The Sun through the Places in a Natal Chart | and a bonus haiku
The Sun represents the life path. It is the general significator for father, the life force, health. As the sect light in a day chart, it points to happiness, success, reputation.
If you’re familiar with astrology, you’ll know that a natal chart has 12 places (or houses), and each place contains topics related to life in the material world. In the modern era, places are called houses but, historically, houses referred to the zodiacal sign in the numbered place.
Briefly, the strongest are the angular places (or pivots), which are
1: life, the native, health, vitality
4: parents, home, property
7: relationships, enemies
10: repuation, profession, honors.
The good places are
5: pleasure, children, entertainment
11: alliances, hopes, wishes for the future.
The most difficult places are
6: illness, injury, labor, drudgery
8: death, inheritance; entanglements with others
12: isolation, suffering, hidden enemies, self-defeat.
That leaves those that fall in the middle of the spectrum (9 is best, then 3, then 2).
2: money earned and spent, lifestyle
3: local environment, communication, siblings
9: religion, spirituality, foreign travel
Of course, that’s a snapshot of the topics. There’s actually quite a bit more to them, but that should be enough to understand the haiku in relation to topics of the 12 places.
This haiku is a generic, minimal representation of the Sun through the twelve places of a natal chart. The significations do not account for sect, signs, aspects, or condition of the planets, and are severely limited to syllables. (I may have broken haiku rules using punctuation but the syllables conform to 5–7–5.)
First, native solar
public-facing, exudes warmth
authoritative
second, job in gold
notable vain lifestyle
family money
third, solar kinfolk
community leadership
influential voice
fourth, family wealth
parentage public figures
successful father
fifth, supports health, arts
entertainment industry
accomplished children
sixth, low family
burdened by labor, illness
diminished life force
seventh, successful,
happy, overbearing mate
good for own life force
eighth, poor for father,
native’s health and happiness
business earnings shine
ninth, truth, good morals
teaching, law, religious roles
rewards from travel
tenth, seen, visible
authority, ambitious
good vitality
eleventh, good for
luck, manifesting hopes, dreams
radiant friends, ties
twelfth, missing father
ignoble folks, slaves, captives
hidden enemies
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