🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️Walking the Wheel: A Personal Guide to Planets, Points, and Power

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️Walking the Wheel: A Personal Guide to Planets, Points, and Power

How I read charts through wounds, shadows, and thresholds — and how you can feel them in your own life.

Introduction

When I sit down with a chart, I don’t just see symbols on a wheel — I see a story waiting to be told. Every planet, every point, every asteroid is a voice in that story, carrying its own wisdom, shadow, and lesson.

Some astrologers stop at the “big three” — Sun, Moon, and Rising. I go further. I trace the math points, the shadows, the wounds, the fortune, and the thresholds. Because to me, a chart isn’t just about who you are — it’s about how you grow, where you get stuck, Me too and how you integrate.

In this guide, we’ll walk the wheel point by point. I’ve included a sample chart (with no name attached) so you can follow along visually if you like. Think of it as a map — not the destination, but a wa So let’s take a walk through the astrological neighborhood neighborhood that I was born int

The technical signature (what this point is in astrology).

1. The archetypal signature (the mythic, symbolic, soulful story it carries).
2. The everyday feel (how you can notice this energy alive in your own life).

This is how I read charts in my practice: not prediction, but revision. I don’t believe the stars command. They incline. They resonate. They reveal the story you’re living so you can choose how to live it more consciously.

Ive added my own chart below so follow me on a walk around the wheel with me. My natal is on inside, and transits of Sept 23 are on the outside this is how you can better understand where I was born as far as my astrological placements and why, and where they are now, even though this was a couple days Tuesday it’s still showing you how the planets move around the houses and how the energy changes from house the house. So let’s take a walk through the astrological neighborhood of Christie Rhuems-Kotzman. Think of my natal chart as an inner wheel representing my hometown, and the transits as the outer wheel showing my current subdivision and all the activity happening within it.

The Moon 🌙

1. Technical: The Moon rules feelings, instincts, and needs.
2. Archetypal: Linked to Artemis and Selene, she represents the inner child and the mother, the ebb and flow of tides and moods.
3. Everyday: You feel the Moon in comfort-seeking, instinctive reactions, and the hunger for security. A happy Moon is content; a strained Moon is restless or unsatisfied.

The Sun ☀️

1. Technical: The Sun is identity, vitality, the life force.
2. Archetypal: Apollo, the radiant source of light, asking whether you shine or hide in shadow.
3. Everyday: You feel your Sun when you’re “lit up” — proud, radiant, alive. When blocked, life feels dim, like you’re living someone else’s script.

Mercury ☿

1. Technical: Mercury rules thought, speech, learning, and connection.
2. Archetypal: Hermes, the winged messenger, trickster and translator between worlds.
3. Everyday: You feel Mercury in how you text, learn, and joke. A strong Mercury makes words flow; a stressed one scrambles signals.

Venus ♀︎

1. Technical: Venus shows how you relate to love, pleasure, and value.
2. Archetypal: Aphrodite, goddess of beauty and harmony, drawing us toward what we desire.
3. Everyday: You feel Venus in your style, relationships, and the luxuries that delight you. When Venus flows, life feels graceful; when blocked, you feel unseen or unloved.

Mars ♂︎

1. Technical: Mars is drive, passion, and action.
2. Archetypal: Ares, the warrior, raw force moving forward.
3. Everyday: You feel Mars in competition, attraction, and anger. A clear Mars fuels courage; a blocked Mars simmers into frustration or exhaustion.

Jupiter ♃

1. Technical: Jupiter expands whatever it touches. It’s faith, wisdom, growth.
2. Archetypal: Zeus, the sky god, generous but prone to excess.
3. Everyday: You feel Jupiter when opportunities open up or when you overindulge. The lesson: grow, but grow wisely.

Saturn 🪐

1. Technical: Saturn is structure, boundaries, and discipline.
2. Archetypal: Kronos, the stern father, teaching through limits and time.
3. Everyday: You feel Saturn in deadlines, responsibilities, and the weight of “should.” A healthy Saturn brings mastery and stability; a blocked Saturn feels like fear or endless pressure.

Uranus ♅

1. Technical: Uranus is disruption, rebellion, awakening.
2. Archetypal: Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods to wake humanity.
3. Everyday: You feel Uranus when everything flips overnight: the breakup, the breakthrough, the wild twist of fate. Sometimes exhilarating, sometimes chaos — but always awakening.

Neptune ♆

1. Technical: Neptune blurs boundaries — dreams, illusions, mysticism.
2. Archetypal: Poseidon, ruler of seas and storms, pulling us between spirit and matter. Pisces, Neptune’s sign, shows two fish swimming in opposite directions — one toward spirit, one toward matter.
3. Everyday: You feel Neptune when you lose yourself in music, prayer, fantasy, or compassion. Blissful but also foggy, Neptune teaches discernment: swim without sinking.

Pluto ♇

1. Technical: Pluto is power, transformation, death, and rebirth.
2. Archetypal: Hades, lord of the underworld, dragging up what’s buried.
3. Everyday: You feel Pluto in crises that strip you bare — betrayal, breakdown, endings. But he clears for rebirth. Pluto is the soul’s demolition crew.

