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Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Decanates in Astrology

Your Astrological Sun Sign is a very small part of the description of your whole personality and even the Sun Sign can be broken down into a most concise description for each individual.  The degree of your Sun Sign gives a detailed description of the inner you.

The Sun sign is divided into three sections.  Each section takes up a ten degrees influence on the Sun Signs.  These three sections or triplicities are known as decanates.  For example, Aries is a fire sign, as is Leo and Sagittarius.  If your Sun Sign is in Aries at 11 degrees and 15 minutes for example, you are still an Aries (ruled by the element fire and the planet Mars), but the second Fire sign would be represented starting at 10 degrees Aries.  The second fire sign is Leo which is ruled by the Sun.  As a result, you (born 11 degrees, 15 minutes Aries) have an Aries Sun sign, ruled by Mars, but also have the colouring of Leo and its ruler the Sun influencing your Sun Sign character.

This is why you may find that the Sun sign suits your character traits to some extent, but in this example you also show Leo characteristics.  If by chance you have several planets in Leo or the fifth house which is ruled by Leo, your Aries tendencies may be watered down and the overriding influence of Leo may be much more noticeable in your inner character.  In some cases, this is extremely evident in people with more subdued Sun signs and stronger placements of these ruling signs and house influences in their charts.

Decants are significant in adding more colouring to your Sun sign traits, as are planetary links in signs and houses.  This explains why some people do not fit their birth chart Sun Sign very well, although if you were to ask them if they can identify with their Sun Sign, they will still say yes strongly, because the Sun sign is not always revealed as an outside personality trait.  It is far more an inner personality trait.

If you were born within the first 10 degrees of your sun sign, you would be considered double that sun sign.  The next sign of that element (fire, water, earth, air) would be the decant from 10 degrees to 19 degrees and 59 minutes of that element and the third sign of that element would be defined as part of your personality if your Sun sign was 20 degrees to 29 degrees and 59 minutes into its sign.

Your Sun sign is part of your mission in this life time and you have entered this existence to develop your whole self and to fully understand who you truly are. 

Learn to identify with all the character traits within the spectrum of your Sun sign. 

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