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First licensed astrologer since 1968
welcome to astrology 101 you know
everybody loves to hear about astrology
and everybody loves to hear about
themselves I am going to show you in the
series of classes that I'm going to be
sharing with you how to interpret the
birth chart very very simply when I
started studying astrology in 1966 we
didn't have the internet we didn't have
computers we used to cast the horoscope
by hand and it took hours to interpret
it and I thought at the time there has
to be an easier way because I'm about
simplifying things and sure enough I
found an easier way so the information
that I'm going to be sharing with you
it's found in my number one bestselling
book on Amazon now that I've cast it
what do I do with it some of you may
already have a copy I hope you'll follow
along and if you have your own birth
chart now would be a really good time to
pull it out of the drawer because what
I'm going to do is start from Ground
Zero and I'm going to explain step by
simple step how to interpret your own
birth chart
I years ago asked a friend of mine why
she wanted to sit in on my classes
because I'd already read her chart to
her and she said Maxine nobody gets
tired of hearing about them
so if you've had your chart read hear it
again for the first time follow along as
I take you step-by-step around
the zodiac now as you can see right over
here we have a wonderful zodiac that
describes what a blank chart looks like
so let me tell you exactly what you're
looking at as you notice the chart is
divided like a pie into twelve pieces we
know it's 12 because we start here at
house number one these are called houses
these divisions are houses and by the
way as you can see each house deals with
a different area of life and we will run
around the chart and talk about them so
we have twelve houses and here they are
numbered very simply counterclockwise
and so in your own personal chart you
have twelve houses now we have ten
planets two nodes and twelve houses this
means that when we actually look at the
chart some of those houses are going to
be empty that doesn't mean that part of
life is devoid of any energy it means
it's simply not as important as the
houses that have planets in them and we
will take that as I said step by step
but first let's look at a wonderful
description of each of the houses let's
start first of all with the first house
this is the most personal point in the
chart this is the house that describes
your physical appearance your
personality it describes you more than
your Sun Sign in fact and when we get to
it there's going to be a sign zodiacal
sign on each cusp each edge the sign
that is right here if this were a clock
dial this would be nine o'clock the sign
that lands here is called your rising
sign on that rising sign describes you
more powerfully even
your son sign so you can see the
importance of the first house very often
there are no planets in the first house
if you've got your birth chart in front
of you right now and you have an empty
first house you may be saying does this
mean I have no personality no not at all
what it means is this is not the life
time in which you chose to be assertive
and to take charge and to put yourself
first there's nothing wrong with doing
that there's no judgment in astrology it
simply is and so here we have the first
house it describes you more personally
than any other house let's move on to
the second house and this is the one
everybody wants look at me look at when
I do their horoscopes this is the house
of money and possessions and people can
be our possessions chairs tables cash
money very very important
but these possessions determine our
value structure and so if you have
nothing in your second house don't worry
it doesn't mean you're going to be
living in a box under a bridge what it
means is that money per se is not part
of your focus because when we get to it
you'll see that the horoscope is a
snapshot of you taken of the heavens at
your exact moment of birth and many of
you know that in order to do your own
chart I have to have your exact minute
of birth the month day and year and the
city where you were born some of you
already knew that okay so we're gonna
get to that snapshot the third house
very very important this is the house
that deals with communication it's our
mouth in our mind it's what we think
about how we communicate it deals with
short trips and if you have any planets
in your third house you know you get
bored easily and you want to take short
trips and you're a talker and if you are
not programmed to express your ideas
you're certainly thinking them the
fourth house very very important this
fourth house is the foundation of your
life it deal
with Holman family it deals with
emotional security needs and it deals
with the nurturing parent which
traditionally is mother although
nowadays there are a lot of men who stay
home while their wives go to work so we
are not sure whether it's mother or
father until we actually look at the
person's chart so if you have planets in
your fourth house and you've been
wondering is this my mother or my father
if I sit down with you and interpret
your chart I should be able to help you
determine that okay so this is very very
