The late astrologer Buz Myers said that by putting the planets in a chart in ascending order by degree (not to worry about sign), you'd get the process a person uses when working with life's situations. The lowest is what you are working the most on learning about, the highest is the one you've mastered.

This system also applies to Solar Return charts. For this year, your Mars is your mastered planet. As needed, you will be working very easily with that energy. Enjoy your 'new' year's energy!

Malama pono (take care).

I don't under stand. What do you mean that there is a significance of having a planet at zero or 29 degrees? You mean cusps? In that case I would say yes 1 and 28 degrees definatly fit into the definition of a cusp.

How about planets at the end of a house? My moon is at the end of house one, and astro.com tells me to interpret it as in the 2nd house. Degrees-wise it's right at 17 degrees, so it's well in the middle of the sign (saggie).

Derrick,

In Vedic astrology there are what are known as balaadi avasthas. Avastha just means state or condition. The balaadi avasthas show the "age" of the planet. The first 6 degrees of odd signs a planet is infant and has only 1/4 strength. The second 6 degrees it is young and has half strength. The third 6 deg. it is adult and has full strength. The fourth 6 deg. it is elderly and has 1/8 strength. The last 6 deg. it is dead and has zero strength. The order is reversed for even signs. The way my teacher does it, it doesn't just go from 1/4 to 1/2, etc. but there is a gradual change from one state to another.

Basically what this means is that planets at zero degrees (the boundary between signs) has zero strength, and as they go towards the middle of a sign they gain strength. What is meant by strength in this case is the planet's potency to deliver its karmas. In a way, you can think of it as the age of the karma. A planet may be in great shape otherwise, meaning it has good karma to give you, but if it's in old or dead avastha that means the good karma has mostly burnt itself out in past lives. Similarly, a planet in infant avastha shows a karma that is just being born (and maybe can be changed?).

To sum it up, the farther away a planet gets from the center of the sign the less of an impact it's going to have on the rest of the chart. The planets to really look out for are the ones in the center of the sign. They are going to have a lot of potency with which to affect the chart, for good or ill.

David

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this site and excited to find alot of information I've been searching out recently. I also have planets at the end of a sign and have been obsessively researching this all morning! If there is anyone who could offer some insight it would be very much appreciated : )

I have in my natal chart the Sun at 29.35 Leo and also Uranus at 29.56 Cancer. In addition, I also have Venus & Mars in Leo at 27.10 and 27.30 respectively, as well as Pluto at 26.34 Leo - this is in reference to the wonderings about a planet on it's way out.

As a side note, my Leo planets are all in the 12th House, also Jupiter at 15.18 Leo.

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment!