Fall

Fall is the second most serious essential debility, occurring when a planet is in the sign opposite its exaltation: the Sun in Libra, the Moon in Scorpio, Saturn in Aries. If exaltation is being the guest of honor at a grand banquet, fall is arriving at that same banquet and finding that no one saved you a seat. The planet feels overlooked, undervalued, and slightly out of its depth. It scores −4 in the essential dignity system. Planets in fall often develop a quiet, hard-won competence, they learn to earn respect rather than having it handed to them. Many astrologers note that planets in fall produce people who become surprisingly skilled in that planet's domain through sheer determination.