Both depression and Melancholy can be traced back in a natal chart.
Saturn is the main significator of Depression and Melancholy, this due to it’s restrictive and cold nature.
It’s malefic power will be more influential in a night chart due to it’s sect.
The strength of the Moon plays an important role in determining the tendency for depression in a natal chart :
The Moon is damaged either by sign placement (Scorpio, Capricorn)
The Moon is damaged by a hard aspect
If the Moon is already challenged in the natal chart and one receives a difficult transit from Pluto or Saturn,
It can bring a period of (heightened) depression.
Depression can be triggered through progressions.
Most vulnerable : Sun – Moon – Mercury – Ascendant – Lunar nodes
The synastry of a relationship needs to be considered too in case the native has a natal inclination for depression.
That means if the Moon of person A is challenged natally, and receives hard aspects from Saturn, Pluto from person B, the relationship probably only contributes to a more depressive flavor within the union. One may feel triggered by their partner, whether it’s conscious or unconscious.
Depression in the natal chart
• Saturn in hard aspect to Sun or Moon
• Saturn in hard aspect to Mercury
• Pluto in hard aspect to Sun or Moon
• Pluto in hard aspect to Mercury
• Saturn / Pluto in hard aspect to the lunar nodes
• Saturn / Pluto in hard aspect to the ASC
• Moon conjunct Southnode
• Personal planets in Scorpio or Capricorn
• 8th house emphasis
Degrees of depression
29° Aries (isolation)
2° Taurus (pessimism, despair)
12° Cancer
18° Gemini (sorrow)
12° Virgo (strife, sorrow)
0° Libra (bitterness, sweetness in pain)
3° Libra (bitterness)
8° Libra
23-24° Scorpio (sorrow)
16° Sagittarius (isolation, abandonment)
28° Capricorn
2° Aquarius (sorrow)
17° Aquarius (bitterness, isolation)
23° Aquarius (sorrow)
28° Aquarius (sorrow)
18° Pisces
28° Pisces
Melancholy in the natal chart
• Moon in hard aspect with Sun, Saturn, Mars
• Moon in Capricorn, Scorpio
• Mercury in hard aspect with Saturn, Mars
• Mercury in Virgo, Pisces, Scorpio + hard aspect of Saturn / Mars
• Saturn in 1st or 4th house
• Saturn conjunct to an Angle
• Saturn in hard aspect to Jupiter or Northnode
• Capricorn, Aquarius rising or dominant chart
Degrees of Melancholy
1° Taurus
26° Gemini
9° Cancer
11° Cancer
16° Cancer
11° Virgo
23° Virgo
29° Virgo
1° Libra
7° Libra
12° Libra
28° Libra
1° Scorpio
4° Sagittarius
9° Capricorn
11° Capricorn
29° Capricorn
17° Aquarius
9° Pisces
14° Pisces
Degrees of hermit
14° Aries
5° Taurus
9° Libra
16-17° Scorpio
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