important people with fourth house
planets love to touch base with family
members they love to touch base at home
if they go out to dinner they will stop
at home first I used to ask a friend of
mine why do you have to go home before
we go out to dinner
are you afraid the house won't be
standing I thought I was being funny he
was taking it seriously okay fifth house
the house of fun and games and this is
all kind of fun and games yes let your
imagination go wild do you like sports
do you love to play a musical instrument
there just love to sit in front of the
TV with a bowl of popcorn and the remote
that's fun fun and games now the fifth
house also deals with children so if you
have children they're going to show up
in this fifth house very often our pets
are our children and I read them in the
fifth house if that particular person
has a pet that is like a child
to them the sixth house very important
house this house deals with your work
your health and your service whatever
service you provide to the planet and
when we look at this sixth house if you
have any planets in your 6,000 you're a
worker you want to be needed you want to
be busy all the time and you don't want
to just cross those T's and dot
those eyes you want to be contributing
you want to feel that you're needed in
fact if you have planets in your sixth
house if someone says to you I need you
what they're really saying is I love you
and I'm going to go over this again so
that by the time we are finished with
these shows you're going to be able to
interpret not just your own chart but
everybody else's okay
seventh house very very important the
seventh house is directly opposite the
first the first house is you so the
seventh house deals with all of your
relationships from business
relationships to personal relationships
it deals with the public's public it
deals with open enemies it deals with
litigation which is very very
interesting because the seventh house
deals with marriage or at least a legal
union and so the seventh house deals
with legal unions you meet someone you
have a legal union everything's
wonderful and then you decide oh this
isn't working the seventh house is the
house of open enemies and so that
partner can become an adversary and so
then you take the relationship to court
or to an attorney
once again the seventh house to dissolve
it on the other hand you may have a
relationship that goes on for 20 30 40
wonderful years while the two of you
learn about each other and help each
other grow again it depends on the
planets in the seventh house which we
will touch on of course eighth house Wow
this is the most powerful house and the
entire zodiac it deals with
transformation the eighth house is the
house of secrets and if you've got
anything in your 8th house people and
trust you with their secrets you may not
want them you get them and you have to
keep them to yourself the 8th house is
the house of power and control and you
will learn in this lifetime to let go
control and simply take charge that's
the highest version of this house the
eighth house also deals with joint
finances other people's money and if you
have anything in the eighth house you're
wonderful at helping people create money
ninth house deals with our principles
our belief systems our philosophy it
deals with long trips whereas the third
house deals with short trips can you see
how it's a very balanced circle and so
anything in the ninth house helps you
stand back see the big picture you see
the forest in spite of the trees the
tenth house oh this is the one that the
world sees this is your public image
this is your career a lot of people are
retired and say I don't have a career I
beg to differ
yes you do it can be simply nurturing
your grandchildren it can be teaching
something at a local YMCA or it can be
gardening whatever it is you don't have
to earn money for it that is your public
image and the tenth house is
traditionally the OUTFRONT parent the
person who teaches you how to deal with
the world the fourth house parent
teaches you about home and family the
10th house parent teaches you how to
deal with other people now it can be
your mother it doesn't have to be the
father figure again it's up to you what
you chose to create in this lifetime it
is mirrored and reflected and
illustrated in the chart 11th house
deals with our friends and group
activities this is the house of the
humanitarian and you're going to find
that if you have any planets in the
eleventh house I can tell you right now
and I'll probably say it again you asked
yourself at least once a week am I crazy
or is the world crazy because you are so
far ahead of your time
you are the humanitarian and you see how
important it is to create peace and
harmony for the whole because when you
do it for the whole the individual
within the hole also feel it most people
don't think that way and so you have
always felt that you were different you
are I mean that as a compliment
pat yourself on the back for that one
and the last house is the twelfth house
and this deals with behind the scenes
activities of all kinds and I know your
mind is going round and round on that
one uh-huh all kinds when I look at the
United States chart or the chart of
other countries very often there's a
huge amount of 12th house activities for
