The 10 planets of Astrology

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The Sun:

consciousness, the will, power, vitality, masculine yang, the basic drive for significance, psychic and physical energy, stamina, the experience of being fathered, rulers and authority figures, Shiva, integrity, individuality—rules the heart, spinal cord and thymus.

Moon:

unconsciousness, material substance, female yin, receptivity, emotions, heredity, past, mother, nurture, family, domestic life, wife, change, instincts, habits, feelings of belonging or alienation, the masses, containment—rules stomach, breasts, pancreas.

Mercury:

the rational mind, reason, communication language, intelligence, duality, writing, memory, creating associations, symbolization, skills, short journeys, movement, transportation, versatility, siblings—rules the arms, hands, nerves, lungs and shoulders.

Venus:

love, relatedness, values, social urges, art, beauty, creation, attraction, luck, personal magnetism, money, nurturing mother love, sensuality, bonding energy, harmony and merging—rules the kidneys, urinary tract, venous blood, throat and the larynx.

Mars:

ego, aggression, sexual drive, individuality, survival, yang, passion, courage, sports, competition, war, stamina, independent in relationships, conflict, force, vigor, mechanical ability—rules the muscles, male genitalia, red corpuscles, nose and excretory tract.

Jupiter:

expansive principle, good fortune, religion, philosophy travel, material abundance vs. waste and extravagance, understanding and higher education vs. wanderer/dilettante, integration into society, optimism—rules thighs, liver, hips, pituitary gland, cell nutrition.

Saturn:

limitation, fear, time, structure, karma, consolidation, delays but does not deny, the father, old age, tests, discipline, collective law/reality, school, teachers, contraction, responsibility, obligation, ambition, Satan—rules the skin, bones, teeth, knees and ears.

Uranus:

unpredictable change, intuition, genius, individualism, independence, higher octave of Mercury, freedom, social reform, rebels, inventions, electricity, joining of the personal to the collective consciousness and the group mind—rules electrical nerve impulses.

Neptune:

sensitivity, psychic and mystical capacity, dreams, illusion, delusion, deception, the higher octave of Venus, drugs, alcohol, obligation, bondage, fog—rules the pineal gland, the thalamus, the spinal canal and general bodily nervous processes.

death, rebirth, sex, the higher octave of Mars, causes breakdown of psychological blocks that prevent evolutionary growth, regeneration, Phoenix, its three levels are the Scorpion, Eagle and Dove—rules regenerative faculties of cells and reproductive organs.

Every planetary symbol is composed of the circle, the crescent, and the cross. Not all three are present in every planet’s symbol, but at least one is. The circle symbolizes boundless, infinite and eternal spirit without beginning or end, the serpent swallowing its tail. The crescent represents personality and substance: half of the circle, the outer, visible part of being. Just as the Moon is visible only when it reflects the light of the Sun, so, too, does our personality (potentially) reflect the true light within us—our immortal consciousness. The crescent Moon represents everything in life that changes and goes through phases. The cross represents the incarnation of souls on Earth, and the evolutionary struggle to be illuminated by what is within.

This Ten Planets in Astrology page and much of this 550-page resource website are excerpted from You and the Universe.

The table to the right on page 47 in You and the Universe lists each planet's symbol, a description of its energy, the body part it rules, its rulership, detriment, exaltation and fall (see glossary). The text is enlarged above with links to each of the ten planets. Text common to everyone in your book is in black; astrological interpretations specific to you are in blue.  Color-coding in your book is as follows:

Sun, Leo, fifth house, opposition, square, semisquare, sesqui.
Moon, Cancer, fourth house, Nodes
Mercury, Gemini, and the third house
Venus, Libra, and the seventh house
Mars, Aries, the first house, the Ascendant
Jupiter, Sagittarius, ninth house, conjunct
Saturn, Capricorn, Taurus, Virgo, 2nd, 6th & 10th houses,  MC
Uranus, Aquarius and the eleventh house
Neptune, Pisces, twelfth house, trine, sextile
Pluto, Scorpio, 8th house, quincunx, semisextile (all in black)

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