Domicile

Think of how you behave in your own home. You know where everything is, you do not have to ask permission, and you can be completely yourself. That is a planet in domicile: in a sign it rules, at home, acting with its own full strength and on its own terms.

Domicile is the first and strongest of the essential dignities, the traditional measure of how comfortable a planet is in its sign.

Every planet's home

• The Sun is at home in Leo, the Moon in Cancer.
• Mercury in Gemini and Virgo.
• Venus in Taurus and Libra.
• Mars in Aries and Scorpio.
• Jupiter in Sagittarius and Pisces.
• Saturn in Capricorn and Aquarius.

The outer planets were given modern homes later: Uranus in Aquarius, Neptune in Pisces, Pluto in Scorpio. They are not part of the traditional dignity scheme.

Day homes and night homes

Here is a detail most modern books skip. Each planet with two homes has a day home in an active sign and a night home in a receptive one. Mars' day home is Aries, its night home Scorpio. Venus' day home is Libra, her night home Taurus. The two homes show two faces of the same planet: Mars charging forward in Aries, digging in in Scorpio; Venus relating in Libra, enjoying in Taurus. The Sun and Moon, the two lights, have one home each, which is where the whole pattern of rulership begins.

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