The only thing we despise more than the use of Latin in astrology is the use of Anglicized Latin in astrology. It’s destructive to the art. Anglicized Latin hides the true symbolism inhibiting your ability to accurately interpret charts and make predictions. We prefer using the actual Greek-English translations instead of the Anglicized Latin, but we’re not going to beat you up if you don’t (unless you botch the interpretation because you used the Anglicized Latin). We’ll continue to use the Latinized names for the benefit of the beginner astrologers.
The symbols for the images (“signs”) and their true names are show below:
Our charts will always have the signs of the fire trigon in the color red; the earth trigon in brown; the air trigon in gray; and the water signs in blue. Likewise, our charts will always show the malefics (Mars and Saturn) in the color red; the benefics (Venus and Jupiter) in blue; the common star Mercury in brown; the lights (Moon and Sun) in yellow or dark orange (appears better); and chart points such as the Ascending Degree, Descending Degree, MC Point (Midheaven), IMC Point (Lower Midheaven) and Lots in black.
We typically use the Latin names since using the Greek names neither enhance nor impede interpretation but you can use whichever you prefer. Software generally allows you to change the color sets for the stars and images. We recommend you adopt the color scheme best suited to aid you in interpretation.