Your guiding/Oriental planet..

...we all have just one in our chart and it's supposed to showcase hidden talents/inclinations.

To find it, look at the chart wheel, locate your Sun on it and look at the first planet that is behind it on the wheel.

Also, don't forget to check for the house placement of that planet.

Example:

^ Sun in Leo: 24 58'
Saturn in Leo : 21 38'

^Saturn is the oriental planet in that chart.

http://www.khaldea.com/planets/oriental_houses.shtml

http://www.khaldea.com/planets/oriental_pluto.shtml

http://www.khaldea.com/planets/oriental_neptune.shtml

http://www.khaldea.com/planets/oriental_uranus.shtml

http://www.khaldea.com/planets/oriental_saturn.shtml

http://www.khaldea.com/planets/oriental_jupiter.shtml

http://www.khaldea.com/planets/oriental_mars.shtml

http://www.khaldea.com/planets/oriental_moon.shtml

http://www.khaldea.com/planets/oriental_venus.shtml

http://www.khaldea.com/planets/oriental_mercury.shtml

Posted by bmoon8
Isn't Saturn in Capricorn at 12 29'? I think you meant Uranus....

Yes, sorry.

Tired day.

Uranus, not Saturn.

All hail Uranus

grrr...ok, the links work.

they just have to end after the shtml part. dxp adds a "

Behind it looks like pluto in Virgo at 5 degrees.

Uranus is in front. Yeah?

Posted by 037
Behind it looks like pluto in Virgo at 5 degrees.

Uranus is in front. Yeah?

I think the terminology sucks too. When I read the articles on it..I would've assumed Pluto would be behind it in that chart.

I just looked at wheels to understand wtf they meant by "behind". There was a discussion about the "behind" not being the accurate term on a forum.

http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22759

sits behind it, rises before..

ugh.

On this page: http://www.khaldea.com/planets/oriental_intro.shtml

Last paragraph:

Finding your Planet of Oriental Appearance is easy. If you have a copy of your birth-chart, simply look to see which planet is immediately before the Sun in a clockwise direction. If you haven't gotten around to having your birth-chart calculated, you can find your Oriental Planet by referring to an ephemeris for the day and year of your birth. Your Oriental Planet is the planet immediately preceding the Sun in the zodiac. For example, if the ephemeris shows your Sun as 22 degrees Scorpio and Neptune is shown as 10 degrees Libra, Neptune would be your Planet of Oriental Appearance — if there are no other planets between 10 degrees Libra and 22 degrees Scorpio. The depictions which follow describe each of the nine planets (the Sun is never in Oriental Appearance) when acting as a Guiding Planet and Skill Symbol.

So I'm a Neptune Guiding Planet type.

innate affinity for things psychological, abstract, mystical, transcendental and musical;
highly imaginative;
sharp intuition;
lower priority on mundane matters;
higher mathematics and other nerdy activities like computer programming;
tendency toward playing the victim.

Famous people born with Neptune in Oriental Appearance:
Kurt Cobain, Grace Slick, Enrico Ferme, Hillary Clinton and Bill Gates.