If you have ever wondered how much the degree of a planet matters, - the answer is, a lot! Consider this. Whenever a planet transits a sign, it starts at the beginning or lowest degrees of the sign, then traverses through all thirty degrees until it finishes the sign.
At the beginning of anything there is unfamiliarity. Individuals experiment to find their way, often guessing in the dark as to their course of action in any endeavor. In fact, until a person has experience and familiarity with anything there tends to be exaggerations in thoughts, emotions and actions.
Consider a baby in its earliest experiences. It tends to overreach, clumsily experimenting with everything not yet familiar. Think also of a puppy, how there is a tendency for it to extreme all its actions, running and barking at almost everything - only because it is trying to find its way in an unfamiliar environment.
This same kind of effect happens with low degree planets in a sign. Transiting planets reach low degrees first but because of inexperience with the transit there tends not to be much direction. As a result, thoughts and actions tend to be primitive, exaggerated, and sometimes excessive.
As a planet traverses through a sign, it slowly evolves into familiar experiences, until it gradually matures as it reaches the higher degrees of the sign. It is in these higher degrees where we find the most understanding and wisdom and as a result, the greatest evolution takes place here.
A person with low degree planets might get things done fast, but might have to do them over again because of a lack of foresight. Individuals with planets at higher degrees might be slower to act, holding back until they know a situation better and feel safe in acting. The highest degree planets tend to be the most thorough with the fullest understanding of the sign they are in.
Interestingly enough, most people have some lower and some higher degree planets. This is why we seem so evolved in some areas of our lives and so childlike in others. Yet, everything is for a purpose that we are to fulfill, and this can become clear to us if we use our higher degree planets with more evolution and wisdom to understand our less than perfect actions and life patterns in our lower degree planets.
