ANTISCIA 2025
/Antiscia are symmetries around the seasonal turning points: solstice and equinox. These turning points are also known as the Cardinal Axis. The cardinal axis is comprised of the zero degree ingress points of the four cardinal signs: Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn, which mark the beginning of each season. Antiscia and contra-antiscia are reflections that fall equidistant -forward and back- across the seasonal turning points (aka cardinal ingress points). Degrees (or days) in antiscia and contra-antiscia mirror one another across these turning points.
Antiscia cross the Cancer/Capricorn ingress points and share the same amount of daylight. They are said to share power as they mirror quantity of light. Contra-antiscia, across the Aries/Libra equinox points, share ascensional time. This is the speed a sign rises on the local horizon, and two signs share in quantity of time. Antiscia/contra-antiscia reflections and mirror points are referred to as SHADOWS and are sometimes known as solstice points.
antiscia
reflections of equal light around the solstice
Planets, points, or degrees 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 mirror or reflect one another across the 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, seeing relationship synastry, and in dynamic timing of outer 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.”
reflections of shared time around the equinox
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 or reception of the planets involved. You may also combine house meanings: look to where planets in antiscia are positioned in the chart, and consider how these topics blend and 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 2025
Month
(Day)
Jan
1—15 Nodes on Aries/Libra point (LUNAR STANDSTILL)
6, 7, 8 Sun Jupiter *c
8 Mercury (0 Capricorn)
12, 13, 14 Venus Chiron *c
20 Mercury Jupiter *c
25, 26 Sun Uranus *c
31 Mercury Uranus *c
Feb
1 Mercury Uranus *c
3—14 Mars Jupiter
3, 4 Venus (0 Aries)
5—8 Node Venus Neptune *c
19 Mercury Chiron *c
21—26 Venus Saturn *c
24, 25 Mercury Venus *c
Feb 25—Mar 8 Mars Jupiter
26, 27, 28 Sun Chiron *c
Mar
Feb 25—Mar 8 Mars Jupiter
3 Mercury (0 Aries)
3, 4, 5 Node Mercury Neptune *c
9—12 Sun Venus *c
9—11 Mercury Saturn *c
11 Sun Mercury *c
11—16 Venus Saturn *c
Mar 17—Apr 12 Neptune (Aries Point)
19, 20 Sun (0 Aries) EQUINOX
19—21 Sun Neptune *c
20—23 Mercury Saturn *c
21—24 Node Venus
22, 23 Sun Node
25—27 Sun Saturn *c
25—27 Node Mercury
25—28 Venus Neptune *c
28 Mercury Venus *c
29—31 Mercury Neptune *c
Apr
Mar 17—Apr 12 Neptune (Aries Point)
Apr 12—May 16 Uranus Pluto *c
13—15 Mercury Neptune *c
16 Mercury (0 Aries)
19—21 Node Mercury Venus Saturn *c
24—29 Mars Uranus
26—30 Venus Neptune *c
30 Venus (0 Aries)
May
Apr 12—May 16 Uranus Pluto *c
1—17 Saturn Neptune *c
2, 3, 4 Venus Saturn *c
5—7 Node Venus
9, 10 Sun Mars
15, 16, 17 Sun Pluto *c
18, 19 Mercury Mars
18—31 Saturn (Aries Point)
23, 24 Mercury Pluto *c
June
7, 8 Mercury Jupiter (Cancer Point)
8 Mercury (0 Cancer)
9 Jupiter (0 Cancer)
9—11 Venus Mars = Jupiter
12 Sun Mercury
18, 19 Sun Jupiter
20 Sun ingress 0 Cancer SOLSTICE
21—24 Mars Chiron
26, 27 Mercury Uranus
30 Mercury Venus
30—Jul 2 Venus Pluto *c
July
Jun 30—Jul 2 Venus Pluto *c
12 Sun Venus
21, 22 Sun Uranus
22, 23 Venus Jupiter
30, 31 Venus 0 Cancer
Aug
2—5 Mars Saturn Neptune
6, 7 Mars 0 Libra
23—26 Node Mars = Saturn
23, 24 Venus Uranus
24—Sep 6 Saturn (Aries Point)
25, 26 Sun Chiron
Sep
Aug 24—Sep 6 Saturn (Aries Point)
3, 4 Mercury Chiron
3, 4 Sun Mars *c = Saturn
5—23 Saturn Neptune *c
7 Mercury Mars *c = Saturn
17, 18 Mercury Neptune
18, 19 Mercury Saturn
19 Sun Mercury *c
20—23 Sun Neptune
20 Venus Mars *c
22 Sun (0 Libra) EQUINOX (Saturn Neptune = Sun)
22, 23 Venus Chiron
23—25 Sun Saturn
24, 25 Node Mercury
28, 29 Mercury Venus *c
Oct
Oct 1—Nov 19 Neptune (Aries Point)
3—5 Sun Node
4 Sun Venus *c
12—14 Venus Neptune
13 Venus 0 Libra
15—17 Venus Saturn
23, 24 Node Venus
27, 28 Mercury Pluto
Nov
Oct 1—Nov 19 Neptune (Aries Point)
1—3 Mars Pluto
2—5 Mercury Jupiter *c
9—12 Mars Jupiter *c
13—15 MercuryRx Jupiter *c
19, 20 Sun MercuryRx Pluto
26, 27 Sun Jupiter *c
28, 29 Venus Pluto
Nov 28—Jan 25 Uranus Pluto *c
Dec
Nov 28—Jan 25 Uranus Pluto *c
4, 5 Venus Jupiter *c
9, 10 Mercury Pluto
14, 15 Mars 0 Capricorn
16, 17 Mercury Jupiter *c
18, 19 Sun Mars
20, 21 Venus Mars = Sun
21 Sun ingress 0 Capricorn SOLSTICE
22, 23 Sun Venus
24 Venus 0 Capricorn
26 Mercury Mars
28, 29 Mercury Venus
31 Neptune (Aries Point)
Jan 1 2026 Mercury 0 Capricorn
