By combining the host of different combinations and permutations of these three qualities House, Sign and Planet we can develop the most complex descriptions of the possibilities in any situation. The weekly snippets of the magazine sun sign horoscopes are very basic compared to this and have hardly anything other than the vaguest relationship to astrology proper. Any of the above combinations can describe both people and events. For example: If you are looking at a birthchart referring to a person with Sun in Scorpio in the Third house, taking the keywords above you would get:
Sun The drive to succeed + Scorpio passion, self-mastery + 3rd House mental ability, communication.
Which expanded would mean: A person with a powerful and self controlled ability to achieve authority through writing, talking and communication in general. This would probably suggest that we are dealing here with an author or an orator.If the above refers to an event rather than a person it could be interpreted as follows:
An intense and concentrated study of a creative subject with a view to enhancing one's communicative abilities. Perhaps throwing great energy into learning a new language or acquiring IT skills.

Each of us in our personal astrological birthcharts have a dozen or so of these simple combination and they, translated as above, combine to make a very good description of the unique person that we are. A little more accurate and succinct than sunsign's "Librans can't make up their minds" or "All Scorpios have got a sting in their tail" and so on.
Whereas most astrology nowadays is geared to interpreting birthcharts there is another form of the art called Horary Astrology, which is currently becoming more and more popular as astrologers find how effective it is. Horary casts a chart for the exact time a question is asked and is interpreted according to a strict set of rules. It uses the same basic material but can give surprisingly apt answers to questions. Horary astrology uses Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn only and for this reason we use the same seven celestial objects with The Oracle of the Radiant Sun.

So now we have a very basic idea of how the system of planets, signs, and houses work we need to expand on the keywords and put a little flesh on the bones. Each planet, house and sign has a series of tradition correspondences that are said to be 'ruled' by them. Within astrology's elegant system everything on earth is ruled by a planet, house or sign and although it seems complex, the symbolism is not difficult to acquire once the essence of each of the factors is understood. The Sun is big, hot and fiery and is the centre of our existence so rules the heart, the glowing colour yellow, royalty, showbusiness, acting, theatres, grand houses, palaces and so on.