The Planets
| Sun ☉ = Self, identity, ‘soul’ • Essential self, will, individuality, vitality, power, Who you are, confidence • To shine and to create • Represents the father and male figures • Spends 30 days in each sign • Archetype : The king, the masculine, the ego • Signify : Leaders, Authority, Religions • Friends : Moon, Mars, Jupiter • Neutral : Mercury • Enemies : Venus, Saturn, NothNode, SouthNode • Direction : East Sun in synastry Solar return |
| Moon ☽ = Emotions • How you feel, subconscious, instincts, habits, memory, body • To feel and nourish, to seek security and comfort • Represents the mother and places of living • Spends 2 ½ days in each sign • Archetype : The mother, the nurturer, the mind and memory • Signify : Familiar people, fluctuations, residence, liquids • Friends : Sun, Mars, Jupiter • Neutral : Mercury, Venus, Saturn, NorthNode, SouthNode • Enemies : None • Direction : North Moon in synastry Lunar return Eclipses Lunar events |
| Mercury ☿ = Communication • Your style of communication, reasoning ability, the way you think, process of information, interests • To exchange and distinguish, to be curious and learn • Stays in one sign from about 14 to 30 days, depending on its motion • Archetype : The messenger, the intellectual, the creative • Signify : Business, Neighbors, schools, publishing, occupations within buying, selling • Friends : Venus, Saturn, NorthNode • Neutral : Sun, Moon, SouthNode • Enemies : Mars, Jupiter • Direction : North More about Mercury (retrograde) Mercury in synastry |
| Venus ♀︎ = Values • Beauty, attraction, possessions, art, aesthetic, love language, romantic preference, relationships, finances • To bring harmony and balance, to relate and compromise • Represents the type of partner you attract • Stays in a sign approximately 23 days to a little over 2 months (Every 8 years it returns to the same degree and over time forms the pentagram) • Archetype : The feminine, the artist, the beauty • Signify : Social activities, Arts, luxury • Friends : Mercury, Saturn, NorthNode, SouthNode • Neutral : Moon, Jupiter • Enemies : Sun, Mars • Most benefic in a Nightchart • Direction : South-east Venus in synastry |
| Mars ♂︎ = Action • Your physical energy, combativeness, enterprise, courage, sexdrive, passion, courage • To fight and stand your ground, to act and initiate • Stays in one sign for about 1.5 months • Archetype : The warrior, the passionate, the actions • Signify : Steel, weapons, fire, mortuaries, bricks, sports, strength • Friends : Sun, Moon, Jupiter • Neutral : Saturn, SouthNode • Enemies : Mercury, Venus, NorthNode • Most malefic in a daychart • Direction : South Mars in synastry |
| Jupiter ♃ = Expansion, awareness • Growth, prosperity, abundance, wisdom, generosity, higher mind • To experience and understand, to find truth and gain wisdom • Represents the husband in a woman’s chart • Tells you where you’re lucky (based on sign, house and aspects to other planets) • Spends 1 year in each sign • Archetype : The philospher, the adventurist, the wisdom • Signify : Material wealth, religion, law, education, clothing, gatherings • Friends : Sun, Moon, Mars • Neutral : Venus, SouthNode • Enemies : Mercury, Saturn, NorthNode • Most benefic in a daychart • Direction : North-East More about Jupiter Jupiter in synstry Jupiter as intuition |
| Saturn ♄ = Restriction • Limitations, restrictions, caution, organization, endurance, dicipline • To built and have patience, to work and take responsibility • Tells you where you have to face your fears and where you are ambitious • Spends 2 ½ year in each sign • Archetype : The teacher, the father • Signify : Poverty, defects, hermits, old people, rocky places, corpses, graves, ruins • Friends : Mercury, Venus, NorthNode, SouthNode • Neutral : Moon, Mars • Enemies : Sun, Jupiter • Most malefic in a nighthchart • Direction : West Saturn in synastry |
| Uranus ♅ = Revolution • Originality, independence, rebelliousness, inventiveness, insight, everything unexpected • To think creatively, to invent and network • Spends 7 years in each sign • Archetype : The rebel, the revolutionary, the freedom-lover • Signify : Prime ministers, inventors, discoverers, pioneers, chiefs, rulers Uranus in synastry |
| Neptune ♆ = Imagination & Disintegration • Spirituality, dreams, psychic abilities, intuition, compassion, self-sacrifice, deception, illusion, addictions • To transcend and let go, to unveil and to heal • Spends 14 years in each sign • Archetype : The mystic, the dreamer, the artist, the delusional • Signify : Democratics, mystics, psychics, hospitals, charities, mediums Neptune in synastry |
| Pluto ♇ = Transformation • Eliminations, de(con)struction, regeneration, renewal, transformation, death, intensity, crisis • To dig beyond the surface, to purge and cleanse, to rebirth oneself • Spends from 14 to 30 years in each sign • Archetype : The spiritual warrior, the destroyer, the transformative • Signify : Idealistic organizations, combatting social organizations, ideas ahead of time More about Pluto |
| Chiron ⚷ = The wound • Past hurt, future healing, shame, insecurity, lack, imperfections • To be creative with that what you have, to see your ‘weakness’ as strength, to rise above inadequacy • Stays about 8 years in each sign, But when it moves within Saturn’s orbit, it takes less than 1-½ years to speed through the sign. • Archetype : The wounded healer Chiron in aspect |