If you can count, you can interpret
a horoscope. All you have to do is find one planet that stands out
by being the only one in a particular type of element, quality, or
house type.
The late Marc Edmund Jones was the first to discover that a
majority of planets on one half of a horoscope or one type of sign
could tell you a lot about the person. He also noticed that a
total lack of planets in any one area could mean something, and
that having one planet on one side of the horoscope all by itself
could channel all of the energy of the chart. I noticed, however,
that he did not mention what effect, if any, a planet would have
if it were the only planet in one type of sign or house. I looked
at a couple of horoscopes, did some counting, and it worked.
If a planet happens to be the only one in an element,
quality, or house type, that planet is a Singleton
and it can funnel all of the 揺nergy?of the horoscope. This
planet is often the most important one in the horoscope. In other
words, if you just interpret the position of this one planet by
sign, house, and aspect, you will get to the 揾eart of the
horoscope? The effect is the same as if that planet were the
only one on one side of the chart.
Let's
take a look at some examples.
Rev.
Jim Jones had only one Mutable planet. It is Neptune, planet of dreams and delusions in the sign of Virgo. It is located in
the Eighth
House, which rules, among other things,
group resources, sex, and death. He founded a religious
cult, totally controlled the resources of the group, and had sex
with most of the women. All this before getting them all to commit
mass suicide by drinking poisoned Kool Aid.
Mel
Gibson
has only one Mutable
planet as well. In his case, it is Jupiter,
the planet that shows how we can think big, in the sign of
Virgo
(details) in his Third
House.
For Mel, the energy is channeled into the communications area in a
more constructive way. The attention to detail came in handy for
accurately depicting the world of the Middle Ages in his film 揃raveheart?
Bill
Kunstler, an attorney who championed unpopular causes, has only one
planet in an Air
Sign. It was Mars, planet of action and aggression, in the sign of Gemini (communications) in the Seventh
House (open enemies). Anyone who knows about his career would say:
揟hat's him? Kunstler was the lawyer who defended the
揅hicago Eight? a group that included Abbie Hoffman and Jerry
Rubin. The trial was tumultuous, to say the least.
Tennessee
Williams, the playwright, had Pluto, the planet that rules everything deep, hidden, the planet
of death and rebirth, as his only planet in a Mutable
Sign. In fact, Pluto is placed in Gemini,
the communications sign, in the Fifth
House, the house of creativity. Could this mean that a large
portion of his energy went into creative writing about the
psychological problems of troubled characters?
Stephen
King, who wrote such novels as 揅arrie? 揅ujo? and 揟he
Stand?/i>, has the Sun as his only planet in an Earth
Sign.
It is in his Third
House
(communications) so it funnels his energy to communications.
The Sun rules the sign of Leo, and King has that sign at the
beginning of his Second
House (money) linking income to his communications ability.
What
if there is more than one planet that stands out?
Then All of those planets will be strong and you have to interpret all of
them to find the central themes of the horoscope. For example, President
Bill Clinton
has the
Moon, his emotions, in Taurus as his only placement in an Earth
Sign, and it's in his Eighth
House, the house of Sex.
Could this indicate a stronger than normal emotional need for sex?
At the same time, he has the planet Uranus, planet of genius and sudden,
unexpected events and Gemini
in the Ninth
House. It is his only placement in both a
Mutable
Sign and a Cadent
House, so Uranus is singleton twice
over. Gemini is highly adaptable and the Ninth House rules the principles we live by. Clinton is a
損ragmatist?who has no trouble shifting policies at the drop
of a hat, as he did after the Democrats lost Congress in 1994.
Monica
Lewinsky, on the other hand, also has her
Moon in Taurus as her only placement in an Earth
Sign. But she has it in the Seventh
House (partnership) so relationships should be more important to
her than to Clinton, who has this in the sex house. Unfortunately
for her, Monika has another singleton: Mercury (communications) in the Tenth
House (career and public image) is her only planet in a Water
Sign. Now Mercury
in the 10th
house already means that whatever you say tends to become public.
When the planet gets an extra boost by being a singleton, well,
for a while, the public was hanging on her every secretly recorded
word.
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