The strongest essential dignity a planet can hold: a planet placed in the sign it traditionally rules. In its domicile a planet operates with full natural authority — it is at home, on its own ground, and able to express its core function without distortion or strain. The classical assignments are: Sun in Leo, Moon in Cancer, Mercury in Gemini and Virgo, Venus in Taurus and Libra, Mars in Aries and Scorpio, Jupiter in Sagittarius and Pisces, and Saturn in Capricorn and Aquarius. Mars in Aries acts as Mars in its purest, most direct form; Saturn in Capricorn is patient, structural, and quietly authoritative. A planet in domicile is not necessarily easy — Saturn in Capricorn still carries weight — but the planet has the resources native to its work and does not have to borrow from elsewhere. In traditional delineation, the ruler of a chart in its own domicile is a marker of strength in the matters of the houses it governs.
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