Ursula Corbero's Draconic Chart

What a Draconic Chart Represents

A draconic chart represents an influence that is not always openly manifested but that determines our present and daily life. It is intimately linked to the tropical chart and must be interpreted in relation to it. Why? Because the Moon is a satellite of the Earth, so we cannot interpret the draconic chart without also interpreting the tropical. They are intimately linked.

The tropical zodiac is of solar origin. The draconic zodiac is of lunar origin. It has more to do with memories, with the unconscious. It pulsates below a surface. It is perhaps not so obvious in our behavior and needs vehicles to be able to express itself. And the example of Ursula's chart shows us exactly what kind of vehicles the draconic planets use to manifest in the world.

Why It Is Called the Dragon's Head

In the same video, María explains where the name draconic comes from. "Zodiac means a belt of animals," she notes, and every zodiac needs a starting point. The draconic zodiac takes its zero from the Moon. The Moon's orbit is tilted about five degrees against the ecliptic, and the two points where the two circles cross are the lunar nodes. In the medieval tradition the North Node was called caput draconis, the dragon's head, and the South Node cauda draconis, the dragon's tail. The degree of the dragon's head becomes 0 degrees Aries of the draconic zodiac.

Why a dragon? María offers two threads from the old cosmologies. The Earth's pole once pointed toward the constellation Draco. And the nodes are where eclipses happen, which ancient sky-watchers explained as a dragon swallowing the Sun or the Moon. The tropical zodiac is of solar origin and the draconic zodiac is of lunar origin, and that single difference carries the whole interpretive shift toward memory and the unconscious.

Signs and Constellations Are Two Different Things

María pauses in the video for a warning she considers important: the constellations and the signs share names and get confused all the time. Two thousand years ago they roughly coincided. Today there is an offset of about 24 degrees between them, so when the Sun transits the sign of Scorpio it is passing through the constellation of Libra. The signs of the tropical zodiac stay fixed to the seasons: Aries always opens with the northern spring and the southern autumn, Cancer with the northern summer and the southern winter. The constellations are star groupings of different sizes sitting behind the ecliptic. Her reading of Úrsula, like all her work, runs on signs measured this way, in both the tropical and the draconic zodiac.

A Very Strong Tropical Chart

Ursula has an ascendant in Libra. It is noticeable, because she is really very pretty. Venus, the ruler of her tropical ascendant, is in the 12th house. I use Ptolemy's five-degree rule. Venus is in fall, which is quite rare in such a pretty woman.

She has a very strong chart in terms of the tropical. She has a domiciled Sun in Leo. She has an exalted Jupiter in Cancer. She has a domiciled Saturn in Capricorn. And it is very common to see in people who have achieved prominence, to see domiciled or exalted planets. It is very common to see.

Venus in Fall, Venus in Domicile

The sharpest example of the two levels talking to each other is her Venus. In the tropical chart, Venus, the ruler of her Libra ascendant, sits in the 12th house in fall, which María calls quite rare in such a pretty woman. In the draconic chart, the same Venus sits in Libra, in domicile.

So the planet of beauty is stressed at the personality level and fully at home at the soul level. That reversal fits the way her draconic Sun operates through her tropical Venus later in this reading: the attractiveness that defines her public image draws its ease from the deeper chart. Essential dignity, the same scoring María applies to the domiciled Sun, exalted Jupiter, and domiciled Saturn above, applies degree by degree in the draconic zodiac too, and it can flip a planet's condition completely between the two levels.

Her Draconic Ascendant Reads as Scorpio

When we look at her draconic chart we see that the ascendant is in Scorpio, which to me describes her very well. Because beyond the fact that she is pretty, which you can see in a Libra ascendant, she has very strong features and a very magnetic look. And that is very Scorpio rising. Especially when the nostrils are prominent. That is very Scorpio rising. Libra tends to give more harmonious faces.

