Astrology — A Visual Teaser
Hemispheres, Quadrants and Houses — making it simple
A toe-teaser sampling of the language of astrology can begin with visual depictions of the chart as the globe. Each of the 4 hemispheres and quadrants has a kind of macro meaning, while the 12 houses have more specific meanings. The placement of the 5 personal planets within the hemispheres and quadrants can create macro pictures of your natal/birth charts and allow you a step into through the front door of the shelter of astrology.
If you want to see how you fit in you can get a free natal chart from Astrodienst.
Hemispheres
I will not be referring to the hemispheres as North, South, East, West because there is prejudice and bias built into these representations. Instead, the upper and lower hemispheres anywhere on the planet referred to as in the light or in the dark/shadow. The prejudicial east/west referred to as the left and right hemispheres.
The five personal planets are:
Sun
Mercury
Moon
Venus
Mars
Yes, in Western Astrology, the Sun and our Moon are planets. Earth is not included because we are on Earth, as our point-of-view.
