Astrology & Law of Attraction

Tutorial on Rulerships

How to Find Ruling signs and planets for each House in your astrological chart

by Kim Falconer July 2012

Step 1: Create Your Chart

Go to Astro.com

Click on the free horoscope

Step 2

Click Chart drawing, Ascendant for quick access to your natal chart and calculations

Step 3

Click here to go to the data entry page

Step 4

Fill in your accurate birth details and click continue

Step 5

View your birth chart and save image

Step 6: Memorize the symbols Note: Astrology is a symbol system. Learn the glyphs for the

signs & planets. Practice writing them out. Get familiar!

There will be a sign on the cusp or 'door' to each house. That sign determines what planet 'rules' the house.

The sign on the cups of the first house is called the Ascendant sign or rising sign. The ruling planet of the first house is referred to as the 'chart ruler'.

Step 7: Learn the rulerships

Sign Ruler

Aries MarsTaurus VenusGemini MercuryCancer MoonLeo SunVirgo MercuryLibra VenusScorpio Pluto/MarsSagittarius JupiterCapricorn SaturnAquarius Uranus/SaturnPisces Neptune/Jupiter

Step 8: Identify the sign and ruling planet

There are 360 degrees in the circle of houses (12 pieces of pie).

Each sign of the zodiac takes up 30 degrees (0 – 29).

Each house can range in size, depending on the distance form the equator and host 1 to 3 or more signs.

Learn more about intercepted signs.

Learn key words for the houses.

Test: What planet(s) rule each house? List the houses 1-12 with their sign and ruler(s).

Did you get it correct?House Sign Ruler(s)1st Virgo Mercury2nd Virgo Mercury3rd Libra Venus4th Scorpio Pluto and Mars5th Sagittarius Jupiter6th Aquarius Saturn and Uranus7th Pisces Jupiter and Neptune8th Pisces Jupiter and Neptune 9th Aries Mars10th Taurus Venus11th Gemini Mercury12th Leo Sun

Notice that the sign of Cancer and the opposite sign Capricorn do not rule any of the houses (they are not on the cusp of any house). They are 'intercepted' within the 5th and 11th houses. Read more about intercepted signs.

Notes and LinksEmpty house? There is no such thing as an empty house. Even a house that has no planets in it will have a sign on the cusp, the sign that rules that house. The sign will have one or two ruling planets linked to it, and they also hold sway there. Then there are the transits that are daily, monthly and yearly traveling through the house. Also when we form relationships of all kinds, those other people will have planets that fall into our supposedly 'empty' house. Bottom line: there is no such thing as an empty house!

Key words for the houses.

Key words for the signs.

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