The personal planets
| BODY | WHAT IT DESCRIBES |
|---|---|
| ☉︎ Sun | Identity, purpose, vitality, and the self you are learning to inhabit. |
| ☽︎ Moon | Emotional needs, instinct, memory, and what makes you feel secure. |
| ☿︎ Mercury | Thought, language, perception, exchange, and decision-making. |
| ♀︎ Venus | Attraction, pleasure, relating, taste, and what you value. |
| ♂︎ Mars | Action, appetite, assertion, conflict, and how you pursue a result. |
The social planets
♃︎Jupiter expands, seeks meaning, and takes chances. ♄︎Saturn limits, tests, structures, and asks for competence. In money astrology, Jupiter can describe appetite and opportunity; Saturn often describes scarcity, responsibility, and durable value.
The outer planets
♅︎Uranus disrupts and liberates. ♆︎Neptune dissolves boundaries and idealizes. ♇︎Pluto intensifies, exposes, and transforms. Because they move slowly, their signs describe generations; their houses and close aspects make them personal.
A planet never acts alone. Read the planet as the verb, its sign as the adverb, and its house as the field of action.
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