Patterns of Planetary Distribution
    Basic Natures - based on the whole at a glance
            
      BOWL    all planets in only 1/2 of chart
 
              
          - any direction;  6 houses or 6 signs;
              (can have empty houses between).
              Must give of themself.
              Feels excluded from something, the empty half.
              This becomes a challenge to understand.
 
              Lead by clockwise side. 
            
      BUCKET    all but 1 planet are in 1/2 of chart
 
              
          - This 1 planet is the handle.
            
              Can be less or little more than 1/2, with empty houses.
                         
              Handle is the release for major life accomplishments.
 
              Instructing, inspiring or agitating an activity contained in the bucket.
 
              Prepared or impulsive. 
 
     BUNDLE    planets all in 4 consecutive houses
 
            
          - 1/3rd of chart. Space of a trine.
           
              Can have 1 empty house between.
           
              Bound by inhibitions due to intense concentration of interests.
            
              Caught up in self-gathering due to narrow boundaries of opportunity. 
           
    LOCOMOTIVE     planets in 2/3rds of chart
 
            
          - at least 3 consecutive houses are empty.
           
              Can have other single empty houses in the chart.
           
              Planet leading clockwise is engine; directing the concentration of energy.
   
              Either needs or lacks a problem to solve.
              Driven to accomplish. 
   
    SEESAW    any 2 groups of planets opposed to each other
 
            
          - also obvious are 2 empty sections opposite in chart.
          
              Swaying attitudes.
              
              Constantly pulled between different viewpoints.
                         
              Needs to find balance or wastes energy fighting nothing or everything. 
           
    SPLASH   planets evenly distributed throughout houses
 
            
          - scattered but well divided.
            
              Can have double empty houses.
            
              Interested in many things.
 
              Can share and spread ideas or not get a grasp on anything.
              Comfortable or lost in chaos.
 
              Diversified. 
            
            
    SPLAY   difficult to place,  irregular but not identifiable
 
            
          - not really squared, trined, or sextiled.
            
              Constant resistance to conventional attitudes.
 
              Looking to find ones own space in time.
            
              Emphasis is on own purpose in life.
 
              Individuality. 
            
    
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Gratefully...ELIZA (Maddocks) Talas...(10/30/51)