Zodiacal Portraits

What is a Zodiacal Portrait (ZP)? Is it something you paint? Yes and No. The Planets and other Zodiacal influences created your ZP at the time you were born, but we cannot see the painting until we do some calculations. Every person that's ever been born has had a ZP.

There are basically an infinite number of ways to create your own Portrait that you can see. You can choose to have only one Planet's position and you've already created a Portrait. When we go to a museum, we rarely see a speck on an otherwise blank canvas. That speck, although tiny, does mitigate the personality of the artwork somewhat, although not enough to maintain interest. Don't you want to add some colors, and shapes to make it more of a rapture?

Ultimately, you decide the variables of what to paint on your canvas. Most people without much knowledge of astrology will simply use the positions of the Sun, the Moon, the planets between Mercury and Pluto, the Rising Sign, the Midheaven, and be finished. That is fine. However in comparison, this is like drawing a stick figure with a smile and having it waving toward the audience. Don't you want something with more depth, more character, more definition?

There are several rules you must adhere to:

1. Choose your canvas in which to paint your ZP, i.e. a webpage, a REAL canvas with REAL paint, chalk on a chalkboard, ink on a piece of paper, etc.
2. Have software to do your computations (many are free online)
3. You must use two places past the decimal point (i.e. 4.55)
4. You must list the sign so as not to confuse the viewer (i.e. 4.55 Gemini)
5. You must list the influence you are talking about (i.e. 4.55 Gemini Mars)
6. Specify "MY" before your exact planetary positions so that people will know that it's not a current transit by that planet
7. You must strive for accuracy -- do not guess. Most astrological software rounds to the second decimal point (this is fine)

Here are suggestions on what to include in your Zodiacal Portrait based on your birthchart:

1. Admetos
2. Antiscia
3. Apollon
4. Arabic Parts
5. Asbolus
6. Cazimi zone
7. Ceres
8. Chiron
9. Combustion zone
10. Comments section to explain your observations about your ZP
11. Contra-antiscia
12. Cupido
13. Cusp of your 2nd house
14. Cusp of your 3rd house
15. Cusp of your 4th house
16. Cusp of your 5th house
17. Cusp of your 6th house
18. Cusp of your 8th house
19. Cusp of your 9th house
20. Cusp of your 11th house
21. Cusp of your 12th house
22. Descendant
23. Eros
24. Fixed star conjunctions to any of your placings
25. Full moon before birth
26. Hades
27. Harmonic positions
28. Hyperlinks to material related to that position
29. Juno
30. Jupiter
31. Kronos
32. Lagrange Points
33. Lilith
34. Mars
35. Mercury
36. Midheaven
37. Midpoints of all planetary bodies
38. Midpoints of houses
39. Moon
40. Neptune
41. Nessus
42. New moon before birth
43. North Node
44. Opposition points of all Planets
45. Pallas
46. Persona positions
47. Pluto
48. Poseidon
49. Quaoar
50. Rising sign
51. Saturn
52. Sedna
53. Square points of all Planets
54. Sun
55. Trine points of all Planets
56. Uranus
57. Venus
58. Vesta
59. Vulcanus
60. Where Admetos currently is located on your ZP
61. Where Apollon currently is located on your ZP
62. Where Cupido currently is located on your ZP
63. Where Hades currently is located on your ZP
64. Where Jupiter currently is located on your ZP
65. Where Kronos currently is located on your ZP
66. Where Neptune currently is located on your ZP
67. Where Saturn currently is located on your ZP
68. Where Sedna currently is located on your ZP
69. Where Pluto currently is located on your ZP
70. Where Poseidon currently is located on your ZP
71. Where Quaoar currently is located on your ZP
72. Where Uranus currently is located on your ZP
73. Where Vulcanus currently is located on your ZP
74. Where Zeus currently is located on your ZP
75. Your progressed Mars
76. Your progressed Mercury
77. Your progressed Midheaven
78. Your progressed Moon
79. Your progressed Rising Sign
80. Your progressed Sun
81. Your progressed Venus
82. Zeus

I have the colors of each sign's font different than the others, to give each sign some diversity, although you may find it tedious to choose 12 different fonts, then again you may decide to use more than 12. I decided to have header rules separating each sign, you may decide not to do this, or you may decide to do it on your points of emphasis, or by house cusp.

You may decide to have your degrees listed by all numerological order, regardless of sign, for example:

1.28 PIS - 10th House Cusp
1.42 LEO - Mars/Nessus Midpoint
1.46 LIB - Mercury Position of Sedna Persona
1.58 ARI - (Arabic Part of) Abundance

and then skip a line and continue with numerological order at 2 degrees, and then when done, continue with 3 degrees, etc.

You may decide to list by section first, i.e. listing your antiscia, skipping a line, listing your Pluto Harmonics, skipping a line, listing your Square positions of all planets, etc. Many different ways you can do it.

There are many rewards in compiling your ZP:

1. Using your creativity in a way in which you are in control
2. Learning about influences that you were born with, as well as those that are on the way
3. Sharing your artwork with the world
4. Provides a curiosity for others to engage in the same type of creative outlet as yourself

My Aries Zodiacal Portrait

My Taurus Zodiacal Portrait

My Gemini Zodiacal Portrait

My Cancer Zodiacal Portrait

My Leo Zodiacal Portrait

My Virgo Zodiacal Portrait

My Libra Zodiacal Portrait

My Scorpio Zodiacal Portrait

My Sagittarius Zodiacal Portrait

My Capricorn Zodiacal Portrait

My Aquarius Zodiacal Portrait

My Pisces Zodiacal Portrait