If I had to choose, if I did not know her birth time — astro.com gives her a Rodden Rating of C, so she could have been born a little earlier or a little later — I would have always thought that she was a Scorpio ascendant. Because of her attitude, her magnetic look, the strong features she has.

We see in her draconic chart that the midheaven is in Leo, and she stands out through the artistic. It is quite interesting to see. We see that it is a Sun in Virgo with a Moon in Capricorn. Here, a more earthly side of her begins to appear, very much focused on achieving goals through effort, through work.

How to Read the Overlay

How do we interpret a draconic chart? We always need to superimpose it on the tropical. When we see that there are contacts between draconic planets and angles with tropical planets and angles, those draconic planets or angles speak of previous or unconscious conditioning. And it is through that tropical planet that the draconic one will manifest.

When we superimpose the tropical chart on the draconic chart, we see that the most beneficial planets of the draconic impact on the tropical angles. This is already telling us about benefits, because the angles are very, very strong places. And there are quite a few contacts.

The Draconic Sun on Tropical Venus

Perhaps the most important contact is how her draconic Sun overlaps her tropical Venus. This speaks to us of a very deep purpose, a soul purpose — because this is the draconic level — which operates through her capacity for love, for beauty, for expressing herself as an attractive woman.

It is quite impressive to see, because you think of her and you think of a very attractive woman, a woman who seduces. And in fact, in most of her leading roles, that is the role she plays — the seductive woman, the woman who makes an impact from her beauty. All the personal magnetism that she can transmit through her beauty.

The Draconic Moon on Neptune and Saturn

Another very important contact, and it is super important, is how her draconic Moon — which has to do with the emotional, but at a deeper level — is in contact with Neptune and Saturn. And Neptune is very cinematic. So in her film roles, in all her fantasy world that she manages to give a structure to — because that Neptune is right next to Saturn — what pulsates underneath are her deepest emotions.

She can transmit, through her Neptunian roles or her Neptunian activity, through the use of her imagination or her capacity to incarnate multiple roles, emotions that go beyond the personal, that touch us all. And they give her a very powerful ability to connect with the imagination, both her own and that of others. I think that is also part of her success and part of her magnetism.

Draconic Chiron on the Tropical Sun

Another interesting contact we can see in her is this draconic Chiron that pulses on her Sun. So we could think — although we do not know, or maybe we do, but I never heard it mentioned — of inner currents of ancestral wounds or a very deep sensitivity to pain that merge with her conscious identity. Because the draconic level has to do with the deepest, the most ancestral, the most essential of one, which finds expression through the tropical planet it contacts.

The Pregnancy Transits

I was also amused to see, at the moment when she announces the pregnancy, what transits she had on her tropical chart. Jupiter was precisely transiting over her midheaven, making this moment when she announces this beautiful news bring her a benefit: fame, visibility. It is something positive for her in terms of her career, of her public exposure. Jupiter was just transiting through the angle of her midheaven.

But on a deeper level, if we look at the transits over the draconic chart, we see that Saturn and Neptune were transiting over the cusp of her draconic 5th house. Showing that beyond the benefit of making this announcement — how that makes people more aware of what is happening to her, of the news about her, look for it on social networks, and so on — on a more internal level this brings a sense of responsibility. The responsibility of being a person who now has another life in her charge. That is something that happens very commonly to a woman when she gets pregnant.

And this is very typical of the first pregnancy: it is in Neptune where women in the first pregnancy also have everything like a fantasy and a very big idealization about what it is to be pregnant, about all that mystique around having a child. It is a very beautiful moment, but one that is also tinted in pink. My attitude with the first pregnancy was very different than with the second one, because with the second one there were no more fantasies. But in the first pregnancy it is very common for this to happen — along with this accompaniment of responsibility.

It was seen very well in the draconic chart, but not in the tropical chart. And it is interesting to see how both levels interact and give us a lot of information about the person, and also about the experience they may be living at that particular moment.