LIVING PLANETS 1ST
In 2015, I started working with an astrological technique called Planets on the 1st. The planets represent facets of our psyche and collective energies. We use planets in astrology to look at different parts or functions of ourselves. Pretend you're in a very large space with numerous rooms, doors, and windows. If you've always stood in the same corner, looking straight ahead, your experience has been limited. But the other rooms, doors, and windows are ever-present. Choosing a planet 1st is simply re-orienting you in your own space; it's you giving yourself more of you.
Most of us have parts of ourselves that are more dominant or tend to take the lead. Sometimes, other parts get pushed away or just don't have the freedom to express fully and naturally. If you're more of a serious, get-to-work Saturn-type person, imagine how different things could be if you chose easeful, pleasure-seeking Venus 1st. When you choose a planet 1st, it's asking that part of you to show you what it's really like, how it responds, what it wants, what it can do, and so much more.​
What is this technically?
Technically (and you don't have to be technical with this), you choose a planet you want to live first and rotate your birth chart so that planet is on the ascendant (cusp of the 1st house). This planet or part of yourself becomes like a focalizing crystal through which you view and experience life. It gets to lead or go first 😊 You don't have to create a chart for this if you don't want to. Just intentionally choosing a planet/part to go first is revealing.
Why do it?
Choosing planets 1st strengthens and develops parts of us that have been underused, pushed away, hiding in the background, or just have something new to show us. When you choose a planet 1st you aren't simply getting more information or intellectually learning about this energy within and without. You are literally having a new experience of yourself, living life through that part (planet) in your life story.