Enter your birth details to find (28978) Ixion: the part of the chart that records the broken sacred contract, the impulse to transgress trust extended by the host, and the wheel of fire that is consequence built into the act itself rather than retribution arriving from outside.
What Ixion is, and what this calculator returns
Ixion (28978) is a Plutino in 2:3 mean-motion resonance with Neptune, the same orbital family as Pluto and Orcus, with a semi-major axis around 39.35 AU, a perihelion near 29.7 AU, an aphelion near 49 AU, an inclination of about 19.7 degrees off the ecliptic, and an orbital period of roughly 246.8 years. He was discovered on May 22, 2001 by the Deep Ecliptic Survey team (lead astronomers Lawrence Wasserman, Robert Millis, Marc Buie, and James Elliot at Lowell Observatory and MIT) using the Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, and was given provisional designation 2001 KX76 before being formally numbered (28978) Ixion and named in 2002 for the Greek mythological king of the Lapiths. At the time of discovery he was briefly the largest known minor planet, before larger TNOs (Quaoar in 2002, Sedna in 2003, Eris in 2005) were subsequently found. Two pieces of his astronomy do specific work for the astrological reading. The first is the Plutino resonance: Ixion shares the gravitational lock to Neptune that gives Pluto its multi-decade rhythm, so his motion is structured by the same long Neptunian time-signature the entire Plutino class shares. The second is the mythological lineage: the centaurs themselves descend from Ixion through Centaurus, his son by Nephele the cloud-form of Hera, which is why modern asteroid astrology often reads Ixion together with the centaur bodies (Chiron, Pholus, Nessus, Chariklo) even though Ixion's orbit is past Neptune rather than between Jupiter and Neptune.
Ixion is one of the eight outer dwarf planets and TNOs this site supports, and the only one with a direct mythic line to the centaur family. Use the dwarf planet astrology calculator linked below for the side-by-side outer-body read; use the centaur calculator for the descended bodies.
The calculator above returns your Ixion sign, degree, house, current retrograde state, and any tight major aspects to your personal points. Positions come from a JPL SBDB Keplerian element set at epoch JD 2461000.5 (2025-Nov-21 TDB) propagated through the DE441 ephemeris by the same engine that drives the rest of Augurine's transit and timing work. The twelve sign and twelve house entries that follow give written interpretations placement by placement; the calculator points you to the ones that match your chart.
The myth: the king who broke guest-friendship twice
Ixion was king of the Lapiths in Thessaly, and the myth that defines him is unusually structured: he commits not one but two violations of the sacred contract of hospitality (xenia), and the second one is committed after he has already been forgiven for the first. He marries Dia, daughter of Deioneus (or Eioneus in some sources), and promises the bride-price his father-in-law had demanded. When the time comes to pay, Ixion invites Deioneus to a feast and instead leads him to a pit of burning coals concealed beneath the floor, where Deioneus falls and dies. This is the first kinsman-murder in Greek myth, and the act is held by Greek religion to be so polluting (the technical term is miasma) that no mortal king will agree to perform the purification rites for Ixion. He wanders the earth as a polluted figure until Zeus alone takes pity, lifts him to Olympus, performs the purification personally, and then offers him the table of the gods.
Ixion repays this unprecedented hospitality by attempting to seduce Hera, queen of the gods and Zeus's wife. Zeus tests the report by shaping a cloud, Nephele, into the exact form of Hera and placing her in Ixion's path. Ixion takes the bait and lies with the cloud, who later gives birth to Centaurus, the ancestor of the centaurs. Zeus binds Ixion to a wheel of fire that turns forever in Tartarus, and the punishment is treated by Greek religion as eternal because the violation of guest-friendship after the gift of purification is unredeemable; Zeus had stepped outside the normal divine order to extend the second chance, and Ixion used that exact gift as the medium of the next betrayal.
The chart-level translation is precise. Ixion is the part of the chart that records the broken sacred contract, the impulse to transgress trust extended by the host, the recidivist pattern that keeps reaching for the unforgivable after the second chance has already been given, and the wheel of fire that is consequence built into the act itself. The shadow is the native who is currently inside the rotation without recognizing it. The Ixion work is the conscious interruption of the wheel before the next breach gets committed.
Your Ixion sign is generational. Ixion moves slowly (roughly 1.5 degrees per year on average, about 20 to 25 years per sign depending on where it is in the eccentric orbit) so almost everyone alive shares the sign with a wide cohort of contemporaries. The piece that varies meaningfully between birth charts is the house. Read the house first; it tells you the specific territory the broken-contract signal occupies in your life.
Aspects to personal planets are where the cohort claim becomes a private appointment. Orbs run tight: 1.5 degrees for major aspects with personal points, 0.75 for minor work. Wider than that, the body is generational background rather than foreground. Ixion in tight aspect to your Sun, Moon, Ascendant, Venus, or Mars rewrites the corresponding chart factor with the betrayer-of-host signature, naming a particular life function as the carrier of the wheel. Aspects to the slow movers (Pluto, Uranus, Neptune) are cohort texture rather than personal reading, but Ixion in tight conjunction or opposition to natal Pluto is the most distinctive contact and reads the entire Plutonian function specifically through the broken-contract register rather than through the collective-transformation register.
