Masculine & Feminine Planets

Pluto, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and Sun are masculine. Neptune, Venus and Moon are feminine. Mercury is convertible; masculine when with masculine planets and feminine when with feminine. When unaspected its gender is determined by its sign, or whether rising before (masc.) or after (fem.) the Sun. These terms in astrology do not simply relate to the gender of sexuality, for masculine and feminine also express these other polarities:
• active/passive
• positive/negative
• dry/moist
• hot/cold
• light/dark

The idea of masculinity is traditionally related to dryness and femininity to moisture. According to Ptolemy, Mercury is common rather than convertible, as he produces "the dry and the moist alike". The outer planets (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) have no traditional gender, so modern astrologers have assigned it. Gender has also been assigned to the major asteroids, Ceres, Vesta, Juno & Pallas Athene (all feminine) mainly on mythological grounds, but also in a questionable effort to right the so-called gender imbalance of traditional astrology. Chiron however is considered masculine.

Masculine & Feminine Quarters

Masculine Quarters extend anticlockwise from the cusp of the 10th house to the cusp of the Ascendant and clockwise from the cusp of the 4th to that of the 7th. Feminine Quarters are counted clockwise from the cusp of the Ascendant to that of the 4th and anti-clockwise from the cusp of the 7th to that of the 10th.

Masculine & Feminine Signs

Masculine Signs
• Aries
• Leo
• Sagittarius
• Gemini
• Libra
• Aquarius Feminine Signs
• Taurus
• Virgo
• Capricorn
• Cancer
• Scorpio
• Pisces

The ancients considered that masculinity and femininity also alternated according to the sign's position vis a vis the ascendant, which is considered masculine.