Chiron ⚷

1. Technical: Chiron is the wound and the healing response.
2. Archetypal: The wounded centaur, teacher of heroes, healer who could not heal himself.
3. Everyday: You feel Chiron in the scar that still aches. It can drain you, or it can become the place you lead from. Your triage training.

Vesta 🔥

1. Technical: Vesta is devotion, focus, sacred commitment.
2. Archetypal: Keeper of the hearth flame, guarding continuity of home and temple.
3. Everyday: You feel Vesta in your rituals, dedication, and sense of duty. She gives sacred focus or burns you out when neglected.

Pallas 🧠

1. Technical: Pallas is wisdom, strategy, pattern recognition.
2. Archetypal: Athena, born fully armed, goddess of both art and warcraft.
3. Everyday: You feel Pallas in creative solutions and strategic clarity — your inner chess master or poker face.

Juno ⚭

1. Technical: Juno is partnership, reciprocity, and fairness in relationships.
2. Archetypal: Hera, goddess of marriage, fierce about vows and equality.
3. Everyday: You feel Juno in your closest commitments. Is this equal? Is it reciprocal? Healthy Juno bonds last; wounded Juno breeds resentment.

Ceres 🌾

1. Technical: Ceres is nurture, food, cycles of loss and renewal.
2. Archetypal: Demeter, whose grief over Persephone stopped the harvest. Her return brought spring.
3. Everyday: You feel Ceres in caregiving, nourishment, and self-love. Where she appears shows how you mother and how you need mothering.

Lilith 🌑

1. Technical: Lilith is exile, shadow, suppressed power.
2. Archetypal: Adam’s first wife in Jewish lore, who refused submission and became the screech owl in the wilderness. I call her the spectral twin of Eve — not given, but already within.
3. Everyday: You feel Lilith where you’ve been told you’re “too much” or where you silence yourself. She haunts until reclaimed.

Lunar Nodes ☊ ☋

1. Technical: Nodes are points where the Moon’s orbit crosses the Sun’s path — always opposite. South Node = past. North Node = growth.
2. Archetypal: The dragon’s head and tail. The Philosopher’s Stone: South Node is lead, North Node is gold. Transformation is the Work.
3. Everyday: You feel the South Node in comfort zones; the North Node in terrifying but magnetic callings. The dragon guards your treasure.

Ascendant ⬆️

1. Technical: The Ascendant is the sign rising on the eastern horizon at birth — your “mask” and entry point.
2. Archetypal: Sunrise, the soul’s first impression.
3. Everyday: You feel it in your vibe, the energy you can’t hide. Over time, you learn to wear it consciously.

Descendant ⬇️

1. Technical: Opposite the Ascendant, the Descendant rules the 7th house: partnerships, contracts, projection.
2. Archetypal: Sunset, the mirror of the Other. Soul contracts that reveal us to ourselves.
3. Everyday: You feel it in relationships — partners, rivals, collaborators. The qualities you deny in yourself often appear here, wearing another’s face.

Midheaven 🌞

1. Technical: The MC is your public life, reputation, career, and legacy.
2. Archetypal: High noon, the showdown. When the Sun is brightest and shadows shortest.
3. Everyday: You feel it in the moments when you must stand visible, tested by the world.

Imum Coeli 🌙

1. Technical: The IC is opposite the MC, the chart’s roots: home, ancestry, foundations.
2. Archetypal: Midnight, the womb, the underworld descent. Persephone in Hades, Christ in the tomb.
3. Everyday: You feel it in your sanctuary, your early family patterns, the soil you spring from.

Part of Fortune ⊗

1. Technical: A mathematical point of joy and integration.
2. Archetypal: Fortuna, goddess of chance, spinning her wheel of fate.
3. Everyday: You feel it in ease, flow, and delight — where life feels most alive and effortless.

Aries Point ♈︎

1. Technical: The Aries Point marks where inner energy bursts into collective action.
2. Archetypal: The spark of creation, the Big Bang moment.
3. Everyday: You feel it in thresholds, public beginnings, bold announcements — the leaps that ignite a new chapter.

Conclusion

By now you’ve met the luminaries, planets, asteroids, and points that weave a chart into a living story. Some act like spotlights (Sun, MC), some like mirrors (Moon, Descendant), others like thresholds (Nodes, Lilith, Aries Point). Each one is a hinge in the architecture of your life.

The chart is not fate carved in stone. It’s a map of resonance. It shows tides, shadows, and treasure — but you’re the one who walks the path.

When I read for someone, I don’t just name symbols. I ask: How is this alive in you right now? Where are you stuck? Where are you ready to break through? That’s the power of astrology — not prediction, but revision. A practice of reclaiming agency in the cosmic dance.

So when you read your own chart, don’t just memorize. Feel. Apply. Let the symbols speak through your daily life. Remember: you’re not at the mercy of these points. You’re in relationship with them.