Solar and lunar types of personality are easily recognized in all the natal charts in which there’s a great disproportion between lunar and solar factors, but not in a sense in which it is usually done by mere adding up of factors from a natal chart according to the signs of the Sun and the Moon. A planetary principle is recognized not only through a planet, but also through related zodiacal and mundane background, relevant part, almuten sequence, the hour of birth ruler and a whole array of various combinations of all the factors within a chart. Predominantly lunar type of personality will be indicated by the following: ascendant in a cardinal or mutable sign along with the Moon posited in ether of them; stellium in the 3rd house because it represents mundane position of Moon’s exaltation; the Moon in cadent houses; stelliumin the 7th house without any connection to the Sun, Saturn or Jupiter because the 7th belongs to the Moon according to the Chaldean order of planets; then, part of fortune aspected Mars; Mars in the 1st house or in connection with the Moon in cadent houses in a cardinal or mutable sign. Mars’s role in this is very important because, although a masculine and active planet, Mars shares mundane affiliation with the Moon. Mars rules the 3rd in which the Moon joys. Mars in the 7th, as well, can be one of the indicators for lunar psychology; the Moon in the 9th, just like the Sun in the 3rd because the 9th belongs to the Sun, and the 3rd to the Moon according to mundane exaltations. The position of the ruler of the ascendant, the ruler of hour of birth or the almuten of the chart in the 7th or the 3rd. Inactive and cadent part of spirit; weakly accentuated mundane angles and fixed signs. The solar type presupposes an entirely different natal chart structure: the ascending degree in a fixed sign; the Moon in a fixed sign; stellium in the 9th, 10th or the 1st house; the ruler of the ascendant, hour or almuten sequence in these houses; the Sun on the ascendant, MC, IC, or in the 9th house; Saturn in the 1st ,on the MC, in relationship with the Sun, the ruler of the ascendant or the almuten; stellium in the signs of the Sun’s dignities (Leo, Aries, Sagittarius in diurnal charts); male planets on the ascendant; stellium in the fixed signs or angular houses; the part of fortune in succeedent houses aspected by a planet from a fixed sign; strong and prominent part of spirit aspected by its ruler, the Sun or the Moon; fixed sign position of the pre-natal syzygy ruler or a masculine planet as a ruler of the degree. The position of the part of fortune on the ascendant is a symbol of a solar character too, because in such cases the Moon is very close to the Sun, in its dark phase, meaning it’s powerless.
The lunar type of personality is easily recognized even without knowledge of astrology. He is oversensitive regarding to its surroundings, very restless and longs for changes. He is extrovert and dependant upon the opinion of other people, the impression he leaves is very important for him, searches for attention, travels often and changes his personal style, prone to follow trends and depends upon them, pliable, often spends more than he has. His relationship are usually “promising”, he enters them with great enthusiasm and expectations, but they rarely last long. The others are blamed because they don’t recognize the “depth of his sensitivity”, he readily occupies himself with superficialities and popular sensations, often doesn’t recognize the essence, cannot differentiate between important and unimportant and has learning difficulties. Possibly his worst characteristic is envy which symbolically depicts the fact that the Moon is the one depending on the Sun, and not the other way around. Contrary to the widespread belief that the Moon has nothing to do with carnal and material in tradition, this is not true. The Moon is first and foremost the symbol of a carnal man, his bodily and earthly needs so the exaggerated lunar principle can manifest through big material ambitions or through accentuated need for collecting specific things. The lunar type isn’t happy even when there’s no objective reason for such unhappiness. He doesn’t have steady focus, he is open for many interests which frequently change, he is sensitive to weather and weather conditions, very flexible and collective. Typical professions of a prominently lunar type are: tabloid journalism, artistic professions and interests, poetry, drama, all the professions related to traveling, fashion related professions, etc.
The solar type is, naturally, diametrically different. He is of a sedentary nature, hard to ‘move’, doesn’t long for travelling, rarely changes his addresses. Steady, stable, almost never changing his personal style, pretty insensitive to the opinion of others, doesn’t follow trends, self-confident, rational with developed logic, appreciates content far more than form, prone to deep cogitation, accomplishes stable social and personal relationships, conventional, traditional, the lover of order and hierarchy, immune to trends and intimately steady. Often very intolerant to differences, this is an individualist, very skeptical and often very stiff and averse to trends and “unverified” ideas. The professions of the Sun are: analytical journalism, all the social and natural sciences, philosophy and, concerning art, only the prose.
Finally, there are also the people which don’t belong to either of these two types, that is, they belong to both of them. Their natal chars have equally potent solar and lunar factors, their luminaries are in harmonious aspect with each other or in reception and they are often born with the ascendant in solar sign, term or face and lunar hour or vice versa. Charts like these are the most integrated ones and hold “the code” for potentially “great alchemist work.” The people with such charts are conspicuous for their unusual serenity and tranquility in every sense (facial expression, clothes, mimic, voice). The harmony between lunar and solar components relieves them of any marked manifestation which occurs as a consequence of some intimate psychological inadequacy. These people speak plainly, don’t have great pretensions toward anything, they are modest and tractable, maturing earlier than others. They are often without any ambitions and unusually self-complacent. Such natal charts are rare because they presuppose not only a formal harmony between the lights, but also their connection to the rest of the chart factors, especially with the parts of fortune and spirit. Such chars hold the key for the overcoming of duality pitfalls and what we term today as a complete individuation or deification.
Author: Natasa Karalic Koprivica
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