obvious reasons they don't share
everything surprise they keep it private
behind the scenes okay now it rules the
subconscious it rules the spirit world
and if you have any planets in your 12th
house you have to have time alone at
least once a day just to dream are you a
dreamer you can take those dreams and
make them reality because that 12th
house is filled with communication with
what we call the other side and so
you're a natural mystic okay now that's
the blank chart I want to take you
through the planets and we're going to
put each planet one by one in each of
the houses follow along if you have your
birth chart hopefully this will be I
open and you will hear it again for the
first time we're going to start with the
first planet which is the Sun obviously
because that is the sign we know in fact
you know your Sun Sign if you were born
on a certain day you know if you're an
Aries or a Taurus or a Gemini but did
you know that all of the planets fall in
different signs and they expressed
differently because of that so you know
your Sun Sign it's very rare that I find
somebody in my talks who doesn't know
their Sun Sign they know their birth day
if they don't know their birthday we're
in trouble okay so the Sun is the sin
of our universe isn't it I don't know if
you can see that yellow it really is
pretty wherever the Sun is is the center
of your life
now there's a an esoteric interpretation
as well as a psychological
interpretation of each planet the Sun is
the ego and the Sun is the creative
force and you might say that's great now
how do we interpret that in the chart
well I'm going to tell you the Sun is
also daddy's message to you so if the
Sun is in your first house the center of
you're forgetting whatever sign it's in
the center of your life is you your body
your personality or appearance so you're
gonna say me first because the first
house of the zodiac is a me first house
and you might say well that makes me
sound very selfish oh no it doesn't I
want you at my next party because you're
the one who lights up the room you're
able to talk about yourself you're able
to share ideas about yourself and that
breaks the ice for everyone in other
words as I go through I tend to be a
very positive person I'm an ordained
minister with the universal brotherhood
and I see everything as positive even
the so-called bad planets or bad aspects
there's no such animal it's just energy
and we'll get to that in a little bit so
the center of your life is you and your
father your daddy's message is put
yourself first this is by his presence
or his absence either he did put himself
first
or he didn't now some people say to me I
never met my father I was adopted
wonderful your adopted father is the one
that you're looking at here whoever you
consider to be your father
grandfather's grandmother's very often
raised children and so it can be
grandfather however there is a daddy
involved on some level if the father is
not present it is by his absence
that he gives the child the message
you're on your own kid and you need to
put you first and I say Bravo go for it
put yourself first there is nothing in
the chart that you want to squelch this
is your roadmap for this lifetime do it
okay let's say you have the son in the
second house of money so the center of
your life is money and possessions and
wherever the son is it lights it up the
son is the giver of life now you might
be saying well I've got this son in the
second house but I never seem to have
enough money what I have found is that
people with a second house son always
feel that they don't have enough money
it's really funny does it mean they're
gonna win the lottery I don't know but
it's worth a try in it
daddy's messages get the money honey
make sure that you get the possessions
make sure that you hang on to things
because this is the house of things all
right third house this is the house of
the conscious mind and wherever the Sun
is in your chart as I said that's the
center of your life well you've got
great ideas yeah it's like you have them
a bulb that goes off in your head this
is to the Sun in the third house daddy
taught you to talk and certainly to
think you get bored very very easily
you've got to be on the move at all
times because this is the house of
mental curiosity this house also
describes your siblings brothers and
sisters the oldest one in particular and
I'm going to explain what I'm talking
about
for the advanced student in just a
minute because I'm going to go into
charts within charts this is not meant
to get complex it's meant to simplify
okay let's put the Sun in the
fourth house very exciting placement now
the Sun is a masculine sign planet and
it represents daddy so right away we
think oh the fourth house parent the
nurturing parent the one who taught you
how to deal with family members is your
father by his presence or his absence
however with the son in the fourth house
the center of your life is your home and
your family and security needs I also
want to add that the fourth house is the
end of life I don't mean that moment
just prior to lifting off and taking off
but I'm talking about the mature part of
your life and what that son in the
fourth house says is it gets better and
better and better and those of you who
