Ruling Planets

What is a Ruling Planet? 

In simple terms, the Ruling Planet is a Planet or celestial body considered to have a more influential power when placed in its home sign. The Ruling Planet associated with a sign is also used as an indicated focus of interpretation for the signs on house cusps in a chart.

The Ruling Planet is highly significant because you want additional information about any situation you wish to answer in traditional and mainstream astrology. For example, let's say you look at your sun sign, which is Sagittarius. Its Ruling Planet is Jupiter, and Jupiter is in Aries. Yes, your personality and emotional traits are Sagittarius; however, you also have an equal amount of Aries personality traits.

This technique is not a part of Magi Astrology; however, this only partially discards the unique information one could receive from this method. For example, since zodiac sign interpretations are accurate for psychological and emotional analysis only. It could be an additional tool when looking further into finding out more about the psyche of the chart of the subject.

Here is a modified list of the Ruling Planets of each zodiac sign. The traditional and modern sign rules are still at their respective locations. The only modification is the addition of new celestial bodies based on their keywords discovered in scientific and statistical research.

Aries: Mars, Nike, Xanthus, Mjölnir

Taurus: Venus, Ceres, Vesta

Gemini: Mercury

Cancer: Moon, Diana, Chiron

Leo: Sun, Isis, Quaoar

Virgo: Mercury, Pallas

Libra: Venus, Vesta

Scorpio: Mars, Juno, Kleopatra, Pluto

Sagittarius: Diana, Odin, Jupiter, Ixion, Logos-Zoe

Capricorn: Ceres, Dionysus, Saturn

Aquarius: Saturn, Uranus

Pisces: Jupiter, Neptune

This list lists three constellations involved in other zodiac systems that a much smaller group of astrologers use. Due to their rarity of usage, they are also highly controversial or often fought over within the Astrology community. I rarely use these constellations because I view them as an additional tool that sometimes adds extra layers of information that could get overlooked. From my research and testing, they are just as okay for psychological and emotional analysis but must not be heavily relied on. Wholeheartedly, I suggest you stick with the Tropical Zodiac System. This version (that uses the Tropical system) of mainstream Western astrology is commonly used because it is more aligned to people's psychological and emotional makeup, compared to other systems where they are more aligned to the accurate positions of the stars. The underlined names are what is agreed to be the primary Ruling Planet for these Signs.

Orion: Moon, Mars, Pallas, Diana

Ophiuchus: Excalibur, Odin, Chiron, Ixion

Cetus: Ceres, Saturn, Sedna