Retrograde at birth turns the betrayer-signal inward in a doubled way. The impulse goes underground and the native often cannot consciously locate the wheel that is already turning in the background, but the consequences propagate as if the breach had been acted out openly. The available path is slow conscious work to bring the buried impulse into legibility so the next rotation can be interrupted before it becomes an act.
Ixion in aspect to your personal planets
Ixion conjunct, square, or opposite the natal Sun (within 1.5 degrees) wires identity to the betrayer signal. The native often carries an inherited or earned reputation for having broken a major contract early in life, and the public read of the self is structurally bound to the event whether or not the wheel is still actively turning. The work is the conscious reconstruction of an identity that holds the original event in legible memory without letting the same rotation reach the next chapter. The shadow is the Sun that has converted the original breach into a charismatic story, with the wheel still turning behind the polished retelling.
Ixion on the Moon makes the betrayer-function a felt, body-and-emotion experience. The native often comes from a household where a parent or grandparent committed a major sacred breach (a betrayal of marriage, of family hospitality, of community trust) and inherits the somatic memory of being inside a household where the wheel is already turning. The work is naming the inherited breach consciously and choosing not to repeat the household pattern in the family the native now hosts.
Ixion on the Ascendant means people read the broken-contract signal in your physical presence, often as a particular kind of unsettling charisma that the native cannot fully explain away. Ixion on the Descendant puts the function in the partner seat: see the 7th-house entry below. Ixion aspects to Venus rewrite the love-and-pleasure narrative around the impulse to convert a romantic trust into leverage; at best, the native who recognizes the impulse and chooses against it; at worst, the long romantic trail of figures who entrusted the native with their devotion and discovered too late that the trust had been read as raw material. Ixion on Mars is the recurring pressure to break the contract at the moment of action: the deal closed in bad faith, the alliance entered in the prior intention to break it, the agreement signed with the private decision already made not to honor it.
Ixion in tight conjunction or opposition to natal Pluto is the most distinctive contact and reads the entire Plutonian function specifically through the broken-contract register. The cohort with this aspect is small and the natives tend to be people whose relationship to collective transformation is mediated through a personal pattern of breaking the contracts the wider culture had asked them to honor; the work is more visible than usual because the wheel turns in territory the surrounding culture is also paying attention to.
Ixion is retrograde for roughly half of each year as Earth's faster orbital motion laps it, and the retrograde stations move by less than a degree per year, so generations share the retrograde-direct status of natal Ixion in tight clusters. Natal Ixion retrograde is common, and the reading is that the wheel turns underground: the impulse to break the sacred contract is largely interior, the native often cannot consciously locate where the rotation began, and the consequences nonetheless propagate as if the breach had been acted out openly.
The risk of unconscious recidivism is high when natal Ixion is retrograde because the native does not have ready access to the original act and is therefore unprepared to notice the impulse to repeat it. The available path is the slow conscious recovery of the buried material, usually through long therapy or contemplative practice or careful ancestral-lineage work, so the next rotation can be interrupted before it becomes a fresh breach. The first sign that the conscious recovery is working is usually a felt clarity about the specific contract the native is reaching toward at the moment of temptation; once the contract can be named, the wheel can be slowed.
Transiting Ixion retrograde is a roughly annual invitation to revisit the current contract under stress. Whatever covenant the native has recently entered (a marriage, a partnership, a fiduciary role, a public oath) gets a second look during the retrograde period: is the contract still being honored, has the native quietly begun to reserve the right to break it, has the original breach pattern already started to repeat in this new container. The retrograde is for the audit of the current contract, not for entering new ones.
The wheel, the cloud-child, and the chart-level pattern
Three pieces of Ixion's mythology do the heavy lifting for the astrological signature. The first is the structure of the betrayal: Ixion does not break trust once. He breaks it twice, and the second breach is committed against the host who personally extended the second chance. The chart-level translation is the recidivist signal: Ixion does not name the single isolated breach but the rotational pattern in which the breach keeps recurring after each forgiveness, with each subsequent rotation harder to interrupt than the last. The second is the wheel of fire: Zeus does not assign a finite punishment but binds Ixion to a wheel that turns forever, and the wheel is the act itself perpetuated rather than an external retribution. The chart-level translation is that Ixion does not name a thing that happens to the native from outside but the rotation inside the native's own pattern, where the original breach keeps producing the conditions for the next breach without any external party having to enforce the cycle. The third is Centaurus, the cloud-child: through the union with Nephele the cloud-form of Hera, Ixion fathers the ancestor of the centaurs, which is why modern asteroid astrology often reads Ixion together with the centaur cluster (Chiron, Pholus, Nessus, Chariklo) even though Ixion's orbit is past Neptune rather than between Jupiter and Neptune. The centaur signature in a chart often runs back to Ixion structurally, with the centaur work building on the foundation Ixion sets.
Practically, the placement reads strongest in three contexts: tight aspects to personal planets (especially Sun, Moon, Ascendant, and natal Pluto), placement in the 4th, 7th, 8th, or 12th houses (the houses of household contract, partnership, shared underworld, and buried material), and placement at angles or in stelliums where the broken-contract signal cannot be ignored. Without those amplifiers, Ixion tends to read as generational texture: the cohort carries the sign-level pattern, but the personal life is organized primarily by the other chart factors, with Ixion as quiet background rather than foreground.
