A brief note of caution
We can indeed digress onto other subjects -- BUT -- one of the goals of this exercise is to explore how a disciplined path (not neccessarily the right or only path) can help us to deeply read and appreciate an astrology chart. We have looked at shaping, at elemental balance and at the quality balance. That was the goal for this step.
We have reached some conclusions from this phase of our examination.
1) The chart has a bucket shape, the Moon is the focus but it lacks a good opposition aspect -- a key expectation for a bucket shape. We can expect that other factors will either emphasize or support this situation -- but they will be discovered at another step.
2) There is a lack of Cardinal quality in the chart, so we will be prompted to look at (later) the Sun, Mars and Conjunction or Square aspects to see what effect this has on the full reading.
3) We see a lot of the Fire element in this chart. Will related planets work through fire signs or will other planets struggle for expression through the fire signs?
4) Because the Moon is one of the two "lights" in the chart, the Sun was observed to be at the MC -- will the strength of the Sun impact the Moon in a beneficial way. This is another key to the chart interpretation to come.
I myself do not want to explore the Moon's aspects just yet. If I were actually doing this chart alone, I would continue with the basic steps first; chart shaping & characteristics, sun position and aspects as an integrting force, moon positon (in the same way), how the sun and moon can work together, major aspectual patterns, etc. This keeps me from getting lost in detail. Dave.