Top 5 Astrology Placements that You Need to Know

With Astrology being prominent in the common zeitgeist of this decade, people everywhere want to know what their Sun, Moon, and Rising placement says about them. They want to know how their Moon is compatible with their crush’s Venus. However, what if I told you that aside from your placements in your chart that you know about like your Sun, Moon, Rising, Mars, and Venus, for example, they are planets, asteroids, and even fixed points in your chart that can help you with the challenges and/or obstacles in your life that you want to correct yourself?

Chiron

Like everything else in Astrology, most of the names and origins are derived from Greek and Roman names of Goddesses. In this case, Chiron, a comet commonly used in Astrology (and shows up on your charts depending on what Astrology calculator you input your information to), is based on the mythological figure depicting the mortal wound of healing. Chiron, the mythological figure, is known as being the healer of the Gods and taught many heroes, like Hercules (think of Chiron as Phil from Hercules). Chiron was the teacher and healer, and in our charts, his placements show where your deepest insecurities lie, and how, through inner child healing, you can fix the obstacles of your past that will not leave you be. In turn, your healing can be a teaching moment for yourself and others who go through similar plights of your own. 

This placement out of everything in your chart can be the most triggering. Chiron, at its core, demands of wanting the best for you, only if you are ready to dig through the trenches of your past and figure out what went wrong. It’s about how you can make it right whether you contributed to your trauma that causes you to move forward with your life or not. 

Lilith (aka Black Moon Lilith)

Lilith is one of the many placements in Astrology that isn’t derived from Greek and Roman mythology. Lilith in Astrology is a geometric based point on the dark side of the moon. Essentially, this means that our Black Moon Lilith is a point where the moon is isolated from everything around it. Based on the figure from Jewish mythology, Lilith was Adam’s first wife who abandoned him when God told her that she would be his wife and servant. She rebelled and, thus, this depicts how we rebel ourselves. The way I like to describe Lilith to people is that she is the rebellious feminine energy in all of us, whether you are femme or not. She represents what we would do if there were no limitations and boundaries on our society. Her nature comes out in us if we were our true primal selves, and we would do anything we wanted to do. 

However, her placement can also discuss the darker, more erotic parts of ourselves in the bedroom. It can bring to light what we may want to keep in the dark in terms of kinks and taboos in our sex lives. But don’t only think of our Lilith placement in terms of sex, Lilith can show us how far we are willing to make something happen for ourselves at any cost. 

Juno

Everybody talks about looking to their Venus to see what kind of partner they’ll attract and what their own romantic desires are, but if you really want to know what placement to look at, I suggest the asteroid Juno. Named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife to Jupiter (Greek names being Hera and Zeus respectively), Juno is the goddess of marriage, and because she is the goddess of marriage, this is what Juno in our chart represents. Our Juno placements make us look at what we want in a long-term partner/relationship. The sign the placement is in can mean what your future spouse will be, what kind of future spouse you need, or what relationship dynamics you need for a long-term relationship to work for you. I always like to remind people that our Venus sign shows what we want out of a relationship/partner and our Juno sign is what we need out of a relationship/partner. 

Midheaven

Our Midheaven is one of my favorite placements to discuss (aside from the North Node, see below). Our Midheaven (or MC which stands for Medium Coeli) helps us look at what career path would be best for us. It is called the midheaven because it is a point at the highest part of your chart. It can also teach us how we conduct ourselves with our online and public/professional personas. 

I’ll use myself as an example: 

I have an Aqua MC. 

Having an Aquarius Midheaven can make someone’s online persona be seen as eccentric as they come despite what their sun sign says about them. I can tend to act very differently and my interests about spirituality are stronger on my social media then how I choose to show it off in real life. Anybody who is just getting to know me in person will see a completely different side of me because my sun sign is in Cancer. Aquarius also can be considered as the stubborn eccentric in the zodiac as well. That is why in the workplace, I like to be independent, but still work in a collaborative space when I can. I like having a job that gives me the flexibility and freedom to go off and do something of my own. 

When it comes to the kind of jobs my midheaven says I would be best at, it would probably be ones that are on the cutting edge of technology or trying to find new ways to broaden humanity’s horizons. In this respect, I love keeping up on new technology that I find interesting, like new kinds of phones and new video games that are on the rise.  Funnily enough, having an Aqua MC makes one tend to be the “weird one” which would make sense for an astrologer to have an Aquarius Midheaven. Along with astrology, Aqua Midheaven people could be into any sort of divination art (numerology, cartomancy, tarot, etc.) that would be considered new age spirituality because we are the mad scientists of the zodiac in terms of careers. 

North Node/South Node

Your North Node and South Node are two lunar mathematical points that are always put in opposite zodiac signs (ex. Leo North Node/Aquarius South Node, Virgo North Node/Pisces South Node). Your North Node and South Node talk about what your purpose is in this lifetime. They discuss karmic cycles and what you need to complete in this lifetime. Our North Node tells us the lessons we need to learn in this present life and what we need to lean into, while our South Node shows the talents that we are born in our current life with. The South Node discusses our innate abilities that we need to get away from since we are comfortable using those talents. I always tell clients of mine that I like to look at both the MC and the North Node together if you are wanting to figure out what career path you want to go towards (there are others to look at as well, but these are the definite main two). I like to think of the MC giving us insight on how to funnel that energy from our North Node into a career that is beneficial for all of us.

Astrology is an amazing guiding tool that we can utilize and help us for our entire lives. There are so many nooks and crannies that the stars can help us fix and figure out. Even if one were to study a lifetime of astrology, there still would be so many little nuances to figure out, deduce, and explore.