Ixion sits inside the wider cluster of slow-moving outer bodies that touch the question of harm, depth, and the long shadow, but each one names a distinct function and the cleanest chart work tells them apart rather than collapsing them into a single dark-body texture.
Pluto names the collective transformation, the mass psychology of an era, and the taboos the whole culture has agreed to bury. The signature is the generational underworld the whole cohort moves through.
Nessus names the inherited cyclical harm passed down through generations and the point at which a single native chooses to interrupt the loop so the next generation does not inherit it. The signature is the cycle that began before the native was born and the interruption that ends it inside the native's own life.
Pholus names the small action with disproportionate consequence: the cork pulled, the seal opened, the chain reaction that runs on its own once it has started. The signature is the awareness that small acts can release outsized chains.
Orcus names the kept private oath, the inner pact you swore yourself to apart from any public contract and the long underground work done across decades without an audience. Orcus is the integrity of the long underground commitment.
Ixion is none of these. Ixion is the broken sacred contract itself: not the inherited harm, not the accidental chain, not the kept oath, but the specific impulse to transgress trust that has been actively extended, and the wheel of fire that is consequence built into the act. Where Orcus is the oath kept across decades, Ixion is the oath broken at the moment of greatest gift. The two are most clearly understood as a paired register: the underworld kept (Orcus) and the underworld breached (Ixion), naming the same Plutino-class function divided across the two opposite outcomes of the sacred contract.
A short interpretation of Ixion in each zodiac sign. Read the entry that matches your placement above. The other entries give you the texture and shape of the archetype across the full wheel.
A
Ixion in Aries
the wheel set turning at the moment of beginning
Ixion in Aries puts the wheel of fire on the act of beginning. The most recent cohort holding this placement (approximately 1838 to 1859, no longer living, with the next return after approximately 2095) carried the broken-contract signature through the willingness to start with a transgression already woven into the founding move: the venture launched on a promise the founder did not intend to honor, the war begun on a casus belli the leadership knew to be staged, the new institution chartered by burning the older one it was supposed to inherit from. The placement works when the native catches the impulse to break the sacred contract at the moment of starting and instead begins the same work on terms that do not require the betrayal. It fails when the founding act and the broken trust are fused so tightly that the start cannot be made without the breach, and the wheel of consequence is set turning from the first move. The interruption point is the willingness to not begin until the contract can be honored, even if the delay costs the immediate advantage. The shadow is the Aries Ixion whose every fresh start carries the same transgression forward into the next chapter, with the wheel turning faster each cycle.
B
Ixion in Taurus
the body kept holding what was supposed to be returned
Ixion in Taurus binds the broken sacred contract to the body, the land, and the material resource that was promised but not delivered. The most recent cohort holding this placement (approximately 1859 to 1880, no longer living, with the next return after approximately 2115) carried the recidivist signature through the long abuse of held trust: the inherited property the steward kept after the kin who entrusted it had died, the slow extraction from the land that was promised back to the people who farmed it, the body's pleasures pursued in violation of an earlier pledge the native had made about how the body would be cared for. The placement works when the native honors the material covenant slowly and visibly, returning to the kin or the land what was actually owed and tolerating the long material consequence of having held it. It fails when the native settles into permanent possession of what was supposed to be temporary trust, and the wheel of consequence is paid by the body itself across decades. The interruption point is the audit performed in public, the willingness to be seen returning what was held in violation of the original contract. The shadow is the Taurus Ixion whose material life rests entirely on the unreturned object, and whose body has become the location where the wheel is turning silently.
C
Ixion in Gemini
the sentence written to exploit the gap
Ixion in Gemini puts the broken sacred contract inside language. The cohort holding this placement (approximately 1880 to 1901, the late Victorian and Edwardian decades, almost all of whom are no longer living) carried the signature through the precise verbal betrayal: the deposition that contained the small false statement on which the larger case turned, the published correspondence in which the writer named what had been promised to be private, the contract whose wording was deliberately ambiguous so the writer could later deny what the other party heard. The placement works when the native catches the impulse to deploy language as the instrument of betrayal and instead uses precise speech to honor the bond the words were originally meant to protect. It fails when the native cultivates the linguistic gap between what was said and what was meant as a habitual instrument, and the wheel of consequence turns through every relationship where the verbal trust has been spent. The interruption point is the willingness to write the sentence that closes the gap rather than the sentence that exploits it. The shadow is the Gemini Ixion whose voice has become the location of recidivism, with every new conversation already structured by the broken trust of the last one.
D
Ixion in Cancer
the household whose hospitality was already broken
Ixion in Cancer lays the broken sacred contract across the household and the family of origin. The cohort holding this placement (approximately 1901 to 1922, with only the very oldest still possibly living) carried the betrayal-of-host signature through the violations of family hospitality: the child who turned on the parent who had taken them in, the sibling who exposed what the household had agreed to keep, the in-law who used the trust of the household table to extract what they had been refused outright. The placement works when the native recognizes the inherited impulse to break the home-bond before acting on it, and instead carries the kin-contract with the slow loyalty that the household actually requires. It fails when the native repeats the family pattern: the next generation hosts the native as one of their own and discovers the native has been planning the betrayal from the first meal. The interruption point is the willingness to name the impulse to break the household trust at the moment it surfaces, and to leave the table rather than to remain and act on it. The shadow is the Cancer Ixion whose family of origin already contains the wheel of fire, with the consequences of an old kin-betrayal now structuring the household the native was born into.