don't have your birth chart in front of
you now are probably wishing you did and
let me mention this if you will contact
me at my website maxine taylor calm tell
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now let's look at the sun in the fifth
house wow when i see the sun in the
fifth house i know that this is a person
who loves to have fun and they're very
good at having fun are they an athlete
maybe I don't know but fun is what it's
all about so the center of their lives
is fun creativity they could be artistic
but they know that life is a game and
they want to play it now this is the
house of children and what so
interesting is that this son in the
fifth house tells us that you your child
puts himself first this is the child's
first house you remember the first house
of the zodiac this is you this is your
child's first house and so
we can say that daddy's message was to
have fun but daddy is a surrogate child
to you how did he teach you to have fun
he was childlike and your first child is
going to be his or her own authority
figure hope that's not too complex okay
moving along six house if you have the
son in the sixth house you are such a
doer the center of your life is service
it's being needed it's being busy all
the time and daddies must message was
get a job but the son is the authority
figure the two luminaries the Sun and
the moon those are our authority figures
and so that son there says whatever job
you have you need to be the boss
whatever project you're working on you
need to be the boss okay makes sense
doesn't it now let's talk about the
7,000 partnerships with the son in the
seventh house the center of your life is
partnership on all levels you've got to
have that one-on-one relationship now
Daddy's messages get married you're
married you're married not literally but
that's the message also very often there
is an emotional attachment to your
father so that you are equals very very
interesting the son in the 8th house
this is the house of transformation and
what the son there says is that your ego
is going to undergo a transformation in
this lifetime that you're able to help
other people with their values and their
money it is awesome and daddys messages
keep private keep your secrets to your
self because anything in the 8th house
is going to be transformed the son in
the 9th house center of your life is the
big picture your philosophy of life your
principles Daddy's messages go long get
on a plane and go
the Sun in the tenth house ah this tells
us that daddy is the OUTFRONT person
he's the OUTFRONT parent he's the one
who said be on top make sure that you're
the boss however what you have probably
found is that every time you climb up to
the top someone else is there already
representing daddy to you in that
interesting there's always a little
catch-22 on these things
you may have noticed that okay the son
in the eleventh house
I love the son in the 11th now the
center of your life then because
remember that's what the Sun is the
center of our lives center of your life
is friendship but it's humanity it's
dealing with other people's children if
the 5th house is your children the
eleventh houses other people's children
who are other people's children
everybody the entire world is someone
else's child and so this is why you see
the good in the whole and use it toward
the betterment of the whole it makes you
a humanitarian okay and daddys messages
be a friend and there's the son in the
12th house so the center of your life is
nobody's business it's private
you need your solitude and your privacy
the center of your life is very
spiritual you've got to be alone once a
day just to process what's been going on
you cherish your privacy you love it now
I promise to talk about charts within
charts so here we go the seventh house
is partnership let's look at it as
marriage okay it doesn't matter what
type of marriage it is a marriage this
seventh house is your first spouse your
first husband or wife if you want to if
you've been married more than once you
count two more houses
this is your second spouse two more
houses this eleventh house is your third
spouse and by the time you hit the first
house you have met your match because
you're looking at yourself aren't you
and you might say oh my goodness there's
so much involved yes when you have a
horoscope interpreted you can see
everyone in your chart so let's just
take a look at your first spouse this is
hit I'll say his for generic purposes
this is his personality this is his
money
this is his mind this is his home his
kids his job oh that's you your money
etc etc etc if you have two spouses
there's the second spouse that's his
personality and temperament his money
his ideas etc etc etc and so you can go
around the wheel you can do it with
children as well if you have one three
children here's your first child in the
fifth house the seventh house is your
second child so your second child and
your first spouse are teaching you the
same exact messages there's your third
child if you married twice you're and
have three kids they are both the third
child and the second spouse are both
teaching you what you need to know
that's it for this segment please join
me next time when we go through the moon
and Mercury and all the other planets