ANTISCIA 2024
/Antiscia are symmetries around the seasonal turning points (solstice and equinox) also known as the Cardinal Axis. Antiscia and contra-antiscia are reflections falling equidistant, forward and back, from the zero degree point of each of the four cardinal signs: Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn. Points in antiscia and contra-antiscia mirror one another. With antiscia (across Cancer/Capricorn) points share the same amount of daylight. With contra-antiscia (across Aries/Libra) they share ascensional time: speed of a sign rising on the horizon. Sometimes these reflections or mirror points are referred to as SHADOWS.
antiscia
reflections of equal light around the solstice points
Planets and points in antiscia and contra-antiscia reflect one another across the cardinal axis. The cardinal axis is formed by the four seasonal turning points: zero degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn. The cardinal axis is essentially the node of the Sun. As the earth orbits the Sun, it is the intersection of two Great Circles: the ecliptic, the sun's path from our perspective, a.k.a. tropical zodiac, and the earth's equator.
Planets connect in antiscia when they reflect or mirror one another across this axis. Much like a planetary statement made by two planets in aspect, conjunction or midpoint, planets in antiscia make a terrestrial or mundane statement for the day: a statement for the world that is relevant for all of the earth’s inhabitants. Therefore planets in antiscia provide mundane insights into the energy of the day, week, or month.
Antiscia is also very useful in delineating birth charts, relationship synastry, and in dynamic timing of events and inner developments in one’s life.
Find additional notes on antiscia here...
Twelfth century philosopher and astrologer Ibn Ezra wrote: “You always have to look at degrees that are of the same ascension. An example is when one planet is 10 degrees Aries and the other is at 20 degrees Pisces, so the distance of both of them from the Line of Justice [equinox axis] is equal and they are considered as being in conjunction.”
To use the list of antiscia below, simply blend the meanings of planets in combination.
For help with delineation of planetary pairs, you may want to utilize books I reference on this page — or use an online resource like this one by John Sandbach — or simply apply your basic astrological knowledge of the planets. You can think of the pairs and combinations as conjunctions.
To take your interpretations further, consider the shared or reflected essential dignity and receptions. You may also combine house meanings: look to where planets in antiscia are positioned in the chart, how do those topics interact?
All connections below are within 30 minutes of arc or less (they are very close to exact).
Dates showing one planet indicate its ingress onto the cardinal axis (meaning it resides at zero degrees cardinal (or 29 mutable) and ought to feature prominently that day).
Those with *c indicate contra-antiscia: symmetries around the Aries/Libra (equinox) axis—signs of equal rising. These are just as powerful as antiscia.
The other are antiscia: signs of equal power and light (sharing quantity of light).
ANTISCIA IN 2024
Month / Day
Jan
2, 3, 4 Mars (0 CAPRICORN)
7, 8 Sun Venus
9, 10 Mercury Mars
13 Mercury (0 CAPRICORN)
15, 16 Venus Mars
18 Mercury Venus
22, 23 Venus (0 CAPRICORN)
30, 31 Sun Uranus *c
Feb
9, 10, 11 Sun Jupiter *c
11, 12 Mercury Uranus *c
17 Mercury Jupiter *c
24, 25 Venus Uranus *c
26, Mars Uranus *c
26, 27, 28, 29 Mercury Node Chiron *c
Mar
1, 2, 3, 4 Sun Node Chiron *c
1, 2 Venus Jupiter *c
5, 6, 7 Mars Jupiter *c
9 Mercury (0 ARIES)
11 Mercury Neptune *c
11—21 Saturn Chiron *c
13 Sun Mercury *c
19 Sun (0 ARIES)
19, 20, 21 Mercury Chiron Venus Saturn *c
21, 22 Sun Neptune *c
23 Venus Node
27, 28 Mercury Mars *c
28 Sun Venus *c
30, 31 Saturn Node
Apr
1—17 Saturn Node
9, 10, 11 Mars Saturn Node
14 Venus Mars *c
16, 17 Venus Saturn *c
30 Mars (0 ARIES)
30 Mars Neptune *c
May
1, 2 Mars Neptune *c
12—21 Jupiter Pluto *c
15, 16, 17 Mars Saturn *c
17, 18 Sun Pluto *c
21, 22 Venus Pluto *c
23—30 Neptune (29.5-30 PISCES)
June
1—30 Neptune (29.5-30 PISCES)
1, 2 Mercury Pluto *c
16, 17 Venus and Mercury (0 CANCER)
17, 18 Sun Mercury Venus
20 Sun ingress 0 CANCER Happy SOLstice
26—30 Saturn Node
27 Mercury Jupiter
July
1—31 Neptune (29.5-30 PISCES)
1—17 Saturn Node
3, 4 Venus Jupiter
4 Mercury Uranus
7 Mercury Mars
10, 11 Sun Jupiter
13, 14 Venus Mars Uranus
17, 18, 19, 20 Mars Pluto *c
21 Sun Mars
24, 25, 26 Sun Uranus
Aug
1—12 Neptune (29.5-30 PISCES)
9, 10 Venus Chiron
22, 23, 24 Venus Node
28, 29, 30 Sun Chiron
29, 30 Venus Neptune
Sep
4 Mars (0 CANCER)
8, 9 Sun Venus *c
9, 10 Venus Saturn
13, 14 Mercury Chiron
14, 15, 16 Sun Node
14, 15 Mercury Venus *c
19, 20, 21 Mars Jupiter
22 Sun ingress 0 LIBRA
22, 23 Mercury Node
23, 24 Sun Neptune
24 Sun Mercury *c
26 Mercury ingress 0 LIBRA
26, 27 Mercury Neptune
Oct
4, 5 Mercury Saturn
7, 8, 9 Sun Saturn
17, 18 Venus Pluto
21, 22 Venus Mars *c
Nov
2, 3 Mercury Mars *c
2, 3 Mercury Pluto
11 Venus ingress 0 LIBRA
17, 18 Sun Mars *c
17—30 Mars Uranus
19 Mercury Venus
20, 21, 22 Sun Pluto
20, 21 Venus Jupiter *c
29 Sun Venus
Dec
1—19 Mars Uranus
4—27 Neptune Node
11, 12 Venus Uranus *c
20/21 Sun ingress 0 CAPRICORN Happy SOLstice
31 Sun Mercury
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