E
Ixion in Leo
the betrayal performed for the watching audience
Ixion in Leo turns the broken sacred contract into a public spectacle of betrayal. The cohort holding this placement (approximately 1922 to 1939, the interwar decades) carried the signature through the visible figure who broke trust on the stage: the leader who betrayed the constitutional oath in front of the cameras, the celebrity whose marriage was constructed for the publicity and then dismantled with the same theatricality, the publicly anointed heir who turned on the lineage that placed them in the seat. The placement works when the native catches the temptation to perform the betrayal for the audience and instead lets the visible role be the location where the contract is honored even when honoring it is unglamorous. It fails when the audience itself becomes the reason the native breaks the contract, and the wheel of consequence is paid both privately and in front of the same audience that watched it begin. The interruption point is the willingness to keep the contract in front of the people who would prefer the spectacle of the breaking. The shadow is the Leo Ixion whose public role is now structurally dependent on the betrayal continuing to be performed, with the audience and the wheel turning in the same rotation.
F
Ixion in Virgo
the daily standard quietly stopped being met
Ixion in Virgo places the broken sacred contract inside the daily practice and the technical procedure. The cohort holding this placement (approximately 1939 to 1957, the wartime and immediate postwar decades) carried the signature through the institutional betrayals of the working life: the falsified clinical record, the safety procedure the manager knew was being violated and signed off anyway, the scientific paper whose author knew the data had been fudged, the daily quiet decision to do the work badly while accepting the pay for doing it well. The placement works when the native catches the impulse to break the small daily contract and instead does the work to the standard the original procedure required, even when no audit is coming. It fails when the small daily betrayals compound across decades into a working life whose entire texture is the unkept standard, and the wheel of consequence shows up in the body, the institution, or the relationships the work was supposed to serve. The interruption point is the willingness to do one piece of the daily work to its actual standard, regardless of whether the wider culture has stopped expecting it. The shadow is the Virgo Ixion whose daily practice has been replaced by the documented version of the practice, with the gap between the record and the act now structural to the working life.
G
Ixion in Libra
the contract signed in the prior intention to leave
Ixion in Libra puts the broken sacred contract inside the agreement itself. The cohort holding this placement (approximately 1957 to 1975, the long civil-rights and detente years) carried the signature through the bad-faith pact: the negotiated treaty whose drafters knew one side would not abide by it, the marriage entered with the prior intention to leave, the strategic partnership formed to extract the resource the other party did not realize was at stake, the law signed by legislators who had already agreed in private not to enforce it. The placement works when the native catches the impulse to sign in bad faith and instead either signs nothing or signs the actual terms they intend to keep. It fails when the wider field has normalized the bad-faith agreement, and the native participates as if the broken contract were the medium itself, leaving every long-running partnership with the same unfinished accounting. The interruption point is the willingness to walk away from the agreement that would only be signable in bad faith, and to accept the cost of the unmade deal. The shadow is the Libra Ixion whose entire relational life has been arranged around the contracts the native always intended not to keep, with the wheel turning quietly inside every long partnership.
H
Ixion in Scorpio
the descent converted into private leverage
Ixion in Scorpio binds the broken sacred contract to the depths: the underworld pact, the shared resource, the secret entrusted, the body offered in vulnerability. The cohort holding this placement (approximately 1975 to 1996, the late Cold War and early post-Soviet decades) carried the signature through the violations of the underground covenant: the analyst who used what the client said in session as leverage outside the room, the activist who turned the comrade in to the wider authority, the lover who exposed the partner's most private material once the relationship ended, the financial steward who used the joint accounts in ways the other party would never have consented to. The placement works when the native carries the underground contract with the long loyalty the underworld actually requires, and refuses the trade that would convert the trust into immediate advantage. It fails when the descent itself becomes the location of the betrayal, and the wheel of consequence turns inside every subsequent intimate relationship because the native is now known to be a person who once converted depth into leverage. The interruption point is the willingness to lose the immediate advantage in order to honor the shared descent. The shadow is the Scorpio Ixion whose underworld contains the original betrayal as the structural fact, with every later attempt at depth disqualified by the unaddressed earlier breach.
I
Ixion in Sagittarius
the creed professed past the day the belief ended
Ixion in Sagittarius puts the broken sacred contract inside the larger story the cohort tells about itself. The current cohort holding this placement (approximately 1996 to 2020, the young adults whose names will be most associated with the late-internet and climate-emergency decades) carries the signature through the doctrinal or ideological betrayal: the believer who signed the creed with private mental reservations, the teacher who continued professing a frame they no longer held, the institutional voice who knew the cosmological story had stopped being defensible and went on telling it anyway, the long-distance journey whose stated purpose hid the real one. The placement works when the native catches the impulse to keep professing what they have stopped believing, and instead names the change in their own larger frame in public, accepting the social cost of the revision. It fails when the gap between the professed worldview and the actual one widens across decades until the entire public stance of the cohort is structurally dishonest. The interruption point is the willingness to update the public position even when the audience would prefer the older version. The shadow is the Sagittarius Ixion whose larger story has become the structural cover for the unkept smaller contracts the cohort has been making all along.
