Fall

Think of being a newcomer where nobody knows your strengths: your best qualities go unnoticed, and you have to prove yourself from scratch. That is a planet in fall: in the sign opposite its exaltation, where it is least honoured and least at ease.

Fall is one of the two traditional debilities, with detriment.

Every planet's fall

• The Sun in Libra.
• The Moon in Scorpio.
• Mercury in Pisces, where it is also in detriment.
• Venus in Virgo.
• Mars in Cancer.
• Jupiter in Capricorn.
• Saturn in Aries.

The Sun falls as the light fades

Here is a lovely piece of symbolism. The Sun is exalted in Aries, where the year turns toward light at the spring equinox, and falls in Libra, where it turns toward darkness at the autumn equinox. Saturn, the planet of night and cold, does the opposite: exalted in Libra, in fall in Aries. The scheme of exaltations and falls follows the rhythm of the seasons.

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