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Chart shapes

Bucket

A bucket chart is a bowl of bodies with one singleton planet standing alone in the empty hemisphere as a handle, so your whole concentration of energy funnels out through that one focal body. In the Jones taxonomy the handle is a defining outlet, a special-purpose channel that gives the chart direction and mission. The gift is a clear, powerful sense of purpose focused through the handle, which often becomes a life theme or vocation. The cost is over-reliance on that single outlet, or a life that lives or dies by it. The work is consciously developing the handle as your channel to the world. At your best you pour a deep reservoir of energy through one meaningful purpose.

Sources

  • Jones, The Guide to Horoscope Interpretation (1941)Defines the chart shape in the Jones distribution taxonomy and its core temperament.
  • Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Reads the whole-chart shape as the gestalt of how the bodies are spread.
  • Oken, Alan Oken's Complete Astrology (1980)Gives the accessible reading of the Jones chart-shape personality.