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Ixion in Capricorn
the oath of office redrawn to hide the breach
Ixion in Capricorn lays the broken sacred contract over the institution, the office, and the durable structural form. The next cohort to hold this placement (approximately 2020 to 2044, the present and near-future generation, with the previous return in the late 18th century approximately 1773 to 1797) takes the signature through the institutional betrayal: the office-holder who treats the constitutional oath as ceremonial cover for the personal agenda, the board chair who steers fiduciary trust toward their own ledger, the founder who builds the institution as a vehicle for the unreturned debt they intend to monetize when the structure matures. The placement works when the native carries the institutional contract with the long discipline the office actually requires, and accepts the personal cost of refusing the available shortcut. It fails when the institution itself is structured as the long-form vehicle for the unkept oath, and the wheel of consequence turns through the entire structural form for the rest of its existence. The interruption point is the willingness to be the office-holder who keeps the actual contract in front of the people who would prefer the institution to keep operating on the lie. The shadow is the Capricorn Ixion whose office has hardened into the visible respectability that protects the original betrayal from being seen for what it is.
K
Ixion in Aquarius
the collective trust spent and the network left behind
Ixion in Aquarius routes the broken sacred contract through the chosen community, the network, and the collective the native has joined by election rather than by birth. The next cohort to hold this placement (approximately 2044 to 2070, with the previous return in the late 18th and early 19th centuries approximately 1797 to 1822) takes the signature through the collective betrayal: the member who broke the group's confidentiality, the comrade who turned on the cohort to the wider authority, the network insider who used the trust of the collective for personal extraction, the alliance entered with the prior intention to abandon when conditions changed. The placement works when the native carries the collective contract with the long fidelity the chosen kinship requires, accepting that the bond of election is heavier than the bond of birth precisely because nobody forced the entry. It fails when the native treats collective membership as the renewable resource and the wheel of consequence turns through every subsequent network because the native is now structurally untrustable in chosen kinship. The interruption point is the willingness to be the one who stays through the collective's hard chapter rather than the one who leaves when extraction is no longer easy. The shadow is the Aquarius Ixion whose pattern of joining and betraying networks has become legible to the wider scene, with each new entry already shadowed by the prior departures.
L
Ixion in Pisces
the contract kept deliberately too vague to be enforced
Ixion in Pisces dissolves the broken sacred contract into the field itself. The next cohort to hold this placement (approximately 2070 to 2095, with the previous return in the early 19th century approximately 1822 to 1847) takes the signature through the contracts that were never quite made explicit and so could plausibly be denied later: the spiritual teacher who took the disciple's devotion while never confirming the teaching relationship in words, the artistic collaborator whose contribution was never formally credited so the credit could later be erased, the contemplative who used the open-ended quality of the practice as cover for unaccounted-for behavior the strict version of the discipline would have named immediately. The placement works when the native catches the impulse to keep the agreement deliberately ambiguous, and instead names the actual terms in concrete language even at the cost of the romantic indeterminacy. It fails when the dissolution itself becomes the medium of the recidivism, and the wheel of consequence turns inside a haze the native has cultivated precisely so the rotation cannot be clearly seen. The interruption point is the willingness to be specific about the terms, even when the surrounding aesthetic prefers the unspecific. The shadow is the Pisces Ixion whose spiritual or artistic life has become the cloud that hides the unkept contracts, with the dissolution mistaken for compassion and the fog mistaken for depth.
Ixion through the 12 houses
If you have an exact birth time, your Ixion also lands in a specific house, the life area where this prompt may be easiest to notice. Without a birth time, use the sign placement as the steadier read and skip this section.
1
Ixion in the 1st house
Ixion in the 1st places the broken sacred contract on the body itself. The native is read by other people as someone whose presence carries the unmistakable signal of trust extended and then violated, often before any specific story is known about the person; the body itself appears to other parties as the location where a sacred bond was once breached. The placement works when the native names the inherited or earned signal explicitly, acknowledges the wheel that is already turning in the background, and uses the public read of the body as the reason to keep the next contract with unusual visible care. It fails when the native tries to mask the signature with a polished surface presentation, and the gap between the smoothed exterior and the wheel underneath becomes the medium through which fresh betrayals get committed. The interruption point is the moment of letting the signal be read accurately rather than performing the version of the self that hides it. The shadow is the 1st-house Ixion whose presentation has been engineered to disguise the wheel, and whose every new relationship has to discover the rotation late.
2
Ixion in the 2nd house
Ixion in the 2nd binds the broken sacred contract to the material resource the native personally holds. The placement works when the native treats their own resources as a long-form accounting of the contracts they have signed and unsigned over time, and the body's earning and spending visibly tracks back to the original commitments the native made about how the resource would be used. It fails when the 2nd-house Ixion uses material accumulation to paper over the unkept contracts, and the resource itself becomes the visible evidence of the unreturned trust. The interruption point is the willingness to spend down the resource in the direction of the original promise, even when keeping it would be more comfortable. The shadow is the 2nd-house Ixion whose net worth has been built from a series of small unreturned trusts that the native has stopped tracking but the wheel is still turning on, with the body's earning capacity now structurally bound to the original breach.
