign decans by @astroalive​

Sun/Masculine and Moon/Feminine decans by @star-astrology​

Decans by horoscopeswithin.com

Aries Decans posted to tumblr by @deathstrology​

Taurus Decans posted to tumblr by @deathstrology​

Gemini Decans posted to tumblr by @deathstrology​

Cancer Decans posted to tumblr by @deathstrology​

Leo Decans posted to tumblr by @deathstrology​

Virgo Decans posted to tumblr by @deathstrology​

Libra Decans posted to tumblr by @deathstrology​

Scorpio Decans posted to tumblr by @deathstrology​

Sagittarius Decans posted to tumblr by @deathstrology​

Capricorn Decans posted to tumblr by @deathstrology​

Aquarius Decans posted to tumblr by @deathstrology​

Pisces Decans posted to tumblr by @deathstrology​

Aries Rising decans by @aesthetics-astro​

Taurus Rising decans by @aesthetics-astro​

Gemini Rising decans by @aesthetics-astro​

Cancer Rising decans by @aesthetics-astro​

Leo Rising decans by @aesthetics-astro​

Virgo Rising decans by @aesthetics-astro​

Libra Rising decans by @aesthetics-astro​

Scorpio Rising decans by @aesthetics-astro​

Sagittarius Rising decans by @aesthetics-astro​

Capricorn Rising decans by @aesthetics-astro​

Aquarius Rising decans by @aesthetics-astro​

Pisces Rising decans by @astrolofae​

Aspects:

An introduction to aspects by @astrollusion​

Oppositions to the ascendent by @totefee​

Aspects to Pluto by @bythestarlight​

Marina’s aspect masterpost by @astrologymarina​

Jupiter to Saturn aspects by @astrologanize​

Venus to Jupiter aspects by astrologymarina.com (@astrologymarina)

Other:

Glossary by @astrollusion​

I have missed so many amazing posts, articles and sites off of here by accident and on purpose because this list would be endless! Other great resources include astro.com, astrotheme.com, cafestrology.com and astromatrix.com. Many books are also out there for you to purchase like Your Microcosm by @astrologymarina​! Apart from these posts, some of my favourite blogs to learn from generally include @acaipsychelife​, @ayyries​, @astrolocherry​, @astrology-addict​, @scorpio-astrology​, @astrologanize​, @astrologymarina​, @aesthetics-astro​, @transcendicalprosperity​ and @astroalive​!

I hope this is helpful, and you’ll be able to find this post on my placements page <3

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