While you can look for the sign and house placements for every planet in your chart using diagrams like the one included above, it can get overwhelming. 'Planets express their energy in the style of the sign they are in and show up prominently in whatever domain of life, or house, they are located.
'The planets are the characters, the signs are the costumes they're wearing, and the houses are the stages, or areas of life, where they're lived out,' she says. It's a lot to wrap your head around, which is why astrologer Chani Nicholas, author of You Were Born For This: The Astrology of Radical Self-Acceptance, suggests imagining the mix of planets, signs, and houses in astrology as a theater production. What do the 12 houses of astrology represent?