3
Ixion in the 3rd house
Ixion in the 3rd puts the broken sacred contract in language itself: in the spoken exchange, the published statement, the contract drafted with deliberate ambiguity, the brother or sister or close other whose verbal trust the native broke and never quite repaired. The placement works when the native catches the impulse to deploy speech as the instrument of betrayal and instead uses precise language to honor the verbal contracts the relationships were built on, particularly with siblings, neighbors, and the day-to-day circle of speech. It fails when the 3rd-house Ixion cultivates the linguistic gap between the said and the meant as a habitual instrument, and the wheel turns through every conversation the native enters. The interruption point is the willingness to write the sentence that closes the gap rather than the sentence that exploits it, and to do the verbal repair work with the original sibling or close other rather than rehearsing it abstractly. The shadow is the 3rd-house Ixion whose entire daily speech-life has become the location of the unaddressed earlier verbal betrayal, with the rotation now structural to how the native talks.
4
Ixion in the 4th house
Ixion in the 4th lays the broken sacred contract over the home, the family of origin, and the felt private root of the chart. The placement is unusually load-bearing because the household itself is the original location of xenia, the bond of hospitality that Ixion's myth specifically violated. The native often inherits a household whose foundational contract was broken a generation or two earlier (the parent who betrayed the marriage vow, the ancestor who took the land in violation of an older agreement, the family secret that involved the betrayal of a guest or kin) and the native is now living inside the house the wheel is turning in. The placement works when the native names the inherited household breach in open ancestral conversation and consciously chooses not to repeat the family pattern in the household they themselves now host. It fails when the native unconsciously hosts the next chapter of the same betrayal and the kin downstream inherit the same structurally compromised home. The interruption point is the explicit naming of what was broken in the family of origin and the conscious construction of a household whose hospitality is reliable. The shadow is the 4th-house Ixion whose home has structurally inherited the wheel and whose children are now growing up inside its rotation.
5
Ixion in the 5th house
Ixion in the 5th routes the broken sacred contract through creative work, performance, romance, and children. The placement works when the native catches the impulse to use the creative or romantic seat as a place to extract from people who trusted the native with their vulnerability, and instead treats the audience, the lover, or the child as the held trust they are. It fails when the 5th-house Ixion converts admirers into resources, lovers into leverage, or children into vehicles for the unfinished business of the parental line, and the wheel turns through every subsequent creative or romantic chapter. The interruption point is the willingness to honor the love-or-creative bond at the moment the temptation to convert it surfaces. The shadow is the 5th-house Ixion whose romantic or creative trail is a long sequence of figures who entrusted the native with their devotion and discovered too late that the trust had been read as raw material.
6
Ixion in the 6th house
Ixion in the 6th places the broken sacred contract inside the daily work, the routine of service, the health practice, and the relationship to subordinates, animals, and tools. The placement works when the native catches the small daily impulses to do the work badly while accepting the pay for doing it well, and instead practices to the standard the original procedure required even when no audit is coming. It fails when the small daily betrayals compound across years into a working life whose entire texture is the gap between the documented work and the actual work, and the wheel of consequence is paid by the body itself or by the people the work was supposed to serve. The interruption point is the willingness to do one piece of the day's work to its actual standard, regardless of whether the wider organization has stopped expecting it. The shadow is the 6th-house Ixion whose daily routine has been replaced by the documented version of the routine, with the body now showing the structural cost of the long performed version of the work.
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Ixion in the 7th house
Ixion in the 7th places the broken sacred contract in the seat of partnership itself. The native marries or partners with the betrayer-function: the spouse, the long-term business partner, or the principal client carries the unkept contract, or the native is themselves the partner who carries it on behalf of the relationship. The placement works when both parties name the inherited or earned signature explicitly, treat the partnership as the active location of the rebuilt covenant, and accept that the partnership requires more visible contract-keeping than would be necessary in a relationship without the signal. It fails when the partnership becomes the long-running stage on which the same betrayal cycles repeatedly, with each partner taking turns playing host and transgressor. The interruption point is the willingness to name the wheel inside the partnership before the next rotation begins, and to renegotiate the actual terms in public rather than to keep performing the older one privately. The shadow is the 7th-house Ixion whose marriage or partnership has become the visible stage where the inherited family betrayal is being re-performed without either partner choosing to interrupt it.
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Ixion in the 8th house
Ixion in the 8th binds the broken sacred contract to the shared resource, the joint underworld, and the secret entrusted in vulnerability. The placement is one of the heaviest in the system because the 8th house is the underworld of the chart itself, and Ixion's signature is precisely the broken underworld covenant. The native often holds the secret material of close others: inherited family money, joint accounts, ancestral debt, the confidential record of a partner's interior life, the access the native was given because the other party trusted the descent would be made together. The placement works when the native treats the shared underworld as the held trust it is and the long-term integrity of the joint arrangement is verifiable to the other parties. It fails when the 8th-house Ixion converts the shared depth into private leverage and the wheel of consequence turns through every subsequent intimate or financial arrangement because the native is now known to be a person who once monetized the descent. The interruption point is the willingness to lose the immediate advantage in order to honor the joint underground. The shadow is the 8th-house Ixion whose entire intimate financial and emotional life is structured by the unaddressed earlier breach of a shared secret.
