as i've stated before, i feel like a productive way to look at your birth chart could be through the lens of "higher education" or as a curriculum. where you have a lot of planetary/sign energy is where you're "majoring". some of us have double majors, or a major & a minor. etc.

through understanding what the planets symbolize, you'll be able to meet your class "instructor" via the sign. ex: if venus is in sagittarius, you'll have a sagittarian instructor to guide you though venus related classes like "relationships 101", "aesthetics 101", etc..

for me, i have a lot of sagittarian instructors and with 5 planets there, i'm majoring in it. you can really have fun with this.... the astrological aspects bring in more intricacy as to what we need to learn in our classes.

when it comes to "emotional intelligence 101" or a cooking class,(moon) my instructor would be cancer. for "self-assertion 101" "defense strategies", etc... (mars) my instructor would be scorpio. and, so on....

so, our challenges come into play when we have different instructors that are teaching us things that conflict with or seem antithetical to one another. it's important for us to have strategies to reconcile this and synthesize all of the information.

also, just like higher education, our studies will change over time and so will our instructors. and, when y'all moan & groan about planetary placements, it reminds me of people that used to complain about how difficult some of their professors were. lol! "

damn..." i have professor capricorn for relationships 101 and her/his t.a. is saturn" this shit is gonna be tough. lol!

i would definitely say that any stellium or would qualify as a "major" when looking at things this way.

we could say our entrance into astrological studies is our 1st semester. when we look back after a couple of semesters, we realize the extent of our learning. so, we may now be on "communication 220" instead of the intro level class, different class, different level of the sign.

i'm not certain if we ever graduate from this school though..... but, what i can say is : like any other school, some of us feel like we're doing well in our classes while some of us feel like we're struggling. perhaps we don't quite understand the material like we would like to.