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Ixion in the 9th house
Ixion in the 9th routes the broken sacred contract through higher education, long-distance travel, publishing, religion, and the larger frame the native uses to organize the life. The placement works when the native catches the impulse to keep professing the larger story they have stopped privately believing, and instead names the change in the larger frame even when the audience would prefer the old version, accepting the public cost of the revision. It fails when the 9th-house Ixion sustains the gap between the publicly taught cosmology and the privately held one across decades, and the wheel of consequence turns through the entire teaching or publishing or travel record of the native because the larger story has been structurally dishonest. The interruption point is the willingness to update the public position even when the audience or the institution would prefer continuity. The shadow is the 9th-house Ixion whose teaching, publishing, or wandering career is the long-form vehicle for a worldview the native has not actually held for years.
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Ixion in the 10th house
Ixion in the 10th places the broken sacred contract at the top of the public-facing career. The native is read by the wider field as someone whose office carries the unmistakable signal of a constitutional or fiduciary bond that has been or might be broken; the public read is structural to the position itself, and the native cannot escape it by leaving the role because the signature is on the title rather than on a particular tenure. The placement works when the native carries the office with unusually visible contract-keeping, accepting that the role's history requires more public integrity than the same role would in a chart without the signature, and using the visibility as the active reason to keep the actual oath in front of the audience that would prefer the spectacle of the breaking. It fails when the office becomes the long-form structural vehicle for the very betrayal the title was supposed to prevent, and the wheel turns visibly through the public record of the native's career. The interruption point is the willingness to be the office-holder who keeps the actual oath even when the wider system has normalized the breach. The shadow is the 10th-house Ixion whose career has hardened into the respectable cover for the unaddressed earlier betrayal that the native has never publicly accounted for.
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Ixion in the 11th house
Ixion in the 11th routes the broken sacred contract through chosen community, friendships, networks, and the cohort's collective projects. The placement works when the native carries the chosen-kinship contract with the unusual fidelity that the bond of election requires, accepting that the collective is heavier than the family of birth precisely because nobody forced the entry. It fails when the 11th-house Ixion treats collective membership as the renewable resource: the native joins a network, extracts what is available, exposes what was supposed to be held, and exits, and then enters the next network already shadowed by the prior departures. The interruption point is the willingness to be the one who stays through the collective's hard chapter rather than the one who leaves when extraction is no longer easy. The shadow is the 11th-house Ixion whose pattern of joining and betraying networks has become legible to the wider scene, with the wheel turning visibly through the public record of the native's collective affiliations.
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Ixion in the 12th house
Ixion in the 12th puts the broken sacred contract in the territory the native cannot directly see: dreams, the unconscious, institutions of confinement and refuge, anonymous service, and the inherited or ancestral material the native has not yet brought into conscious view. This is a doubly buried placement (the betrayer-body in the underworld house) and it tends to be the strongest, hardest version of the Ixion signature because the wheel is turning below the threshold of the native's own awareness. The placement works when the native commits to the slow conscious recovery of the buried material, often through long therapy or contemplative practice or ancestral-lineage work, and the wheel can be brought into legibility before the next rotation gets acted out. It fails when the 12th-house Ixion uses the hiddenness as cover and the recidivist pattern propagates through the institutions of confinement or refuge the native ends up moving through (prisons, hospitals, monasteries, addiction structures) because the original breach has never been brought into conscious view. The interruption point is the willingness to make one piece of the buried material legible to one trusted other, even when the act of naming is itself the work of years. The shadow is the 12th-house Ixion whose underground betrayal-pattern has become so private that even the native can no longer locate where the wheel began.
Ixion is a Plutino dwarf-planet candidate discovered in 2001 and named for the Greek mythological king of the Lapiths, the first kinsman-murderer of Greek myth. Ixion killed his father-in-law Deioneus to escape paying the bride-price, was universally shunned for the kin-murder, and was personally purified by Zeus, who then offered him the table of the gods on Olympus. Ixion repaid this hospitality by attempting to seduce Hera; Zeus tested him with a cloud-form of Hera (Nephele) through whom Ixion fathered Centaurus, the ancestor of the centaurs. Zeus then bound Ixion to a perpetually rotating wheel of fire in Tartarus because the betrayal of guest-friendship (xenia) is held by Greek religion to be unredeemable. Astrologically, Ixion reads as the part of the chart that records the broken sacred contract: the impulse to transgress trust extended by the host, the recidivist pattern that keeps reaching for the unforgivable after the second chance has already been given, and the wheel of fire that is consequence built into the act itself rather than retribution arriving from outside. The sign is generational. The house tells you the territory of the broken contract, and aspects to personal planets tell you how loudly the betrayer signal reads at the personal scale.
How do I find my Ixion sign and house?
Enter your birth date, time, and place above. The calculator returns Ixion's sign, degree, house, current retrograde state, and any tight aspects the engine finds to the main chart factors. Positions come from a JPL SBDB Keplerian element set at epoch JD 2461000.5 (2025-Nov-21 TDB) propagated through the DE441 ephemeris, the same source the rest of the Augurine engine uses for transits and timing. The sign is a generational claim because Ixion moves slowly (about 247 years per orbit, roughly 20 to 25 years per sign depending on where it is in the eccentric path). The house and the aspects to personal planets are where the personal reading sharpens. The interpretation entries below give the written reading once your placement is on screen.
What is the Tantalus parallel and why does it matter for Ixion?
Greek religion grouped Ixion, Tantalus, and Sisyphus as the three mortals whose betrayal of divine hospitality earned eternal punishment in Tartarus. Tantalus was a guest of the gods who served his own son Pelops to them as a test of their omniscience; he stands forever in a pool of water that recedes when he tries to drink, beneath fruit-laden branches that withdraw when he tries to eat. Ixion's punishment is the eternal turning wheel of fire. The parallel that the two share is precise: both were mortals invited to the table of the gods, both used the trust of the host as the very medium of the betrayal, and both received punishments structured so that the consequence is the act itself perpetuated rather than a separate retribution. Tantalus's hunger and thirst are the appetite that drove the original act, returning forever; Ixion's wheel is the rotation of consequence built into the breach of guest-friendship, turning forever. The astrology absorbs the parallel: where Tantalus marks the chart's appetite that can never be satisfied because the original satisfaction was taken in violation of the host, Ixion marks the chart's recidivist impulse to reach for what was already given on conditions the native has decided not to honor.
What does Ixion retrograde mean in a natal chart?
Ixion is retrograde for roughly half of each year as Earth's faster orbital motion laps it, and the retrograde stations move only fractionally per year, so generations share the retrograde-direct status of natal Ixion in tight clusters. Natal Ixion retrograde turns the betrayer-signal inward in a doubled way: the impulse to break the sacred contract goes underground and the native often cannot consciously locate the wheel that is already turning in the background, but the consequences propagate as if the breach had been acted out openly. The available path is slow conscious work to bring the buried impulse into legibility, often through long therapy, contemplative practice, or ancestral-lineage work, so the next rotation can be interrupted before it becomes an act. Direct natal Ixion is more readily able to name the impulse and the contract it is reaching toward; retrograde Ixion carries the same signal as an unaccountable interior pressure that the native may only consciously recognize after a breach has already cycled through.
How is Ixion different from Nessus, Pholus, Pluto, and Orcus?
All of these slow outer bodies touch the question of harm, depth, and the long shadow, but each names a distinct function. Pluto is the collective transformation, the mass psychology, and the taboos the whole culture has agreed to bury; Pluto operates at the scale of mass culture. Nessus is the inherited cyclical harm passed down through generations, and the point at which a single native chooses to interrupt the loop so the next generation does not inherit it; the work is the interruption of a cycle that began before the native was born. Pholus is the small action with disproportionate consequence, the cork pulled or the seal opened that triggers a chain reaction the native did not intend; the work is the awareness that small acts can release outsized chains. Orcus is the kept private oath, the inner pact you swore yourself to apart from any public contract and the long solo work done out of sight; Orcus is the integrity of the long underground commitment. Ixion is none of these. Ixion is the broken sacred contract itself: not the inherited harm (Nessus), not the accidental chain (Pholus), not the kept oath (Orcus), but the specific impulse to transgress trust that has been actively extended, and the wheel of fire that is consequence built into the act. Where Orcus is the oath kept across decades, Ixion is the oath broken at the moment of greatest gift, and the two together name the same underworld function divided across the kept and the broken register.
Is Ixion a centaur or a Plutino?
Orbitally, Ixion is a Plutino: he sits in 2:3 mean-motion resonance with Neptune, the same orbital family as Pluto, Orcus, and Huya, with a semi-major axis around 39 AU and a period of roughly 247 years. Centaurs by the standard astronomical definition have semi-major axes between Jupiter and Neptune (roughly 5 to 30 AU); Ixion's orbit is well past Neptune, so by that criterion he is not a centaur. However, in modern asteroid astrology Ixion is often grouped with the centaur cluster for two reasons. The first is mythological: in the Ixion myth, Centaurus the ancestor of the centaurs is literally Ixion's son through the cloud-form of Hera, so the centaur family of bodies (Chiron, Pholus, Nessus, Chariklo, Asbolus) are mythologically Ixion's lineage. The second is functional: Ixion shares the centaur cluster's working theme of bridging worlds and naming what the wider culture would prefer to bury. The honest classification is the one the user-supplied framing already names: a Plutino that sits between the centaur and the trans-Neptunian clusters, orbitally with the TNOs and mythologically with the centaurs.
Why does the wheel of fire mythology matter for the astrology?
The detail that does the most work in modern Ixion interpretation is the structure of the punishment. Zeus does not exile Ixion, does not annihilate him, and does not assign a finite sentence. He binds Ixion to a wheel that turns forever in Tartarus, and the wheel is made of fire. The image is precise: the consequence is not a separate retribution that arrives from outside the act, but the rotation of the act itself perpetuated. The wheel is the breach of guest-friendship turned into a permanent feature of the cosmos, and the fire is the original transgression burning continuously inside its own rotation. Astrologically, this means Ixion does not name a thing that happens to the native from outside (the partner who leaves, the institution that punishes, the karmic event that arrives). It names the rotation inside the native's own pattern, where the original breach keeps producing the conditions for the next breach without any external party having to enforce the cycle. Reading Ixion in a chart is reading the place the wheel is turning in the native's own life, with the work being the conscious interruption of the rotation rather than the management of an external consequence.